First, it was one alleged drug boat, back in September.
U.S.
military forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified trend-a-aragua narco terrorists.
11 on board were killed.
When you flood American streets with drugs, you are terrorizing America.
Then, a second strike, in the Caribbean,
then another, and another, almost every week for two months.
In total, More than a dozen ships have been hit, and at least 57 people left dead.
We're gonna kill them, you know?
They're gonna be like dead, okay?
And Trump is still upping the ante.
He's sending warships to the coast of Venezuela.
But the question is why, and what Stephen Miller got to do with it.
Okay.
I'm Asteed Herndon, filling in around here for the next few months.
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