☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoU.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela: Reportwww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
arrow-up142arrow-down1external-linkU.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela: Reportwww.cnbc.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squareSickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 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-up8·9 months ago “What happens to the oil on the ship?” “We keep it, I guess.”
minus-squarePKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 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.”