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Warpy

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4. I'm not so totall;y certain
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 06:39 PM
Friday

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.`

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