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U.S. conducts seventh strike on boat allegedly involved in drug trafficking.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:40 pm
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:40 pm
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Sunday that the US conducted a strike Friday on a boat that American intelligence officials believed was involved in illegal drug trafficking in the Caribbean.
Hegseth wrote in a post on X that the vessel was affiliated with a Colombian terrorist organization and had “substantial amounts of narcotics” on board. He said the three men on the boat were all killed and no US forces were harmed.
This is the seventh known strike in a series of recent attacks by the US military on vessels that the Trump administration says are involved in drug trafficking. It comes days after another strike on an alleged drug boat that CNN reported appeared to be the first time an attack did not kill everyone on board. President Donald Trump said Saturday the survivors of that strike were released to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia.
“These cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, using violence, murder and terrorism to impose their will, threaten our national security and poison our people,” Hegseth wrote Sunday. “The United States military will treat these organizations like the terrorists they are—they will be hunted, and killed, just like Al Qaeda.”
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Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:41 pm to Bunk Moreland
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allegedly
frick dem drug runners
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:42 pm to Bunk Moreland
Columbia.......
Come on down!!!!!!
He's giving Mexico all of the warnings he can.
Come on down!!!!!!
He's giving Mexico all of the warnings he can.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:43 pm to Bunk Moreland
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Bunk Moreland
Sorry for your loss, again.
You ever think you might be on the wrong team?
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:43 pm to Bunk Moreland
Why is CNN not referring to Hegseth as War Department Secretary?
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:44 pm to Rebel
We should probably wait until they hit U.S. waters and intercept them, but whatever.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:46 pm to Bunk Moreland
WTF good is this supposed to do? Do we have a plan to take out the real guys or will it be whack a mole for the next three years?
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:47 pm to Bunk Moreland
But why? The ships aren’t legitimately flagged vessels and they are in international waters. These drug ships are no different from pirate vessels. It’s been bedrock American foreign policy since the founding to intercept pirates and to interdict contraband.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:47 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
Its simply virtue signaling, finding low-hanging fruit to excite the masses.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:49 pm to Bunk Moreland
I’m a little nervous Venezuela will actually pack a boat full of refugees and kids and leak that it is running drugs to film it and then go all out playing the victim somehow
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:49 pm to Bunk Moreland
How has that strategy worked in the past?
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:50 pm to Old Sarge
That's probably coming. I just hope a cartel doesn't blow up a grocery store here to retaliate.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:50 pm to Riverside
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But why? The ships aren’t legitimately flagged vessels and they are in international waters. These drug ships are no different from pirate vessels. It’s been bedrock American foreign policy since the founding to intercept pirates and to interdict contraband.
We have a Navy because of the Barbary Pirates.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:50 pm to Bunk Moreland
Oh noz not drug runners getting blown up
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:51 pm to Bunk Moreland
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I just hope a cartel doesn't blow up a grocery store here to retaliate.
They will get marines and special forces swarming their compounds in the jungles if that happened
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:54 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Its simply virtue signaling, finding low-hanging fruit to excite the masses.
I hope he stays nice with Mexico. I have to attend a wedding there in January. I want them to be nice to me.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:55 pm to Bunk Moreland
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We should probably wait until they hit U.S. waters and intercept them, but whatever.
Those boats are homemade speed boats by the cartels they don’t travel all the way to the U.S. waters.
They deliver the drugs to Caribbean island nations where it’s easy to pay off local officials, then the drugs are loaded onto private vessels, shipping containers, and planes that come to the U.S. At that point you cannot tell which vessels are drug runners and vastly increases the chance of striking an innocent civilian vessel.
The reason we can hit these boats off the South American coast is because they’re homemade by the cartels and it’s obvious what they are.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 1:55 pm to Bunk Moreland
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We should probably wait until they hit U.S. waters and intercept them, but whatever.
A commie reporter asked Trump this week why he doesn't do that and he said because that's what we have been doing for 30 years and it doesn't work
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If tweet fails to load, click here.Posted on 10/19/25 at 2:00 pm to deltaland
Good info. 
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