2025-12-12
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We've had at least two senators saying this looks
like it's the start of leading to a war with Venezuela and I think there are genuine concerns that you know we're heading in that direction.
We've just seized a tanker.
on the coast of Venezuela, large tank of oil.
What happens to the oil on that ship?
Well, we keep it, I guess.
I don't think this is over by any stretch of the imagination.
I think Trump's making it very clear now that he's not going anywhere on this and that he's only going to keep suing this.
Why is Donald Trump attacking ships near Venezuela and is what his administration is doing illegal?
From The Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hough.
I'm joined by Devika Bhatt, who is deputy editor of International News.
Thanks so much for coming up to the studio to join us Devika.
So this is a genuinely wild video that was posted by the Department for Homeland Security yesterday and it's footage of US special forces landing onto the deck of a massive oil liner off the coast of Venezuela.
What do we know about this US operation?
So as you say,
it was sort of announced yesterday via both Trump himself as well as video footage that was posted by the Department of Homeland Security as well as Pam Bondi,
the US Attorney General.
So Trump in announcing this operation said that the US had captured or seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela,
refused to say who actually owns the tanker and sort of obliquely said there could be more to come.