The United States has struck two more alleged Latin American drug-running boats, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, adding that all six people on board were killed. Critics say the US strikes in the Pacific and Caribbean – which have now claimed the lives of 76 people – amount to extrajudicial killings
Note: a bit weird title; better is" LatAm boats".
Edit: apperantly someone liked my suggestion, as the title was just changed.
why is nothing being done about this? what is the rest of the world cautious about, are we truly untouchable? this is madness.
Get real. WTF can anyone do against the largest military in the world? A country that has hundreds of nukes and is being currently led by a senile, corrupt moron, that recently announced that he would resume nuclear testing?
right. so… we’re untouchable. that sucks.
You know what ‘the global community’ likes even more than the moral high ground? Lots of cheap oil. And this time they won’t even have to deal with the refugee crisis!
The deal is we get our hands dirty and the rest of the capitalist world gets cheap oil. It’s very bad obviously but it’s not any different than what we’ve been doing for decades. We do a bit of negotiating with places like Nigeria and Venezuela, enough to get some infrastructure built and get some boots on the ground to prove reserves and infiltrate the government, and then when it make sense we provoke a hot war, destroy their defense infrastructure, replace it with our military base/contractors and profit. Cheap oil from Russia is drying up and Europe is thirsty. The Middle East is a lot less easy to control. The playbook has always been to exhaust the reserves furthest away from our ports first (Middle East, Caucasus) and then when the time is right swoop on the easier stuff. Venezuela and Nigeria have always been on the menu.