The head US Military boss quits….
The military hands some who survive a US attack over to Columbia….
Lawmakers start grumbling….
People point out the effort probably IS against Law….
The bulk of drug movement actually isn’t where US Warships are attacking defenceless speed boats…
And YES….
Trying to overthrow a South American Government has NOT been America’s BEST Effort’s in history….
Remember…
We’re dealing with Donald Trump who is NOT really good about Reality….
And worst about the ‘Law’….
The Trump administration’s justification for blowing up suspected drug traffickers off the Venezuelan coast has been clear and consistent: These people aren’t just criminals; they’re “narco-terrorists” smuggling a “deadly weapon poisoning Americans” at the behest of terrorist organizations.
“We take them out,” Trump told the nation’s three- and four-star generals and admirals last month. “Every boat kills 25,000 on average — some people say more. You see these boats, they’re stacked up with bags of white powder that’s mostly fentanyl and other drugs, too.”
Claiming the power to summarily kill traffickers as though they’re enemy troops, Trump has authorized the U.S. military to strike at least six speedboats the administration has deemed suspicious, killing dozens of people since the beginning of September. At least half of the strikes and 21 of the killings, locals say, have transpired in the waters between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago — nations so close that on clear days they’re within sight of each other.
But records and interviews with 20 people familiar with the route or the strikes, including current and former U.S. and international officials, contradict the administration’s claims. The passage, they said, is not ordinarily used to traffic synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, present in 69 percent of drug overdose deaths last year. Nor are the drugs typically headed for the United States…
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The military strikes are unlikely, as a result, to cut overdose deaths in the United States, officials say — but it has brought U.S. forces into striking distance of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Trump has accused the authoritarian socialist, who claimed reelection last year despite ballot audits showing he lost the vote, of leading the Venezuela gang Tren de Aragua to push lethal drugs into America.
“When I saw [an internal document on the strikes],” a senior U.S. national security official said, “I immediately thought, ‘This isn’t about terrorists. This is about Venezuela and regime change.’ But there was no information about what it was really about.”….
More on the Trump efforts and it’s effects in that region….
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