النص الأصلي (بالإنجليزية): US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative – (مترجم)
<p>Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they’re to stop US overdose deaths</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> is framing its boat strikes against drug cartels in the Caribbean in part as a collective self-defense effort on behalf of US allies in the region, according to three people directly familiar with the administration’s internal legal argument.</p><p>The legal analysis rests on a premise – for which there is no immediate public evidence – that the cartels are waging armed violence against the security forces of allies like Mexico, and that the violence is financed by cocaine shipments.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/trump-caribbean-boat-strikes-memo">Continue reading…</a>