US President Donald Trump and his Department of War have rapidly escalated their war on narcotics being smuggled into the country, blowing up two boats allegedly carrying “narco-terrorists” in close succession, sparking a fiery revelation from Venezuela, who claim to have 5000 Russian missiles ready to secure “peace”.

First, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday (local time) that the US had “conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organisation and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific”.

It wasn’t the first lethal kinetic strike ordered by Mr Trump on alleged drug boats. In recent weeks, including the Pacific Ocean strike, there have been eight strikes. This was the first outside of the Caribbean Sea.

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