US-Militär fängt venezolanischen Öltanker ab und beschlagnahmt ihn
Von Lavender_Scales
US-Militär fängt venezolanischen Öltanker ab und beschlagnahmt ihn
Von Lavender_Scales
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When the Houthis seize a tanker, it’s terrorism. When the U.S. seizes a tanker, it’s ‘security.’ Funny how the definition changes depending on who’s holding the ship.
There’s drugs in that oil.
Piracy.
I dont get this, Venezuela and Russia are best buddies, also USA and Russia are best buddies
Also forgot to mention this is footage taken Wednesday, December 10th, 2025, in International Waters, atm the unit is not known
The US finally seeing the dangers of fossil fuel use and joining the Just Stop Oil movement.
how come they never go after the tankers going to north korea
Imagine if you gave the Somali pirates black hawks.
I’m venezuelan and anything that harms the regime is a victory, if Maduro is drowning us, we will drown with him!
Is this legal?
A’hem isn’t it actually a false flagged Russian Oligarchs Ship?
Where’s the combat?
Why are we not doing this to the Russians shadow fleet? The Russian shadow fleet is also sanctioned!
Ship boarding are always something i watch to the end, they are so rare and just the bast of best.
Why was one wheel down but not the other at the end?
Why does the Houthi video have 10x better production?
ran out of missiles fighting the houthi. trump needed an enemy who can’t afford drones
So much for refusing illegal orders.
Am I the only one who saw no combat at all?
Sid Meier’s Pirates Gold! 2025 Edition
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-we-know-oil-tanker-the-skipper-seized-us-near-venezuela/
>The Skipper was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2022 for its alleged role in an oil smuggling network that helped fund the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group backed by Iran.
>The ship — known as Adisa in 2022 — is among the vessels controlled by sanctioned Russian oil magnate Viktor Artemov, the Treasury said in a statement. At the time, the Treasury said Artemov transported Iranian oil using an expansive network of ships that were often registered in obscure ways with the intention of skirting U.S. restrictions on Iranian petroleum exports.
This looks cool and all but can someone seriously explain to me why tf the US military is now engaging in high seas piracy?
Thats some call of duty shit right there
This isn’t combat, they’re using militarized intimidation tactics against civilians to steal sovereign property… Leaving this post up is basically propaganda for the administration at this point.
**This vessel is NOT Venezuelan, and is part of the Russian shadow fleet.**
Known as the Skipper, this vessel is registered in the Marshall Islands (a flag of convenience) as being owned by Triton Navigation Corp, a shell company for Russian oligarch Viktor Artemov. As a result, it was sanctioned by the Treasury Department in 2022 (during the Biden administration). It has very much since been operating as part of the shadow fleet, and shipped crude oil to sanctioned states like Iran and Assad-era Syria through typical sanctions-evading methods such as dark ship-to-ship transfers and AIS spoofing.
The seizure occurred while the Skipper was flying a false flag, the Guyanese one (since it is actually registered in the Marshall Islands). A federal court had granted a warrant for its seizure (making the operation permissible in domestic law), and as a falsely-flagged vessel, it is treated as stateless and can be seized by *any legitimate nation* (making the operation permissible in international law) on the high seas.
**Sources:**
* [https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1076](https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1076)
* [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-we-know-oil-tanker-the-skipper-seized-us-near-venezuela/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-we-know-oil-tanker-the-skipper-seized-us-near-venezuela/)
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/10/venezuela-oil-tanker-seizure/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/10/venezuela-oil-tanker-seizure/)
* [https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:411444#overview](https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:411444#overview)
* [https://www.marinetraffic.com/lv/maritime-news/15/maritime-security/2025/12548/oil-tanker-seized-by-us-forces-off-the-venezuelan-coast](https://www.marinetraffic.com/lv/maritime-news/15/maritime-security/2025/12548/oil-tanker-seized-by-us-forces-off-the-venezuelan-coast)
* [https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part7.htm](https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part7.htm)
embarrassing