JD Vance Doesn't 'Give A S**t' If People Call Venezuelan Boat Strike A War Crime

Vice President JD Vance threw his full support behind President Donald Trump’s deadly military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean this week, saying that he did not even care if people call it a war crime.“Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” Vance wrote Saturday on X.Political commentator Brian Krassenstein responded to say that “killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.” Various experts on international law and the laws of war have also said the strike could be considered a war crime.“I don’t give a shit what you call it,” the vice president replied.I don’t give a shit what you call it— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 6, 2025Trump said on Tuesday that the boat, a quad-motor watercraft carrying 11 people, was “positively identified” to be part of a Tren de Aragua operation. Trump designated the Venezuelan gang as a terrorist organisation almost immediately after retaking office, and claims, with scant evidence, that its members are working directly with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to supply Americans with deadly illegal drugs. Trump posted military video to Truth Social that shows the boat speeding along until it is hit by a projectile and left in flames. Critics, however, doubt both the legality of Trump’s strike and whether there were actually any drugs on the boat.The boat was carrying an unusually high number of people for its size, suggesting that could have been in the process of smuggling people into the U.S.Even if it were a drug smuggling operation, it is not clear whether the occupants were given a chance to surrender before they were hit. Typically the U.S. Coast Guard intercepts suspected drug-smuggling boats spotted along the coast, seizing the contraband and taking smugglers into custody. As recently as Friday, the Coast Guard announced that it had seized over 40,000 pounds of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean over the last month. Vice President JD Vance vehemently defended President Donald Trump’s on a Venezuelan boat.On X, Vance added a third post to his short thread about the strike. “Democrats: let’s send your kids to die in Russia. Republicans: actually let’s protect our people from the scum of the earth,” he wrote. (His claim about Democrats wanting to send Americans to fight in Russia is not based in reality. Vance opposes sending more US aid to Ukraine to help Ukrainian troops fight off Russian invaders.)Secretary of State Marco Rubio also defended the administration this week, saying that the attack was necessary and “it’ll happen again” in the future because Venezuela will not work with the US to end the smuggling.

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