[HIGHTECHDUDE]

Pete plays a mean game...

[melvin2002]

Boat comes, boat goes.

[touo1]

Originally Posted by chechnya ↗

Are you really that simple-minded to think that they aren't doing their due diligence and using intelligence and every tool available to verify they are who they are?

Remember all those nuclear weapons we found in Iraq? Opps...

[dreamsneverend]

As if this puts any sort of dent in the traffic.

The narco subs are where the real bounty is these days.

The alcoholic Hegseth is wasting our might attacking dinky boats in the eastern pacific and Caribbean.

[mcpronoun]

Who remembers the days when all it took was 1 coast guard cutter and a handful of 50 caliber rounds to make a drug boat surrender or sink?

[Suicide_Note]

COCAINE SHARKS!!

[DemonicDave]

Originally Posted by chechnya ↗

Are you really that simple-minded to think that they aren't doing their due diligence and using intelligence and every tool available to verify they are who they are?

You think this or any past administration has had due diligence? Oh how sweet it is to be so naive. Keep on believing everything you are told you sweet summer child

[Noose]

Originally Posted by dreamsneverend ↗

As if this puts any sort of dent in the traffic.

The narco subs are where the real bounty is these days.

The alcoholic Hegseth is wasting our might attacking dinky boats in the eastern pacific and Caribbean.

A couple of missiles isn't "wasting our might". Especially if it prevents deadly fentanyl from reaching our border.

[Benplace]

Sorry but this is not about fentanyl. It is about the largest gas and oil reserve in the world that happens to be in.....Venezuela!

[Banshee]

Originally Posted by Mr.NoCredit ↗

And what is it when they reach their destination and deliver all that cocaine!? Some would say that’s murder too. You’re one of those who don’t fully understand how drugs destroy lives just as much as violence.

The issue here is that international law is very strict about using military force at sea. Civilian boats on the high seas, even if they carry migrants or smugglers, are not military targets. Under UNCLOS they are under the control of their own flag country, and other states cannot attack them unless very limited exceptions apply, like piracy.

Countries are allowed to stop or search vessels suspected of smuggling, but this is normally done by coast guards or law enforcement, not by using lethal military force. They must follow due process, respect human rights, and give proof for their actions. Simply claiming a boat might be a threat is not enough to justify a military strike.

Legal experts have already said that hitting these boats with missiles or other weapons is unlawful, both under international law and under US domestic law, because it counts as using military force against civilians outside an armed conflict. There is no legal basis for treating people on those boats as enemy fighters.

If another country started firing on US civilian vessels and said, yes, they had guns so we thought they were dangerous, everyone would call that illegal. The same rules apply here. Without real evidence of an armed attack, using military force like this is not justified.