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D_Master81

(2,326 posts)
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 08:32 AM Friday

How are these "drug boats" reaching the US?

Has anyone asked the regime how these supposed drug smugglers are reaching the US when Venezuela is over 2500 miles from Texas? I admit I don’t know the fuel economy of 1 of these boats but I would imagine that you’d have to be carrying hundreds of gallons of extra fuel on board to be able to reach the US. Nothing in any of the videos shows an inferno that suggests they are carrying that amount of fuel on board.

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GreatGazoo

(4,373 posts)
3. Rule #3 of NYC life is "If you get in an argument with crazy you're going to sound crazy also"
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 08:42 AM
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Usually applies on the subway where you see some confrontations. Also applies to propaganda.

Ramping up to bombing and or invading Venezuela has nothing to do with drug traffic.

Melon

(944 posts)
4. They refuel along the way. Panama etc.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 08:42 AM
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The drugs usually go into Mexico and are transported from Mexico to the US by the cartels. Those boats don’t go straight to the US. Colombia does the same.

marble falls

(70,074 posts)
5. Dammit, don't try to ruin the narrative with facts and truth here, we're trying to create a Gulf of Tonkin ...
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 08:43 AM
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... level of illusion here.

Katinfl

(588 posts)
6. These boats are not capable of making it to the US.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 08:43 AM
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BTW, they blew up another one yesterday right when the hearing was going on. And Hegseth bragged about it. Wha they are doing is murder, plain and simple.

sop

(17,137 posts)
14. Exactly. Don't accept the premise these small boats off the Venezuelan coast are carrying narco-terrorists.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 09:18 AM
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Every time the Coast Guard, Navy or some other governmental agency stops, searches and seizes a vessel carrying drugs off the U.S. coast, they hold a very public televised press conference on the dock to display the contraband. They don't blow up drug boats and destroy the evidence, and they sure don't kill survivors clinging to floating wreckage.

Emile

(39,870 posts)
12. Why not track where the boats unload, and bust them all?
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 09:05 AM
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This is murdering people on the high seas. and giving illegal orders to our military.

Lovie777

(21,393 posts)
13. Saving survivors?..............
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 09:12 AM
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ya think they would in order to obtain pertinent "drug" information. But oh noes, kill them all.

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