Donald Trump doesn’t understand the drug war he’s fighting

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/05/donald-trump-doesnt-understand-the-drug-war-hes-fighting/

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dhork@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 296d (2 replies)

Donald Trump doesn’t understand

They could have stopped there

TomMasz@piefed.social · 23 pts · 296d (1 reply)

Yeah, the list is so long, no one has ever finished reading it.

NABDad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d

He hasn't started.

TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 296d

He literally isn't fighting a drug war. It's an excuse for extra judicial policing and murder.

Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 296d

Spending millions to blow up fishermen is not a "drug war"

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 296d (4 replies)

Why is the USA obsessed with supply, while ignoring demand?

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 296d

Because fighting drugs has never been an actual objective of the "war on drugs". It's always been a war on poor people.

devolution@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 296d (2 replies)

White people. That's why. Unless it's Crack cocaine or THC.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 296d (1 reply)

White people don’t smoke weed?

devolution@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 296d

White people were literally told weed and black people would corrupt them while THC caused maximum minimums for black people.

I'll never forgive Kamala for her witch hunt on black men.

nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 296d

He doesn't even understand the drugs he's taking

vegeta@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 296d (1 reply)

Windmills grind the fentanOl into a fine powder for distribution, and kill the Bald Eagles patrolling on behalf of the DEA.

ohellidk@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 296d

Yeah, something like that!

Nualkris@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 296d

To be fair, I don't think he understands much of anything.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 296d

Unsurprising since he can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground.

bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 296d

Theres tons of things he doesnt understand 😆

Xanadu@feddit.online · -8 pts · 296d (1 reply)

He understands it enough to order them boats blown out the water...Venezuela is a significant transit hub in the international drug trade, with a "pipeline" that primarily funnels Colombian cocaine to markets in the United States and Europe. This operation is heavily linked to high-ranking members of the Venezuelan armed forces and government, forming an alleged criminal organization known as the Cartel of the Suns.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 296d

Cool, so they could easily arrest the people on the boats instead and confiscate the drugs right? Or how about not immediately releasing the handful of them that they did actually arrest?

You're a fucking idiot if you believe that anything you said here is the actual reasoning for these murders. And that's what they are, murders.