DEA Assessment Says Trump Boat Strikes Haven't Cut Cocaine Flow
The assessment says traffickers shifted routes and tactics, while cocaine price, purity and availability in the United States stayed largely unchanged.
- On Monday, The Washington Post reported that a Drug Enforcement Administration analysis concluded President Donald Trump's campaign of strikes against alleged drug boats has not "reduced the amount of cocaine entering" the United States.
- Operation Southern Spear has targeted suspected drug boats since September, killing at least 221 people across more than 67 vessels, though the administration defends these strikes as necessary lethal deterrence.
- A DEA official explained that traffickers have adapted by shifting to larger vessels and land routes to avoid detection, stating, "When you squeeze the balloon on one side, it always expands on the other side."
- Findings contradict President Trump's repeated assertions that strikes slashed maritime trafficking by 97 percent to 98 percent, with critics including WOLA's Isaacson arguing the campaign is "cruel and illegal."
- Experts warn the strikes may undermine investigative capacity by endangering informants, while CNN notes the last strike occurred on June 21, though the reason for the operational pause remains unclear.
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Ron Paul on the New Report: Trump’s Deadly Boat Attacks Did Nothing To Halt Drug Trade
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: According to a leaked report by the Drug Enforcement Administration, President Trump's "shoot first, ask questions later" missile attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and elsewhere have had zero effect on drug smuggling. The same amount of narcotics is getting in as beforehand.…
New Report: Trump's Deadly Boat Attacks Did Nothing To Halt Drug Trade
According to a leaked report by the Drug Enforcement Administration, President Trump’s “shoot first, ask questions later” missile attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and elsewhere have had zero effect on drug smuggling. The same amount of narcotics is getting in as beforehand. And over 100 people have been murdered without charge or trial. For nothing. As is the case with the “drug war,” however, the DEA claims that the failure was actually …
It appears that these attacks have not led to a decrease in cocaine availability or an increase in its price within the US market.
Remember when we murdered several hundred people because it was so important to stop cocaine from flowing into the US?
Guess what, it didn’t work. Very much like the first several thousand attempts to deal with cocaine use in America via interdiction of the supply: A DEA assessment reportedly concludes that Operation Southern Spear has not significantly reduced the flow of cocaine into the U.S., despite administration claims that maritime drug trafficking has been nearly eliminated.According to the assessment, traffickers adapted by… pic.twitter.com/BP1KcAjnqb—…
Trump's military attacks against drug smugglers at sea should stop cocaine trafficking, but according to an analysis, little has changed.
Washington. The air strikes ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump against boats he has accused, without proof, of transporting drugs, during Operation South Launch and in which at least 221 people have been killed, did not reduce the flow of cocaine to the U.S., as traffickers adapted their routes and methods, admitted Pentagon officials and the Drug Control Administration (DEA), reported yesterday The Washington Post.
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