Sam Faddis

So what we have is part of this dark fleet, one of these tankers that's running oil around the world to all of our adversaries that we attempted to board in the Caribbean sometime back.

It didn't want to be boarded.

The narrative is we then pursued it across the Atlantic.

I think that's actually a misnomer.

We just tracked it across the Atlantic until it got to a point.

Where it was in a position that was most advantageous to us to board it and then we put I presume navy seals on board, we have seized that tanker it is now under our control and I presume it is heading back to the to the United States i've seen that it has changed course already.

Well, I think what the Dark Fleet is, I mean, what you have is a collection of usually relatively small tankers that switch flags all the time, switch registrations all the time, and help—

all the pariah states of the world evade sanctions, not only moving oil directly to them, but in some cases they're actually transferring oil

at sea from one tanker to another.

And to one extent or the other, people's hands are hidden here.

So yeah, absolutely could be a Russian vessel that they have been hiding behind another flag.

I think it was flagged in Guyana before it decided in the middle of the Atlantic that all of a sudden it was a Russian ship.

And what we're saying is, effectively, we're not gonna let you play this game anymore.

We're not gonna be bogged down in this.

We know what's going on and we're grabbing these vessels because they're violating sanctions.

Is it a provocation to the Russians, without question?

Are they going to go to war with us over seizing one tanker in the middle of the Atlantic?

I don't think so.

But as you well know, Steve, in all of these actions, the next question is, okay, what will they do?

How will they react?