Sean D. Naylor

I rewatched Munich: The Edge of War last night.

Important story by @natashabertrand.bsky.social

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Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

I look to guys like @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @mpolymer1.bsky.social like I look to the flight attendants on a turbulent flight. If they look nervous I know it's time to be nervous and I'm sorry to report these guys look preeeetty nervous.

I've spoken to David Relman extensively. He knows what he is talking about.

Interesting for Hegseth and Trump railing about “political correctness” after the admin spent two weeks policing what people can and can’t say about Charlie Kirk

I’m struggling to find an analogue in US history wherein a president (at least rhetorically) declares war on the country’s great cities, in front of its uniformed military leadership—because there isn’t. That this isn’t universally condemned shows just how despotic much of US politics has become.

I say this sincerely: There is so much 9/11-related material that has yet to be declassified that the president could release.

Did AWG move its headquarters from Fort Meade at some point? (I visited it there fairly early in its history.)

Didn't the Soviet Union build it?

This guy deports people over speeding tickets.

Another JSOC ground raid in Syria (second known one since Trump took office).

Seemingly launched from Iraq, as the Iraqi government says ISOF/CTS troops were on the ground with the US operators (very unusual, and I’m curious whether that was coordinated with the new Syrian government).

A Rogue Nation on the High Seas Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.

“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

The Team House The Team House is a podcast co-hosted by Jack Murphy and Dave Parke, both are former Rangers. Jack went on to become a Green Beret and then a journalist covering military affairs while Dave served as...

New brocast coming this week on @theteamhouse.bsky.social w/ @davephilipps.bsky.social and Matthew Cole about their NYT article covering a DEVGRU mission in North Korea. Out later this week. Probably go subscribe: www.youtube.com/@TheTeamHous...

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

"at least 40 of about 320 people hired to work for UG Solutions in Gaza were recruited from Infidels MC"

Extrajudicial killing in Kenya reveals CIA's covert role in global counterterrorism operations Kenya’s Rapid Response Team commandos were sure they had got their man, shooting suspected terrorist Fuad Abubakar Manswab dead as he tried to flee the apartment they had just broken into.

You can read about this stuff on The High Side if you're interested. @seandnaylor.bsky.social and I have written about CIA/JSOC Omega Teams, CTPTs, CIA proxy intel units, the CTOPs, JSOC response to Gaza, and stuff going back to Vietnam and Nicaragua.

thehighside.substack.com/p/extrajudic...

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

People should ask themselves why it isn't.

The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to keep secret the names of two associates of Jeffrey Epstein who received $100,000 and $250,000 from him in 2018, NBC reports.

The Pentagon has finally gotten around to announcing Jonathan Braga as the next commander of JSOC, succeeding Mitch Bradley who is taking over SOCOM.

Braga joined Delta Force in 2002, was a squadron commander there in the surge era, then commanded Delta 2015-17 when it was running the war in Syria.

ICE in tacky skull siege mask (commonly worn by neo Nazis)

Normal fucking country

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

A two-star job and Allman has just recently gotten his first star. He commanded SEAL Team 6’s Red Squadron during operations in Somalia and Yemen, was a Team 6 troop commander in Iraq/Afg before that, and in 2005 participated in one of the SEALs’ few post-9/11 clandestine over-the-beach missions.