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Re: You Aren't Going to Like What Comes After America

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Post by ericmay » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 12:32 AM UTC

sebastiennight wrote: post #20

ericmay wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes you’re out of the loop. No, that’s not what is being said. Hope that helps.

Would you care to share any source indicating that any of these civilian boats that were destroyed, were carrying human traffickers (but, apparently, not any trafficked victims)?

You can traffic drugs on your boat and people on land. Who would have thought?

Why are you over-indexing on whether the US allegedly killed people being trafficked? Why would that thought even come to your mind? Can you share a news article or something?

And no, I did not claim that people were being smuggled on boats.

But if you don’t like how the US is handling it please let us know your proposed solution and which non-US countries will interdict these boats and stop their activities (and of course on land too).

Re: You Aren't Going to Like What Comes After America

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Post by sebastiennight » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 2:23 AM UTC

ericmay wrote: post #21

sebastiennight wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you care to share any source indicating that any of these civilian boats that were destroyed, were carrying human traffickers (but, apparently, not any trafficked victims)?

You can traffic drugs on your boat and people on land. Who would have thought? Why are you over-indexing on whether the US allegedly killed people being trafficked? Why would that thought even come to your mind? Can you share a news article or something? And no, I did not claim that people were being smuggled on boats. But if you don’t like how the US is handling it please let us know your proposed solution and which…

You answered this:

> So, bombing civilian boats rather than intercepting them, then bombing the survivors, is not what it looks it is. Would you like to explain what it is?

With

> Sure. Drug and human traffickers don't operate military boats?

So you brought the "human traffickers" claim into the discussion. That's why I'm asking.

Re: You Aren't Going to Like What Comes After America

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Post by ericmay » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 12:44 PM UTC

sebastiennight wrote: post #22

ericmay wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can traffic drugs on your boat and people on land. Who would have thought? Why are you over-indexing on whether the US allegedly killed people being trafficked? Why would that thought even come to your mind? Can you share a news article or something? And no, I did not claim that people were being smuggled on boats. But if you don’t like how the US is handling it please let us know your proposed solution and which…

You answered this: > So, bombing civilian boats rather than intercepting them, then bombing the survivors, is not what it looks it is. Would you like to explain what it is? With > Sure. Drug and human traffickers don't operate military boats? So you brought the "human traffickers" claim into the discussion. That's why I'm asking.

You can be a drug and human trafficker and operate your boat when trafficking drugs and your van when trafficking people.

Or you can have your drug traffickers under your command operate your boat while you the drug and human trafficker hand off the drugs and drive the people around.

You’re looking for a gotcha but it’s just a waste of time here.

Anyway what’s your plan for other nations to solve this problem? Who will be interdicting these civilian boats used for drug smuggling? If they are using the boats for human trafficking how will you approach the situation? What if they threaten to kill the hostages? Will the EU navy be taking care of this problem at their expense?