US accused of killing Venezuelan drug boat survivors – Trump’s military agenda is based on impunity

By Andrew Bell, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Conflict, Stanford University
Thomas Gift, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL

A bombshell revelation on November 28 that the US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, ordered a second strike to kill the survivors of a Venezuelan drug boat targeted by US forces has shocked Congress and American citizens alike.

The US president, Donald Trump, citing Hegseth’s affirmations,…

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