Trump’s Drug War Fails: Attacks on Fishermen Unaffected
The article challenges the Pentagon’s claims that attacks on civilian boats have significantly reduced drug imports to the United States, calling these assertions baseless. Experts and members of Congress argue that these strikes, part of Operation Southern Spear, constitute illegal extrajudicial killings because the military is targeting civilians without an imminent threat, a deviation from standard drug interdiction practices. Furthermore, evidence suggests the boats attacked are not transporting fentanyl as claimed, and the overall impact on drug flow and overdose deaths is negligible, contradicting official statistics and demonstrating a misunderstanding of the drug trade as an economic rather than military problem.
John Q. Hosedrinker