Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) rebuffed Vice President JD Vance’s defense of a recent U.S. strike against a vessel from Venezuela .

Last week, Trump announced that the United States conducted a “ kinetic strike ” against a Venezuelan vessel that killed 11 Tren de Aragua gang members while they were allegedly transporting drugs.

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“Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” Vance wrote on X on Saturday.

Another X user responded to Vance’s original post, suggesting that it was a war crime to kill “the citizens of another nat

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