To answer that, it helps to rewind and review. In the months leading up to the January 3 operation, the United States steadily escalated air, naval, and intelligence operations across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, destroying vessels accused of narcotics trafficking and seizing tankers carrying sanctioned Venezuelan oil. These actions—conducted under questionable legal authorities, no Congressional approval, and with limited public explanation—created the operational conditions that contributed to the eventual decapitation raid.
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