US seizes tanker off of Venezuela’s coast

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President Donald Trump is willing to seize more oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, a White House official told CNBC on Thursday. 

The U.S. seized a tanker on Wednesday that had allegedly transported oil from Venezuela to Iran. The action comes as Trump escalates pressure on President Nicolás Maduro. 

Sources told Reuters earlier that U.S. is expected to target more ships transporting Venezuelan crude in the coming weeks. The Treasury Department updated its Venezuela sanctions list on Thursday to include more than a dozen additional people, companies and tankers. 

The tanker seized on Wednesday was a Very Large Crude Carrier, or VLCC, identified as the Skipper, Matt Smith, head U.S. analyst at energy consulting firm Kpler, told CNBC. It was loaded covertly with 1.1 million barrels in mid-November and appeared on course for Cuba, Smith said.

The tanker will be taken to a U.S. port and the oil will be seized, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday. "However, there is a legal process for the seizure of that oil, and that legal process will be followed," Leavitt said. 

The tanker seizure comes amid a major U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean. The Trump administration has launched a series of deadly strikes in recent months on boats that it says were trafficking drugs to the U.S. Those strikes have been the subject of intense scrutiny in Congress over their legality. 

Venezuela is a founding member of OPEC and has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. It is exporting about 749,000 barrels per day this year, with at least half that oil going to China, according to data from Kpler.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/12/11/us-preparing-to-seize-more-oil-tankers-off-venezuela-coast-report.html

[Lucas 31,228]

Do you guys remember a few weeks ago the rumors that Trump and Putin met and decided that Trump would let Putin take Ukraine and Putin would let Trump take Venezuela, which happens to be the country with the biggest proven reserve oil in the world. And a few weeks later, from all the countries that exist in the world, by a pure coincidence, Trump is attacking Venezuela to steal its oil.

Edited December 11, 2025 by Lucas

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The US government being run by a felon, who uses mob intimidation tactics to silence critics, actively engaging in piracy sounds about right. Can they be any more transparent about their motivations, beyond just saying they're taking this tanker to steal its oil? 

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On an international level...wtf

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4 hours ago, Lucas said:

Do you guys remember a few weeks ago the rumors that Trump and Putin met and decided that Trump would let Putin take Ukraine and Putin would let Trump take Venezuela, which happens to be the country with the biggest proven reserve oil in the world. And a few weeks later, from all the countries that exist in the world, by a pure coincidence, Trump is attacking Venezuela to steal its oil.

I'm one of the ones who was saying this!!!! I read that too. I would not be surprised about this. Keep in mind that it was discovered recently that the peace deal for Russia and Ukraine by the US was discovered to have been written in Russia.

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4 hours ago, Lord Mayhem said:

On an international level...wtf

I’m living in Trinidad and Tobago where the US is setting up and it’s surreal what is happening and how our little country is in the middle of it