In a moment weighted with both diplomatic consequence and strategic calculation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has pledged that the United States will pursue drug enforcement through multilateral coordination rather than unilateral military action — a commitment that arrives in the wake of cross-border strikes conducted without partner consent. The announcement reflects a recognition, long understood in the history of hemispheric relations, that power exercised alone tends to hollow out the alliances it depends upon. Whether this marks a genuine reorientation of policy or a gesture toward man