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The great tragedy is that bullets are also more accurate. I don't mean to be "that guy", but how do we even know the sailors on these boats aren't just some fi
by bilbo0s 11mo ago
The great tragedy is that bullets are also more accurate.
I don't mean to be "that guy", but how do we even know the sailors on these boats aren't just some fishermen working for the cartels because they have a guy at his shack with a gun on his mother and siblings or kids? Or, even worse, what if they aren't working for cartels at all? Just went out to try to fish.
I'm not sure what our endgame is here, but just eyeballing this from the outside it looks like we're doing surgery with chainsaws instead of scalpels.
And all that assumes that our government is actually trying to help. Our end goal could be something else entirely? It's all just mystifying right now? I'm not sure anyone could give a coherent explanation of the why's, and I'm just about certain that no one could give a rational explanation of the how.
- metabagel 11mo agoAt least one of the "why"s is very simple. Trump likes to act in ways which make him look powerful, and which make others respect and fear him. I think another "why" is ratcheting up the pressure on Venezuela, because Trump has decided or been persuaded to embark on a program of regime change for Venezuela. I don't actually understand why regime change in Venezuela is important to Trump & MAGA though.
- jrs235 11mo agoOil Cartel wants to control Venezuelan oil.
- Hizonner 11mo ago> respect and fear him I actually don't think Trump understands the difference between those.
- sfifs 11mo agoIsn't the historical answer to why regime change usually Oil
- dragonwriter 11mo ago> Isn't the historical answer to why regime change usually Oil Its usually corporate/capital interests; oil has been popular for a while, but, its hardly exclusive. We didn’t get the name “banana republic” from US interventions over oil, after all.
- loeg 11mo agoSure, unambiguously the actual drug mules are suckers in some way. They’re still mules.
- cartoonworld 11mo agoI feel like we could do better, quite easily. People are very gung-ho (jing-go?) on this and it seems clear to me that we can use our significant technological advantages and investigatory prowess to target these bad actors just like any other day at the office. This is quite the departure and it is quite troubling to me. The ESA launch site is down there iirc, seems like we have natural allies who would join a push, but instead we sent a carrier group.