Posted on 08/14/2025 9:13:03 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The United States has ordered the deployment of U.S. air and naval forces to the Southern Caribbean Sea to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, two sources briefed on the decision told Reuters on Thursday.
The sources had few details of the operation, but President Donald Trump has wanted to use the military to go after Latin American drug gangs that have been designated as global terrorist organizations. The Pentagon had been directed to prepare options.
Trump has made cracking down on drug cartels a central goal of his administration, part of a wider effort to limit migration and secure the U.S. southern border.
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100% for this.
Right about now the left is filling its Jockeys and Depends. Trump took over law enforcement in DC. He brought White South Africans into the country. A White girl’s jean ads are wildly popular. And now Trump is going after drug cartels responsible for bringing death and destruction of lives into the country. They are losing their minds, and I’m having a great time watching it all.
I LOVE this man!! Go, President Trump. Destroy the cartels.
Millions upon millions of Americans dead due to the cartels (and Purdue Pharma).
And you can bet the Cuban government is knee-deep in it.
In a world…. Where drug cartels act without fear…
It’s the late 80s again! We did this when I was in the Navy back then. Should never have stopped.
First thing I thought of too.
Good book.
Good news for Florida and other southeastern coastal states. I voted for this!
https://www.southcom.mil/EnhancedCounterNarcoticsOps/
On April 1, 2020, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) began enhanced counternarcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to disrupt the flow of drugs in support of Presidential national security objectives.
Note the date.
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