Most of these boats, if not all, likely were smugglers. Not like we can judge much from the quick and blurry scenes we catch, but these are fast, light boats, lightly manned, plain packages filling the deck, nothing “fishing” about them. It’s a fair bet the US intelligence apparatus knows exactly what characteristics they’re looking for.
Instead we should be talking about:
- Drug running isn’t a capital offense.
- Even if it was, there’s no due process here.
- The US military has no authority to prosecute this sort of activity.
- These strikes blatantly against maritime law.
- Ignoring ALL of that, is there any reason a US warship could not board them?
You don’t at all find out suspicious they’re doing it all in the open often during daylight with a method that is losing popularity because they’re often intercepted. It’s why they spend hundreds of thousands on narco subs.
Drug boats are almost always manned by two men or less… The goal is to move as much weight as you can. Why would you opt for 2 more guys on the boat,plus their food and belongings with it could be another 300lbs of drugs
They have never let facts get in the way of their narrative.
Gonna love to see your source on that, other than “it makes sense”.
Question: is this tactic even “working” to reduce smuggling operations? Cause if it were you’d expect the killings to stop as boats stopped running the routes…
Surprised it’s only 20. How many boats you reckon been blown up by the USA anyway? Gotta be scores more than that.
