Old: I’m gonna do a Venezuela in Iran.

New: I would have done a Venezuela in Vietnam.

Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.

Surprise!

washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/21/cia-mexico-accident-counter-narcotics/?itid=hp_alert

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.

Surprise!

washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/21/cia-mexico-accident-counter-narcotics/?itid=hp_alert

The Power of Positive Thinking: US Foreign Policy edition

Notably, this incident does not correspond to any of the videos posted online by SOUTHCOM.

Ambassador 👊🇺🇸🔥

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U.S. ambassador to Mexico only identifies the dead Americans as “U.S. Embassy personnel.”

Opinion | Alan Dershowitz: Why I’m Becoming a Republican I first registered as a Democrat in 1959. The party’s hostility to Israel is too much.

You will never guess why...

www.wsj.com/opinion/alan...

Anticuchos

Just remembered this EO.

lol

I repeat:

Take away his phone

A deal to end the Iran war seemed close. Then Trump started posting on social media | CNN Politics As the weekend approached, the US and Iran appeared to be closing in on a deal to end the seven-week war.

"Some Trump officials privately acknowledged to CNN that the president’s public commentary has been detrimental to talks, noting the sensitivity of the negotiations and the Iranians’ deep mistrust of the US."

Much Art.

Mucho Deal.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/p...

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U.S. ambassador to Mexico only identifies the dead Americans as “U.S. Embassy personnel.”

hmmm…

Legal doomerism and defeatism are self fulfilling.

And may get you blocked.

In that case, if Trump continues with his war, he will be violating the War Power Resolution—in addition to usurping Congress's authority under the U.S. Constitution.

When your splendid little war of choice is going exactly as you hoped and you are definitely in control of the situation, that is when you send out multiple long defensive screeds on social media.

"This is being perfectly executed, on the scale of Venezuela, just a bigger, more complex operation. The result will be the same."

Remarkable that Venezuela remains Trump's model for his military misadventure against Iran.

My "I’m winning a War, BY A LOT, things are going very well" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Just like WWII, except this time the U.S. did a Pearl Harbor on Iran.

Listening to this conversation now.

Gut wrenching.

Will also note that this incident with the M/V Toushka makes it harder for the Trump administration to argue that US armed forces are no longer engaged in "hostilities" for the purposes of the War Powers Resolution.

Of course there is also the question of what the US does with the crew of this vessel.

Iran cargo ship seized by US could become ‘spoils of war’ | CNN The US made good on its threat to board and seize any vessel defying its blockade of Iran’s ports on Sunday, with footage released by the military showing a guided-missile destroyer firing on the Iran...

Will be interesting to see whether the USG tries to condemn the vessel and its cargo via prize court or tries to rely on other domestic law authorities to forfeit the sanctioned vessel and its contents.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/m...

Great piece by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social.

A question that should be put to more supporters of this war.

In my one personal encounter with Senator Ossoff (which involved a briefing on some technical legal issues), I was impressed with his sharp questions and comments.

Will he present himself with the medal under his new triumphal arch?