The War on Drugs Goes Ashore
US, Ecuador strike suspected drug trafficking camp near Colombian border
The joint force carried out “lethal kinetic operations,” the first known attack on cartels since the combined mission started this week.
Nicholas Slayton
American and Ecuadorian forces carried out “lethal kinetic strikes” against drug traffickers in Ecuador near the Colombian border, U.S. Southern Command announced on Friday.
The operation targeted a training camp used by the Comandos de la Frontera, Ecuador’s defense ministry said, and was located in the northeast of the country. It was the apparent first strike involving U.S. forces in South America since the attack on Venezuela in January and the first confirmed action by U.S. troops since its anti-cartel mission was announced.
“At the request of Ecuador, the Department of War executed targeted action to advance our shared objective of dismantling narco-terrorist networks,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on X, using the Trump administration’s name for the Department of Defense.
SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis Donovan meanwhile said in a statement that the operation on Friday targeted “Designated Terrorist Organizations.”
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Video shared by SOUTHCOM of the operation on March 6 shows troops boarding a helicopter before aerial footage shows helicopters flying over the camp, located along a river. The footage then shows the camp being rocked by an explosion, a blast captured on camera from the air and the ground. Video taken on the ground shows the building completely destroyed.
Video:
X.com
US troops arrived in-country last December in what was described as a short term mission. This joint effort is part of the Administration expanding its assault on drug cartels; just yesterday another go-faster drug boat, err, “alleged drug-smuggling vessel” was struck by US forces killing all six onboard.
Davy Jones grins.
Category: Bravo Zulu, International Affairs, Trump!
Perhaps the psychotic cocaine drug dealers will give up and pursue a humanitarian mission of promoting peace, harmony and less lethal capitalism and thereby improving the conditions of the people in their respective countries?
You left off the (/s) tag
There are some people out there (SPAPOS et al) that might take your statement seriously.
They will self identify. Anyone who believes that probably feels like they have to tell us what their pronouns are because we might not know or even want to know.
Their pronouns are dip / shits.
Or, to keep the leftist on our site happy; “Possible high tech fishing boats”…