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US reportedly carries out 20th attack on a vessel in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing four people with ‘no survivors’.
United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has formally announced the launch of a US military operation to target so-called “narco-terrorists” as Washington’s large-scale build-up of troops, warships and fighter jets continues in Latin America.
“Today, I’m announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR. Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people,” Hegseth said in a post on X.
“The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it,” he said.
SOUTHCOM is the acronym for US Southern Command, whose area of responsibility covers 31 countries through South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
In a post on social media, SOUTHCOM said US Marines were conducting artillery training onboard the USS Iwo Jima – an amphibious assault ship – in the Caribbean in support of US President Donald Trump’s “priorities to disrupt illicit drug trafficking and protect the homeland”.
Hegseth’s announcement late on Thursday followed a report that the US military had carried out its 20th attack on vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing four people earlier this week.
US broadcaster CNN quoted an unnamed US Defense Department official who said there were “no survivors” from a strike on a suspect drug smuggling vessel, which took place on Monday.
The attack is the latest reported targeting of people travelling in boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. The US claims it is targeting drug smuggling, but has provided neither evidence nor legal justification for launching lethal attacks that have killed some 80 people so far.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reacted on Wednesday to criticism of the US attacks by its G-7 allies, saying that Europeans will not dictate how Washington chooses to defend US national security.
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Sounds like one of russias
specialmilitaryoperationswar is about to happen.Great, let’s go into venezuela and kill a shitload of innocent people, a handful of actually bad people, and install some bullshit government which will be overthrown by a worse dictator.
Why the fuck can’t we stay out of foreign countries?
Again
I don’t think they can really get much worse than Maduro anyway, but you’re right that it’ll be a needless waste of life for the end result being a new, but different Maduro takes power and the cycle repeats.
Trump is worse
Got to bury those Epstein emails
So much peace. But who would expect something different from a pedophile. A pedophile who apparently sucks dick.
I heard it was in the Epstein files, I guess the only way for Trump to disprove it is to release the files.
There’s the Epstein distraction we knew was coming.
There’s also the precarious state of the market that has been making headlines.
It’s absolutely, 100% a spin to try and make us not focus on all the problems they’re causing and refusing to address in any semblance of a humane way. More hate on top of hate.
Distracting from the rape files with an operation called “Southern Spear” sure is a choice.
Eyoooo!
Not a flotilla of relief supplies and materials for Jamaica.
The cruelty is the point. Just keep repeating that and you’ll understand most of the decisions.
yay more imperialism.
can’t wait for the usians coming to rape torture and kill us.
Marco Rubio should die in a fire
