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She was kind enough not to slash tires or bust windows. She just wanted to leave a sweet little message for psychotic posterity.

Federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, platform moderation decisions by Meta, and new casualty estimates from the war in Ukraine dominated developments overnight, as governments and institutions adjusted posture under growing scrutiny and pressure.

SHOT Show 2026 wasn’t about flashy banners or endless aisles—it was about the gear that actually worked, and if you paid attention, you could see the future of shooting right there on the floor.

From a Border Patrol shooting on a dirt road in Arivaca, to a missile strike on a Caribbean fishing boat now headed to U.S. court, to Xi Jinping gutting the very top of the PLA, the common thread is power under stress, weapons in motion, and the human cost that follows when force gets ahead of accountability.

This is part one of a nine-part series of interviews SOFREP conducted with SEAL Team-Six founder Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko

What was sold as a modern, mechanized campaign has devolved into Russian troops riding horses and packing donkeys through a drone-infested kill zone, a bleak and unmistakable sign that Moscow’s war machine is exhausted, improvising with animals because steel, fuel, and time have all run out.

Silence felt harmless at the bar that night, just another beer-soaked pause between cops, until it metastasized into a body on cold asphalt and a lesson written in blood about how evil rarely needs accomplices, just witnesses who decide it is not their problem.

Federal enforcement leadership changes in Minnesota, renewed shutdown risk tied to DHS funding, internal upheaval in China’s military command, and updated Pentagon guidance on counter-drone operations defined the morning’s security landscape. Developments span domestic law enforcement, congressional budgeting, foreign military leadership, and homeland defense as agencies and governments adjust posture under sustained pressure.

From snowbound highways and stranded travelers to the looming government brink and a carrier strike group asserting power in the Indian Ocean, the world keeps moving while we scramble to keep up.

A strangely-painted tanker thumbing its nose at warships is not a joke, it is a sanctioned economy daring the world to blink first in the gray zone where absurdity, money, and maritime law collide.

Having surrendered its hard-won title as the “leader of the free world” for a transactional “America First” doctrine, the United States has traded its foundational moral authority for a chaotic, self-absorbed leadership that has moved the international community from admiration to a state of muted horror and pity.

Politics keeps choosing the moment, but until professionals choose the tactics, we are going to keep stacking bodies and calling it enforcement.