Trump, Drugs, and War

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : He says the US hasn't won a war since World War II -- that it has held back from winning because the country "decided to go woke." Now, presumably, we're going to start winning wars, and the Caribbean may look to Trump like an easy win.
44% : " Those words typically come from an imperial presidency, which Trump seems to embrace with his justification for renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War.
41% : The sinking of a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela has turned out to have ominous political and military implications.
41% : As usual, Trump and company have offered no details on the incident: where the attack occurred, how they knew the boat carried drugs and was headed to a US port, and why (contrary to earlier US intelligence findings) it believes the Venezuelan government controls the alleged drug trafficker gang that was killed.
37% : As we have seen in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, Trump is expanding the traditional role of the military, and common-sense notions of national security, by converting soldiers into policemen, smugglers into enemy combatants, and drug trafficking into state terrorism.
30% : If the US attacks, you can expect that Trump will justify it as a counter-terrorism operation when in fact it will be designed to bring about regime change -- the removal of President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in Trump's crosshairs since Trump's first term.
18% : President Trump has taken the entirely illegal (and irrational) step of authorizing the US military to issue shoot-to-kill orders against suspected drug smugglers.

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