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Posted on 10/12/2025 5:16:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday the Department of Defense is forming a new counternarcotics joint task force in order to “crush” drug cartels in the Caribbean Sea.
Hegseth said the new task force, established at the direction of President Trump, will operate in the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) area of responsibility.
“At the President’s direction, the Department of War is establishing a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force in the @SOUTHCOM area of responsibility to crush the cartels, stop the poison and keep America safe,” Hegseth said in a post on the social platform X.
“The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will stop you cold,” he added.
The Pentagon referred The Hill to SOUTHCOM when reached for comment. The Hill has contacted SOUTHCOM for additional information.
The formation of the task force comes as the Trump administration has launched four strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea in recent weeks. The strikes have killed 21 in total, according to the administration.
The most recent strike, which occurred earlier this month, blew up the vessel — purportedly carrying narcotics in international waters — and killed four people, Hegseth said at the time.
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I wonder how many DC law firms are getting cartel payments.
I have to wonder if it isn't better just to do it without the fanfare. I will not put it past the drug terrorists to go Hamas in their tactics and begin using human shields.
It is about time. And drug dealers need to be identified by family members, who thereby save the lives of loved ones and other’s loved ones.
The Hill still using Department of Defense.
We will find out soon enough, they’ll be the ones filing lawsuits in leftist friendly courts.
The cartels have nothing to worry about. Democrats and lefty judges will come to their rescue.
You could very well be right about that...
Not much different from what we did in the 70's & 80's looking for soviet subs.
Before the “War on Drugs” in the early seventies, I seem to recall reading a gram of cocaine sold for about a hundred dollars. Two or three cartels controlled the import. They could only import as much as they could import. The way the cartels enforced their monopoly was to murder anyone who tried to import on their own. Ordinary citizens would fly to Columbia, buy cocaine and get reported to the cartels by the seller. They would be murdered. This limited the number of people who could import. The War on Drugs destroyed the cartels. This created an open market, which is much more efficient than a cartel dominated market. Go to the link to find the world price of a gram of cocaine in today’s dollars. It is substantially cheaper than it was when the cartels ran the show.
https://www.statista.com/chart/18527/cocaine-retail-steet-prices-in-selected-countries/
This is one of those things where you chop one head off the dragon and it is replaced by two more. The answer, which nobody wants to hear, is to fix the demand side of the equation. Economic law is, where there’s a demand there will be a supply. I don’t know how to do that, as the drug is available in Saudia Arabia, so chopping off body parts probably won’t work. The answer would be cultural and would take a long, long time to implement. We’d be fighting Hollywood movies the whole time.
Funders of terrorism and the Deep State! Destroy without mercy!
Predictably. These goons would have hanged Stephen Decatur,
But what else would we expect from the Party of Hate and Evil, the party of slavery, the Trail of Tears, the ku klux klan, crime, illegal immigration, and open borders, illegal drugs, and human trafficking, including child trafficking?!??
I don’t know how many times I have to share it. This is not about drugs. This is just like the Bush propaganda and we are being played for the fools if we believe it.
Russia announces support for Venezuela to “defend sovereignty” amid growing military tension with the United States:
A whole search page full, pick your source:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=Russia%20announces%20support%20for%20Venezuela
Must protect the oil platforms off the coast of Guyana that Venezuela is now claiming. Trying to prevent another Kuwait situation.
That’s the real reason for this upcoming war.
International waters. Nobody can claim to be attacked. Think Barbary pirates.
Jefferson bombed the cities for effect I believe. Would Trump attack Venezuela where Maduro is hiding?
Maduro’s military surrenders and Trump leaves our illegals behind for effect-even some from Cameroon.
Russia has few available assets to defend its own borders, and none to defend Venezuela’s. Further, it has no money to finance such an operation.
Just more Russian bluster and hot air.
How many of Russia’s long range nuclear capable Submarines have you seen in the land battle between Russia and the Ukraine?
An exclusive economic zone, as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. It stretches from the outer limit of the territorial sea out 370.4 kilometers from the coast of the state in question. It is also referred to as a maritime continental margin and, in colloquial usage, may include the continental shelf.
They are actually protecting Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone and all the oil wells in it. Guyana has production double that of Venezuela and their oil is a thin sweet crude, much more valuable than Venezuela’s crappy thick oil.
Trump made a deal and most of Guyana’s oil goes to Europe to replace their Russian oil. I think Exxon owns Guyana’s oil well operation and 50% of the profits. Guyana’s oil is primarily developed and operated by ExxonMobil, which holds a significant stake in the Stabroek Block, along with partners Chevron and CNOOC.
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