- Trump shares video showing speedboat exploding
- US officials say boat was carrying illegal narcotics
- Strike comes amid increased deployment of warships to Caribbean
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operation since his administration’s recent deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean.
Trump told reporters at the White House: “We just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat.”
That ambulance was full of Hamas combatants.
It’s how Israel does. Which is how the US used to do. And apparently now does again.
Did it ever stop? Gestures at "military-age men."
Maybe not. I think their military got a bit more careful over the years with increased scruitiny. Maybe I’ve got a false impression.
The US military directly has been careful. It’s usually the military contractors that do that shit. They don’t have the same training requirements, and will often hire veterans that were dishonorably discharged from the military. They hide under things like plausible deniability and the fact they aren’t actually military so they aren’t subject to the same UCMJ standards which actually are fairly effectively enforced (nothing is perfect unfortunately but on average it is enforced widely). So the contractors think they can ignore things, and the military sometimes take advantage of that to do things they know they can’t and throw the contractors under the bus if they’re caught.