Nine months into the Trump administration’s deadly campaign against so-called drug boats, there is a pattern to the strikes. And a glaring anomaly.
The U.S. military has conducted more than 60 attacks, resulting in over 200 extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. In almost all the strikes, between one and four people lost their lives. In only one strike did the death toll of a single boat reach double digits: the first attack on September 2, 2025.
Since then, experts, lawmakers, and even military officials behind the scenes have been asking a simple but haunting question: Why was that boat packed with 11 people?
And every single individual that had anything at all to do with this should get guillotined. For the smallest bit of involvement.
More painful and/or humiliating deaths for everyone more directly involved.
And not just for this, for everything involving life and death decisions, one single intentionally wrong decision should be death penalty. Bar none, no mercy, first offense.
You cannot just decide to unilaterally kill people because they “might” have drugs. Get the chair warmed up, there’s a line forming.
Duterte’s drug war begs to differ.
And I, that we are dealing with a dictator. He emulates those he’s stated he admires.
The implication being “morally”.