The spoils system
Piratical president prepares to carve up latest booty, eyes further conquest
Russia has moved to rescue an oil tanker from the U.S. Coast Guard.
After blocking the Bella 1 from docking in Venezuela last month to load up with oil, the Coast Guard tried unsuccessfully to board the vessel, which steamed out of the Caribbean into the Atlantic, on the way painting a Russian flag on its side, renaming it the “Marinera” and switching it…