Submission statement: The U.S. Coast Guard has seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. The U.S. had seized the first oil tanker on December 11, and Trump had announced “A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela,” on Tuesday. This seizure marks another escalation in the conflict between the United States and Venezuela.
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“The Iraq War wasn’t fought over oil but totally should have been”-Trump probably.
John3262005 on
According to Axios,
*The U.S. military early Saturday boarded a tanker that is not under U.S. sanctions as it shipped Venezuelan oil in hopes of escaping a blockade imposed by President Trump, according to two sources familiar with the action.*
And according to NYTIMES,
*The U.S. Coast Guard stopped and boarded a Panamanian-flagged tanker carrying Venezuelan oil late Friday or early Saturday, according to a U.S. official and two people inside Venezuela’s oil industry.*
*The vessel involved in the recent boarding, called the Centuries, is not on a list of tankers under U.S. sanctions that is publicly maintained by the Treasury Department. Industry sources said the cargo belongs to an established China-based oil trader with a history of taking Venezuelan crude oil to Chinese refineries.*
*International law states a ship may be boarded if there are reasonable grounds to believe it is not legitimately registered to the state whose flag it is flying. The U.S. official said that the Coast Guard was trying to determine if the tanker’s Panama registration was valid.*
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Submission statement: The U.S. Coast Guard has seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. The U.S. had seized the first oil tanker on December 11, and Trump had announced “A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela,” on Tuesday. This seizure marks another escalation in the conflict between the United States and Venezuela.
“The Iraq War wasn’t fought over oil but totally should have been”-Trump probably.
According to Axios,
*The U.S. military early Saturday boarded a tanker that is not under U.S. sanctions as it shipped Venezuelan oil in hopes of escaping a blockade imposed by President Trump, according to two sources familiar with the action.*
And according to NYTIMES,
*The U.S. Coast Guard stopped and boarded a Panamanian-flagged tanker carrying Venezuelan oil late Friday or early Saturday, according to a U.S. official and two people inside Venezuela’s oil industry.*
*The vessel involved in the recent boarding, called the Centuries, is not on a list of tankers under U.S. sanctions that is publicly maintained by the Treasury Department. Industry sources said the cargo belongs to an established China-based oil trader with a history of taking Venezuelan crude oil to Chinese refineries.*
*International law states a ship may be boarded if there are reasonable grounds to believe it is not legitimately registered to the state whose flag it is flying. The U.S. official said that the Coast Guard was trying to determine if the tanker’s Panama registration was valid.*