USA. Important Message and Alert About the Boat Strikes
USA. Important Message and Alert About the Boat Strikes
Last February I warned President Trump might attempt Duterte-style extrajudicial drug war killings in the United States. In a different way, Trump is now doing extrajudicial drug war killings.
I'm referring to the drone strikes on alleged "drug boats," most of them near the coast of Venezuela. Since September, the US military on the president's order has carried out such strikes in 25 separate incidents, killing 95 people without warning. An infamous "second strike" on September 2nd, which killed survivors who were clinging to the wreckage of a boat, heightened congressional scrutiny. But as Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has explained, the initial strikes are illegal too. (Drug War Chronicle, Issue #1238, USA, 17.12.2025)
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/important-message-and-alert-about-boat-strikes