"The Pentagon said on Monday that it captured the tanker as part of a campaign by US President Donald Trump to cut off Venezuela's oil exports, which critics have slammed as theft and international piracy. list of 3 itemsend of list The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump's established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean. It ran, and we followed, the Pentagon said."
"It added that US forces tracked the vessel from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean. No other nation on planet Earth has the capability to enforce its will through any domain, the Pentagon said, sharing footage of heavily armed US soldiers raiding the vessel from a helicopter. By land, air, or sea, our Armed Forces will find you and deliver justice. You will run out of fuel long before you will outrun us."
US forces seized the Panama-flagged tanker Aquila II in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea, stating the action enforced a quarantine on sanctioned Venezuelan vessels. The vessel had left Venezuelan waters in early January and reportedly carried about 700,000 barrels of crude oil linked to PDVSA. Pentagon footage showed armed troops boarding from a helicopter and emphasized US capability to project enforcement across domains. US seizures of Venezuelan oil ships began in December. Under threats of further US action, interim president Delcy Rodriguez signed a law opening the state-controlled oil sector to foreign investment.
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