JD, every sentence you just wrote is a confession dressed up as concern.
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JD, every sentence you just wrote is a confession dressed up as concern.
You say Venezuela "has something to do with drugs."
You forgot to mention who has something to do with demand.
Who flooded its own streets with Oxy and fentanyl prescriptions.
Who turned addiction into a business model.
Who let entire towns die so a handful of corporations could milk pain for profit.
That was not Caracas.
That was the United States.
You talk about cocaine "as a profit center for Latin American cartels."
You skip the part where the money ends up in U.S. and European banks.
You skip the part where U.S.-backed regimes, U.S.-trained forces, and U.S. intelligence have been entangled with those cartels for decades.
You skip the part where the geographical constant in this entire story is not Venezuela.
It is the U.S. market.
You say Trump "shut the border on day one" as if that were a serious drug policy.
You can close every bridge at the Rio Grande.
As long as there is demand, capital, and a financial system eager to clean the profits, the drugs will move.
Your wall speech did not dismantle a single supply chain.
It just made cruelty a campaign ad.
Then you get to the heart of it:
"About 20 years ago, Venezuela expropriated American oil property and until recently used that stolen property to get rich and fund their narcoterrorist activities."
Let us translate.
A sovereign country changed the terms on resources under its own soil.
It stopped letting foreign companies skim whatever they wanted.
It used that revenue to fund its own state instead of Exxon’s balance sheet.
You call that "stealing our stuff."
What you are really saying is simple:
If U.S. corporations plant steel in your ground, the oil becomes American.
If you decide otherwise, you are a thief and a terrorist.
Those wells are not in Texas.
Those fields are not in Ohio.
They are in Venezuela.
They were "American property" only because a power imbalance turned contracts into colonial tribute.
When the host changed the rules of the house, the guest screamed robbery.
You ask, "are we just supposed to allow a communist to steal our stuff in our hemisphere and do nothing?"
"Our hemisphere."
You say that like a landlord reading out an eviction notice.
Venezuela is not your backyard.
Cuba is not your backyard.
Latin America is not your backyard.
They are nations that have spent a century watching "great powers" fund coups, train death squads, and freeze assets whenever anyone tries to use their resources for their own people.
"Great powers do not act like that," you say.
You are right.
Empires do.
Empires convince themselves that private contracts in foreign countries are "our wealth."
Empires label any government that breaks those contracts "narcoterrorist."
Empires call it "chaos" when other states trade with people they have decided to strangle.
You close with:
"The United States, thanks to President Trump's leadership, is a great power again. Everyone should take note."
They have taken note.
They see a country where:
The pharmaceutical industry did more to saturate America with opioids than any cartel.
The financial system launders blood money and calls it liquidity.
The political class calls other people’s resources "our stuff" and other people’s sovereignty "our hemisphere."
You did not prove Venezuela is the heart of the drug trade.
You did not prove China is the engine of chaos.
You proved that when an empire loses control of a property line, it starts talking like a cartel whose dealers have gone independent.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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