Nine months into the Trump administration’s deadly campaign against so-called drug boats, there is a pattern to the strikes. And a glaring anomaly.
The U.S. military has conducted more than 60 attacks, resulting in over 200 extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. In almost all the strikes, between one and four people lost their lives. In only one strike did the death toll of a single boat reach double digits: the first attack on September 2, 2025.
Since then, experts, lawmakers, and even military officials behind the scenes have been asking a simple but haunting question: Why was that boat packed with 11 people?
You mean that blowing up suspected drug boats with no oversight or arrests or trials might have caused some innocent people to die?!?!? Wow I hope the trump administration feels bad and learns from this.
I hope the trump administration feels bad and learns from this
Lol
Blowing up speedboats with million dollar missiles made for spectacular TV, it was the spectacle that mattered.
A few weeks earlier the same people were trying to convince the nation someone’s random knuckle tattoos were MS25 gang signs
So, playing devil’s advocate, would you rather be killed instantly because you’re being human trafficked or let pass because it’s the middle of a “warzone” and you can’t be bothered because there are people with bigger weapons than human traffickers. So the people would make it to their destination and sold.
Personally I’d rather die, but that’s me. I have zero love for captain dipshit, but you don’t get it both ways simply because you don’t like him. It’s not as simple to do what you’re talking about. Not that it’s justification, but it’s just not as simple as you’re acting like it is.
False dichotomy
The US Navy possesses the ability to board vessels and see for themselves up close who the people on the boats are before they reach their destination.
The only correct answer is to choose life.
They were innocent boaters/fishermen. Every single one. I don’t care what this dogshit Nazi peon “admits” to.
Seems like a trick to get people to accept that they were engaged in some sort of illegal activity. Doesn’t matter which. Human trafficking, drug trafficking, speeding, not enough life vests. They will try to pin anything on these murder victims.
How many of these were intended to do that on purpose?
Like… Oh my god. All of them, huh? He’s just killing the children he raped and helped traffic.
If they didn’t want to get blown up, they shouldn’t have been captured and trafficked. Duh.
Missing /s?
No need to tag obvious sarcasm
With MAGA around one never knows. /s
I don’t use those, because if you can’t read social and context clues then you shouldn’t be on the internet.
It’s okay, the boat didn’t have any trafficked little girls for his operation.
They are just getting rid of the competition.
Well this stands a better chance to get the US Administration’s attention.
Not because of any moral outrage, but rather because of destruction of their potential personal property.
