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Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is claiming that the US is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels, after it killed at least 17 people aboard alleged drug boats last month.

What happened? The Trump administration sent a letter, first reported by the New York Times, to multiple congressional committees this week that described drug cartels as “nonstate armed groups” engaged in “an armed attack against the United States,” and said the US was in a “noninternational armed conflict” against them.

In such a conflict, the administration would have wartime powers to kill and detain cartel me

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