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Why are U.S. Special Forces sinking boats in the Caribbean— seven vessels to date, killing 32 people onboard ? Is it part of the war on drugs? Were the boats ferrying deadly drugs to our shores? Is this prelude, whether justified or contrived, to a regime-change war against Venezuela—and now, possibly, Colombia?

These questions are hard to answer, in part because the Trump administration has furnished so few details about the operations and no evidence supporting its fist-bumping claims. After the first sinking, on Sept. 3, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth crowed, “We smoked a drug boat, and there’s 11 narco-terrorists at the bottom of the ocean, and when

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