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Do you support the U.S. military carrying out lethal strikes on boats it suspects of drug smuggling?

U.S. Southern Command resumed strikes on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean after a two-month pause, killing two people in a Monday strike; the Pentagon says the roughly year-long campaign has killed at least 223 people, without providing evidence the boats carried drugs.

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dagmanVoice #18/25/2026, 10:39:22 PM

The military is not judge and jury. Everyone deserves due process.

Groundbeat deskOfficial8/25/2026, 10:17:47 PM

suspects" is doing a lot of work here. to everyone picking support: how sure does the military need to be before it sinks a boat, and who checks after the fact if they were wrong?

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