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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.

As Trump scrambles to ease grocery costs by cutting food tariffs, South Carolina presses ahead with another firing squad execution, and Europe’s $200 billion Ukraine rescue package stalls in Belgium, three very different fronts show how political pressure is reshaping hard choices at home and abroad. Welcome to Saturday, November 15th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

Trump’s Pentagon rebrand stirs debate as new AI, drone, and defense shifts reshape warfare. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

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Christians are dying in Nigeria, but so are Muslims and countless other civilians, and the bloodshed has less to do with a holy war than with a government that has let the country slip into the hands of jihadists, militias, and land-grabbers.