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By some estimates, roughly one in five oil tankers worldwide is now under sanctions—linked to Venezuela, Russia, Iran, and others.
One tangible effect has been enforcement-driven rather than rhetorical: Russian tankers have reportedly turned around in the Atlantic while en route to South America.
What’s striking is that the Trump administration appears more inclined to frame this as a public-relations “flex” than as a straightforward outcome of sanctions enforcement. The impact is real, but the messaging obscures the mechanism that actually produced it.