Christiaan Triebert

We contacted the military.

My colleagues did.

And they said, yeah, we're tracking them and we're trying to see some of them.

And that actually happened.

At least three of the vessels that we reported on that had disappeared were indeed stopped and boarded by the United States.

But what's also very interesting to me is that some of these vessels actually seem to have made it through.

There is a group that's still sailing out there and is by now probably close to Africa.

The zombie race worked out for them.

And there is another group of tankers that turned around and went back to Venezuela and

and seems to be obeying U.S.

orders right now.

It's hard to know exactly what's happening, but after Maduro was captured, the U.S.

basically started directing where Venezuela's oil is allowed to go and where these thinkers can ship it.

And they are shipping Venezuelan oil now to storage sites in the Caribbean,

hoping to sell that Venezuelan oil on the global world markets, but under the US directive.

So what you kind of see is that some of these shadow fleet vessels are now working for what the US wants.

So these sanctions come from the US Treasury Department, but they're not usually the enforcer of these sanctions, right?

We see that now.

Like these ships are not being stopped by a ship from the US Treasury Department.

They're being stopped by the US Navy or, you know, the US Coast Guard.