Trump Signs New Counterterrorism Strategy Targeting Western Hemisphere Cartels and Left-Wing Extremists
The 16-page blueprint expands terrorism to include cartels and political extremists and calls for law enforcement, financial and cyber measures against them.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed a new 16-page counterterrorism strategy that top White House adviser Sebastian Gorka announced Wednesday, prioritizing neutralization of drug cartels, Islamist jihadi groups, and domestic violent secular political groups.
- The strategy identifies three primary threat categories—narcoterrorists, legacy Islamist groups, and left-wing extremists—marking a sharp departure from the Biden Administration's focus on far-right and white supremacist violence.
- Administration officials emphasize targeting 'violent secular political groups' like Antifa, with Gorka stating they will use 'all the tools constitutionally available' to map and disrupt these groups operationally before violence occurs.
- Moving from 'burden sharing' to 'burden shifting,' officials scheduled meetings with international partners on Friday to discuss counterterrorism efforts, demanding allies contribute more to regional security tasks like protecting the Strait of Hormuz.
- While the strategy cites a 42% rise in left-wing extremist incidents from CSIS data, critics warn the plan broadly defines domestic dissent as terrorism, potentially enabling expanded surveillance against activist networks.
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White House casts cartels, jihadists and left-wing extremists as ‘significant and pervasive’ threats to US
The White House on Wednesday released a wide-ranging counterterrorism strategy targeting narcoterrorists, Islamist terrorists and violent left-wing extremists. The 16-page blueprint — the first issued since President Donald Trump’s return to office — describes the triad as “significant and pervasive” dangers to the homeland, to be addressed in phases. During a conference call with reporters, Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s senior director for counterte…
Donald Trump’s new anti-terrorist strategy, the first fully developed under his second mandate, redefines the security priorities of the United States and places the American continent at the centre of the threat. “The document identifies as the first objective drug cartels and transnational gangs such as the Mara Salvatrucha or the Aragua Train, which he no longer treats only as criminal organizations, but as terrorist groups capable of directl…
Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups
The Trump administration has classified left-wing networks like Antifa among “three major types of terror groups” the US faces, according to a counter-terrorism plan released Thursday.
US Releases New Counter-Terrorism Strategy, Calls Europe an ‘Incubator’ of Migrant Terrorism
Leftist, radical pro-trans activist also on the US’ crosshairs. Yesterday, the Donald J. Trump administration released its new Counter-Terrorism Strategy, a document that, along with the recently-released National Security Strategy (NSS), outlines the new priorities and concerns for US officials. The new document unleashes fresh criticism of Europe, after the NSS said the continent faced ‘civilizational erasure’ due to unchecked mass migration. …
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