Drug Smuggling Boat Destroyed, Three Traffickers

Once more, the United States Southern Command is proving the reality of that previous navy proverb: There is no drawback which can’t be resolved with the acceptable utility of high explosives. The latest drawback to be so resolved concerned yet another alleged drug boat in the japanese Pacific Ocean. That drug boat is now diminished to spare elements, and the boat’s crew of three is now inspecting their new quarters in Davey Jones’ locker.

U.S. Southern Command wasted no time taking to their official X account to rely coup.

On May 29, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear performed a deadly kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along identified narco-trafficking… pic.twitter.com/ynibuPqDd3

— U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom) May 30, 2026

The video included exhibits very plainly the fiery outcomes of that “lethal kinetic strike,” which is skilled navy discuss to “blown the (insert epithet) up.”

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This is just the latest in a long line of would-be drug smugglers who are now fattening fish.

While the navy’s social media bulletins always embody video of the assaults, this seems to be the first with the footage in shade instead of black and white. The video exhibits a small vessel floating in the ocean before it is hit and engulfed in a fireball. It cuts to what might be the boat in flames, surrounded by a large plume of parcels or some other objects unfold around it in the water.

The assault places the death toll at 202 people from the sequence of U.S. strikes that started in early September, with two other assaults announced Tuesday and Wednesday. The Trump administration has declared that the U.S. is in an armed battle with Latin American drug cartels, saying they’re behind the circulate of medicine into American communities.

U.S. Southern Command said in its post on X that the strike got here at the direction of Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the top U.S. commander in Latin America, who on Friday also met with Cuban navy leaders close to the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay.

To that, we are able to only say, “Good shooting, and keep it up!”

While we rightly have fun every drug boat detonated and every cartel smuggler diminished to ambient temperature, there’s the priority that some of these boat crews might nicely have confronted an disagreeable alternative: Make the attempt, or you and your loved ones will probably be executed. That would not be beneath the cartels, and it is curious that they still keep sending these boats and crews out to strive to convey their unlawful cargoes into the United States. And yet they keep coming, and Southern Command retains blowing them out of the water.

It’s a mandatory activity. If the cartels are to be tamped down, they’ve to be hit all over the place, and these boats are, actually, low-hanging targets.

Oh, and if you are planning a fishing outing in this half of the japanese Pacific, I like to recommend making it a catch-and-release factor, instead of retaining any of the catch for the freezer. There’s no telling what those fish might have been eating.

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump and his administration’s daring management, we’re revered on the world stage, and our enemies are being put on discover.

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