Trump: The U.S. Is Now in a War with Drug Cartels

Thursday, October 02, 2025

President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal "armed conflict" with drug cartels his team has labeled terrorist organizations and that suspected smugglers for such groups are "unlawful combatants," the administration said in a confidential notice to Congress this week. The notice was sent to several congressional committees and obtained by The New York Times. It adds new detail to the administration's thinly articulated legal rationale for why three U.S. military strikes the president ordered on boats in the Caribbean Sea last month, killing all 17 people aboard them, should be seen as lawful rather than murder.

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"should be seen as lawful rather than murder"

Donald Trump is insane. This is not name-calling. This is reality. His insanity makes him crave wars; blood. Dead fishermen; dead Americans. His insanity insists of the Nobel Peace Prize at the same time.

After the Epstein affair, MAGA said they most cared about having no more wars. I expect to see them surrender on both issues.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-02 03:00 PM | Reply

In a real war there would be EVIDENCE of who those killed were, and that they actually had drugs in the boats.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-02 03:26 PM | Reply

In 1965, LBJ invaded the Dominican Republic: nsarchive2.gwu.edu.

In 1983, Ronald Reagan invaded Grenada: i.guim.co.uk.

In 1989, George H. W. Bush invaded Panama: ichef.bbci.co.uk

Now in 2025 comes Dummkopf Trumpf's opportunity to abuse the Monroe Doctrine and the AUMF: havanatimes.org

Nota Bene: From 1977 to 1981, Nobel Peace Prize awardee Jimmy Carter invaded no country; not one shot was fired during his administration and he returned the Panama Canal to its rightful owners: static01.nyt.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-02 03:26 PM | Reply

Pres Trump tries to rename Dept of Defense to Dept of War.

Pres Trump says he has a war on blue cities for ~training~ purposes.

Pres Trump is at war with the drug cartels.

Not the best of looks for a person who seems to crave the Nobel Peace Prize.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-02 03:29 PM | Reply

Trump will get the US involved in War with Iran.

Bibi pulls his string.

Trump is among the Stupidest of Men.

War will make Him God.

Decider of life or death for the Biosphere.

Bibi is the Imp of Destruction.

Together they will Unleash the Greatest of Wars.

Cover for Repression and More...
....

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-02 09:27 PM | Reply

Trump will get the US involved in War with Iran.

He pretty much already did with that bunker buster stunt.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-02 09:34 PM | Reply

Can't he just call them on the phone? That's how he stopped all those other wars, right?

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-03 12:26 AM | Reply

If you really want to hurt the cartels, reduce or eliminate the demand for their product. Treatment, free use areas with free product and supervision. Worked in Portugal, small attempts here are successful except NIMBY closes them down.

#8 | Posted by mattm at 2025-10-03 10:24 AM | Reply

Well, FINALLY, and that should have started years ago.

Here is a precedence:

AI Overview.
General John J. Pershing led a U.S. military expedition, known as the Punitive Expedition, into Mexico on March 15, 1916, in an attempt to capture revolutionary leader Pancho Villa. The expedition crossed the border following Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and was ordered by President Woodrow Wilson to pursue and disperse Villa's forces.

Some of us actually had a decent education and are aware of many events in history that the younger generation never heard of.

#9 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-04 03:48 PM | Reply

Addendum concerning invading Mexico: Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat. He served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

#10 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-04 03:50 PM | Reply

You voted for ------- because he was the anti-war candidate, right?

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-04 03:52 PM | Reply

Some of us actually had a decent education and are aware of many events in history that the younger generation never heard of.
#9 | Posted by MSgt

Right.

Some of us know Wounded Knee wasn't a battle, it was a massacre of men, women and children. It was just one of many such acts of ethnic cleansing as the United States settled the West.

And some of us think men deserve medals for those atrocities.

Are you one of those men, MSgt?

Don't be shy now, speak up. I look forward to judging you by the content of your character.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-04 03:57 PM | Reply

Some of us know Wounded Knee wasn't a battle, it was a massacre of men, women and children. It was just one of many such acts of ethnic cleansing as the United States settled the West.
- snoofy

Not as bad as the Aztecs did to surrounding tribes, but to you it's important because you hate America, anything to denigrate it.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-04 04:58 PM | Reply

Not as bad as the Aztecs did to surrounding tribes, but to you it's important because you hate America, anything to denigrate it.

POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

It's worse. We should have known better.

And it has nothing to do with "hating America" comrade foreign agitator.

It has to do with telling our history honestly.

"The expedition crossed the border following Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and was ordered by President Woodrow Wilson to pursue and disperse Villa's forces."

While true not sure what the point of that story is ... we fought with Mexico before? Mexico is now an ally.

And back then Pancho Villa was a bandit on American territory and Americans chased him back to Mexico failed to capture him and came home.

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-04 05:19 PM | Reply