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fromAxios
18 hours ago

Hegseth says U.S. has "only just begun" sinking alleged drug vessels

Hegseth authorized lethal naval strikes against suspected drug-running boats; strikes killed over 80 people and raise legal concerns about orders targeting shipwrecked survivors.
fromwww.mediaite.com
23 hours ago

CNN's Kaitlan Collins Hits Trump Boat Strikes With Law of War' Receipt: It Is Forbidden'

KAITLAN COLLINS: Tonight, President Trump just finished convening his top national security officials at the White House. The main topic, we are told, is Venezuela. And although the U.S. is not officially at war with that nation, the President has been hinting at U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan soil, he says, in an effort to combat large-scale drug trafficking. Now, that would be an escalation from the strikes that we've been seeing happening, offshore, in the Caribbean.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

CNN's Elie Honig Points Out Alleged US Strike on Defenseless' Survivors Is Literally a Textbook Example of a War Crime

A second strike ordered to kill shipwreck survivors violates the law of war and Geneva Conventions, making such orders potentially illegal and constituting war crimes.
US politics
fromAxios
2 days ago

Trump allies dismiss Washington Post report on killing Venezuela boat strike survivors

An alleged order authorized a second strike to kill survivors of a boat off Venezuela; officials dispute the claim and Congress has pledged rigorous oversight.
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