US carries out a strike on Venezuelan ship for trafficking illicit narcotics, killing 3

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the latest "lethal kinetic strike" took place on his orders in the US Southern Command's "area of responsibility", a region that encompasses 31 countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean, as per Al Jazeera.
40% : " Trump posted minute-long aerial footage showing side-by-side videos of a vessel - one in colour and one in black and white - that is struck by a projectile as it moves through the water.
26% : Trump did not offer evidence to back his claim nor say where the vessel departed from and where specifically the strike took place, Al Jazeera reported.
21% : "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage en route to poison Americans," Trump said.
19% : On September 2, Trump announced that the US military conducted a strike on a small boat he accused of trafficking drugs for Tren de Aragua, a gang originating from the South American country, killing 11 people, as per Al Jazeera.

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