US announces 'Op Southern Spear' amid push for Venezuela intervention

('... in air strikes on three boats allegedly from Venezuela and loaded with what the president has described as “big bags of cocaine and fentanyl.”\

“Each boat that we sink carries drugs that would kill more than 25,000 Americans.”

But here’s the thing: Although the United States Coast Guard interdicts staggering quantities of illegal drugs in the Caribbean each year, it does not encounter fentanyl on the high seas. South American cocaine and marijuana account for the overwhelming majority of maritime seizures, according to Coast Guard data, and there isn’t a single instance of a fentanyl seizure—let alone “bags” of the drug—in the agency’s press releases.' The Atlantic Sept 2025

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from WOLA

• The State Department’s March 2025 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report stated: “The Department of State, in consultation with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other relevant agencies, has identified Mexico”—especially its northwest, 3,000 miles from Venezuela—“as the only significant source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl analogues significantly affecting the United States during the preceding calendar year.”
• A New York Times analysis concluded on September 3, 2025, “There is no proof that it [fentanyl] is manufactured or trafficked from Venezuela or anywhere else in South America.”
• In Colombia, Infobae reported in December 2023, “so far the National Police has not detected any fentanyl production laboratory in Colombia.” A senior police official told WOLA that year that the country’s few detections of fentanyl had been stolen from hospitals or pharmacies.

 There is no fentanyl coming out of Venezuela 'killing 25,000 U.S. citizens each year'. That's a crock of shit. Its a lie like the Gulf of Tonkin attack. Like the attack on the U.S.S Liberty. Like Remember the Maine. Trump is just owned by Big Business, Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Banking and is doing what they are making him do.

Maybe it's because the S.S. let a goober take a pot shot at him, maybe because he's remarkably corrupt or maybe because Epstein's files are still out there with pics and videos of him fucking kids. 

The why is less important than the what and the what is he is looking to provoke a major war on behalf of all these players based on completely baseless claims which everyone can see thru immediately.) 

al Mayadeen English

The United States has launched a new military campaign in Latin America, dubbed Operation Southern Spear, under the pretext of the Trump administration's "war on drugs", which has so far yielded fatal operations and skyrocketing tensions amid the growing militarization of the region. 

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed that, under President Donald Trump's directive, the Pentagon launched the operation, claiming it would "secure our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people."

Southern Command had initially introduced Operation Southern Spear in January, outlining the use of advanced technologies, including long-dwell robotic surface vessels, small robotic interceptor boats, and vertical take-off and landing robotic air units to support counter-narcotics efforts... 

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