The New York Times examined the first physical evidence of the U.S. campaign which has destroyed 30 vessels and killed more than 100 people in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, claiming they are narco-terrorists running fentanyl to the United States.

To date, the U.S. military has offered no evidence that the boats it has destroyed were transporting illicit substances or belong to criminal networks.

Watching from the shore on Nov. 6, Erika Palacio Fernández whipped out her phone, she said, unwittingly recording the only verified and independent video known to date of the aftermath of an airstrike in the Trump administration’s campaign against what it calls “narco-terrorists.”

Two days later, on that same shore, a scorched 30-foot-long boat itself would wash up. Then, two mangled bodies. Then charred jerrycans, life jackets and dozens of packets that were observed by The New York Times and were similar to others that have been found after anti-narcotics operations in the region. Most packets were empty, though traces of a substance that looked and smelled like marijuana were found in the lining of a few.

The United States is murdering random fishermen in the ocean, providing zero evidence of criminality of the victims (not that that would justify summarily executing them, of course), and bragging about keeping our shores -- more than 2,000 miles away -- safe from fentanyl.

Republicans here applaud these murders.

BTW, release the Epstein files.