As the U.S. crumbles from within, the government is using recycled propaganda to drag a gullible public into another senseless war to protect their crumbling power.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If that is the case, the American voter is currently trapped in a psychotic break. While you were busy trying to figure out how to afford a dozen eggs—which now cost more than the hourly federal minimum wage—and watching the national debt clock spin past $38 trillion like a slot machine from hell, the "predator class" in Washington D.C. was busy cooking up your next distraction.
They call it "Operation Southern Spear." They tell you it is necessary to save your children from fentanyl. They tell you it is about "freedom." But if you have been paying attention to the last twenty years of American foreign policy, you know exactly what it is. It is a smash-and-grab robbery of the US Treasury, disguised as a moral crusade.
The war drums beating for Venezuela are not new. They were beating in 2019 when Donald Trump first threatened a naval blockade. They were beating during the Biden-Harris administration as sanctions starved the Venezuelan poor while leaving the regime’s elite untouched. But now, in late 2025, the volume has been turned up to a deafening roar. The narrative being peddled by the State Department and echoed by the corporate media stenographers is simple: Venezuela is flooding our streets with fentanyl, and we must bomb them to save America.
There is just one problem with this story. It is a lie.
According to the DEA’s own National Drug Threat Assessment—data that is publicly available to anyone with an internet connection and a shred of intellectual curiosity—Venezuela is not a primary source of fentanyl. In fact, nowhere in the entire report is the word "Venezuela" ever mentioned!
The vast majority of fentanyl precursors originate in China, are shipped to Mexico, processed by cartels, and brought across the southern border. Linking Venezuela to the fentanyl crisis is a logistical absurdity. It is the geopolitical equivalent of invading Iceland to stop the flow of Cuban cigars.
War Crimes Disguised as "Interdiction"
Even more disturbing than the lies used to justify this aggression is the conduct of the operation itself. We are no longer talking about mere "interdiction" of drug shipments. We are talking about potential war crimes being committed in your name. Recent reports have confirmed that U.S. forces are not just sinking boats; they are targeting unarmed survivors in the water.
Under the twisted legal logic provided by the administration, "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, "We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists." Hegseth has argued that these fishermen—many of whom are low-level smugglers or simply civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time—are "enemy combatants." This classification allows the U.S. military to bypass the rules of law enforcement and instead apply the rules of war, which allow for their slaughter. When a boat is destroyed and men are left bobbing in the Caribbean, strafing them as they beg for their lives is not "defense." It is an atrocity.
But facts do not matter to the war machine. As many free thinkers will recall, in 2003, they told us Iraq had "Yellowcake Uranium" and "Aluminum Tubes" for nuclear weapons. It was a lie. In 2011, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice stood before the world and claimed Muammar Gaddafi was supplying his troops with Viagra to encourage mass rape. It was a sensationalist fabrication used to manufacture consent for a bombing campaign that turned Libya into an open-air slave market. Now, they are telling us that massacring fishermen off the coast of Caracas will stop the overdose deaths in Ohio. It is the exact same playbook, recycled for a new generation of gullible taxpayers.
The Bipartisan War Party: Obama Paved the Way
While some Democrats feign outrage at Trump’s escalation, they are ignoring the uncomfortable truth: Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.
As Jim Bovard previously detailed, Obama laid the foundation for the very extrajudicial killings we are witnessing today. In his 2017 farewell address, Obama boasted, "We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists." This was the same man who, as a candidate in 2007, declared, "We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers."
Once in power, however, the "whims" of the ruler became the law. On February 3, 2010, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair stunned Washington by announcing that the administration was targeting U.S. citizens for assassination without trial. This power was first exercised against Anwar Awlaki, a New Mexico-born cleric killed by a drone strike in 2011. Two weeks later, another U.S. drone killed his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman Awlaki, a boy born in Denver who had no connection to terrorism. Six years later, Trump would execute his little sister in a similar manner.
When questioned about the killing of an American teenager, Obama’s former press secretary Robert Gibbs callously remarked, "I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father."
This is the legal and moral rot that paved the way for "Operation Southern Spear." When Attorney General Eric Holder declared in 2012 that "Due process and judicial process are not one and the same," he effectively legalized the President’s right to act as judge, jury, and executioner. Trump is simply using the powers Obama normalized. The "Left" and the "Right" in Washington are merely two wings of the same bird of prey. Obama loaded the gun, and now Trump is firing off the rounds.
The Tulsi Gabbard Factor
Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of this recycled war propaganda is the silence from those who once claimed to oppose it. In 2019, when the first wave of "regime change" rhetoric was aimed at Venezuela, Tulsi Gabbard was one of the few voices of reason. She correctly identified that U.S. intervention would only lead to "death and destruction."
Today, serving as the Director of National Intelligence, Gabbard’s silence is deafening. The woman who famously destroyed Kamala Harris on a debate stage for her prosecutorial overreach is now overseeing the very intelligence apparatus that is feeding these lies to the American public. It is a stark reminder that the problem isn't just the people in charge—it is the machine itself. When you step into the halls of power, you either grease the gears of the war machine, or you are crushed by them. There is no middle ground.
The Real "Threat" is Domestic
Why Venezuela? Why now? Look around you. The United States is collapsing from within. The dollar is being debased at a record pace to service our insurmountable debt. The Epstein client list remains a state secret, protecting the elite pedophiles who run our institutions. Our bridges are crumbling, and our power grids are failing. War is the historical reset button for failing empires. It is the ultimate distraction. If they can get you angry at a "Narco-Terrorist" in South America, you might stop asking why your rent has doubled or why your government is sending billions to defense contractors while your local roads look like the surface of the moon.
We cannot vote our way out of this, because the candidates are vetted by the very machine we are trying to dismantle. But we can think our way out of it. The solution begins with a refusal to participate in the lie. Do not accept the State Department’s press releases as truth when they have lied to us about every major conflict since Vietnam. Stop defending a politician just because they wear the color jersey you like. If "your guy" is dropping bombs on innocent people based on a lie, "your guy" is a tyrant. Spread the truth. When your family or coworkers repeat the "Venezuela Fentanyl" narrative, show them the data. Show them the history. The war machine relies on your fear and your ignorance. Deny them both.