Trump announces another lethal strike on alleged drug-trafficking vessel in international waters

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump on Friday announced another lethal military strike on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel that he said was affiliated with a designated terrorist organization.

In a social media post, Trump said the strike targeted a vessel operating in US Southern Command’s area of responsibility – which includes Central America, South America and the Caribbean – and killed three male “narcoterrorists” onboard.

“On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans.”

According to the president, no US forces were harmed during the operation, which took place in international waters.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/politics/military-strike-alleged-drug-trafficking-vessel

[Blues Heron]

1. I knew he would kill again, he is an addict after his bloodlust fix, but it's never enough. He will eventually nuke

He will eventually nuke some country or city. He’s just getting into it with these massacres

[James48]

2. So that makes 17 Extrajudicial murders.

Just in the last two weeks, that we know of.

Each one should be a separate war crime charge of murder against the President, and all in the chain of command. .

[paleotn]

3. There's unrest in the ranks...

Rumors of guys are asking superior officers for letters absolving wrongdoing. That's serious shit.

Can't say I wouldn't object to legionary solutions. Can't say I wouldn't at all. We've fallen so far.

[Bayard]

6. I'm wondering when these guys are going to refuse to go along

Refusing an illegal order.

[Shipwack]

8. It won't happen until...

They (and the world via pictures, etc) see mangled bodies up close and personal.

Until that point it’s all theoretical and sanitized for everyone.

[Trueblue Texan]

4. So let's see...

...the skies are no longer safe; the seas are no longer safe; next will be the highways and trains. He has really got the taste for blood now--we'd all better stay put, just like during COVID. And when will the nations whose citizens he is murdering with no due process consider his actions an act of war?

[AverageOldGuy]

5. I'm waiting for this to happen:

I lived for almost 20 years on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia where I volunteered several times a week at a popular local museum that dealt with the Bay and the history of communities in our area. We were a popular destination for people sailing or yachting up and down the North and South American coasts.

Trump is going to kill a couple of families who are sailing along the South American Atlantic coast who are wealthy and who have friends in very high places . . . that is, if he hasn't done so already.

[RussBLib]

7. wealthy South Americans with yachts

...the perfect smugglers.

They need to start showing us the "evidence" of drugs on board these boats. If they don't have it, they'll make it up, and likely slip up.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[eringer]

9. Three Dummies and a Remote Control Boat

How many of these are slipping by the navy is anybody’s guess. BTW, the dummies must be anatomically correct as the convicted felon said they were male.