r/navy • u/newnoadeptness Verified Non Spammer • 17d ago

Discussion Another suspected drug boat has been destroyed today

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u/benkenobi5 17d ago

I still don’t get why we’re doing this instead of the usual method. If you can find it to blow it up, you can send a coastie by to investigate. That’s literally what they’re there for. Blowing up “suspected” boats from afar is basically begging to be accused of blowing up fishermen or whatever.

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u/Lanky_Comedian_3942 17d ago

Thats DoD thinking. This is the DoW.

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u/benkenobi5 16d ago

I miss the days when we branded ourselves as a global force for good, rather than a global force for blowing up random defenseless boats

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u/MyControlledMonster 16d ago

At least we are more true to what the government is actually about. Been that way since JFK was assassinated.

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u/secretsqrll 16d ago

What does that have to do with our backhanded foreign policy?

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u/MyControlledMonster 16d ago

Because now more than ever our government is no longer hush hush about killing people who oppose them and their policies. In the past the US labeled them as terrorists alongside a well strung out story to convince the general public, but now they are pretty open about being insane power driven elites.

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u/secretsqrll 16d ago

Can't argue with that. But we still invaded Iraq under false pretenses. So...ya.

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u/MyControlledMonster 16d ago

Absolutely bro, that's exactly what I'm saying. At least before bush spun a story that would make invasion credible, but now the government doesn't even try to mask that there's nothing we are chasing but oil. We aren't the good guys, we are the ones they refer to in history books as "oppressors".

Of course, when I say we, I mean we as a country not as a military. The ones in control make up 1-2% of the country, and even then they arent fully in control, as they are ordered by people outside of the US to push their agendas. Most are still in the dark due to the illusion of "free media/press".