US Navy Seized Russian Flagged TankerSuspected of Carrying Venezuelan Oil

Footage posted by US Southern Command and Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, appears to show the US military intercepting a Venezuela-linked tanker in the Caribbean Sea on Wednesday, January 7. It was released on the same day US forces also intercepted and seized the Russian-flagged Marinera in the north Atlantic.

The Marinera, also known as M/V Bella 1 should have been accompanied for a certain time by other Russian ships and observed by a Russian submarine in the North-Eastern Atlantik. Moscow protested the seizure.

Tonight: Heavily armed U.S. Hellbirds storm Britain as a surge of American military power descends on RAF bases in Suffolk & Gloucestershire. Eleven C-17 Globemaster troop carriers and two lethal AC-130J Ghostrider gunships have touched down in what eyewitnesses and flight trackers confirm as one of the heaviest U.S. air deployments in Europe in years. The world watches tensely as this unprecedented projection of force raises urgent questions: Will allies be drawn into a broader confrontation as the Denmark-Greenland issue intensifies? Geopolitics is shifting, and the consequences are only beginning to ripple across the globe.