The empire kills to remind itself it still exists.
When it bombs a fisherman in Colombia or a medic in Gaza, it isn’t fighting crime.
It’s performing sovereignty, asserting that its reach is still global, that death itself answers to Washington.
Every U.S. "war on" something eventually becomes a war on someone.
"The war on drugs."
"The war on terror."
"The war on communism."
Different slogans, same doctrine: criminalize the periphery, sanctify the empire.
And the press plays its role.
It launders murder into policy, executions into "airstrikes," and massacres into "operations."
It never asks why the richest nation on Earth keeps killing the poorest in the name of order.
A fisherman’s death off Colombia is not an accident.
It is a message.
That no corner of the Global South is beyond discipline.
That every coastline is a frontier.
That even the ocean must submit.
This isn’t about drugs.
It’s about dominance.
It began with narcotics and ended with nations.
Every decade, they change the substance but keep the logic:
Kill first. Justify later. Call it security.
They used cocaine to occupy Latin America,
Terror to occupy the Middle East,
And "democracy" to occupy the world.
A missile is cheaper than justice and faster than accountability.
The empire kills without evidence because evidence would expose what it really is:
A global protection racket built on moral theater.
This is the final stage of empire,
When it no longer needs to lie to others,
Only to itself.