Trump’s Venezuela Takeover Won’t Stop Overdoses in the U.S.

In mid-August 2025, reports surfaced that a U.S. naval task force was being assembled in the Caribbean. Its rumored purpose was to counter a previously unrecognized Venezuelan “narco-terrorist” threat to the US. Within a few months, it included the largest U.S. aircraft carrier, 10 other warships, 70 aircraft, a nuclear submarine carrying cruise missiles, and 15,000 members of the armed forces.   

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By December, what the White House called the “greatest...