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News India Live, Digital Desk: Narco-Submarine : The story sounds like something out of an action movie: a submarine, almost hidden beneath the water, is silently sailing through the Caribbean Sea towards the United States. There is a huge quantity of drugs inside it. And then the American army finds and destroys it. But this is not a movie script, but reality.
America has taken its fight against drug smugglers to a new and dangerous level. Recently, the US military destroyed a submarine suspected of carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea. Former President Donald Trump himself confirmed this attack on his social media platform ‘Truth Social’.
Trump wrote in a very dramatic manner, “It was my great honor to destroy a very large drug-carrying submarine.” He claimed that according to intelligence, the submarine was “mostly loaded with fentanyl and other narcotics.”
The attack occurred on Thursday, 16 October, killing two of the four people on board the submarine. The two remaining men, citizens of Ecuador and Colombia, were rescued by the US military and returned to their countries to stand trial.
Trump defended this deadly action by making a shocking claim: “If I had allowed this submarine to come ashore, at least 25,000 Americans would have died.”
What are these ‘narco-submarines’?
These are not like real submarines of the army. Drug cartels make these especially in the jungles. These are such ships whose most part remains under water, due to which they are not easily detected by radar or sky. Their objective is only one – to transport drugs worth crores of rupees across thousands of kilometers, avoiding the eyes of security agencies.
Why has the method of fighting changed?
This attack is not the first incident. This is the sixth such US military attack in the Caribbean Sea since the beginning of September, in which at least 29 people have been killed. This signals a huge change in the fight against drugs. Whereas earlier the Coast Guard used to catch and arrest drug smugglers, now the army is directly using lethal force.
This aggressive strategy has its roots in the Trump administration’s decision to declare some drug cartels as “terrorist organizations”, waging a kind of “war” against them. Now the army is carrying out these operations by citing this legal framework.
However, many legal questions are also being raised on this method. Experts agree that drug trafficking is a serious crime, but using lethal force as a reason for a military attack may violate international laws.
But despite these controversies, the message from the White House is clear. As Trump said, “As long as I am alive, America will not tolerate drug traffickers, whether they come by land or sea.” The attack marks the beginning of a new, more aggressive and bloody phase of the decades-long war on drugs.