{"id":22738,"date":"2026-01-03T02:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=22738"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:18:26","slug":"paint-job-politics-how-one-tanker-turned-a-sanctions-chase-into-a-us-russia-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=22738","title":{"rendered":"Paint Job Politics: How One Tanker Turned a Sanctions Chase Into a US-Russia Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Paint Job Politics: How One Tanker Turned a Sanctions Chase Into a US-Russia Showdown<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcaptain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-18T210139Z_2022769879_RC28JIAHAIY0_RTRMADP_3_VENEZUELA-OIL.jpg?resize=2000%2C1333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\"><\/p>\n<p>A rusting oil tanker and a can of paint have just sparked the most surreal maritime standoff of the decade. Paul Morgan (gCaptain) \u2013 For nearly two<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px; color: gray;\">(Feed generated with <a href=\"https:\/\/fetchrss.com\/feedLink?w=67243e4d10318d66f30e43b2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FetchRSS<\/a>)<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    News<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/paint-job-politics-how-one-tanker-turned-a-sanctions-chase-into-a-us-russia-showdown\/\">Go to gcaptain<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paint Job Politics: How One Tanker Turned a Sanctions Chase Into a US-Russia Showdown A rusting oil tanker and a can of paint have just sparked the most surreal maritime standoff of the decade. Paul Morgan (gCaptain) \u2013 For nearly two (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-22738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gcaptain","tag-gcaptain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}