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U.S. seizes a seventh Venezuelan-linked oil tanker in Caribbean, officials say (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] 9 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months 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.

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