Earlier this week, President Trump announced that U.S. armed forces have now employed lethal force against three seafaring vessels off the coast of Venezuela. Only two attacks had been public before his remarks.
The president maintains that all of the boats were in the act of transporting illegal drugs to the United States. The first strike a couple of weeks ago is said to have killed eleven people whom Trump alleges were Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members. On Monday, the president used a Truth Social post to inform the public that, earlier in the day, “on my orders, U.S. military forces conducted a SECOND kinetic strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists.” He added, “The strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in international waters transporting illegal narcotics . . . headed to the U.S.” He didn’t say who had done the positive identifying and confirming.
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