Professor John Yoo examines US missile attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug boats, differentiating military force (war) from law enforcement (crime). He suggests that if the Maduro regime is using drug cartels like Tren de Aragua as instruments of attack a

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

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Professor John Yoo examines US missile attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug boats, differentiating military force (war) from law enforcement (crime). He suggests that if the Maduro regime is using drug cartels like Tren de Aragua as instruments of attack against the US, it constitutes a state of war, justifying military action. Yoo argues that the president can use force defensively without seeking a declaration of war if the US is attacked first, even unconventionally
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0:48.1	Venezuela, a broken, failed, terrified state of people who've, the ones who who fled can, the ones who haven't fled, want to, ruled by a cruel man named Maduro who claims to be president.
0:57.0	He is not. During the summer of 24, there was an election, and it was very carefully monitored as much as anyone can,
1:02.6	and the elected winner was a man named Gonzales, and Mundo Gonzalez, who was in hiding from the cruelty of Maduro, who was illegitimate. In addition, over these last weeks, we've had the
1:07.9	news that the State Department and the United States' authority
1:11.6	had named Nicholas Maduro the head of a drug cartel called the Cartel of the Sun,
1:17.1	drugs and guns and people, all kinds of sadism.
1:22.5	However, the United States has been at odds with Maduro for many years years in the first Trump term and now the second Trump term.
1:31.2	What is to be done?
1:32.8	Part of the answer looked to be a very powerful flotilla dispatched by the United States, somewhere between Puerto Rico and the coast of Venezuela,
1:42.9	four or five major warships with lots of cruise missiles,
1:46.7	a submarine and a marine expeditionary unit, in addition to a Coast Guard unit,
1:52.0	that is said to be able to interdict drug running in the Caribbean.
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