{"id":54899,"date":"2025-09-03T09:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=54899"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:57:22","slug":"ron-paul-trump-orders-us-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-in-international-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/03\/ron-paul-trump-orders-us-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-in-international-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Trump Orders US Strike on Alleged &#8216;Drug Boat&#8217; in International Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T41NFWCjwd8\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">President Trump claimed yesterday that a boat with 11 passengers that he ordered blown up in international waters near Venezuela was a drug smuggling boat. No evidence was given. What drives the US war on Venezuela?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kBLNi2N1EW8?si=4Js-c3H6cW_zKOoL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s\u00a0Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump claimed yesterday that a boat with 11 passengers that he ordered blown up in international waters near Venezuela was a drug smuggling boat. No evidence was given. What drives the US war on Venezuela? Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-54899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54903,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54899\/revisions\/54903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54899"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}