US Military Says Three Killed in Alleged Drug Boat Strike
The Spin
Striking drug boats is the highest priority and best use of American military power after decades of prioritizing foreign interventions over threats in America's own hemisphere. Narco-terrorist organizations have killed tens of thousands of Americans through drug trafficking and operate as state-sponsored tools of asymmetric warfare against the U.S. Using military force against them is long overdue and reflects a necessary shift toward defending actual national interests rather than pursuing abstract global stability.
U.S. boat strikes constitute extrajudicial killings with no credible legal basis, and have deliberately killed over 150 people without identifying victims or demonstrating any imminent threat justifying lethal force. Labeling drug traffickers as terrorists doesn't create an armed conflict or turn suspects into legitimate military targets, meaning that lethal force must be restricted to when strictly unavoidable to protect lives. The Trump administration has invented a war on drugs framework to justify summary executions with the goal of asserting U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere.
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There's a 5% chance that the U.S. will attack Colombia before 2027, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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