It’s not about drug interdiction, it’s about intimidating Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
That’s the top line to the new U.S. military deployment to interdict drug smugglers in the Caribbean. Announced by President Trump on Wednesday, the plan will double the U.S. military assets in the American part of the Southern Hemisphere.
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