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military assistance to Colombia is in focus. The country's president has asked Donald Trump for support against drug trafficking operations inside Colombia, placing the next decision squarely with the White House.
The transmission chain from here begins with a head-of-state ask and ends with a response that has not yet come. Colombia's president directed the request at Trump personally.
Drug trafficking operations within Colombia are the stated target. No detail was offered on the form of assistance sought. For the macro read, the sequence matters. A direct presidential request for U.S.
military support signals Bogota's read on the scale of the trafficking problem inside its borders. The missing link is Trump's answer. No figures have been attached to the request. No timeline, no operational scope.
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