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I mean we all knew the US is bombing innocent fisher man outside their jurisdiction. That is exactly what central European media seemed to agree on.

We still miss the "why" and how there are no consequences so far

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Why did Russia complain about the rights of the Russian minority in Ukraine?

Why did Austria send Serbia an Ultimatum in 1914?

Why did Japanese officers blow up their own railway in Manchuria in 1931?

Why was Spain blamed for an accidental explosion on the USS Maine in 1898?

But what if that fisherman possibly thought about the existence of illegal narcotics while on the boat, fishing? That's grounds for getting murdered, right?

What if a son of a senator or a president had drugs, would he be bombed too?

Hunter Biden is still around so, no.

Is it? Where I am from you don't get murdered for anything usually.

I know little about American customs tho

Frogs being boiled—public has gotten used to it, even numb.

Like the doc Hypernormalization.. the leaders have gradually become actors (post JFK; Reagan was literally) putting on a show for the media and not doing anything meaningful because too many people have lost (or ignored) the ability to measure, understand, question, or identify the actions and words that differentiate between effective and ineffective leaders. This extends from a lack of viable mechanisms to effect accountability for poor performance. High office needs more seriousness, rigor, and a firm code of ethics with consequences for violating them.

“We all know” is no meaningful proof though

My fishermen also ride around in speedboats rocking $120,000 worth of engines filled to the brim with mysterious blue packages.

Cool fisherman you have there. Guess that's more than enough reason to just bomb them.

I do not claim to understand american logic. I don't want to either.

Yours might, these fisherman did not:

  The eight missing Ecuadorian nationals were aboard a 52-foot longline fishing boat called the Fiorella. The men on two boats that were struck in March, the Negra Francisca Duarte II and the Don Maca, all survived.

Even so, why is that a reason to bomb them? Is this just the war on drugs taken to a new level? Like prohibition, it doesn't work, but it's costly, destroys a lot of lives, and helps create highly profitable criminal organizations.

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