Not long until the boats start shooting back
The ships in question don’t even see the US warships. Let that sink in.
that’s what they want.
so … the same accuracy as our “precision drone strikes” then …
I think the glorification of the brutality is better than the indifferent platitudes, it’s almost more humanizing
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.
This is the logical conclusion of the neoliberal principle of expediency. It was most obvious when Trump said “it would be too expensive and take too long to give these people a trial” before he deported them. Legally that doesn’t mean you can deport people without a trial if it would take longer than you would like, but I might just be old fashioned too.
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.
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.
Other countries should just start bombing american yatchs and private jets. They’re much more likely to contain drugs.
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
Duterte is currently awaiting trial at the Hague for doing exactly this in his own country.
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”?
The US is begging Venezuela for a reason to invade right now. Any military retaliation by Venezuela would result in an invasion.
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.
It’s murder and terrorism even if they were positively identifying drug traffickers.
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.
Mileikowsky says it’s okay to do that
Wow those Epstein files must really be something. The homies are ready to WWIII us to distract from the coverup.
That is called terrorism.
I wonder what will Trump and his cronies will do if Venezuela had attacked US boats.
