Was Trump’s Venezuelan boat attack a ‘war crime’? Experts say extrajudicial killings violate international law

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-venezuela-drug-boat-attack-video-b2819566.html

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  1. More on this subject from other reputable sources:

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    – USA Today (B): [US military strikes alleged ‘drug vessel’ from Venezuela in Caribbean Sea, 11 killed](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/02/us-military-caribbean-sea-strike-drug-boat/85945169007/)
    – N-tv (C+): [Eleven dead: Trump: USA shot down Venezuelan drug boat](https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Trump-USA-haben-venezolanisches-Drogen-Boot-abgeschossen-article26005733.html)
    – Trinidad Express Newspapers (C): [Kamla: My duty is to protect citizens, not cartels](https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/kamla-my-duty-is-to-protect-citizens-not-cartels/article_2e7e0929-fde3-495b-b483-e82f72a7b9aa.html)
    – Vox (C): [The US strike on a Venezuelan drug boat, briefly explained](https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/460150/trump-rubio-venezuela-drug-boat-cartels)

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  2. > “There is zero evidence of self-defense here. **Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea,”** according to Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at research and advocacy group, Washington Office on Latin America. “Even if they had drugs aboard, that’s not a capital offense.”

    > **Lethal force against civilians in international waters “is a war crime if not in self-defense,” according to Isacson.** “‘Not yielding to pursuers’ or ‘suspected of carrying drugs’ doesn’t carry a death sentence.”

    Trump needed a distraction the Epstein Files, and Epstein’s suspicious death/murder, so he murders 11 Venezuelans, claims they are ‘drug dealers.’ There is no evidence, and now there are no bodies. They could be anyone. Maybe Trump needed someone to disappear?

  4. Surely someone must have died in the attack on Iran. What’s the difference?

  6. Yes, this was absolutely 100% a war crime. Does it matter? It should, but the US doesn’t even recognize the ICC, so why would it recognize what the ICC has determined to be illegal?

  7. Unless you are,at war and clearly this is what he is trying for

  8. cool, convict him of war crimes and it to the pile of convicted crimes that will never, ever be enforced

  9. Hasn’t everyone figured it out yet??!! The courts ruled that he can’t use the Enemy Alien Act to deport Venezuelans, so he’s trying to start a war with Venezuela so it does apply…

  10. The Orange Shitgibbon desperately needs to start a war, if only as a distraction from his moronic ‘policies’.

  11. If you are an American living or visiting Venezuela, you had better get out.

    Trump just put your lives in deadly danger.

  13. Let’s pay for him to go to Scotland to see his golf course. While there he can be arrested, incarcerated, and tried at the international court.

    He wants $15 to get to heaven, bI have $20 to get him to Europe.

  16. I wonder what Kegsbreath would say if someone bombed a boat of Americans . Fine, if they are drug dealers deal with them in a court of law to the inth degree and confiscate the drugs but bombing a boat of civilians is murder

  17. I think we should have should have let them in and carry out their plan to distribute drugs into the country. A drug user dying using the drugs from this vessel isn’t murder.

  18. Certainly not going deep-sea fishing in international waters anymore😞

  19. What’s the difference between the US military bombing ships in the Caribbean and the Houthis bombing ships in the Strait of Hormuz?

  20. If they want to hit back, they know where to fins him.

  21. Um, he rapes children. I don’t think he gives two shits about international law.

  22. This is what I was hoping for! Trump ends his Presidency and is called to The Hague to stand trial for murder.

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