Sounds a lot like gibberish to me. I'd have to see the writ authorizing asset seizure enforcement by the US military. It's my understanding that n the absence of such a writ, the only authorized collectors are the creditors themselves - Exxon-Mobile, Chevron, etc. The law authorizes the creditors to collect. In order to get governmental enforcement (such as a sheriff's department or, in this case, the US military) the creditors them have to go through the court again and get a writ authorizing the seizure of assets by the third party.
I'd be more prone to think that Venezuela did bad things, pissed off Trump, and is getting their comeuppance for that. "All is fairt in love and war"... and this falls under the heading of war as far as I'm concerned.
"Piracy" is engaged in by private, non-state actors. It's not "piracy" when a state actor does it. That's called "war". If a state could not do it themselves, then of course they would not be able to authorize others to do it under letters of marque... so, if it's "priracy" for a national military to do it then letters of marque would not be valid.
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I'd be more prone to think that Venezuela did bad things, pissed off Trump, and is getting their comeuppance for that. "All is fairt in love and war"... and this falls under the heading of war as far as I'm concerned.
"Piracy" is engaged in by private, non-state actors. It's not "piracy" when a state actor does it. That's called "war". If a state could not do it themselves, then of course they would not be able to authorize others to do it under letters of marque... so, if it's "priracy" for a national military to do it then letters of marque would not be valid.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake