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The U.S. military announced it struck five more vessels it says were involved in narcotics trafficking over two days, an operation that killed eight people and left others in the water who may have survived. Southern Command released footage and briefed the public but declined to identify the exact locations of the strikes, a pattern now familiar since this maritime campaign began last fall.
A video posted by the command shows three small boats moving in tight formation—a telltale sign, military analysts say, of coordinated narco-convoys running established trafficking routes—and the military reported those boats had transferred narcotics prior to being struck. Witnesses and reports say people abandoned burning craft and leapt into the sea, and the U.S. Coast Guard was activated to conduct search and rescue operations afterward.
President Trump and his national-security team have defended the strikes as a necessary and proportionate escalation to choke off the cartels that send poison into American neighborhoods, framing the campaign as part of an armed conflict against transnational narco-terror networks. Conservatives who care about public safety should applaud decisive action when the rule of law and our communities are being undermined by violent smugglers and the regimes that enable them.
Of course, the predictable chorus of hand-wringers in the media and on the Hill will demand paperwork and legal lectures while refusing to address the bodies piling up in our cities from poisoned pills. Legitimate questions about tactics and oversight should be answered transparently, but they must not be used as cover to tie the hands of commanders fighting for the safety of American families; that scrutiny is exactly why the Coast Guard’s involvement to look for survivors was publicly noted.
This operation is part of a broader pressure campaign on the Maduro regime and its criminal partners, and it reflects a hard truth: Washington must act when foreign actors are weaponizing drug flows against our country. Congress and the courts can debate legalities in the abstract, but conservative patriots know the first duty of government is to protect its citizens, and this administration is finally treating narco-trafficking with the seriousness it deserves.
