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Trump's own DEA blows up his drug war claims as smugglers adapt
Trump’s Boat War Didn’t Stop Cocaine. It Just Started Killing People.The Claim, and the DamageA DEA assessment, a closed congressional briefing, and interviews with officials have now punctured the administration’s preferred fantasy: months of strikes on suspected smuggling boats have not reduced cocaine flowing into the United States. Prices and purity stayed basically flat. Traffickers adapted. The market kept moving. The boats kept getting hit anyway.That is the core fact, and it matters because the policy was never sold as theater. It was sold as dominance. Trump claimed repeated…
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