USA just sunk a drug boat from Venezuela

[Oldcarpy2]

Now you are just making shit up.

Just speculating based upon what your Tin God is espousing?


He's obviously off his head.

You all screamed about Biden having dementia, which he did, yet you ignore the obvious evidence that Trump is totally unfit for office?

[andy06shake]

Yep and we don't care.

Oh we know.

[Oldcarpy2]

Yep and we don't care.

Sadly, you don't.


ATS's decline seems to have escaped you.


Don't do it to DI, please.

[RazorV66]

Defending drug running terrorists is not a good look for you guys.

[RichardHurt]

Defending drug running terrorists is not a good look for you guys.

We do not know that they were drug running terrorists. Unless you just believe everything your government tells you. If so then you have much to learn.

[Oldcarpy2]

Defending drug running terrorists is not a good look for you guys.

No one is defending drug smugglers, except in your head.


Labelling folk that disagree with you is not a good look either.

Other opinions are available.

[UltraBudgie]

By ordering the U.S. military to summarily kill a group of people aboard what he said was a drug-smuggling boat, President Trump used the military in a way that had no clear legal precedent or basis, according to specialists in the laws of war and executive power.

Mr. Trump is claiming the power to shift maritime counterdrug efforts from law enforcement rules to wartime rules. The police arrest criminal suspects for prosecution and cannot instead simply gun suspects down, except in rare circumstances where they pose an imminent threat to someone...

“It’s difficult to imagine how any lawyers inside the Pentagon could have arrived at a conclusion that this was legal rather than the very definition of murder under international law rules that the Defense Department has long accepted,” said Ryan Goodman, a New York University law professor who worked as a Pentagon lawyer in 2015 and 2016...

“Here the president appears to be invoking his amorphous constitutional authority to kill low-level drug couriers on the high seas, with no due process, arrest or trial,” he said, adding: “Viewed in isolation, labeling drug cartels ‘terrorists’ and invoking the ‘national interests’ to use the U.S. military to summarily kill low-level drug couriers is pretty extreme.”

The strike has escalated Mr. Trump’s use of military power in ways that were previously understood to be off limits...

As a matter of domestic law, a longstanding executive order bars assassinations, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice bars service members from committing unlawful killings. As a matter of international law, the Pentagon has accepted that “murder” is prohibited everywhere, as its military operational law handbook says...

Martin Lederman, a Georgetown University law professor who helped write legal memos on counterterrorism drone strikes as a Justice Department official in the Obama administration, said that interpreting the law as allowing Mr. Trump to kill people who are not attacking the United States would require an “alarming” expansion of presidential power.

“Even if it were true they were ‘terrorists,’ the president doesn’t have authority to go around killing terrorists anywhere in the world, let alone to kill drug smugglers,” he said. “The targets of lethal force would have to either be in an armed conflict with us or otherwise be threatening a use of force that would justify self-defense.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/po...itary.html

[Vermilion]

Well, that's ""handy"" eh?

No other evidence or answers as to who they "actually" were.

Just scream ""designated terrorist"" and that's all she wrote.

What's next "exterminate" "exterminate."

Yes that’s correct.
If you’d like to be in the loop then become a citizen and join the military.
You’re obviously an armchair genius so it should be easy for you.
Until then, it’s above your pay grade.
Stay in your lane.
Don’t board any terrorist drug boats and you’ll be just fine.
The risk of trafficking drugs into America is now death.
America no longer possesses suicidal empathy for terrorist drug cartels.

[Vermilion]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/po...itary.html

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“Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki (Arabic: أنور العولقي, romanized: Anwar al-'Awlaqī; April 21, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American-Yemeni Islamic cleric and lecturer assassinated in Yemen in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

Anwar, the terrorist pig, would like a word with you.

[Oldcarpy2]

Yes that’s correct.
If you’d like to be in the loop then become a citizen and join the military.
You’re obviously an armchair genius so it should be easy for you.
Until then, it’s above your pay grade.
Stay in your lane.
Don’t board any terrorist drug boats and you’ll be just fine.
The risk of trafficking drugs into America is now death.
America no longer possesses suicidal empathy for terrorist drug cartels.

Are you in the loop and in the military?

Or in your armchair?