The first strike of President Trump's militarized drug war took place on Tuesday with what the Pentagon called a "precision strike against a drug vessel operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization." • Trump said 11 members of the Tren de Aragua cartel had been killed while transporting drugs. He shard what appeared to be video of an aerial attack on a speedboat.

Why it matters: Trump has ordered a flotilla of Navy ships off Venezuela's shores, ostensibly to interdict drug shipments but also in the hopes of effectuating regime change in the oil-rich socialist nation, as Axios reported last week.

Driving the news: Trump said on Truth Social that the targets had been "positively identified" as Tren de Aragua members and the strike took place in international waters, with no U.S.

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