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Posted on 12/22/2025 5:53:39 AM PST by V_TWIN
US forces have boarded the Bella 1, a US‑sanctioned, Panamanian‑flagged crude tanker bound for Venezuela, marking the third interception near the country this month after the Skipper on Dec. 10 and the Centuries on Saturday.
US forces have intercepted yet another oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, boarding the Bella 1 as it sailed toward Venezuelan waters to load crude, according to people briefed on the operation, in the latest escalation of President Donald Trump’s effort to starve Nicolás Maduro’s government of oil revenues. The Bella 1, a Panamanian‑flagged vessel already sanctioned by Washington, was stopped in the southern Caribbean by Coast Guard and Navy assets enforcing Trump’s recently announced “TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS” going into and out of Venezuela. The interdiction follows the seizure of the Skipper on Dec. 10 and Saturday’s boarding of the Centuries supertanker, which carried sanctioned PDVSA crude but had not itself appeared on the public US sanctions list.
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This one attempted to refuse boarding at first......I'd be interested to know what convinced them to give up.......a 50 cal in the face perhaps? 😏
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When Mama Deuce speaks the enemy tends to listen. Couple words from her will change your whole view on life in general, trust me here.....LMBO!
Browning knew what he was doing when he came up with that gun in 1930
Why doesn’t Congress issue letters of Marque and Reprisal?
Can you imagine “Captain Jack Sparrow, Inc.?”
The missing link.....OMG...did I just type that?
Since the Maersk Alabama incident they probably knew what that the ultimate outcome could be.
Thank you. I did not realize my link didn’t work. 👍
So...why stop inbound tankers.....why not stop outbounds and get the oil as well?
Any seasoned pirates or Navy men know why?
Is that the only way it counts as a blockade?
Which, if I remember right is an “act of war”.
Ocean cowboys (uhh...traffic cops?) ride at dawn, boys!
Fire up the RIB boat.
I dunno. My guess is that Navy Seals or Recon Marines have more personalized persuasive abilities.
Is it a blockade if the target is specific sanctioned vessels?
Not sure about that.
Good question though.
Acts of war should be safe, legal, and rare.
Perhaps a squad of SEALs dropping in convinced the ship’s crew that resistance could be unhealthy…ever since DevGru dropped in on the container ship Alabama to rescue Capt Phillips and dispatch 3 Somali pirates to Hades, it seems the Somali Piracy Enterprise has stopped. Works wonders.
Question posed to AI:
Since the first seized vessel near Venezuela on December 10th, how many oil tankers have arrived at or departed Venezuela successfully without being detained?
Answer: Two VLCC tankers carrying 1.9 million barrels each have departed for China and were not detained.
There has been a distinct slow down in that ships are anchored and not docking but most of them are sanctioned. One ship that was seized is not clear as to its sanction status. Clearly, some tankers are going to get through, and they do yield cash.
One does Wonder why this is being done if SWIFT isolation works to deny cash. This entire episode is suggesting that SWIFT sanctions are essentially a failure, and probably for Russia too.
Sieze the vessel as a prize of war and send it to Galveston.
If you read the article it says it was going to take on crude.
So...why stop inbound tankers.....why not stop outbounds and get the oil as well?
Was thinking the same thing, but I think oil is FOB dockside, meaning the Venezuelans get their money when the oil is loaded.
“a cask of water”
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Good grief.....exactly how old ARE you? 🤣
Here in Fort Pierce Florida is the national Seal museum as this is where they started.
The life boat that the pirates died is there for all to proudly see.
Should have let it fill up with oil first. We could use that oil to pay for the blockade.
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