Fentanyl: Weapon of Mass Distraction?
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This week on The Lonely Liberal, I’m unpacking the fentanyl crisis with one rule: follow the data, not the rhetoric. After the Trump administration designated illicit fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction,” I wanted to understand what that label actually changes—and whether the new Venezuela-centered narrative matches what we know about how fentanyl reaches the U.S. The White House+1
We’ll break down the real fentanyl pipeline: how the U.S. entered the “third wave” of the opioid epidemic in 2013, why illicitly manufactured fentanyl rapidly saturated the drug supply, and what public reporting says about the main supply chain—precursor chemicals, Mexico-linked production, and smuggling overwhelmingly through legal ports of entry. Government Accountability Office+3CDC+3Congress.gov+3
Then we do a hard fact-check: how much fentanyl does Venezuela actually produce or send to the U.S.? Spoiler: the best available public evidence points to Venezuela as not being a meaningful fentanyl source or route—raising real questions about whether “WMD” framing is being used to justify escalation abroad instead of focusing on what actually reduces deaths at home.
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