Since September of this year, the United States military has been blowing up boats allegedly trafficking drugs in the Caribbean. Whether these attacks are legal is hotly debated. Congress hasn't declared war or even authorized the use of force against "narco-terrorists" or against Venezuela, the apparent real target of a massive U.S. military buildup off its coast. The Trump administration has simply unilaterally designated various—alleged—drug traffickers as "terrorists" or members of "terrorist organizations," and then waged war upon them. The administration's internal legal finding supporting all of this hasn't been publicly released. But whatever their case in private is, it was sufficiently weak that the British government announced in early November it would no longer share intelligence with the U.S. relevant to the Caribbean operation over concerns about its lawfulness.