The United States seized the Venezuelan oil tanker Skipper in the Caribbean on 10 December 2025, claiming it was enforcing U.S. sanctions against illicit oil shipments, but Venezuela and several international observers argue that the operation violates core principles of international law. The ship was reportedly in international waters, where UNCLOS guarantees freedom of navigation and allows boarding only in narrowly defined circumstances such as piracy, slave trading, or with a UN Security Council mandate—none of which applied here. Because U.S. sanctions are purely domestic law, they do not provide a lawful basis to militarily intercept a foreign-flagged vessel on the high seas, and Venezuela argues the seizure amounts to unlawful coercion and an infringement of its sovereign rights over its vessels and natural resources. Critics therefore see the action as an extraterritorial enforcement of U.S. law, potentially amounting to “international piracy” or at minimum an unlawful use of force inconsistent with the law of the sea and state sovereignty......Follow @geopolitical.meme for more!.. #usa #venezuela #geopoliticsView all 3,083 comments

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