U.S. kinetic – U.S. Southern Command says General Francis L. Donovan ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing three alleged drug traffickers aboard, while no one on the American side was injured. A video posted on X late Thursday shows the mo
A boat moving through the Eastern Pacific vanished in a flash.
The U.S. Southern Command says General Francis L. Donovan ordered a lethal kinetic strike against a vessel identified as a “Designated Terrorist Organization,” carrying three purported drug traffickers. The action was captured on video. posted late Thursday on X. and shows the ship traveling before it suddenly explodes after being hit.
General Donovan later confirmed the strike killed all three men aboard, saying they were “turned into dust.” On the American side, no one suffered so much as a scratch.
The video lands in a tense backdrop of past operations. The U.S. has carried out similar strikes against alleged narco-terrorists on boats before, including under the Trump administration, when the military reportedly picked them off one-by-one on a regular basis.
With this strike, the message from the command is clear: the window between approach and impact can be seconds—at least for the people on the target vessel.
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Damn… turned into dust? That’s wild.
So they blew up a boat but nobody on the US side got hurt, ok. I’m not saying it’s good or bad, just seems like they’re always “targeting terrorists” and then the video is like a sci-fi explosion. Also Eastern Pacific?? like how did they even identify the right boat that fast?
Wait I thought the Trump thing was like drones, not boats. Isn’t this the same concept though, like pick them off one-by-one? I mean if they were “narco-terrorists” then whatever, but the wording “purported” makes me wonder if it’s always 100% certain. Sounds brutal either way.
Nobody got a scratch on the American side but they had a “window between approach and impact” like that’s normal?? That just tells me it’s basically zero time for anyone to surrender or anything. The X video caption makes it look like the boat just disappeared and then kaboom, like come on, that could be misinterpreted. Also “designated terrorist organization” is such a blanket term… who decides that? Seems convenient.