From Wash Examiner: The U.S. military conducted its 30th strike on an alleged drug boat, killing two suspected drug traffickers.
U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X that War Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered the “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel owned by “Designated Terrorist Organizations” on Dec. 29. It attached a video of the strike, showing two sizable munitions detonating above a small vessel, obliterating it and setting the remains on fire.
The strike shows the Trump administration isn’t backing down from its aggressive stance against drug trafficking and the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. With the Monday strike, the total death toll in the United States’s campaign against drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific now totals 109.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed. No U.S. military forces were harmed,” SOUTHCOM wrote.
On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known… pic.twitter.com/69ywxXk30N
— U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom) December 29, 2025
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