• Xanadu@feddit.online
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    13 hours ago

    a “first-of-its-kind” joint operation against “narcoterrorism,” the Dominican Republic’s National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) and Navy worked with the U.S. Southern Command to intercept a speedboat suspected of drug trafficking. The U.S. military destroyed the vessel in a strike approximately 80 nautical miles south of Beata Island.
    Dominican authorities then recovered 377 packages (approximately 1,000 kg or 1 ton) of suspected cocaine from the wreckage.
    Officials believe the drugs were en route to the U.S. via the Dominican Republic as a transit point. This is just one instance…children love to lie…

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      5 hours ago

      IDK where I’m from drug smuggling isn’t an automatic execution. Usually you arrest the perpetrators and give them a trial.

      But it’s easier to send a missle and sort it later.

      It’s like all the children enemy combatants we killed via drones in Iraq.

      Honest question, do you think the government should have the authority to execute anyone anywhere for whatever crime they deem fit with no trial or evidence collection?

      • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 hours ago

        Good time to remember how much a single hellfire missile, satellite time and the attention of a battle ship cost. These are all multimillion dollar executions.

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          3 hours ago

          The budget for food, Healthcare, and housing is non-existent.

          The budget to blow up fishing boats is infinite