SITREP 26: Hunting Ghost Fleets, Ukraine's Peace Offer, & the Military's Critical Mineral Fight
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The Situation Report for December 13, 2025. Rep. Dan Crenshaw covers the latest in global conflicts driving U.S. foreign policy — from an escalating showdown with Venezuela, to Ukraine's counter-proposal in talks with Russia, to the Pentagon's push to break China's grip on critical military materials.
U.S. seizes oil tanker off Venezuelan coast
Advice for would-be smugglers
Kyiv makes a peace offer
The U.S. military is getting into the refinery business
War again in South Asia
President Trump's Gold Card Visa
The Fed cuts interest rates
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| 0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident. |
| 0:02.0 | That all men are creed. |
| 0:04.0 | As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. |
| 0:07.0 | Experts on what they're talking about. |
| 0:09.0 | This is the podcast for insights into the issues. |
| 0:11.0 | China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions, |
| 0:16.0 | breaking it down into simple terms. |
| 0:18.0 | We hold. |
| 0:19.0 | We hold these truths. |
| 0:20.0 | We hold these truths. We hold these truths. |
| 0:38.8 | With Dan Crenshaw. The angle has landed. All right, welcome back, folks, to sit rep 26, giving you the news of the day. Sorry, my voice is a little hoarse, a little sick. So I'll give this to you quick. You might have read that the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. and out of the top line here is Coast Guard grab the sanctioned oil tanker |
| 0:40.7 | off the coast.S. has seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. Now the top line here is Coast Guard grabbed the sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. |
| 0:42.3 | President Trump wasted no time announcing it as well. |
| 0:45.3 | The ship was sanctioned in 2022 for ties to Iran's global oil smuggling network, previously linked to Hezbollah, |
| 0:52.3 | and was operating in this murky kind of wild west ecosystem that props up Venezuela's export economy |
| 0:57.8 | The seizure signals of much more aggressive posture toward illicit oil networks and in the Caribbean and the Persian Gulf spheres |
| 1:04.7 | And it's warning shot to every mystery tanker that's sailing around with its what's called AIS conveniently turned off, which is how you would normally track these. |
| 1:13.6 | Now the seized vessel, the skipper, formerly known as the Adisa, was flagged for moving Iranian crude and laundering money through networks tied to Hezbollah. |
| 1:23.6 | Not exactly a carnival cruise ship. |
| 1:25.6 | So a federal judge issued a seizure warrant two weeks ago, citing the tankers repeated use and sanction evasion schemes. |
| 1:31.7 | The operation was carried out jointly by the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Coast Guard. |
| 1:36.5 | U.S. officials say that the skipper, again, that's the name of the boat, folks, not the skipper of the boat, |
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