Death on the Boating Pond?

The question is - just how far will the Trump administration's illegal sinking of small boats on the pretext that they are somehow involved in a 'war' being pursued against the US by foreign drug cartels actually reach?  I mean, for now, they just seem to concentrating on the waters around Venezuela, (the fact that Venezuela is an oil rich country the US is currently trying to force regime change upon is purely co-incidental, of course), but will the continued need for headlines to bolster Trump's ego force them to cast their new wider?  Will there come a point where US missiles start sinking small boats on the Serpentine, or pedalos in Blackpool, say?  Because they too could be manned by drug smugglers, planning to sail to the US with huge cargoes of narcotics.  A small non-ocean going pleasure craft would be the perfect disguise, wouldn't it?  Who would suspect two guys pedalling a tiny craft shaped like a swan across the Atlantic of being top international drug smugglers?  Plus, they'd have the perfect cover story if stopped by the US coastguard or Navy:  they somehow took a wrong turning while on the boating lake in Llandudno and were convinced that they were heading back toward Colwyn Bay.  Will canal narrowboats be safe from roaming US fighter jets?  Will they try sending nuclear subs down the Trent and Mersey Canal to try and sink them before their deadly loads of drugs reach US shores?  Right now, we're at the stage where nothing those fucking lunatics in Washington might do would surprise me.

Of course, here in the UK we have our own controversies surrounding 'small boats'.  So far, the rabid right-wing morons have confined themselves to condemning the RNLI for doing their job and rescuing their occupants when they start to sink.  Apparently, we should just let them all drown: women, children, the lot.  But I'm more than slightly surprised that Nigel Farage, Mr Fascist Rent-a-Quote himself, hasn't been calling for the RAF or Royal Navy to sink them before they reach UK shores.  Because, after all, they are 'invading' the UK, doubtless with a 'hostile takeover' of the country in mind, via being exploited as low paid illegal labour in those dodgy shops selling dodgy goods and acting as money laundering fronts.  I'm even more surprised that, on one of his many trips to the US to grovel at his idol's feet, Farage hasn't tried to convince Trump that these small boats crossing the channel are, in fact, chock full of Islamic fundamentalist drug dealers merely using the UK as a stepping stone to peddle their wares in the US.  Thereby giving the US a pretext for bombing rubber dinghies in the English Channel in the name of defending America.  Because  that's the sort of shitty thing he'd do - get somebody else to do the dirty work then claim credit himself for 'saving England' from the dusky skinned hordes of invaders at our gates.  Perhaps if that succeeded he could move on to persuading Trump to bomb Birmingham on the grounds that it has been taken over by Jihadists planning to export their violent terror to the US.  Anything seems possible these days.