Strikes on alleged drug boats kill 5 in eastern Pacific, U.S. military says

Because he wouldn’t give trump a percentage

This end goal was to cause complete societal collapse and untold amounts of suffering so american companies can move in and extract their wealth with little resistance. So basically standard US practice but without any of the usual effort to dress it up and sell it to the public as something everyone benefits from. > Pressure is building in Venezuela. > > Unlike China, the USA cannot fully supply Venezuela with the goods it needs. America lacks the production capacity and the supply networks required to support the entire country. > > The key issue is thay even with American sanctions in place, Venezuela under Maduro was still able to trade with China. > > They exchanged oil for products, medicines, and other essential goods on a barter basis. After relations with China broke down, inflation exploded. It reached 649.5 percent by March 2026. The International Monetary Fund expects it to go above 682 percent by the end of the year. > Right now Venezuelas oil money is being sent to a special account controlled by the US Treasury. > > Remember that the United States has also essentially seized Venezuelas gold reserves. These moves are speeding up the collapse of the national currency. The situation is spiraling out of control. [Source](https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2043452914862371129?s=20)

Those reasons include a case regarding oil rights. A judge had ruled the year prior that the case would not move forward except in the instance the region was under political turmoil. A member of the administration’s son was an interested party in the case. With Maduro captured, the case was allowed to move forward. 

I think that’s what usually happens. Turn a blind eye etc. But now we are openly blowing up random boats in plain sight. 

The logic is to show us how much they value human life to make you subconsciously fearful of standing up to them. Its psychological warfare using human beings as play things.

Google "drug trafficker". Click on images. Scroll down a little. notice a pattern? That's what's in the mind of the average American when you say "drug trafficker".

I thought US is under sharia law? Why is trump posting praise Allah?

Trump isn't the actual problem imo; there are far, far too many people behind him. And a number of those people have been gathering power behind the scenes and crippling American politics for decades.

I don't think that's correct. War crimes occur during war. This is important because the standards are much harsher for ordinary crimes and much looser for war crimes because the latter are always evaluated relative to military objectives. For example, as long as the intention is to kill enemy combatants, the Geneva Conventions allow the killing of civilians as long as enemy combatants were the primary targets, the attack was commensurate towards achieving well-defined military objectives, and there were some efforts to minimize civilian casualties. For example, if you kill two generals and eight civilian bystanders, this is not necessarily a war crime (but it's in the end for a court to decide). In contrast, such killings are inexcusable during peace time, for example during maritime police action. Generally, the shooting of suspects without being attacked by them is always a crime at peace time, whereas shooting at suspected enemy combatants is not automatically a crime during war time. That's why the US Navy will probably say "we were at war against drugs" when asked...

Surely you need a war to commit war crimes?

The US was sadly never a part of it. It was not ratified in 2002 under W Bush.

I guess I was a little confused. It seems like you're asking what's the source for the allegation that these boats were drug boats. To that I say, there's no evidence for that allegation because they blew up the boats without an investigation. So, I think we're on the same page for the boat allegations, specifically. If the allegation is referring to the boats being blown up, then I don't know what would be considered trustworthy and reliable if a video that the military posted that shows the boats being blown up is not that.