{"id":43611,"date":"2026-01-13T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43611"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:01:33","slug":"a-painted-flag-a-russian-bluff-and-an-18-day-chase-across-the-atlantic-cnn-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43611","title":{"rendered":"A painted flag, a Russian bluff and an 18-day chase across the Atlantic | CNN Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/10\/politics\/a-painted-flag-a-russian-bluff-and-an-18-day-chase-across-the-atlantic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260109-marinera-tanker-narrative.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:216px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Bella 1 had been tailed by a US Coast Guard cutter across the Atlantic Ocean for almost two weeks when the ship\u2019s crew employed a novel tactic to evade the US military: painting a Russian flag on its hull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/10\/politics\/a-painted-flag-a-russian-bluff-and-an-18-day-chase-across-the-atlantic\">A painted flag, a Russian bluff and an 18-day chase across the Atlantic | CNN Politics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>curious what it took 18 days to finally seize this one.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bella 1 had been tailed by a US Coast Guard cutter&#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":[519,33,1102,57,32],"class_list":["post-43611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-boats","tag-oil","tag-tfg","tag-usa","tag-venezuela","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611","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=43611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43614,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions\/43614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}