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US expands Caribbean forces, Iran halts nukes, Trump backs Epstein release. Here’s your Monday morning rundown, November 17, 2025.
When China pushes warships toward Japan, a Newark street turns into a killing ground, and a ghost of Ecuador’s narco-wars is dragged out of hiding in Spain, you can see the world’s pressure points tightening all at once and none of them give you any comfort. It’s Sunday, November 16th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
In the end, when law is bent to serve a vengeful president, the burden falls on the men and women in uniform to choose conscience over career and remember that their oath is to the Constitution, not to the occupant of the White House.
At a moment when Americans are once again tempted to choose sides over country, we must decide whether we want a president in the mold of Lincoln, who labored to heal the Union, or a leader who treats the office as a vehicle for grievance and personal gain.
What happened in that stairwell is less important than what came after: a cottage industry of self appointed referees who profit from shredding another man’s service while preaching a code they no longer live by.
A cartel kingpin is dancing through a blizzard of cash and skulls, blissfully ignoring the Trump-branded sword overhead that says his winning streak has already expired.
As Trump boots Marjorie Taylor Greene out of the MAGA family photo, federalized Guard units quietly file out of Portland and Chicago, and Chileans cast mandatory ballots with crime and migration front and center, you can see the same story stretching from Georgia to Santiago: fearful publics, strained institutions, and leaders turning security into the sharpest political weapon in the room. It’s Sunday morning, November 16th, 2025. Here is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
Border agents tightening the net in Charlotte, Iran is yanking tankers off the sea lanes, and Michelle Obama is saying America still flinches at a woman in charge all point to the same truth: pressure is building at home and abroad, and the country’s fault lines are getting harder to ignore.
Rob O’Neill’s $25 million defamation suit is more than self-defense; it is a hard line in the sand against the vet-on-vet outrage economy that treats brotherhood like clickbait.
Trinity of Chaos is what happens when three already dangerous crews fuse their social engineering, cloud access, and massive credential troves into a single profit driven extortion machine aimed straight at the modern enterprise.
From Phuket, I watch Thailand sit on the fault line between Washington and Beijing, absorbing every shock with the quiet discipline of a country that learned long ago that peace is something you patrol, not something you are given.
In a world fraying with division and hardship, our real strength is the quiet, unseen gold forged in daily struggle, service to others, and the deep roots of our values that no frost can reach.
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