Trump announces US carried out fatal strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : National security officials told members of Congress that the first boat taken out was fired on multiple times after it had changed course and appeared headed back to shore.
30% : Trump on Monday announced the US military had carried out a strike on a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela.
30% : Trump claimed the boat was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang, which was listed by the US as foreign terrorist organisation earlier this year.
28% : Maduro claimed after the first strike that a US video released by Trump was created with artificial intelligence and that a boat of that size cannot venture into the high seas.
16% : But earlier this week Maduro lashed out at the US, accusing the Trump administration of using drug trafficking accusations as an excuse for a military operation whose intentions are 'to intimidate and seek regime change' in the South American country.
12% : Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans,' Trump said in the post. Trump also posted a video of the latest strike that shows a vessel speeding through waters before it appears to be struck by a pair of missiles from overhead and sink in a fiery explosion.

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