Trump’s Third Strike Against Narcoterrorists: A Hard Pivot to Military Power

President Donald Trump is bound and determined to take the war on drugs out of the courtroom and into the battlespace. On September 19, 2025, Trump announced what he called a “lethal kinetic strike” against a suspected narcotics-smuggling vessel operating in international waters within U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility. The result: three suspected traffickers dead, no American casualties, and another video clip posted to Trump’s Truth Social feed showing the firepower at work. Advertisement

According to the president, U.S. intelligence confirmed the craft was carrying illicit narcotics along a well-known trafficking corridor. Trump wasted no words in condemning the men aboard, labeling them “narco

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