US strikes eighth alleged drug-carrying boat, this time in the Pacific Ocean
https://apnews.com/article/trump-cartels-drug-boat-strike-ffb1b720fa018336316238463924b78a
https://apnews.com/article/trump-cartels-drug-boat-strike-ffb1b720fa018336316238463924b78a
36 Comments
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 89 pts · 311d
Hey America? If you could stop executing people with Hellfire missiles without giving them a trial first? That'd be greeat.
PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 310d
No can do, it's a long-standing cultural tradition.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 310d
Destroying the lives of innocent people around the world is definitely an American thing
SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 311d
Kinda feels like they are trying to start a war by eliciting a response, right?
yumpsuit@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 311d
Reminds a lot of folks of the leadup to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 311d
Definitely. Venezuela and Columbia
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 310d
That wouldn’t be a war, but a massacre. South America has no military weight against the most expensive army in the world.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 310d
But the two countries have forests. Colombia even has mountains.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 311d
mcv@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 310d
If they were really sure they were trafficking drugs, they could also just seize the boats rather than blowing them up. I think there's a good reason they're not doing that.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 310d
No, no, no.
The "evidence" for the "crimes" committed by those on the boat having been either incinerated or blown into a million tiny pieces and sunken to the bottom of the ocean is just an "unfortunate" side-effect.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 310d
I’m sure it’s also to threaten the legitimate government into acquiescence and potentially lay the groundwork for a potential war on “terror”
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 310d
and distract from the fact the border isnt really being patrolled because the cbp is helping out ICE, allowing cocaine to flow into the us unabated.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 311d
So it's not about Venezuela? Or are they just blowing up any boat any where they want now? Which would mean they lied to Congress... Which means...
thejml@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 311d
Nothing. There have been no ramifications for this administration. And if there were, it'll be by some lawsuit that has to go to the supreme court and, nevermind they're in his pocket too.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 311d
I don't know if it means anything, I'm pretty sure they just lie about every possible thing
Lembot_0004@discuss.online · 1 pts · 311d
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 310d
Which means....don't rent a charter on the ocean. Fish lakes and rivers.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 310d
its a nice distraction for the media to the BBB, epstein files, and the ice raids.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 310d
THEY LIED TO CONGRESS?!?!
modernangel@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 311d
Must have been carrying a lot of Epstein files!
yuknowhokat@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 311d
Jesus f****** Christ this last was off the coast of Columbia thousands of miles away from the US. No f****** proof that the boat was carrying what they said or that it was headed to the United States has been provided. The m************ sending this God damn s*** and killing people without adequate process is just one more reason I can't f****** deal with this f****** s***
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org · 32 pts · 311d
I'm with you, but you know you can let those fucking swears fly, right? 🙂
Edit: okay almost missed it, one nitpick:
Nah I actually don't think the US government should be killing people even with due process. Literally the last people in all of history so far that I want to be given power over life and death.
yuknowhokat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 310d
I'm sorry yes speech to text did that to me on automatic and I didn't have time to change it. And as far as the killing thing I agree with you but if it's going to be done and there needs to be process
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 24 pts · 310d
Reading that was like listening to a snoop Dogg album bought from Walmart in the 90's.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 310d
Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!
SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 311d
So yeah, let’s have a multi-theater war right on both sides of us. These people are trying to destabilize the USA on purpose. But why?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 310d
Personal debts to Putin.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 310d
Out of all the embarrassments the second Donald J Trump administration has unleashed on the world, Hegseth is the most dangerous to world peace and stability.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 310d
Were these boats running copies of the Epstein files or something?
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one · -14 pts · 311d
Meanwhile, dbzer0 are all 'hey, did you know the Dems/libs suck?'
Stupid cuckbrains.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 311d
But they do suck. Two things can be true at once!
More concretely: every president since forever has supported the creep of executive power, in particular Genocide Joe and Drone-bama. They allowed this shit to happen.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 310d
I don't blame Presidents acting in their own best interests. The legislative and judicial branch was to be the check on their power. Congress has failed in that role since the 60s.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 310d
Wtf of course I blame Presidents for acting in their own best interests when those interests are fascist!
porksnort@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 310d
Right? It’s a super brain dead take. The presidential oath and things like the emoluments clause (i know, it’s quaint of me to think that ever mattered) explicitly ‘bind’ a President to act in the country’s interests.
It’s just mask-off Americanism though, we can finally admit the true core belief of our culture: nothing is immoral in the pursuit of profit.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 310d
They're your fucking elected representatives, not the fucking king - they're supposed to work for you not "act in their own best interests" and you sure as hell have a fucking D U T Y to blame them for breaking their legal, ethical and moral duty to use the power entrusted to them by Americans in the interest of Americans, not for themselves.
God damn, fucking American bootlicking brainwashed muppets looking up to "their betters" even harder than the equivalent sort on this side of the Atlantic. At least we Europeans have a fucking good excuse for all those "looking up to your betters" muppets, having had Monarchies for most of the last 2 thousand years which only ended in the late 19th and early 20th century, whilst Americans have had a supposedly "of the people for the people" democracy since the 18th century.
No wonder the US is even more fucked up than Europe with all the instinctive pulling down of their pants and shouting "give it to me more, big daddy" (and not even in a good, kinky way) whenever some POLITICAL CELEBRITY who is supposed to be an elected representative does whatever is in their own best interest.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 310d
Yup. Harris would be carrying out fewer international drone strikes, but it definitely wouldn't be zero.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 310d
What is a cuckbrain?