Just curious, what are the chances they’re on high alert bc Xi, Kim Jong Un, and Putin all attended China’s military parade today and they misidentified a Venezuelan ship as a threat for some reason and fired on it?

I doubt it. This was very much intentional and premeditated to intimidate Latin America and win support of their base for wars. The alleged drug ship was a target they had no legal or tactical justification for attacking, except that the people on board are symbolically “the bad guys.” It’ll be framed as a crusade justified by the opioid epidemic and war on drugs amongst MAGA. At the same time, the unprovoked attack against non combatants hopes to scare Venezuela, other Latin American governments, and powerful narcotics organizations alike.