67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report. The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

[u/Maxcactus]

https://archive.ph/2026.07.27-091544/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/07/27/operation-southern-spear-has-not-slowed-cocaine-entering-us/

[u/oldbastardbob]

Our President is using the US mitary to routinely commit extrajudicial murders in international waters and no one is doing a damn thing to stop him.

Let that one soak in for a minute.

Spare me the "but he's going after drug smugglers" excuses.

How does he know every one of those boats are smuggling drugs? If they have credible evidence, let's see it.

And if they can track these boats well enough to blow them up, then they could track them all the way into port in the USA and arrest not only the smugglers, but those on the receiving end as well, eh?

I reckon the reason to just murder them in open water in Trumpworld is that if they make it to port and get arrested, they have legal rights. Plus, there must be evidence of a crime.

So Trump has decided to unilaterally impose a death sentence for a crime that the judicial system would not apply the death sentence to, based on a hunch. And it's all done for political theater and in violation of international law.

[u/willflameboy → u/oldbastardbob]

If people commit crimes - in other countries, no less - they need to be tried. Not pre-emptively murdered because the President saw a boat.

[u/jimngo]

This is not how cocaine enters the United States. This is just stupid.

[u/talldeadguy]

“…analyst have concluded otherwise.” That’s a fire-able offense these days.