Trump's War With Cartels & Possibly Venezuela

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Trump Tells Congress U.S. Is at War With Cartels: What That Means​

President Donald Trump has declared that the U.S. is in a formal “armed conflict” with drug cartels in a confidential notice to Congress.

The notice, obtained by the New York Times, labels suspected drug smugglers as “unlawful combatants,” and seeks to justify the Trump Administration’s three military strikes on civilian vessels in the Caribbean sea last month as part of a sustained active conflict. The strikes, which experts said were likely illegal and amounted to extrajudicious murders, killed a total of 17 people.

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How will our government smuggle drugs in without the Cartels...
 
^^^ This I agree on, we have a giant military, might as well let them hunt drug smugglers...^^^
 

Rand Paul: 'All of these people have been blown up without us knowing their name'​

Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday questioned the wisdom and legality of President Donald Trump's policies toward Venezuela and suspected drug dealers coming from its coast.

Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," the Kentucky Republican again raised concerns about the legality of the Trump administration's strikes on boats that it claims are carrying drug traffickers, as well as the president's statement that the United States might conduct direct attacks on Venezuela's territory.

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Looks.like Colombia is.going down with Venezuela partially to kick out the Chinese. I thought for sure they would.make Brazil target #2.
 
What was that missile Argentina had, the Exocet that sank two ships and damaged one? I wonder if the Argentina navy ever forgave us for backstabbing them.
 

U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime​

The planned attacks, first reported Thursday night by the Wall Street Journal, will seek to destroy military installations used by the drug-trafficking organization the U.S. says is headed by Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and run by top members of his regime.

Sources told the Herald that the targets - which could be struck by air in a matter of days or even hours - also aim to decapitate the cartel's hierarchy. U.S. officials believe the cartel exports around 500 tons of cocaine yearly, split between Europe and the United States.

While sources declined to say whether Maduro himself is a target, one of them said his time is running out.

"Maduro is about to find himself trapped and might soon discover that he cannot flee the country even if he decided to," the source said. "What's worse for him, there is now more than one general willing to capture and hand him over, fully aware that one thing is to talk about death, and another to see it coming."

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Fatrat said:
What was that missile Argentina had, the Exocet that sank two ships and damaged one? I wonder if the Argentina navy ever forgave us for backstabbing them.
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The country was being run by a military junta. Britain was our ally.
 

Colombia to suspend intelligence cooperation with US over strikes on drug vessels​

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered his nation's security forces Tuesday to stop sharing intelligence with the United States, until the Trump administration stops its strikes on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean, as relations deteriorate between the nations that were once close partners in the fight against drug trafficking.

In a message on X, Petro wrote that Colombia's military must immediately end “communications and other agreements with U.S. security agencies" until the U.S. ceases its attacks on speedboats suspected of carrying drugs, that critics have likened to extrajudicial executions.

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Trump’s former defense chief Esper: Military not the ‘best tool’ to stop drug interdictions​

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who served during President Donald Trump's first term, does not believe the military is the "best tool" to stop drug trafficking in response to the current United States strategy of blowing up these vessels.

The Trump administration has taken a more aggressive stance toward Venezuela and its leader, Nicolas Maduro, during the first year of his second term. The whole-of-government strategy includes the Department of Justice doubling the reward for information that leads to his arrest, the largest military buildup in the western hemisphere in decades, and lethal kinetic strikes on purported drug smuggling vessels.

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Which Countries Have Stopped Sharing Intelligence With U.S.?​

The Trump Administration has authorized a series of missile strikes on vessels in the Caribbean, alleged to be carrying drug shipments. 76 people have been killed in some 19 strikes thus far. Trump and his Administration argue the military action is necessary to curb the flow of drugs into the United States. The U.S. government has not yet released any evidence indicating that any of the targeted ships were smuggling drugs.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who also answers to the title “Secretary of War” following President Donald Trump’s rebranding of the Defense Department, has so far led the charge in announcing many of the strikes, which he says are “protecting the homeland and killing these cartel terrorists who wish to harm our country and its people.”

Per Hegseth, the U.S. most recently conducted “two lethal kinetic strikes” on “two vessels operated by designated terrorist organizations” in the Caribbean.

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DOJ drafts legal opinion backing immunity for US troops involved in boat strikes, sources say​

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Justice Department has provided a legal justification that makes clear that U.S. military personnel involved in strikes against suspected drug-trafficking vessels are immune from prosecution, three sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

Since early September, the U.S. military has carried out at least 19 strikes against suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean and off the Pacific coast of Latin America, killing at least 76 people. Legal experts and Democratic lawmakers have questioned the legality of the strikes and many say they do not adhere to the laws of war.

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