The first strike of President Trump’s militarized drug war took place on Tuesday with what the Pentagon called a “precision strike against a drug vessel operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization.”
- Trump said 11 members of the Tren de Aragua cartel had been killed while transporting drugs. He shared what appeared to be videoof an aerial attack on a speedboat.
Why it matters: Trump has ordered a flotilla of ships off Venezuela’s shores, ostensibly to stop drugs but also in hopes of sparking regime change, as Axios reported last week.