American Imperialism Explodes again as History Starts to Rhyme in South America

The president even placed himself as a king inside a fighter jet to make it clear where he is headed, after also posting something like 90,000 more years of Trump!

Oct 21, 2025

The Peace President today posted an AI video of himself as “King Trump,” flying over crowds of “No Kings” protestors and dumping his shit (literally) on them. I’ve said that crassly, but why color it anyway other way than how the president did? You can watch the graphic presidential video at one of the boldfaced headlines below. I’ve started with the video because today’s editorial is about the new wars the Peace President is igniting in South America, so a shot from his own video makes a good lead photograph for the editorial.

Two countries in South America are slated for war with the US now that Colombia has been added to the presidential hit list that first contained just Venezuela.

Colombia’s interior minister on Monday voiced anger at US President Donald Trump for threatening a potential “invasion” of his country -- the world’s biggest cocaine producer -- to combat drug production.
Trump had angrily lashed out on Sunday at his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro, saying on social media that he “better close up” drug cultivation sites, “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”

After writing this weekend in my Deeper Dive about how the Trump Tariff War may never be settled because he constantly finds new reasons to dump tariffs on nations that he has already claimed to have finalized agreements with for entirely new causes, the president over the weekend also dropped a load of tariff crap on Colombia because its president criticized his attack on a boat out at sea, claiming it was the murder of a mere fisherman. In response, Trump immediately halted all aid to Columbia and announced he will be adding new tariffs.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia accused the United States of murdering a fisherman in an attack on a boat that the American authorities claimed was carrying illicit drugs. President Trump responded on Sunday that he would slash assistance and impose new tariffs on the country….
“U.S. government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters,” Mr. Petro wrote on social media. He said the man killed in the mid-September attack, Alejandro Carranza, was a “lifelong fisherman” whose boat had experienced damage and was adrift, probably in Colombian waters, at the time of the attack. His description of Mr. Carranza and his boat could not be immediately confirmed.

And, of course, Colombia’s president is going to say something like that, even if it was a fisherman who was also smuggling drugs in the hold of his fishing boat underneath the stinking fish to cover the scent, so who knows? The bigger fear here is that expansion of the drug war already to another Latin-American nation raises concerns that the US is sliding back decades to the days when the CIA routinely backed coups to overthrow Latin American regimes and engaged in military incursions under Reagan’s War on Drugs and, prior to that, in efforts to stop the spread of communism.

(I always say, if communism was really as deeply flawed as was claimed (and it IS), why not let those who want communist government hit themselves over the head with it and do their own damage to themselves? If it is flawed, it will die its own economic death … just as the Soviet Union did (with a little Reagan accelerant on the fires of war around it to burn through Soviet treasure, but it was happening anyway. Those wars, near as I can tell accomplished nothing but chaos. They didn’t create any stable governments in South America or Central America, and they sure has heck didn’t stomp out drug lords and their exports to America or Trump wouldn’t still be fighting the same wars in the same countries.)

Granted, Colombia is a huge criminal enterprise:

Colombia is by far the world’s largest producer of cocaine, and a much larger player in the global drug trade than Venezuela, which produces negligible amounts of cocaine and plays essentially no role in the production or smuggling of fentanyl.

It has been for decades, yet all efforts by the US to clean it up have failed. So, halting what aid was not already halted earlier this year is probably a good idea, though I imagine the poor will suffer most; but Colombia could turn its drug money toward helping its own poor. Now, however, we’re talking land invasion, just as Trump started doing last week with Venezuela:

The deployment of U.S. forces is the largest in the region in decades, including about 10,000 U.S. troops and dozens of military aircraft and ships. While the Trump administration says it is a counterdrug and counterterrorism mission, officials have privately made clear that the main goal is to drive Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, from power.

That sounds like the same ol’ stuff the US, particularly via the CIA, was doing with no great success during decades past. More of the old imperial regime-change stuff, pushed by Reagan and by the Bushes.

Vicky Dávila, a journalist and conservative presidential contender, expressed support for Mr. Trump on Sunday, saying on social media, “Petro and his corrupt Government have favored drug trafficking in every way possible.”

Sounds like she’s just the one we’d like to install as the new leader.

Trump has his eye on the beautiful Caracas

Trump turned up the heat in his flirtation with gaining power over Venezuela by deploying the secretive US Night Stockers regiment as Venezuela mobilizes millions of troops for a land war against any invasion.

Donald Trump has deployed one of the Army’s most secretive regiments in the Caribbean after threatening strikes inside Venezuela.
The president warned socialist tyrant Nicolas Maduro that he better not ‘f*** around with the United States’ as he spoke to reporters at the White House on Friday.

So far five boats have been struck since the beginning of this little (so far) war; but the threats of going a lot bigger and hotter are looming rapidly.

The strikes come against the backdrop of the largest US military buildup in the region since the Cold War.
Maduro claims to have mobilized a millions-strong militia and is warning the population that Trump is preparing to invade.

Much of that is likely just be the usual saber rattling:

Military experts say the true size of his army is just 125,000 soldiers and his rusty Soviet-era hardware stands no chance against America’s warfighting machine.

Regardless, the US gave up on drug wars because they were a costly failure, and Reagan was a pretty determined and strong military-oriented president. And those easy 100-day wars usually drag on for years at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in US Treasure. We’ve now heard this too many times to not know how it really goes.

Trump has deployed B-52 nuclear bombers, guided missile destroyers, F-35B fighter jets, P-8 Poseidon spy planes, a nuclear submarine and around 6,500 troops….
The Night Stalkers, so-called for their capability to strike undetected during the hours of darkness, represent US special operations’ aviation backbone bringing stealth and precision.

And that, I believe, is just for the Venezuela drive. In other words, that’s just for starters, and think of how much that big show of force is already costing.

I have no problem with blowing up drug smuggler boats once they enter US waters so long as we actually know what we’re doing and they really are smuggling drugs and it’s done with congressional approval! The president could probably get congress to declare war on any drug smugglers entering US waters and go after them with the military as we do with pirates because their drugs are a national threat.

However, regime-change wars and land incursions to put boots on the ground (someone else’s ground), instead of boats in the water (our water), in order to root out the current regime have been a go-nowhere plan of the Neocons for decades that is a disgrace to the US; and the never stop trying it under old, ever-lingering approval of terrorist war efforts that are long past their shelf life.

‘How long will the CIA continue to carry on with its coups? Latin America doesn’t want them, doesn’t need them and repudiates them,’ Maduro said in a televised address.

Well, he’s got a point! That’s what it is! Again! The drug wars raged all over South and CentralAmerica for a decade in the past, and the skirmishes to depose commie regimes went on for longer than that during the days of the Red Scare. Critics called it “US Interventionism” back in the day. Now we talk “regime change.”

The agency’s covert operations, which Trump confirmed last week, hark back to the coups, assassination attempts and insurgencies supported or carried out by Washington in the region during the 20th century.

I can't see that any of that created a continent full of clean-scrubbed, US-friendly capitalist nations, although their drug trade may be capitalist … or it may be government. Either way, it means the regime-change wars and the drug wars accomplished next to nothing.

Yet, off we go again to regime-change wars. John Bolton would be smiling if not for his own troubles that now leave him sidelined from the fun.

The Trump administration has asserted it’s treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.

Then get congress to declare it to make it clearly legitimate and not an illegal use of the military for police work. And, if your intel is really so accurate, limit it to tracking the boats, planes and submarines into and over US waters, then blow them to bits. If they’re funded by the government, the government that keeps seeing so much money go up in smoke will eventually go down for inability to pay off all the people you need to keep paying off to run a crooked government like that. Of course, we’ll have a lot of doped-up fish, but I suppose that’s collateral damage.

Frustration with the attacks has been growing on Capitol Hill.
Some Republicans have been seeking more information from the White House on the legal justification and details of the strikes, while Democrats contend the strikes violate US and international law.

The imperial president

Will we EVER end the regime-change nonsense? Where are the Red Hats now who said they wanted Trump to become president in order to end US imperial wars? MTG has been speaking out. So, have a few other talking Red Hats, but the majority is still standing by their man as he leads the US into a whole new parade of wars that already failed again and again:

The long and often sinister history of U.S. intervention in Latin America appears to be about to enter a new chapter. After a 20th century full of active interference, sometimes overt, such as the 1989 invasion of Panama — and other times, supposedly covert, such as the sponsorship of the 1973 coup in Chile against Salvador Allende — the Trump administration has authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela.

Add to that the old, familiar Colombia of the Drug War days.

Many Latin American dictatorships were built thanks to U.S. support for both the autocrats themselves and the power apparatus that underpinned them: the memory of the sinister School of the Americas, which trained more than 45,000 Latin American officers and instructed them in dirty war tactics, has not yet been erased, even though it closed its doors in 1984.

All of those US-placed regimes were as corrupt as Saddam Hussein and other dictators we empowered and emplaced in the Middle East. Again:

Many Latin American dictatorships were built thanks to U.S. support for both the autocrats themselves and the power apparatus that underpinned them,

And, so, the military industrial complex wins again, piloted by King Trump in his fighter jet with its usual load of crap (see the video), and those who protest it all are the ones who get dumped on. Maybe “King Trump” doesn’t feel big enough already, so he needs to become Emperor Trump.

To aid in the effort of shutting down protests against military operations, the Dept of War also just announced that it will be using AI to sniff out everyone who disagrees with its policies. Exactly what they plan to do with the rebels they flush out is unclear. In the very last, they are gong to wage some kind of AI-powered propaganda war.

Internal Pentagon Document Reveals The War Department Wants To ‘Suppress Dissenting Arguments’ Using AI Propaganda
“This program should also be able to access profiles, networks, and systems of individuals or groups that are attempting to counter or discredit our messages,” the document notes.

Shivers from 1984—the novel, but also the year when the “sinister School of the Americas” closed its doors, now being re-opened under other guises and new management. The new efforts will be much more futuristic because the formerly sometimes inaccurate targeting of the past will now be AI-enhanced says one general in the headlines below as he talks about his own use of Peter Thiel’s “kill chain” AI systems for acquiring and locating targets. That’s another good story from The Winepress highlighted in the headlines below:

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