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   From: notgenx32@yahoo.com   
      
   By Robert Reich   
   October 25, 2025   
      
   The United States is now executing people on the high seas whom Trump calls   
   “enemy combatants.” He’s doing so without a declaration of war, without   
   input   
   from Congress, and without any findings that they pose a threat to the United   
   States.   
      
   At this moment, Secretary of Defense (or Secretary of War, as Trump prefers)   
   Pete Hegseth is positioning warships, including an aircraft carrier, and   
   planes,   
   in waters off Latin America.   
      
   Hegseth has already bombed 10 boats, eight of them in the Caribbean and two   
   others this week in the eastern Pacific.   
      
   So far, the death toll is 43.   
      
   Neither Trump nor Hegseth has offered any evidence to support their claims that   
   the vessels have been smuggling drugs to the United States or were “operated   
   by”   
   Tren de Aragua, a group that Trump has designated as a terrorist organization.   
      
   It is illegal, under domestic and international law, to deliberately target   
   civilians who are not directly participating in hostilities — even if they   
   are   
   suspected criminals.   
      
   Before Trump, the United States dealt with suspected maritime drug smuggling by   
   using the Coast Guard, sometimes assisted by the Navy. If the suspicions proved   
   accurate, the boat’s crews were arrested. They might then stand trial. The   
   penalty for being convicted of drug trafficking was time in prison.   
      
   Now, Trump is summarily executing people suspected of being drug dealers,   
   without any proof.   
      
   https://www.rawstory.com/trump-military-2674231676/   
      
   Trump is going to stand trial at the Hague, if he lives that long.   
      
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