Captain Jim Fennell
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And they repainted their name and put a Russian flag on it.
No one believes that.
That's a joke.
And they're not going to go to war over that.
So we're going to enforce the rules.
And, you know, we had the rules in place before, but nobody ever enforced them.
Now we're enforcing them.
And I think that's the real key.
Right.
I agree that a blockade is traditionally associated with kinetic warfare in a war.
But you picking up and stopping a ship off of Iceland, off of the coast of Ireland, that's a little bit different than a blockading of a border.
No, no, but hang on.
No, you don't.
And so we'll have to see what follows.
And I would say that the use of that term has already had an effect because there's already been Chinese tankers that were heading towards Venezuela that have stopped and turned around.
So I think part of this is to have the effect that we want, which is to say we're not going to allow Venezuelan oil to be
stolen and expropriated out of our hemisphere and stolen from the people of Venezuela.
And remember, a lot of this oil was originally under American companies.
So it's all wrapped up in between this combined Venezuelan-U.S.
national interest and that it's been raped.