They were undoubtedly attempting to lure our noble war fighters in close enough that they could kill them by forcing them to ingest the cocaine they were using to keep the wreckage afloat.
Also, according to Google AI results (so take them with a grain of salt or a gram of blow), the specific gravity of cocaine is ~1.1, so it doesn’t float. Of course, the individual bales may not be packed tight enough to account for air (I assume the product is pure for long range transport).
I think it’s sloppy packing that can make them float (as you suggest). There have been many reports of kilos of coke floating to shore after a drug runner’s maritime accident.
That said, as you also show, you really don’t want to rely on them as a flotation device. Once that ship was blown to bits, the blow was likely in Davy Jones’ possession. No, not the Monkee.
“Did you order the Code Red?”
“YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!”
Articles of impeachment introduced against Hegsdeth.
I did the survey in the article. Out of (currently) 194 responses, 72% ‘strongly support’ impeaching Hegseth. Five percent ‘somewhat support’. Next we have ‘somewhat oppose’, 1%; ‘strongly oppose’, 20%; and ‘other/no opinion’, 1%.
What’s going to happen to Bradley?
He should be court-martialled for murder. He could be charged with committing a war crime. (I think that would be an ICC charge.)
What will happen to him? The charges will probably be swept under the rug, and he’ll quietly retire.
If he was a Marine, he’d have a sword he could fall on.
What about the people between Bradley and the guy who pushed the button?
Good breakdown of the situation by LegalEagle’s former Marine JAG; it’s actually the third video he’s done on it, and the second one with an interview with Senator Kelly who TFG wants to have executed for daring to remind service members that they have a duty to disobey illegal orders. Interesting points on the gutting of the military legal system after the legal system stated the obvious, i.e. that these were patently illegal orders, to the point that killing shipwrecked survivors is the literal textbook example of an order that is illegal, and the obvious way out being TFG pardoning anyone involved, and examples of TFG prior pardoning war crimes.
He does seem to get a particular kick out of that. (Encouraged by Hegseth, apparently.)
Different cultures, maybe. My group of (male, South African/Zimbabwean) friends routinely refer to each other by that word.
But never to a woman.
It is similarly used in Australia.
It used to refer to a sword’s scabard, which a man would, back in the days of fighting with swords, have very much valued as a possession.
“Cunnus” in middle English, if that helps! It was purely desciptive at that time, not perjorative. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest the etymology of “cuninglingus” is related.
It is not hard to see the link, and the easy drift towards obscenity.
sigh [talk about a digression] “cunnus” is Latin; “cunt(e)” is English
sticks and stones, I guess; better than war crimes…
Dude. The Romans did spend some time invading England and spreading their language amongst us dirty Anglos and Saxons…
Language is incredibly easily spread. I mean, Afrikaans for “chutney” is the Indonesian/Malay word “blatjang”. English has “ballet”, even though only somewhat approximation the French pronunciation. We have “onomatopoeia” from Greek. “Algerbra” from Arabic. “Bra / Brassiere” from French. No end of words from Hindi.
It is not a big leap from cunnus.
Oh, yes, I studied Chaucer at school. He used the more modern form of the word.
Heck, where do we get “monoculture” from?
I’m going out on a limb here… but Midwestern USA is my guess, both in culture and crops.
(Not a serious answer)
Nitpick: it would have been the Britons, not the Angles or Saxons (or Jutes).
Whatever cartel it is that shares its proceeds with trump, fingers the boats of its rivals and lets the US do their dirty work for them. That’s my CT and I’m sticking with it.
I don’t subscribe to that CT because it presumes these are actually drug boats and the administration has any real info about their targets.
But when we count the 600,000 people Trump killed in his first administration with his bungled Covid response, it’s still a net loss.