US military strikes 4 boats in Pacific, killing 14
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U.S. forces are sinking drug boats off Venezuela and Colombia. A defense expert warns Trump’s new strikes won’t even stop the drug trade.
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Editorial: US has right to sink drug boats
Legal precedent and a legislative vote make clear that the United States can strike the first blow against imminent threats.
Videos of U.S. attacks in the Caribbean suggest boats have been obliterated in a single strike. The reality is a lot messier.
Officials say intercepted communications are the core of the intelligence collected on the boats. The Trump administration claims that the boats it has destroyed in the Caribbean and the Pacific were transporting drugs. But the U.S. government has said very little publicly about how it reached that conclusion.
Why are U.S. Special Forces sinking boats in the Caribbean—seven vessels to date, killing 32 people onboard? Is it part of the war on drugs? Were the boats ferrying deadly drugs to our shores? Is this prelude,
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