US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
The phrase “is linked to” should be a massive red flag.
If it was smuggling Iranian oil it would say, “is smuggling Iranian oil”, not “is linked to smuggling Iranian oil”.
Also all lots of “may” and “[unnamed] American official claimed” in the article.
The whole thing reads as Propaganda, which makes sense given that we’re talking about the pro-Zionist New York Times (which also has a long history of backing American warmongering in, for example Iraq) - morally a little propagandizing to whitewash American Administration’s piracy on the high-seas is nothing compared to relentlessly providing cover and support for the active mass murdering of Palestinian children in Gaza for more than a year.
The Pravda in the days of the Soviet Union had more truth than this Propaganda Outlet.
The ship was already sanctioned in 2022 tho