Episode 5051: What Comes Next For Venezuela; Remembering J6 Five Years Later
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What recent event has escalated tensions between the US and Venezuela?
Moments ago, sources just confirmed to CNN that the United States has seized an oil tanker that had been linked to Venezuela. Now Russia is responding to this seizure saying they are the owners. of this vessel the trump administration has not acknowledged the russian status claiming the ship to be stateless but nevertheless you can see the sensitive nature of the situation russia had sent ships to track and maybe even protect this vessel over the last 24 hours the united states has been tracking it across the atlantic it's the same ship that the coast guard had tried to seize last month near venezuela they were unable to board it and the ship changed course and fled but now the breaking news The United States has seized it.
Tracking this ship as it came into the northern Atlantic, it's been heading sort of skirting wide of Ireland, heading up towards Iceland and that sort of gap to go towards the north of Russia, the Arctic Circle. Marine tracking experts believe a vessel of this size was likely headed towards Mamanse. That was the track that it was on. But that all came to a sudden halt. screeching halt about two and a half hours ago. Marine trackers noticing that the ship turned direction at that moment.
How is Russia responding to the US seizure of the oil tanker?
And this really comports with the information we're getting now that the ship has been seized by US military and Coast Guard. It has been tracked closely by them, as we say, since it fled the coast of Venezuela about two weeks ago. What makes this even more interesting, if you will, The ship, when it started its journey two weeks ago, was called the Bella One. Halfway along that route, it changed its name to the Marinera and re-flagged itself as Russian. Not clear why. Were they trying to get protection from Russia? Was it always Russian? Unclear. The port that it appeared to be headed for in the past couple of days does appear to have been a Russian port. But now that ship has turned around, no longer heading north for the last couple of hours, heading south.
not clear where it will end up. It is believed to be empty or at least devoid of oil. We don't know what else or who else may be on board of it, but certainly enough for Russia to deploy military assets to try to give it some shadow of some kind of protection and clearly not enough to deter the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. military assets that seized it a few hours ago, John.
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War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
It's Wednesday, 7 January, Year of Alert 2026. Let's get right into it because we're pretty packed in this hour. We have Sam Faddis, a career operative with the Central Intelligence Agency and now one of the grassroots leaders of the MAGA movement, and Captain Jim Fennell, a career naval intelligence officer. Sam, what has actually happened? Can you just walk us through the mechanics of this, that we've seized a vessel on the high seas? It looks like we've done it with a combination of special operators of the United States military and maybe even some other folks. What went on?
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.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What recent event has escalated tensions between the US and Venezuela?
0:00–1:17
2
How is Russia responding to the US seizure of the oil tanker?
1:17–21:16
3
What is the significance of the Dark Fleet in global oil trade?
21:16–26:17
4
What military strategies are being discussed regarding Venezuela?
26:17–31:01
5
How does the US plan to enforce sanctions against Venezuela?
31:01–54:13
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