☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agoU.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela: Reportwww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down11cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.ml
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-linkU.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela: Reportwww.cnbc.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square13linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.ml
minus-squareSickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·4 months ago The US conducted a “judicial enforcement action on a stateless vessel” that was last docked in Venezuela, according to a senior Trump administration official. No further notes from the US in this article, but, “stateless vessel” is a heavy lifter here that gives any country “legal” authority to intercept it.
minus-squareSickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 months ago “What happens to the oil on the ship?” “We keep it, I guess.”
minus-squarePKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months ago“Leave the gun, take the canned oil.”
No further notes from the US in this article, but, “stateless vessel” is a heavy lifter here that gives any country “legal” authority to intercept it.
“Leave the gun, take the canned oil.”