The United States has conducted its 17th lethal strike against a suspected drug vessel, killing all three on board, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on X overnight.
Your last paragraph is the key one here. They could detain, stop and seize and/or turn them back but they are actively choosing to murder them instead. No trial and no evidence beyond “I say so”. This is state sanctioned terrorism. It’s about the fear, the chaos and the domination. It’s not about protecting anyone or preventing anything. The pain and fear is the purpose.
Right, but the people going out must know the risk they are taking at this point right? What is so important that they’re risking their lives with this? None of it adds up for me.
Edit: going out and taking that risk screams doing it under duress. But then there would be evidence right?
There are hundreds or thousands of boats every day, and so far only 17 strikes. They’re willing to play those odds so that they can feed themselves and their families.
I guess I assumed they were the only ones going out that far and taking the risk. But its more likely just the ones that looked more “suspicious” to them with no real positive identification that they are doing anything wrong.
Do you just stop going to work because of workplace shooting? Do you just stop sending your kids to school because of school shootings? Do you stop going to church or the grocery store because some maniac might light it up? Do you stop dating as a woman because you’re most likely to be murdered by the man you’re dating or married to?
But the short answer… poverty! If they’re fishing it’s for work and if they’re running drugs it’s also for work. They’re doing their jobs bc their kids don’t eat if they don’t. Just because someone drives a boat with cargo you don’t agree with doesn’t make them a demon. That’s _if _ these people are doing that which the US government is giving zero legitimate proof of. But even if they are drug runners, it’s work and good paying work, and probably even a bigger payoff now that the US is on a murderous rampage. If you survive the payoff may just be worth it. They’re people. People with families and with needs.
My possibly incorrect assumption is that those boats that got hit were the only ones going that far away. If there are more and these are the only ones randomly getting hit then yeah that’s just terrorism.
So Venezuelans don’t have the right to go across an invisible line in their own sea because the United States will murder them? US boats of all kinds frequently leave US waters. Should every other country just start calling us terrorists and blow us up?
Thats not at all what I said though?
I said that whoever is crossing that invisible line is risking their lives and they probably know it.
And if that is the case and people have to cross that line to go fish and then that warship is just randomly picking off boats then yes it is absolutely terrorism.
Your last paragraph is the key one here. They could detain, stop and seize and/or turn them back but they are actively choosing to murder them instead. No trial and no evidence beyond “I say so”. This is state sanctioned terrorism. It’s about the fear, the chaos and the domination. It’s not about protecting anyone or preventing anything. The pain and fear is the purpose.
Right, but the people going out must know the risk they are taking at this point right? What is so important that they’re risking their lives with this? None of it adds up for me.
Edit: going out and taking that risk screams doing it under duress. But then there would be evidence right?
There are hundreds or thousands of boats every day, and so far only 17 strikes. They’re willing to play those odds so that they can feed themselves and their families.
I guess I assumed they were the only ones going out that far and taking the risk. But its more likely just the ones that looked more “suspicious” to them with no real positive identification that they are doing anything wrong.
Do you just stop going to work because of workplace shooting? Do you just stop sending your kids to school because of school shootings? Do you stop going to church or the grocery store because some maniac might light it up? Do you stop dating as a woman because you’re most likely to be murdered by the man you’re dating or married to?
But the short answer… poverty! If they’re fishing it’s for work and if they’re running drugs it’s also for work. They’re doing their jobs bc their kids don’t eat if they don’t. Just because someone drives a boat with cargo you don’t agree with doesn’t make them a demon. That’s _if _ these people are doing that which the US government is giving zero legitimate proof of. But even if they are drug runners, it’s work and good paying work, and probably even a bigger payoff now that the US is on a murderous rampage. If you survive the payoff may just be worth it. They’re people. People with families and with needs.
My possibly incorrect assumption is that those boats that got hit were the only ones going that far away. If there are more and these are the only ones randomly getting hit then yeah that’s just terrorism.
So Venezuelans don’t have the right to go across an invisible line in their own sea because the United States will murder them? US boats of all kinds frequently leave US waters. Should every other country just start calling us terrorists and blow us up?
Thats not at all what I said though? I said that whoever is crossing that invisible line is risking their lives and they probably know it. And if that is the case and people have to cross that line to go fish and then that warship is just randomly picking off boats then yes it is absolutely terrorism.