There are plenty of accusations you could level at Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, the ex-union leader and bus driver, whose corruption and incompetence is steering the economy of his oil-rich Latin American nation off a cliff. But responsibility for America’s lethal drug habit is not one of them. That hasn’t stopped Donald Trump trying, however.

‘We smoked a drug boat, and there’s 11 narco-terrorists at the bottom of the ocean,’ Hegseth bragged

Thus, we’ve seen Trump’s doltish ‘Secretary of War’ Pete Hegseth gleefully bombing small Venezuelan boats that he claims were carrying drug smugglers.

‘We smoked a drug boat, and there’s 11 narco-terrorists at the bottom of the ocean,’ Hegseth bragged after the first sinking on 3 September. He failed to offer any evidence there were drugs or

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