US Navy murders Venezuelan citizens on the open seas

[Snowball]

The United States uses a fabricated drug charge for a potential strike on Venezuela
The deployment of ships and troops to the Caribbean is part of a larger offensive by the Trump administration alleging Venezuela plays a central role in drug trafficking, contradicting reports by US and international agencies

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09...g-charge-for-a-potential-strike-on-venezuela/

Rubio: "the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Carribean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tr...-it-might-have-come-out-of-venezuela.1286856/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/us-military-strike-caribbean
Trump has provided no details except his word that the boat was carrying "a lot of drugs"

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article311945815.html

 

[TheTexan]

Gonna win that war on drugs eventually

 

[Occam's Banana]

 

[oyarde]

Gonna win that war on drugs eventually

Never but to be fair , not open seas as titled . US deployed 3 destroyers so US seas now

 

[unknown]

Why are the Neocon/Izraelis having us attack Venezuela?

They want a monopoly on oil?

 

[69360]

Why are the Neocon/Izraelis having us attack Venezuela?

They want a monopoly on oil?

Maduro is moving more product than the CIA. They have to protect the business.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Why are the Neocon/Izraelis having us attack Venezuela?

They want a monopoly on oil?

You never know...

Agree. But I would add that a thorough examination and audit of what was going on in Venezuela that led to the rise of Chavez would be revealing too.

Don't hold your breath waiting on that though. You'll get that right after you get the full Epstein files...

 

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[vita3]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/25/elliott-abrams-envoy-venezuela-1128562

 

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[vita3]

Noble Prize?

 

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[spudea]

Jefferson used the navy against the barbary pirates without congressional authorization. If the intent to harm American citizens is clear, you should be blown out of the water before being able to do so.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/BobMurphyEcon/status/1963174896382460100

This is amazing to me. The same right-wingers who believe that the FBI and DOJ engaged in a systematic campaign to frame the sitting president for treason, are cool with video footage of the military blowing up a boat because they assure us that there were all drug traffickers on board? In the not too distant future "law enforcement" will have drones patrolling US cities, is this really the right response to people concerned about stuff like evidence and trials?

 

[Snowball]

Im starting to have some doubts about this incident - whether it actually happened or not.

I thought Venezuela would provide information about the ship and the "dead" 11 ....

All they have said officially is that the video was fake. This was said by their communications director.

Meanwhile. no details still about the crew, boat, anything.

I had to check the weather, because althogh seas were calm in the Southern Caribbean as far as I can tell
we still don't know where this happened exactly, and as a person with seafaring experience in small (ish) boats
it doesn't look to me like this boat is really what you want to use on the open seas. It has no enclosed cabin space,
no upper deck, and no place for electronics. It doesn't even have a center console. This is silly. Nobody would go on the open sea on this.
There is no helm area, very shallow sidewalls, and the motors are all outboards, like it's a sport boat for freshwater, and there is no real transom, you can just hop right up from the back, if you were swmming. No ladder. No walls. This is not a seaworthy boat. I don't think the '23" mark is legit there, for length. It looks more like about 6 feet wide. There's not even a place for enough chain and anchor, and life vests.

 

[nikcers]

https://x.com/BobMurphyEcon/status/1963174896382460100

This is amazing to me. The same right-wingers who believe that the FBI and DOJ engaged in a systematic campaign to frame the sitting president for treason, are cool with video footage of the military blowing up a boat because they assure us that there were all drug traffickers on board? In the not too distant future "law enforcement" will have drones patrolling US cities, is this really the right response to people concerned about stuff like evidence and trials?

This isn't law enforcement though. This is foreign policy and national defense.

That's our Navy's job and they have been doing these kinds of things since our country's inception when John Paul Jones went in and wrecked Britain's ships when they were the most powerful navy in the world.

 

[TheCount]

Jefferson used the navy against the barbary pirates without congressional authorization. If the intent to harm American citizens is clear, you should be blown out of the water before being able to do so.

If trafficking drugs is an intent to harm American citizens that warrants pre-emptive military action, how many Americans involved in the drug trade should the military kill to prevent such harm?

 

[nikcers]

If trafficking drugs is an intent to harm American citizens that warrants pre-emptive military action, how many Americans involved in the drug trade should the military kill to prevent such harm?

The law protects the rights of american citizens it doesn't protect enemies on a battlefield.