Comment on US | Pentagon Admits It Has No Idea Who’s on “Drug Boats” Being Bombed

• ultranaut@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not following. Whether or not drugs are onboard is irrelevant. Even if they can definitively prove drugs are onboard, it is still a crime for the US military to kill these people. This is categorically an illegitimate use of force. The only possible justification for this is if these boats were armed and posed an imminent threat, which obviously is not applicable.

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  • stink@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This thread is a perfect example of the propaganda / tricknology fascists always use.

    The US military committed mass extrajudicial killings in international waters.

    They framed them as drug mules, providing no information as to how they know they have drugs.

    It. Does. Not. Matter. If they are even shipping drugs to the US. They are still committing crimes by killing them. If you’re caught with an ounce of weed in your car, does the police have the right to kill you? Even serial killers still go to trial for their crimes. Just because the fascists are trying to provide justification for their extrajudicial murders doesn’t mean it is justified.

    Genuinely don’t understand how people can function as adults just by slurping up propaganda that’s in front of them.

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