Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific

Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglers

Guardian staff
Fri 5 Dec 2025 02.27 GMT
First published on Fri 5 Dec 2025 00.21 GMT

The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the US military had conducted another deadly strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal narcotics, killing four men in the eastern Pacific, as questions mount over the legality of the attacks.

Video of the new strike was posted on social media by the US southern command, based in Florida, with a statement saying that, at the direction of Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, “Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization”.

“Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed,” the statement added.

The footage showed a large explosion suddenly overtaking a small boat as it moved through the water, followed by an image of a vessel in flames and dark smoke streaming overhead.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/pentagon-boat-strike-pacific

[Bettie]

1. In a normal world

wouldn't they just intercept the boat, search it and arrest the people on board if there were drugs there?

Or am I just wrong and we've always just killed a bunch of people to make someone's pee pee feel big and chubby?

[sakabatou]

2. Yes, it would just be "intercept and search" in a normal world.

But we're at "Shoot first, and kill 'em all" now.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Why kill the lower level drug mules? Why not go after the drug lords?

[usedtobedemgurl]

7. Because we now pardon drug lords.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Killing the drug mules is just part of Trump's reality TV show.

Flashy stunts with no substance.

[DET]

4. Stop the Insanity

They’re murdering innocent people to take over the country’s oil supplies with the alleged goal of fighting ‘narco-terrorism’, a BS term I haven’t heard in decades. The press seems to think this is pretty much normal while the judiciary disputes what the meaning of ‘is’ is (see Bill Clinton). And more people die.

[malaise]

5. More murder

K & R for visibility

[usedtobedemgurl]

6. This from the"pro life" party!!!!

I never want to hear the words "pro life" out of their mouths again.