Unclassified footage of the first airstrike (1 September) – Public Domain

In the past few weeks, the US military has killed around thirty people in cold blood. The murders occurred on boats traveling in waters on both sides of Latin America and were undertaken without any warning to the crews on the boats. The rulers in Washington DC claim that those in the boats were involved in drug smuggling; they make this claim without showing any proof of smuggling or even that there were illegal drugs on the boats. Even if there were illegal drugs on the boats and the crew was involved in drug trafficking, the murders are illegal under any convention or laws. The former president of the Philippines Jose Duterte is currently in prison in the Hague after being charged with being an “indirect co-perpetrator” in the murders of hundreds of alleged drug dealers by Philippine military and law enforcement during his time in office. If we apply this same reasoning to the aforementioned murders by the US military, then Donald Trump, Marc Rubio, Pete Hegseth and others should be arrested on similar charges. Since Washington refuses to recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC, those charges should be drawn up and prosecuted by another enforcement agency.

Together with many others who have spoken publicly, I have very serious doubts that most if not all of those murdered on those boats were trafficking in drugs. It seems much more likely that they were fishermen going about their business fishing. Of course, I have no way of proving this and the Trump/Hegseth/Rubio gang has done little in the way of providing any proof; proof which would most likely be barely credible anyhow. However, even........

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