Fontanelle, IA | w1891 - 12/25/2025 09:43
So you really don’t know?
Edit: Why would they not refine in house to get a final product? Always cheaper and easier move a finished product. And to take an illegal product to another country that allows entry just opens up more chance for loss. That would require keeping tight tabs on two locations in two shady countries for ones illegal product to reach its supposed end user. Not likely but makes for a good scapegoat.
Can you expand on the seizing of oil tankers and now calls for regime change. Seems like a large jump from drug worries.
I was under the impression the first oil tanker seized was bootlegging embargoed oil from Russia previously and selling it on the black market at a sizeable discount to published prices. Selling oil at a discount isn’t a crime.
However, apparently, the ship has been flying under fraudulent flags to escape scrutiny.
The false flags is apparently a very, very big no-no under international maritime laws which made the ship a “fair” target for the maritime law enforcement mechanism duties that apparently the US coast guard is also tasked with enforcing. The oil tanker gets to stand trial and explain how her captain had a Guyanese flag flying that the Guyanan govt never issued. How a ship is able to speak at trial is beyond me but way stupider things have happened already so who knows with AI? |
Why do pessimistic pundits keep getting Trump’s economy so wrong?
