Hegseth reveals fourth airstrike on 'narco' boat off Venezuela after Trump declares 'armed conflict' with traffickers

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

U.S. military assets killed four people and destroyed another boat in a fourth strike against alleged drug traffickers, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Under Donald Trump’s orders, Hegseth directed “a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations” off the coast of Venezuela on Friday morning, according to Hegseth.

Hegseth, in a post on X with a video of the destruction, accused the boat of “transporting substantial amounts of narcotics” to the United States “to poison our people.”

“Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route,” he wrote. “These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!”

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fourth-venezuela-boat-strike-hegseth-b2838993.html

[sop]

1. Those silent generals at Quantico with looks of contempt on their faces are still following Trump's illegal orders.

In their defense, however, they're only following Trump's illegal orders reluctantly and contemptuously.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Generals and Admirals pick their battles. They do not choose to fight every single opportunity. . . . nt

[progree]

16. I think tRump was expecting something more like this

Borowitz Report -

PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report)—Kim Jong Un was incandescent with rage on Wednesday as he accused Donald J. Trump of stealing his idea of gathering his top military brass for an orgy of propaganda.

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Kim said of Tuesday’s event in Quantico, Virginia. “That asshole totally ripped me off.”

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[Walleye]

2. They are delighting in making snuff films

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Didn’t that used to be the American way?

[Irish_Dem]

7. I just posted the same thing. Murder porn. They love it.

Innocent until proven guilty is a quaint relic of America's glory days.

[Walleye]

8. Damn Republicans use the hell out of legal loopholes and court delays.

But of course, I guess the bill is going to be thrown in the trash for being too. “woke”

[Irish_Dem]

11. Trump is running a crime syndicate.

Of course they will use everything to their advantage to commit crimes.
Including breaking the law.

It is what criminals do.

[ananda]

18. Murder porn and a gun fetish...

They kind of go together, don't they?

[Irish_Dem]

20. Exactly. MAGA men use guns as a penis substitute.

Must be something wrong with their original equipment.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. "Designated organizations"? Not to make light of the situation but does that mean they were antifa?

(black humour)

[ImNotGod]

5. Where are the democracies in the world, why aren't they taking on the illegal fascist USA? Worse than pirates. nt

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[Walleye]

10. No country in the world is prepared to take on the US

If the military decide they are going to violate the constitution then they will be on the side of the dictator. Nobody wants to fight us.

[Irish_Dem]

6. More murder porn.

Hegseth probably masturbates to the video of the murders.

[Jim__]

9. "... will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!"

So, Trump will continue attacking boats in the Caribbean for as long as he keeps attacking people in American cities?

[Ford_Prefect]

12. One more lie about sinking a fishing boat and murdering the crew.

Was this a drone strike, or a missile from a Navy ship or aircraft?

[bromeando]

13. Boat

Who was the intelligence group?

[Buddyzbuddy]

14. A question has come to mind.

Could these "military assets" be private contractors running drones off of U.S. ships to provide deniabilty on the military's behalf?
If our military (Navy) isn't directly launching the drones but only providing support. Then, there would be no illegal order to ignore.
A private contractor would be hired by the Admin. and therefore would, by extension, be given Presedential immunity.

[wolfie001]

15. More murdered fishermen from the fascist regime run by the fat orange imbecile

I wonder how many Jan. 6 traitors had first-hand knowledge on building meth labs? It's a death cult.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

17. Hegseth confesses to

More war crimes.

[bluestarone]

19. These fuckers like to MURDER without reason

MURDER means no witness's THEY KNOW THIS!

[Bayard]

21. Armed conflict.....

Does that mean these fishermen were firing on our ships? Flinging fish maybe?

The whole thing is ludicrous.