{"id":398387,"date":"2026-01-09T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398387\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:34:08","slug":"trump-says-second-attack-on-venezuela-will-not-be-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398387\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says second attack on Venezuela &#8216;will not be needed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"k\">The Kremlin has thanked the U.S. for the release of two Russian crew members from the oil tanker seized in the North Atlantic after a weekslong chase. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"n\">Moscow sent a submarine and a destroyer to guard the Bella 1, both of which \u201cleft very quickly when we arrived,\u201d Trump said last night in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"q\">\u201cThey decided not to mess around with us,\u201d Trump added.\u00a0The oil tanker had fled the U.S. blockade of Venezuela, changing its name to the Marinera and hoisting a Russian flag.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/260109-Marinera-rs-6713c6.jpg\"  alt=\"US Venezuela\" width=\"980\" height=\"654\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"block mb-1\" q:id=\"t\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro shadowing the Bella 1 during the maritime interdiction operation.\u00a0Department of Defense \/ via AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"11\">The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement this morning that Trump &#8220;decided to release two Russian citizens from among the crew of the tanker Marinera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"14\">\u201cWe welcome this decision and express our gratitude to the U.S. leadership,\u201d  ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in the statement on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"17\">Trump evaded a question about whether Putin had called him following the seizure. \u201cI don\u2019t want to say that,\u201d Trump told Hannity last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1a\">The U.S. seized the Bella 1 in the North Atlantic on Wednesday in an operation that defied Russian warnings after a dramatic chase on the high seas. The ship is suspected to be part of Russia\u2019s so-called \u201cshadow fleet\u201d fueling its wartime economy in circumvention of international sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kremlin has thanked the U.S. for the release of two Russian crew members from the oil tanker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-398387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}