US Sanctions 'Shadow Fleets' While Ignoring Its Own Offshore Havens
The journalistic scoop reveals a beachside office in the Cook Islands, providing flagging services for vessels allegedly enabling Russia and Iran to evade sanctions. It's a classic tale of nefarious actors in exotic locales (cue dramatic music). What's left out? The conveniently large, neon-lit financial havens in places like Delaware, Wyoming, and Nevada, which facilitate far grander sums of
anonymous money daily, often without the need for a 'shadow' anything. One might wonder why the international community, so laser-focused on a pizza shop-adjacent shipping registry, consistently turns a blind eye to the multi-trillion-dollar illicit financial flows channeled through corporate entities registered in plain sight within its own borders. Are we truly interested in stopping
'sanctions-busting,' or just the kind that doesn't involve our own backyard's economic infrastructure?