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“Washington’s proposal to link Israeli withdrawals with Hezbollah’s surrender ignores decades of political entrenchment and risks fueling wider conflict.”
https://reason.com/2025/09/12/u-s-plan-to-disarm-hezbollah-is-a-diplomatic-dead-end/
Russian jets violated NATO airspace in Estonia with minimal consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2OTIBtjSw
“Although Trump frames his unprecedented use of the U.S. military to summarily execute drug suspects as “self-defense,” it plainly does not fit that description. By his own account, he has unilaterally decided to impose the death penalty on alleged drug traffickers for the sake of deterrence. That policy represents a stark departure from both military norms and criminal justice principles.
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The Trump administration “has not even seriously tried to present a legal argument to justify the premeditated killing of the people aboard these two vessels,” former State Department lawyer Brian Finucane told The New York Times. “The U.S. president does not have a license to kill suspected drug smugglers on that basis alone.”
Rear Adm. Donald J. Guter, who served as the Navy’s top judge advocate general from 2000 to 2002, concurred. “Trump is normalizing what I consider to be an unlawful strike,” he said.
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Trump does not claim the men whose deaths he ordered were engaged in literal attacks on the United States. The justification in both cases was that the targets were “transporting illegal narcotics,” which Trump dubiously equates with violent aggression.”
https://reason.com/2025/09/16/another-military-strike-on-a-speedboat-confirms-trumps-policy-of-murdering-suspected-drug-smugglers/
The United States is greatly underplaying Russia’s military drone flights into Poland.
In general, the U.S. president is underplaying the entire Russian invasion. He still blames Biden and Zelenskyy for Putin invading its neighbor in a war of conquest or regime change (exchanging a struggling democracy with a Putin controlled dictatorship)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_knhpdBdJ-c
The hitting of refineries in Russia is creating a gas shortage that may impact civilians. This could eventually weaken Russians’ support for the invasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvha2sVzAFE
Update from Ukraine | Awesome News from Frontline! Plus Ukraine Hits Gigantic Oil Refinery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxG8QEo5Wfs
Time for Action: NATO’s Newly-Announced Plan to Counter Russia’s Drones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-4eA7reZEk
Inside the Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission to North Korea and What Went Wrong | Amanpour and Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79djGjRKsg4
Russia breaking into Kupiansk where Ukranians were not prepared. The Ukrainian regular army is exhausted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyXbjehy4Yg
“By the sources’ telling, SEAL Team Six had sailed to the North Korean coast in two mini-submarines under a communications blackout, which meant that they lacked the livestreamed intelligence they were used to having. Based on aerial surveillance beforehand, the military planners had concluded that this part of North Korea was supposed to be free of boat traffic at that hour of the night in the winter.
Some of the SEALs swam to shore while others stayed in the submarines. When a leader of the shore team saw flashlights coming from a boat and a man jumping into the water, he opened fire without any discussion. Then the shore team swam to dispose of the bodies—trying to sink them so that they couldn’t be found—and then they sent a distress signal to evacuate. There were no weapons or uniforms on the boat.
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The mission was carried out during the first Trump administration. The U.S. government wanted insight into North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his high-stakes nuclear negotiations with President Donald Trump.”
https://reason.com/2025/09/05/navy-seals-reportedly-killed-north-korean-fishermen-and-mutilated-their-bodies-to-hide-a-failed-mission/