Sometimes it feels like Putin and Xi are naive children, thinking that they will stop playing by the international rules, but rest of the world will continue to abide by such rules.
Whether drugs or information, you don’t want to be on the wrong side of this!
From whom? The US is entering a post law reality.
What i mean is America has always done what it wants, its just that before tRump they tried to cloak it to maintain the illusion they were "the good guys".
tRump is certainly a master of publicity, and his brand of politics consumes new and shiny.
Unfortunately, knowing what we know of tRump, we can rationally conclude both could be true.
What we also can reason, is if there is no political (forget legal) consequences, there will be less friction for more of the same.
M2c, I imagined the boat as a flashy Miami Vice cigar boat or much larger with cabins. This boat was the equivalent of blowing up some dude’s pickup truck.
rolph•5mo ago
u.s. coastguard has been using force to detain vessels crew, and passengers for quite sometime, by hitting the vessels engines, and boarding the vessel.
you see not everyone is always narco, the feasibility of a vessel operator not knowing drugs are present is there. the possibility of persons having no involvement, or knowledge of drugs is a large one.
refugees, migrants, and trafficked persons would be witnesses, not co-conspirators.
a military naval group, attacking unmilitarized vessels in international water is a big deal, as in maybe a joint forces operation would detain and prosecute a sitting U.S. president, if this actually did happen.
verdverm•5mo ago
yieldcrv•5mo ago
to deflect from the lack of trial that determines whether the killed were narcoterrorists
ethbr1•5mo ago
Obama launched plenty of extrajudicial drone strikes!
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rolph•5mo ago
regardless of veracity, gloating over mass murder has a rather dark palpatine, look to it.
im certain i would see confirmation if i went down the rabbithole
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nomel•5mo ago
The military stepping foot on the land to do this would be not taken well. They have no authority to invade or intervene, and shots would certainly be fired in the wrong direction. And, the local government has no authority to intervene, at the pickup point, as they're controlled by the cartels. The wider government has no interest in intervening, since it's too profitable.
The alternative is precisely nothing happening, which is the goal, with previously profound success, for the cartels.
It's all bad.
daveguy•5mo ago
Trump and his entire administration are fools. You know it, and I know it. And everyone else knows it.
foogazi•5mo ago
False dichotomy
nomel•5mo ago
foogazi•5mo ago
1. Negotiate with Venezuela to reduce drug exports
2. Increase drug interdiction efforts with other Caribbean nations
3. Prosecute the sale and distribution of illegal drugs in the US
4. Invest in treatment & rehab options for drug addiction in the US
All of those take time and don’t show up on TV but are effective options
PleasureBot•5mo ago