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Eugene

(67,194 posts)
Sat Apr 25, 2026, 08:22 AM 16 hrs ago

US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 2 in eastern Pacific

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it launched another strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people.

The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 183 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the Caribbean Sea.

The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.

The attacks began as the U.S. built up its largest military presence in the region in generations and came months ahead of the raid in January that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He was brought to New York to face drug trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty.

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Updated 10:36 PM EDT, April 24, 2026


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-drug-cartels-pacific-ocean-42e0097eea2b04bbec4f84afed237d71

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US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 2 in eastern Pacific (Original Post) Eugene 16 hrs ago OP
Trump must have needed a hit of killing- it's his favorite drug. Blues Heron 16 hrs ago #1
This is the United States military committing, cold blooded murder Walleye 16 hrs ago #2
Real headline: Trump has 2 people murdered without any evidence of their guilt. Botany 15 hrs ago #3
Setting a precedence for the military to kill civilians, gab13by13 15 hrs ago #4
Where's the Epstein Files? RainCaster 15 hrs ago #5
Murder... 2naSalit 15 hrs ago #6
Deflection, deflection, deflection. republianmushroom 13 hrs ago #7
All involved timms139 9 hrs ago #8
More murder by the fascists. travelingthrulife 4 hrs ago #9

Walleye

(45,165 posts)
2. This is the United States military committing, cold blooded murder
Sat Apr 25, 2026, 08:33 AM
16 hrs ago

How much does each one of those missiles cost us anyway there was a story we’re running out. Even if we were to prove unequivocally that they had drugs on that boat, it’s still murdered. It’s not a capital offense.

Botany

(77,617 posts)
3. Real headline: Trump has 2 people murdered without any evidence of their guilt.
Sat Apr 25, 2026, 09:09 AM
15 hrs ago

Trump is getting up there with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao for causing deaths.

COVID 19 first go around 14 million dead worldwide.
Canceling USAID in Africa @ least 1 million dead. More to come. Musk and Thiel are Afrikaners they
don’t like black Africans.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
200 or so Venezuelans, Columbians, and Caribbean Islanders murdered in boats w/no evidence of a crime.
6,000 Iranians, ? # of Lebanese, ? # of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israelis … Trump stoped a cease fire.
RFK Jr. and his insanity about science
? # of people in Nigeria
? # of people ICE has deported or the man ICE dropped off in Buffalo in the winter who was elderly
and blind.
120 + Iranian sailors
5 cops because of January 6th … 140 injured.
A bunch of Jewish people attending a Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, (Pittsburgh) after Trump blamed
“International Money Men” for funding a caravan of migrants in South and Central America.
? of girls who got caught up in the Epstein/Vlad/Trump/Musk international child sex trafficking ring.
Ivana Trump … just a guess
Bombing Syria
Climate Change … the Blue Whale might very well go extinct along with a lot of people too.
And he is planning to do even more as he hides in his White House Bunker and Merde Logo.

Btw Narco-Terrorism is a made up word.

RainCaster

(13,805 posts)
5. Where's the Epstein Files?
Sat Apr 25, 2026, 09:37 AM
15 hrs ago

That d-bag hasn't got us so distracted that we forgot why he's doing this.

timms139

(559 posts)
8. All involved
Sat Apr 25, 2026, 04:06 PM
9 hrs ago

need to be put under oath and present the evidence that there was drugs actually being moved and if not they need to be indicted and jailed. All of them including Trump and Vance if both had any part should be impeached and then tried for murder .

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