{"id":142680,"date":"2025-12-19T05:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142680"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:35:29","slug":"trumps-venezuela-blockade-raises-legal-questions-as-us-masses-forcesunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142680","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Venezuela \u2018blockade\u2019 raises legal questions as US masses forcesUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cblockade\u201d of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela\u2019s coast was raising new questions about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America, while fuelling concerns that the US could be edging closer to war.<br \/>\nThe Trump administration says its blockade is narrowly tailored and not targeting civilians, which would be an illegal act of war. But some experts say seizing sanctioned oil tied to leader Nicolas Maduro could provoke a military response from Venezuela,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/americas\/article\/3337015\/trumps-venezuela-blockade-raises-legal-questions-us-masses-forces?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cblockade\u201d of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela\u2019s coast was raising new questions about the legality of his&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}