The United States military has carried out another attack on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people, in the latest deadly strike by US forces on boats that Washington alleges have links to Latin American drug trafficking cartels.
US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which is responsible for Washington’s military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, confirmed the attack in a post on social media late on Monday, claiming to have killed two “male narco-terrorists”, without providing any evidence.
SOUTHCOM claimed that, based on intelligence reports, the boat was “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific” and was targeted with “a lethal kinetic strike” on the orders of US Commander General Francis L Donovan.
A grainy video clip released with the statement shows a stationary boat with outboard engines and what appear to be floats from fishing nets nearby. The boat comes under attack from the air and explodes into flames.
Pathetic, little dick energy murder of most likely innocent people. Nothing more than fear-mongering towards SA countries.
If you identified actual narco traffickers enough to send a “kinetic strike”, why not follow them? Why not track the ship to wherever it lands, and arrest both the suppliers AND the buyers, confiscate the drugs, and have a photo op with your big success?
I know why: because this admin isn’t interested in providing actual results, they want anything they can dress up as a quick win, and hey, if a handful of innocent brown people die in the process, it’s all worth it, amirite? Given a majority of the admin believes that if you’re even a degree off the “acceptable skin colour” range, you must be guilty of something, there’s no surprise this shit keeps happening.
They are judge, jury, and executioner. It’s wild that this is even a politically charged topic. Since when can anyone be judge, jury, and executioner?
“Yeah, they were just following orders”. US millitary members are fucking psyhopat killers.
Local news says nothing about it. They’d rather talk about mundane things instead of actual real world problems.
