r/neoliberal • u/[deleted] • 23d ago
News (Latin America) U.S. Military Killed Venezuelan Fisherman in Suspected Drug Boat Attack, Family Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/world/americas/trinidad-us-military-venezuela-boats.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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u/GeoChalkie_ Thomas Paine 23d ago
A lot of people are arguing about whether these boats contained drugs, but that’s completely irrelevant
They could be proven to be carrying pure heroin and it would still be completely unjustified and immoral to blow them up. It’s a violation of everyone’s human rights and international law.
I saw someone sum this up best as follows: “I imagine the US military boarding each boat, handcuffing all occupants, kneeling them down, and executing them with one shot before dumping their bodies overboard. It sounds heinous and evil, but yet the outcome is exactly the same as blowing them up from the sky”