Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson reported this morning that U.S. covert action in Venezuela could begin soon as American operations there are being advanced with the ostensible goal of removing the criminal Maduro regime. The report makes clear this is not idle talk — Washington is moving from words to deeds, and patriots who want a secure border and an end to the drug invasion should welcome clarity of purpose.
This escalation follows public confirmations that the president authorized CIA covert operations inside Venezuela and a string of U.S. strikes on vessels in the Caribbean since September. Administration officials say these strikes have targeted narcotics operations and have resulted in multiple engagements at sea, a hard-line response many Americans view as overdue given the drug and migrant crisis at our borders.
President Trump has repeatedly framed the campaign as necessary to stop narcotrafficking and the chaos that Maduro exports — from emptied prisons to drug networks that fund regime cronies. Critics will howl about sovereignty, but when cartel-style regimes are arming themselves and using state power to traffic poison into American communities, decisive measures are not only justified, they are required.
The United States has also bolstered its naval presence in the region, sending surface combatants to pressure trafficking routes and choke off revenue streams that propping up Maduro’s security apparatus. That show of force, while denounced by the usual internationalists on the left, is precisely the kind of adult, risk-managed strategy Washington needs to disrupt criminal networks and protect American lives.
Predictably, U.N. experts and partisan critics have rushed to condemn American actions as illegal or reckless, even as those same critics offered little practical help when medicines and migrants were pouring into our streets. The moral inversion is staggering: the U.S. acts to defend its citizens and to deny funds to narco-cliques, and it’s treated like the aggressor while the real perpetrators hide behind platitudes about sovereignty.
Hardworking Americans want leaders who secure the homeland and hold tyrants and traffickers accountable, not more endless talk and bureaucratic hand-wringing. If covert operations and targeted actions are what it takes to safeguard our borders and stop the flow of deadly drugs, patriots should support bold, intelligent pressure on Maduro — with clear oversight but without letting international posturing tie Washington’s hands.
