Rubio Shrugs Off Allies’ Concerns Over Drug Strikes

“Secretary of State Marco Rubio left a meeting of major foreign allies on Wednesday saying that he had heard no objections to ongoing U.S. military strikes targeting what the Trump administration has described as drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific,” the New York Times reports.

“But speaking to reporters on the sidelines of their official meetings at the Group of 7 foreign ministers meeting in Canada, two senior European diplomats called the Trump administration’s lethal attacks illegitimate.”

“But Mr. Rubio showed little concern about charges that the strikes, which Pentagon officials say have killed dozens of drug smugglers tied to Venezuela’s government, lack legal justification.”