U.S. Southern Command posted on social media, “Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” though it did not provide evidence. It posted videos of each boat speeding through water before being struck by an explosion.
The military said three people in one vessel and two in the other were killed.
The attacks brought the total number of known boat strikes to 28 while at least 104 people have been killed, according to numbers announced by the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and asserted the U.S. is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.
It’s that passive voice they use when talking about police brutality too. It wasn’t the missile fired by the US military that hit them, it was the explosion that hit them.
It’s no different than “man struck by baton in encounter with police.” Who struck the man here? The baton not the pig holding it.
Now that you explained it, that makes it even worse. Sigh. They’re just enabling them.