The US military seized a second vessel off the coast of Venezuela Saturday, just days after President Donald Trump levied a “total blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving the now-surrounded country.

The Coast Guard-led operation was assisted by the US Navy in international waters, US officials said, although they declined to reveal where on the massive South American coastline the seizure happened, what the ship was transporting, and whether it was a ship from Venezuela.

It marked the second seizure off the coast of the oil rich nation this month, with the Trump administration interdicting an oil tanker belonging to Caracas on Dec. 10 — and establishing a total naval blockade of the country earlier this week.

“I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Dec. 16.

“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump further said in televised comments Tuesday.

House lawmakers failed to pass legislation on Dec. 17 that would have reigned in the president’s ability to remove US troops “from hostilities with any presidentially designated terrorist organization in the Western Hemisphere.” 

Efforts to disrupt the oil trade are rooted in claims that embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro oversees an illegitimate, narco-terrorist regime, the Trump administration says.

“The status quo with the Venezuelan regime is intolerable for the United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a year-end press conference on Dec. 19.

One insider believes that Maduro will not willingly leave office despite the mounting US pressure campaign.

“He’s going to be there until someone takes him out,” a source close to the White House with insight into Venezuela previously  told The Post. “They’re squeezing all the right pressure points, but [Maduro won’t leave] until there’s a little shock and awe.”