Foreign Policy
Quick update down South
As we have been hearing, the current administration is taking a MUCH harder stance on South American drug smugglers. To date, 20 drug smuggling boats (so they say) have been sunk. The attack brings the total number of people killed by the US military’s strikes on the alleged drug boats to 80. CNN has reported […]
Monroe Doctrine Redux
Artificial Reef US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Steve Holland Summary Trump shares video showing speedboat exploding US officials say boat was carrying illegal narcotics Strike comes amid increased deployment of warships to Caribbean WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – The […]
Trump’s Carribean Cruise
Arleigh Burke DDG “…the president is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice.” Karoline Leavitt US warships in South America and the reaction in Venezuela By Regina Garcia Cano and Konstantin Toropin The United States is boosting its maritime […]
More Drone News
U.S. CBP MQ-9 Guardian U.S. MQ-9 Drone Just Flew A Mission Deep Into Mexico The flight of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Guardian drone comes as the Trump administration is ramping up its campaign against Mexican drug cartels. Howard Altman An MQ-9 Guardian medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) drone operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection […]
Canada, Greenland and the Gulf of America
Last night, I was happily exploring videos on various subjects versus watching whatever garbage is on TV and came across something that sent me down a rabbit hole. One video was from Nat Geo on plate tectonics. I remembered knowing the North American plate is very large, but suddenly a few things made sense. Bear […]
Wednesday redux… USAID report
Here’s a radical thought – entitle a column Wednesday and actually publish it Wednesday. The really sad part – when we write a column, we fill in what date and time for it to publish (see below), and as you can see in the above: I keep a calendar a whole 3″ from the keyboard […]
Port of Call, Havana Cuba
Russian Frigate Admiral Gorshkov seen from a Norwegian P-3 Orion patrol aircraft north of Lofoten in international waters. Russia is deploying aircraft and naval vessels including a nuke submarine to the Caribbean to conduct military exercises in the coming weeks. Russian military ships have sortied into the Western Hemisphere as recently as 2020, but this […]
Thank Kerry & Co for Iran Nukes
Remember when the Obama administration said it would “vigorously enforce” sanctions against Iran due to its nuclear program? The Obama-Biden administration began its Joint Plan of Action, which served as the negotiating process for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, that was signed by then-President Obama in […]
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