Trump Orders U.S. Military Strike on Alleged Venezuelan Drug Boat, Escalating Fight With Maduro

Welcome to Foreign policyThe situation report, where one of the authors participating at the end of the long week spent diving in Aruba, off the coast of Venezuela, unaware of his happiness when he was about to go down a few miles away.

In this memo, here is what is on the tap for today: Trump’s orders Military strike on Alleged drug boat in The Caribbean Sea DistrictIsrael is considered Include the West BankAnd Chinese infiltrators Siphon up global data.

Although US President Donald Trump is trying to end wars in Europe and the Middle East, he sends the United States concerned with a new conflict in Latin America – and turns the role of the army in this process.

In a publication on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump shared a 29 -second video clip showing a quick boat wandering through unidentified water before suddenly exploded in fire. He said that the boat was wounded by the American army on the orders of Trump, claiming that he was transporting members of the Venezuelan gang, Treen de Aragua, who were “transporting illegal drugs, heading to the United States.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that the destruction of the boat instead of intercepting and seizing it was aiming to deter other “drugs”. “What will stop them is when they explode,” Rubio told reporters during the visit of Mexico. “It will happen again.”

Cartlatt chase. Tuesday’s strike is the first activation of Trump’s secret order for the American army last month to start following the drug gangs directly, which I reported New York Times But it was not publicly published. It also comes amid the broader publication of the American Navy-which includes at least three destroyers, a directed march, a nuclear powered submarine, three amphibious ships, and thousands of forces-to international waters off the coast of Venezuela, and frankly for President Venezuelan Nicholas Maduro.

The Trump administration considers Maduro an illegitimate leader and claimed to be involved in the drug trade himself. Maduro said before the American strike that Venezuela was “the maximum preparation” to defend herself against any American military action, but it is not immediately clear whether he was planning revenge.

Using the navy to pursue individual alleged drug boats, Trump continues his tendency to throw the massive US military forces in problems outside its normal scope. Christopher Spatini from Chatham House on FP on Thursday wrote on Thursday, the objection and action against drug dealers in international waters is traditionally supervised by the Coast Guard. Although it is not unprecedented to share the navy in such operations, the launch of a military strike on the boat without verifying its occupants or its contents is a departure from the normal procedure.

The judicial chaos that the Coast Guard might feel will be familiar with the police in multiple American cities, including Los Angeles and Washington, DC, where Trump has published the National Guard to suppress protests and fight crime, respectively (and in the last case, on cherry trees full of transition). Both these two publications were challenged in court. Trump also sent thousands of forces to the southern American border to help immigrate.

Congress and law. The strike also raises a large number of legal questions, both in terms of local and international law, especially given that Congress has not been declared under military action against Trin de Aragoa or Venezuela. Trump has appointed Tren De Aragua and other drug gangs as foreign terrorist organizations shortly after her return to office, which administration officials said to him legal authorities to target these groups in new ways. But they are still blurry legal lands, although presidents from both sides have taken military measures abroad without the approval of Congress.

Although Congress alone has the power to declare war, the presidents are the main leaders of the army and have generally widespread authority to take necessary measures to protect national security. Whether this strike rises to this level is a greater question.

The presidents have been granted a very wide latitude to take military measures against terrorist groups in the afternoon of September 11, and they often tested the borders of their powers and the law in this process. However, drug cartridges are not covered under licenses to use the military force approved by Congress in relation to terrorist groups.

In recent years, the lawmakers in Washington have increasingly pushed the Congress to reaffirm his authority over the powers of the war and curb the forces granted to the presidents after September 11. So far, Congress’ response to this incident was relatively silent, although some Democrats raised concerns.

In the comments for PoliticoRepresentative Jim Hems, a member of the arrangement of the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives, interrogated the Trump’s legal authority to strike a “no threat” ship for the United States. Meanwhile, some Republican lawmakers chanted Trump, with Senator Lindsi Graham’s publication on X that the strike was “in the end – and leaving – that we have a new honorable city in the city.”

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Ross competedThe Director of the Management and Budget Office and the main architect of the project for the 2025 project, is now the director of the United States Agency for International Development, and he takes over the task from Rubio.

Charles BorgesThe chief data employee in the Social Security Administration, who submitted the complaints of those whose violations claim that the Ministry of Governmental Efficiency employees have offended the special data of millions of Americans, resigned on Tuesday.

Chevic Nimat, The former president of Columbia University, whose dealing with the pro -events camping protests led to her resignation after Trump’s criticism, is now the chief economist of British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer.

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What should be on your radar, if not really.

Including the modern West Bank. On Wednesday, Israeli Finance Minister Paskal Santrich suggested that Israel included about 82 percent of the West Bank in order to “remove it once and forever, this idea of ​​the Palestinian state.” The proposal comes as more countries move to recognize Palestine as a country and amid the growing global pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza. In July, Kunesset voted in favor of a non -binding proposal for Israel to annex the occupied West Bank.

The United Arab Emirates has warned that such a move will cross the “red line” and deal with a major blow to Ibrahim’s agreements at a time when the Trump administration continues to push more Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel.

However, it is unclear amount of support, if any, Smotrich’s proposal from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. the Jerusalem Post She stated that after warning the United Arab Emirates, the idea was removed from the agenda of Thursday that Netanyahu held to discuss the economic and security situation in the West Bank.

Russia’s warning to the West. Ukrainian President Foludmir Zelinsky was in Paris on Thursday to attend a meeting with the “Alliance from Wish” in countries to discuss security guarantees after the war to Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron announced that 26 countries have officially pledged to deploy forces “by land, sea, or air” to Ukraine as “a form of reassurance” in the wake of a potential truce deal.

But this is the problem: there is no peace agreement on the horizon, and the process stops to a large extent despite the great efforts made by the Trump administration to move things forward.

Western Russia, which was partially justified by its invasion of 2022 to Ukraine by referring to NATO’s ambitions in Kiev, also warned that it would not sign an agreement watching foreign forces stationed in its neighboring neighbor.

“Russia does not intend to discuss foreign unacceptable intervention in Ukraine in any way,” said Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on Thursday.

The day of the field of Chinese infiltrators. Salt Tefip, the Chinese piracy group that has repeatedly and repeated the United States government over the past few years? Their arrival and damages are more comprehensive than previously believed, according to a comprehensive new report than more than ten electronic agencies, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and many European countries.

The agencies said in the report that the Chinese electronic attacks “managed to constantly access the long -term networks around the world. The report added that targeting and accessing global communication networks, government, military, and transportation networks, while infiltrating infiltrators to intelligence agencies in China.

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An Afghan man sits in the remains of a damaged house in the wake of an earthquake in Dara Nour Province in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, on September 3.AFP via Getty Images

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He led Sens. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Andy Kim recently a delegation of the Senate to South Korea and Japan as part of an attempt to enhance national security and economic relations. Both countries are exposed to Trump’s tariff, and his speech “America First” has increased the nerves in security issues in the Indian Pacific Ocean. Sitrep has signed with Duckworth and Kim about their journey to learn the place where perceptions of relations with the United States are currently standing.

Militarily, there are concerns about the “level of ability to predict” in the United States at the present time “in terms of our ability to ensure our allies in our deep and primary levels of obligations,” said Kim.

On their journey, Duckworth and Kim joined the commander of the American forces, Korea, General Kazavier T. Bronson for a training exercise attended by ambassadors from the United Nations Command members.

“These ambassadors have expressed some real concerns about America’s long -term commitment,” said Dakright. “What we do in Korea and Japan are viewed and viewed by all other countries in the region.”

Duckworth and Kim said they fear that administration policies are leading the United States partners in the Indian Pacific Ocean to the arms of Beijing, noting the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to China amid Trump’s tariff by 50 percent in the country of South Asia.

Kim said: “This is a great reason for our gold.” “China increases its participation with these countries. It is on a magic attack.”

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Monday September 8: Norway held the parliamentary elections.

The United Nations Human Rights President Volcker Turk addresses the sixtieth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Tuesday, September 9: The United Nations General Assembly begins in New York.

Thursday, September 11: Nadine Mindez, the wife of former American Senator Bob Menendes, is scheduled to be sentenced to Manhattan Court after she was convicted of the help of her husband in a plan to bribe Egyptian officials.

Friday, September 12: The Brazilian Supreme Court case is expected to be judged against former President Geer Bolsonaro.

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338– The number of Chinese entities granted at least two decades of artificial intelligence by the People’s Liberation Army between January 2023 and December 2024, according to a new report issued by researchers at the Security Center at George Town University and emerging technology. The report found that the vast majority of these are “unconventional sellers” outside the state -owned research institutions and institutions, indicating that the Chinese army is largely diversified its endeavor to the superiority of artificial intelligence.

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“We need this in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”

– Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, in a post on X joking (or perhaps not) in reference to a video of a magnetic paper designed “to stop immediately”.

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Just crazy to survive? North Korean leader Kim Jong Un believes that, with the generalization of the video claiming that his assistants are scanned hard every element he sat on, touched, or touched during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing this week. Putin himself seems keen to prolong his life as possible, after he was arrested on the hot microphone during the same visit that discusses immortality with Chinese President Xi Jinping.