U.S. Seizes Second Oil Tanker Near Venezuela

27 pointsposted 2 months ago
by JumpCrisscross

8 Comments

cosmicgadget

2 months ago

> The Centuries isn’t included on sanctions lists from the U.S., U.K., European Union or the United Nations, according to shipping data firm Kpler... The ship was first tracked moving Venezuelan oil to China in April 2020 and was involved in ship-to-ship transfers off Malaysia.

I imagine this is being done for all the wrong reasons but it seems to, in effect, enforce the multilateral sanctions.

tehwebguy

2 months ago

Seems pretty bad that there are US soldiers willing to participate in this.

johng

2 months ago

They took a lot of their oil infrastructure from US companies didn't they? Basically, stole it? I'm confused how enforcing these sanctions that have been on the books for a long time means soldiers should disobey valid orders?

mc32

2 months ago

Europe seized vessels of Russian citizens as well as shadow fleet tanker due to sanctions. VZ is sanctioned. What's the diff?

watwut

2 months ago

That Russia is aggressor and USA is agressor.

user

2 months ago

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tim333

2 months ago

I guess if they could bring democracy back to Venezuela and perhaps Cuba it would be something positive from Trump et al.