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Kudos to President Trump for clamping down on the “ghost fleet” tankers that flagrantly dodge sanctions on rogue nations like Venezuela and Iran.
On Wednesday, the US military and Coast Guard took control of two tankers that had tried to run the blockade of Venezuela — including one ship, Bella 1, that tried to evade capture by changing its name to the Marinera in mid-chase, re-registering as a Russian ship and painting a Russian flag on its hull.
A gambit that Moscow was rushing in forces to back up, as Vladimir Putin again showed his true colors.
President Joe Biden’s team sanctioned Bella 1 in 2024 for carrying black-market Iranian oil; Trump is simply enforcing the law here — taking action to support the liberal international order.
Dovish pols the world around love to impose sanctions as an alternative to military force against rogue regimes; they seem oh-so-civilized.
But they’re meaningless without enforcement, which still requires force.
It’s like the liberal “solution” of ever stricter gun regulation — rendered useless if they won’t lock up people caught breaking the law.
Trump is showing the world what real sanctions entail, ones that aren’t empty finger-wagging.
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But he should note Moscow’s behavior: Putin didn’t just let Bella 1 slip into a Russian disguise; he reportedly dispatched a submarine and other naval assets to chaperone the ship back to Russian waters.
And after the ship’s capture, the Kremlin demanded that Russian nationals onboard “be returned to the Motherland.”
The White House’s response was more or less “Fat chance,” with press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirming that “the crew will be subject to prosecution.”
Let’s hope this becomes a new Team Trump habit of treating Putin as the snake he is.