It’s pretty obvious to even a casual observer that the U.S. Trump administration’s sinking of, now, four small boats off the coast of Venezuela that were allegedly laden with drugs bound for the United States, has nothing to do with an actual effort to shut down the drug trade. The strategic purpose of the operation is to engage in a military-led regime-change operation in the Western Hemisphere, as part of the administration’s stated policy of making sure that no country in the region engages in economic cooperation with China, or even with the BRICS.
But there is a broader policy point to be stressed. First, U.S. President Donald Trump’s “war on drugs” proposes to ride roughshod over neighboring countries, violating national sovereignty at Washington’s whim. Second, it makes no mention of the controlling role of Wall Street and City of London banks in the $1 trillion per year international drug trade—let alone actually shutting them down for money laundering, while throwing the leading bankers in jail.
Compare that to the real War on Drugs that Lyndon LaRouche fought for and outlined in his March 13, 1985 15-Point Plan for a War on Drugs, which included:
“3. A treaty of alliance for conduct of war should be established between the United States and the governments of Ibero-American states which join the War on Drugs alliance.…
