I wonder what will Trump and his cronies will do if Venezuela had attacked US boats.
So correct me if I’m wrong but this is just them openly admitting to bombing boats they have no confirmed ID on? Isn’t that a problem for THEIR (the deceased’s) government? “Foreign government is performing extra judicial killings on my citizens”?
Yeah, no shit Sherlock. There are more illegal drugs on a billionaire’s yacht than a 25 foot Boston Whaler.
More illegal drugs in the white house than on these boats.
Not long until the boats start shooting back
that’s what they want.
The lawmaker pointed to the Pentagon’s admission to explain why the Trump administration “could not actually hold or try the individuals that survived one of the attacks is because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.”
Call me old fashioned, but I’m of the opinion that if you don’t have the evidence to try someone, you definitely don’t have the evidence to execute them.
Other countries should just start bombing american yatchs and jets. They’re much more likely to contain drugs.
It’s a war crime to execute suspected drug smugglers, or even to execute instead of trial someone found in possession of a large amount of drugs. There is no possible identification of anyone on board or even boat owner from high altitude.
Furthermore, many of the strikes are on speedboats that are going fast enough to plane over the water. It is impossible for any boat to go that fast with enough fuel to get to Florida, and the open cockpit boats themselves look obviously empty. This is simply, provably, pure terrorist evil.
So where does just possibly probably bombing innocent civilian vessels fall there?
pedantics here, wouldn’t that be a crime against humanity, rather than a war crime, since we’re not at war?
The rules of war do not stop just because Congress didn’t authorize the action.
So, we’re just indiscriminately bombing fishing trawlers, got it.
How long has this gone on?
Your entire life or more. The blurriness of facial identification on drone bombers has always been a feature, especially when multiplied by “network analysis”, the academic field of guilt by association. Before that, there was the Phoenix Program. Before that, entire cities were razed. Not to imply any of it stopped.
Even if they were 100% certain of who they were, murdering people over drugs is fucking insane. If they’re in your territory and you want to arrest them and put them through the justice system, okay, but just straight up killing them is evil.
Torpedoing the prop blades or disabling the engine to interdict and board is something the Coasties practice regularly for drug missions, we know how to shoot to disable and to kill. Blowing up the whole boat is straight up murder
Giving random people the death penalty, for maybe or maybe not committing a crime that even if it turns out they were, doesn’t even qualify for the death penalty in either the country they are from or the country that is killing them… is so far beyond crazy… it shouldn’t have been able to happen once, let alone keep happening.
And if that wasn’t crazy enough, people that survive the strikes, can’t be legally brought in because the burden of proof isn’t met to even question them… but killing them is happening?
Yeah. That’s just called “murder”, then.
It’s murder either way. Even if they were drug smugglers, that is not something worth killing.
Even if they were worth killing it’d still be murder
Yes, what I meant is more that in case of an imminent terrorist attack, I would deem it okay to kill somebody if it saves the life’s of other people and no other less lethal method was sure to stop the attack.
Wow those Epstein files must really be something. The homies are ready to WWIII us to distract from the coverup.
Yeah, that’s not what’s happening
Do you have more details on that?
I can’t think of any outcomes from these attacks that are likely to improve the US position at a strategic or tactical level.
The only potential explanations are that Trump is doing it for personal reasons. Given the long history of embattled politicians getting a “pass” during war, this seems like a highly probably explanation.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9618794
The US wants Venezuela’s oil fields to be privatized and the Maduro government has nationalized the oil fields to prevent them from being owned by US/mult-national corporations for profit.
As with any government that nationalizes their resources, the US will totally obliterate their country for the offense of daring to protect their interests against USA’s interests. See Libya and Iran as but two examples.
Also note that, as has been publicly state, the CIA is doing a lot of the work here and has been “authorized” to operate in Venezuela. The CIA was created by the Dulles Brothers specifically to protect the interests of US businesses around the world.
They are provoking Venezuela to strike at US military. As of why, it likely have something to do with Venezuela being revealed having the biggest oil reserves in ground, and also with their increasing cooperation with China, Iran, Russia and Cuba.
It’s murder and terrorism even if they were positively identifying drug traffickers.
So, they’re terrorists…right?
That depends. Is this still the definition of the word?
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Those people are civilians of other countries… Either they are as individuals terrorists or US is at war with Venezuela. Take your pick.
Not sure which “they’re” you’re referring to, but of them already claimed they are.
