Republican senator under the Homeland Security Committee criticizes JD Vance For the “despicable” comment, it is clearly intended to support extrajudicial military killings.
“Killing the drug cartel members is the highest and best use of our army,” the vice president said in a post on Saturday X. strike A Venezuelan ship against the Caribbean, which killed 11 people, the government allegedly a drug trafficker.
Vance added: “Democrats: Let your child die in Russia. Republicans: In fact, let us protect our people from the defeat of the planet.”
Donald Trump After the ship went on strike, it vowed to take additional military action against traffickers who were not military targets, saying “there are more sources.”
The controversial attack sparked an already tense tension between the United States and Venezuela. In August, Trump sent warships and Marines to the Caribbean, which his supporters say was in an effort to expel Venezuelan authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro. On Friday, reports showed Trump was send 10 F-35 fighter jets flew to Puerto Rico to support U.S. military operations against drug dealers.
Some people worry about development Foreshadowing A full-scale military conflict between Venezuela and U.S. service personnel. Last month, the United States provided Maduro’s $50 million bountytwice as much as Osama bin Laden offers and signed in July Secret mission The approval of military operations against Latin American cartels is considered terrorist groups such as the Venezuelan group Cartel of the Suns, which Trump officials claim is led by Maduro.
Trump also used the ship attack as a military activity against “terrorists” in subsequent statements on his social media platform Real Society.
“The strike happened in the sea water transported by terrorists at sea, transporting illegal narcotics, and heading to the United States,” he said. “The strike caused 11 terrorists to die in the operation. No harm to the U.S. military during this strike… Please let this be anyone even considering bringing drugs into the United States of America. Beware!”
Republican Senator Rand Paul chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Slam Vance’s comment.
“JD’I don’t give shit,” Vance said killing the man he accused of crime was ‘the highest and best use of the army’. Has he ever read about killing a mocking bird?” Paul wrote on X, suggesting Harper Lee’s 1960 novel about a convicted black man who tried to escape from prison.
“Did he wonder what would happen if the defendant was immediately executed without trial or representation? What is the mean and unconscious emotion of honoring someone who was killed without trial.”
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