What happens when Trump combines the war on drugs with the war on terror

The USS Sampson, a Navy missile destroyer, docks in Panama City, Panama, on September 2, 2025. | Daniel Gonzalez/Anadolu via Getty Images With this week’s unprecedented deadly military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat in the Caribbean, it’s clear that the US plans to use tactics employed against terrorist groups against Latin American criminal organizations — up to and including threats of regime change against governments accused of backing the “terrorists.” This has been a long time coming. President Donald Trump has talked about firing missiles at drug labs in Mexico as fa