The biggest losers in the U.S.’s wars on drugs and terrors has been civil liberties and the rule of law. From Ted Galen Carpenter at nationalsecurityjournal.org:
President Donald Trump signs executive orders alongside Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and wounded warriors in the Oval Office, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
Trump Combines Abuses of the Drug War and the War on Terror
In early October, Secretary of War Mike Hegseth announced that U.S. naval forces had sunk yet another boat off the coast of Venezuela.
Trump Speaking Outside White House. Image Credit: The White House.
The vessel was suspected of trying to ship illegal drugs to the United States. This episode was just the latest in a series of such attacks.
There are several problems with Washington’s official justification regarding this and earlier incidents.
Once again, U.S. officials provided no evidence that this targeted vessel was actually carrying drugs, much less that they were headed for the United States.
Donald Trump’s Big Mistake
Not only does such conduct violate international law, but the attacks also make a mockery of crucial U.S. legal principles.
In essence, Donald Trump has built upon some of the ugliest precedents set over the decades during either Washington’s much-hyped “war on drugs” or the equally inflammatory “war on terror.”
Indeed, Trump has combined the most odious practices of the two “wars” into an especially toxic brew that now poses a mortal threat to the basic legal rights of both Americans and foreign populations.
The CPUSA (D) branch of the UNI can’t wait to use these new found powers?
How about a WAR on Big Pharmakeia?
Make Pfizer great again.
Trump has set his sights on the Nobel Peace Prize, even if his “peacekeeping” is of a dubious, American kind: “I’ll start a war myself, make money from it, then pretend I’ve ended it—oh, how good I am.”
But being a peacemaker is a thankless task—and Trump has a chance to find out. In the past few days, Western liberal media have begun actively “fueling the narrative” that, according to some reports, the occupant of the White House has lower chances of winning the Nobel Prize than… drumroll please… Yulia Navalnaya*!
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