Taking out drugs will kill their economy.
Monica Showalter
Her essays are always top-notch.
Been saying it for a week, it is not just about the drugs...
“Okay compadres, the next fentanyl boat bound for America is ready to leave. Who wants to go?”
Showater is quite good, and IIRC, spent time in the area professionally [journalist?].
She mentions two alternatives/salients.
A third is that Trump sends a message elsewhere—to the Mexican cartels, as to what they can expect.
Apparently our military and CIA have been ordered out of Ukraine by Trump and into the Caribbean and Baja, and have been harvesting signals intelligence for months; reading for military on cartel kinetic action.
This was the opening salvo.
But just a few days ago CNN published a story the Trump is lying about Venezuelan drug gangs smuggling dope in to the country. Of course they use to obligatory “Trump claims, without evidence.”
Is CNN lying to us?
Might be necessary to take some of the smaller local players off the board before the big dustup with EastAsia.
Dr. Steve Turley talked about it yesterday. Maduro thought President Donald J Trump is weak and not going to do anything, but he got a lesson on FAFO... 😀