gooseus
12 hours ago
By Portuguese authorities, not US.
Which is why the title says "seized", and not "torpedoed".
kamikazeturtles
12 hours ago
> Having seized the vessel, the navy said it could not be towed back to shore due to poor weather and its fragile construction, and it later sank in the open sea.
Well, they did sink the submarine
samcheng
9 hours ago
They didn’t kill the smugglers extrajudicially, though, which is a big difference.
tommica
6 hours ago
As fucked up as the situation is, they were warned that they would be blown up if they tried it.
user
9 hours ago
hulitu
5 hours ago
That's how you differentiate old empires from the curent ones: they are tired of all this killing.
Razele
9 hours ago
war is extrajudicial
harimau777
9 hours ago
America isn't at war.
ta9000
8 hours ago
Tell that to the thousands of parents that lose a kid each year. This trash has to stop making it into the US.
henry2023
7 hours ago
Everyone talks about stopping drugs entering the border but no one talks about dismantling the extremely efficient logistic network that makes those drugs available in every corner of each major city.
I guess it’s easier to blow up random boats in the pacific than prosecuting corrupt officials but is it effective?
ta9000
7 hours ago
Why not do both?
wilg
6 hours ago
Because it's un-American and murder to kill criminal suspects instead of trying them in a court of law.
simianparrot
2 hours ago
I would say it's as American as it gets, and in this case justified as well. Do you not know America's history..? Even recent one? Obama ordered drone strikes in foreign countries as well.
wilg
6 hours ago
Losing a kid doesn't mean America is at war?
gruez
9 hours ago
Not even the "war" on drugs or "war" on terror? Semantic games aside, the precedent for the president engaging in military action without congress declaring war was broken decades before Trump.
wormius
8 hours ago
I love me a good Tu Quoque defense. Keep em coming! I can't remember if we supported him cuz he wasn't the war candidate or we supported him cuz he was or if it even matters and we just make up bullshit excuses for what suits us at the time with whatever is convenient for the given argument...
ziml77
8 hours ago
So? We hated it then and we hate it now.
hulitu
5 hours ago
They surely need circus for the plebeians. /s
user
12 hours ago
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12 hours ago
"In addition to the participation of the Portuguese Navy and Judicial Police, the operation was supported by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force – South (JIATF-S), and the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working together within the scope of MAOC-N."
from the linked press release, I'm assuming DEA tipped off the Euro agencies that the sub was headed their way
defrost
10 hours ago
It's equally, if not more, probable that the intelligence about shipment departures came from non-US MAOC-N members and the "the operation" of tracking the craft was where the US liasons provided assistance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_Analysis_and_Operatio...
The US isn't the only country with agents blending in on the supply side keeping eyes and ears on activity.
The EU end has had repeated success infiltrating and cracking 'encrypted' criminal networks on the demand side of such markets.