A month after the Trump administration's boat strikes wound down, a DEA review says the campaign killed hundreds of people and did nothing to stop cocaine — bad news for the White House's claims and for the men killed.

• Operation Southern Spear blew up 67 boats and killed at least 221 people, many of whom were likely just fishermen.
• A DEA report found cocaine supply, price, and purity in the US were unchanged — and cocaine is now actually cheaper, meaning more is getting in.
• Traffickers quickly switched to bigger boats hugging coastlines and to planes flying from Colombia and Venezuela toward Guyana and Suriname.
• The strikes also targeted fentanyl, but fentanyl comes from China and Mexico, not Venezuela — and it kills far more Americans than cocaine.
• Killing suspected traffickers is being cast as fighting "narco terrorists," part of a broader push to expand who counts as a terrorist and hand the government more power.

Outlook: Supply pressure won't work, so expect the drug flow to continue while the "terrorist" label keeps widening.