Donald Trump unleashed fire and then death upon a boat carrying drugs off the shores of Venezuela.
The President unveiled the announcement on Truth Social by noting that the Secretary of War ordered the ‘lethal kinetic’ on a narco-terrorist vessel. Trump said that Pete Hegseth conducted the deadly operation with his permission.
US intelligence confirmed that the vessel was trafficking drugs for an unnamed narco-terrorist network.
‘The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike,’ Trump wrote to his followers on Truth Social.
‘No US Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!’
The strikes comes after Venezuela warned the US military is preparing for a full-scale invasion of the South American country.
Venezuela’s UN Ambassador Samuel Moncada held an emergency meeting with the UN Security Council last Friday, warning US strikes on its boats were the first steps before an invasion.
‘The belligerent action and rhetoric of the US government objectively point to the fact that we are facing a situation in which it is rational to anticipate that in the very short term an armed attack is to be perpetrated against Venezuela.’
The latest airstrike is the fifth attack directed at alleged Venezuelan drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea.
According to Trump administration, the last four attacks killed a total of 21 alleged narco-terrorists.
The president attached a 33-second video from the military showing the vessels being blown apart by an airstrike.
Trump’s strike occurred in the US Southern Command area of command.
Since taking back at the White house, Trump has accused Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of being a drug lord and dictator.
Administration officials have also cut off diplomatic outreach with Venezuela following the strikes.
The Trump administration has designated some of the world’s largest Latin American cartels as terrorist organizations.
Senate Democrats proposed and voted on a war powers resolution would prohibit the Trump administration from conducting strikes on Venezuela with Congressional approval. The bill, however, failed to pass the Senate.
