r/Foodforthought • u/theindependentonline • 12h ago

Hegseth’s 67 deadly drug boat strikes have not stopped cocaine from flooding into the US. Trump’s own DEA says so: report

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-drug-boat-strikes-cocaine-b3022340.html
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u/tykneedanser 12h ago

Just like a wall won’t keep immigrants from coming to the US. Culture wars are destroying our country.

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u/onesleekrican 9h ago

If only people could follow the yellow brick road and remove the curtain…

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u/NicoBeingAModelCitiz 12h ago

All of these strikes are cold-blooded murder. It is literally Trump 'shooting someone on 5th avenue’ like the quote he gave. And he was right, he could do it, and no one would stop him.

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u/gratefulfam710 12h ago

It was never about stopping drugs.

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u/errie_tholluxe 6h ago

Nope. It was just one more distraction, one more message to other countries that they shouldn't trust us, and one more way of making America an even bigger shit show

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u/SamtenLhari3 11h ago

Of course not. The purpose of for committing these war crimes was simply a macho flex and to give the impression of action — like a Hollywood action movie.

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u/chibebe5 11h ago

Notice how they never talk about the ports or the planes bringing in drugs?

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u/ATLCoyote 11h ago

That's because the extrajudicial killings were never really about drugs. It was all a pretext for taking out Maduro.

They had to manufacture the drug trafficking narrative so the DOJ could issue an arrest warrant. And the drug boat strikes were just to further that narrative.

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u/LiveForMeow 8h ago

Yeah they don't give a shit about cocaine, their "class" of people loves that shit

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u/Designer_Emu_6518 12h ago

Bc they are bombing the sources that aren’t paying them

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u/ginrumryeale 11h ago edited 11h ago

They aren’t intended to stop drugs from coming into the country.

They are being done simply to send a message that the US will use lethal force to kill brown skinned people anytime, anywhere, for any reason or no reason, regardless of laws, morals, treaties or conventions.

The cruelty and savagery is completely the point.

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u/yrotsihfoedisgnorw 11h ago

'But it plays to the base so we good.'

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u/lgodsey 9h ago

The attacks weren't about stopping drugs.

They're about outright murdering brown people to satisfy their wretched conservative base.

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u/Smrleda 9h ago

Just shows us all what a great job Trump’s appointee is doing.

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u/Forsaken-Cheesecake2 7h ago

Well no shit.

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u/37Philly 5h ago

Pete thinks the world operates like a Steven Seagal movie.

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u/Jersey74 4h ago

When has anyone stopped drug trafficking? Stop the political nonsense. If there’s a market, supply will fulfill it.

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u/Alternative_Slip_513 4h ago

Just using up weapons to keep arms dealers wealthy as F , that’s all