The attacks against vessels that US President Donald Trump has authorized off the coast of South America must be considered. The president of what was once the largest democracy in the world eliminates people who pose no threat, do not belong to the armed forces of nations at war against his country and cannot defend themselves.
The populist right-wing autocrat dispenses with evidence, judgments and any contradiction. It is an intimidation of the governments of Colombia and Venezuela, seen as contrary to American interests, and an attempt at political interference in the region.
Colombia is a democracy, now with a ruler, on the left, who maintains good commercial relations and has collaborated with the USA with information on drug trafficking. “Ah, but the .” Yes, but so is Saudi Arabia, and always pampered by Uncle Sam, a known supporter of coups d’état, not to mention the autocracies that Trump greatly admires.
It is not enough for a country to be considered a dictatorship for it to become legitimate to summarily execute its citizens. Furthermore, the version that North Americans’ cocaine consumption – America is the biggest in this – is fueled by these small boats shown on TV in macabre spectacles, aestheticized in video game explosions, is false, almost comically so. It is known that Mexico is the main path, as well as that the drug business involves powerful structures, bigwigs linked to politics, corruption and billion-dollar operations.
The announcement of the action (there are already more than 30 dead) made by Pete Hegseth, on X, was pathetic:
“Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic attack on a vessel,” he said, referring to his Defense Secretariat as “War,” a name that is about to be adopted. And he reassured: “There were two narco-terrorists on board during the attack, carried out in international waters. Both terrorists were killed, and no American forces were injured in this attack.”
A was correct: he said that the autocrat in the White House threatens to bring instability to a relatively safe region and generate more serious problems than those he supposedly intends to resolve.
Trump might as well give the world a break. Your imperial hyperactivity is tiring and toxic, it leaves no one alone. He is always getting into trouble, producing factoids —like the supposed peace in the Middle East— and giving vent to his dangerous and unhealthy egocentric childishness.
We live in difficult, mentally impoverished, brutal and discouraging times.
Trump is trying to put in place a world order in which each strongman takes care of his own backyard, with the US imposing the limits. The way he acts is aggressive and devoid of credibility. Suffice it to say that your government considers Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF, a great threat to the USA and treats him as a terrorist agent.
These historical moments in which an international system — in this case the post-war one, under American hegemony — shows signs of wear and tear and begin to crumble, are always dangerous. Even more so with a scoundrel in power.
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