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Glenn Greenwald Shreds MAGA Over Venezuela Strikes

2025-09-10 News & Politics
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Rand Paul vs. JD Vance: Due Process and the US Strike on Venezuelan Drug Traffickers

Understand how political alignment fractures over executive military action when proponents argue for national security over strict adherence to constitutional due process. This discussion dissects the political fallout from recent strikes targeting alleged drug syndicates near Venezuela.

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  • The exchange ignited an internal Republican debate, pitting JD Vance's aggressive stance against cartel elimination against Rand Paul's defense of judicial procedure.
  • Speakers critically examined the official narrative, suggesting the true motive might be regime change against Nicolás Maduro, not immediate drug interdiction.
  • Speakers emphasized the hypocrisy of targeting Venezuela when the primary source of US fentanyl deaths flows through Mexico, where such strikes are politically impossible.

This segment analyzes the clash between hawkish Republican messaging supporting immediate kinetic action against drug organizations and libertarian insistence on avoiding extrajudicial killing overseas. Readers gain insight into the policy gaps regarding US military intervention in Latin America pertaining to drug control.

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Top Comments (10)

@christopher7824 2025-09-10

The only way to keep drugs out of the United States is to abolish the CIA.

208 23 replies
@3batz 2025-09-10

The Sackler family is an American cartel

159 9 replies
@jobarmure6169 2025-09-10

Remember in Afghanistan, after the airport bomb that killed American soldiers, they bombed a house of supposed ISIS members, but it was the home of a humanitarian worker who had even worked with the US Army to deliver water to poor people, and they killed his entire family. And no one faced any punishment for it.

126 22 replies
@MrIvanherrera 2025-09-10

It’s not about killing drug dealers. It’s about us stealing their resources. Another regime change. We see it.

70 16 replies
@JodyLuvsHumanity777 2025-09-10

I trust a local drug dealer more than I do Big Pharma and our CIA at this stage 🤷‍♀️

68 6 replies
@GS-kj5pc 2025-09-10

Why dont we ever ask why Americans are so reliant on these drugs? Maybe because our society is trash and people are depressed. Killing cartels won't change that. We have to give people a real shot at life.

52 7 replies
@deejay2287 2025-09-10

Even if the boat did have drugs on it, it's still playing God with missiles... This is the worst precedent to set for this country in particular

25 1 replies
@nohaydeque334 2025-09-10

No foreign country is forcing Americans to use drugs. Also, about 85% of the fentanyl is brought into the US by US citizens, per CBP data.

20 1 replies
@zzzzzz11123 2025-09-10

This is insanity, what happened to the peace president? This could have actually been a fishing boat with civilians for all we know.

19 1 replies
@3batz 2025-09-10

Murderous politicians are the problem

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