Should Trump Drone Strike Cartels?
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
4.4 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
If a foreign organization kills more Americans every year than every war since Vietnam combined, is it terrorism? And if it’s terrorism, why isn’t the US treating it that way?
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00:00:00 Should Trump Drone Strike the Cartels?
00:02:09 The Data Behind America’s Drug Crisis
00:07:00 The Drug Trade Has Grown to an Industrial Scale
00:09:57 Mexicans Want Trump to Attack the Cartels
00:12:39 How the Drug Trade Fuels Homicides in the US
00:14:38 Cartels Are Now Heavily Armed With Chinese Weapons
00:18:14 The Venezuelan Government is One Giant Drug Cartel
00:23:19 Is Mexico Turning into a Failed State?
00:29:12 China is Behind This
00:37:40 The Left Now Defines Itself By Opposing Anything Trump Does
00:42:23 The Libertarian Argument on Drugs
00:47:02 The Conservative Argument on Drugs
00:51:04 The Opium Wars
00:53:43 At What Point Does Social Cohesion Matter?
00:56:13 The Tension Between Liberty and Order
00:59:35 Liberty is the Product of Something Deeper
01:04:24 Oregon’s Experiment With Drug Liberalization
01:13:17 What Can be Done About the Drug Crisis?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is the Trump administration and the Department of War engaging in a series of war crimes directed at perfectly innocent people simply driving boats in the South Caribbean Sea? |
| 0:09.6 | Or are they conducting counterterrorism operations? |
| 0:13.2 | This is an important question because it could determine not just what happens next week or next month, but it could determine what happens to the people engaging those operations many years from now, especially if Democrats take control. We talked about this in a |
| 0:25.7 | previous episode, but what we're going to do today is we're actually going to lay out the situation |
| 0:29.6 | on the ground with respect to narco-terrorism. We're going to talk about what the drug situation is |
| 0:36.1 | the United States. Which drugs are killing the most Americans? |
| 0:39.1 | Where are they coming from? |
| 0:40.6 | Which countries are complicit in the trafficking of drugs to the United States of America? |
| 0:44.9 | And what should the U.S. government do about it? |
| 0:47.3 | Plus, we're actually going to discuss this issue from about three perspectives. |
| 0:50.9 | One perspective will be from the left and how they see this issue. |
| 0:53.9 | One will be the libertarian perspective, and the third will be from the left and how they see this issue. One will be the |
| 0:54.5 | libertarian perspective and the third will be discussing the perspective of the Trump administration |
| 0:59.5 | and the Department of War. All of that coming up on this episode of making the argument. But first, |
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