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NowsTheTime

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Fri Oct 24, 2025, 03:17 PM Friday

Sometimes I agree with Rand....attacks on Venezuela boats

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Sometimes I agree with Rand....attacks on Venezuela boats (Original Post) NowsTheTime Friday OP
Those speed boats aren't the main drug transport Warpy Friday #1
Well, we will never know, will we? Because there are no proofs of any of those boats carrying drugs. Escurumbele Friday #2
I'm not so totall;y certain Warpy Friday #4
"small ,fast, jettison load" Would a drone with a camera help? NowsTheTime Friday #3

Warpy

(114,101 posts)
1. Those speed boats aren't the main drug transport
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 04:22 PM
Friday

between countries. What theyusually do is head for GPS coordinates of a dropoff point, jettison the cargo with a float with or without a weak radio pinger. Fishing boat or small cargo boat goes to the coordinates, picks up the cargo, and transports it elsewwhere, theoretically arpund the planet Delivery is done the same way, small craft picking up drugs at dropoff coordinates.

I lived on the coast in New England. Once in a blue moon, a drop off would be missed because the Coast Guard had gotten nosy about a suspected picku up boat or a sudden squall had moved it away from where it was supposed to be. Someone who found it onshore and didn't mind taking the risk got rich quick.

So yeah, these are most likely drug runners on their way to coordinates for pickups. Mexico has tightened this shit up a lot and Venezuela is desperate for cash, so it seems plausible that Maduro is in bed with Chinese fentanyl merchants.

The problem is that we don't know any of this for sure because all the evidence is poisoning the fish and all we have is the word of a man who is best known for his lying.

Of course, the problem with boarding one of these things is that they're so small and fast that by the time they're spotted from the air, they're ready to jttison whatever it is they're carrying and head back for the next load. The Navy is going to have to get lucky as hell to catch any of these guys and board them while there is cargo aboard.

Escurumbele

(3,945 posts)
2. Well, we will never know, will we? Because there are no proofs of any of those boats carrying drugs.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 05:04 PM
Friday

They have all been pulverized. It is immoral, and illegal, its murder.

Warpy

(114,101 posts)
4. I'm not so totall;y certain
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 06:39 PM
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but getting the goods on these people might be why a limited military action is being planned, one hopes on the point of origin for these boats. If it's a quick in and out operation that rounds up a bunch of Chinese crooks running a new distribution hub for fentanyl, my heart will not be broken.

Until then, I agree that the current policy is a bad one. You'd think if we can drop explosives on them we might be able to drop nets on them to foul their outboards while pinning the crew and contraband down inside the boat.

Until then, what we have is a bunch of over powered, short distance speed boats full of oblong packages of something or other traveling into international waters where no boats that size used for normal purposes generally go. It's suspicious enough that the legality is actually a little hazy, drug and gun runners being seen almost the same way pirates are. I would still rather see them get all gummed up by nets and get proof, myself.`

NowsTheTime

(1,216 posts)
3. "small ,fast, jettison load" Would a drone with a camera help?
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 05:22 PM
Friday

"Of course, the problem with boarding one of these things is that they're so small and fast that by the time they're spotted from the air, they're ready to jttison whatever it is they're carrying and head back for the next load. The Navy is going to have to get lucky as hell to catch any of these guys and board them while there is cargo aboard."

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