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President Trump delivered a straight-shooting warning to Nicolás Maduro this week, bluntly saying the Venezuelan strongman “doesn’t want to fuck around with the United States.” That kind of unvarnished language cuts through diplomatic theater and sends a clear deterrent message to regimes that bankroll chaos and narcotrafficking instead of their people.
According to the administration, Maduro even dangled Venezuela’s oil and mineral riches in backroom talks — proof that our posture is forcing concessions instead of begging for them. Americans should be relieved that this White House is not trading away leverage for hollow promises or sweetheart contracts to foreign autocrats.
Words have been matched by deeds: the president confirmed he authorized covert CIA operations, while the Navy and other forces have been deployed to the southern Caribbean and have struck suspected drug-smuggling vessels. Those moves represent a long-overdue recognition that narco-cartels and hostile regimes are national-security threats, and that the United States will defend its borders, its citizens, and its interests.
Back at home, the partisan spectacle known as the “No Kings” rallies tried to bully and intimidate, filling city streets with performative outrage instead of workable solutions. Millions may have turned out to shout, but barking slogans won’t fix fentanyl pouring across our border, America’s sovereignty, or the suffering caused by corrupt regimes who weaponize migration and drugs.
On the broader foreign policy front, Mr. Trump is pushing hard to end the Russia-Ukraine war through negotiation and pressure rather than endless American bleeding for foreign quarrels. Conservatives who care about American lives and taxpayers welcome a strategy that seeks a durable peace and forces allies and rivals to accept responsibility for their own security burdens.
Patriots who want a safer, stronger nation should celebrate leadership that pairs muscle with diplomacy, not theater and weakness. The choice is simple: support a president who confronts threats, protects American interests, and refuses to bow to dictators or domestic mobs — or watch others continue to erode the blessings our forefathers entrusted to us.
