Additional Context on the Colombia Flights

Adam Isacson from the Washington Office on Latin America, and who focuses on Colombia, shares the following.

The issue seems to be the treatment of the migrants being repatriated, which also was an issue of concern from Brazilian officials as noted in my previous post. It would seem that the issue is the use of military flights, and things like handcuffing the persons being sent back.

No doubt some of this is anti-Trump posturing by Petro.

This thread is worth a read as well (tl;dr, the winner in a US-Colombian fight is China):

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Comments

  1. MarkedMan says:

    While I have long said that the most important thing to know about Trump is that he is a moron. Bit the most important thing to know about him now is that he is a babbling senile blubbering idiot. He is incapable of understanding any of this.

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  2. Andy says:
  3. Andy says:

    And it looks like the crisis is over.

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  4. Richard Gardner says:

    Grr, should have come here for Columbia stuff. I was talking to a relative today who has been on military transport aircraft (um, bare bones), um, can you imagine being the C-17 pilot that has 120 of according to the President, the worst imaginable gangsters, rapists, cartel, blah, blah being loaded on your plane that isn’t designed for prison transport?

    Sorry sending a military aircraft (or a Navy ship) to another country without pre-clearance is one step short of declaring war (ignoring safe haven in Law of the Sea). This is rude and obnoxious and in your face. Sending a military aircraft (covered in NATO treaties, not with Columbia) without notice is an insult (could be considered an invasion under international law, really).

    No clearance, no landing, period. The issue is using military aircraft.

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  5. ptfe says:

    “I can’t think of many *worse* strategic blunders for the U.S. …”

    I have a feeling he’ll be able to think of many, many worse strategic blunders by, like, April.

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  6. DK says:

    So Colombia wasn’t objecting to the flights, just to the use of military planes? Or what? Much ado.

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  7. just nutha says:

    @ptfe: Ayup! We haven’t even seen the beginnings of the types of blunders Trump can commit.

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  8. charontwo says:

    @Richard Gardner:

    Creating an incident gets some attention for Attention Whore Trump, so that’s a win.

    Then, when Colombia continues to permit normal flights, the media will spin that as Colombia backing down, so another win.

    Win-win, so much winning.

    @MarkedMan:

    We won’t get 4 years of this because the senile dementia is progressing too rapidly. I question if he is still intelligent enough to qualify as a moron, perhaps an imbecile as far as cognition goes?

    Second childhood, this is like having an angry child with strange ideas and strange fixations (e.g., Greenland) as President.

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  9. @ptfe: Sadly true.