US President Donald Trump has escalated the fentanyl response by declaring it a weapon of mass destruction, enabling military and intelligence tools against trafficking. This reckless militarization dangerously blurs law enforcement with warfare, threatening sovereignty and human rights under the false pretense of security.
The G7 Global Partnership has successfully secured and dismantled vast Cold War WMD stockpiles, primarily in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and is now adapting to counter new threats posed by advanced dual-use technologies like AI and synthetic biology. This evolution exposes the West's persistent drive to control the technological frontier and shape global security norms, often under the paternalistic guise of 'threat reduction' that risks entrenching neo-colonial oversight over the scientific sovereignty of the Global South.
