News Summary

• David Rothkopf: Trump administration ratcheted up tensions with Latin America.
• He says it signaled it was set to dramatically expand its nascent military offensive against so-called ‘narco-terrorists’ He says the president’s use of “terrorist’ is telling.
• It allows him to treat the victims as enemy combatants in a war that does not exist but that he increasingly seems to want to incite.
• Rothkapf: The U.S. is in no such conflict; the country is not under attack, and Congress has not declared war.