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Lead: Don’t Fall for It: The U.S. Is Recycling War Lies in Venezuela

What Do These Things Have in Common?

• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Putin’s “Unprovoked” War
• Assad “Gassing His Own People”
• Gaddafi’s “Planned Genocide”

Did you get it?

They were all lies sold to the American people to justify war.

And now here comes the latest one:

“Iran and Hezbollah are funding the drug trade in Venezuela.”

This one is currently being peddled by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Who buys this nonsense?

Let’s get real.

Hezbollah’s entire reason for being is to resist Israeli occupation and the oppression of Arabic people. They were formed when Israel invaded Lebanon in the 1980s. Their ideology is militant and extreme, but it is also strictly moralistic: they execute their own members for corruption and their religious doctrine forbids drug use and drug selling.

So is there any proof they’re involved in the U.S. drug trade? There isn’t.

Are there Lebanese people involved in the drug trade? Sure. There are also Italians, Colombians, Mexicans, Albanians, and yes, Americans.

This would be the equivalent of Rubio saying: “There are Catholic churches in Venezuela, therefore the Vatican is plotting a war.”

Meanwhile, there is proof showing that U.S. intelligence agencies have had their hands in the drug trade for decades. But that part magically disappears in the Wall Street Journal’s new lay-up for a war in Venezuela. Here they are suggesting cocaine routes in Venezuela are part of some Islamic jihad pipeline.

The CIA collaborated with Venezuelan National Guard generals who moved tons of cocaine into the United States in the 1990s. We know this from the 1998 Hitz Report. Are we going to pretend that did not happen?

Strange that Wall Street Journal leaves this out in its context of the South American drug trade.

Instead, Marco Rubio now gets to point his finger at Venezuela and Iran without proof, declaring them the villains without proof and never acknowledging the U.S. government’s own deep and documented involvement in exactly the same activities.

Are you buying this? Honestly, if you buy that the U.S. is targeting drug traffickers in Venezuela, you are due for your 8th Covid vaccine.

Europe Is Funding a War It Isn’t Fighting

NATO head Mark Rutte says that NATO is on track to spend over $1,000,000,000 per month in 2026 to supply weapons to Ukraine for its war with Russia. To what end?

Crickets.

Russia continues to advance on the battlefield and the U.S.-led peace talks had “no sign of a breakthrough.”

Yury Ushakov, a top aide to Putin, said that the talks were “useful, constructive and meaningful” but that no compromises were reached. “Some American proposals are acceptable to Russia, while others are not,” he said.

Why is Europe spending the money of its working class for a fake war with Russia that Ukraine is not winning and European countries are not fighting?

It is clear that the political class decided long ago that NATO strategy matters more than democratic consent or measurable outcomes. The result? Higher energy prices, higher taxes, military levies, deteriorating public services. Those things don’t hit the elites so they don’t care.

Yet again, war that Europeans never asked for will further deteriorate their way of life.

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