The Trump administration has expanded its war on alleged drug dealers into a new part of the globe, this time killing two people on a boat in the Pacific.

But the strikes are facing a growing backlash—including among the GOP—with Republican Senator Rand Paul branding them “summary executions” and a “recipe for chaos.”

The latest attack was announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on social media, accompanied by a dramatic video of the boat being blown up in the high seas.

“Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific,” he wrote on X.

“The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narc

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