The United States is attempting to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker with links to Venezuela after a more than two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic and as a Russian submarine and warship were close by, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
The seizure, which could stoke tensions with Russia, came after the tanker, originally known as the Bella-1, slipped through a U.S. maritime "blockade" of sanctioned tankers and rebuffed U.S. Coast Guard efforts to board it.
The tanker being Russian Flagged takes it up a notch.
What movie is this? Smokey and the Bandit? or Hunt for Red October?
Jokes aside, they admit that the tanker was "empty". Why would they chase it? They must believe its not empty??
Funny you mention Hunt for Red October because this scene came to mind for me when I ready the news story.
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