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The U.S. subject conducted its eighth onslaught against an alleged cause vessel, sidesplitting 2 people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday (October 22, 2025).
The Tuesday (October 21) nighttime onslaught occurred successful the eastbound Pacific Ocean. The 7 erstwhile strikes each targeted vessels successful the Caribbean. According to Mr. Hegseth successful a societal media post, the onslaught killed 2 people, bringing the decease toll from each the strikes to astatine slightest 34 people. In a little video released by Mr. Hegseth, a tiny boat, half-filled with brownish packages, is seen moving on the water. Several seconds into the video, the vessel explodes and is seen floating motionless connected the h2o successful flames. In his post, Mr. Hegseth took the antithetic measurement of equating the alleged cause traffickers to the radical down the September 11, 2001, attack.
Yesterday, astatine the absorption of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic onslaught connected a vas being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking successful the Eastern Pacific.
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“Just arsenic Al Qaeda waged warfare connected our homeland, these cartels are waging warfare connected our borderline and our people,” Hegseth said, adding “there volition beryllium nary refuge oregon forgiveness — lone justice.” President Donald Trump has justified the strikes by asserting that the United States is engaged successful an “armed conflict” with cause cartels and is relying connected the aforesaid ineligible authorization utilized by President George W. Bush’s medication erstwhile it declared a warfare connected coercion aft the September 11 attack.
