Michael Cohen - One Post Away From War

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Words matter. Especially when they come from the mouth—or more accurately, the thumbs—of a president who treats Truth Social like a launch console. When Donald Trump announces a “total and complete blockade” of Venezuelan oil tankers, that’s not tough talk. That’s a declaration freighted with legal, moral, and constitutional consequences. By definition, a military blockade is an act of war. You can dress it up in sanctions language, sprinkle in the word “terrorism,” and wrap it in chest-thumping bravado about the “largest armada ever assembled,” but it doesn’t change the underlying reality. This is war-by-post.

Trump’s announcement that Venezuela is “completely surrounded” by U.S. warships, planes, and thousands of troops is not subtle. It is coercive. It is escalatory. And it is deliberately designed to bypass the one branch of government that the Constitution requires to be part of any decision to take this country to war: Congress. That’s not an oversight. That’s the point.

I’ve seen this movie before. When you don’t want oversight, you declare an emergency. When you don’t want debate, you label your enemy a terrorist. When you don’t want Congress involved, you claim unilateral authority under the guise of national security. Trump has now designated alleged drug traffickers tied to Venezuela as a foreign terrorist organization, using the drug crisis as a political shield to do what he’s always wanted to do: act alone, act fast, and dare anyone to stop him.

Let’s be clear: drug trafficking is real. It’s deadly. It destroys families and communities. It took the lives of two of my oldest and closest friends. But turning drug enforcement into a pretext for military action is not law enforcement; it’s mission creep with missiles. If the goal were actually to reduce drug abuse, we’d be talking about education, treatment, prevention, and yes, the kind of blunt-force public messaging we once used—“Say No to Dope”—not airstrikes on vessels and a naval cordon that risks pulling us into another open-ended conflict.

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