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On Nov. 27, 2025, President Donald Trump told service members on a Thanksgiving call that the United States will begin “stopping” Venezuelan drug trafficking networks by land “very soon,” a blunt pledge that should reassure every American tired of watching cartel poison flood our streets. The president made clear that this is not idle rhetoric but a continuation of a stepped-up, practical campaign to choke off narco-trafficking at its source.
Washington’s recent operations have already shifted the battlefield, with sustained strikes at sea and a show of force in the Caribbean that the administration says has pushed much of the trafficking off the water and into overland routes. Those maritime operations have been controversial abroad, but the president is right that we cannot allow procedural hand-wringing to prevent decisive action against the cartels that kill our children and tear apart our communities.
Trump framed his move as a matter of national survival — “stop sending poison to our country” — and he’s right to put American lives first when crafting policy toward Venezuela and its criminal networks. For years, career politicians on both coasts failed to treat the drug crisis as the emergency it is; now a commander-in-chief willing to use all tools, including military pressure, is finally getting results.
The administration didn’t stop at words: on Dec. 10, 2025, U.S. forces seized a sanctioned oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast, an aggressive enforcement action that hit Maduro’s revenue streams and demonstrated Washington’s seriousness. Caracas predictably cried “piracy,” but when rogue regimes profit from illicit trade that helps arm cartels and fuel migration, hard power is sometimes the only language the world understands.
This White House has also reportedly greenlit covert tools to dismantle networks operating from Venezuelan soil, a necessary step when corrupt regimes shield traffickers and intimidate local populations. To those who demand legal niceties over results, remember that the first job of government is to defend its citizens; presidents who hesitate while Americans die are unfit for the post.
Patriotic Americans should stand with our troops and our president as this campaign moves forward, and demand that Congress fund robust interdiction and support for regional partners who share our interest in a secure hemisphere. The predictable chorus of international hand-wringers and leftist media outrage will come, but defending our borders, our neighborhoods, and our children is not negotiable — and on Nov. 27 and again with decisive actions in December, this administration showed it understands that duty.
