“President Trump ordered action — and the Department of War is delivering,” Secretary said on X last night, announcing “Operation Southern Spear,” a military mission he said “defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people.”

“The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it,” Hegseth said. That was it. A four-line social media post. No briefings, no backgrounders, no embedded journalists, and no indication if American is going to war without Congressional authorization, or just flexing its military muscle as it continues to pick off small wooden boats with drone-launched Hellfire missiles that so far in 20 attacks have killed 80 suspected “narco-terrorists.”

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