Trump's 'Drug War' in Caribbean: Curious Timing, Zero Drugs
When Al Jazeera's 'Fact Check' questioned Trump's supposed 'war on drugs' in the Caribbean, noting a distinct lack of actual drug proof, it highlighted a familiar pattern. While Trump framed it as tackling drug kingpins, these deployments (and their associated costs) looked suspiciously like saber-rattling against Venezuela, a well-worn playbook for U.S. interventionism since the Cold War.
Remember the Reagan administration's 'drug war' rhetoric often coinciding with efforts to destabilize leftist governments in Latin America? Funny how that works. The media rarely connects these dots for you, preferring to repeat official government lines. This 'drug war' wasn't about drugs; it was about projecting power in a region with significant oil reserves and a government the U.S.
disapproves of. One might ask, if it's a war on drugs, where are the drugs? Perhaps they were just really, really good at hiding them from the US military.