BREAKING: U.S. Just Seized $120 Million Venezuelan “Ghost Ship” – Was It Really Headed to Cuba?

This is a live morn­ing seg­ment of “BKP Pol­i­tics” on VoiceOfRuralAmerica.com, host­ed by BKP (a fiery, Trump-sup­port­ing, rur­al Geor­gia con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tor).

Key Top­ics Cov­ered:

1. Total Col­lapse of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty
   BKP declares the Geor­gia GOP is in “total col­lapse” and basi­cal­ly dead. He hates the word “fail­ure,” but says it may be time to admit defeat and try to rebuild from the ash­es. Promis­es a full deep-dive with all the excus­es and blame at the 10 o’clock “Geor­gia Hour.”
2. U.S. Seizes $120 Mil­lion Venezue­lan Oil Tanker
   • The U.S. inter­cept­ed a Venezue­lan oil tanker car­ry­ing ≈$120 mil­lion worth of sanc­tioned crude.
   • Offi­cial sto­ry: tanker was head­ed to Cuba.
   • BKP is high­ly skep­ti­cal, calls it a “ghost ship” that turned off or faked its transpon­der (AIS) and was fly­ing a false flag.
   • Shows satel­lite pho­tos and arti­cles (CNN, NYT, USC) prov­ing the ship lied about its loca­tion and was actu­al­ly load­ing oil at a Venezue­lan ter­mi­nal.
   • Points out both Venezuela and Rus­sia rou­tine­ly use these “dark fleet” tac­tics to evade sanc­tions (often rout­ing oil to Chi­na or Iran).
   • Strong­ly implies the Cuba sto­ry is cov­er and the U.S. will sim­ply kept the oil (“we’re gonna keep the oil”).
3. Upcom­ing 2026 Obamacare/ACA Sub­si­dies Fight
   • Enhanced ACA sub­si­dies expire at the end of 2025.
   • Sen­ate vot­ing today on extend­ing them.
   • Repub­li­cans want caps (e.g., income lim­it at $200k instead of $400k+) and want to ban any sub­sidy dol­lars going toward plans that cov­er gen­der-affirm­ing surg­eries or abor­tions.
   • BKP pre­dicts this could be the first big “fraud/fake fight” of the new Con­gress and may fail.
4. Thomas Massie Intro­duces Bill to Leave NATO
   • Rep. Thomas Massie (R‑KY) just dropped leg­is­la­tion for the U.S. to with­draw from NATO entire­ly.
5. Trump’s Leaked Plan to Frac­ture the Euro­pean Union
   • Leaked doc­u­ments (report­ed by The Tele­graph and RT) claim the incom­ing Trump administration’s nation­al secu­ri­ty strat­e­gy includes active­ly pulling Italy and Hun­gary away from Brus­sels to weak­en or break the EU (“Make Europe Great Again”).
   • Ital­ian PM Gior­gia Mel­oni is report­ed­ly push­ing Zelen­sky toward “painful con­ces­sions” to Rus­sia.
   • BKP notes that when­ev­er you see pho­tos of the “big three” lead­ers pres­sur­ing Zelen­sky (Macron, Starmer, Scholz), Italy is nev­er in the pic­ture — a delib­er­ate sig­nal.
6. Light­heart­ed Clos­er
   • In unre­lat­ed but hilar­i­ous news, the U.S. gov­ern­ment offi­cial­ly rec­og­nizes Ital­ian food as intan­gi­ble cul­tur­al her­itage.
   • BKP gets emo­tion­al: “That’s the moth­er­ship… pas­ta, sauce, sausage… almost brought tears to my eyes.”

The show then cuts to break with a hard pro­mo for the 10 a.m. “Geor­gia Hour,” where BKP promis­es to go nuclear on the state Repub­li­can Party’s col­lapse.

Tone: Clas­sic pop­ulist, anti-estab­lish­ment, MAGA-aligned, con­spir­a­to­r­i­al on for­eign pol­i­cy, fierce­ly crit­i­cal of both par­ties when they pro­tect ACA or NATO, and unapolo­get­i­cal­ly pro-Trump.