War by “Pretext” - Drug Deaths, National Security, and the Ethics of Intervention

A U.S. operation that captured Venezuela's president has raised hard questions about authority, truthfulness, and the constitutional limits of executive power. The larger issue goes deeper than geopolitics: broken nations don't get healed by force, propaganda, or swapped-out strongmen. Scripture calls for sober rulers who fear God—and for Christians who insist on higher-law thinking while laboring for the only lasting remedy: gospel-driven discipleship of families and nations.