Alex Horton
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It's that obvious.
This is what they do.
This is the region.
So how do you square these two things that the message from Trump and the rest of the government is we are at war with drug traffickers and cartels and people who are intent on doing this harm by sending deadly products to the United States.
And then you see, you know, this deal with someone who's convicted in a U.S.
court of these crimes and.
for a very long time.
And you contrast that with killing these people in these boats that have the smallest amount of drugs you could get to transport to effect.
I mean, we're talking on fractions of a percent of the trafficking volume that comes in.
We're talking tons and tons and hundreds of tons of cocaine, maybe even thousands of tons of cocaine a year.
These are drops in the bucket that you're focused on.
But meanwhile,
You know, the big fish is getting another deal entirely.
So, you know, I don't know how it squares.
I don't know what their relationship or any sort of deal that was made.
But there is, you know, we are looking for more consistency in Trump's, what they describe as a hardline approach to drug trafficking.