U.S. Carries Out Another Boat Strike, Killing Six

[highplainsdem]

Source: NYT

The Defense Department said on Sunday that it had blown up a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean earlier in the day, killing six people. The strike raised the death toll in the campaign by the United States against people it accuses of smuggling drugs at sea to at least 156.

The U.S. Southern Command announced the strike on social media with an 11-second video clip that showed a stationary boat, with two or three outboard engines, floating in the water and then suddenly exploding.

Legal specialists on the use of lethal force have said the strikes are illegal, extrajudicial killings because the military cannot deliberately target civilians who do not pose an imminent threat of violence, even if suspected of engaging in criminal acts. The Trump administration has not provided evidence of drug smuggling.

The Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean from headquarters near Miami, cited unspecified intelligence in the announcement. It said the boat had been traveling on “known narco-trafficking routes” and was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations.”

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/us/politics/boat-strike-eastern-pacific-six-killed.html

[Bayard]

1. I don't care if its another country at this point,

Somebody please get this insane monster under control.

[Skittles]

2. CAN SOMEONE TELL ME

why the Supreme Court addressed illegal tariffs but not illegal MASS MURDERS???

[James48]

5. Because no one has sued.

You can’t get a Suoreme Court hearing unless you file a lawsuit and have standing somehow to sue. Is it your boat destroyed? Did you have a fishing trip booked on that boat? Was your sole provider killed in the attack?
Then you would be entitled to discovery, the Federal government can make its claim why they thought it was legal, and judtifrr ed can be served.

[Skittles]

6. so the US government can literally MURDER people

and NOTHING can be done to stop it without the help of the corrupt greedy old pig party?

[Ray Bruns]

8. Plenty could be done about it if we had a Congress with a spine.

[William Seger]

3. Eastern Pacific, so not Venezuela. Columbia? Equador?

[maxsolomon]

9. Tijuana is the Eastern Pacific.

San Diego is the Eastern Pacific.

Big place.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. Killing and destroying. It's what they are best at.

[flvegan]

7. Remember when we thought the military wouldn't carry out Trump's illegal orders?

Good times.