• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Obviously the story is BS… But if they were smuggling drugs, why not just let the boat get to America and pick it up there? It’s not like they’re carrying plutonium or something.

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      8 days ago

      I don’t know if you are trolling or not so I’ll answer realistically. The boat doesn’t come directly to the states shores and just hands out drugs. It’s a supply chain. It gets moved through Central America and the Caribbean being transported by mules. Eventually it makes its way in through different means like border crossing, hidden in airplanes, hidden in legit supply ships, etc.

      The destruction of the boat in theory is to “nip it in the bud” so to speak. Destroy the product before it goes through everything else to get to the states.