Captain Jim Fennell
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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.
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.