On 09JAN2026, personnel from USS Gerald Ford (CVN-78) boarded Timor-Leste-flagged Motor/Tanker Olina (formerly Minerva M). According to a U.S. Navy press release, M/T Olina had been on a ‘ghost tanker’ hit list since 2021 when U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior issued an executive order against Olina/Minerva M and several other Timor-Leste-flagged vessels, as part of sanctions against Russia. Operation/Joint Task Force Southern Spear video via U.S. Southern Command, I added the pirate music:
New video and information released of the tracking and capture of oil tanker Marinera (formerly known as Motor/Vessel Bella-1); Marinera was shadowed by U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro (WMSL 755). The U.S. Navy reports that the crew of USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) intercepted the Marinera/Bella. According to Russian news sources, Russian officials thanked U.S. President Donald John Trump for releasing two Russian crewmembers. Videos were recorded on the 6th and 7th of January 2026. I edited together U.S. Coast Guard video and U.S. European Command video (via Honey Nixon), I also added the music:
On 07JAN2026, Russia confirmed the oil tanker Marinera (formerly known as M/V Bella-1) was taken by U.S. forces somewhere in the North Atlantic. The oil tanker had been sailing under a Russia permit since 24DEC2025, Russian officials say it was a temporary permit. U.S. War Department video showing U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro shadowing Marinera (Bella) before its capture:
On 07JAN2026, the M/T Sophia oil tanker was captured somewhere on the Caribbean Sea. The M/T Sophia was reportedly hauling oil to China from Venezuela. Operation Southern Spear video via U.S. Southern Command, I added the pirate music:
When the Spanish explorers set foot in a place now called Venezuela they noticed that the natives were using a tarry substance, it seemed to be everywhere. Today, it’s known as heavy crude oil.
By 1928, U.S. oil companies had surpassed the operations of European oil companies in Venezuela. Despite a lot of naysayers claiming that nobody wants to control Venezuela’s expensive to refine heavy crude oil, the oil refineries in the United States were developed specifically to handle that type of oil. The Second World War, followed by the sales boom of personal automobiles in the U.S., drove the U.S. even deeper into developing the world’s largest heavy crude oil reserves, in Venezuela.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) oil map of Venezuela, dated May 1947 (note that this is several months before the official creation of the CIA).
C-SPAN has a promotional film about Creole Petroleum Corporation, showing the history of its development in Venezuela and what it argues are the many benefits to the oil-rich country, such as health care, education, and infrastructure: Click here to view People and Petroleum, the Story of Creole in Venezuela.
Oil & gas operations in Venezuela, as of 1954.
In 1950, Venezuela was the fourth most prosperous country in the world, with an average income of about $7-thousand-5-hundred with only Switzerland, New Zealand, and the U.S. doing better. Owned by Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) at the time, Creole dissolved when Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in the 1970s.
The United Kingdom’s Sky News explainer, posted on 11DEC2025, showing that the U.S. is after Venezuela’s heavy crude oil, then at the very end of report hints that Russia is next:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) instituted a national ‘Public Order’ training standard for National Guard and law enforcers across the United States. The news media hasn’t published one word about this, yet you can find information directly from FEMA: Public Order and Public Safety basic course.
On 03AUG2025, Rhode Island Army National Guard’s 115th Military Police Company participated in Public Order training, officially known as Public Order Platoon (POP) training, taught by the Rhode Island State Police. Video report via Terry Rajsombath:
A member of the Iowa National Guard signs a GBU-31, target Syria, 18DEC2025, non-disclosed location in Southwest Asia.
U.S. and Jordanian forces launched large-scale strikes (using more than 1-hundred munitions) on more than 70 targets belonging to the so-called ‘Islamic State In Syria’. This in response to recent ISIS attacks upon so-called ‘War on Terror’ coalition forces.
Idaho based (Mountain Home AFB) ‘Bold Tigers’ F-15E Strike Eagle gets bombed-up for Syria, 18DEC2025, non-disclosed location.
AH-64 Apache bombed-up with Hellfire missiles, 19DEC2025, non-disclosed location.
A-10C Thunderbolt-2 ‘Toad’, 19DEC2025, non-disclosed location in Southwest Asia.
I edited together videos released by U.S. Central Command on 19DEC2025:
HiMARS = High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
HiMARS belonging to Florida Army National Guard’s 164th Air Defense Artillery Brigade-3rd Battalion-116th Field Artillery Regiment, in a non-disclosed location in Southwest Asia.
Kansas Army National Guard’s 130th Field Artillery Brigade watches from a command center in a non-disclosed location in Southwest Asia.
HiMARS video released on 22DEC2025:
U.S. Department of State video from 23SEP2025, New York City, Secretary of State Marco A. Rubio meets with Syrian President, and former ISIS commander, Ahmed al-Sharaa:
Notice the anti-drone cage, and the remote controlled machine gun on the rear of the command post.
“The improved KOT1 V2 command post armored vehicle receives orders from the observation post, processes them and, in a split second, forwards them to the self-propelled howitzer, which, in a short time, computes firing data and is ready for all fire missions.”-Sergeant Major Mladen Miletić, Command Sergeant Major of the 23rd Self-Propelled Howitzer Artillery Battalion
Externally the ‘M21’ Gvozdika looks like any other Gvozdika.
Serbia spent the past few years upgrading their 2S1 self-propelled 122 millimeter (122mm) artillery system with the latest digital targeting and communications electronics.
U.S. Army vehicle I-D training image from the Cold War.
During the Cold War, NATO referred to the 2S1 as the ‘M-1974 SAU-122’. The ‘M-1974’ refers to when NATO observers first noticed the SPG (Self-Propelled Gun), during a July 1974 parade in Warsaw, Poland. The SAU-122 refers to the diameter of the gun bore.
Side note; both NATO and former East Bloc countries call the 122mm gun a ‘howitzer’. Technically this is incorrect as howitzer refers to short tubed, easily transportable by infantry, artillery guns. Guns that had barrels which were much shorter than that of the old Soviet 122mm.
NATO-Germany just passed a law that says if their military fails to recruit 80-thousand men per year then ‘needs-based conscription’ (the draft) will be implemented. It is known as a ‘dual track system’, meaning if you don’t voluntarily join you will be forced into the military. Apparently this new law is because NATO-Germany is having problems achieving the number of personnel required by its NATO membership. Interesting that in this western-woke country they did not include women in their new law.
The word howitzer refers to a short tubed artillery piece, the M109 obviously does not qualify as a ‘howitzer’!
Definitely not a short ‘tubed’ gun.
Gunners of the 2nd Battalion-222nd Field Artillery Regiment, Utah Army National Guard, and with 214 (Worcestershire) Battery-104th Regiment Royal Artillery from United Kingdom, joined forces during wargame Northern Strike in Grayling, Michigan, during the month of August 2025.
I edited together videos via Sergeant Brayden Stephan and Staff Sergeant Daniel Garas:
Approximately 7-thousand-5-hundred military personnel participated in the multinational wargame.
New World Order Oil Wars!
