Hegseth Ordered Second Strike to Kill Caribbean Boat Survivors

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holy shit, the vessel is now acknowledged to have been no threat - direct or otherwise - to U.S. territory. By the Admiral who ordered the strike(s). Maybe now the Democrats will fire a backbone and actually hold someone accountable (looking at you, Obama and you’re “bygones” approach to Dick Cheney).

These war criminals should really consider the skyscraper route before the choice is taken away from …

As for you defending them …

Yup.

Surinam should send us a thank you note and offer to go Dutch on the cost of the missiles. We did them a solid. If those drugs had reached their shores, think of all the associated misery. I love a happy ending.

International drug running should be detrimental to a lengthy lifespan.

This is not America first. More war and American money spent on policing the world by killing fisher.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Pete keep doing what you do. It saves America lives every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you Pete keep doing what you do. It saves America lives every day.

Really? The Coast Guard does it legally and saves a hell of a lot more lives based on your thinking. These boats can carry up to 4 tons, but that includes fuel (up to 2500 gallons of gas) and crew. To equal the Coast Guard's haul they'd have to blow up 10 times as many boats and people as they have. The coast Guard made one haul in September that resulted in 86 arrests, 50 tons of cocaine seized--and they got to keep a big, very expensive boat as well.

Besides which, the drugs on these boats are generally NOT GOING TO THE US. Maybe they'll save the lives of some American tourists in the Netherlands.

Press Release | Nov. 6, 2025
Coast Guard sets historic record with amount of cocaine seized in FY25

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday it seized nearly 510,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean during fiscal year 2025 (FY25), the largest amount in the Service’s history.

On average, the Coast Guard seizes 167,000 pounds of cocaine annually. The amount seized in FY25 is over three times that amount, and equivalent to 193 million potentially lethal doses (1.2 grams), enough to endanger over half of the U.S. population.


“The Coast Guard’s top priority is to achieve complete operational control of the U.S. border and maritime approaches," said Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting commandant of the Coast Guard. "We own the sea, and this historic amount of cocaine seized shows we are defeating narco-terrorist and cartel operations to protect our communities and keep dangerous drugs off our streets.”

Detecting and interdicting narco-terrorism on the high seas involves significant interagency and international coordination. U.S. Southern Command’s Joint Interagency Task Force-South, based in Key West, Florida, detects and monitors both aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs. Once interdiction becomes imminent, the law enforcement phase of the operation begins, and control of the operation shifts to the U.S. Coast Guard throughout the interdiction and apprehension.

The Coast Guard is the United States’ lead federal agency for maritime drug interdiction. We are part of the Department of Homeland Security team protecting our nation and are at all times a military service and part of the joint force defending it. 

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you Pete keep doing what you do. It saves America lives every day.

You are not thinking this through very well if that is your conclusion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Debunked? Honestly, how do you weirdos defending the insanity of this regime we’re living through not suffer DAILY from the kind of existential crisis that causes one to question their own sanity.

You’re for blowing up tiny boats, many hundreds of miles from U.S. territory, with zero demonstrable proof that the individuals being killed have done anything illegal, and zero demonstrable proof that the rest of the nations on this planet have authorized us here in the U.S. to be judge, jury and executioner on the high (international water) seas?

This is madness. We’re living in madness.

Admit it. You don't care one lick about the narcoterrorists killed in these strikes.
These people are no better than ISIS. Even Dems admit the boats are carrying drugs. And lots of them.

Go back and do a little research about all the innocent people Obama droned and there wasn't a peep from any Democrat.
And, then there was the drone strike in Afghanistan during the withdrawal that killed 10 innocents. Not a whimper from any Democrat.
And, nobody was held responsible for what the Biden administration termed "a righteous strike." 10 INNOCENT people dead.
Frankly, the world is better off without these narcoterrorists walking it.

I love how dorks grab onto any lingo made up by social media. “Narcoterrorists” is the latest.

The reason drugs are coming into the USA is because Americans are making orders for their recreational drugs from Latin America. If the United States was the only country that had poppy fields and land owners were growing crops you can believe they would be making money from their poppy crops by selling it to foreign countries.

I can see Jared Kushner and douches like him marketing his crops as a healthy alternative to amphetamines. He would add vitamins advertised to counter any possible side effects to the coke.

Blame the American consumer that has a huge taste for the drugs. Latin Americans are providing them just like McDonalds provides Whoppers for overly hungry people.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you Pete keep doing what you do. It saves America lives every day.

He is literally insane. This is shocking. Dems need to start impeachment proceedings on Monday.

His sanction of China will definitely kill Americans. Wait till they start shipping fake products and there’s zero oversight. Wait for them to mail Americans.

Hegseth basically says the US is an oligarchy and we approve of world oligarchies. Even racist ones.

https://apple.news/A4t6-D6zeTradgdGQEn0ybw

[Anonymous]

Jail Americans obvs …

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I’m sure Hegseth gets his coke from narcoterrorists. He doesn’t strike me as a woke guy who buys clean or local.

[Anonymous]

If Trump is so concerned with the war on drugs, why is he screwing American addicts?

FEDERAL CUTS TO OVERDOSE PREVENTION & ADDICTION TREATMENT

This means longer wait times, fewer services, and more lives lost. For families already struggling with addiction, it could mean showing up for help—only to find the door shut.

The Trump administration and Congress have already slashed:

At least $345 million from federal programs that fund addiction and overdose prevention services.

$588 million from drug-related research.

Nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid—the biggest source of addiction treatment funding in the U.S.

https://drugpolicy.org/resource/federal-cuts-threaten-overdose-prevention/#:~:text=This%20means%20longer%20wait%20times,treatment%20funding%20in%20the%20U.S.

[Anonymous]

Just a friendly reminder to Trump’s henchmen:

The POTUS may enjoy limited immunity for actions he takes in his capacity as POTUS.

You don’t.

Just ask Oliver North.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you Pete keep doing what you do. It saves America lives every day.

+1

NP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a friendly reminder to Trump’s henchmen:

The POTUS may enjoy limited immunity for actions he takes in his capacity as POTUS.

You don’t.

Just ask Oliver North.

I really do not believe you understand the current situation.

A boat in international waters that is not running a national flag is categorized in international law the same way a pirate is. Such boats have absolutely no national or international protections, and you cannot commit a war crime against them.
A vessel in international waters is required under UNCLOS to sail under the flag of a specific nation. If it does not, it is legally considered a stateless vessel. A stateless vessel has no right to the protections normally afforded to ships under a national flag, including immunity from interference by other states.

UNCLOS Articles 92, 94, 110, and customary maritime law spell out the consequences clearly:

1. Stateless vessels have no sovereign protection. A flagged ship is an extension of its flag-state’s sovereignty. A stateless vessel is not. This matters because “war crimes” presuppose protected persons or protected property. A stateless vessel is legally unprotected.

2. Any state may stop, board, search, seize, or disable, a stateless vessel. UNCLOS Article 110 explicitly authorizes boarding and seizure. The law does not require states to risk their own personnel or assets while doing so. Disabling a vessel that refuses inspection, including firing on it, is legally permitted under both UNCLOS and long-established state practice.

3. War crimes require an armed conflict. You cannot commit a “war crime” outside an armed conflict. War crimes occur only within the context of international humanitarian law (IHL). Enforcing maritime law against a stateless vessel is a law enforcement action, not an IHL situation.
No armed conflict = no war crime possible.

4. Lethal force may be used when a vessel refuses lawful orders. The International Maritime Organization’s “Use of Force” guidance for maritime interdiction recognizes that disabling fire, even lethal force, is lawful when a vessel refuses lawful boarding, attempts to flee, poses a threat, or engages in illicit activities such as piracy or narcotics trafficking.
Once again: law enforcement rules apply, not IHL.

5. Sinking a stateless vessel is not prohibited by UNCLOS. UNCLOS permits seizure of a stateless vessel and leaves the means entirely to the enforcing state so long as necessity and proportionality are respected. If the vessel flees, attacks, or refuses lawful commands, sinking it is legally permissible. Many states routinely do this to drug-smuggling vessels (e.g., semi-submersibles) without it ever being treated as a war crime.

6. No flag = no jurisdictional shield. The entire reason international law requires ships to fly a flag is to prevent this exact situation. Flagless vessels are legally vulnerable by design.
Because a stateless vessel has no protected status, because UNCLOS authorizes interdiction of such vessels, because lethal force may be used in maritime law enforcement when necessary, and because war crimes require an armed conflict that is not present here, sinking an unflagged ship in international waters is not a war crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a friendly reminder to Trump’s henchmen:

The POTUS may enjoy limited immunity for actions he takes in his capacity as POTUS.

You don’t.

Just ask Oliver North.

I really do not believe you understand the current situation.

A boat in international waters that is not running a national flag is categorized in international law the same way a pirate is. Such boats have absolutely no national or international protections, and you cannot commit a war crime against them.
A vessel in international waters is required under UNCLOS to sail under the flag of a specific nation. If it does not, it is legally considered a stateless vessel. A stateless vessel has no right to the protections normally afforded to ships under a national flag, including immunity from interference by other states.

UNCLOS Articles 92, 94, 110, and customary maritime law spell out the consequences clearly:

1. Stateless vessels have no sovereign protection. A flagged ship is an extension of its flag-state’s sovereignty. A stateless vessel is not. This matters because “war crimes” presuppose protected persons or protected property. A stateless vessel is legally unprotected.

2. Any state may stop, board, search, seize, or disable, a stateless vessel. UNCLOS Article 110 explicitly authorizes boarding and seizure. The law does not require states to risk their own personnel or assets while doing so. Disabling a vessel that refuses inspection, including firing on it, is legally permitted under both UNCLOS and long-established state practice.

3. War crimes require an armed conflict. You cannot commit a “war crime” outside an armed conflict. War crimes occur only within the context of international humanitarian law (IHL). Enforcing maritime law against a stateless vessel is a law enforcement action, not an IHL situation.
No armed conflict = no war crime possible.

4. Lethal force may be used when a vessel refuses lawful orders. The International Maritime Organization’s “Use of Force” guidance for maritime interdiction recognizes that disabling fire, even lethal force, is lawful when a vessel refuses lawful boarding, attempts to flee, poses a threat, or engages in illicit activities such as piracy or narcotics trafficking.
Once again: law enforcement rules apply, not IHL.

5. Sinking a stateless vessel is not prohibited by UNCLOS. UNCLOS permits seizure of a stateless vessel and leaves the means entirely to the enforcing state so long as necessity and proportionality are respected. If the vessel flees, attacks, or refuses lawful commands, sinking it is legally permissible. Many states routinely do this to drug-smuggling vessels (e.g., semi-submersibles) without it ever being treated as a war crime.

6. No flag = no jurisdictional shield. The entire reason international law requires ships to fly a flag is to prevent this exact situation. Flagless vessels are legally vulnerable by design.
Because a stateless vessel has no protected status, because UNCLOS authorizes interdiction of such vessels, because lethal force may be used in maritime law enforcement when necessary, and because war crimes require an armed conflict that is not present here, sinking an unflagged ship in international waters is not a war crime.

Lemme guess, you apply this same gibberish to excuse the genocidal slaughter of Palestinians, too, right?

🙄

Anyway, these chickenhawks would deny there was a flag there even if it was the size of Texas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure Hegseth gets his coke from narcoterrorists. He doesn’t strike me as a woke guy who buys clean or local.

He's not coking up. Booze all the way.