President Trump suggested he would be okay ordering U.S. military strikes inside Mexico and Colombia as part of his administration’s ostensible war against fentanyl and cocaine, he told reporters Monday at the White House.

“Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? OK with me. Whatever we have to do to stop drugs,” he said inside the Oval Office. “Colombia is—has cocaine factories, where they make cocaine. Would I knock out those factories? I would be proud to do it, personally.” NBC News and Bloomberg have a bit more.

Update: The U.S. Navy’s Caribbean Sea build-up now features at least a dozen ships, including the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, which arrived in the region over the weekend, Dan Lamothe of the Washington Post wrote on social media Monday. Other vess

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