US airstrike on ‘drug boat’ kills six as aircraft carrier sent to South America

Seriously ... what the fuck are we actually doing with these attacks? Like, with some semblance of rationale better than "trust us; they had drugs," this might make sense, but randomly attacking ships at sea is more the Houthi approach.

The United States has carried out another military strike against a boat it claims was carrying illegal drugs in the Caribbean, killing six people onboard said Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon chief, on Friday morning.

Later on Friday, the Pentagon said that an aircraft carrier was being moved to waters off South America, as part of the administration’s stated campaign to combat drug trafficking.

In a social media post on Friday morning, Hegseth said that the US military had conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel.

Hegseth alleged that the boat was “known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics”.

Somebody needs to get Hegseth another beer. He's just pathetic sober.