Captain Jim Fennell

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.

The Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians and the Cubans have been stealing our resources and the resources of the people of Venezuela.

No, the Chinese foreign ministry today came out and rejected our claims about the Western hemisphere is the United States and that we can do, you know, we can take care of our hemisphere.

And they said that this would be dividing spheres of influence and creating geopolitical confrontation that will bring, not bring peace to the world.

So they're basically saying we're starting a war by declaration of that.

But the reality is it was the Chinese that have declared

that the South China Sea is their sovereign territory.

It's the Chinese in 2007 that told Admiral Keating, the commander of PACOM, that they wanted to divide up the Pacific between the East and the West and China would take the Western side of the Pacific and we could have the Eastern side.

So the Chinese claims about we can't have influence in our hemisphere, where we're not claiming sovereignty over the Western hemisphere, we're just claiming that we have influence there and we're not gonna allow outside influence to come in

from nations, whether they're from Europe or from the likes of China or Russia.

Well, we're not taking ownership and saying we're occupying and we're running things like the Chinese want to do in the South China Sea.