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America acted when the world ditheringly failed to protect its citizens and its borders, and the result was decisive: U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro and removed a narco-authoritarian thug who had presided over misery and drug pipelines into our country. This was not a reckless stunt but a targeted operation that delivered justice to the doorstep of a man indicted for financing terror and trafficking misery across the hemisphere.
When brave Americans do their duty, smart analysts recognize it — and that’s exactly what retired Gen. Jack Keane told viewers on Life, Liberty & Levin, calling the mission a flawlessly executed demonstration of American military professionalism. Our special operators, pilots, and intelligence professionals rehearsed, planned, and struck with precision while the weak-kneed media ran out of adjectives for their own helplessness.
Cuba’s role in propping up the Maduro regime was exposed and painfully costly: Havana has now acknowledged dozens of Cuban security personnel killed while defending Venezuela’s thugs, a fact that underscores how much Castro-style repression has banked lives to preserve dictators. If Gen. Keane is right that Cuba is on its knees, these are the consequences — a failing island-state wrapped around failing regimes that now must answer for putting men in harm’s way to defend a criminal.
Predictably, the usual chorus of international hand-wringers cried “violation” and quoted the UN Charter, while ignoring the blood spilled by Maduro’s cartel-state and the murders that flowed north. Let them clutch their pearls; America acted to protect its people, to sever a narco-state’s lifeline, and to reclaim stability in our hemisphere — and the president was clear that we will control Venezuela’s assets temporarily to prevent chaos and secure energy for the region.
This is a return to healthy American realism: if enemies or criminal regimes threaten our homeland, we will not wait politely for permission from Brussels or Beijing. Commentators are already calling this the centerpiece of a new, hard-headed Donroe Doctrine to stop foreign adversaries from using Latin America as a playground for chaos; that doctrine is exactly the sort of backbone this country needs.
To the patriots at home: stand with our troops, demand strength from our leaders, and refuse to be cowed by the global elite who equate American power with evil. The mission in Venezuela was a bloody, necessary step toward securing our border, crippling cartels, and defending liberty — and anyone who wants a weak America again should explain why they prefer seeing our neighborhoods poisoned by cartel drugs.
