Venezuela is a threat because there are 300B barrels of oil under them?
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Your fervor to be right is getting the best of you. 
That is literally the definition of an incursion. There has even been a comparison made by libs in this thread that incursions by drug boats in US waters being intercepted by the Coast Guard is similar to the high-seas intercepts by the military.
It is literally an example that is given in the Navy handbook of an illegal order.
Seriously it was posted here. Firing on a shipwreck where there are survivors with the wreck is an illegal act.
And when the military is being used against a group that has been designated a foreign terrorist group, laws of armed conflict apply.
The only ones denying this now are Trump, Hegseth, Leavitt, and doubling down Trump sycophants who have bought into the Schmittian idea that the Leader is the Law.
But even Trump, Hegseth and Leavitt know…which is why they are preparing Admiral Bradley as the scapegoat.
How many open speed boats cross the Atlantic?
The incursion has nothing to do with the cargo. Crossing the 12-nmile territorial limit is the incursion.
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Or the first strike didn’t effectively take out the target…
You people and your stories.
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Yes. The strikes (on the drug boats) are good.
Maybe this is one of the cases where the President should get Congressional approval, but the targets are legit. Striking the boats is good.
None of which allows targeting survivors in the water in the manner that has been described to us.
That’s quite the stretch of the term “shipwrecked.”
What is the unacceptable time limit between the first and second shot fired? Would it have been okay if the second shot was within say 30-seconds of the first?
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You say that as though that situation has not already been discussed ad nauseam. 
Yes … It’s always good when people spell out their opinions.
Face it. The only thing he could say that would make you happy is, “I ordered them to kill those guys. I resign.”
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Would you be happier if they died of thirst and exposure three days later?
Aren’t you one of the guys here who said that it’s not about drugs?
Exactly
Venezuela offers the opportunity to control the oil with manageable risks, whereas Mexico demands careful handling to avoid blowback that would hurt America such as uniting the southern countries against the US It is selective aggression which proves Trump does not give a crap about the amount of fentanyl coming into the US.
And in the event that Trump decided more direct military action is needed against Venezuela his supporters will all bend over backwards doing mental gymanstics in an effort to prove its not a new war.
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It would be a violation of federal law unless it was in self-defense, which it obviously wasn’t.
The White House has verified the basic facts.
Not if the target wasn’t destroyed.
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Yes, it’s not about drugs.
Did I say they were a threat because there are 300b barrels of oil under them?
It’s an interesting legal question. We need more details.
Then, there would be, less drug runners..?
