https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-declares-u-s-in-non-international-armed-conflict-with-drug-cartelsWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict,” according to a Trump administration memo obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, after recent U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean.A person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly said the Congress was notified about the designation by Pentagon officials on Wednesday.The move comes after the U.S. military last month carried out three deadly strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean. At least two of those operations were carried out on vessels that originated from Venezuela.Pentagon officials could not provide a list of the designated terrorist organizations at the center of the conflict, a matter that was a major source of frustration for some of the lawmakers who were briefed, according to the person.Democrats have been pressing Trump to go to Congress and seek war powers authority for such operations.The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.What the administration laid out at the closed-door classified briefing was perceived by several senators as pursuing a new legal framework that raised questions particularly regarding the role of Congress in authorizing any such action, the person familiar with the matter said.As the administration takes aim at vessels in the Caribbean, senators and lawmakers of both major political parties have raised stark objections. Some had previously called on Congress to exert its authority under the war powers act that would prohibit the administration’s strikes unless they were authorized by Congress.
this is the kind of shit duterte said before the death squads started executing people and claiming they were "drug dealers" love to live in a failed state
War against drug = war against human nature. USA response - build more prison. Chinese response use more bullets. Result: More dangerous more powerful easy to conceal drugs
>>1444217Damn you are totally right. Looking more and more grim for you guys over there every day. Good luck!
You can just kill anybody you want if you say they're an unlawful combatant first
>>1444204>no new wars, they said
>>1444548We are warriors. We want war. We want to plunder new lands. We want glory. We don't want dumb woke wars for dumb woke reasons.
>>1444561So why advertise as the "pro-peace" president?
>>1444561what "woke" war were we fighting?>>1444566because they're liars who will say anything to get a chance at being in charge
>>1444217LMAO remember how dems were all "You're crazy if you want an AR-15 to protect your self from the government! You'd need an F-16 to do that!"
>>1444579>what "woke" war were we fighting?Woke War III
Democrats literally think stopping cartels and smugglers is fascism. Imagine bring that retarded
>>1444696>Imagine bring that retardedHonestly, "stopping" and "murdering without due process" would seem both equal and normal to you people. Let's see where that road takes us as a policy.
>>1444732due process doesnt apply
>>1444736Spoken like a true retard.>Guys due process doesn't matter for them, they were foreign and probably carrying drugs!>Guys due process doesn't matter for them, they're probably illegal!>Guys due process doesn't matter for them, they're probably terrorists>WHAT THE FUCK WHERE IS MY DUE PROCESS???
>>1444732democrats support drug smugglers and rapists wow who'd of guessed
>>1444740Hey did you actually prove those boats were smugglers or nah?Go a long way if you, you know, had proof you didn't just blow up a few fishermen and called it a day.
>>1444742it'll be fine as long as drugs are planted dontcha know?
>>1444742>Hey did you actually prove those boats were smugglers or nah?Didn't the Jamaican military recover like a thousand pounds of cocaine from one of these boats that were sank? Pretty sure I read that
>“non-international armed conflict”Caribbean Sea is divided into the territorial waters and resource zones of the many sovereign island nations. U.S. is destroying Venezuelan boats traveling on the High Sea (international waters) just outside the coast of Venezuela's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). This _is_ an international conflict.
>>1444745It was the Dominican Republic, but that's still only 1 out of 4 (trump sank another the other day) which isn't a very good record.
>>1444745>>1444743>>1444742Oh I found it. It wasn't Jamaica that recovered it, it was DR. https://apnews.com/article/cocaine-speedboat-trump-dominican-republic-e42c255ec0e8d5c2d85a7670d12adfdfI know you people hate that all your drugs are being destroyed by Trump, but denial is just the first stage in the grief cycle
>>1444739Yes. Due process does not apply to foreigners in international water.
>>1444747I disagree. Why does it matter if someone goes there after the fact and digs up soggy dissolving cocaine from the bottom of the ocean?
>>1444739If they wanted due process, they wouldn't be part of an international terrorist organization.They're the ones choosing to smuggle narcotics into foreign nations.
>Democrats be like: " only a small portion of drugs cross over into America from the Mexican border">* Trump starts destroying drug smuggling boats*>Democrats: "nooo, not my drugerinos!!"
>>1444748i'm ok with drugs being gone I just want more leftists to overdose
>>1444752if you believe in the war on drugs you should be on the front lines in the caribbean
>>1444754the frontlines are in blue states they're accomplices
>>1444751Did you prove that part either though?
>>1444748>>1444751And the other three boats? You have any evidence we don't have a "three innocent fishermen to one drug boat" ratio?
>>1444748>>1444745>>1444750You know how law enforcement is supposed to work is not "The cops blow your brains out and then spend two months determining if you actually committed a crime".
Wow, the drug addled shill is melting down over the fact it's getting harder for xim to get high.I literally do not care that drug runners trying to move literal tons of drugs into the US are dying and don't get a trial first for the same reason I never cared if pirates in the Indian ocean got struck by a naval missile destroyer without getting a trial first.
>>1444764I care that we don't actually prove they're drug runners instead of a fucking fisherman. We only got confirmation for ONE ship out of the four we blew up, TWO MONTHS AFTER THE FACT. You don't fucking kill someone as part of "anti-terrorism operations" and then prove they're actually what you were targeting months after the fact.
>>1444765Hey, did you get confirmation every time any previous administration destroyed pirates in the Indian Ocean, or did just nobody ever talk about it and tell you that you should be angry?
>>1444769>the shill doesn't knowlmao, you're so fucking dumb
>>1444769Anon pirates are a lot easier to be certain about than random boats that MIGHT have drugs on them. Even Trump said it isn't safe to be a fisherman in the area, all but admitting they already killed innocent civilians.
>>1444772Not my problem.They only people at risk are millionaires in $500,000 cigarette boats.
most cartel drug operations use submarines or semi-submarines anyway right? also these have all been off south american coasts, who's taking a small-mid sized fishing boat the thousand miles or so to get to florida?
>>1444784Are you implying that the US military's ability to track stealth submarines operated by the most technologically advanced nations on the world are defeated by makeshift cartel submersibles?I mean, honestly, I don't think these are as common as you make them out to be, I imagine building submarines is quite a bit more difficult than just buying a speedboat. Quick searches show that the submarines are still caught routinely
>>1444204They are so blatantly just blowing up random boats. They do not give a single shit about confirming if they're running drugs or unrelated civilian deaths. This so heinously illegal and morally wrong.
>>1444815>Are you implying that the US military's ability to track stealth submarines operated by the most technologically advanced nations on the world are defeated by makeshift cartel submersibles?I mean considering how they've only been blowing up boats...
Wouldn't it be more efficient to covertly track suspect boats to see were they land, thereby getting both suppliers and distributors?
>>1444886Yeah, but it’d be a little harder and they wouldn’t get to blow up brown people.
>>1444886Fishermen don't go to drug suppliers and distributors.
War on Drugs starts at home. Test Donald Jr.
>>1444784CIA has their own setup for bringing ANYTHING into or out of the country. Doncha know now?US government just decided it wants the monopoly. Because rich are never rich enough nor ever will be.
You can't have cheap coke, you need to have $7 cups of coffee, $5 energy drinks, sugar levels that would kill 4 diabetics, hormones to lose weight(because fucking with hormones is smart, heh?), I guess my point is, this can't be about the health of Americans, it is about money, because it is always about money, that's how you lost your health in the first place, for money, all that time in your life... money, missed time doing what you really like for... money. Rambles, sorry, high on elite adreno... shit kicks harder than Charlie Kirk's death throes. Probably added 150 years to my life though.
>>1444815Lol. Their system isn't that good. You been watching too many movies.
>>1444817But the Magats love it and want more brown blood.
