Rubio Blasts E.U. over Criticism Against Military Strikes on Illicit Drug Traffickers

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed criticism from E.U. officials over the legality of military strikes against illicit drug traffickers in Caribbean international waters — emphasizing the United States is protecting its people from narco terrorists who would seek to harm them.

Rubio, speaking to reporters on Tuesday evening during a G7 Foreign Minister meeting in Niagara, Canada, said he does not think the European Union gets to determine on what international law is — nor do they get to determine how America defends its national security, pushing back from comments issued to Reuters by E.U. foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on the sidelines of the meeting.

Kallas said that the U.S. military precision strikes against drug-laden vessels in the Caribbean “could be only justified as self-defense or by a UN Security Council resolution.”

“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,” Rubio stressed.

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