Kommandant des Bootsangriffs sagt, er musste zwei Überlebende töten, weil sie immer noch versuchten, Kokain zu schmuggeln – Admiral Frank M. Murphy sagte Berichten zufolge den Gesetzgebern, ein umstrittener zweiter Angriff sei notwendig, weil Drogen auf dem brennenden Schiff weiterhin eine Bedrohung darstellten.
https://reason.com/2025/12/04/boat-attack-commander-says-he-had-to-kill-2-survivors-because-they-were-still-trying-to-smuggle-cocaine/
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> If we call a cocaine smuggler an „unlawful combatant“ in an „armed struggle“ against the United States, the Trump administration says, it is OK to kill him, even if he is unarmed and poses no immediate threat. And according to Adm. Frank M. Bradley, who commanded the newly controversial September 2 operation that inaugurated President Donald Trump’s deadly anti-drug campaign in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, it is still OK to kill that cocaine smuggler if he ends up in the water after a missile strike on his boat, clinging to the smoking wreckage, provided you determine that he is still „in the fight.“
Smuggling Cocaine isn’t a capital offense. And it sure as hell doesn’t get rid of the need for due process.
Also… people afloat and swimming for their life aint smuggling shit.
Nazi says what?
We had to murder those two fishermen bc they were going to swim to Key West. It’s clear as day they were still a threat. In fact we may want to kill em a second time just to be sure
That’s ridiculous. How tf are the going to get drugs 2000 more miles in a blown up boat?
So, the two survivors were using bags of cocaine as flotation devices? 🛟
It’s crazy how almost half the country is just cool with war crimes.
„That second strike was deemed necessary, according to unnamed „U.S. officials“ interviewed by the *Times*, to prevent recovery of any cocaine that might have remained after the first strike.“
So they had to launch the second missile because other drug runners might get the cocaine that had been blown up and then fallen into the ocean? Have any of these people ever even been in the same room with some cocaine? There’s nothing more useless than cocaine after it has gotten wet.
Steve: „Oh no, Tony! The boat exploded!“
Tony: „Be quiet! We still have a job to do, damnit! Grab as many drugs as you can and let’s swim for it!“
So the boats that can’t even make it to U.S. shorelines are blown up, with survivors hanging on for dear life because they were still trying to deliver the drugs to a place where it’s impossible for their boat to even make it to, even when it’s not on fire?
Can someone please make this make any kind of sense whatsoever.
Wow! Whatever credibility this Admiral had thus far has simply gone down the toilet.
Show us the proof of drugs on the boats.
Come on Admiral. You know better than to say some ignorant shit like that. Thanks for publicly admitting to crimes against humanity.
Why does no one ever note that Americans are happily buying all this cocaine, and that the problem starts and ends with US.
Murderer
You now know that guy will have no problems taking up arms against the American people once deployed. The authoritarian take over of the military is almost complete.
they could have at least detained them.
„Had to kill“ my ass.
Yeah… fuck you
Image being stupid enough to cover up for Hegseth.
Yet Trump just pardoned a cocaine smuggler so explain that.
That has to be the dumbest excuse Ive ever heard. That is an excuse that sends you right to prison. Drugs aren’t an immediate threat. Even implicates himself with that statement.
The simple fact is that he was given the job by Hegseth because he just enjoys killing people. That seems to be how the administration works.
He should read dod law of war manual paragraph 18.3.2.1
First drug running becomes a capital offense, then its using drugs, then it’s just having the wrong opinion against the administration.
This man and everyone else involved up and down the chain of command need to be put away for life or worse. That is literally the penalty for war crimes and this was the textbook definition literally
> A pile of drugs on a burning vessel in the middle of the ocean
Commander: “It’s coming right for us!”
What a piece of shit. You can see it in his picture.
This dude is machieveillian and will do anything that protects himself from accountability. Dude needs jailtime.
Thanks for admitting to murder. This will make your trial go much smoother.
Dude is trading job security for taking the heat for Hegseth. I hoped for better, but he’s compromised. As a former SOF team guy, I find this incredibly shameful. I guess SEALs never outgrow their war crimes era even when they make admiral.
OK. Where’s the proof? Evidence, witness testimony, anything? Oh right, there is none because Hegseth ordered you to murder everyone involved and destroy the evidence.
The directed duty of soldiers to disobey illegal orders specifically mentions firing on shipwrecked persons as an illegal act.
[DoD Law of War Manual](https://ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/Law%20of%20War%202023/DOD-LAW-OF-WAR-MANUAL-JUNE-2015-UPDATED-JULY%202023.pdf?ver=Qbxamfouw4znu1I7DVMcsw%3d%3d)
18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.
So the military is going cover for the administration. What now?
My Dad got treated far better by the Nazis when he was shot down in 1944
Killing them over drug smuggling is ALSO A WAR CRIME.
Trump was right, the military leaders are dumb.
Don Jr probably has tons of cocaine, is the military going to strike him too?
Has anyone noticed since these boat strikes have been the topic of discussion everyone forgot about the Epstein files?
I’m still gonna need those Epstein files
I don’t get out of bed to go work if even one of my trains cancel due to bad weather, you can sure as shit bet two “drug smugglers” aren’t gonna be so dedicated that they would climb back aboard a burning boat to try row it 2000km across the gulf while and active and armed drone patrols the area.
What the fuck kind of lobotomy do these people think we had that we would for a second believe this? Fucking nuts
This is why the general population should never believe the military is going to do the lawful or right thing. We don’t live in a movie. There are those in uniform agree with these tactics and would throw away the constitution, Geneva convention, etc. if it fits their ends.
Since when is cocaine smuggling a punishable by death crime
Trump just fucking let go a guy that smuggled 500 TONS
We need to stop talking about a possible war crime in the second strike. There is no war. The US military, Pentagon, SecDef, and POTUS, are committing murder. Full stop. There is no legal wiggle room to define it any other way.
So he’s admitting to the war crime
“Go on without me! Delivery the cocaine!”
“No… not without you!”
“You must! It is the code of the cocaine smuggler to always deliver our illicit drugs on time. Without the code. We are nothing.”
“I’ll never forget you, brother!”
This is comic book absurd.
Ah, yes. Smuggling cocaine. A crime famously punishable by instant death.
Any actual evidence of the cargo the boat was carrying?