I think they were all civilians. All I know is what I read online.

Thanks, and good morning.

boat could have been going anywhere.

Bomb them!

It is not an act of war like me slapping my 7 year old niece is not the beginning of a fistfight. The big bully generally wins (at least the first round).

for all imperialists

were about to be cornered, they started a military attack. The most infamous was the PANAMA INVASION, in which our attack was horrific, and revealed for what it was EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, (except the U.S. Press and Media)...............HELL, Noriega was put into power by our CIA and HWBush and his CABAL had to do a military invasion of Panama, killing untold numbers of citizens, to arrest one man?????????????
There was an award winning documentary telling what actually took place in Panama, and it was BANNED in the U.S. by Reagan/HWBush. Hell, I had to go to Denmark to get a copy.............

Just Cause was really Just Because We Can and "Just 'cause" gets closer to the truth of "Because".

Trump is trying to destroy public education and throw the money to private religious schools or Home Schooling.......LOL

I love Jay Leno and others You Tubes asking extremely basic elementary school level of education questions to passerby's on college Campuses.....It is truly Pathetic, and yet, it helps to understand the ignorance and stupidity of Trumphumper Voters..........

I've seen a few such videos, and they're horrifying. I'd like to think that only the most ignorant made the final cut, but maybe I'm overly optimistic.

over and over when he was thanking all those who voted for him...................

They all wear their stupidity and ignorance as a Badge of Honor...............amazing..................

It is an attempt at diversion.

and eventually someone will get him... legally or extralegally.

I firmly believe what he did constitutes an act of war. And trump is putting our military at risk every single day from retaliation... not to mention from fed up citizens of our own country.,

the 2025, Federalists, Christian Nationalists, and Steve Miller are others.....He serves many masters.........

THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS is their Mantra

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As a baby who wants to be a man, he has to do things that show his (lack) of a member.

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...the U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty, is one of the numerous grave moral failings that have helped pave the way to our current hell.

How long before enough people hear the voice of conscience for this nation to stop tolerating the intolerable?

I find it hard to believe that the U.S. Navy couldn't capture a small boat with 11 on board without sinking it. 11 lives for political theater.

Trump created this war because he desperately
needs a war right now.. you know why... and
he can't attack the ME because Bibi is giving
him Gaza.

This kind of like when Reagan got >300 Marines killed in Lebanon because he got us involved
in a Civil War with multiple different sides and to distract from that he invaded Grenada to
attack some Cuban construction workers.

BTW Trump said the 11 killed were all Tren de Aragua drug smugglers who were threats
to American citizens…. that so doesn’t pass my smell test.

The other nation has to pick up the gauntlet.

The Pentagon gets billions of dollars whether they need it or not. If they don't have a really good reason to start a war, then they'll make one up (see Afghanistan and Iraq). In the long run the U.S. is never any safer because of their wars, but it sure does line the pockets of the billionaires.

It's like the old saying where if you have a hammer than everything looks like a nail. The Pentagon has the means to bully smaller countries so they see a reason to kill them because...

out of their utterly false and legally insupportable contention that Venezuela is exporting drugs as an attack on our nation. This is one more step along the Project 2025 path to an extreme religious and authoritarian state. It violates the judge's ruling regarding the process by which the military could be engaged in presidential policy in California and elsewhere. It violates the Constitutionally mandated process by which Congress must declare war in order to authorize actions, finances, military activity, placing our troops in harm's way, and acting against a foreign aggressor, their troops and properties.

It begs the question of how much of the high command beyond Hegseth is beholden to Trump.

It points up how useless is the Speaker of the House along with how complicit the current Senate leader is in Project 2025.

Seems like it's acceptable now. And the worth of human life seems to be conditional now, on things like nationality.

Because that’s what bullies do.

Mumble, bumble, slush. He himself looked like he'd had “drugs…lots of drugs aboard. “

Who set this up? Because he didn’t look capable.

I don’t know if they were good or bad people, but those who fired on their boat didn’t know either. How can trump etc live w themselves doing that kind of dirty work?

They sold it to Satan for power.

The same mentality that lets them ban abortion without regard for a woman's health; the same mentality that lets them ban vaccines; the same mentality........ you get it.

In Arthur Schlesinger, Jr's classic "The Imperial Presidency," he documented that almost all presidents expand executive branch powers. In virtually every case, they use (or abuse) military conflicts or domestic threats. The only two presidents who have not done this are Carter and Biden.

Likely Hogseth is more aware of this than the felon, who has no interest nor insight on American history. You nailed it, as always!

Trump should be indicted, tried, convicted, and sent to prison for murder.

His excuse to start a war?

Without any more info than "those are the same kind of boats some drug runners use".

Well, I guess we are at War with Venezuela then.

All you idiot capitalist who went off on Maduro...who was at least voted in about as much as the pedo Trump was voted in....are you happy now? You all managed to start a war with one of the few socialist countries in South America. Hope that's a lesson to other countries that dare not be greedy capitalist havens of corruption.

Since Putin was an ally of Maduro's, I wonder how he'll respond? Or did he give pedo Trump permission to murder a few Venezuelans?

It's a high level form of profiling, but I don't believe they were scouting a route for a Regatta.
They certainly could have boarded and arrested the smugglers like we always do with success, but the crew knew the risks of such a big scale operation.

I don't like Trump and Mr Death high fiving each other like a couple bros with a license to kill. We'll see how this shakes out.

Freddy Nanez, suggested Trump's video was generated by AI.

I wonder if this incident really happened?

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-kills-11-people-strike-alleged-drug-boat-venezuela-trump-says-2025-09-03/

and Maduro has dragged his feet (rightly so, IMO) on signing some sort of defense pact with Putin.

As it was, the whole thing looked pretty hinky, a speedboat with 4 large outboard motors and a lot of square packages that looked to be wrapped in black plastic as cargo. But yeah, boarding might have been a better idea than blowing it away.

As it is, I think Fatso has struck again and Maduro will be only too happy to sign on the dotted line in Moscow. Good work, how many other countries you goinna drive into Putin's lap because you hate brown people?

International waters, the victim was not an official ship of the Venezuelian state. The fact that it was done by a ship of the US State does complicate things a bit, but basically, it's piracy. You know, the kind of thing Israel performs on a daily basis.

-- Mal

Are the smartest morons in the room, but if push comes to shove they will say this falls under the Monroe Doctrine

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As Heather Cox Richardson noted:

BUT his family doesn't have that protection. One of these countries is going to seek revenge, they may not get to him but they will get to someone close. He only cares about himself, obviously.

... but sadly what can Venezuela do?

Whoever ordered this attack on an unknown, unarmed vessel should be tried in an international court. The "Commander in Chief", the Secretary of Defense, or both of them.

And whoever in the Navy signed off on this should be courtmartialed.

How soon before indiscriminate attacks on weaker, powerless foes becomes not even newsworthy?