Revealed On 10 Dec 2025
The US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, the place President Donald Trump has been threatening army motion for the final several months.
The information shops Reuters and Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that the US Coast Guard had led an operation to commandeer the vessel, however particulars of its title and site stay unsure. President Trump confirmed the information shortly after.
“We’ve simply seized a tanker off the coast of Venezuela – giant tanker, very giant, largest one ever seized, truly,” Trump stated throughout an occasion on the White Home. “And different issues are occurring. So that you’ll be seeing that later, and also you’ll be speaking about that later with another individuals.”
The Trump administration has ramped up threats in opposition to Venezuela, deploying appreciable army forces to the area, finishing up a marketing campaign of lethal strikes concentrating on alleged drug trafficking boats within the Caribbean and threatening that land operations might observe.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has stated that the US is searching for to topple the federal government and has stated that the nation’s armed forces would resist a army assault from the US. Oil exports are a key income for the South American nation, which exported greater than 900,000 barrels per day final month.
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