“...conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel”
DOD gobbledegook. This “lethal kinetic strike” crap became popular 10 or 20 years ago.
How about a plain-speak “we blew it up!”
“These cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, using violence, murder and terrorism to impose their will, threaten our national security and poison our people. The United States military will treat these organizations like the terrorists they are—they will be hunted, and killed, just like Al Qaeda.”Great news and great description!
“”””How about a plain-speak “we blew it up!””””
It blowed up real good.
Interestingly, places like YouTube Chat will randomly censor phrases like ‘blew things up’ but allow ‘lethal kinetic’. Happens with ‘killed’ versus ‘unalived’ too.