US strike campaign against drug boats tops 200 deaths(www.independent.co.uk)

15 pointsby asdefghyk4 hours ago2 comments

asdefghyk4 hours ago
But the months-long attacks have reportedly done little to combat the flow of illicit drugs into the country, raising questions about the effectiveness of an operation that law of war experts say amounts to extrajudicial killings and war crimes.
- iioiio2 hours ago
  If you kept listening to experts, El Salvador would still be a crime ridden hellhole. Being tough on crime shows results and sends a message.
  - ItsYan28 minutes ago
    Let's say what happens in a decade or to. All injustices have a weird way of hitting back decades after.
- defrost4 hours ago
  There weren't a lot of drugs stashed in the fish coming up fresh in the nets:
  Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/21/e...
  - asdefghyk3 hours ago
    Im shocked that in some cases there have been survivors of these attackes and then their has been another attack where these survivors have died .
BugsJustFindMe3 hours ago
This title editorializes. They are _alleged_ drug boats.
- sameersan hour ago
  I think if you read it as "campaign meant for drug boats," it isn't editorialized. The actual boats struck are alleged drug boats indeed; the stated desire was to only hit actual "drug boats."
  At any rate, even if all the boats struck were carrying drugs in violation of American law, murdering the crew is still not an acceptable form of punishment.
  - BugsJustFindMean hour ago
    If the desire were in any way to hit only actual drug boats then the boats would receive due process instead of murder. It is definitionally a campaign meant for alleged drug boats.
    > even if all the boats struck were carrying drugs in violation of American law, murdering the crew is still not an acceptable form of punishment.
    Agreed.