If there’s one thing guaranteed to set the internet on fire, it’s a U.S. missile strike against violent gangsters—followed by liberals crying “war crime” because the bad guys didn’t get a jury trial and a public defender. That’s exactly what unfolded after the Trump administration released footage showing a Caribbean operation that reduced a boatload of Tren de Aragua members to smoldering wreckage.
Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) September 6, 2025
Vice President JD Vance wasn’t about to let the pearl-clutching slide. When Brian Krassenstein—Twitter’s perennial progressive hall monitor—declared that the strike was evidence of “war crimes” and even called for Vance’s impeachment, the vice president dropped the hammer:
.@JDVance is the VP we need pic.twitter.com/vPInDVkihu
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) September 6, 2025
That blunt dismissal summed up what most Americans were already thinking. These weren’t misunderstood fishermen. They were members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan-born gang infamous for contract killings, extortion, human smuggling, and terrorizing communities from Caracas to Chile—and now, increasingly, North America.
CBS News confirmed that the target was a vessel moving out of Venezuela, allegedly carrying drugs and armed gangsters. The Trump administration has branded Tren de Aragua a narco-terrorist organization, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made the policy plain the day after the strike:
“We will keep assets positioned in the Caribbean and strike anyone trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated narco-terrorist.”
It’s simple: justice is delivered by missile when you’re dealing with globalized criminal syndicates that cross borders with impunity. Arrests and trials sound neat in theory, but when heavily armed gangs move by boat through international waters, the calculus changes.
Naturally, the left is in knots. They argue the suspects should have been captured, handcuffed, flown to Miami, and tried in court. But most Americans—especially those tired of seeing fentanyl, human trafficking, and gang violence flow northward—see it differently. They see decisive action. They see terrorists neutralized. And they see an administration finally treating transnational gangs as the war-level threats they are.
