Expert Analysis

Legal justification is the floor, not the ceiling, and this looks like a shooting that may clear the law while still failing the craft, because a step to the right could have ended the threat without ending a life.

A clean operation can remove a dictator, but it cannot erase the precedent that the United States is willing to decide, by force, who gets to lead.

Before dawn, Delta Force, backed by SEAL Team Six maritime support, reportedly snatched Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores from their Ft. Tiuna home and hustled them to the waiting USS Iwo Jima, with Trump saying the next stop is New York and the real fight begins in a courtroom.

Caracas did not wake up so much as it got yanked out of bed by a fistful of explosions, and by sunrise Maduro and Flores were gone, hauled out on a Delta Force rumor trail that the White House has not bothered to pin down while the rest of the country stares into the smoke and waits to see what comes next.

America did not lose its strength or its soul; it lost its nerve, and 2026 is the year we either reclaim it with clarity and backbone or admit we were too comfortable to fight for what we inherited.

A 2025 relook at Michael Hastings’ fatal crash that respects the lack of proof for assassination while explaining how modern connected-car technology makes certain “what if” scenarios technically plausible.

America has always been a beautiful, loud, half-broken experiment run by argumentative primates, and the only reason it keeps surviving its own dumpster fires is because enough people keep choosing the hard option, speaking up when power tells them to shut up.

Skelton’s Pledge reminds us that in an age of division and political churn, our strength still comes from individual duty joined to unity, civic accountability, and a shared commitment to liberty and justice for all.

Two weapons, one mission set, one ballistic brain: the M7 and M250 were built to fight as a paired system so squads can put accurate, sustained 6.8×51mm fire where it counts and keep constant pressure on the enemy.

Ammo was life in Prairie Fire, because when the NVA hit hard and the sky went quiet for hours, the only thing standing between ST Idaho and getting overrun was what we could carry, shoot, and keep running in the dark.

Read the entertaining account of a former Delta Force member describing the interaction between the two elite units.

Out on the dark water where the rules get thin and the trigger gets heavy, Southern Spear is less a drug bust than a deliberate message: if you run narco-terror cargo under a cartel flag, the United States will hunt you down and end the problem at sea, not in court.