Posted on 11/02/2025 2:36:53 AM PST by Libloather
The US military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Saturday.
Hegseth in a social media posting said the vessel was operated by a US-designated terrorist organization but did not name which group was targeted. He said three people were killed in the strike.
It’s at least the 15th such strike carried out by the US military in the Caribbean or eastern Pacific since early September.
“This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics,” Hegseth said in a posting on X.
The US military has now killed at least 64 people in the strikes.
Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States. He has asserted the US is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels, relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
US lawmakers have been repeatedly rebuffed by the White House in their demand that the administration release more information about the legal justification for the strikes as well as greater details about which cartels have been targeted and the individuals killed.
Hegseth in his Saturday posting announcing the latest strike said “narco-terrorists are bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans at home” and the Defense Department “will treat them EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda.”
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The article is SO slanted- “lawmakers”? Why don’t they just say DEMOCRATS…
What? No “Baby Milk Factory”?
“alleged”
Yeah - it should be “former”...
“Yeah - it should be “former”...”
Lol! Nice!
Rand Paul will be outraged. 🙄
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Most of the boats still get through. And the crews get paid a lot of money when they do.
Yeah, “alleged” in the title told me what kind of source this story came from, before I even looked.
“Why they hell would anyone get on that boat when they damn well know they’re gonna be blown to pieces?
Most of the boats still get through. And the crews get paid a lot of money when they do.”
How do yo know this?
Perhaps the cartel makes them an offer they can’t refuse.
THE REAL LOSS IS THE NICE HIGH HORSEPOWER OUTBOARDS
PRETTY SURE COMMUNICATIONS THERE ARE NOT VERY FREQUENT
FORCING DRUG RUNNER TO GO NORTH IS CONNECTED TO THREATS AGAINST EVERY FAMILY MEMBER
18 POUNDS OF COCAINE WERE JUST DELIVERED TO MASS GOVERNOR’S OFFICE
SEE THREAD # 4350232 TODAY
IGNORANT LEFTIES CANNOT FATHOM THAT TRUTH
Here’s another point - the go fast boats coming out of Venezuela have only 24km to reach the Island of Aruba [ a Netherlands protectorate ], and then on to the rest of the island chain up to Puerto Rico where the drugs are easily moved into the US.
This makes it very difficult for Coast Guards to spot, interdict and capture. The boats move mostly at night, and they can get lost in shore based radar sea clutter. Plus the GGs must check out every boat that comes north including sports fishermen and yachties, Much better to use military radars both ship board and air to search for go fasts.
The drug boats usually have other boats that act as look outs, decoys and refuelers. CGs just do not have the manpower and resources to interdict all of the go fast drug runners.
Thus narco-terrorists need to be blow up. Catching them to give them “due-process” is a near impossible job. Thus boom they go.
Has anyone one been tracking the number of overdoses, rise or fall, since we started sinking Cartel war-boats?
The murder of the Ukrainian refugee is alleged.
The murder of Charli Kirk is alleged.
The intelligence of our news media is alleged.
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