US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats
US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ex94eeljeo
One person survived the strikes and was rescued by Mexican search-and-rescue teams.
US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged drug boats in the Pacific, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says.
He said one survivor was rescued by Mexican search and rescue personnel.
It is the latest in a series of attacks on boats the US says have been carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean.
The latest strikes in the eastern Pacific, which Hegseth said happened on Monday at the direction of President Donald Trump, mark an escalation in what it says is a campaign to target drug traffickers.
The strikes have drawn condemnation in the region and experts have questioned their legality. Members of the US Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, have also raised concerns and questioned the president's authority to order them.
At least 57 people have now been killed in the strikes, which has led to increasing tensions between the US and the governments of both Colombia and Venezuela.
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President Trump on Monday said the U.S. should no longer serve as the “policemen of the world.”
“We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said. “We want to police ourselves and we want to rebuild our country. And the president understands that.”{mosads}
Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.
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These assholes must be punished for this. 
