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This is the 8th attack in the Caribbean Sea, 2 attacks were in the Pacific.
Can I get a statement from Chuck Schumer along the lines of “These are illegal murders, and when we have the ability we will prosecute every single person involved in these strikes. Members of the military have a responsibility to disobey unlawful orders, and you will be court marshaled and tried for murder if you do not.”
Like, in a reasonable world if and when the Dems regain power I want them to pass new laws to prosecute the people responsible for all this shit. But could we at least threaten to enforce existing law??? This is already illegal! Everyone who gives the order and everyone who follows it, all the way down the chain, is breaking the law and can be imprisoned for it.
Libs would rather cry about a building being remodeled than death and destruction done to the global south
Honestly planning on making a big sign that shows the white house and Gaza that says "if you care about 1 building built by slaves but don't care about genocide you aren't actually opposing fascism" and taking it to the next no kings bullshit
Oh no not the chief slaveowner's house, ThE hUmAnItY
if you are a narco-terrorist smuggling drugs in our hemisphere, we will treat you like we treat Al-Qaeda.
So, funding and a requested list of targets?
Deposing a sovereign nation to place them as the leadership?
And lift sanctions afterwards 😂
Only after you accept US led ideology first. Then you can commit all the crimes you want.
Holy shit he's going to war against the CIA and JSOC now?
This is just straight up state terrorism, although I would expect nothing less from The Burger Reich.
In bad country the state sponsored terrorists leave their homeland periodically to murder random citizens of other countries.
Yes, that's literally what is happening.
The fact that ten of them happened and no one stopped to think “Are we sure this time?” bothers me.
They know these aren't traffickers, they're not that stupid. They're trying to provoke a response from Venezuela or Colombia now so they can justify further escalation.
This country sickens me
Of course even if they were traffickers they still shouldnt be doing that. What the fuck is up with these lemmings?
Wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that these targets are picked by chatgpt and nobody gives a shit 'cause they can just blame computer
And they aren't even doing this to drug traffickers anyway. Plenty of drugs are smuggled into the US by dangerous organizations who are helped by the US government. The feds would rather blow up boats carrying fruit than boats carrying cocaine because there's probably half a dozen CIA/FBI/DEA guys on the cocaine boat.
The pretext is incredibly flimsy anyway. A fishing boat doesnt have the range to travel several hundred miles to reach the american coastline from venezuela.
These are just the ten where they answered "yes"
Treat narcos as you treat al-qaeda? Does he mean they're going to give them weapons and training, prop them up to goverment and then whitewash their image?
Yeah they're talking to the real narcos and not the fishermen for that one bit
Thanks Obama.
2 strikes in the Pacific Ocean when Venezuela doesn't even have any coastline there 
My guess is that those attacks were meant to implicate Colombia after Colombia came out in support of Gaza.
Is Tren de Aragua even real? Everything I've heard about it has been only talked about by chud media sphere first, and then lib media.
No none of this real, even the use of fentanilo is widley exaggerated.
Even if it were real, so what. when the us held Afghanistan it was producing almost all the worlds opium, so exporting opium and opium products to the us is something everyone should do for the sake of symmetry.
I literally never heard of this “gang”
I know these guys' brains are chowder, but the fact that doing this doesn't seem to cause any cognitive dissonance around The Boss's stated goal of winning the Nobel Peace Prize still has to say something about the Nobel.
We will treat you like Al-Qaeda
Help them conquer Syria?
What about if you're a convicted felon and child molester?
these guys were hamas right?