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Right. It's clear what they're doing with the boat bombing is about more than stopping drugs.
Darrin opposes Jews and learning.
Right. It's clear what they're doing with the boat bombing is about more than stopping drugs.
What's it about?
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
hey look, the US Congress actually has leverage over contemptuous government officials
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/1...funds-00680679Congress is using its marquee defense bill to force the Pentagon into turning over videos of strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats off the coast of Latin America.
Lawmakers plan to withhold a quarter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget until the Pentagon provides them with the videos. The demand, quietly tucked into the final draft of the annual defense policy bill, calls for “unedited video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command” to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
Congressional leaders released their final draft of the defense bill Sunday, which is expected to be approved — without changes — by the House later this week and then the Senate.
It seems like it's about trying to stir the pot in Venezuela, make them think war is coming and possibly cause a coup against Maduro.
could be bloviating
could be 100% sincere
at what point does Congress get involved? simultaneous wars in South America and Central America?
https://newrepublic.com/article/2041...terview-fiasco
no chance of passing but completely appropriate imho
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ON7...6Yk/view?pli=1
killing survivors because rescuing them is legally messy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...D.lP08UUlO_wlcThe Pentagon was in a bind. The military had plucked two survivors from the Caribbean Sea in mid-October after striking a boat that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs, and it needed to figure out what to do with them.
On a call with counterparts at the State Department, Pentagon lawyers floated an idea. They asked whether the two survivors could be put into a notorious prison in El Salvador to which the Trump administration had sent hundreds of Venezuelan deportees, three officials said.
The State Department lawyers were stunned, one official said, and rejected the idea. The survivors ended up being repatriated to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador.
A little under two weeks later, on Oct. 29, Pentagon officials convened another session about boat strike survivors, a video conference involving dozens of American diplomats from across the Western Hemisphere. The message was that any rescued survivors should be sent back to their home countries or to a third country, said three other officials, who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Behind that policy was a quieter goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in the U.S. judicial system, where court cases could force the administration to show evidence justifying President Trump’s military campaign in the region.
The previously unreported calls demonstrate the haphazard and sometimes tense nature of the process within the Trump administration to weigh what to do with the survivors of U.S. attacks on boats that the military asserts — without presenting evidence — are drug-smuggling vessels posing an immediate threat to Americans.
Pentagon officials largely kept State Department counterparts in the dark about strike operations, then scrambled to try to enlist diplomats to help deal with survivors, whom military officials referred to by specific terms that included “distressed mariners.” That phrase is usually used in a peacetime and civilian context.
consciousness of guilt
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...mp-2025-12-10/President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding do ent to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.
DOD releases Gemini-based chatbot
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...hs-war-crimes/Earlier this week, the Defense Department announced its new generative AI tool — GenAi.mil — to deliver the benefits of artificial intelligence to the Armed Forces....
...“The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled AI,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed ...
... approximately five minutes after the platform went live, someone asked it to evaluate a “hypothetical” Caribbean boat strike. From the r/AirForce subreddit:
in a press release, DOD says ISIS operatives were killed, but I've seen no other reports of casualties
somewhat less eager to kill all narco-terrorists, for some reason
Hegseth backpedaling from a court martial to administrative shenanigans
Slam dunk 1A lawsuit -- this is viewpoint discrimination
(punishment for sedition is now demotion in rank plus a strongly worded letter in your file)
Right? If you think it's sedition, try to charge them all with sedition.
Lol "administrative action".
Hopefully Kelly turns around and sues the out of these morons.
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/dutch-na...-in-caribbean/Dutch Navy Suspends Joint Anti-Drug Operations with US in Caribbean
The Royal Netherlands Navy is temporarily suspending joint actions with the United States in the fight against drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea. The decision was announced by the Dutch Ministry of Defence, citing different approaches to stopping suspected vessels in international waters off Venezuela.
According to the ministry, the U.S. policy of attacking vessels departing from Venezuelan ports leads to the deaths of people without due process. Because of these actions, the Netherlands has decided to suspend previously agreed cooperative operations. Previously, the Dutch Navy closely coordinated actions with the U.S. Coast Guard in the fight against drug smuggling in the region, where the main routes pass through the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
As part of the joint operation, Dutch sailors often boarded su ious vessels in international waters, relying on U.S. intelligence data. According to the Ministry of Defence, over the past five years tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine have been intercepted in the Caribbean, and those detained were usually handed over to the American side for prosecution in courts.
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Perfidy is a textbook war crime
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...core-ios-share“.. laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’”
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they committed a war crime (shooting civilians) with a war crime (perfidy) and then did another war crime (executed the surrendering party)
why the subterfuge? In for one war crime....
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