The families of two men killed on a small boat targeted by the US military filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week. Legal experts have said Trump’s boat strikes amount to extrajudicial assassinations since the targets are civilians, not military, despite the administration’s posturing. “There is no war against Venezuela, and we did not occupy a country,” Rubio said. A former GOP senator, Rubio has long promoted U.S. intervention against the socialist governments of Cuba and Venezuela. Republicans also blocked an resolution to prohibit the deadly boat strikes and reign in Trump’s war on drug cartels shortly before breaking for the holidays in December.