U.S. Seizes Second Oil Tanker Near Venezuela

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25 points JumpCrisscross | 8 comments | 20 Dec 25 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.963s | source | bottom
1. tehwebguy ◴[20 Dec 25 20:20 UTC] No.46339261[source]▶
Seems pretty bad that there are US soldiers willing to participate in this.
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2. ◴[20 Dec 25 20:26 UTC] No.46339324[source]▶
3. mc32 ◴[20 Dec 25 20:40 UTC] No.46339461[source]▶
Europe seized vessels of Russian citizens as well as shadow fleet tanker due to sanctions. VZ is sanctioned. What's the diff?
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4. 56J8XhH7voFRwPR ◴[20 Dec 25 21:27 UTC] No.46339786{3}[source]▶
Something something trump is bad
5. johng ◴[20 Dec 25 23:28 UTC] No.46340690[source]▶
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?
6. watwut ◴[20 Dec 25 23:46 UTC] No.46340812{3}[source]▶
That Russia is aggressor and USA is agressor.
7. cosmicgadget ◴[21 Dec 25 04:39 UTC] No.46342300[source]▶
> 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.