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>what is the operation actually meant to accomplish. Test the waters for what officers and enlisted men will not follow an unlawful orders. Or the other way, make sure that the people will follow orders they should not. I genuinely think that's what it's for. Testing the waters (if you'll pardon the pun) for pushback over what I would say is pretty blatant violation of international law and overall norms our Navy has abided for decades now regarding how we do or do not intercept and interact with these "drug boats". I would argue it's pretty wrong and fucked up just on the face of it to straight murder people for drug trafficking and it still is against the law. Not that we seem to care anymore. Even in some contrived scenario where they were flying a flag that said "cocaine on board for sure" and the dudes driving the boat all were clearly cracked out and swore they were gonna sell them off to someone in the USA - it still would be inhumane and improper to do what we are. I'll tell you one thing for sure, any sort of good will agreements or help we may have gotten from partners in South America is gone now. If the goal *was* to lessen the amount of drug use in the USA, hell even if it was simply to try to slow and control the supply - this is yielding the opposite result.