U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that American forces had destroyed a vessel suspected of smuggling drug near Venezuela , killing four people on board. It marks the fourth similar operation carried out by the United States in recent weeks.

The strike is the latest example of President Donald Trump’s efforts to use U.S. military power in new, and often legally contentious, ways, from deploying active-duty U.S. troops in Los Angeles, to carrying out counter-terrorism strikes against drug trafficking suspects.

Hegseth said Friday’s strike was carried out in international waters and that all of the people killed were men. He said the vessel was transporting “substantial amounts of narcotics – headed to America to poison our people.”

“These strikes will continue until t

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