I think if you read it as "campaign meant for drug boats," it isn't editorialized. The actual boats struck are alleged drug boats indeed; the stated desire was to only hit actual "drug boats."
At any rate, even if all the boats struck were carrying drugs in violation of American law, murdering the crew is still not an acceptable form of punishment.
If the desire were in any way to hit only actual drug boats then the boats would receive due process instead of murder. It is definitionally a campaign meant for alleged drug boats.
> even if all the boats struck were carrying drugs in violation of American law, murdering the crew is still not an acceptable form of punishment.
The rationale (don’t karma kill the messenger for not liking my saying so) is that they are a foreign power invading the United States with the illicit intentions of doing catastrophic harm.
If any of this is fentanyl then it is very accurate to say that it leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths. And we've seen a very good decrease in fentanyl deaths -- though that could also be attributed to the higher availability of Narcan.
Fentanyl remains a primary driver of overdose deaths, with synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, accounting for 60% of all overdose deaths in the United States last year, totaling about 48,000 people. While opioid overdose deaths remain high, there has been a decrease in fentanyl-involved deaths from 2023 to 2024.
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The CDC reports a 35.6% decrease in synthetic opioid overdose deaths from 2023 to 2024.
I think you mean they are _allegedly_ a foreign power _allegedly_ invading the United States with the _alleged_ illicit intentions of doing catastrophic harm.
But the months-long attacks have reportedly done little to combat the flow of illicit drugs into the country, raising questions about the effectiveness of an operation that law of war experts say amounts to extrajudicial killings and war crimes.
Which is pretty much a war crime. In the case where they didn’t do that, they deported them anywhere but to American soil. Cant have them accidentally speaking in a court or to reporters.
Tough on which crimes, exactly? Has there been any proof that the 200 killed were drug dealers? What did Trump's DOJ did wrt. the Sackler family?
War crimes are - as their name clearly shows - crimes. If I follow your logic, every American soldier who participated in these should get the death penalty, yes?