Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian tweeting about drug policy, culture wars, social justice, Ukraine, & such. Personal account.
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”You cannot use a military solution to solve what is fundamentally an economic problem. … It’s just a recipe for more war.”
— IPS expert Sanho Tree on the U.S.’s war on drugs @dwnews youtu.be/vykaR4aIxsw?si=N9Y8…
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NEW: Trump claimed that drugs entering the U.S. by sea have decreased by 97% due to illegal U.S. boat strikes. The administration’s own data contradicts this claim.
“It wouldn’t be the first time this administration just made something up," said IPS scholar @SanhoTree.
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NEW: Trump's claims that bombing civilian boats is curtailing the drug trade show a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the issue.
“We don’t use missiles to address a public health problem,” IPS scholar @SanhoTree tells @nickturse in @theintercept: theintercept.com/2026/05/04/…
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"The only thing more dangerous than organized crime is disorganized crime.”
IPS drug policy scholar @SanhoTree joined @AJEnglish on El Mencho and the disastrously flawed strategy of killing drug "kingpins." Watch:
ips-dc.org/video-eliminating…
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NEW: IPS drug policy expert @SanhoTree speaks with the BBC about the misconceptions, misinformation, and, in some cases, downright hypocrisy coming from the Trump administration regarding supposed drug traffickers in Latin America. ips-dc.org/video-the-worst-d…
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NEW: Not only is there "certainly no fentanyl involved" between Venezuela and the U.S., but the region's most prolific drug traffickers have often in fact been U.S. allies.
On @BBC, IPS drug policy scholar @SanhoTree dismantles Trump admin claims. Watch: ips-dc.org/video-the-worst-d…
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I had the honor of speaking on a recent panel about the boat strikes with Laura Dib (WOLA), Brian Finucane (Crisis Group), Katherine Yon Ebright (Brennan Center), and Amanda Klasing (Amnesty Int.). This is the most comprehensive discussion I have yet seen: youtu.be/EctaVTB_las?si=vqIc…
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🚨The Senate will vote TOMORROW on a bipartisan War Powers Resolution to block unauthorized hostilities w/in or against Venezuela. Call 1-833-STOP-WAR or visit 1833stopwar(dot)com to contact your senators & urge them to support S.J.Res.90! Just enter your zip & we'll connect you.
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The drug war acts like a “price support” for traffickers. Cartels are the last people who want the war to end. We will never make drugs disappear by making them astronomically more valuable. Stop amplifying the motivational feedback loop of the people you’re trying to stop.
Most drugs cost pennies per dose to manufacture. But the higher the risk to the smuggler — like the risk of getting arrested, or blown up — the more they can charge.
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @SanhoTree: otherwords.org/blowing-up-fi…
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Tobacco will kill 480,000 people in the US this year according to the CDC. That’s SIX times more than all US drug overdose deaths COMBINED. Does that mean Trump should bomb the homes of tobacco executives in the US? Here’s my debate on Al Jazeera: youtu.be/OE8euBl1txY
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NEW: Instead of learning from past U.S. drug war mistakes — like CIA contractors' killing of an American missionary and her infant daughter — Trump is carrying out still more extrajudicial killings without evidence.
IPS scholar @SanhoTree: otherwords.org/blowing-up-fi…
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Would it be okay for the Mexican military to blow up a US fishing boat because they believed it was smuggling deadly guns into Mexico, even if they offered no evidence? Would that be acceptable to this administration? asks @SanhoTree. commondreams.org/opinion/dru…
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Not only is Trump’s tactic of blowing up supposed “drug boats” completely ineffective against actual drug trafficking — it’s a dangerous abdication of judicial process that has troubling implications for domestic policing, writes IPS expert @SanhoTree. otherwords.org/blowing-up-fi…
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Good conversation with Jenn Budd and IPS fellow @SanhoTree on how the drug war evolves both more lethal drugs and more innovative traffickers. jennbudd.substack.com/p/fent…
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🎙️ TOMORROW: Authoritarianism and the Weaponization of Social Media 🎙️
📍 Online
📅 Wed, June 18
🕑 12:30 - 1:30 pm ET
This discussion by IPS scholar @SanhoTree will examine how easy it is to shop for alternate realities — and how we resist it. Register: ips-dc.org/event/authoritari…
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Join me next week for the fourth talk in our monthly IPS series on: Lessons from Resistance to Authoritarianism Around the World.
🎙️ DISCUSSION: Authoritarianism and the Weaponization of Social Media🎙️
📍 Online
📆 Wed, June 18
🕐 12:30 - 1:30 pm ET
This session by IPS scholar @SanhoTree will examine how easy it is to shop for alternate realities — and how we resist it. Register: ips-dc.org/event/authoritari…
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Just a reminder that I’m basically done with this Nazi-loving site after 15 years. I’m at the other place now where my posts aren’t throttled and I’m picking up followers about 6 or 7 times faster than on X. The transition was MUCH easier than I expected. bsky.app/profile/sanho.bsky.…
