Trump Finds His Next Coup: Venezuela's 'Cocaine Facilities'
Funny how a 'war on drugs' always seems to require an aircraft carrier when a nation resists U.S. hegemony. Remember Operation Just Cause in Panama? The invasion ostensibly targeting Manuel Noriega for drug trafficking in 1989 (documented in the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library archives) coincidentally occurred after he stopped being a useful CIA asset. The same script, different dictator.
One might wonder if the U.S. suddenly discovered how to locate and destroy drug labs, or if this is just the latest iteration of gunboat diplomacy, dressed up as concern for public health. Because nothing declares 'we care about addiction' quite like sending a strike force to someone else's backyard.