Staff Reports
The world got a serious wake-up call this week as America might—yes, real America might—sent a crystal-clear message to those who bank on U.S. weakness. When a massive rogue oil tanker, the Veronica III, thought it could slip right past a Trump-ordered quarantine, all it found was the hard edge of American resolve.
This wasn’t some paperwork slap on the wrist. These global scofflaws took off from the Caribbean, thinking nobody would bother to chase them all the way to the Indian Ocean. That right there is the problem: For too long, under weak and bumbling “leadership,” foreign agents—oil smugglers, traffickers, cronies of corrupt regimes—have come to see the United States as a joke. They count on us to blink first.
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But this time, U.S. forces didn’t wait for another committee meeting or groveling apology tour—they boarded that ship and put an end to the charade. No tolerance for dirty oil money fueling sanctioned regimes. Not on this country’s watch. That’s what true leadership looks like.
Why did it take a Trump administration action to finally scare these foreign bad actors straight? Simple. The left’s endless hand-wringing, open-borders nonsense, and cushy ties to global bureaucrats have only emboldened America’s enemies. Right now, liberal elites would rather bow to the world’s worst players than defend our national security and borders.
Every time America flexes its muscle, the world is safer. The liberals can whine all they want about “international cooperation,” but sometimes, power and principle speak louder than any niceties or apologies. We need more backbone, not less. The real question: How much longer will America put up with global freeloaders, leftist excuses, and appeasement dressed up as diplomacy?
