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Guyana says it's a false flag, > "The government of Guyana — which borders Venezuela — said in a statement Wednesday the ship was falsely flying the Guyanese f
by perihelions 10mo ago
Guyana says it's a false flag,
> "The government of Guyana — which borders Venezuela — said in a statement Wednesday the ship was falsely flying the Guyanese flag, despite not being registered in the South American country"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-we-know-oil-tanker-the-skipper-seized-us-near-venezuela/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-we-know-oil-tanker-the-ski...
(Context reminder: Guyana is the country Venezuela's Maduro threatened to invade in 2023).
(Also context: the sanctions on this ship's Russian owner date from 2022, and are about violating US sanctions on Iranian oil).
- monerozcash 10mo agoUNCLOS gives any state the authority to interdict stateless vessels.
- deleted 10mo ago[deleted]
- Aloisius 10mo agoThe US pressures countries to deregister ships on US sanctions lists. The ship had previously been registered in Panama. It feels a little sketchy to force countries to deregister ships in order to seize them, but they could have flown Venezuela's flag instead of taking the risk of being stateless instead.