Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“Last week, President Trump ordered an aircraft carrier strike group into the waters off Venezuela. The deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier, and all the warships that accompany it is the strongest sign yet that the Trump administration intends to escalate its operations in the region. It comes after US forces struck at least ten boats the administration claims were smuggling drugs from Venezuela, and after the president authorized covert CIA operations against the Venezuelan government run by President Nicolas Maduro. Publicly, this mobilization of US forces is solely an effort to disrupt the flow of deadly drugs into the United States. … However, this excuse completely falls apart with even the slightest look into how American users are getting their fentanyl.” (10/29/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-administration-lying-us-another-war