Subject: Step one, complete

US crackdown chokes off Venezuelan oil exports, reshaping global crude flows

Since then (Jan 3, Maduro snatch), Venezuela’s oil exports have plunged by roughly 75%, sharply reducing a key source of revenue for the former regime. Subsequent shipments were limited to U.S.-bound cargoes under license or crude reserved for domestic fuel production, according to shipping intelligence firm Kpler.

Tankers have recently delivered Venezuelan oil to Gulf Coast hubs including Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana, where refineries are equipped to process heavy crude. At the same time, U.S. authorities have intensified enforcement against a so-called shadow fleet moving sanctioned oil, seizing multiple tankers and diverting some to Texas waters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...

Next project, take Iranian crude off the market. Then, if "certain people" get very greedy, invent an excuse to take Iraq off line.

Steve