The U.S. military intercepted an oil tanker it said was operating in defiance of President Trump’s quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Indian Ocean overnight Monday after it tracked the vessel from the Caribbean, The Hill reports.
The Pentagon did not clarify if U.S. forces seized the ship, the Aquilla II, as U.S. personnel have done with at least seven other tankers in the Caribbean that were linked to Venezuela. They described the operation as a “right-of-visit, maritime interdiction” that took place without an incident in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (IndoPaCom) area.
“No other nation on planet Earth has the capability to enforce its will through any domain. By land, air, or sea, our Armed Forces will find you and deliver justice,” the Pentagon said in a Monday post on the social platform X. “You will run out of fuel long before you will outrun us.”
“The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies the ability to defy American power in the global maritime domain,” the Pentagon added.
The Aquilla II was one of the tankers that left Venezuela after U.S. forces captured the country’s strongman leader Nicolas Maduro on Jan. 3, according to TankerTrackers.com.
The ship was partially laden and her “zombie alias at the time was ‘CAPE BALDER’ as you can see in a photo we took from the shores of #Venezuela ahead of her departure,” TankerTrackers.com said on Monday.
U.S. personnel have seized at least seven oil tankers in the Caribbean as the Trump administration continues to enforce its quarantine of sanctioned vessels.
Նյութերը գեներացվում են տարբեր կայքերից արհեստական բանականության միջոցով