JD Vance Taunts Commentator Over Clash About U.S. Strike On Venezuelan Vessel: 'I Don't Give a S--t What You Call It'

Vice President JD Vance taunted a social media commentator after he questioned him over a social media post claiming that "killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military."

Following the post, social media commentator Brian Krassenstein suggested that the U.S. committed a war crime with its strike against a Venezuelan vessel earlier this week.

"Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime," he said, to which Vance promptly responded: "I don't give a s--t what you call it."

The Trump administration has anticipated the strike was not an isolated event, and President Donald Trump has been presented with several options for military strikes against the Venezuelan regime, including striking inside the country, according to a CNN report.

In this context, Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro urged the U.S. to "abandon its plan for a violent regime change in Venezuela and all of Latin America and the Caribbean."

"The U.S. must respect the sovereignty, right to peace and independence of our countries," Maduro added during a political rally. He went on to say that should the country be attacked, it would "move to a stage of armed fight."

Venezuela, Maduro claimed, is currently in the "phase of non-armed fight, which is political, communicational, institutional."

Trump was directly asked this week if the he would like to see regime change in Venezuela. "We're not talking about that," he responded. However, he did say "we are talking about the fact that (Venezuela) had an election, which was a very strange election, to put it mildly."

He was making reference to the contested election in which authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro claimed victory without presenting supporting evidence. The opposition, in contrast, showed its own tallying proclaiming Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the victor by a large majority.

Others in the U.S., however, have been directly telling Maduro to relinquish power. One of them was Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno, who told him "you have to make a call: leave Venezuela alive or dead."

Speaking to La Voz, Moreno also claimed Maduro has been using cocaine: "Drug traffickers don't have to use the substances they sell. Maduro is using a lot of cocaine rather than selling it. He's a crazy man. I never sent him a message but I do it now," the senator said before making the threat.