U.S. destroys Venezuelan vessels | Secret notice of “armed conflict” with some cartels

[nycfan]

This is OUR neighborhood = spheres of influence.

 

[altmin]

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.

www.nytimes.com

gift article

not too far away from being able to shoot and kill protestors, which he has wanted to do for a while

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[mpaer]

I bet we fear the Venezulean Air Force

 

[ChileG]

Let’s imagine American citizens leave American shores on a boat with drugs with the intent to distribute. Maybe to another country.
And the military of another country hits that boat with a missile, killing everyone on board.
Are we okay with that?

 

[McAdooSmackinYou]

Is the “we” in this scenario normal empathetic Americans or MAGA Americans? The latter would be so moist because it would give them greater cover to kill a shit ton of fur-nurs.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[superrific]

Told ya Zen he was trying to start a war. I'll bet it gives that Gorka creep -- totally not a Nazi btw! -- a woody when he uses words like "red mist."

 

[1moretimeagain]

Now that we’ve taken out the cartel’s skiff, I wonder if they have a plan B.

 

[dukeman92]

The peace president.

 

[nycfan]

 

[mpaer]

Now that we’ve taken out the cartel’s skiff, I wonder if they have a plan B.

No they are done Obliberaated as orangeman would say

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[evrheel]

How can you "shoot down" a ship? Was it flying? Some sort of Peter Pan plot twist?

flying high!

 

[wmheel1287]

So you’re now defending Venezuelan drug runners peddling drugs killing 100k Americans per year Got it.

Nobody is defending anyone. It does seem to me that you are defending extrajudicial homicide. Is that the case?