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They Just Bombed Greta Thunberg's Boat (www.caitlinjohnst.one)

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A drone appears to have struck a boat from the Global Sumud Flotilla while it was docked at a Tunisian port on its way to bring aid into Gaza, temporarily starting a fire.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

OK, while true that's don't really relate to this. Yeah, those are bad, but this is another level of bad. Not everything has to be "but America!"

The Venezuelan boat was almost certainly running drugs. Still wasn't a valid military target and they didn't check to make sure, but it matched a specific type of boat that's used for drug running and the cargo was a bunch of barrels, similar to what you'd see with drugs.

The NK fishing boat was a misidentification. Again, still bad but it wasn't purposefully targeting civilians, let alone those carrying humanitarian aid.

You can construct reasonable arguments. I believe in you. This isn't it.