"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."
Consumer confidence is falling while the national debt rises and presidential approval declines, fueling political instability. The administration has ordered U.S. warplanes to bomb small vessels in international waters off Venezuela and Colombia, claiming the boats carried drugs and labeling crews 'narco-terrorists.' Officials have released videos of at least ten destroyed boats. The defense secretary deployed an aircraft carrier and 10,000 troops to the Caribbean. The president authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela and signaled intent to strike land cartel targets without regard for host-country consent or statutory war-declaring authority. Historical patterns show aggressive U.S. intervention in Latin America.
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