Trump Announces Another Strike on Drug Boat Near Venezuela
“The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike.”
President Donald Trump said that the military struck another drug boat off the coast of Venezuela.
The strike killed six:
Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 14, 2025
It is the fifth strike on drug boats since August.
Trump already told Congress that America has become involved in a “non-international armed conflict.”
A few days ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the department would establish a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force. From Fox News:
The U.S. Southern Command said in a release that the task force was being launched under the II Marine Expeditionary Force on Friday “to synchronize and augment counter-narcotics efforts across the Western Hemisphere.”
“Transnational criminal organizations threaten the security, prosperity, and health of our hemisphere,” Admiral Alvin Holsey, the commander of SOUTHCOM, said in a statement. “By forming a JTF around II MEF headquarters, we enhance our ability to detect, disrupt, and dismantle illicit trafficking networks faster and at greater depth – together with our U.S. and partner-nation counterparts.”
At the President’s direction, the Department of War is establishing a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force in the @SOUTHCOM area of responsibility to crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe. The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will…
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 10, 2025
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Maduro is being boxed in. As well as the Cartels. I believe that besides the obvious motivation to halt drugs coming into the US, the President wants the hezbollah training center taken out too. All of this is designed to force Maduro and his merry band of communists out.
I wonder how much the going rate to pilot a drug running boat is rising these days?
I say let’s take out a couple more and graph “salary” vs “dead pilots this month”
BOOM goes the dynamite! (or the facsimile thereof)
I’m finally in a place in life where I can afford to get a big boat and go island hopping, but the real life pirates of the carib have made that a non-starter.
Bring back letters of marque and private warships.
Production facilities also need to be taken out.
‘It is the fifth strike on drug boats since August.’
I give it 3 more till they cry, ‘No mas!’
I’m betting hundreds of the subs are making it here.
One doesn’t often consider privately-owned subs as a thing. But I’m old enough to remember when the third-largest submarine fleet on the globe was owned by the Disney properties.