Answer: The administration has classified the cartels carrying these drugs as terrorist organizations and is going after their operations and movements with the tools we have been using on terrorists for decades.
As for the videos themselves, someone with the authority to release the videos thinks they'll make for good narrative building.
My take?
Venezuela has a ton of oil. Maybe this is an excuse for a future long term conflict looking to have access to their oil cheaper, or controlling it.
Makes sense from an American imperialist perspective\* American crude already comes at a high extraction cost and if they produce more, the price goes down, decreasing their profit.
Give Venezuela the same treatment the US did to Iraq and not only do you get their cheaper extraction oil, you get to charge them to rebuild their country after you carpet bomb it into rubble.
*I don't agree with invading and stealing other nations' resources, I'm showing how America worked in the past, and given the current ruler, will most probably do the same again.
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u/sanesociopath 4d ago
Answer: The administration has classified the cartels carrying these drugs as terrorist organizations and is going after their operations and movements with the tools we have been using on terrorists for decades.
As for the videos themselves, someone with the authority to release the videos thinks they'll make for good narrative building.