https://fortune.com/2025/12/12/trump-starting-land-strikes-drugs-venezuela-latin-america-maduro/President Donald Trump said the US would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually begin, or if countries could still do anything to avert the threatened action.“We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming in by water, and now we’re starting by land, and by land is a lot easier, and that’s going to start happening,” Trump told reporters Friday in the Oval Office.The US president for days has been pledging to broaden the effort, which comes after the Pentagon has launched a series of attacks on what it has called drug-smuggling boats in international waters off the coast of South America.While Trump’s posturing has largely been seen as a pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he on Friday insisted the land targeting may not only impact Venezuela.“It doesn’t necessarily have to be in Venezuela,” he said, adding that “people that are bringing in drugs to our country are targets.” Trump has justified the actions in part by framing the fight against drug smuggling as akin to combat operations. He told reporters that if overdose deaths were counted like combat deaths, it would be “like a war that would be unparalleled.”Striking targets on land would represent a major escalation, and Maduro earlier this week said that if his nation came under foreign attack, the working class should mount a “general insurrectionary strike” and push for “an even more radical revolution.”
Maybe trump shouldn't be pardoning drug lords and legalizing drugs if this wasn't just him stealing oil.
>>1464938I like how he frames it as a war even though there is a fundamental difference between shooting someone with a gun and someone ODing on drugs.Blowing up drug labs only does so much. As long as the demand is there another cartel will just fill the space.
>>1464938Rightful American clay
So have the strikes begun yet? Seems like this was a trolling attempt.
So now they're going to bomb fishermen on land too?How absolutely ridiculous.
>>1464948Cartel de los Soles is a cartel spanning an entire sovereign government with Maduro at its head. This type of shit simply cannot be allowed to stand and bombing these fuckers is LONG past due, it should have been done back when Clancy wrote clear and present danger so 35 years ago, especially since these people tend to live lavish lives and are very easy to find. You absolutely cannot let the cartel rot spread to control countries, and it's now happening. I really am no fan of the orange nigger but this is one thing that should have been done a long time ago
>>1465228Least obvious trump war mongering shill
>>1465030 The epstein files haven't been fully released yet.
No new wars btw.
>>1465322President of peace
>>1465322Annex Greenland.
>>1465322To be fair fishermen can't fight back, especially when their boats are on land.You can literally kill all the fishermen you want and not go to war because the fishermen are drug mules and their country of origin is most likely accepting bribes not to enforce their laws.The problem is the most scandalous people are the ones attempting to use this to win the midterm elections. I hope at least one travels to Venezuela to find the bodies of noble Venezuelan fishermen who died at sea, and gets their face sliced off by the cartels and worn like a mask,
Orange retard is being an orange retard, who will not enter Heaven like he suspects.
