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Anonymous10/02/25, 18:45No.1444204Trump declares U.S. in ‘non-international armed conflict’ with drug cartels
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-declares-u-s-in-non-international-armed-conflict-with-drug-cartels
WASHINGTON (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.
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Anon10/02/25, 18:54No.1444217
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
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Anon10/02/25, 19:02No.1444229
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
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Anon10/03/25, 13:13No.1444547
You can just kill anybody you want if you say they're an unlawful combatant first
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Anon10/03/25, 13:15No.1444548
>no new wars, they said
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Anon10/04/25, 14:42No.1444696
Democrats literally think stopping cartels and smugglers is fascism. Imagine bring that retarded
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Anon10/04/25, 16:12No.1444746
>“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.
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Anon10/04/25, 16:17No.1444752
>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!!"
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Anon10/04/25, 16:43No.1444764
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.
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Anon10/04/25, 18:26No.1444784
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?
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Anon10/04/25, 19:57No.1444817
They 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.
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Anon10/05/25, 00:22No.1444886
Wouldn't it be more efficient to covertly track suspect boats to see were they land, thereby getting both suppliers and distributors?
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Anon10/07/25, 01:22No.1445363
War on Drugs starts at home. Test Donald Jr.
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Anon10/07/25, 05:38No.1445504
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.