Granted, it is a few dozen bungled policies ago, but remember when we were blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean as part of the administration’s Operation Dude Bro antidrug strategy? Well, the results are in, and they are sadly predictable. From The Washington Post:
In a recent assessment reviewed by The Washington Post, DEA analysts found the strikes had failed to affect the supply or price of cocaine in the United States and had led traffickers to diversify beyond go-fast boats and to avoid international waters, opting instead for larger boats and hemming close to coastlines, where U.S. forces are less likely to open fire. In a closed-door briefing last month, Pentagon officials told lawmakers the strikes in international waters off South and Central America had not reduced its purity.
It didn’t matter if they were smugglers or not, they were just trying to scare ones that were into not doing it, with war crimes
I think that’s generous. I think the actual driving emotion behind this was Trump’s desire to feel powerful. Murdering people while knowing that their loved ones would never be able to return the favour to you seems to do that for him.
Yeah, you’re probably right. As if trump cares if cocaine is allowed into the country. He would be doing it himself if he wasn’t basically dead
…compensate for his tiny little mushroom cap by proving that he could order people killed.
I know. Same thing. I just like my phrasing better.
I was going to go even more basic, he just likes explosions. The side effect that they were killing brown people on a whim was just icing on his stubby syphlitic appendage.