It might seem incongruent for a U.S. president openly lusting after recognition as a peacemaker to be lobbing missiles at boats in the Caribbean while sloughing off requests for any sort of detailed explanation.

But coherence has never been a feature of the Trump administration, so at the same time it was heralding President Trump’s success in achieving a ceasefire in Gaza, it was blowing up another boat in the waters off Venezuela, claiming it was carrying drugs to be smuggled to America.

Trump called the attack “a lethal kinetic strike” on a “vessel associated with a Designated Terrorist Organization.” He didn’t name the organization or provide any evidence that drugs were involved. No word was provided on the weaponry used, though Pete Hegseth — recently retitled “Secretary of War

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