Officials from the Pentagon reportedly admitted that they were unable to verify who was on alleged drug boats before launching strikes killing everyone aboard the vessels. After carrying out strikes on more than a dozen boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, the Pentagon gave lawmakers from both partie...
As a fuck you to everyone else. It is very much a “what are you going to do to stop it?”
Absolutely a demoralization tactic.
And it’s working- Americans have already given up on doing a single damn thing
That’s a fair point, now you mention it.
the more blatant the rule breaking the more humiliating it is for the powerless to nod and accept their fate
and that makes them happy