{"id":43505,"date":"2026-01-07T15:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43505"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:39:39","slug":"russia-floats-ww3-nuclear-threat-as-us-seize-tankers-sink-american-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43505","title":{"rendered":"Russia floats WW3 nuclear threat as US seize tankers &#8211; &#8216;Sink American boats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2154956\/russia-nuclear-threat-us-oil-tankers-venezuela\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/topshot-oil-tanker-marinera-foremrly-known-as-bella-1-photographerd-at-sea-in-the-singapore-6659244.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:221px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>UK forces supported the seizure carried out by US special forces of the Russian-flagged oil tanker Marinera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2154956\/russia-nuclear-threat-us-oil-tankers-venezuela\">Russia floats WW3 nuclear threat as US seize tankers &#8211; &#8216;Sink American boats&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>jfc, this is how wws start. us + uk seize a ru flagged vessel\u2026<br>also, why did thet wait until now to seize? they&#8217;ve been chasing since it left coast of venz, certianly the us navy can stop a 300Ktonne oil tanker at will?<br>&#8212;<br>sal has a good video on this ship and the &#8220;chase&#8221;:<br>sal mentions one of the ships used in the venz maduro operation was a civilian vessel (&#8220;mv&#8221; motor vessel), not a &#8220;navy ship&#8221; usNS.<br>but who cares? why does he think it might be a concern?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/s-XPJsB53CU?si=kx9kU3E2EUW2lySG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sanctioned Tanker Marinera (the former Bella 1) &#8211; Russian-flagged and Heading Eastbound and Down!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>also interting ionfo on flags of registry, changing, etc. apparently can change if ownership changesx, even in middle of voyage, which apparently happeneded? the marinara \/ bella 1 is now in the offical rsuusin regsitry, and in order to get officoal, must be owned by russians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK forces supported the seizure carried out by US special forces of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[519,402,1102,21,57],"class_list":["post-43505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-boats","tag-russia","tag-tfg","tag-uh-oh","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43511,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505\/revisions\/43511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}