When the US boards a vessel, the vessel then becomes an extension of the US and subject to US laws. They can confiscate drugs and imprison the people on board, who must be indicted by the time the Coast Guard gets back to land. This is a routine action, example: www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...
A lot of drugs are transported in "go fast" boats, which are basic boats with massive engines, multiple fuel drums, and drug cargo. They're typically manned by poor people from the country who are paid well should they successfully get the boat to the destination (Mexico or the US itself)
Holy shit. 😩
The Coast Guard is well prepared with how to handle these boats - obviously sometimes the boat refuses to stop and the Coast Guard will launch a helicopter with a sniper to take out the engines.
Looking at the image this is your typical go fast boat with multiple outboard engines. It's absolute lunacy to waste a smart bomb on this kind of target. The munitions probably cost more than the equipment it just destroyed, let alone the fact they're just killing poor people.
I see three people at most. They wouldn't have lied, would they???
It’s not about the drugs or the boat or the bomb or the people or the cost. This is specifically publicity to advertise that our military can and will kill anyone it fucking feels like at any time in any place. Unironically this:
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Well done, that's what was in the back of my mind when I was reading this thread. Orwell would be horrified by our 2025.
THIS!
It's both. Venezuelan oil is another goal.
Engines, not the humans.
