Captain Jim Fennell

I'm not even sure that special operations or SEAL teams are involved with this operation.

The U.S.

Coast Guard Cutter Monroe

been shadowing this vessel along with the intelligence surveillance reconnaissance from U.S.

Navy P-8 aircraft.

So we do what we call visit, board, search, and seizure operations routinely in the United States Navy, and we work with our Coast Guard counterparts, law enforcement detachments, to do these operations.

Now, it could be that there were SEALs on board or Special Operations Forces, but we have a capacity across the U.S.

Navy and our Coast Guard

to conduct these operations.

So we don't just have to have these tier one assets that are very highly trained and very elite and very judicious use of their time and effort, like we saw, I think, on Saturday night in the raid against Maduro.

So what I think we are saying to the rest of the world is, read our national security strategy.

We said we're going to enforce hemispheric defense.

We have legal standing, both internationally and nationally,

to interdict this dark fleet.

And we're going to do it.

And we're not going to play around anymore.

And I think that's, as Sam said, that's the real message.

And I also agree with him.

I don't think Russia is going to say something about a tanker that had not been flagged Russian until just a week ago.

And they said, oh, we're now Russian.