https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-interdicting-sanctioned-vessel-off-venezuelan-coast-officials-say-2025-12-20/Dec 20 (Reuters) - The United States is interdicting and seizing a vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday, a move that comes just days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a "blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.This would mark the second time in recent weeks that the United States has seized a tanker near Venezuela and comes amid a large U.S. military build-up in the region.The officials, who were speaking on the condition of anonymity, did not say where the operation was taking place but added the Coast Guard was in the lead.The Coast Guard and Pentagon referred questions to the White House, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Venezuela's oil ministry and state oil company PDVSA did not immediately reply to requests for comment."I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela," Trump said on Tuesday.In the days since U.S. forces seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela last week, there has been an effective embargo in place, with loaded vessels carrying millions of barrels of oil staying in Venezuelan waters rather than risk seizure.Since the first seizure, Venezuelan crude exports have fallen sharply.While many vessels picking up oil in Venezuela are under sanctions, others transporting the country's oil and crude from Iran and Russia have not been sanctioned, and some companies, particularly the U.S.' Chevron (CVX.N), transport Venezuelan oil in their own authorized ships.China is the biggest buyer of Venezuelan crude, which accounts for roughly 4% of its imports, with shipments in December on track to average more than 600,000 barrels per day, analysts have said.
For now, the oil market is well supplied and there are millions of barrels of oil on tankers off the coast of China waiting to offload. If the embargo stays in place for some time, then the loss of nearly a million barrels a day of crude supply is likely to push oil prices higher.Since the U.S. imposed energy sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, traders and refiners buying Venezuelan oil have resorted to a "shadow fleet" of tankers that disguise their location and to vessels sanctioned for transporting Iranian or Russian oil.The dark or shadow fleet is considered exposed to possible punitive measures from the U.S., shipping analysts have said.As of this week, of more than 70 oil tankers in Venezuelan waters that are part of the shadow fleet, around 38 are under sanctions by the U.S. Treasury, according to data from TankerTrackers.com. Of those, at least 15 are loaded with crude and fuel, it added.Trump's pressure campaign on Maduro has included a ramped-up military presence in the region and more than two dozen military strikes on vessels in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea near Venezuela, which have killed at least 100 people.Trump has also said that U.S. land strikes on the South American country will soon start.Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has alleged that the U.S. military build-up is aimed at overthrowing him and gaining control of the OPEC nation's oil resources, which are the world's largest crude reserves.
>>1467856>ITT: Thirdies bitch about America being the de-facto World ProtagonistCry some more. We own this planet, the rest of you just live here.
>>1467872The president is invading a foreign country without congressional approval to distract from the fact he's been exposed as a pedophile covering for both himself and other pedos.
>>1467872>WeGood morning saar
>>1467873If Trump was a pedo they would’ve used it during the double (triple?) impeachment hearings and Jan 6th (witch hunt) committee. Let’s stop and think, if the Epstein file ‘can’ implicate Trump why didn’t Biden release it unredacted to prevent Trump, a pedofile, from winning office? Was Biden worried Hunter was in there? Was he asleep at the wheel? Did he just kinda forgot about it? Is HE a pedofile? Now imagine the unredacted files don’t implicate Trump but instead a slough of random celebrities as though the guy’s life work was entirely in networking and meeting people, it’s ultimately a nothing burger except “we’ll slowly release over the course of weeks” like it’s everyone’s new favorite reality news thriller. If you knew Trump wasn’t involved but still wanted to imply he was despite nothing to show for, wouldn’t the current handling be exactly how you’d want? “Well until all the little girls’ faces are unredacted we’ll never know if Trump is crossdressing hidden among them in this photo”
>>1467886Trump's DOJ was literally ordered to release all the files, unredacted, and instead they redacted the vast majority of them and literally got caught removing photos that had Trump in them live. AFTER they went against the order to release ALL the files at once.Shut the fuck up. They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Trump is in the files and the DOJ is in contempt for redacting him from them.
>>1467873>Invading a foreign shitholeGood.>Without congressional approvalFuck 'em. Venezuela fucked with the oil supply, they deserve whatever they get. Politicians are politicians and should not be consulted on anything about anything as a rule.>To distract from the fact....None of these things matter. All that matters is that there should be less browns in the world every day. Since there are more browns in the world every day, we have a lot of killing to do in order to even things out. Its both the morally correct and politically correct thing to do, unless you're brown or a faggot. Which are you?
>>1467891>Venezuela fucked with the oil supply...By selling their own oil?
>>1467890Damn that sounds bad! Maybe the Democrats should’ve released those photos in December of 2024 instead of blanket Pardoning all members of the Jan 6th committee + Hunter (definitely nothing suspicious there!) + more. You realize Trump WON on the promise to release the files, which he’s done more of than the previous admin and intends to “release all over the course of the coming weeks”. But in your reality you believe the democrats had bombshell after bombshell of physical photo evidence to release and just… didn’t? That they knew Trump was a pedofile, with proof as you claim, and just didn’t do anything to reveal this information? Reality is Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton got implicated as fuck for the Democrats. It’s time to admit Trump might be right about most things and you are being lied to by the actual pedofiles who have been in charge since at least 2008 but who’s ideology goes back much further.
>>1467895They couldn't because the investigation into Epstein's connections were STILL FUCKING OPEN, retard. It only got closed in July of this year.
>>1467896He knows that. He's only here to deflect and blame democrats.
>>1467890If the government is legally bound to be transparent, yet is refusing to adhere to the law, and has been caught censoring the documents for the president, what other option is left other than violence? Is it still a democracy when a government can refuse to follow its own laws?
>>1467899Go to bed Ivan you're not getting your American civil war
>>1467897This is a thread about Venezuela yet you shills make it about Epstein and you accuse the other guy of deflection?Trump Delusion Syndrome has poisoned your tiny mind.TOPKEK Useful Idiot. TOPKEK INDEED.Don't Ever Change.>TRUMP!!!! Living Rent-Free in this faggots brain, since 2016
>>1468009Are you being paid to deflect or do you do it for free?
>>1467856why is the anti-war president starting a war with venezuela
>>1467895people like you fucking mystify me. "if they had evidence he was a pedophile why didnt they use it back then?" because you stupid, brainwashed zogbot, the epstein files implicate EVERY single high ranking politician in your country, not just republicans, not just democrats. the democrats KNEW that they could not cover up something as big as epstein, so they simply tried to push it under the rug. if trump were a smart person, he wouldve done the same, but he didnt. he was a cocky retard who made a promise for the sake of winning the presidency, and now that he has to fulfill it, he's spent the entire first year of his term doing quite literally anything in his power to scrub his name from the epstein files while still implicating democrat politicians without realising that every photo of bill clinton in those files is actually damning trump too. anyways, use your fucking brain, the democrats didnt use the files against trump because in doing so, they wouldve been using them against themselves, and outting the entirety of the upper echelon of your country as pedophiles is the kind of thing that gets your entire political system delegitimised
US pursuing third oil tanker near Venezuela, officials sayhttps://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-intercepts-another-vessel-near-venezuela-officials-say-2025-12-21/
>>1468021Good, release it all, let it all burn down. >IF YOU IMPLICATE THE PEDOS RUNNING YOU THE GUBBERMINT WILL COLLAPSEI don't know a single freedom-loving american who would say that they would rather be ran by the satanic pedo brigade who have likely just packed up and moved to another island than ending the endless child rape blackmail ring that is at the top level of government.LiterallyThis is that tweet of the republican retard going "YOU CAN'T RELEASE THE FILES, THE REPUBLICANS MAY GET HURT!" and everyone, left, right, and center, simply saying "That's fine."
>>1468021>the democrats didnt use the files against trumpThe Democrats are literally using the files against Trump. And good, btw. Fuck Trump. Fucking rapist.>>1467895>Maybe the Democrats should’ve released those photos in December of 2024 instead of blanket Pardoning all members of the Jan 6th committee + Hunter (definitely nothing suspicious there!) + more.The investigation was open in 2024. Trump closed the investigation this year. And you don't get to bitch about Biden's pardons after Trump has engaged in multiple demonstrably political prosecutions (that keep getting blown up cause crooks make for shitty lawyers).Anyway, worry less about Biden pardoning Trump's enemies and more about Trump pardoning drug kingpins, terrorists, war criminals, corrupt politicians, and crypto cons.
>>1468021>the democrats KNEW that they could not cover up something as big as epstein, so they simply tried to push it under the rugSo why are they trying to release it now?Let me guess: they actually hate Israel.
>>1468025>Good, release it all, let it all burn down. Most western nations would collapse from the enforcement arm of NATO falling into total anarchy. Which includes wherever you live.
>>1468034If the world order relies on covering for child abusers it fucking deserves to fall apart.
>>1468037What's worse: satanic pedophiles, or letting tens (potentially hundreds) of people starve to death?Congrats, now you know why the government covered it up.
>>1468041> letting tens (potentially hundreds)Tens and hundreds of millionsAlso, all this moral outrage is fake. Satanic pedos ruling our government has been known since the 70's. Nobody gave a shit until the government started admitting it, which means you still have faith in the government in spite of all this shit.
>>1468037More to the point, the world order does not rely on covering for pedophiles. Military and governmental chains of command are unfathomably deep. The presidential line of succession is 18 people long and even if every one of those motherfuckers had a heart attack at once, it'd just take a vote in either house of Congress to create a replacement. The military chain of command is several times greater.And we don't have to worry about losing generational knowledge if all the pedos get tossed out because Trump already fired everyone with an ounce of sense at the top of government and gutted every part of the administration he could get his tiny rapist hands on. Can't lose shit that's already gone.
>>1468032>So why are they trying to release it now?Orange bad man, didn't you hear? That photo of a photo of trump that was placed on desk is damning evidence of a conspiracy yup yup. Even more evidence of the conspiracy to protect trump is proven by the fact that there has been no evidence of him committing any crimes yessir
>>1468041>What's worse: satanic pedophiles, or letting tens (potentially hundreds) of people starve to death?The pedos in charge already cut all our foreign aid, dipshit. Those people already starved to death.>But AmericaIs already having to fight the pedos to feed the poor. All their leverage is gone, dipshit. Pay attention.
>>1468044>Even more evidence of the conspiracy to protect trump is proven by the fact that there has been no evidence of him committing any crimes yessirBrother, if a CSI team can't find any of your own fingerprints in your house and you still have both hands, you murdered someone.The incriminating thing isn't the lack of Trump raping children in what was released. It's the lack of Trump period.
>>1468048>The incriminating thing isn't the lack of Trump raping children in what was released. It's the lack of Trump period.It's more than that. It's that the one picture of Trump got fucking removed from files that were ordered by law to be released, after their release.To further your analogy, imagine if the CSI team found a fingerprint, then you immediately and violently destroyed it before their eyes.
>>1468032they arent. barrack obama, bill clinton, george bush, fucking anyone and everyone up that high are biting their fingernails and shitting their pants. >>1468025im advocating for its release shitnips. burn it all to the ground, none of these rapist pedophiles deserve to be on this earth for longer than they have to be. im just saying, its a retarded argument to say "why didnt the dems do it" because the answer is fucking obvious.
>>1468013RENT-FREE>Don't>Ever>Change
