We just seized a Russian oil tanker. Russian submarines were trying to slip it past the Navy. This thing's heating up. You know, I think people overstate that. First of all, It was a fake Russian oil tanker. They basically tried to pretend to be a Russian oil tanker. in an effort to avoid the sanctions regime. But people always ask, how do you control Venezuela? And we're actually seeing it play out in real time. (01:36–01:41)
CLAIM
Asserts that the seized tanker was not genuinely Russian but a fake.
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