Another reportedly drug-carrying speedboat, driven by two alleged drug-smuggling goblins, has been intercepted and turned into flying spare parts, with the drivers getting a one-way ticket to Davy Jones’ Locker. This one was in a known narco-trafficking route in the eastern Pacific until it was the target of a “kinetic strike,” which is a military euphemism for “blown up.” The United States Southern Command counted coup on their official X account.
On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known… pic.twitter.com/69ywxXk30N
— U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom) December 29, 2025
The post reads in full:
On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed. No U.S. military forces were harmed.
While it’s perfectly appropriate to note that “No U.S. military forces were harmed,” we might note that the boat in question couldn’t possibly pose any harm to whatever military assets carried out this strike; the personnel in that platform were very nearly as safe from harm as they would be sitting on their own couches watching a re-run of Clear And Present Danger. It’s a guess, but from what we can glean from that rather fuzzy video, it looks like the boat was hit with shells from a 20mm or 30mm cannon. Air Force and Navy aircraft carry these cannon and routinely fly with a basic load of ammunition, we are given to understand, when carrying out operations like this.
Note that the boat is struck in the first second, with a trail of impacts overrunning the craft, raising a trail in the water beyond. This is only a guess, but it’s a moderately-educated one. If an F/A-18 were to fire a burst from its 20mm rotary cannon, this is what it would look like. Of course, Southern Command isn’t releasing any such details, nor should they.
Just taking out the drug boats is enough.
This is the 31st suspected narco-speedboat that the War Department has detonated since President Trump resumed office. 107 suspected narcotics smugglers have been killed, with two more captured and repatriated. The boats are suspected of originating in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s El Presidente Nicolás Maduro has accused the United States of trying to start a war with these strikes. In September, he spoke with reporters in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital:
Mr. Maduro called the action “a military attack on civilians who were not at war and were not militarily threatening any country” and said the United States was trying to goad Venezuela into a “major war.”
Venezuela would be hard-pressed, in purely military matters, to make itself a danger to the United States; even rising to the level of an annoyance would be a serious reach for the South American country. But he is right, in a sort of back-handed sense, when he claims the boats were not “militarily” threatening any country, just threatening to keep importing tons of illegal narcotics. As long as those boats keep making the attempt, we can expect to see more of them sent to the bottom.
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So, in this instance, Southern Command has proven, once again, that there is no problem that cannot be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.
This seems appropriate.
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