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Botany

(76,299 posts)
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 09:21 AM 3 hrs ago

Trump murders more Venezuelans. "U.S. military carries out 30th strike on alleged drug boat"

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people.

The strike, which was announced by U.S. Southern Command on social media, has brought the total number of known boat strikes to 30 and the number of people killed at least 107 since early September, according to numbers announced by the Trump administration.

The military said the vessel "was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," though it did not provide evidence to back up the claim.

In a video of the strike posted to social media, a boat is seen moving through water before being struck by two explosions.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-military-carries-out-30th-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat

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These are war crimes. @ least 107 Venezuelans some of whom very likely not Venezuelans but were
fisherman from Columbia and or Trinidad and Tobago have been killed with no evidence or trials have
been murdered, he has seized 2 Venezuelan Oil tankers which Trump’s press secretary claimed were
“Financing Narco Terrorists” even though the narcotics trade produces enough money to finance itself
without outside help, the U.S. has now hit a Venezuelan port of some sort or other with vague talk about
drugs, now Trump is claiming that Venezuelan oil is really owned by American Oil Companies.

Trump:

"Well, it's about a lot of things," Trump said. "It's about that. It's about, you know, they took our oil,
they took it, …”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-land-strike-venezuela-facility-drug-boats-rcna251329

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Lovie777

(21,619 posts)
1. It will not stop..............
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 09:23 AM
3 hrs ago

shithole and his comrades want Valenzuela's oil and they will kill for it.

Botany

(76,299 posts)
5. We are producing future Venezuelan Terrorists and very likely 10s of thousands of deaths if
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 09:32 AM
2 hrs ago

the Venezuelans fight back the seizure of THEIR OIL. And some of those dead will be U.S. Military too.
In Sept. of 1939 Hitler invented the lie that Poland had attacked Germany so he had to invade Poland.

I hope all the Western Democracies withdraw their ambassadors to protest these illegal acts by
a mad man undergoing severe cognitive decline.

sop

(17,331 posts)
7. Thirty illegal murderous strikes on alleged "narco terrorists," yet not one shred of evidence? Strange.
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 09:56 AM
2 hrs ago

Botany

(76,299 posts)
8. Even IF those boats were carrying drugs there is no way they should end up close to the U.S..
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 10:04 AM
2 hrs ago

They are open boats that can not go through the open ocean without running the chance of
swamping from waves and rain and they are outboard motor boats that can not go more than
50 miles miles. These attacks are about oil and Epstein.

Also the penalty for drug trafficking is not the death sentence too.

Botany

(76,299 posts)
11. Even if they had totally packed those boats with extra fuel they might be able to get 100 miles or so ..
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:43 AM
45 min ago

…. and the tip of Florida is 1,500 miles across the Caribbean. And if the boat was loaded with
fuel where would they keep the drugs?

Nice try.

Jacson6

(1,750 posts)
10. The US is using million dollar missiles to sink small wooden boats w/ Marijuana on them. n/t
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:17 AM
1 hr ago
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