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Lauran's avatar

It is not a screw-up to take out a ship that is probably bringing enough drugs into the US to target many more innocent children and adults. This was not a cruise ship or a joyride for tourists. We are going to have to become more aggressive to get rid of this scum. We ALWAYS, according to the Maritime laws, give fair warning and if the press tells anyone anything else, they are wrong. We call them Press-titutes.

New Zealand is beautiful, but very liberal; and has the same laws about masks ,Covid, AND voting problems that Australia has. My friends in Australia could not leave the country during the SCAM-demic unless they were shot up with the jab. Punished for refusing to die. I lost 2 friends to the Covid vaccine here , in the States.. not to the disease. New Zealand is not the place to go, at this time, I think,unless there is a big change. I moved from California because of it , where we were subjected to the same nonsense.

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Rider's avatar

They decided to murder those "drug dealers" because 1) killing people with perfect personal safety is Fun Fun Fun!!!, and 2) It's good Publicity!, and 3) Trump frowns on those Venezuelians sneaking into dark allyways and streets in the USSA, tackling naive pedestrians, holding them down and forcing them to ingest fentanyl until they're good n hooked, then taking their money from their wallets and purses and Voila! Another new customer! Another loyal addict! No wonder they blew them out of the water, just in case they MIGHT be drug runners (or people fleeing Maduro's muderous regime). USSA!! USSA!! USSA!!

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Daisy Stern's avatar

Yes, it is totally justified: Fentanyl destroys a lot of lives too: they are criminals, murderers: they deserve the death penalty for sure!

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Greene Financial Advisory's avatar

I’m all for free trade and appreciate the contrarian perspective, but I do think protecting Americans from fentanyl is a worthy exception. There’s probably intel we don’t see on this front. That said, I think comparing Trump to either the NY mafia or Hitler is a stretch.

On the market, I agree — you can’t afford to be completely out. Small positions make sense, but if we’re honest, the real opportunities will follow energy and AI. It’s almost like stepping into a new Industrial Age — and that’s where the real money will be made.

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RJ ALLENZA's avatar

Trump is trying to sanction BRAZIL for trying an ex president on corruption charges. So Trump is open to intersecting the US where it doesn't belong. He's making a u s complicit in a genocide in gaza. We have a rogue governments in the US

And the sooner, the people understand that the better.

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Daisy Stern's avatar

The genocide in Gaza is accomplished by Hamas, who makes sure to have HUMAN SHIELDS around their facilities: they make sure to put their bases in the basement of hospitals, schools, etc, so they can have innocent human shields, and blame Israel for it. They use the Gaza population for their own benefits - not to mention that they steal all the food donated to Gaza FOR THE POPULATION!

They make sure to have all their terrorist facilities surrounded by civilians: THEY are the culprit; NOT Israel. Israel is defending itself against well-known terrorists: Hamas. Would YOU let YOUR country be murdered and devastated by terrorists?

THIS is the real truth: your understanding is COMPLETELY FALSE.

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James B's avatar

100% brainwashed and gaslit

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RJ ALLENZA's avatar

I believe the laws in international waters is to shoot across the bow of a boat to warn them off. Just as what we did, when somalia, we're having pirates, go out. Of course, this is international waters in the u. S absolutely did not have the authority to do what they've done. I made the call five years ago that the u s is going to be an insulated country, and no one's going to want to do business with the u.S. trump is making my point

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Dan's avatar
Sep 7Edited

Doug favours New Zealand over Australia?

I guess he doesn't remember their covid response.

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Oliver Wells's avatar

They were authoritarian to the extreme as it suited the socialist people in power.

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Dan's avatar

WEF selected, to be more accurate.

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Oliver Wells's avatar

Agree. In the UK the present government would have implemented similar restrictions that Dan Andrew’s et all did. Doubt Carney would be worse than Trudeau but who knows. The soft belly woke west is easy pickings for the wef.

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Bob S's avatar

Intelligence? I doubt it, but as Cashill notes, that cigarette boat wasn't getting anywhere close to the USSA even if it was drug runners. Were they meeting up with somebody that was going to take it the rest of the way? Then why not wait and blow more people out of the water, so you can boast about it on Drumph Social.

A Repug authoritarian personality cult is what it is. Neither it nor the the Dim version is constitutional, not to mention this kind of behavior comes home with a vengeance. Label anybody as a drugrunner and problem solved, just blow them away.

The real issue, which is never mentioned, is a country so debauched/demoralized that drug use/abuse/overdose is a problem.

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Mr David James Wessel's avatar

Totally BS!!!

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Bob S's avatar

Res ipsa loquitur/thank you for your opinion.

Next.

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James hillier's avatar

Well put!

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dr. b's avatar

Assuming extremely good intelligence, I don’t give a flying Walenda about drug running gang members being blown out of the water/sky/dirt. That being said, I did notice that the Chinese ship bound for Mexico with massive quantities of narcotics precursor compounds was boarded and taken over rather than blown to bits. Trump seems determined to escalate a conflict with Venezuela.

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James hillier's avatar

You aught to care, the rule of law is there to give all a chance to prove innocence, you and yours included ... we don't actually even know there were drugs, just tyrants word for it! There is far more to this than we're being told! . . . 'Tis a long road that hasn't a turn!

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dr. b's avatar

International waters. Not American citizens. Which laws are you referring to here James?

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Mr David James Wessel's avatar

Doug, what about the hundreds of thousands of Americans these drug runners have killed. If Russia, China or other rouge countries had this problem they would have done this and worse years ago. You of all people, who has travelled this world knows that is true.

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James hillier's avatar

The CIA are the biggest killers of americans and drug running... Why didn't they save themselves the ordinance and just board the boat at gunpoint, pirates that the american military is. Perhaps get them go rat out the bosses? There is more to this action than they're letting on but then it may be connected to a complete disregard for Venezuela which might well be on the military industrial complex Crosshairs.

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