U.S. military forces unleashed yet another precision strike yesterday on a Venezuelan speedboat laden with illegal narcotics in the southern Caribbean, killing three suspected members of the Tren de Aragua cartel.
President Trump hailed the operation as a decisive victory against “narco-terrorists poisoning our great nation,” underscoring his administration’s unyielding commitment to dismantling the cartels fueling the fentanyl crisis at its source.
Trump announced “On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.”
? BREAKING: President Trump confirms the US military carried out yet ANOTHER strike on a vessel carrying narcoterrorists
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The President continued, “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike.”
Trump concluded, “STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!”
The strike marks the third such lethal action in just over two weeks. It follows a pattern of aggressive interdiction that has sent shockwaves through the trafficking networks preying on American communities.
On September 2, the U.S. Navy targeted a go-fast vessel operated by Tren de Aragua operatives, eliminating 11 individuals confirmed to be transporting massive quantities of fentanyl and cocaine bound for U.S. shores.
Just nine days later, on September 15, a second strike neutralized another drug-laden boat, resulting in three more narcoterrorist casualties.
These operations, supported by naval assets deployed to the region, have drastically reduced maritime drug flows from Venezuela, with Trump noting a sharp decline in suspicious vessel sightings since the campaign began.
Under Trump’s leadership, the Department of Defense—rechristened by the president as the “Department of War” in a nod to its renewed offensive posture—has reoriented counter-narcotics efforts from reactive policing to proactive military elimination.
By designating Tren de Aragua and allied groups like the Cartel of the Suns as foreign terrorist organizations earlier this year, the administration has unlocked wartime authorities to treat these smugglers as combatants, not mere criminals.
Evidence from aerial surveillance and intelligence intercepts, including video footage of white powdery cargo aboard the vessels, confirms the boats’ role in flooding America with deadly synthetics responsible for over 100,000 overdose deaths annually.
This strategy is already yielding results: U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports a 40% drop in maritime fentanyl seizures from the Caribbean since the strikes commenced, a direct blow to the supply chains that have ravaged communities from coast to coast.
By striking at the source—Venezuelan ports under the shadow of dictator Nicolás Maduro, whom Trump has branded a “narco-kingpin” with a $50 million bounty on his head—the administration is protecting American lives, sovereignty, and economic vitality. It’s a stark contrast to years of porous borders and half-measures that allowed cartels to thrive.
Yet, this America-First approach has drawn fierce backlash from Democrats, who decry the strikes as reckless vigilantism that risks broader conflict in Latin America. Senate Armed Services Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) lambasted the operations as “a dangerous overreach, treating civilians as enemy combatants without due process.”
House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced a war powers resolution this week to halt further actions, arguing they violate international law and congressional oversight. Leftists contend the moves stretch post-9/11 authorizations beyond recognition, potentially inviting retaliation from Maduro’s regime or alienating allies wary of U.S. unilateralism.
But such hand-wringing ignores the human cost of inaction. Democrats’ preference for diplomacy and sanctions—tactics that enriched Venezuelan elites while drugs poured in—has only emboldened the cartels.
Trump’s Department of War is flipping the script: No more catch-and-release at sea; instead, swift, lethal deterrence that signals to every aspiring smuggler that trafficking to America means meeting Davy Jones.
With draft legislation circulating to formalize these powers, the Trump Doctrine on drugs is poised to expand, potentially targeting land-based labs in cartel strongholds. For everyday Americans weary of the opioid scourge, it’s a welcome offensive—one that prioritizes red, white, and blue security over globalist niceties. The message to the cartels is clear: Your war on our streets ends now, by any means necessary.
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