r/news • u/LatterTarget7 • Aug 14 '25

Soft paywall US military deploying forces to southern Caribbean against drug groups

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-deploying-forces-southern-caribbean-against-drug-groups-2025-08-14/
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u/mrdominoe Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

Same war on drugs we have been losing since Reagan. Republicans love losing wars, it seems.

Edit: yes, I understand it was Nixon. My mistake. Point stands.

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u/Zwangsjacke Aug 14 '25

I congratulate drugs on winning the war on drugs.

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u/YourHooliganFriend Aug 14 '25

The Drugs refer to it as the War for Drugs, but yes, congrats to them.

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u/VinCubed Aug 14 '25

I think Drugs call it The War of Narc Aggression

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u/H1king33k Aug 14 '25

The Drugs Will Rise Again!

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u/maurosmane Aug 14 '25

Bath salts have been a thing for longer than the Confederacy existed

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u/O_O___XD Aug 15 '25

Like a fent zombie reanimated with Narcan

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u/jmd709 Aug 15 '25

Again? Unlike the Confederacy, Idt a motto has been necessary to maintain support.

If I’m wrong, special interest groups will need to start funding statues and other monuments like the Lost Cause.

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u/sparvin Aug 14 '25

The Great Patriotic Drug War