I read that the US has carried out a second attack on  some boat off Venezuela….a boat of ‘terrorists’…..

President Trump announced that the US military again targeted a boat he says was carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel.

• “This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” the president said in a Truth Social post.
• “The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in International Waters transporting illegal narcotics (A DEADLY WEAPON POISONING AMERICANS!) headed to the U.S.,” Trump wrote. “The Strike resulted in 3 male terrorists killed in action. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this Strike.”
• The strike that Trump says was carried out Monday came two weeks after another military strike on what the Trump administration says was a drug-carrying speedboat from Venezuela that killed 11. The administration justified the earlier strike as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the US. “These extremely violent drug trafficking cartels POSE A THREAT to U.S. National Security, Foreign Policy, and vital U.S. Interests,” Trump wrote Monday.

  But several senators, Democrats and some Republicans, have indicated dissatisfaction with the administration’s rationale and questioned the legality of the action, the AP reports. They view it as a potential overreach of executive authority in part by using the military for law enforcement purposes. “There is no evidence—none—that this strike was conducted in self-defense,” Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said last week, per CNN. “That matters, because under both domestic and international law, the US military simply does not have the authority to use lethal force against a civilian vessel unless acting in self-defense.”

A second attack?

Why?

Although the president is posting edited videos of these strikes, information about the planning, execution, and legal justification for this campaign on alleged “narcoterrorists” is being kept secret from senior congressional staffers.

Last Tuesday, senior staff from House leadership and relevant committees were barred by the Office of the Secretary of War from attending a briefing on the first attack, according to three government sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The military cited “alternative compensatory control measures” — the term for enhanced security procedures designed to keep information under wraps — as the reason.

The War Department has attempted to conceal numerous details about the attack that killed 11 people in the Caribbean, including the fact that the vessel altered its course and appeared to have turned back toward shore prior to the strikes. Men on board were said to have survived an initial strike, The Intercept reported last week. They were then killed shortly after in a follow-up attack.

(theintercept.com)

It seems that the US is determined to force Venezuela into committing some action that can be used to justify a direct attack on Venezuelan soil.

These slugs are trying so hard to force a new conflict that the defense contractors need to stay in the green.

This is silly sh*t and cannot end well for either country.

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“lego ergo scribo”