WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, a move that dramatically expands the U.S. government’s authority to fight the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of American overdose deaths each year.
The designation, unprecedented for a narcotic, signals Trump’s intent to treat fentanyl not merely as a public health crisis but as a national security threat on a par with chemical warfare.
I posted this on another Trump/fentanyl news announcement.
When you think back… WMD was what justified the war in Iraq. Now he says this drug is a WMD and is coming in to USA from Venezuela but we know it isnt, most reliable news says so. He has also said it is coming from Canada. Is this his push to justify a full scale attack on Canada?
it was also one of the justified/continued attacks in the ME by netanyahu, mostly with his obsession with IRAN.
He legitimately believes that being a wartime president is his key to holding onto power. Either because history shows that wartime presidents poll well, or because he can argue that we shouldn’t change leadership during a war. He desperately wants a crisis that he can throw the military at, not the inevitable collapse of the economy that he is unable/unwilling to do anything about.
it only polls well if they are getting an election, but its way past that already.
Got to put troops on the streets in the US to ferret out the insurgents by any means necessary.