The administration has provided no evidence
Colombia’s Leader Accuses U.S. of Murder, Prompting Trump to Halt Aid
It’s not the US that’s the murderer, it’s Trump. Trump himself, ordering murders on the high seas. Did he order the code red? You’re god damn right he did.
President Gustavo Petro of Colombia accused the United States of murdering an innocent fisherman in an attack on a boat that the American authorities claimed had been carrying illicit drugs, prompting President Trump to declare on Sunday that he would slash assistance to Colombia, one of Washington’s top aid recipients in Latin America, and impose new tariffs on the country’s goods.
The feuding between the two leaders reflected rising tensions in the region over the huge U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean targeting Colombia’s neighbor, Venezuela. U.S. forces have killed dozens of people in recent weeks aboard vessels that the Trump administration says were ferrying drugs from Venezuela.
The administration has provided no evidence to support the claims beyond descriptions of intelligence assessments and declassified videos of portions of the attacks. Legal specialists have called such killings illegal, because militaries cannot lawfully target civilians who do not pose a threat in the moment and are not directly participating in hostilities.
In other words he’s committing war crimes, daily, day after day.
“U.S. government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters,” Mr. Petro wrote on social media. He said the man killed in the mid-September attack, Alejandro Carranza, was a “lifelong fisherman” whose boat had experienced damage and was adrift, probably in Colombian waters, at the time of the attack. His description of Mr. Carranza and his boat could not be immediately confirmed.
Mr. Trump responded by accusing Mr. Petro of not doing enough to curb the production of illegal drugs, calling him an “illegal drug dealer” with “a fresh mouth toward America.” Mr. Trump also said that the United States would halt aid payments to Colombia, which has long ranked among the largest recipients worldwide of U.S. counternarcotics assistance. He later told reporters on Air Force One that he would announce new tariffs on Colombian goods on Monday.
Mr Petro doesn’t want the US murdering Colombians? Colombia must be punished!
There have been countries actually at war with the US whose leaders have not come anywhere near Trump’s own “fresh mouth toward America.” A case could be made that Columbia shooting down Airforce One in international waters would be a a more legitimate and justified use of the Bush doctrine of “pre-emptive war” than Gulf War 2.
“a fresh mouth” – wow. Are we back in junior high? People are allowed to say things. They are allowed to say things about America. They are allowed to say things about Trump. They are allowed to say things about me, but most people don’t know who I am. Nevertheless, when people react with a ‘fresh mouth’ toward me, I don’t find it necessary to take action against them.
Learn how to shrug it off, Trump. Learn how to act like an adult. Get potty trained pretty damned soon, or this country is really going to be in shit up to its neck. (Actually, we probably already are).
Nothing could hold a candle to Trump’s policy and practice in terms of uniting Ibero-America against the USA. Future historians will likely regard him the same way they do Mad King George (George III of Britain) and for similar reasons. “Here’s to Dopey Don” will be the toast from Mexico to Havana to Patagonia.
Petro’s mouth is a nothingburger to appease his countrymen. According to international law, piracy on the high seas is an international crime, and can be prosecuted by any country. Why hasn’t Colombia issued warrants for Trump and Hegseth?