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A national security specialist clarified the facts for Trump supporters on Monday regarding President Donald Trump’s deadly confrontation with a suspected drug vessel near the Venezuelan coast, which several analysts asserted ismurder in accordance with international law criminal act of killing under international legal standards illegal killing as defined by international law unlawful killing under global legal frameworks acts of homicide recognized under international legal provisions.

A strike that occurred in international waters resulted in the death of 11 individuals. The administration has stated that it was required because the ship was transporting illegal drugs to the United States, but has not provided substantial evidence to back this claim or explained the reasoning behind a military attack on the vessel, even if the allegation were accurate.

In any other administration (including Trump’s first one), someone at the Pentagon would have stated: ‘Mr. President, you cannot instruct the military to kill several people on a boat in international waters,’ said former Naval War College professor Tom Nichols, afrequent critic of the president, wroteon X over the weekend. “Calling them ‘narco-terrorists’ doesn’t mean you can do that.”

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A defense of Trump later entered the conversation and responded to Nichols, “He made a choice that the individuals in the boat posed a danger to the lives of young Americans. Lives were at risk. A president has the authority to remove the threat.”

But Nichols was not buying into that explanation.

This is not how anything functions, not even during the GWOT, not when Reagan targeted Libya, not even when we invaded Grenada,wroteNichols stated, “This is the way it functions in films, which seems to be the method many people now use to obtain their understanding of critical issues related to life and national policy.”

As the debate has developed, Trump hasdropped cryptic hintsthat he might have additional extrajudicial executions of alleged cartel members abroad planned, responding to a reporter who inquired if such attacks could occur in the future by saying, “You’re going to find out.”