(TNS) President Donald Trump said the U.S. struck a second vessel ferrying drugs from Venezuela, showing his determination to proceed with an aggressive strategy that’s ratcheted up tensions with the country and prompted questions about its legality.

U.S. forces “conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists” in the US Southern Command’s area of responsibility, Trump wrote in a social media post. “The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in International Waters transporting illegal narcotics.”

The post included a link to a video that showed a vessel rolling in the waves in unidentified waters. After several seconds it is consumed by a massive fireball. Trump said t

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