Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently pushed back against European scolds who have suggested that the ongoing strikes against narco-terrorist drug boats in the Caribbean Sea are a violation of international law.
With a Friday Washington Post report claiming that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had ordered the killing of survivors from a military strike on a boat used to smuggle illegal drugs into the U.S., setting the stage for another ginned-up scandal about “illegal” orders, the clip of the nation’s top diplomat dismissing EU concerns about the strikes was resurfaced on X.
In the video, Rubio is asked by a reporter about the legality of the strikes and his response to the meddling of unelected European bureaucrats into the national security concerns of the United States of America.
SEC. MARCO RUBIO on accusations Trump and Hegseth violate “INTERNATIONAL LAW” by blowing up narco-terrorists in the Caribbean
“I find it INTERESTING all these countries want us to send nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to defend Europe. But when the United States positions… pic.twitter.com/YLU3rlkrzf
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 29, 2025
“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,” he responded. “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.”
“I do find it interesting that all of these countries want us to send and supply, for example, nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to defend Europe, but when the United States positions aircraft carriers in our hemisphere where we live, somehow that’s a problem,” Rubio added of the European warmongers who continue to pressure the U.S. to provide weapons that could trigger a nuclear Armageddon in the proxy war on Russia in Ukraine.
“So I would say that the United States is – and this President has made very clear his job is to protect the United States from threats against the United States, and that is what he’s doing in this operation,” the Secretary of State said, making it clear that the Euros need to mind their own business.
X users also expressed their sentiment that Europe needs to butt out.
This is exactly why Washington warned us about foreign entanglements.
He knew that the moment other nations felt they could pull our strings, we’d start to lose control of our own destiny.
It may not be polite but, they need to mind their own damn business.
— Sanity Check USA (@sanitycheckusa) November 29, 2025
European liberals will never be our friends. These are openly hostile collapsing regimes that occasionally gladhand us to keep the support going while twisting the knife in our back.
Time to throw Ukraine away and let them scream. Europe can come back and deal with us after…
— NorthStarRight (@NorthStarRight) November 29, 2025
The next step is obvious: expand strikes, crush every cartel leadership node, and dare the globalist class to admit they care more about criminal gangs than American lives.
— IredcapI (@IredcapI) November 29, 2025
EU warning from @SecRubio: Mind your own business.
— Charles Grooms (@CharlesGrooms) November 29, 2025
I wasn’t sure about Marco at first but he proves daily he is the best man for this job!!!!!
— The Only James Magelk (@TheMagelk) November 29, 2025
Rubio also suggested that the European ingrates should be thankful for the lethal interdictions that prevent dangerous drugs from reaching their own countries.
“The Maduro regime is a narco-terrorist regime, indicted in the Southern District of the United States for narco-terrorism, but more importantly they’re also a transshipment organization that allows these groups to operate from their national territory,” he said. “They allow drugs to be shipped. They openly cooperate with the shipping of these drugs towards the United States and Europe, by the way, so maybe they should be thanking us.”
- Katie Porter sinks like a rock in bid to replace Newsom as CA governor - December 5, 2025
- Diplomats not loving life under Trump admin: ‘The foreign service is in crisis’ - December 5, 2025
- Illegal alien charged by feds after authorities seize 1,600 pounds of meth stashed in blackberry shipments - December 4, 2025
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.