I'm gonna say it....
EXCELLENT!!
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Posted on 12/15/2025 10:28:47 PM PST by Morgana
United States Southern Command on Monday announced that Joint Task Force Southern Spear took out three narcotrafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific.
A total of eight “narco-terrorists” were killed in the strikes. “Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking,” US SOUTHCOM said.
Video from the strikes shows massive explosions on each boat, turning them into burning piles of rubble.
WATCH:
US Strikes More Venezuelan Drug Boats
US Southern Command said in a statement on X,
On Dec. 15, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking. A total of eight male narco-terrorists were killed during these actions—three in the first vessel, two in the second and three in the third.
Trump signed an executive order earlier on Monday to designate fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) and empower his administration to take on the “concentrated, large-scale terror attacks by organized adversaries.”
This will likely be used to justify the defense of America against drug cartels further, as the order directs the Secretary of War and Secretary of Homeland Security to “update all directives regarding the Armed Forces’ response to chemical incidents in the homeland to include the threat of illicit fentanyl.”
This comes as War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly plan to brief lawmakers this week on the strikes.
Per WENY News:
Secretaries Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio will brief Senators on Tuesday about the strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
The administration has said these strikes on alleged drug carrying boats are to protect the homeland from drugs crossing into the US. However, some Senators on both sides of the aisle have wanted to get more clarity on these strikes and the legal justification for it. So far, there’s been more than 20 publicly known strikes on alleged drug carrying boats, killing more than 80 people.
Recently, there were reports about the US issuing a second strike on survivors of an initial strike back in September. Some members are questioning if the administration killed people who no longer posed a threat.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D- NY), who sits on the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, said last week the video should be made public.
This also comes after Democratic lawmakers demanded that US service members defy President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s orders, which they claim are illegal. The behavior of Democratic lawmakers has sparked outrage from many on both sides of the political spectrum, as well as veterans and experts on the topic.
A November 29 report from the Washington Post attempted to corroborate claims that the strikes were illegal, citing anonymous sources who said that Hegseth ordered troops to “kill everybody” on board the boats and ordered a double strike to kill survivors clinging to the wreckage of a ship in the Caribbean Sea. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) described the operations as “blatantly illegal,” adding, “Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
Hegseth responded to the firestorm of “fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting” on Friday, maintaining that the actions are lawful and align with the stated intention of the strikes to be “lethal, kinetic strikes.”
“Our current operations in the Caribbean are lawful under both U.S. and international law, with all actions in compliance with the law of armed conflict—and approved by the best military and civilian lawyers, up and down the chain of command,” Hegseth said.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, despite these attacks, the US is continuing strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean, executing the 22nd strike on December 4, killing nearly 100 designated foreign terrorist narcotic traffickers as of early December.
Most likely this was Columbian cocaine. It's going to take a little more balls and effort to dismantle the Chinese-Mexican fentanyl trade. Unfortunately, fentanyl is so potent, it can be smuggled in very small spaces. 1 gram of fentanyl is about the same number of doses as 1 kilogram of cocaine. No need for fast boats when a hobby drone can carry the same number of doses across the border.
Well, Venezuelans could live in Colombia or Ecuador or Peru and operate out of their ports too, why not? Or perhaps some transport through the Panama Canal that intel doesn’t know about yet, supplying boats in some out of the way port on the south coast of Panama (the Pacific coast in other words). Who knows what all they do to get their wares into the U.S. and Canada? ... interesting days ahead for our border too, as some fentanyl may be crossing in either direction (I suspect most fentanyl manufactured in Canada stays in Canada or goes to other countries such as Australia and New Zealand, most U.S. fentanyl is probably made in-country or imported from Mexico and by these boats in some cases — but that’s just my suspicion based on what arrests have been made so far, two large arrests in Canada seemed more linked to domestic use and export to Oz and NZ).
Hat trick!
Federal judges and the DNC asks for the flags to be at half staff in honor of their heroes.
Democrats and Rand Paul deeply saddened.
The sub header with the term ‘Venezuelan Drug Boats’ refers to the Caribbean operations mentioned in the following text, not to all of the boats.
Not a goof at all.
The sub header with the term ‘Venezuelan Drug Boats’ refers to the Caribbean operations mentioned in the following text, not to all of the boats.
Waterborne baby milk factories, lol.
Gooooooooooooooooooal!
I was thinking maybe they were using some kind of higher octane fuel...for better performance or faster escape.
Is that possible or likely?
All eight of the dead drug runners were probably registered to vote in the USA.
“Well...who is DJT antagonizing? The CCP, or the CIA?”
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Is there a big difference? China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, CIA, State Department, EU, UK, Mossad, are in with the drug cartel aiming to destroy American excellence. They’ve been quite successful until this administration.
None of them are happy. All of them are working towards fracturing Make America Great Again principles and policies.
And will be voting several times each in the next election cycle
I love the “bring it on” strategy...Splash one!, Splash two!, Splash three! and so on.
Every time one of those “go-fast” boats is obliterated thousands more won’t die from drug overdoses in the USA, and untold numbers of politicians and officials won’t get their payments.
When Trump does the math, his arithmetic amounts to lowest common denominator common sense. He’s taking out the trash, plain and simple. It’s one of those jobs that ordinary Americans can’t do but wish we could.
Venezuelans? In the east Pacific?
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Venezuelans, Colombians, etc - who cares about their nationality as long as they are properly blown up and dead.
“Gateway Pundits” flunked geography
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No they were in the eastern pac. along the coast going fast with fuel drums and bales of drugs, California bound - nice booms!
So. Where did they depart from? Not Venezuela. One would doubt that they went thru the Panama canal.
So, there would be one obvious point of departure but it's not confirmed anywhere.
Why not clarify the point that they departed from... from the country they obviously would had to have departed from?
And just to be clear, I, my own self, don't care where they departed from if they're shipping fentanyl. (They know they're carrying fentanyl because intelligence sources on the ground told them that and/or they were observed by satellite. OK that's good enough for me too.)
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