The connection is Venezuela, something most of us can get from the thread title.
They are all related to attacks on America launched from Venezuela and thus considered to be acts of war against America. Trump has declared fentanyl to be a weapon of mass destruction which enables him to use military force to whatever action is deemed necessary. The use of unregistered tankers to carry Venezuelan oil to export is another threat to the world order.
I expounded on the whole situation in more detail further back in the thread. Just join the dots.
Looks pretty Venezuelan to me … Oh and the music too. Can’t be bothered checking. And I didn’t say. And you said you needed guidance on “What’s this got to do with …” but in the second question you nailed it confidently before I could respond.
The video was meant to make you smile noting the huffing and puffing of idiots saying that Trump was murdering what could have been poor fishermen - who were supposedly fishing (at 60+ knots) in exactly this sort of craft … pictured lined up at Fisherman’s Wharf drying their nets or something whilst loading lots of packages of inflatable fish freezers - possibly - I couldn’t read the labels.
Smile, Ombugge or that gruff Norwegian visage will be frozen in place till spring.
Suzuki 300 HP outboard fuel consumption varies greatly with speed, but expect around 24 GPH (91 LPH) at Wide-Open Throttle (WOT), while cruising efficiently in the 3000-4000 RPM range might yield 12-20 GPH, with optimal cruising sometimes reaching ~2 MPG (Miles Per Gallon) or better on lighter boats, though factors like boat hull, load, and conditions significantly change numbers. For example, at 3000 RPM, one test saw 12.3 GPH, while at 4000 RPM, it was 21.5 GPH, showing efficiency drops with speed.
Fuel Consumption Examples (DF300AP):
Idle: ~1 GPH (Gallons Per Hour) / ~2 LPH (Liters Per Hour).
Boat Type & Weight: A heavier boat or one with a less efficient hull (like a stepped hull) will use more fuel.
Speed & RPM: Higher RPMs drastically increase fuel burn; cruising at lower RPMs is key for economy.
Load: More people, gear, or fuel means more fuel used.
Conditions: Wind, waves, and current greatly impact efficiency.
Efficiency Tip: Aim for the “sweet spot” around 3500 RPM (often 25-30 knots depending on the boat) for good speed with relatively decent fuel economy, sometimes getting over 3 MPG.
Example Range Calculations
To get an approximate range, you can use typical MPG figures and common fuel tank sizes. A general rule is to plan for a 10% fuel reserve.
The consumption is for a normal boat and not for heavy, deep drafted wide bodied ULDC ( ultra large drug carier)
Reagarding the music:
When one enters the Caribbean region while saling on a ship one need not check the position on the chart to verify it . It is enough to turn on the radio and tune in to any station playing very characteristic music filled with similarly characteristic lyrics : “ Amor, te qiero mucho, da me su boca, suave vibracion de sus pallabras, corason y traficante” and similar audible/aural expresions of “ horizontal “ desires “ . For a person who was brought up in harsh and brutal realities behind the iron curtain such an environment seems like fornicating paradiso.
I had lived already 3 years when a total blockade of Cuba was arranged . See some similarities here .
Also long before I was born, On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of IranMohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d’état orchestrated by the United States (CIA) and the United Kingdom (MI6). A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mossadegh nationalized and refused to concede to western oil demands. It was instigated by the United States (under the name TP-AJAX Project or Operation Ajax) and the United Kingdom (under the name Operation Boot).
The key word is Mosaddegh got the BOOT from greedy Anglo-Saxons.
Do not want to go too deep into history but it looks to me Japan was also choked economically by USA and being cornered and put against the wall decided to make a move and as a result “awakened the giant monster “ . The Japanese Admiral was a bit more delicate/diplomatic in expressing what they did: “ “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve,” Quite poetic - is it not.?
Coming back to Venezuela we can see clearly the confirmation how “ 800 pounds gorrillas “ change the governments/regimes of weaker states . All legit and according to the letter of law. ( their law).
Seems they want to install the Machado woman in place of Maduro thug. Pity she is not a SHAH but a Nobel peace prize winner, who in an interview called third party/country to invade her own country , kill her own folk , bomb her own cities. Quite exotic and original talking points and calls from such a distinguished peace promoter and peacemaker. Weird world i tell You Dr.Bugge, very weird.
I may be wrong of course but I see the harbingers of the sweetest deal here. “ well Vlad my dear Bro , you take Ukraine and I take Venezuela and we would both love it & everybody else would love it. “ . Greenland and Arctic we can discuss later with Xi.
The US military should have been tasked years ago to find and seize or destroy sanctioned tankers in International waters.
Since India and China are the major buyers of sanctioned Russian oil on sanctioned dark fleet tankers, those tankers should be sunk as close to the Indian and Chinese coasts as possible so that they bear the oil pollution burden.
The CIA should have been tasked years ago to find the managers and true beneficial owners of sanctioned tankers and help them to fall off balconies.
If this had been done, the war in Ukraine would have been over three years ago.
During (unrelated) exchange elsewhere on launch debris wraning areas from today’s Ariane launch, I noticed another unusual warning, in Caribbean Sea. 100nm N of Curacao.
Seeing now that Venezuela has began to use their naval vessels to escort tankers. This is said to often and usually it is hyperbole - but I will say it anyway - this is how wars start
The war was started long ago. But with fifth generation warfare, it’s less easy to see who is fighting who. Thump has declared that foreign election interference is an act of war for one aspect of this war - there are many. Venezuela has been involved in that for many years (2020 stands out) but it is directed by supra-national organisations who control Maduro. He is simply a useful pawn as is Zelenskyy in Ukraine. Trump has very powerful supra-national enemies and, for the most part, we don’t even know their names.
Good point. I would have thought you might first be at least concerned that the politicians you now have were legitimately elected by the citizens.
I’m told several star-ranked officers were arrested quietly after their compulsory gabfest recently, and are enjoying a tropical getaway in cells at Gitmo pending treason courts martial with the expected penalty. You won’t hear these things on CNN etc … yet, but watch this space.
The CIA is an altogether slipperier beast having its own rivers of gold income from drug and child trafficking and tentacles into every criminal enterprise worldwide, but they are on the list. JFK is what happens to presidents who challenge its hegemony.
What this Venezuela thing is all about is as old as the US and the money people that run the country. As the late two time Medal of Honor winner USMC Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler said back in 1935.
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909–1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
So you seem happy for Venezuelan money people to run rackets attacking the USA making it safe for them shipping $billions of drugs in and killing American citizens? And Americans have to just take it?
Yes, I agree. War is a racket … sometimes … often even. But that doesn’t mean you just roll over and beg for more.
None of those multi-engine high-speed boats, whether carrying narcotics or gasoline from Venezuela, have the range to reach anywhere close to the United States.
While Jughead’s video certainly seems to show narcotics being loaded, all the attack videos that we have been permitted to see show boats with blue drums, most likely smuggling cheap Venezuelan gasoline to any other country or island within boat range, where they rapidly sell the cargo for huge profits.
And while cocaine seems to move from/through Venezuela, Fentanyl comes to the US from Mexico.
Just because Trump declares something to be true doesn’t make it so.
