The U.S. bombed two boats in the Pacific Ocean in two days, the Trump administration announced this week, in a major escalation of the U.S.’s aggression as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed that the “strikes will continue, day after day.”

Hegseth announced both strikes in nearly identical posts on X on Wednesday, bringing the total number of publicly announced attacks to nine. They are the first that officials have acknowledged took place in the Pacific Ocean.

The first strike, on Tuesday, killed two people, who Hegseth deemed “terrorists” without evidence. The second killed three, he said. This brings the total acknowledged death toll of the U.S.’s operations in the region to 37 people.

Hegseth said that the strikes took place in the eastern Pacific, and a defense official c

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