The global left is rallying in solidarity with the 11 narco-terrorists to whom Trump “gifted” a new drug that apparently lets you fly. The only one who really got the message is Nicolás Maduro, who’s counting on progressives and bleeding hearts to protest the U.S. military operation so relentlessly that the president eventually backs down from his fight against the Caribbean drug lords. What Maduro seems not to have noticed is that Trump just doubled the millions of dollars on his head. (RELATED: Trump Squeezes Maduro’s Narco-State)
If I were him, I wouldn’t even flirt with giving Trump a reason to show up in Caracas, toss a glass of rum in his face, and rip off that mustache.
Frankly, I think Maduro isn’t just a dealer — he’s a customer too. That alone could explain why his reaction to Trump’s military move was the usual anti-American revolutionary babble, sounding like recycled Vietnam-era protest banners in the year 2025, along with the deployment of a couple of paper airplanes buzzing menacingly over an American ship. If I were him, I wouldn’t even flirt with giving Trump a reason to show up in Caracas, toss a glass of rum in his face, and rip off that mustache.
For the first time in a long time, a U.S. president has called the big drug traffickers what they really are: terrorists. They may not fit the usual mold, but the distinction is trivial. Some terrorists kill with knives, like the Islamists. Others kill with bombs, like the swine of Hamas. And still others kill slowly, through the ugliest kind of drug trafficking — destroying the lives of thousands across the West, wrecking families, wrecking communities, and, though less important, overloading social services and healthcare systems. That’s the handiwork of narco-terrorists, who also don’t hesitate to snuff out innocent lives whenever it suits their disgusting business, spreading violence and insecurity everywhere.
As if that weren’t enough, narco-terrorism bankrolls the worst tyrannies in Latin America — starting with Venezuela. It’s worth remembering that many who argue for drug legalization aren’t really trying to make consumption easier (as if it weren’t obviously harmful), but to dismantle the other dark side of addiction: the criminal organizations enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense.
Narco-states are, in fact, the only reason Caribbean dictatorships are still standing. Strip away the drugs, the crime, the smuggling, the illegal financing, and the violence, and they’d collapse like a house of cards in hours. Venezuelans today are essentially hostages of a massive drug empire. Everything else is just the childish cartoon the left still insists on drawing about the so-called Bolivarian Revolution. Trump’s message couldn’t be clearer: any criminal organization shipping drugs into the United States is declaring war on the nation. And they’ll pay for it.
The one who, I suspect, was completely stoned is Maduro’s communications chief. How else to explain that press conference where he claimed the U.S. video of a drug boat being taken out was generated by AI? If I were Trump, I’d challenge Mr. Freddy Ñáñez — if he’s so sure it was just a ChatGPT game — to climb aboard the next narco-boat headed for the U.S. As for me, I’ll be grabbing popcorn to watch it unfold.
I read the international political commentary on this whole “flying boat” affair, and it never ceases to amaze me how the postmodern left, no matter what, always finds a way to land on the wrong side of history. The only certainty here is that, thanks to Trump, the next guy piloting a fentanyl-loaded narco-boat toward the United States will at least think twice. If he has the time.
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