The Trump administration has said the U.S. is in a "non-international armed conflict" with drug cartels, arguing that the narcotics they smuggle kill tens of thousands of Americans every year, constituting an "armed attack."

Ah yes because nothing says "fighting the baddies" like blowing up another country's citizens to advance your imperialist and neo-colonialist agenda. When you're not killing brown people from the desert, you're killing brown people from the jungle.