The US forces seized a sanctioned oil tanker named Aquila II in the Indian Ocean after tracking it all the way from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon announced on Monday. "The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump's established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean. It ran, and we followed," the Pentagon said in a post on X. They added, "The Department of War tracked and hunted this vessel from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean. No other nation on planet Earth has the capability to enforce its will through any domain. By land, air, or sea, our Armed Forces will find you and deliver justice. You will run out of fuel long before you will outrun us." The Pentagon did not clarify if the tanker had any links to Venezuela, a country facing US oil sanctions and known to depend on a shadow fleet of misflagged tankers to move its crude oil. After the US-led removal of Nicolás Maduro in a surprise January 3 operation, the Trump administration took strong steps to control Venezuela’s oil production and global supply chains. Officials said the seizure aims to generate funds to revive Venezuela’s struggling oil sector and help rebuild its economy. Meanwhile, Trump is also working to stop oil supplies to Cuba, which depends heavily on shipments from countries like Mexico, Russia, and Venezuela and is under strict US sanctions. Trump has declared that Cuban oil imports from Venezuela will cease, claiming Cuba’s government is nearing collapse.