Commentary: As Trump blows up supposed narco boats, he uses an old, corrupt playbook on Latin America
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Consumer confidence is dropping.The national debt is $38 trillion and climbing like the yodeling mountain climber in that “The Price is Right” game.
Donald Trump’s approval ratings are falling and the U.S.is getting more and more restless as 2025 comes to a close.
What’s a wannabe strongman to do to prop up his regime? Attack Latin America, of course!U.S.war planes have bombed small ships in international waters off the coast of Venezuela and Colombia since September with extrajudicial zeal.
The Trump administration has claimed those vessels were packed with drugs manned by “narco-terrorists” and have released videos for each of the 10 boats-and-counting it has incinerated to make the actions seem as normal as a mission in “Call of Duty.”“Narco-terrorists intending to bring poison to our shores, will find no safe harbor anywhere in our hemisphere,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media and who just ordered an aircraft carrier currently stationed in the Mediterranean to set up shop in the Caribbean.It’ll meet up with 10,000 troops stationed there as part of one of the area’s biggest U.S.
deployments in decades, all in the name of stopping a drug epidemic that has ravaged red America for the past quarter century.This week, Trump authorized covert CIA actions in Venezuela and revealed he wants to launch strikes against land targets where his people say Latin American cartels operate.Who cares whether the host countries will give permission? Who cares about American laws that state only Congress — not the president — can declare war against our enemies?It’s Latin America, after all.
World & Nation The U.S.military carried out its eighth strike against a boat allegedly carrying drugs, killing two people, officials said Wednesday.The military buildup, bombing and threat of more in the name of liberty is one of the oldest moves i...