Trump murders more Venezuelans. "U.S. military carries out 30th strike on alleged drug boat"

[Botany]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people.

The strike, which was announced by U.S. Southern Command on social media, has brought the total number of known boat strikes to 30 and the number of people killed at least 107 since early September, according to numbers announced by the Trump administration.

The military said the vessel "was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," though it did not provide evidence to back up the claim.

In a video of the strike posted to social media, a boat is seen moving through water before being struck by two explosions.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-military-carries-out-30th-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat

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These are war crimes. @ least 107 Venezuelans some of whom very likely not Venezuelans but were
fisherman from Columbia and or Trinidad and Tobago have been killed with no evidence or trials have
been murdered, he has seized 2 Venezuelan Oil tankers which Trump’s press secretary claimed were
“Financing Narco Terrorists” even though the narcotics trade produces enough money to finance itself
without outside help, the U.S. has now hit a Venezuelan port of some sort or other with vague talk about
drugs, now Trump is claiming that Venezuelan oil is really owned by American Oil Companies.

Trump:

"Well, it's about a lot of things," Trump said. "It's about that. It's about, you know, they took our oil,
they took it, …”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-land-strike-venezuela-facility-drug-boats-rcna251329

[Lovie777]

1. It will not stop..............

shithole and his comrades want Valenzuela's oil and they will kill for it.

[Botany]

5. We are producing future Venezuelan Terrorists and very likely 10s of thousands of deaths if

the Venezuelans fight back the seizure of THEIR OIL. And some of those dead will be U.S. Military too.
In Sept. of 1939 Hitler invented the lie that Poland had attacked Germany so he had to invade Poland.

I hope all the Western Democracies withdraw their ambassadors to protest these illegal acts by
a mad man undergoing severe cognitive decline.

[Attilatheblond]

2. Note to the Orange Menace:

Murdering random people is not the route to a real Peace Prize.

[travelingthrulife]

3. Trump is a murderer. When does our Congress and judiciary deal with him?

[malaise]

4. And the effin planet shrugs its shoulders

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[Dave Bowman]

6. If that's not a crime I don't know what it is.

[sop]

7. Thirty illegal murderous strikes on alleged "narco terrorists," yet not one shred of evidence? Strange.

[Botany]

8. Even IF those boats were carrying drugs there is no way they should end up close to the U.S..

They are open boats that can not go through the open ocean without running the chance of
swamping from waves and rain and they are outboard motor boats that can not go more than
50 miles miles. These attacks are about oil and Epstein.

Also the penalty for drug trafficking is not the death sentence too.

[Greg_In_SF]

9. They carry

extra fuel on board.

[Botany]

11. Even if they had totally packed those boats with extra fuel they might be able to get 100 miles or so ..

…. and the tip of Florida is 1,500 miles across the Caribbean. And if the boat was loaded with
fuel where would they keep the drugs?

Nice try.

[Greg_In_SF]

12. The drugs

are stored in compartments and the fuel is kept in barrels. The boats don't go directly to the US. They go to various Caribbean islands and drop off the drugs there before they eventually reach the US.

This isn't rocket science my friend.

[sop]

14. Is that an image of a boat blown up off the coast of Venezuela?

[Greg_In_SF]

15. This one is

apparently off the coast of Mexico. Not sure where it's from.

[sop]

17. The guys on that boat are obviously up to no good, they're clearly not fishermen.

[Justice matters.]

24. See my reply #23 below. n/t

[Botany]

18. Do you like fishing?

[Greg_In_SF]

27. I do like fishing

and I do not believe, for one second, that these are fishing boats. Not even close.

[Botany]

29. No doubt. And a certain kind of fishing. Where the boat moves through the water and drags bait behind it..

[Greg_In_SF]

32. LOL

[Justice matters.]

23. Drug traficking does not lead to a death-penalty sentence.

pedo the felon just pardoned a multi-millionaire drug lord, BTW...

rumors say they are up for bribes.

[Iwasthere]

30. It is against international law to kill them without solid evidence

PERIOD! YOU CAN'T KILL ON A GUESS.

[Jacson6]

10. The US is using million dollar missiles to sink small wooden boats w/ Marijuana on them. n/t

[sop]

13. They haven't even shown these boats were carrying marijuana.

They likely would have evidence of half-incinerated bales of weed still floating on the surface after the missile strikes. I remember when "square groupers" (bales of marijuana) would wash up on South Florida beaches, dumped by smugglers to avoid arrest while being chased by the Coast Guard.

[rollin74]

16. I doubt anyone is going to all the trouble and expense of smuggling marijuana to the U.S. on boats from Venezuela

when there is such an enormous amount being grown domestically

[Botany]

20. Marijuana is sold legally in @ least 40 out 50 states and in almost in every state where it is illegal some ...

… cities have legalized it and or it I’d decriminalized. Hell in very red Ohio there are @ least
10 pot shops with in 2 miles of my house. Venezuela does not produce fentanyl and the
vast majority of cocaine produced or transported through Venezuela comes into the United
States via planes, trains, and trucks. Btw Trump just pardoned the biggest importer of cocaine
after undoubtedly a huge pay off.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Map_of_US_state_cannabis_laws.svg

[rollin74]

21. This is true. It's legal here in Nevada as well with dispensaries all over the place where I live

which is exactly why it would make zero sense, financially or otherwise, for it to be smuggled on small boats from Venezuela into the United States

[Botany]

22. Although the Marijuana sold in pot shops tends to be too harsh for me.

That is why Jesus invented gummies.

[Greg_In_SF]

26. I haven't heard anyone

claim that it is marijuana. Cocaine and/or Fentanyl is far more likely.

[yaesu]

19. When fascism is toppled via civil war, class war or revolution mlitary and anyone else involved in crimes against

Humanity Must pay a heavy price.

[Justice matters.]

25. Yeah, but in the US of A, they "look forward" now.

Last attempt to bring accountability got stalled in the corrupted justice system until the cheater$ came back.

Even the criminal liar ended up with "immunity" nowhere visible in the Constitution!!

[GCG]

28. He's just giving the orders...the US military is committing murder.

The truth is that Trump isn't murdering anyone...he's ordering the US military to commit murder!

The US military will follow all orders issued by this White House...and if they are ordered to fire on American citizens...they will not hesitate to do so!!!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

31. Kick

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. Article doesn't say they were Venezuelan, and it was in the Pacific, so unlikely to be

The boat hadn't set off from Venezuela, anyway.

Remember it's not just Venezuela Trump is targeting - he's threatening the Colombian president too:

Trump extended his warning to Venezuela’s neighbors, saying Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a leftist who has drawn Trump’s ire after he loudly opposed the boat strikes, was “no friend of the United States.”

“He’s very bad, very bad guy, and he’s got to watch his a--,” Trump said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/us-military-strike-alleged-drug-boat-venezuela-colombia-rcna250614

I mean, in context, that seems a threat of violence against a head of state, to me.