President Donald Trump announced that US forces conducted a “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel allegedly trafficking drugs, killing three “male narcoterrorists” on board. He said he authorized the operation, carried out within the US Southern Command’s jurisdiction, after intelligence confirmed the boat’s involvement in drug smuggling. This marks the third such strike on suspected narcotics vessels in recent weeks. Postdoctoral researcher Emilia Ziosi from the University of Oxford’s Department of Sociology joins us for more.
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