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Sunday, December 07, 2025
Outcry continues for incompetent Hegseth to leave post. Where were the drugs??
"The strategic logic of the Caribbean campaign has drawn criticism even from those with experience in the US government’s counter-narcotics efforts. Jake Braun, who served as acting principal deputy national cyber director in the Joe Biden White House and as senior counselor to the secretary of homeland security where he helped design and implement the nation’s first counter-fentanyl strategy, questioned why the administration was focusing military resources in the Caribbean rather than on primary trafficking routes.
“I think the use of military force is justified – it just seems they’re about 2,500 miles away from the primary target in Mexico,” Braun said. “If they want to stop fentanyl, I would focus more on tunnels and drones in Arizona rather than boats in the Caribbean.”
Emily Tripp, executive director of Airwars, a civilian harms watchdog that monitors military conflicts, called on the administration to be more transparent about the strike, saying the organization would like to know “what considerations are made around shipwrecked survivors, and why the use of force was chosen over search and rescue when as far as we understand the targets here are the drugs, not the people on board”.
The Pentagon mixed up its talking points, and struggled to provide clear answers about the chain of command for the strikes. While--"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/06/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump
Looks like "Hogsbreath" as he is sometimes called willbe thrown to the dogs by DJT.
AI--Cathay Cavalry.
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