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When a president stands up and actually protects American lives, some in Washington and the global commentariat throw a tantrum. President Trump has authorized hard-edged measures after a summer of deadly drug flows from Venezuela — including strikes on suspect vessels and a visible U.S. military buildup in the southern Caribbean as Caracas plays loose with the hemisphere’s security. The fact that Caracas rushed to the UN to denounce these moves shows whose instincts are to hide criminality and cry foul rather than control it.
Enough talk, more action — that’s what the American people demanded after decades of weak border policy and complacency toward narco-regimes. U.S. operations in recent weeks have destroyed multiple boats linked to Venezuelan smuggling networks and, by official tallies, have killed scores of narco-operators whose cargos fuel the overdose crisis at home. If D.C. elites refuse to secure the front lines, a president who keeps his oath should not hesitate to use every lawful tool at his disposal to stop poison being shipped into our towns.
Some critics squeal about “escalation” after B-52 strategic bombers were tracked flying long missions near Venezuela’s coast, but let’s be clear: deterrence works. Those long-range sorties and visible bomber patrols are a message to Maduro and his criminal partners that the era of permissive narco-states in our backyard is over. Shows of force like these are not warmongering; they are practical, effective pressure to protect American families and to back up our law-enforcement efforts at sea.
President Trump didn’t just posture — he confirmed that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela to choke off the criminal and terror-linked networks that enrich the regime. The intelligence and covert-authority angle is exactly the kind of targeted, surgical pressure Americans expect when official channels and diplomacy have been exhausted. Let the naysayers debate legalities while our citizens keep dying from cartel poison; leadership means making hard choices to defend the homeland.
And why the urgency? Because Venezuela is not merely a failing socialist state — it has become a staging ground for Iran-linked networks and Hezbollah-associated clans that launder money, traffic drugs, and corrupt institutions from Margarita Island to the mainland. For years experts have warned that Maduro’s allies provide safe havens and logistical cover for transnational terror-criminal syndicates, which makes this a national-security problem, not a narrow immigration talking point. Crushing those conduits is patriotic and prudent, not reckless.
Washington would do well to remember who we serve: hardworking Americans choking on cartel poison and small towns whose parents bury their kids from fentanyl. International hand-wringing and predictable leftist outrage cannot be allowed to tie the hands of a commander-in-chief who acts to stop the bleeding. If the president keeps pressing, using military pressure, intelligence, and relentless enforcement, patriots everywhere should stand with him until the narco-state threats in our hemisphere are dismantled.
