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Brazil seizes over 1,100 weapons and 1.5 tons of drugs from US, says official
By Donna
April 12, 2026 5:18 pm
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  1. by Donna on April 12, 2026 5:19 pm

    link to op below

    reuters.com


  2. by Indy! on April 12, 2026 8:37 pm

    We have to arm our enemies to justify the ridiculous "security state" budget.


  3. by oldedude on April 15, 2026 10:50 am
    So you make a claim, then don't tell us where you got that information. Got it!

    This sounds a lot like a 13 year old that lied about trumpster..... jussayin.


  4. by Donna on April 15, 2026 1:47 pm

    Reuters


  5. by oldedude on April 16, 2026 6:11 am
    agreed. Yet again, My bad. 😞


  6. by oldedude on April 16, 2026 6:39 am
    There were four sources on this, and they were all cut and pasted from one "source" It doesn't say who the weapons were from. Originating from the US. Got it. Did they walk down to Brazil? It doesn't say the US government sent them. And it doesn't say the cartels brought them down. So I was pretty suspicious.

    Then there actually is a followup. al Jazeera put out an article saying there's a US/BR initiative to start sharing intelligence. So it appears the Navy/Coasties are doing a good job. We started using them on the pacific side a couple of weeks? ago with some pretty good luck. This is part of the initiative. The Atlantic side is costing too much for the cartels. Same through mexico and canada. What's left? The pacific side. That also means going through canada as well as california and the west coast routs.

    Working with Brazil is great. both of the countries can keep tabs on the cartels. What donna's citation tells me is someone's prepping for a turf war in Brazil. And if the Brazilian Government doesn't want to get overrun like Nicaragua, Colombia, or any other of the nationstates the cartels are running the governments, They need help to eradicate the cartels, and they asked. winwinwin
    yahoo.com


  7. by Donna on April 16, 2026 9:37 am

    The problem with that pertnership is the problem others always have when attempting to work with trump, and that is, there is no working with trump, only for trump. And that's precisely why he's been such a fucking disaster.

    From the yahoo article you posted:

    Differing approaches

    But Trump and Lula have been at loggerheads in recent months over how best to address crime in the Americas.

    Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump has taken a hardline approach, labelling multiple Latin American gangs and cartels as “foreign terrorist organisations”, a designation that had traditionally been reserved for armed groups with political aims, like al-Qaeda.

    He has used such labels as justification to carry out deadly attacks in the name of national security.

    Since September 2, the US has conducted at least 47 lethal strikes on maritime vessels travelling in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, in what legal experts condemn as extrajudicial killings.

    At least 147 people have died, their identities never publicly confirmed.

    The Trump administration has also carried out what it described as a “joint military and law enforcement raid” in Venezuela on January 3, in the name of confronting drug trafficking.

    The operation culminated in dozens of deaths, all either Cuban or Venezuelan, as well as the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. They currently await trial in New York on drug-trafficking and weapons possession charges.

    The Trump administration has reportedly argued that it is in “armed conflict” with Latin American criminal networks, whom it considers “unlawful combatants”.

    While Lula’s government has taken action against such networks within Brazil, it has called on the Trump administration not to use the “foreign terrorist” label for entities within its borders.

    In recent months, for instance, reports have emerged that Trump is considering designating two Brazilian criminal networks: the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and the Comando Vermelho (CV).

    But in an interview on March 25 with the Brazilian news organisation G1, Brazil’s Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said he conveyed his opposition directly to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

    “I spoke on the phone with Secretary Marco Rubio and told him that the Brazilian government is against this classification,” Vieira said.

    Lula himself has repeatedly called on the Trump administration to respect the sovereignty of Latin American countries, including his own.

    “Brazil is a sovereign nation with independent institutions and will not accept any form of tutelage,” Lula posted last year after Trump threatened the country with steep tariffs, in protest against the prosecution of former right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro.


    Lula is expected to travel to Washington, DC, in the coming months to visit Trump.


  8. by oldedude on April 16, 2026 10:16 am
    And?....


  9. by Ponderer on April 16, 2026 11:11 am

    And... you're an idiot, olde dude.


  10. by HatetheSwamp on April 16, 2026 11:47 am

    Thankfully, po, you're a genius and, on top of that, that rare person who's attained enlightenment.


  11. by oldedude on April 17, 2026 6:41 am
    Donna- so you're saying we shouldn't work with Brazil, right? cutting and pasting was not helpful in any way. AND it's something people are little whiney bitches about. Or were you just bitching about trumpster. I can't tell.


  12. by Donna on April 17, 2026 8:32 am

    No, I'm saying that Lula probably shouldn't be working with trump.


  13. by Indy! on April 17, 2026 12:08 pm

    When it comes to war, NOBODY should be working with T rump.


  14. by oldedude on April 17, 2026 8:24 pm
    donna- And yet they are.... What a fucking coincidence... Who would you fuckiing suggest? They are looking at el Salvadore and Colombia, etc, and seeing what that does to a country to make it a cuntry. Murders in the streets, kidnapping of teenage girls (which you don't give a fuck about) and all the other things the other countries want to get rid of the cartels. I know you have no fucking clue what's going on in those countries. You have never cared about the women being kidnapped and human trafficked. Every once in awhile you "say" you do, and then turn your fucking back on them and let them die. Fucking good for you. You said "something" that meant absolutely ZERO.


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