The US’ decision to launch military strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking networks has jolted the geopolitical establishment. ‘Operation Southern Spear’ — Washington’s newly unveiled campaign of maritime air and naval strikes across the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific — has already destroyed multiple vessels and killed nearly 90 people since September 2025.

What makes this shift extraordinary is not merely the scale of force but the timing: it comes just as renewed scrutiny, including reporting from Al Jazeera , reopens old allegations of America’s own historical complicity in the global narcotics trade.

This contrast — a superpower accused for decades of enabling certain drug flows now declaring narcotics networks “terrorist entities" — sets the stage for a deeper debate. F

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