Shelby Holliday

adversaries.

Exactly.

It's still really early.

Maduro was only captured a few days ago, so I think the Venezuelan government is still trying to find its footing.

It hasn't responded to a lot of our requests for comment.

What we're hearing on the U.S.

side is that U.S.

officials are working with the Venezuelan government.

With respect to oil, I think it still remains to be seen how willing they are to play ball.

That was WSJ senior video correspondent Shelby Holliday.

The Department of Defense's own law of war manual states that the U.S.

cannot fire upon combatants in a shipwreck who are unable to fight.

But Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley, the special operations commander who executed the mission at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,

plans to tell lawmakers that the survivors were not considered to be shipwrecked.

Instead, the men remained on board the damaged vessel alongside packages of narcotics.

Secretary Hegseth, who oversaw the strike as the target engagement authority that day, has defended the attack.

Law of war experts say that evidence might be needed to make a call on whether the strike was legal or illegal.

For example, if the boat was incapacitated and the drug runners couldn't threaten U.S.

assets, they may still meet the definition of unable to fight.

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