Which Countries Have Stopped Sharing Intelligence With U.S. Over Boat Strikes in Caribbean?
https://time.com/7333231/countries-stop-sharing-intelligence-with-united-states-amid-boat-strikes-caribbean/
The Trump Administration has authorized a series of missile strikes on vessels in the Caribbean, alleged to be carrying drug shipments. 76 people have been killed in some 19 strikes thus far. Trump and his Administration argue the military action is necessary to curb the flow of drugs into the United States. The U.S. government has not yet released any evidence indicating that any of the targeted ships were smuggling drugs.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who also answers to the title “Secretary of War” following President Donald Trump’s rebranding of the Defense Department, has so far led the charge in announcing many of the strikes, which he says are “protecting the homeland and killing these cartel terrorists who wish to harm our country and its people.”

Per Hegseth, the U.S. most recently conducted “two lethal kinetic strikes” on “two vessels operated by designated terrorist organizations” in the Caribbean.

Announcing the Nov. 9 military action via social media, Hegseth said: “These vessels were known by our intelligence to be associated with illicit narcotics smuggling, were carrying narcotics, and were transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific.”

He went on to add that the strikes were “conducted in international waters” and three male “narco-terrorists were aboard each vessel,” with all six confirmed as killed.