Posted on 10/19/2025 11:24:00 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The United States announced Sunday another strike against what it called a drug-running boat, this time attacking an alleged Colombian leftist rebel vessel in an apparent expansion of a US military operation off the coasts of South America.
Word of the attack from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth came as President Donald Trump said the United States is halting financial aid to Colombia, accusing its president of condoning the production of drugs. This took embattled relations between two longstanding allies to a new low.
The United States has had warships deployed in the Caribbean off Venezuela since August and attacked at least six boats it said were running drugs toward the United States, killing at least 27 people so far.
Experts question the legality of attacking such boats in international waters without trying to intercept them or arrest the crew members and bring them to trial.
The flotilla has created acute tension with Venezuela amid fears the ultimate goal of the operation might be to oust leftist President Nicolas Maduro, who Washington says leads a drug cartel.
In a strike carried out Friday, Hegseth said US forces attacked a vessel he said was affiliated with Colombia's National Liberation Army, a leftist guerrilla group known as ELN in Spanish. Three crew members were killed, he said.
Hegseth said the vessel was traveling in international waters in an area under the purview of the US Southern Command, which oversees US military operations in Latin America. He did not specify where. Colombia has both Caribbean and Pacific coasts.
Trump has clashed repeatedly of late with President Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla leader who has been highly critical of the US naval deployment.
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America is on a roll!
[The United States announced Sunday another strike
against what it called a drug-running boat]
Are the Democrats whining about this too?
They sure do love and make excuses for criminals.
> Experts question the legality of attacking such boats in international waters without trying to intercept them or arrest the crew members and bring them to trial. <
In 1943, US aircraft shot down and killed the planner of the Pearl Harbor attack, Japanese admiral Yamamoto. I guess the US is at fault there because we made no effort to arrest Yamamoto first.
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Open Season on drug runners. NO LIMIT…
Some narcoterrorist sympathizers might show up with an R next to their names, too.
I can think of one Senator, rhymes with Sand Y’all, that chirped up recently..
[EXPERTS question the legality of attacking such boats in international waters without trying to intercept them or arrest the crew members AND BRING THEM TO TRIAL.]
Ooh, “experts”!
Uhh, these pirates just had their trial.
Oops I meant “drug mules”
True
The Democrats think the narco boat will stand still in international waters while we have an evidentiary hearing and appeals to whomever.All of the West have designated ELN terrorists. The US judicial system has no jurisdiction. We are not members of the ICC who hate the US as we have sanctioned most of its members. So, you take the shot and let them whine
This is the kind of War on Drugs we should have been waging all along.
Waiting for the video...
Libertarians and anarchists are kissing cousins, if you get my drift.
Yup
300 is topside...
According to our friend PukinDog (years ago), 00 and 01 are usually CAG birds
https://youtu.be/dxdB91fRYPE?si=lpb52dNzVuCRENOc
“Experts say”, “close sources claim” “people close to the matter report”, “former military leaders oppose”……..blah blah blah.
I can't remember the "Experts" EVER doing anything for me.
Screw the "Experts" good and hard, then screw 'em good and hard again.
Every time the Prog Marxist Democrat Traitors ask: "When has Trump done anything for you?"
The answer is always the same: This morning!
Don’t worry a federal judge will order them to allow the smuggling into the USA.
Agree.
Monroe Doctrine, Trump Corollary.
Go f**k yourselves in advance, Rand Paul and Masshole!
Actually you make an entirely valid point, The Monroe Doctrine defines the accepted US position on Foreign Interference in the Hemisphere.
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