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Trump’s decision to attack alleged drug ships in the Caribbean may have just done irreparable harm to its relationship with America’s closest ally — the United Kingdom.
That’s because according to reports, the UK decided it wasn’t going to share information about the Caribbean with the US over fears that Trump’s attacks on alleged drug ships were illegal.
This is a big deal because the UK is a major player in the Caribbean when it comes to intel.
Right, they still have territories there that house intelligence bases and helped the US for years track down drug ships for the US Coast Guard to intercept.
But after the US started blowing ships up and killing 76 people so far, the UK became concerned that the intel it provided would lead to preventable deaths.
Especially because there are growing concerns and accusations that at least some of the ships being attacked aren’t drug ships at all.
Not to mention that even if they were drug-smuggling operations, international law doesn’t give the US carte blanche to just blow them up, which has led the UN’s human rights chief Volker Turk to claim they are “extrajudicial killings” and violate international law.
Possibly even more concerning for the US is that these attacks are pushing away more than just the UK.
Possibly our second biggest ally is Canada, and they’ve also stopped helping the US intercept smuggling operations in the Caribbean over concerns that they’d be complicit in the attacks.
Now it’s still sharing intel with the US but says that the intel isn’t supposed to be used to attack ships — although it remains to be seen whether that demand is actually respected.
Either way, all of this shows how the Trump Administration is pushing allies away in order to appear “strong” in the region.
Which ironically is probably doing the opposite.
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