The suggestion was made in response to a publication by the US Secretary of War, which celebrated a lethal military attack on a vessel allegedly operated by narco-terrorists in the Pacific Ocean.
The senator (PL-RJ) used social media this Thursday (23) to suggest to the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, that he “help” him in the fight against drug trafficking through Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro. The former president’s son (PL) shared a post by Hegseth in which the government secretary reports that the War Department attacked a vessel belonging to a terrorist organization in the East Pacific.
“Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out yet another lethal kinetic strike against a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Once again, the now deceased terrorists were involved in drug trafficking in the East Pacific,” Hegseth wrote in a post on the social media site X.
‘I’m so jealous’
In the publication, Hegseth shares a video of the moment of the attack. Sharing the content, Flávio wrote: “How envious. Wouldn’t you like to spend a few months here helping us fight these terrorist organizations?”
This was the eighth known attack that U.S. Special Operations forces have carried out since September 2, when the military, under orders from President Donald Trump, began killing people aboard boats believed to be smuggling drugs as if they were enemy combatants in a war rather than criminal suspects. It was the first time that such an attack had hit a boat in the Pacific, off the coast of Colombia, rather than in the Caribbean Sea.
The Trump administration asserted that each of the attacks took place in international waters and that the passengers were members of drug cartels that the State Department had designated as terrorist organizations. The government also claimed that intelligence supported its claims about the passengers’ identities and what they were doing, but provided no evidence.
See Flávio Bolsonaro’s post:
How envious!
I heard there are boats like this here in Rio de Janeiro, in Guanabara Bay, flooding Brazil with drugs.
Wouldn’t you like to spend a few months here helping us fight these terrorist organizations?— Flavio Bolsonaro (@FlavioBolsonaro)
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
Published by Nícolas Robert
