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The governments in Havana & Washington have been engaged in secret negotiations for weeks, with no signs of progress. For #Cuba, the goal is to end the #energy #blockade. For the #US, the talks are [purportedly] focused on ending the government’s grip on the economy & ending political repression [though in actuality it is on #RegimeChange & #US #WesternHemisphere control].

#Trump #MafiaState #Imperialism #geopolitics #climate #ClimateCrisis #EnergyCrisis

The USS Abraham Lincoln #AircraftCarrier & 3 guided-missile #destroyers arrived in the #MiddleEast >2 weeks ago.

It marks a quick turnaround for the USS Ford, which #Trump sent from the Mediterranean Sea to the Caribbean last Oct as the admin built up a huge #military presence prior to the surprise raid that captured Venezuelan President #Maduro.

It appears at odds with Trump’s #NationalSecurity strategy, which put an emphasis on the #WesternHemisphere…. [not really, he wants a war, any #war.]

The #Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised #US #allies to take control of their own #security & reasserted the #Trump admin’s focus on #dominance in the #WesternHemisphere above a longtime goal of countering #China.

https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/23/2003864773/-1/-1/0/2026-NATIONAL-DEFENSE-STRATEGY.PDF

The 34-page document, the first since 2022, was highly #political for a #military blueprint, criticizing partners from #Europe to #Asia for relying on previous US admins to subsidize their #defense.

#NATO

What many saw as a brazen abduction of Nicolas Maduro, Trump pitches as proof of revived US dominance in the Western Hemisphere, dubbing it the "Donroe Doctrine" in echo of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine. But does the world still fit Monroe’s assumptions? Here’s what the numbers say.

Read on HT news app: https://www.hindustantimes.com/editors-pick/can-donroe-be-a-geopolitical-doctrine-number-theory-101768793967192.html

#NicolasMaduro #Maduro #Trump #Donroe #DonroeDoctrine #Monroe #Geopolitics #WesternHemisphere #LatinAmerica #DataViz #Venezuela

It also sends a message that #SouthAmerica keeps diverse #trade & #diplomatic relations even as #US President Donald #Trump attempts to declare dominance in the #WesternHemisphere.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who head’s the #EU’s executive branch, said that “the geopolitical importance of this agreement cannot be overstated” amid revived skepticism about the benefits of #FreeTrade.

#geopolitics #economy #inflation #tariffs #Europe #EU #Mercosur #NewWorldOrder

The inspiration is the 19th cent #MonroeDoctrine that prioritized #USsupremacy in the #WesternHemisphere & which #Trump has embraced & renamed the “#DonroeDoctrine.”

Experts say that while the revival of this playbook may have unnerved some #US #allies, it could also serve the interests of #Russia, locked in a war in #Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, & #China, which has long had its sights set on #Taiwan.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #law #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

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Jan. 8, 2026 · by Amy West

What has the U.S. done to Venezuela?

Was it an invasion, law enforcement, or extortion? Since last fall we’ve

• bombed small boats and their civilian Venezuelan crews that we have claimed were smuggling drugs to the U.S.
• Brought a fleet of military vessels to the region
• Dropped bombs near Caracas, the capital of Venezuela
• Seized President Maduro and his wife and indicted him in federal court over drug trafficking
• Announced a plan to seize some Venezuelan crude oil indefinitely and spend it at the President’s discretion.

Whether any of this was legal is a difficult and a somewhat philosophical question.

What is the War Powers Resolution?

The War Powers Resolution, a 1973 law,, “requires that the President communicate to Congress the committal of troops within 48 hours. Further, the statute requires the President to remove all troops after 60 days if Congress has not granted an extension,” per the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University. Since military action appears to be over, although the President has threatened further action around the world, the War Powers Resolution may have been satisfied.

What are Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs)?

The Constitution gives the power to declare war to Congress, not the President, but all recent presidents have engaged in military actions without declaring war. In most cases, it came with an authorization from Congress instead.

Per Congress.gov, AUMFs are laws which “permit the President to use United States military forces in pursuit of set objectives and within defined parameters.” Without an AUMF, the President must rely on inherent Constitutional powers of the presidency, which may or may not apply. For example, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Congress passed an AUMF that was used as the legal basis for military force in a wide range of places around the world because the authorization was for military force against terrorists. That authorization, along with one from 1991, were both repealed in the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. President Trump signed that law last year about a week before he attacked Venezuela and captured the Venezuelan president.

Whether removing a head of state is tantamount to declaring war, and thus not permitted without Congress’s approval, is not likely to be resolved.

Are we bound by international law?

Well, we agreed to be bound by international law when we joined the United Nations, of which we are still a member. In general, UN members are prohibited from unilaterally using force against other nations, with very few exceptions. This is the point of having an entity like the UN – to help manage disputes in order to avoid or at least decrease violent conflict around the world. 

On the other hand, who’s going to stop us if we ignore international law?

Can the President control the proceeds from selling Venezuelan oil?

The Constitution is very direct in giving Congress ultimate control over government spending: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” Trump’s social media post that the “money will be controlled by me” makes a big assumption that Congress writes him a blank check in law first. Currently, many members of Congress are going on the record saying that they want oversight over any US revenues from Venezuelan oil sales, side-stepping the Constitutional issue of how the revenue is spent.

What Might Congress Do?

This week the Senate will vote on a War Powers bill to stop President Trump’s actions in Venezuela. It’s not expected to pass, and certainly not with enough votes to override the President’s veto. Democrats might also withhold votes on upcoming government funding bills, triggering another government shutdown at the end of the month, unless military funding is restricted or to extract other policy concessions around Venezuela and the sale of its oil.

Or Congress could pass legislation affirming the administration’s actions, instead.

What is Congress Likely to Do?

Nothing. It’s the safest choice politically. If you come out too strongly for or against and then public attitudes about the Administration’s actions go heavily one way or the other, it’ll cost votes. So the best thing to do politically is often nothing.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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The #Senate has advanced a resolution to limit #Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against #Venezuela, sounding a note of disapproval for the president’s expanding ambitions in the #WesternHemisphere.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #oil #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-1-8-2026?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-08-Breaking+News

Hurlburt cited a retired #US general who viewed the #Trump White House move in #Venezuela & its fixation on #Greenland as reminiscent of teenagers playing the geostrategic board game Risk.

“Once you start down the road of the #MonroeDoctrine or the #DonroeDoctrine, or whatever we’re saying now, you look at a map of the #WesternHemisphere, & there is Greenland,” she said.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

He is seeking to run not just Venezuela but the broader Western Hemisphere by threat of further action: A crude, basic "whatever it takes" punishment and reward system dictated by the self-interest of the US — for which read business and economic interests over all else, from an administration that cares little for legalities, niceties or alliances.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-07/venezuela-comparisons-donald-trump-greenland-argentina-panama/106200808

#US
#Venezuela
#SouthAmerica
#WesternHemisphere

Trump’s militaristic approach to Latin America – and the administration’s extraordinary seizure of Maduro – comes just weeks after the White House outlined plans to assert greater influence over the region.

In the National Security Strategy published last month, the administration pledged to “restore American preeminence in the #WesternHemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region.”
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#strategy
#quotes

Hype for the Future 49J: French Guiana 🇬🇫

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Alt Text for Pete Hegseth’s November 1st Boat Strike Video

Like many of the boat strike videos posted to social media by Trump, Hegseth, and the White House, the video of the attack conducted in the Caribbean on November 1st was edited and heavily redacted before its release. Like the other videos, it masquerades as “unclassified” public disclosure, but it discloses almost nothing at all.

We are being asked to rely on the stories Hegseth and other administration figures tell when they post these videos on social media. These accounts have been a problem for me since I first started looking at these boat strike videos — not because I am an expert in military affairs, or South American drug trafficking, but because I can claim some expertise when it comes to the make-believe work of telling stories on video or film.

Moving through these videos shot by shot, and sometimes frame by frame, shows Hegseth to be, at best, an unreliable narrator. (The fancy term for this is proven liar, or, in American idiom, Fox News host.) So, since I’m on a slow New Jersey Transit train with some time on my hands, I thought I’d try a description of my own, and offer alt text for the November 1st video.

The first (low-res, highly pixelated. black and white) shot shows the point of view of the attacker, already in position over the boat. We can make out the wake of the boat, but the vessel itself, the purported target of the strike, is fully redacted. So is the EO/IR interface, and so are any location coordinates. The attacker can see things we can’t.

While it lasts a full six seconds and would seem intended to set the scene, situate the viewer, and show drug smugglers in flagrante delicto, this first shot does nothing of the sort. There is no approach or discovery, no reveal, no new intelligence; the decision to strike has already been taken.

In other words, any visual evidence arguing for the strike, any proof that these are, in fact, the bad guys, the “narcoterrorists,” is being withheld, or perhaps can’t be produced. (And even if these were the bad guys or, what’s more likely, a few desperate mules working for the bad guys,* intercepting the boat would make a lot more sense in terms of interdiction and carry the added benefit of not violating international law.) As Representative Adam Smith remarked after an Armed Services briefing, the Pentagon is “telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them.”

Then at 00:16:15, two munitions or pieces of ordnance fall from the sky and strike the redacted target. The blast radiates out from the center, but only for a single frame.

Everything goes white, for three frames. The redactions are the only features we can make out against the white.

In the (infrared) shot of the explosion that follows — the one that looks like a camera negative — the camera begins to move off the annihilated target. This shot runs nearly three seconds, from 00:06:17 to 00:09:20, revealing a black sea.

Then something curious happens. At 9 seconds (00:09:21, to be precise), the video returns to the blown-out, hot-white, three-frame post-strike moment shown at 00:06:14.

It’s a rewind of the narrative.

The final shot is a re-telling, an instant replay, a photo-realistic, searchlight-on-the-water view of the strike’s aftermath. It lasts seven seconds. Four seconds longer than the first telling. It’s repetition with a difference.

What’s the difference? In this second version, the camera moves off the annihilated target, as it does at 00:06-00:09, but then reveals that move to have been a mere feint. The camera drops back to show flames and columns of thick smoke rising from the sea.

At 00:14, we regain some orientation, with the reveal of the [N] or North marker. There are about a dozen redacted areas in these frames, but the extra four seconds make a distinct impression.

The impression is of report from a war zone, a helicopter pulling away from a sea strewn with burning wreckage. It’s an image deeply ingrained in the American psyche. The Ride of the Valkyries. But Wagner would be all out of proportion to what we’re seeing. It’s not just that the image is degraded. We might expect that from a war zone. It’s that we’re not in a war zone at all.

There is no threat of attack or counterattack. No enemy fleet. No other boats rushing to the aid of the vessel under attack. Instead, the world’s most powerful military, funded by $900 billion in taxpayer dollars, the erstwhile leader of the historic NATO alliance, is using state-of -the-art technology and sophisticated American firepower to target small, individual vessels off the South American coast and kill whomever happens to be on board.

“No country should go to war so that the leader’s inner circle can make Tiktoks,” quipped Tom Pepinsky this morning. But it looks as if that’s what’s about to happen. Hegseth’s conduct online — and off, if he’s ever offline — carries real risks, as military, legal, and policy experts are warning.

(On this point, I recommend reading Pepinsky’s article published today on East Asia Forum. And Elizabeth N. Saunders’ new piece on Venezuela that’s up today on Good Authority, where she observes that Hegseth is the embodiment of “incompetent risk.”)

It’s shabby and undisciplined conduct. It discredits the office of the Secretary of Defense, illustrating only the smallness of the man, his moral depravity, the dereliction of Southern Command and the international humiliation of the United States on his watch.

*As this 7 November 2025 AP report on the victims of the September strikes would seem to confirm.

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All the Boat Strike Videos, To Date, in Chronological Order

https://youtu.be/ahyptlMah7w

In my last couple of posts (here and here), I’ve been trying to look closely at some of the latest boat strike videos, call out some of their features, and discuss the information they offer as well as the information they withhold.

It might also be helpful to look at all the boat strike videos in a single chronological sequence. So, using the Associated Press timeline of the strikes, and the media downloader at xdownloader.org, I’ve assembled all the boat strike videos into a single sequence. The work here is quick and dirty: the videos are not gussied up (and are best watched in full screen mode); the only thing I’ve done is add a date before each video. I’ve tried to stick with the date of the strike; sometimes videos are posted a day later.

I put this sequence together for myself because I couldn’t find it elsewhere. I thought it might help me see patterns and make some new sense of these videos. I’m sharing it here on the chance others might find it useful.

I’ve seen a few TV news clips reporting the boat strikes that use the videos posted by Hegseth, Trump, and the White House as b-roll: videos from September are used to report a strike in late October, or the boat strike footage is assembled into a kind of montage, the strikes and locations conflated, one strike standing in for all of them, boats moving through the water, boats targeted, boats blown up, while the anchor introduces or interviews a guest. The strike videos themselves become part of the backdrop, or just background noise; the punditry gets foregrounded.

I get it. This approach allows people on TV to generalize about the strikes, which they should do. The strikes are illegal and immoral, degrading and corrupting; they bring the “war on terror” and its atrocities to our own hemisphere; they re-allocate forces and resources, altering the risk landscape; they are an international outrage. The strikes can be understood as part of a larger political project, a “primacist” project championed by Marco Rubio, which uses drug-trafficking as a pretext for belligerence.

The boat attack videos promote this project while serving other propagandistic functions as well. They tick the adolescent edgelord box that everyone in this administration seems desperate to tick, and which is apparently part of the warrior ethos Hegseth touts. They misrepresent lawlessness as law enforcement, as ICE does in its own videos promoting kidnapping and other abuses, and allow powerful people to boast of their own impunity. They masquerade as (“unclassified”) public disclosure, even as the administration stonewalls Congress and keeps the military lawyers out of the hearing room.

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How the Boat Strike Videos Dehumanize and Gamify Murder

The latest boat strike video shows US military attacks on four boats in the Eastern Pacific. The strikes killed 14 people and left one survivor, who is, according to Pete Hegseth, now in the hands of Mexican authorities.*

Edited together to show three strikes in different locations, these videos have many of the features called out in my first post on this topic: they are marked unclassified (all caps, in green letters set against a black matte or background); they are standard definition, low resolution, blurry and pixelated (the download from X is 568X320); features of the EO/IR interfaces and geolocation are redacted. On a strictly technical basis, they are information deficient — and deliberately so, I think it’s fair to say.

There is also a consistent pattern to the storytelling here. The videos go from black and white to color after each strike, at 00:07, 00:15, and 00:24. The target comes into focus through the black and white EO/IR interface, the strike is executed, then the videos cut abruptly to a more realistic color perspective on the burning vessels. The color frames offer a little more in the way of information, not about the boats, the people on them, or their cargo. They show us their obliteration.

In the first strike shown here, crew appear to be transferring cargo or gear of some kind from one boat to another when the boats are hit. Hegseth claims there were eight people aboard these two boats, but it’s hard to make out more than a few. In the second and third strikes shown here, the human figures are also hard to discern, but Hegseth claims there were four aboard the boat shown at 00:10-00:18, and three aboard the last boat shown, starting at 00:19.

It’s possible that crew members (in red) are visible fore and aft at 00:15, and one of them after the strike, at 00;17, but I am not at all confident about that. If I had to guess, I would say that the survivor in Mexican custody comes from this second strike. Notice that the boat continues to travel even after the strike, in the color frames from 00:15-00:17. Did the strike fail to neutralize this vessel? Any doubts are addressed by the black and white frames that follow at 00:17-00:18, which reduce the burning boat to a hot white flash on the water.

Just before the third strike, at around 00:21, a crew member appears to come partially into view.

In any case, the human figures aboard these boats are presented as objects of the strike, not as subjects in their own right or characters who are the focus of the story. Hegseth calls them “narcoterrorists”; for all intents and purposes they are what gamers might refer to as “mobs,” on-screen enemies to be tracked, targeted, and killed.

That may sound obvious, but I think it’s worth pointing out. It’s yet another way in which these boat strike videos are both information- and morally-deficient, a degraded and degrading spectacle. The aim is not to inform the public. It is to dehumanize the victims and gamify murder.

* Correction 29 October 2025: Mexican authorities now say that they did not manage to rescue this person.

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Some Notes on the Latest Boat Strike Video

This morning, I downloaded the latest of the boat strike videos that the Secretary of Defense is posting on Twitter. (That sentence alone is kind of mind blowing, but let’s leave that discussion for another day.) After watching it a few times, I am starting to put together some notes and seeing if I can have some conversations about the boat strike videos the administration has put out. I don’t know if there’s a larger project here. There might be.

From the outset I want to make it clear that I am not embarking on an exercise in conspiracy theory. I do not think these videos are “deepfakes or AI generated,” as Freddy Ñáñez, Venezuela’s Minister of Communication and Information, said back in September. These are official records of what the administration calls “lethal kinetic strikes”, and what experts in military and international law have repeatedly and correctly described as extrajudicial killing, i.e., murder. (I am partial to Gabor Rona’s framing of the question.)

Two things, however, can be true at the same time. This video can be authentic (as I believe it is) and the story it tells can be carefully controlled. It is. A significant amount of work has been done on this video in between the moment of the boat strike and the video’s release on Twitter.

The September 2nd boat strike video that Ñañez called a fake (due to motion artifacts and “lack of realistic detail”) is of much higher quality than the video put out by Hegseth last night. If anything, the September 2nd film suggests that the Pentagon has much higher quality video of these strikes than what the public is seeing with this latest video. (Same goes for this October 3rd video posted by the White House on X. Indeed, some of the earlier videos were 1080p. ) That point may be obvious, or come as no surprise, but it’s worth exploring a little.

Even allowing for the fact that this tenth boat strike video was shot at night, the low resolution of the video Hegseth posted is notable. The video is standard definition, 640X360, and only about 380KB. I am unsure whether the government deliberately reduced the sharpness of the picture, or if the dullness of the image is simply a consequence of its low resolution. It amounts to the same thing, and my attempts to increase the sharpness of the image were unsuccessful. We can have a conversation about whether generative AI could help or create more confusion here, but the larger point should not be lost. These videos are not just records of a military strike. They are also records of choices made by the administration before exporting and posting the video (itself a choice).

Those choices leave many important details obscured. Look, for instance, at the stern of the boat in this frame I exported. This is the frame just before the explosion. Where we expect to see a motor is a pixelated blur; the missile just above the deck is jagged and distorted. It also doesn’t help that the infrared sensors, at least as they are rendered in this low-res video, blow out all detail of who or what is on board.

The unclassified stamp was also created (in all caps, because part of the story here is about the administration’s social-media-driven ideas of transparency) and positioned at the top of the frame. Other elements of the picture have been redacted, using two gray rectangular blocks. A Project Ploughshares report on the sensor technology used in these attacks suggests that the slimmer rectangle just above the boat is most likely concealing

a light-blue scale bar used to measure the size and distance of visible objects, a trademark element of WESCAM’s MX-Series sensor interface. Its presence provided the first major clue linking Canadian-made technology to the…airstrikes.

The larger, square block on the left of the frame, port side, may be another redaction of the optical interface. It’s not entirely clear we are looking at a WESCAM interface here, and these redactions may be concealing features of another system.

The crosshairs over the target are hardly a feature unique to WESCAM. The [6M] marker next to the boat (indicating a Circular Error Probable of six meters?) is not a WESCAM feature called out in the Ploughshares report. The North [N] marker that appears around 00:15, after the explosion, indicating the direction north relative to the sensor’s position, is not a feature associated with WESCAM’s MX-Series, according to the Ploughshares report. It appears to be a feature of the optical system used in the “narcoterrorist” boat strike video the White House posted on 14 October.

The report concludes that the US military is using “more than one type of EO/IR [electro-optical/infrared] system,” and it’s not apparent which system is in play here, in this video of the tenth boat strike. Be that as it may, it’s in the use of these EO/IR systems where AI (sensing, modeling, targeting) comes into play.

Finally, consider the shape of the story this video tells. I will give Ñañez this much: it is cartoonish, deliberately so. (Nanez called the September 2nd video an “animación simplificada.”) The story begins with the target already in focus, the unsuspecting (or fleeing? or trapped?) boat below leaving a shadowy wake on the vignetted water. Three frames show the missile in its descent, then everything goes black. From the blackness emerge oily clouds of black smoke and debris. Only then does the redaction fall away and the [N] marker allows us briefly to orient ourselves. (The boat appears to have been traveling roughly east.) Most telling, in my view, is that the video ends before we see the real aftermath of the explosion — wreckage, or survivors (improbable as that may seem, it’s already happened!). We don’t know what happens once the smoke clears. Nor are we meant to care, I’ll venture.

Obviously, Congress should be demanding to know the full story, and should be asking for all raw footage of these attacks, unredacted and at original resolution. But unless and until Congress acts, we are left to rely on the story the administration is telling.* These notes are a first pass at understanding how the published boat strike videos tell that story, and I hope I’ve managed to set out a few markers for further discussion. More material will be forthcoming, no doubt. I would appreciate tips, suggestions, technical insights, and corrections.

*Update, 11 Nov 2025: Maybe not. The New York Times is now suing for these videos under the Freedom of Information Act.

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