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Warpy

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16. I think it was extremely ill considered

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 01:20 AM

Sep 4

They could have boarded that thing instead of blowing those guys away like that.

After all, those packages didn't have to contain drugs, could have been money. However, the thing I find most likely given the direction the boat was headed is dried shark's fin. There's a bloody business going on in the Caribbean Sea of people cutting the dorsal fins off live sharks and leaving the sharks to die slowly. The fins are worth quite a lot of money in Asia, where they are turned into a gelatinous soup.

Whatever they were up to, that boat had a lot of speed but not much range.

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Was boat attack a war crime? Extrajudicial killings violate international law [View all] struggle4progress Sep 3 OP

Strike on boat from Venezuela struggle4progress Sep 3 #1

Are we in a declared war with Venezuela? It was a crime: piracy, murder. assault ....... marble falls Sep 3 #2

This doesn't look like a "hill to die on", with everything else that is going on... Jack Valentino Sep 3 #3

A murky legal issue struggle4progress Sep 3 #6

Was fatal US strike on 'drug boat' legal? struggle4progress Sep 3 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author 1WorldHope Sep 3 #10

What do you mean? 1WorldHope Sep 3 #11

That's their plan. Spray so much shit around we can't possibly stop it all. BWdem4life Sep 4 #22

Looks like murder to me HoosierDebbie Sep 3 #4

Gonna wage a war on Venezuela? UpInArms Sep 3 #5

War crime? What war? That's just a crime crime. RockRaven Sep 3 #7

Were there children in the boat? Bernardo de La Paz Sep 3 #8

I think the American people...don't care. Melon Sep 4 #12

What you're saying is like, 'America' doesn't care about killing humans without evidence Justice matters. Sep 4 #21

It was already very clear that most Americans need to learn more about 'justice matters', Jack Valentino Sep 5 #24

It is. But nobody is gonna do anything about it. LeftInTX Sep 4 #13

We need to be keeping track and documenting these war crimes. James48 Sep 4 #14

Wouldn't be his first war crime and B.See Sep 4 #15

I think it was extremely ill considered Warpy Sep 4 #16

We're way to glib about this. BadgerMom Sep 4 #17

"I know nothing about it" 2na fisherman Sep 4 #18

They're after their oil that they don't intend to pay for. rubbersole Sep 4 #19

Next stop, Greenland. C Moon Sep 4 #20

Yes, we have to take a convicts word for it that they were carrying drugs uponit7771 Sep 4 #23