Trump’s attacks on alleged drugs are illegal murder. But too many Democrats shy away from the president’s call.
Donald Trump talks to journalists at the White House on September 30, 2025.
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Too bad the nation where John yo is the voice of the mind.
Yoo, of course, is one of the most famous of the many national security fluctuations that served in the George W. Bush administration, where he used his legal experience to write the so -called 2002 “Torture notes“It sought to justify the use of a typewriter and other violations of the Geneva Convention in the name of a global war with terror. This is not someone is usually concerned about the implementation of the law.
However, in 2025, Yoo became a critic of one of Donald Trump’s most brazen unlawful foreign policy: his decision to undermine the boats in the South American waters on the grounds that they are run by Venezuelan drug cartels.
No evidence is provided to support these claims, but even if there were such evidence, the US does not fight Venezuela, either with drug cartels, or with any of 14 people died In these attacks. And there is no evidence that the boats posed a quick threat to any American. The bombing of boats and murder of all those on board is an act of murder, simple and simple.
Even anyone with the rotten moral compass can see it. Writing in Washington Post September 23 prevent that “these attacks risk crossing the border between crime and war.” He added that “a broad, amorphous military campaign against illegal drug trafficking” will “violate the US Law and Constitution”. He suggested that “the use of military force against cartels could immerse the US into war against Venezuela”, which also create “complex problems”.
These soft careful words are unlikely to mean the bell expression of anti -war and anti -imperialist sentiments. However, they are much more pointed than anything said by the Republicans Congress (which predictably lined up Trump, only the softest expression even the desire to supervise). Even more scandalous, they are tougher than the comments of most Democrats Congress.
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The confrontation with illegal murder may seem obvious to the opposition party. But the Democrats, as they do this often, prevention.
September 18, Politics report“Democrats have a dilemma when they oppose President Donald Trump’s attacks on the alleged drug trading courts: they are prosecuted by the military for strikes without looking how they defend the cartels.” And September 29 journalist Aid Chavez Twitter“The senior employee DEM prevents the Democrats from going out against the change of the regime in Venezuela, the Congress sources tell me. The employee uses the Iraq Bush line, claiming the confrontation between Trump/Rubio regime is changing to Maduro’s support.”
This democratic officer obviously did not appear on the simple fact that the “Bush Age” line, which appeals to the opposition with the support of the dictator, was harmful When they came only in solid places.
In the comments of Senator Michigan Ellis Slotkin, who has militarism on the Democrats, you can see in the comments of Senator Michigan Ellis Slotkin, who remains an ally of the State of National Security. Smooth detach Politics“We have military uniforms that ask the command network for letters that guarantee that they do not have personal responsibility for any illegal actions in these operations. I have no problems that follow the drug trading.” In other words, Slatkin’s goal is not to stop Trump’s bombing and it is possible to hurry with the war with Venezuela, but to make sure that it follows from the proper legal protocol.
Upon POD SAVE The World Podcast, Ben Rhodas, former Barack Obama Advisor, – noted What is a “crazy thing to make the Democrats careful. Americans don’t like war, they don’t like the wars’ change regime – people who don’t like.
Despite the cowardice of the majority in Congress, Trump’s actions are so outrageous that they can force the constitutional crisis. On Thursday, The New York Times report“President Trump has decided that the United States is involved in an official” armed conflict “with drug cartels, which his team marked terrorist organizations and suspected smugglers for such groups” illegal participants in the fighting, “the administration said in a confidential message this week.”
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This message of Congress has caused an unusually strong reaction from Senator Jack Reed of Aylendo, the main Democrat to the Armed Forces Committee. Reed claimed that Trump himself told the authorities to wage “secret wars against all whom he calls the enemy”, offering “no reliable legal justifications, evidence and intelligence” for his actions.
Further Reed said: “Drug cartels are contemptible and must fight law enforcement. But now, according to the president, the US military is engaged in armed conflict with uncertain enemies, which he unilaterally marked” illegal participants of the fighting “, and he has launched thousands of transfers.
As writer Jake Rum noted in Nation Yesterday, Venezuela’s attacks are part of the greater turn of the American Empire from the rhetorical support of international law from 1945 to a more lawless world, where powerful will have the will to impose their will. There is a long story in this queue that preceded Trump. Indeed, in this queue there were significant points of war with the terror and torture of Yoo. The current useless genocide of Israel in Gaza is another.
This unrestrained imperialism will take a long time to win, but if you need to fight. One place for the line is Trump’s speed for war with Venezuela. Democrats must resist this with everything that is.
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