This is The Guardian.
Today, why is Trump sending warships to the Caribbean?
It started with a video,
an aerial shot in grainy black and white of a fishing boat travelling through the waters of the coast of Venezuela.
Suddenly there's a flash of light and the boat is just gone.
Andrew Roth, the Guardian's Global Affairs correspondent, knew this U.S.
airstrike was the start of something big.
We had seen these kinds of strikes before and we've seen them as Americans for years and decades now,
but often that is many thousands of miles away, far across the ocean, where U.S.
forces have been sent.
My first thought was basically that this is Afghanistan or this is Iraq,
come to the Western Hemisphere.
That was September 2nd.
Since then, 18 more boats that we know of have been blown out of the water,
killing at least 76 people.
Donald Trump, who ordered the strikes,
says he's acting to protect the American people from so-called narco-terrorists.
We're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, okay?
We're gonna kill them, you know?
They're gonna be like dead, okay?