Posted on 10/17/2025 5:08:45 AM PDT by Libloather
Gitmo-bound?
And “feistier” if the cocaine spilled out.
...being that the survivors of the attack are, presumably, non-uniformed, non-sovereign, enemy combatants.
They need bigger bombs. None of that 250 lb SDB crap. 2,000 lbs or bust.
The marine version of Cocaine Bear.
Oh good—now sharks will be not just bigger but “higher”!
a U.S. official tells Fox News.
Wait, I thought those days were over. Official who ?
It was a fishing submersible going for those fish in the deep.
Nah, they need strafing practice as well.
All kidding aside, the US needs to capture one of these vessels in tact and make a very public big deal about what it was actually transporting.
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If for no other reason it will shut the doubters like rand paul up once and for all.
So our guys are transparent about it, and the left is in an uproar. They want these people to be arrested, and provied and attorney etc.
Maybe better to carry out the orders and keep your mouth shut about it.
THat’s not Trump’s way.
He’s got nothing to hide about this.
Everyone knows where he stands.
3 more months and there will be no drugs coming in to this country. YOu’ll tell when the prices go up for cocaine.
“Sighted sub, sank same.”
- U.S. Navy patrol plane over the North Atlantic on January 28, 1942.
https://www.aahs-online.org/pubs/journals/files/542109.pdf
Thanks for typing that so the rest of us don’t have to.
“3 more months and there will be no drugs coming in to this country.”
Maybe in 3 more months the drug flow will slow down. But the cartels are rich enough to adapt and try something different.
Years ago I recall a mini submarine was captured hauling drugs. Now a sub is considerably more expensive and technical than a small surface boat, but I bet they will try something new like this to achieve their goals.
Regardless of what they try, the high-tech massive surveillance of the intel people will spot their new adventures and take that out too.
WIKI
The First Opium War broke out in 1839 between China and Britain and was fought over trading rights (including the right of free trade) and Britain’s diplomatic status among Chinese officials. In the eighteenth century, China enjoyed a trade surplus with Europe, trading porcelain, silk, and tea in exchange for silver. By the late 18th century, the British East India Company (EIC) expanded the cultivation of opium in the Bengal Presidency, selling it to private merchants who transported it to China and covertly sold it on to Chinese smugglers.
In 1834, the EIC’s monopoly on British trade with China ceased, and the opium trade burgeoned. Partly concerned with moral issues over the consumption of opium and partly with the outflow of silver, the Daoguang Emperor charged Governor General Lin Zexu with ending the trade. In 1839, Lin published in Canton an open letter to Queen Victoria requesting her cooperation in halting the opium trade. The letter never reached the queen. It was later published in The Times as a direct appeal to the British public for their cooperation. An edict from the Daoguang Emperor followed on 18 March, emphasising the serious penalties for opium smuggling that would now apply henceforth. Lin ordered the seizure of all opium in Canton, including that held by foreign governments and trading companies (called factories), and the companies prepared to hand over a token amount to placate him. Charles Elliot, Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, arrived 3 days after the expiry of Lin’s deadline, as Chinese troops enforced a shutdown and blockade of the factories. The standoff ended after Elliot paid for all the opium on credit from the British government (despite lacking official authority to make the purchase) and handed the 20,000 chests (with 1,300 tonnes or 2.9 million pounds) over to Lin, who had them destroyed at Humen.
Elliott then wrote to London advising the use of military force to resolve the dispute with the Chinese government.
A small skirmish occurred between British and Chinese warships in the Kowloon Estuary on 4 September 1839. After almost a year, the British government decided, in May 1840, to send a military expedition to impose reparations for the financial losses experienced by opium traders in Canton and to guarantee future security for the trade. On 21 June 1840, a British naval force arrived off Macao and moved to bombard the port of Dinghai. In the ensuing conflict, the Royal Navy used its superior ships and guns to inflict a series of decisive defeats on Chinese forces.
The war was concluded by the Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing) in 1842, the first of the Unequal treaties between China and Western powers. The treaty ceded the Hong Kong Island and surrounding smaller islands to Britain, and established five cities as treaty ports open to Western traders: Shanghai, Canton, Ningbo, Fuzhou, and Xiamen (Amoy).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
Yes, fresh sushi.
Trump characterizes them as irregular combatants, so Gitmo is probably the only place some son of bitch will not show up with a writ of habeas corpus. FDR ordered a speedy court-martial and execution of German spies who landed in the U.S. during World War II, to prevent exactly that.
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