The Pentagon’s claim that it destroyed three more alleged drug boats—as Donald Trump declares fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction”—raises a fundamental question: where is the proof? No evidence has been publicly presented that these vessels carried drugs, yet they were obliterated with military force. What is certain is that human lives at sea are once again treated as expendable.
This is not law enforcement. It is summary violence wrapped in rhetoric. Labeling fentanyl a WMD is a dangerous distortion designed to bypass legal standards and normalize lethal force without due process. We have learned, at devastating cost, how easily “alleged threats” become justification for irreversible harm.
Blowing up boats does not stop addiction, dismantle trafficking networks, or address the social conditions driving drug use. It does, however, risk killing migrants, fishermen, and civilians whose only crime may be desperation. When evidence is replaced by explosions, accountability disappears.
America cannot bomb its way out of a public health crisis. Militarized responses without transparency or proof do not save lives—they erase them.
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