Posted on 11/12/2025 1:12:53 PM PST by DallasBiff
For over three months, the U.S. military has repeatedly struck boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, claiming that the vessels were intending to carry drugs into the United States. Since the first attack was announced on Sept. 2, these strikes have occurred nearly every week, killing dozens of people.
NPR compiled a list of these boat attacks using posts on Truth Social and X by President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. These posts show grainy video footage of vessels being blown up. The administration has not publicly released further evidence that the boats were actually carrying drugs and who was on board. Select lawmakers have been briefed about the U.S. attacks, though some of them, including the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have requested additional information.
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Seems like NPR and Rand Paul are on the same page, with one big exception, Rand Paul still gets a taxpayer check.
Not only are these boats are out for a joy ride in the middle of the night, they are crewed by shop keepers, farmers, fisherman and other people down their luck.
Not enough yet.
NPR must have some skin in the game.
NPR CAN SUCK EGGS
Let’s keep it going. And move to land targets.
Wow. That could’ve been said with two characters: 19
“And move to land targets.”
I think it’s the strategy. Cut off one path to make them take another. When all of their wealth is focused on one method of transport it makes the targets bigger and more valuable.
People don’t know it, but before drugs became such an insidious problem, cops conducting a search needed to be searching for something specific, illegal alcohol, weapons, stolen goods, etc. Once drugs became a problem, they could now search small things looking for drugs. If we don’t allow the drugs into the country, then our civil liberties are safer. That is without considering the lives lost to drugs.
If DoW takes it to the ground in Venezuela, they can send some A-10s over Mexico City to send them an emboldened message.
These NPR idiots think these single purpose boats are being “blown up”. Do they not understand English, that the boats are struck by kinetic, high speed suicide drones without explosives? Also, it was announced prior to these strikes that US Intelligence assets had been deployed to Columbia. We have people on the ground designating these dubious, night time,long range out of normal shipping lanes voyages.
I thought the A-10s were transfered to Homan:)
Kids! Don't smuggle drugs.
And for every boat that manages to offload its poison in the US, thousands of US citizens die of an overdose. Shove it, NPR!
(Since the first attack was announced on Sept. 2, these strikes have occurred nearly every week, killing dozens of people.)
Excellent. Stop running illegal drugs.
BTW I thought Venezuela was a Communist Workers Paradise.
Why are they so poor that they are risking death to smuggle drugs? That is not the way UCLA students say it is suppose to work!
19, for those wondering
Did they release any evidence that during WWII the Japanese & Germans were actually hostile and did their troops receive due process?
Rand Paul hates anything that stops drugs coming into the country. He is the druggies and potheads best friend. And a surprisingly large amount of them are here on FR.
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