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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

They aren't rich, so it's okay.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Some reason to believe they're not drug boats?

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 2 points 28 minutes ago

Besides that it's from the administration that lies all the time, and no proof has been shown? I guess not, though there are good arguments that the boats couldn't have reached the US and having 11 people on a smuggling boat doesn't make sense.

Then there's the fact that the crimal punishment for smuggling isn't death and they were not even charged, had a trial and found guilty.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Presumption of innocence.

Also, a long history of the US government engaging in fraud and slander as an excuse to start wars, from the USS Maine to the Gulf of Tonkin incident to the WMDs in Iraq.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 1 points 10 minutes ago

Why can't they just intercept the boats and arrest the people on board if they truly have evidence of smuggling? It's cheaper in the short term than wasting expensive missiles, and much cheaper in the long term when you factor in the reparations we're going to have to pay to the families of all the people that were murdered.

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It's like the Apocalypse Now scene, without the part when they try to search the boat.

[–] discosnails@lemmy.wtf 1 points 18 hours ago

Extradite Hegseth.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

So the rest of the West doesn't do embargos because the conquest of land is bad and not the killing, when one does special military operations?

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago
[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -2 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

You guys seem to blissfully ignore the fact that democracies are built one bombing at a time.

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