Public opinion on US military actions against Venezuelan drug cartels is sharply divided. There is strong support from individuals who believe such actions are necessary to combat drug trafficking and protect American lives, citing ongoing drug-related issues. Conversely, many commenters express deep concerns regarding the legality and ethical implications of the strikes, fearing potential collateral damage and questioning underlying motivations, particularly relating to geopolitical interests and oil. The discourse reflects significant distrust towards government actions and highlights the contentious nature of military intervention.

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So we are clear. If 11 or more Americans are on a speed boat speeding of the coast of another country (even if it is just having fun), and that other country blows them up, making claims not yet proven, and say they 'don't give a shit', that will be fine?

Ethe-Real-6837

Since when do we "take out" drug boats, in this case an oversized dingy? Coast Guard is the branch of armed forces that intercepts and seizes these boats. Total BS.

Diligent_Scallion810

After they lied about illegally deporting Kilmar garcia, this administration can not be trusted with anything they say. The fact that they have to defend this shows they really killed innocent people. But this is to distract from epstein files. This is how evil this POS pedophile rapist is.

Master-Culture-6232

So, all this talk about drug smugglers and sex trafficking from MAGA.  How do we know if any innocent people were on that boat?  Kind of a shoot first ask questions later???

This administration is out of control

Master_Tune_9269

They’re a socialist country making them a U.S. target because a socialist country is ripe for public resource theft and that means private contracts for U.S affiliated companies which means an economic injection. Human lives are irrelevant. It’s something the U.S has been doing for decades in Peru, Argentine, Bolivia. If they’re not doing it directly, they’re funding proxies and using sanctions to disrupt their economy. It’s a crime but they’re the U.S, they do whatever they want and no one does shit

ReclusiveReviews

These clowns doin everything to distract the Epstein files. Clown even said he was an informant after feeling the heat. Cmon manggg

Over-Wall8387

mikeren56412591

To defeat the cartel all we gotta do is stop using their drugs. Simple shit

Ashamed_Evidence994

How about we focus on our failing economy, the rising racial divide , the systemic elimination of healthcare and the fact this administration is calling out military troops against its own citizens? Perhaps this administration should focus a little less on murdering citizen of other countries for unconfirmed reasons. Perhaps we should release the list confirming our “ leader” is a child rapist and human trafficker.

RVtech101

That’s not language for a person In that position.

fernnyom

Instead of international law and treaties to which we are sworn, we are playing might makes right. And we've dropped all our defenses facing Russia, and maybe China, too. These men are all traitors trying to will the world to change to their advantage. It's the largest theft in history right in front of us.

Pribblization

Dirty Donnie is making sure that his henchmen are loyal by making them commit war crimes.

He doesn't give a shit period. Just trying to pretend he is tough.

Accomplished-Type880

This is an illegal administration that the Supreme Court has deemed immune from all prosecution. Checks and balances are gone.

No-Vacation5648

95% chance they killed some kids being sex trafficed. It doesn't take 11 people to crew that boat.

GrowFreeFood

Just to cover up the Epstein files which trump is in.

AmbitiousEffort9275

When do we get to see the bombs hitting the Sackler mansion? They’re responsible for killing a crap load of his fellow Americans?

FinanceNew9286

Where as intercepting the boat, arresting the occupants and investigating the source, that's not a thing anymore?..
Wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing is a staged false flag, all for show.

PiingThiing

Wow so badass.  Now there’s a response from a guy who doesn’t fuck couches at all.

Ramblinrambles

Anyone ever seen how the cartel deal with people? Terrifying.

Thapkibehan

Oh so now he is claiming to want to protect the US citizens against these people is the best use of military. But ummmm you claim to want to protect our citizens while simultaneously grabbing people off the streets and kidnapping them!?? 🤔

Regular-Metal-321

Or they blew up a bachelor party booze cruise, I guess we’ll never know

Diligent-Credit8133

- Suspected or confirmed? 
- I‘don‘t give a shit. 🙄

harryx67

This is why it is not a good thing  having JD is 2nd in line to be a POTUS.

1houndgal

Jazzlike_Economist_2

By the size of that wake, I’d guess they were just out having fun.  If you are carrying drugs you might go a bit slower.

This guy is obviously not very smart, it's obvious from his face.

Icy-Squirrel6422

Whole lotta conjecture in that title, bot.

scienceisrealtho

Absolutely love to see it. Blow em all to heck

urnotsmartbud

https://preview.redd.it/dpx2wmb68rnf1.jpeg?width=1290&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=b393a959d45b5885f7b9ba606a96716455b2cd99

Embarrassed_Lab_5595

He’s rehearsing for the job of a lifetime.

bropenmack

[deleted]

I heard from a valid source the boat belonged to Captain Ron.

deskfrogwhisperer

The only war crime is the one Vance committed against his couch.

Autobot1979

Longjumping_Art3814

I’m pretty sure they could send drones to Venezuela’s capital have a bunch of causalities, like kids and said the same thing.

Tomazito70

VP Eyeliner gives a s about the law. Interesting development.

CptnMillerArmy

All the greatest "drug smugglers" fill the boat with people instead of drugs. 

Makes total sense, if you're a red-hat.

irsh_

let until those Venezulea blow up another ship with full American and they can say the same but CIA merc and spy

DavidGibson9

1 ship blow up doesn't worth a jackshit to compare with 20 ship coke from any place across in Mexico , Nicaraqua, Chile , Brazill even Bolivia and Colombia . Until American find a way to convince over 20% mostly a  don't smoke that shit , border and control is only can stop that

Blanket ban on all kinds of drugs across all 50 states coming in 3..2... Uh damn it timer is stuck

Wanderersoul2023

MutualistSymbiosis

Remember when Obama droned and killed an American citizen without a trial or any kind of due process? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Bagofdouche1

Oh shit guys…JD warned everyone to beware, well shit i need to make sure my couch is locked up and safe at night!

TheJTEHart

Yeah JD is full of crap. The USA doesn’t use its military against drug dealers. Maybe if we actually deal with drug addiction here we wouldn’t need to worry about crap like this

hedonista065

I am so sorry.  as an American, I just can't watch the news anymore because these fucking disgraceful people are in charge.  there is no respect from the rest of the world, but the cult keeps running.  the cultist listen to their dear leader and accept his words as truth.  I can't explain to anything past that.  they're in a cult.  

superstevo78

GeneralZeus89

You demonrats seriously have a short memory. 

Remember when your lord and savior Hussein Obama carried out drone strikes in 8 different countries? 
Yemen, Somalia,  Afghanistan,  Pakistan, 



The Obama administration’s methodology for counting civilian casualties was criticized for assuming military-age males in strike zones were combatants unless proven otherwise, potentially underreporting civilian deaths.


The Director of National Intelligence stated 526 drone strikes occurred between 2009 and 2016, killing 2,803–3,022 combatants and 64–117 civilians, though these figures exclude active combat zones like Afghanistan

563 drone strikes occurred in Pakistan during Obama's two terms, with a peak of 128 strikes in 2010

154–186 drone strikes in Yemen during Obama's presidency. His first strike in Yemen (2009) was notably catastrophic, killing 55 people, including civilians, due to the use of cluster munitions.


13–30 drone strikes were conducted in Somalia during Obama's tenure, targeting al-Shabaab militants. The BIJ notes 13 confirmed strikes since 2007, with up to 105 people killed, including up to 5 civilians.

thestagshares

If you're running drugs on a speedboat, you don't have 11 people on it.

NotMikeVrabel

Crazy they make a claim when they smoked the evidence so hard there wasn’t even a blood pool to attract sharks.

LaconicDoggo

bgbalu3000

But yet they let company after company poison us for the sake of profits...Got it

Tubukee

Wouldn’t these terrorists be worth capturing? Seems excessive to “blow them up”.

Thatsthepoint2

stop being soft, soft men create hard times.

Verotik138

You guys are literally defending drug smugglers at this point. My goodness

TheBearJew002

https://preview.redd.it/3w0250mnxunf1.png?width=749&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=0a3dd338a053cc17076fa0cc8d4d2fb2f48c16ca

Ancient_Camel7200

If Russia did all of that they would be even bigger villains 

KaaleenBaba

Good thing there weren't 11 people on that boat. There were 5 at most

FourArmsFiveLegs

Oh, are we supposed to believe this administration is just taking a tough stance on crime? Considering they’re all criminals? The admin should have been on that boat instead, would have done the world a favor.

GodTheInvention

If attacking drug cartels is seen as a war crime, the world is epically screwed

j-mac563

A random twitter grifter called it a War Crime, so it must be a War Crime

Bsd_Panda

IDGAF what JD says. That act was STRAIGHT UP MURDER!

https://preview.redd.it/5hefwg7dhrnf1.jpeg?width=1080&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=091f2462652c9e96cd28123ce0b949a55126abbb

Ill_Illustrator_6097

Why is everyone efending the terrorists who use boats to deliver drugs?

Accomplished-Bus7566

They prob had a copy of the Epstein files on board

DroDameron

I wonder who else they'll call a terrorist group...

extrastupidone

11 on a boat meant for speed plus drugs, this doesn’t math.

GMclassMS

teambarkley

 The cartels are a designated terrorist organisation - I think they got the memo now.

Happinessisawarmbunn

I am sure stealth fighters are a great way to combat organized crime. 

Like, I understand show of force, but this is like driving tanks onto beaches of east coast to show China you mean business. 

What are you going to do with that?

Philip_Raven

Uh oh. A country with vast reserves of oil suddenly has a drug cartel problem and needs FREEDOM!

remember_the_amalek

It's all about the oil. You don't see them planning bombing runs into Columbia. No money in it.

OkEye2910

Drugs flood into the U.S. from the Andean region—Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia—with Mexico acting as the main pipeline. Venezuela's role in this is negligible.

Yet, Trump is focusing his "war on drugs" on Venezuela…… a country with the world's largest proven oil reserves.

This isn't about drugs. It's about oil.

Funky-Buddah

My take is trump is a pedo who raped underage girls on Epstein’s island

syrian_samuel

We need F-35s to strike small boats that carry 11 people? Just how small is Trump’s dick?

keith2366

A list of nearly 800 Republican sexual predators can be found here

https://www.dailykos.com/history/user/CajsaLilliehook

Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html

Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/05/03/former-judge-tim-nolan-could-sentenced-today-more-drama-could-get-way/577947002/

Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. In November 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of child sex trafficking in exchange for the dropping of the other charges.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/20/former-oklahoma-state-senator-admits-to-child-sex-trafficking-while-in-office/

Republican Minnesota State Representative Jim Knoblach Drops Out Of Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her For More Than Ten Years 22 Sep 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/22/lawmaker-quits-race-after-daughter-says-he-molested-her-more-than-decade/?utm_term=.8ac8527c7f43

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=28587

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

http://www.lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl/

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giordano

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

http://archive.easyreadernews.com/archives/news2001/0621/rb%20Shortridge.php

Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html

Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.d7ebcbf4f92b

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=437

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

https://www.westword.com/news/randy-ankeney-suit-that-could-free-thousands-of-prisoners-headed-to-state-supreme-court-6054115

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crane

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

https://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

https://culteducation.com/group/1255-false-memories/6514-man-in-notorious-sex-case-finishes-term.html

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

https://www.semissourian.com/story/57773.html

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

http://www.chattanoogan.com/2002/6/21/23202/Tennessee-Legislator-Commits-Suicide.aspx

Republican Kentucky state Representative &amp; pastor Dan Johnson, who committed suicide after an exposé revealed his serial lies, suspected arson, criminal church, racism, accused rape of a teen, and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Johnson_%28Kentucky_politician%29

Amazing-Jump4158

I'm sure US won't use this excuse of combating drug cartels to overthrow a regime refusing to bend over for them.

Dr_Diktor

Most-Initiative8753

is it me or is this a bit over the top, like sure you need  to retaliate but sky attacks with stealth jets

or maybe they are just threatening Venezuela

kaneki_uzumaki20

How much is this costing? aren't we drowning in naitonal debt?

jazznessa

Trump sell alcohol.

The most dangerous drug on the planet.

Maybe he should strike mar-a-loser?

AdSmall1198

This is going to cause a war on the border

Grubbyninja

Individual-Dot-9605

I thought he was against foreign entanglements?

Away-Structure9393

An excellent way to distract from Trump’s fucking kids.

tykneedanser

CalmestUraniumAtom

&gt; President warns Venezuelan jets will be "shot down" if they threaten US forces

So Trump basically declared war on Venezuela? The fuck?

SuperUranus

akshat-kalpdev

DarkJoke76

This is what happens when you elect an idiot who appoints an idiot with NO EXPERIENCE to be your secretary of defense. They kinda don’t know how, what, where, when, why, or the militaries actually competencies.

TheGongShow61

Accurate_Taste7906

mindyodamnbzness

So much for wanting to practice isolationism and being a party of peace.   


The only thing he doesn't want to attack is Putin.  He loves that dong with every fiber of his being.   

Capital-Document-139

Upstairs_Owl_1669

Tramp needs to release the Epstein files. This article is a distraction.

Mysterious-Prompt212

This is not about the cartels btw. This is about some files... That someone doesn't want to be released. The vast majority of fent comes from china.

thecartman85

tomis_24

What's the source on this? How can we know it actually happened unless we see it in the Epstein files?

crimsonpowder

I only see 9 jets in this ai photo, fake news!!!!! /s

nomnomyumyum109

Are people talking about epstein files again or what?

This-Scarcity1245

idk whats weaker, fighting a venezuelan country who has no back bone, or bending down ass backwards for a russian dictator. venezuela stands no chance. yet here we are acting all tough and shit. this whole administration is ass

freedumb9566

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