Who Ordered The Second Strike?

President Trump's shoot to kill policy on boats off the coast of Venezuela has run into serious legal trouble after the media has reported that his Defense Secretary, Hegseth, ordered survivors of a first strike to all be killed as they clung to the wreckage of the boat. "Kill them all," he was reported to have said. But why are they killing anyone? Are we at war? Also today, NATO slips further into irrelevancy...
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