During a press session, following the Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting in Canada earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected EU concerns over American military strikes on drug trafficking vessels in the Western Hemisphere.
At the G7 in Canada, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t mince words after French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot called the U.S. strikes in the Caribbean “a violation of international law.”
As a side note, Mayor-elect Mamdani plans to follow international law in New York City. He won’t get far doing it.
The U.S. has carried out more than 20 such operations since September under Operation Southern Spear, targeting boats linked to cartels like Mexico’s Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation, plus Venezuela’s Cartel de Los Soles. They are designated terrorist groups.
Rubio argued these actions defend against narco-terrorists fueling over 100,000 U.S. overdose deaths yearly, dismissing EU objections on international law and highlighting what he called their hypocrisy on defense matters.
Additionally, Venezuela flooded our country with criminal terrorists like Tren de Aragua, the ones Democrats protect in sanctuary cities, and they now have a foothold in every major city.
Rubio’s message to the G7 was pure 21st-century Monroe Doctrine: the Caribbean is our business.
Secretary Rubio Puts the EU in Its Place
The EU claims the US is violating international law by blowing up narco-terrorists, and Secretary Rubio is having none of it.
“I don’t think that the European Union gets to determine what international law is, and what they certainly don’t get to determine is how the United States defends its national security. The United States is under attack from organized criminal narco-terrorists in our hemisphere, and the President is responding in the defense of our country.”
Secretary Rubio found it interesting that Europe begs us to send nuclear-capable Tomahawks to protect them, but the moment America positions carriers in our hemisphere, suddenly it’s a “problem”.
The UN and EU are trying to control the world and the more they try, the weaker they become.
As Rubio said, the EU doesn’t set our laws. They don’t tell us how to defend our borders. And they don’t decide how the United States responds to criminal cartels operating on our doorstep.
America is under attack from organized narco-terror networks, and this president is defending the homeland, exactly as he should.
The President’s job is to protect America from any threat foreign, domestic, cartel, or otherwise.
The EU is arrogant over their past supremacy, long-past.
BOOM. Marco Rubio just TORCHED the EU for trying to lecture America on “international law” while President Trump is taking out narco-terrorists.
Rubio drops the truth they don’t want you hearing:
“Funny how Europe BEGS us to send nuclear-capable Tomahawks to protect them…… pic.twitter.com/k7JmbGlZ5g
— QThestorm (@17QStorm) November 13, 2025
It would be good if Congress actually declared war on the narco-terrorists.
I have come to despise the EU nations and want America to disconnect alliances with them. They are not our allies, they are our leeches and critics, throwing away Western culture, Christian heritage, nationalism, democracy, freedom, and protection of their citizens for Islam, kowtowing to religious madmen, globalism, LGBTQ worship, and socialism, Marxism, and communism. Russia, Argentina, El Salvador, Israel,… Read more »
The EU is nothing but a bunch of leaches trying to suck the life out of our country. Screw ’em.
When Trump picked Rubio, I was skeptical. I remember him early in his career caving to the Dems on a major issue he claimed he would stand firm against. He got on my crap list then, and I never followed him again. But I am happy to say, at least with Trump at his back, Rubio has been stellar at… Read more »
The shift to our hemisphere is historical The drugging and killing of 100,000 of us a year is very illegal internationally. Whenever someone goes into a rant about US action in our hemisphere, and does no mention the drug cartels, I know they are not credible. There are 2 groups of people opposing Trump’s actions. The leftists are doing that,… Read more »
The USA told the EU to GFY; rightly so.
America first! – Europe never!
Ironic, the colonial powers (who dream of still being so) suggest that the USA is a colonial power, but we never looked for colonies.
That is a solid point. Britain, France and Holland were very aggressive in history.