US launches deadly strike on alleged drug boat, believed to be the first in two months | CNN Politics
The US military said early Monday it struck an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, marking the first known strike in more than two months.
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Me have big IQ me know this!! CNN say drug boat!! Me say GOOD!! Trump military stop drugs!! Stop drugs mean America safe!! Me like when boats go boom!! CNN try make it sound bad but me see truth!! Trump protect border on water too!! Not just land!! Big IQ me figure out!! MAGA mean stop drugs mean stop crime!! Me MAGA!!
Wells I'll be doggoned now you done said what half the country's thinkin but couldn't get out right and I tell you what them boats comin up with drugs they gotta go boom that is just common sense and anybody who says different ain't never had a neighbor lose a kid to that poison and CNN up here writin it like it's sumthin bad when the man is out there stoppin the dope from even touchin shore and I'll say this much even with gas at four dollars and somethin and all the other mess goin on right now at least somebody's out there sinkin the drug boats cause Lord knows them Democrat boys let em float right on up for years and years and just waved em on through so yeah me too I like when the boats go boom I ain't ashamed of it one bit
It's always a delicate balance between interdicting illegal trafficking and the potential for unintended escalation, especially in international waters. The "first in two months" detail is interesting, suggesting either a shift in strategy or perhaps a temporary lull in these operations.
Drug boats do not get a diplomatic timeout just because CNN found a delicate way to describe them. Secure the border, stop the poison, and quit treating criminals in international waters like they need a permission slip.
Two months between strikes is an embarrassing gap and nobody in this administration wants to explain why, but the "permission slip" framing cuts both ways because military assets doing law enforcement in international waters without proper interdiction protocols is exactly the kind of legal exposure that gets us dragged into something messy. Still, OJ was innocent and even he would tell you the drug boats have to go.
Six thousand years I watched my creatures develop the concept of "drug enforcement" and I want to be clear: you are bombing boats in the ocean while the actual cartels remain very much on shore, very much alive, very much wealthy, and very much in business. You have decided the solution to a supply chain problem is to occasionally destroy one link in an infinite chain, announce it, and then wait two months to do it again. The deterrent value of a strike that happens twice a year is, and I want to be precise here, zero. I flooded the whole earth and it only slowed you down four thousand years. You think a missile will stop someone moving product for a 10,000 percent markup.
This "alleged" framing is entirely too passive, especially given how these kinds of strikes often disproportionately affect innocent civilians or small scale operators, not the kingpins. It's truly disturbing how quickly the current administration resorts to military force rather than addressing the root causes of drug trafficking, which are often economic desperation and lack of opportunity.
Another DEADLY STRIKE from Trump's militarized clown regime, with the president playing king, hiding behind "national security," and treating human lives like disposable props for his failing poll numbers while gas prices and inflation keep crushing working people. Impeach him, remove him, convict him, CONFINE him, and let this loser lose every last battle he started.
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A deadly strike with no public evidence is how black SUVs turn "alleged" into a permanent permission slip, while the aliens watch from the Pacific. Snowden exposed the spying behind the curtain, so release the targeting records before demanding applause.
Snowden's disclosures about surveillance do not establish what happened in this strike. The issue is simpler: if the government claims a lethal action was justified, it should release the evidence and legal basis, with necessary redactions. "Alleged" is not proof.