Greg Grandin denounces the president’s murder spree:
But drug interdiction isn’t the real point here. The Trump White House is bringing the logic of Gaza to the Caribbean: the use of disproportionate, high-tech violence to murder defenseless civilians with impunity, justified by the broadest imaginable definition of “self-defense.” And the killing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, will continue.
Trump dresses up his murders as attacks on “terrorists” in the same way that the IDF slaughters Palestinian journalists and other civilians and then claims that their victims were all in league with Hamas. The terrorist label is always a lie in both cases, but it is one that the perpetrators assume will give them license to do whatever they want. The perpetrators of these crimes take for granted that all they need to do to get away with murdering these people is to shout the word terrorist over and over.
When Trump orders the use of force somewhere in the world, he is usually breaking U.S. law or international law or both. Like other presidents, he has launched military campaigns without authorization, but with his boat murders he has become even more lawless than his predecessors. He is using the military as his assassins, and he isn’t bothering to hide it.
Nahal Toosi reported on Trump’s new regime change policy for Venezuela earlier this week. Her report concluded with this:
For one thing, the president is quite enjoying green-lighting airstrikes against boats alleged to be ferrying drugs.
“He can blow boats out of the water every week for quite a long time,” the Trump administration official said.
Trump has civilians murdered on his orders, and he enjoys doing it. The deaths of these civilians please him. He will keep ordering more executions unless he is stopped and removed from office.
