JD Vance has escalated his rhetoric on U.S. military strikes on boats in international waters with a crude joke about killing innocent fishermen.

The vice president has shrugged off mounting criticism about the airstrikes President Donald Trump ordered on alleged Venezuelan drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean in recent weeks, which have reportedly killed at least 14 people.

Critics argue that those on board were never given a chance to defend themselves in a court of law and questioned the legality of the strikes, but Vance has shown indifference, posting, “I don’t give a s--t.”

He doubled down while speaking at a Michigan rally on Tuesday, where he recalled a recent conversation with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—now called Secretary of War by the Trump administration—who suppose

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