aw pissyboy just wanted to play soldier after talking it so much on fox

"lawful" assassinations, fun explosions and colonial theft make trump, hegseth, and the israeli leadership look "strong" which wins elections. Next step will be to use those methods domestically under the rationales that have worked out. They will use the same sledgehammer for every problem. This was not really about law enforcement.

It was also about forcing armed forces officers to resign who wouldn't bomb unidentified small boats (and double tap to kill survivors).

This weeds out officers who won't fire on Americans when it is necessary to complete Trump's coup.

Oh they achieved their goal.
They killed brown people. That's the goal of most of the policies this administration has undertaken.

Turns Out We Blew Up All Those Boats MURDERED ALL THOSE PEOPLE in the Caribbean for Nothing

FTFY, Esquire!

This regime is so far beyond the pale monstrous that it's hard even for people trying to criticize it to avoid accidentally carrying water for it though understatement. Hell, even "beyond the pale monstrous" isn't as emphatic as I should've been!

It's not for nothing. Hegseth got wank fodder from it.

The WaPo also seems to imply that the people murdered were actually smugglers, which is very much unproven.

Americans snort way more coke weekly than what could fit on those boats combined anyway.

But was there ever any proof these weren't just actual fishing boats?

And did they even bother to say they found drugs on the venezuelan oil tanker they seized at that time?

What they did though is proceed to attack Venezuela for its oil.

You can't win. There are too many shipping containers, boats, planes, automobiles, an endless stream of commerce with a thousand different points of opportunity.

Every "victory" is Pyrrhic, the tighter you grip the more it will slip out of your fingers. You're trying to treat a "disease" by controlling only one symptom, not the cause itself.

If you "succeed" in one facet, another will become much worse. For example, the war against opiates is what created the Fentanyl market. Good job, idiots.

Just let it go. Sell it all over the counter and control the quality to reduce overdose. Addicts are better off without you throwing them in dungeons. Leave it alone.

It wasn't for nothing. It was to make low IQ mouth breathers think they were doing something. Aggression is always a positive for conservative voters. And the Republican party always needs ways to make it look like they're doing something of value for the American people while robbing them blind.

"We" did not do anything. The US federal government's actions are so far removed from the will of the people that we might as well considered separate entities at this point.

The problem is that to most Republican voters, the fact that this didn't actually impact drug supply isn't really all that important. What matters to them is that - theoretically - "bad people" got killed. They're more interested in punishing people they see as evil than they are in actually improving the world. Even the ones who won't openly admit - or even admit to themselves - that they just like seeing brown people get killed will still defend this as an ultimately good action because it satisfies their twisted notion of justice. The meting out of punishment is what matters to them, far more than whatever social good that punishment is actually supposed to achieve.

It's the same reason why they have so little interest in welfare policies even when those policies are demonstrably cheaper than the alternative. They won't give shelter and money to homeless people even when it's shown to reduce crime, for example, because the most important thing to them is that no one should ever be given something that they "don't deserve." They're less interested in reducing crime than they are in seeing the poor suffer for whatever imagined sins made them poor.

No? Really?

/s for the clueless.

As a non expert, I would assume disrupting supply routes would decrease purity. If what you did made them use slower boats and take different routes there would have been less supply and same demand right? Aka more reasons for people to cut it until supply got back up.

So really this tells me it's more likely that they didn't disrupt any supply of cocaine, and may have hit normal civilians or someone with marijuana as I remember someone reported bags of weed washing up on a beach..

It's almost like your strategy for the "wAr On dRuGs" isn't very useful

When the biggest coke heads are in the highest levels of government, the war on drugs is as rigged as a carnival.

He blew up all those boats, and he STILL wanted to touch a peepee!

"remember when we..."

Homie, they are still doing it. They never stopped. The media just moved on.

I mean the whole thing was optics anyway right?

"Trump's so tough on crime he launches missiles at it" kinda stuff. It's stupid but his supporters think it makes their side strong. They're even more about it if the "criminal" is brown.

Didn’t it instead exacerbate the crisis in Cuba that is also the fault of the US?