US Blockades Venezuelan Oil, But Iranian Oil Is A-Okay?
So, the US military has planes monitoring a single tanker off Ireland—250 miles off, to be exact—to enforce an embargo on Venezuelan oil, because, sanctions. Meanwhile, other Venezuelan tankers are 'evading a naval blockade' in the Caribbean by turning off beacons. It's almost cute how focused Washington gets on 'international law' when it involves a sovereign nation whose resources they haven't
yet quite appropriated. (The 'international community' is notably silent on Saudi Arabia's blockade of Yemen, for example, or Israel's blockade of Gaza since 2007.) You might recall the US and its allies have, at various points, facilitated the movement of sanctioned Iranian oil to keep global prices down or secure strategic partnerships. The hypocrisy is stunning: some nations' oil is a threat to
global stability, while others' is a vital commodity, depending entirely on the geopolitical chess moves of the day. One might call it 'rules-based order' — if the 'rules' weren't constantly being rewritten by the loudest, most heavily armed player. How many US planes are tracking tankers moving Saudi oil out of Yemen after months of indiscriminate bombing?