STUNNING footage shows US forces bombing another “narco boat” allegedly filled with drugs – killing two people in the Pacific.
It marks the eighth time that the American military has launched a “lethal kinetic” strike against suspected drug traffickers.
Dramatic footage showed a small boat rocking around in choppy waters before it was targeted by a US missile.
A huge explosion then erupted, leaving the vessel up in flames.
The US defence secretary Pete Hegseth shared footage of the strike, saying the strike killed two “narco-terrorists”.
He wrote: “Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a designated terrorist organisation and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.”
It comes as President Donald Trump waged war by declaring the US is in a “non-international armed conflict” with the Latin American “terrorist organisations”.
Asked about the latest boat attack, Trump insisted that similar strikes could eventually come on land.
Trump told reporters: ‘We will hit them very hard when they come in by land… We are totally prepared to do that.’
The President’s comments come after the US military bombed another vessel said to be filled with drugs.
That strike came just a day after the American military blasted a submarine allegedly carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela.
Tensions are skyrocketing between the US and Venezuela, with an “unprecedented” battle escalating between Trump and dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Trump this week announced he would deploy 10,000 US troops, nuclear-capable bombers, and America’s most elite special operations unit — the “Night Stalkers” — to the waters off Venezuela.
He is taking the fight to the all-powerful drug cartels, who he claims are backed by Maduro.
The Caribbean is now bracing for its most explosive showdown in decades as Maduro whips his country into a war footing and vows to repel any US attack.
In a dramatic escalation, three B-52 bombers — the same heavy bombers used in Iraq and Syria — flew for hours off Venezuela’s coast this week.
Meanwhile, MH-6 Little Birds and MH-60 Black Hawks from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the Night Stalkers, carried out low-level flights just 90 miles from Venezuelan territory.
The unit, famed for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, specialises in lighting-fast, low-altitude night missions and often carries Green Berets, Navy SEALs and Delta Force operators into battle.
Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro has sent a stern response to Washington as he fumed the US wants to oust him and install a “puppet government”.
Maduro stared down Donald Trump’s declaration of war against the cartels, which the President insists are “poisoning” Americans with fentanyl and other drugs.
Trump has accused tyrannical Maduro of being in bed with the “terrorist” narco-cartels – and he has given himself the right to eliminate their members without trial.
Reports say the US is gearing up to seize ports and airfields in Venezuela.
Trump’s war on drugs
DONALD Trump has launched his full-scale war on drugs – favouring missiles over law enforcement.
The first day of Trump’s second term kicked off with the designation of narcotraffickers as terrorists – giving him the right to kill them before they can reach American shores.
This is the argument he has used in the face of law experts warning that his decision to strike a suspected drug-smuggling boat on Tuesday was illegal.
Washington-watchers claim that the gangsters should have been arrested – but the White House says that law enforcement is ineffective.
Trump vowed after the blitz: “There’s more where that came from.”
The US President has long spoken of his desire to enact force to take on drug cartels, which he accuses Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of actively backing.
Maduro has denied the allegations, and the last few months have seen teetering escalations deteriorate into a tense standoff.
The US has positioned naval destroyers and soldiers around Maduro’s waters, while the Venezuelan dictator has ordered mass mobilisation of troops.
