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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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