[boudin]

This is just about people wanting to be seen as strong men in their own country and attacking citizen from other countries they know cannot retaliate.

Cartels will be fine though, do not worry. USA credibility, less and less.

[terminalshort]

Yes, but the question was "why does the world stand by and let this happen?" and I was answering that.

[boudin]

I realise my comment is not super clear. I meant that the world seems to stand by because nobody is in position of escalating against the US.

Those operations have nothing to do with cartels and everybody knows that. Nobody knows if those boats are remotely linked to cartels, there's reason to doubt that the US army even does. Cartels are irrelevant here and the murder of random people is not why the world stands by and let this happen.