In surprise move, head of US military for Latin America to step down, was the headline a month ago when Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), announced his unexpected retirement less than a year after assuming the role. Guess why he stepped down?
As the Democrats and Trump fight over this issue the service members could become divided as well. It has also dominated the news cycle taking over for the Epstein files as the latest distraction.
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President Gustavo Petro Dismissed as A Lunatic which is actually a more accurate description of Rubio and others in the Trump administration. Johnny
On October 22, President Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, dismissed Colombian President Gustavo Petro as a “lunatic.” Rubio mad the remark after Petro denounced the US for murdering fishermen erroneously described as “narcoterrorists” on an improbable run in the Caribbean to deliver illegal drugs to the United States.
“I think the Colombian authorities, when it comes to, like, the military and the police, are still very pro-American. The only problem in Colombia is a lunatic president,” Rubio said. “The guy’s a lunatic—a lunatic!—and he’s not well,” the Secretary of State added.
The Trump administration insists Petro has failed to adequately combat drug trafficking. On October 19, on his “Truth” social, Trump took the accusation a step further. He said
Petro “is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia.”
Here is a truth social post Trump put up on Oct. 19th 2025.
President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President Donald J. Trump
The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.
Rubio’s remarks on Colombian “narcoterrorism” should be put in context. Omitted from the accusation that Petro traffics drugs is an allegation that the former president of Colombia was linked to the Medellín Cartel and death squads.
Rubio’s Close Relationship with Álvaro Uribe
Image: Álvaro Uribe (CC BY-SA 2.0)
The former president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, had two convictions for fraud and bribery overturned on October 21. The rightwing politician, backed by Trump during his first administration, was convicted of bribing imprisoned paramilitaries to discredit claims he was linked to their organizations.
“Colombia’s judicial system found former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez guilty of witness tampering, specifically for abuse of process and bribing a public official,” according to Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, writing for the Washington Office on Latin America.
Uribe collaborated with paramilitary death squads during Colombia’s war against FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia), a revolutionary group formed in 1964 by the Colombian Communist Party to defend what were then autonomous Communist-controlled rural areas. He faced numerous allegations of human rights abuses during his stint in office from 2002 to 2010. Uribe turned a blind eye to extrajudicial killings and massacres by death squads, according to human rights organizations.
During the first Trump administration, then senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez (later convicted on corruption charges), both serving as members on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, shared a “close relationship” with Uribe. Rubio stated that he is “a big fan of President Uribe,” while “multiple sources confirm that Rubio and Uribe are in constant communication, while others confirm that Uribe is a frequent fixture in the U.S. Congress.”
This support was evident last year when Uribe held a conference in Miami. During the event, Rubio, accompanied by Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Curbelo, applauded Uribe as, “a leader who stands up for democracy in Colombia and the threat of a possible leftist tyranny backed by Cuba and Venezuela.”
Rubio believes “the United States should continue to support Colombia’s efforts to combat terrorism and narcotics,” despite an allegation that the former Colombian president was a cartel operative.
Uribe’s Link to Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel
In 1991, a US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report was released under a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the National Security Archives (NSA). The report “placed Uribe, then a senator, among Colombia’s top narcotrafficking figures,” and said he was “dedicated to collaboration with the Medellin Cartel at high government levels” and was “a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar,” according to the NSA.
A diplomatic cable listed Uribe as a Colombian “Narcopols,” and further stated that “an Uribe ally told the Embassy that the notorious Ochoa Vásquez brothers, co-founders of the Medellín Cartel, had ‘financed’ Uribe’s Senate campaign.” Moreover, according to the NSA, documents “reinforce the idea that Uribe’s links to the illegal militias have always been something of an open secret, part of a wider acceptance of paramilitaries among certain Colombian elites.”
“Washington portrays Uribe as a key ally in the war on drugs and terrorism, boasting that his administration has extradited 150 accused traffickers to the US, more than twice the number extradited in his predecessor’s four-year term,” notes the NSA’s David Bloom, citing an article in The New York Times. “But there have been persistent claims that as chief of Colombia’s civil aviation authority in the late 1980s, Uribe protected drug flights. When he was governor of Antioquia between 1995 and 1997, paramilitary activity exploded in the department.”
Targeting Leftist Governments, Not Drugs
Image: President Gustavo Petro Urrego of Colombia addresses the UN General Assembly in 2023 (Photo credit: UN)
The problem for the US with Gustavo Petro is not drugs. It is the fact he is a leftist with an ambitious agenda. In late 2022, with the help of centrist and right-wing parties (the “Historic Pact”), he passed a progressive tax reform. The law increased taxes on Colombia’s top earners and established higher royalties on the extraordinary profits in the extractive industries.
“For the first time in many decades we are talking about taxing the upper echelons of the population in order to finance spending and investments for the poorest people of this country,” Petro said.
In addition, Petro’s government initiated “Total Peace,” a plan to negotiate with all the armed forces operating in Colombia in an effort to end decades-long armed conflict that has killed hundreds of the thousands of Colombians.
César Bowley Castillo, a scholar of Colombian social movements, notes a number of foreign policy achievements attributed to the Petro government.
“Petro’s been a leader on Palestine, and this has created space for other Latin American leaders to take similar stances. Petro has now stopped shipping Colombian coal to Israel. And he’s been a leader on climate. He’s also reestablished relations with Cuba and Venezuela, something no previous president would have done,” Castillo said.
In regard to Venezuela, Petro has worked with Nicolás Maduro on issues of mutual concern, an effort that no doubt alarms the Trump administration. The Colombian president declared “that Colombia and Venezuela are the same people, the same flag, and the same history.” Petro made the remarks “in defense of Venezuela and in response to the threats from the United States,” Natalia Falah wrote for Colombia One in August.
In September, Petro went before the U.N. General Assembly and called for a criminal investigation against President Donald Trump and other officials involved in deadly strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean that the White House insists were transporting drugs.
“Criminal proceedings must be opened against those officials, who are from the U.S., even if it includes the highest-ranking official who gave the order: President Trump,” Petro said. He said the boat passengers were not members of the Tren de Aragua gang, as claimed by the Trump administration. “They said that the missiles in the Caribbean were used to stop drug trafficking. That is a lie stated here in this very rostrum,” Petro said.
On October 22, Trump expanded his attacks to the Pacific Ocean, where he targeted a vessel off the coast of Colombia, killing two people. It was the ninth attack on vessels the Trump administration insists are operated by “narcoterrorists” attempting to smuggle drugs into the United States.
Manifest Destiny Reprise
The United States has a long history of attacking and undermining governments in Latin America, beginning as early as 1846 with the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the war against Mexico. In the 1850s, the US intervened in Nicaragua and Panama, the latter at the behest of the Atlantic-Pacific railroad. 1898 brought war with Spain and the US occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. In the early 20th century, the US passed the Platt Amendment, giving it a freehand to intervene across the Latin America. Cuba, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Mexico, Honduras, and Haiti endured US interventions.
“I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914,” wrote US Marine Major General Smedley Butler. “I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916.”
The “record of racketeering” continues today as Donald Trump attempts to force an updated version of the Monroe Doctrine on Latin America. “It has been the formal policy of our country since President Monroe that we reject the interference of foreign nations in this hemisphere and in our own affairs,” Trump declared during a September 2018 speech before the United Nations.
The current “interference” stems from the involvement of China and Russia in Mexico, Columbia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. In addition to foreign trade, in both consumer goods and military hardware, the US has, since the Cold War, attempted to undermine socialist governments in Latin America. The US claimed to be fighting the spread of communism. Its coups and establishment of authoritarian regimes has resulted in widespread death, suffering, and poverty.
Over the last thirty odd years, the has US shifted the focus in Latin America from defeating communism, and later terrorism, to the war on drugs. It can be argued Trump is less interested in combatting the drug cartels than maintaining the “Washington Consensus” of “trade liberalization” enforced by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the US Treasury.
“Across Latin America, governments are watching with growing unease as a new kind of Monroe Doctrine seems to be taking shape,” writes Pierre Haski. “Trump seems to draw inspiration from that imperial era.”
Again, the underlying motivation, obfuscated by a claim to be fighting against drugs and narcoterrorists, is to make sure Latin America is dominated by Wall Street interests, and unfriendly leaders such as Maduro and Petro are driven from power and corporations enjoy the freedom to extract oil and critical minerals like lithium and copper without the resistance of nearly 700 million people, more than 170 million of them living in extreme poverty.
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The US struck the eighth boat reportedly involved in drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific Ocean. For the first time, the strike campaign was expanded beyond the Caribbean basin. Plus American farmers are in BIG TROUBLE and need relief funds NOW as their crops sit in limbo due to Trump and his tariffs.
On October 19, President Donald Trump added Colombia to the target list of Latin American countries he insists are behind drug production.
“President Gustavo Petro, of Columbia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Columbia,” Trump posted on X. “The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc.”
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just utterly NUKED Colombia President Petro and CANCELED subsidies to his country
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“President Gustavo Petro, of Columbia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over… pic.twitter.com/cxF4Ms7dJO
Not only did Trump cancel “large scale payments and subsidies from the USA” slated for Colombia, he also ordered his War Department to destroy, in violation of international law and the US Constitution, what he described as a drug-carrying submarine “navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route.”
He said US intelligence “confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics,” and two of four “terrorists” were killed, while two survivors were returned to Ecuador and Colombia “for detention and prosecution.”
The day after a million or more Americans took to the streets to protest the policies of the Trump administration, including that of his foreign policy, Trump posted from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida that Colombian President Gustavo Petro “better close up” alleged drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Pedro Sánchez, the Colombian defense minister, refuted Trump’s unverified remarks.
“If there’s a country that has used all its capabilities and also lost men and women fighting drug trafficking … it’s Colombia,” he said. The baseless allegations are “disrespect from Trump to Colombia,” Sánchez added.
Petro weighed in on the claim Colombia is a narcoterrorist state.
“I ask President Trump to contain his oil greed, to think about humanity, to think about the effectiveness of a greater America,” he said.
After the War Department targeted a fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters on September 15, Petro accused the US president of murdering fisherman Alejandro Carranza and two crew members from Trinidad and Tobago.
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure,” he explained.
Petro said Carranza did not have a connection with drug traffickers.
“His daily job is just fishing. Colombia is waiting for an official explanation from the US side.”
The elected government of Gustavo Petro (he won 50.44% of the popular vote), like that of Nicolás Maduro in neighboring Venezuela, is the target of US regime change actions. In January, Petro refused to allow a US military aircraft carrying deported Colombian nationals to land in Colombia. In response, Trump threatened to impose a 50% tariff on the country and implement travel bans and visa revocations for Colombian government officials. In response, Colombia backed down and allowed the deportees to return.
The Pink Tide vs. The Monroe Doctrine
The Trump administration is targeting Colombia and other Latin American countries in response to a so-called “pink tide” (marea rosa) or “turn to the left” (giro a la izquierda). Latin American countries have rejected the “Washington Consensus” of economic “policy prescriptions” (trade liberalization, privatization, and finance liberalization) imposed by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the US Treasury. The austerity of these “prescriptions” resulted in social mobilization and a turn toward leftist government.
“The U.S. Government’s aggressive push to expand free trade in Latin America,” writes Nadia Martinez, “helped catapult… new leaders into the presidential palaces,” most notably Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in Brazil. The rise of socialism in Latin America drew a sharp response from the United States.
As of 2006, approximately 300 million of Latin America’s 520 million citizens lived under governments that wanted out from under the Washington Consensus that produced “staggering levels of poverty and inequality.” The landslide victory of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998 resulted in a move to the left by a number of Latin American countries.
“Latin America’s new leftists have produced over the last couple of years their own consensus, a common project to use the centrifugal forces of globalization to loosen Washington’s unipolar grip,” writes Greg Grandin.
Soon after Trump was elected for a second term, Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. Although the administration said the primary reason for the visit was related to immigration and security arrangements, the primary reason was economic: China is the number one trading partner for South America.
“For more than two decades, China has developed close economic and security ties with many Latin American countries, including Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela,” notes the Council on Foreign Relations. “But Beijing’s increasing sway in the region continues to raise concerns in Washington, prompting greater U.S. engagement.”
For Trump, that engagement is murdering fishermen in the territorial waters of Venezuela and Colombia, illegal acts designed to elicit a response.
“While U.S. President Joe Biden saw China as a ‘strategic competitor’ in the region, the reelection of Donald Trump has marked a shift in U.S. policy toward Latin America, characterized by assertive economic measures that experts say could push countries further toward China.”
Image: Official portrait of Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Public Domain)
In response to the “threat” of China in Latin America, the Trump administration has tried to implicate it in its drug trafficking scenario. In June, FBI Director Kash Patel accused China of intentionally exacerbating the fentanyl crisis in the United States as part of a scheme to weaken America by targeting its youth. Patel went on the Joe Rogan podcast and said China is engaged in “chemical warfare” against America. “This isn’t accidental poisoning. This is strategic lethality,” he said. On October 19, Trump told reporters he wants China “to stop with the fentanyl.”
For decades, the so-called “war on drugs” has served as a justification to intervene in Latin America, most notably through Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative.
“Bolivian President Luis Arce became the latest regional leader to denounce the United States’ actions, accusing it of disguising geopolitical ambitions under the cloak of narcotics enforcement,” Damsana Ranadhiran wrote in August.
“We know that behind this failed international war on drugs lies the real objective to geopolitically control Latin America for its natural resources and to dismantle organized peoples, so that we cannot follow our own sovereign path,” declared Arce.
On October 19, Trump called Petro a “lunatic” and the “worst president [Colombia] ever had.” The president said Colombia has “no fight against drugs, and I’m stopping all payments to Colombia because they don’t have anything to do with their fight against drugs.”
“President Gustavo Petro, of Columbia (sic)… a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely,” Trump tweeted.
In response to Trump’s caustic remarks, Colombia recalled its ambassador to the United States, Daniel Garcia-Pena. Trump’s response came the day after Petro accused the United States of murdering fishermen in the Caribbean.
Trump has made no secret of his support of autocrats in Latin America, most notably the disgraced former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in addition to Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, and the “libertarian” president of Argentina, Javier Milei.
“Donald Trump’s authoritarian style and policies have energized the right and the far right across the hemisphere,” writes Jeff Abbott. The United States “has revived the Monroe Doctrine, which holds that the United States has the right to intervene in Latin America to prevent other countries from gaining influence.”
Trump Sends the CIA to Undermine Venezuela
The Trump administration continues to increase pressure on Venezuela. In an unprecedented move, Trump publicly stated that he has ordered the CIA to conduct subversive operations in the country.
“I authorized for two reasons really,” Trump told reporters. “Number one, they have emptied their prisons into the United States of America… they came in through the border. The other thing are drugs.” In addition to CIA subversion, Trump floated the idea of “land strikes” in Venezuela. Asked for clarification, the president said “we are certainly looking at land now because we’ve got the sea very well under control.”
The CIA has worked to undermine governments in Latin America since the early 1950s. It organized coups and terror operations in Guatemala, Guyana, Cuba, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Nicaragua, Honduras, Grenada, El Salvador, Haiti, Panama, and Venezuela.
“The clandestine operations, espionage, secret missions, covert funding, psychological warfare and regime change tactics the U.S. has employed in Latin America for decades, continue today overtly and covertly,” writes Eva Golinger.
Trump has taken this sordid history of subversion and murder to the next level. His maritime strikes likely serve as a precursor of things to come, possibly including a full blown invasion of Venezuela. The US buildup of guided-missile destroyers, F-35B jet fighters, MQ-9 Reaper drones, P-8 Poseidon spy planes, assault ships and a secretive special operations ship, in addition to more than 10,000 troops, may be nothing more than an expensive show of force in an attempt to intimidate Maduro.
However, considering Trump’s aggressive rhetoric and a military buildup that rivals the firepower the US committed to the Battle of Midway during World War II, an invasion is a distinct possibility, if not a foregone conclusion.
For years I’ve been saying that eventually America would have enough of the homeless causing problems and that they’d start to disappear, never to be seen again. That is happening right now as you will see/hear in this video interview of a homeless man named Jeremy in Austin TX.
Cities, states and even the Federal Government in DC have essentially made being homeless illegal without actually wording the laws that way. Some of them are snatched off the street in unmarked vans or SUVs and their friends never see or hear from them again. According to Jeremy “There’s, there’s certain situations you don’t want to go to sleep in. Uh, right now with everything going on, dude, (1:16) there’s like people that we talk to that say or do the wrong thing the next day. And then you don’t (1:23) see them again.”
The City of Austin is having a re-gentrification plan going on and now they want all of the homeless OUT of the downtown areas after herding them there in the first place. All of the resources the homeless need have been placed downtown, so now where are they supposed to go? According to Jeremy “then they told us their resources are full while they stood there and made a stand (3:55) beside our stuff and took our stuff and put it in a trash compactor. And then when we asked, (3:59) well, what the hell are we supposed to do? Where the hell are we supposed to go? (4:02) They told us they don’t care. They changed the law into the first time you’re caught (4:07) sleeping or resting or sitting for more than four hours in a city spot in a public place.(4:13) It’s a warning. The second time’s a ticket. The third time they’re taking you to county jail.(4:18) So, I mean, they’ve made it illegal to be homeless without saying it’s illegal to be (4:23) when they do. When did they do that? This started two days ago. So that’s the big transition.”
The food and water that the city of Austin has been giving out to the homeless is POISONED as well, just as the Lord told me (back in 2012) it would be during this time. Jeremy also talks about the drugs downtown being tainted, made extra toxic or something which is something he’s never seen before. They give us food and (5:10) a lot of people get sick from the food and shit. They’re saying there’s stuff in it. (5:15) And you see Republic Square’s all got that, all that construction right there.(5:19) And now, like, it’s weird. All, they took all the drug dealers out of Republic Square, (5:25) but you can tell there’s certain dudes they allowed to be there to peddle certain drugs. (5:31) And the people that are getting them drugs are way fucked up.(5:36) Like bad, like out of their fucking mind, fucked up, hurting themselves, fucking trying to hurt (5:42) other people, uh, laying down here underneath the bridge, dying, disappearing. So some drugs that (5:49) are trying to get rid of people. And this is wow.
As you can see the governments on every level are out to get rid of the homeless problem via extermination. I wouldn’t doubt that they’re being taken to FEMA camps while being told they’ll be taken care of with food, water, medical care etc. Who wouldn’t go for that when you’ve been on the streets for a long time? As you can see above those who won’t go and want to continue to use drugs are being poisoned with many probably dying from them. I see it here in Spokane WA everyday with drug addicts being given Narcan to revive them. Somedays it’s dozens per day.
I highly recommend watching the entire video. For those who would rather read it I’ve put the transcript below the video.
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The case of Mexico is quite telling that no country can hope to feel safe, no matter how closely it worked with the US authorities. For decades, the country has been ravaged by drug cartels, themselves often deeply connected to the infamous CIA and other US intelligence agencies.
Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
There are very few informed people who haven’t heard of Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina and a notorious neoconservative warmonger. We might even say a war criminal, given his central role in starting and prolonging wars around the world. It could be argued that he was one of the architects of the Ukrainian conflict, greatly contributing to the Neo-Nazi junta’s genocidal policies towards the people of Donbass. Many of the things Graham has said in Ukraine since 2014 came true, however, not because of his wisdom or insight, but because he was one of the people who actually made it happen. He has openly been advocating for WW3 for years now, particularly since last February and the start of Russia’s counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe.
Along with John Bolton, the late John McCain and several others, Graham could be described as member of Washington DC’s “war party”, although it should be noted they would never directly take part in an actual shooting war. Instead, they enjoy sending people a third of their age to do that. Recently, Graham and the rest of the warmongers, quite unhappy seeing the dwindling global power projection capabilities of the US military, suggested passing legislation that would set the stage for yet another war, but much closer to home. This time, the target would be Mexico.
Last Monday, after four US citizens were taken hostage, two of which have been killed, presumably by members of the CDC (otherwise known as the Golf Cartel), Graham stated he would “go tough” on the cartels, particularly in the area of Matamoros, where the incident took place. The city is located in the northeast of Mexico, close to the US border and is effectively controlled by the aforementioned cartel. Graham essentially blamed Mexico for the incident and threatened with military action.
“I would put Mexico on notice. If you continue to give safe haven to drug dealers, then you are an enemy of the United States,” he stated during an interview with Fox News host Jesse Waters, further adding: “I’m going to introduce legislation … to make certain Mexican drug cartels [are listed as] foreign terrorist organizations under US law and set the stage to use military force if necessary to protect America from being poisoned by things coming out of Mexico.”
Back in January, Republicans Mike Waltz and Dan Crenshaw called for an Authorization for Use of Military Force against Mexican cartels for drug trafficking “that has caused destabilization in the Western Hemisphere.” Graham, along with 16 Republican cosponsors, supported the bill and criticized the Biden administration for the deteriorating situation at the southern border, claiming that “up to 100,000 people have died from fentanyl poisoning coming from Mexico and China, and this administration has done nothing about it.”
“I would tell the Mexican government if you don’t clean up your act, we’re going to clean it up for you,” he threatened.
Graham also said he agreed with former Attorney General Bill Barr, who stated he wanted to officially designate drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” and called for the US to take military action against them. Other Republicans have also called for an attack on Mexico, with Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene stating that the US should “strategically strike and take out the Mexican Cartels, not the Mexican government or their people, but the Mexican Cartels which control them all.”
While it could be argued that fighting cartels is certainly not a bad cause, we should not forget that somewhat similar “altruistic” motives were cited as the reason for virtually any war started by the US, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Blaming Mexico and even China for the drug abuse “pandemic” in America will certainly not resolve this burning issue or any of the resulting violence across the country. If the establishment in Washington DC had the interests of regular Americans in mind, they would introduce bills allocating at least 10% of their massive $858 billion military budget to the improvement of healthcare, for instance.
Quite expectedly, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wasn’t too happy about the threats and warned the US against armed aggression on his country. He also reiterated that “the [Mexican] government is working and cooperating with US authorities against cartels”, but that “it wouldn’t permit any foreign government to intervene in our territory”. Obrador added that he will also work towards informing Mexicans living in the US about the true nature of the legislation targeting the country. He warned American lawmakers not to use Mexico “for their propagandist, electoral and political purposes” or he “will make a call [for the Mexicans] to not vote for that [Republican] party”.
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Basically you have 2 giant Wall Street companies that own at least part of every healthcare system in the United States. Not some, every single one. Those 2 companies are Blackstone and Vanguard with Blackstone having just purchased TeamHealth for 6.1 Billion. TeamHealth is the largest medical staffing agency in the US so there’s a good chance your doctor or nurse is employed by them.
As you’ll see in the video below TeamHealth overcharges by up to 95% and up to 9 times what Medicare will pay out. This is done by design as one of their own executives say they will charge whatever the market will bear, it has nothing to do with the actual cost of treatment. Sadly this is just one part of the massive scam that is called “healthcare” in the USA. They should really call it sick care because that’s what they’re doing, keeping you sick while managing your symptoms which they call “managing your disease”.
That is the business model for healthcare in America, to keep you on the edge of being sick all of the time so that you’re dependent on them and their “treatments” which will most likely end in your early grave.
If we truly had a healthcare system it would be affordable, most of the synthetic drugs and vaccines would be deemed dangerous and of no use and thrown into the trash heap. The system would focus on diet, exercise and whole body health. Drugs would only be used as a last resort for life saving measures, not daily toxic treatments. I will be reporting much more on this topic in the near future and in the process I’ll be exposing more of the scam they call healthcare in America.
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