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The Biden—no, make that the hollow-hysteria crowd’s favorite punching bag—talk about “escalation” evaporates when you remember what real leadership looks like: the United States sent a clear, muscular naval presence into the Caribbean to stop the flow of drugs and to protect our shores. This deployment of warships and Marines is not saber-rattling but sober, necessary action to cut off the narco-cartel cash that fuels chaos across our hemisphere. Americans who care about safety and sovereignty should welcome the Navy doing its job where weak diplomacy failed.
Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro predictably answered strength with bluster, calling for mass mobilization and whipping up his militias while painting a U.S. drug interdiction mission as an “invasion.” Maduro’s threats and the mobilization of regime-controlled forces are theater meant to distract from his regime’s corruption and links to criminal networks that traffic poison into our cities. The reality is that Caracas is trying to intimidate neighbors and throw sand in the gears while its criminal patrons lose revenue.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s decision to strike suspected narcotrafficking vessels and surge assets in the Caribbean shows an unwillingness to ignore the catastrophe of fentanyl and cartel violence. These operations, which began in September and have involved strikes on boats accused of running drugs, have already had lethal consequences — and that grim arithmetic is a direct result of the cartels’ business model, not American aggression. For once, policy prioritized American lives over bureaucratic hand-wringing in Washington.
Predictably, Moscow and its proxies denounced the U.S. posture and rushed to defend Maduro, a reminder that Venezuela is not just a regional problem but a chess piece for anti-American regimes. Russia’s diplomatic grandstanding only exposes how aligned Caracas has become with adversaries who want to pull Latin America into their orbit and away from democratic partners. Americans should see this for what it is: geopolitical opportunism from dictators who profit off instability and who hate our values.
The fallout went economic as well, with Caracas even suspending energy deals and threatening neighbors that dared cooperate with U.S. efforts, showing that Maduro will weaponize anything to stay in power. Venezuela’s move to freeze gas cooperation with Trinidad underscores how the regime punishes countries that choose stability and partnership with the West. That kind of extortion is exactly why the United States must keep pressure until true, accountable leadership replaces the kleptocrats.
Patriots should be clear-eyed: defending our borders and stopping the fentanyl pipeline is not optional and it is not partisan. Washington must keep supplying the military tools and intelligence necessary, and conservative lawmakers should demand no less than full backing for operations that save American lives. If the left wants to play geopolitics while our kids die in the streets, we’ll be the ones who deliver security and results.
Support for the men and women in uniform isn’t a slogan — it’s common sense. Stand with the Navy and Marines doing the dirty work, push for accountability at home for the cartels’ facilitators, and reject the moral equivalence that excuses dictators and excuses drug smugglers. America remains the last, best hope for order in an increasingly chaotic hemisphere, and we should act like it.
