{"id":56429,"date":"2025-12-02T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56429"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:41:29","slug":"ron-paul-asks-who-ordered-the-second-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/02\/ron-paul-asks-who-ordered-the-second-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul asks Who Ordered the Second Strike?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Trump&#8217;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. &#8220;Kill them all,&#8221; he was reported to have said. But why are they killing anyone? Are we at war? Also today, NATO slips further into irrelevancy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qvGMp5XnXpA?si=RQ_twDS_N5ma65hu\" 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 Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump&#8217;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. &#8220;Kill [&hellip;]<\/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-56429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56429","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=56429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56433,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56429\/revisions\/56433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56429"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}