The Wages of Trump: UK stops sharing some intel with US over Trump’s ‘drug boat’ strikes in Caribbean: report

[IM2]

The Trump administration is now jeopardizing our national security. It is because of shared intel that we have been able to thwart foreign terrorists from killing thousands of Americans.

UK stops sharing some intel with US over Trump’s ‘drug boat’ strikes in Caribbean: report​

The United Kingdom has taken the unprecedented step of pausing some intelligence sharing with the United States over fears of being implicated in potentially illegal strikes against vessels accused of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean, new reporting reveals.

CNN reported on Tuesday that the intelligence pause began over a month ago, with British officials reportedly agreeing with the international consensus that the strikes are illegal.

In a move that has blurred the lines between law enforcement and military action, the Trump administration has directed lethal strikes against numerous vessels it claims are being operated by drug smugglers designated “narcoterrorists” by the U.S. government in recent months.

UK stops sharing some intel with US over Trump’s ‘drug boat’ strikes: report

Chaos continues off the coast of Venezuela as U.S. administration refuses to name suspects killed in attacks

www.independent.co.uk

 

[BackAgain]

Maybe we should stop sharing intel with the Islamic Republic of Great Britain?

 

[Crepitus]

Maybe we should stop sharing intel with the Islamic Republic of Great Britain?

 

[DGS49]

I have not heard a tenable legal argument supporting these attacks against "fishing" boats. Even if the evidence is unimpeachable, it is still a questionable policy. I'm not suggesting that the victims have Constitutional rights, but still, this seems extreme.

 

[whitehall]

The UK media is one step below U.S. tabloids and everyone knows it.

 

[IM2]

The UK media is one step below U.S. tabloids and everyone knows it.

Wrong.

 

[0311]

Wrong.

This could very well become the biggest rupture since Philby, Maclean and Burgess turned British Intelligence into sieve for the KGB.

 

[elektra]

How will we ever survive without englands intelligence, hahaha

 

[elektra]

Of course, nobody had a better policy with england than obama, right!

 

[BackAgain]

I have not heard a tenable legal argument supporting these attacks against "fishing" boats. Even if the evidence is unimpeachable, it is still a questionable policy. I'm not suggesting that the victims have Constitutional rights, but still, this seems extreme.

Which legal arguments have you considered and found to be untenable?

(I’m not being facetious. I’m just curious.)

 

[Captain Creeper]

I don’t know if blowing up drug boats in the middle of the ocean is legal or not, but it’s fun to watch!

 

[elektra]

Which legal arguments have you considered and found to be untenable?

(I’m not being facetious. I’m just curious.)

When dgs says he/she aint heard a legal argument, they meant they have not heard or even looked to see if legal arguments have been made.

What is the law on the sea in international waters?

 

[BackAgain]

When dgs says he/she aint heard a legal argument, they meant they have not heard or even looked to see if legal arguments have been made.

What is the law on the sea in international waters?

The law of the sea treaty is not one in which the U.S. is a signatory.

And regardless of any such treaty, no nation is obliged to put up with terrorists or pirates.

America is bearing hideous costs because international drug dealing cartels are seeking to fill a big “demand.” Those costs are measured in the lives lost to controlled substances (and to the correlated violence of the domestic drug gangs.).

I’m looking for the basis for objecting to blasting the drug runners while still on the high seas.

We need (I don’t know how) to dramatically cut the demand for drugs here. But we also need to gut the ability of the international suppliers to provide that product to America.

 

[Zavulon]

When dgs says he/she aint heard a legal argument, they meant they have not heard or even looked to see if legal arguments have been made.

There is only one "legal argument" - when America wants to invade an oil-rich country, it doesn't even try to invent a reasonable pretext. They just declare owners of the oil "terrorists".

What is the law on the sea in international waters?

The law is simple. Military ships have no right to blow up unarmed civilian ships at all. Military ship have right to stop a civilian ship in high seas in three cases only:
1) reasonable suspicions of slave-trading;
2) reasonable suspicions of piracy;
3) reasonable suspicions of misusage of the flag.

 

[elektra]

There is only one "legal argument" - when America wants to invade an oil-rich country, it doesn't even try to invent a reasonable pretext. They just declare owners of the oil "terrorists".


The law is simple. Military ships have no right to blow up unarmed civilian ships at all. Military ship have right to stop a civilian ship in high seas in three cases only:
1) reasonable suspicions of slave-trading;
2) reasonable suspicions of piracy;
3) reasonable suspicions of misusage of the flag.

I asked what the Law of the Sea is, not your opinion

 

[elektra]

The law of the sea treaty is not one in which the U.S. is a signatory.

And regardless of any such treaty, no nation is obliged to put up with terrorists or pirates.

America is bearing hideous costs because international drug dealing cartels are seeking to fill a big “demand.” Those costs are measured in the lives lost to controlled substances (and to the correlated violence of the domestic drug gangs.).

I’m looking for the basis for objecting to blasting the drug runners while still on the high seas.

We need (I don’t know how) to dramatically cut the demand for drugs here. But we also need to gut the ability of the international suppliers to provide that product to America.

The law of the sea, something to research, as far as I know the law of the sea is above any treaty.

International waters is kind of the wild west where the law of the sea rules.

 

[Rogue AI]

British 'intelligence ' fabricated the entire WMD fiasco. Good riddance to those Eurotrash scum.