by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:
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.
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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.
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