American warships just sent a narco-terrorist vessel to the bottom of the Pacific, according to Breitbart.
U.S. forces, under President Donald Trump’s orders, obliterated a drug-smuggling boat off Colombia’s coast, marking the first lethal strike outside the Caribbean in his aggressive anti-cartel campaign.
The operation, announced Wednesday by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, targeted a vessel run by a designated terrorist organization in international waters.
Tuesday’s strike in the Eastern Pacific was the eighth in Trump’s maritime offensive against narco-terrorists.
Hegseth, posting on X, confirmed two narco-terrorists were killed, with no U.S. casualties.
“Narco-terrorists intending to bring poison to our shores, will find no safe harbor anywhere in our hemisphere,” Hegseth declared, framing the strike as a bold stand against cartels waging war on America’s borders.
Hegseth’s rhetoric echoes Trump’s hardline stance, which began with an executive order designating cartels like Tren de Aragua as foreign terrorist organizations.
Signed on Trump’s first day in office, the order, titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations,” set the stage for these strikes.
The campaign kicked off September 2 with a Caribbean strike that killed 11 smugglers on a Venezuelan vessel, as reported by Breitbart Texas.
The U.S. Naval Institute News reports 34 deaths across these operations, a body count that’s raised eyebrows among critics.
Some Democrats, like Rep. Adam Smith, question the president’s authority to unleash military force against non-state actors.
Smith, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, is pushing for a congressional hearing to scrutinize the campaign’s legality.
The ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights have gone further, slamming the strikes as “unlawful” and filing a FOIA request for legal justifications.
ACLU attorney Jeffrey Stein called the campaign “murder, pure and simple,” demanding transparency on how the government justifies these attacks.
Stein’s outrage conveniently sidesteps the 80,000 drug overdose deaths in 2024, a grim statistic that fuels Trump’s resolve to crush the cartels.
Critics like Stein seem more concerned with international norms than the poison flooding American streets.
Yet, Hegseth’s vow of “no refuge or forgiveness—only justice” resonates with those who see cartels as existential threats, not just criminal enterprises.
While the left clutches pearls over legality, Trump’s base cheers a commander-in-chief who treats narco-terrorists like the wartime enemies they are.