Posted on 10/27/2025 1:45:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In a speech before the House of Commons on May 13, 1940, referencing the war against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill stated, “What is our policy? … To wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime.”
The Prussian military theorist Karl von Clausewitz once observed that “war is the continuation of politics by other means.” Various political and moral interpretations exist regarding what constitutes a “just war.” That usually depends on one’s point of view. As the saying goes, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
X screen grab of a cartel drug boat; the three powerful outboard motors are a giveaway.
What if there were a country that had absorbed the loss of over 100,000 of its citizens each year for several years, and which has done little to address the problem? Would that country not be remiss in its primary duty to protect its own citizens? Well, that country does indeed exist; it is called the United States of America.
Last year, over 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses, mostly young people, the vast majority of them from fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opiate 50 times more powerful than heroin, the components of which are manufactured in China. The compounds are exported to countries such as Mexico, where the drug cartels then combine them to produce fentanyl. After that, the drug is smuggled across the border by land or sea to the U.S.
Fentanyl is cheap and easy to produce. Also, there is no “growing season,” so the profit margin is high.
Fentanyl has also been observed masquerading as prescription painkillers such as OxyContin. Many buyers who purchased these drugs on the street are totally unaware that they are really purchasing fentanyl. The drug is so powerful that a minuscule amount...
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It ends with: "Trump is taking the war to our enemy, not the Nazis, but against the drug cartels and the narco-state terrorists who are responsible for the deaths of half a million or so Americans. It's about time!"
It is indeed about time.
Outside of national boundaries and in international waters, there is no binding "international law" to restrain President Trump's willingness to "fight fire with fire."
The restraints to arrest and Mirandize are national, not international constraints.
The drug runners choose to bring a speed boat full of drugs to a gun fight and President Trump accepts their offer with full effect. The scum drug dealers want to keep setting them up I hope President Trumps keeps knocking them down and sooner or later someone supplying the filthy drugs and the expensive boats will notice.
Unfortunately we’ve spent too many years using law enforcement terms in describing necessary military actions to protect US interests, property & US persons. TV, movies, etc. have also blurred the distinction. Many people can no longer understand the difference. Paul is clearly that way. It’s like he’s expecting UNCLE HQs to weigh in and fix the international drug smuggling problem. International law only exists in the sense of how much national sovereignty (freedom of action!) a nation or nations wish to give up to a supra-national power to enforce that law. A mature intelligent nation gives up none but might appear to do so for reasons of state.
China has been at war with the U.S. for some time.
Whether we recognize it as such is another issue.
China is a much bigger threat than Russia, but most of Congress is on the ChiCom payroll.
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