The military strikes against fishing boats under the Trump administration constitute first-degree murder rather than war crimes because the acts are not occurring in an official state of war.

“I say it's murder one. You know, again, in order for it to be a war crime, don't you have to be at war?”

The administration's use of narco-trafficking as a pretext for potential military action is an authoritarian tactic similar to how Putin used false pretenses to justify the invasion of Ukraine.

“Well, Trump's narco trafficking pretext is kind of like Putin's denazification, right? He tried to use it as a pretext first to invade Canada. And yes, he wanted to invade Canada and make it a 51st state.”