Rand Paul Again Slams Trump Over Strikes: 'If We Don't Blow Up Boats Off Miami, Why Do It Off Venezuela?'

[PAF]

by Tyler Durden
October 22, 2025


Senator Rand Paul has again slammed President Donald Trump over his military operations off Venezuela, which has killed 27 people after at least half a dozen alleged drug smuggling boats have been blown out of the water by US drones.






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[jmdrake]

by Tyler Durden
October 22, 2025


Senator Rand Paul has again slammed President Donald Trump over his military operations off Venezuela, which has killed 27 people after at least half a dozen alleged drug smuggling boats have been blown out of the water by US drones.






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Rand Paul Again Slams Trump Over Strikes: 'If We Don't Blow Up Boats Off Miami, Why Do It Off Venezuela?' | ZeroHedge

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More proof that each president gets progressively worse. My biggest gripe against Obama is that he killed Anwar Al Awlaki without a trial. But at least there was the GWOT AUMF in place.

 

[TheTexan]

I don't think blowing up half a dozen drug boats is going to make a dent in the drug trade

Probably need to invade Venezuela to make any kind of difference. And perhaps a few surrounding countries

 

[Occam's Banana]

THREAD:

'US bombs "narco-terrorist" boats in Caribbean, Pacific'

Oct 14, 2025

Pentagon Gives U.S. Marine Corps the Job of Tracking Drug Boats

by The Maritime Executive
Oct 12, 2025

The Pentagon has ordered the creation of a new anti-smuggling Joint Task Force (JTF) within U.S. Southern Command. The new organization will be commanded by II Marine Expeditionary Force, and will perform a role similar to that of the Coast Guard-led Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-S). The effect on JIATF-S' operations was not disclosed.

“Our team is trained, equipped, and ready to lead this Joint Task Force,” said Lt. Gen. Calvert Worth, Commanding General, II...

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[Madison320]

I don't think blowing up half a dozen drug boats is going to make a dent in the drug trade

Probably need to invade Venezuela to make any kind of difference. And perhaps a few surrounding countries

We need more efficient wars like this. We won't have to ship everything so far away. And we won't have to send our anti-ballistic missile interceptors to Israel. We'll get to use them here.

 

[jmdrake]

I don't think blowing up half a dozen drug boats is going to make a dent in the drug trade

Probably need to invade Venezuela to make any kind of difference. And perhaps a few surrounding countries

I called this back in 2018 only I had the wrong country.

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Oct 25, 2018

One millimeter on this side of it is. One millimeter on the other side of it is "foreign". Are you going to argue about the width of the border line?

Obviously Trump will invade Mexico. Problem solved.

• jmdrake

If we're truly being "invaded" by Latin America then we have to fight the over there so we can fight them over here.

 

[jmdrake]

Rand Paul co-sponsors bipartisan joint resolution to restrict Trump's actions against Venezuela!

 

[Danke]

One good reason is if we did it off the shores of Miami, debris could ruin the white sandy beaches and harm tourism.