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U.S. seizes a seventh Venezuelan-linked oil tanker in Caribbean, officials say (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] Unquote0270@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What is the official narrative for stealing ships full of oil? It's hard to see how it is anything other than an incredibly blatant cash grab.

[–] misk@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Doesn’t really matter. I like that about Trump, doesn’t pretend US was ever anything but a bully.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They’re sanctioned vessels, uninsured, and likely improperly registered (such as the Bella 1 which changed their flag to Russian but got seized anyways). And Panama has given permission to board (at least they did for that previous ship, but not sure about this one but I doubt they’d bother complaining).

So technically it is legal for the US to board these ships since they’re basically unflagged.

[–] graycube@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Supposedly the money collected when the oil is sold goes to one of Trump's personal accounts in a Qatar bank. No one involved in the process thinks that is a bad idea.