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10/01/2026

Run, Renee, run, they're going to kill you!
The murder of an USAmerican poetess by Trump and his gang

 Reinaldo Spitaletta, January 9, 2026
Translated by Tlaxcala

Renee Nicole Good, poetess murdered by ICE (Photo RNZ News)

They murdered the poetess, with gunshots, in cold blood, as if she were a cockroach, or perhaps like a piece of pork that must be fried in the fat of immigration police. They killed her for no reason, because women must be killed, women who write, women who raise their voices, who speak with exploited foreigners, with the persecuted. She had to be killed. And that’s what the automatic agents did, assassins by nature, trained for that purpose: to kill and nothing more. Ah, and if the victim is a poetess, even better. We don’t want anyone to sing, or to tell any truth, in verse, or in prose, to the little president who looks more and more like Hitler.

They shot and killed Renée Nicole Good, thirty-seven years old. They say she wrote “like someone opening a window in a besieged house.” She surely knew, before receiving that hail of bullets in a “country bathed in blood,” as Paul Auster described it, that she was destined to be a victim of Trumpesque repression, of the Corollary of the new filibusterer, of the New National Defense Strategy, of the pedocriminal, reincarnation—so the bandit president believes—of James Monroe, and who also represents Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick. The poetess knew they were going to kill her.

She has been another victim of the system that has been bombing for years, sometimes with atomic bombs, sometimes with other bombs—deadly, indeed—civilian targets, entire populations, that murders people like those in the village of My Lai, or Iraq, or Syria, or Libya, also Venezuela. And it kills poets. Just like that. Perhaps as if imitating the one who murdered García Lorca in Granada, for being a faggot, or a poet, or because he was against oppression.

They shot her, just like that, at point-blank range and with confidence, a young girl, yes, she was still a young girl in bloom, who wrote poems. Her verses had to be erased, the cop, the servant of the system, the licensed assassin, would think. A voice had to be silenced, a pencil, some stanzas, some lines... We don’t need poets, but thugs, bombers, criminals. Such is the vulgar prose of imperialism, of Trump and his henchmen, of those who applaud not only the bravado of the bloodthirsty pirate, but also his criminal actions throughout the universe.

Killing a poetess can be insignificant. Besides being easy, besides everything can remain unpunished. She was just a woman, a young girl who wrote, who greeted immigrants, who told them how to unite, how to embrace, how to stay alert in the face of repression. That was it, so worthless, so meaningless for a subject like the president. Trump’s Gestapo murdered her.

What can happen to an empire, or to a delinquent who shelters himself by being president of a superpower (in decline), for the crime of a woman who wrote, for example, "” want my rocking chairs back” and knew “cicada tercets” (like the cicada, so many times they killed me, so many times I died, yet here I am resurrecting...), who had “donated bibles to second-hand stores,” who knew—she was a poetess—that between her pancreas and her large intestine, “lies the insignificant stream of my soul.”

The soulless ones disembodied her. The assassins erased her words, her desire for justice, the irrepressible wishes to sing against injustice, to bless the encounter between the ovum and the spermatozoon. They tore out her soul with gunshots.

But the thing, as they say, is that no police officer, no bullet, no rifle, ends poetry. It continues living beyond the poet. Renée’s poetry now flies higher, goes from Minneapolis to Chicago, from Los Angeles to Texas, from the country of dead freedoms, of destroyed democracy, to beyond the blue planet. It was the afternoon of January 7, 2026, when a police officer from the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), fired ferociously at a young girl who wrote verses and who from that moment flies, like that butterfly which, with its wing flap, is capable of causing an earthquake in Beijing or bringing forth a tear somewhere in the world where there are people who sing.

Renée Nicole is now fire. She is not ash. She is a powerful voice crying out for justice in the world and for utopia to keep living, or, at least, to keep many people walking.

The poetess murdered in Minneapolis

Cours, Renée, cours, ils vont te tuer !
L’assassinat d’une poétesse usaméricaine par Trump et sa bande

 

Reinaldo Spitaletta, 9 janvier 2026
Traduit par Tlaxcala

Renee Nicole Good, poétesse assassinée par la police de l’immigration (Photo RNZ News)

Ils ont assassiné la poétesse, à coups de feu, de sang-froid, comme si elle était un cafard, ou peut-être comme un morceau de porc qu’il faut frire dans de la graisse de policiers de l’immigration. Ils l’ont tuée pour rien, parce qu’il faut tuer des femmes, des femmes qui écrivent, des femmes qui élèvent la voix, qui parlent avec les étrangers exploités, avec les persécutés. Il faut la tuer. Et c’est ce qu’ont fait les agents automatiques, assassins par nature, entraînés à cette fin : tuer et rien de plus. Ah, et si la victime est une poétesse, c’est encore mieux. Nous ne voulons pas que qui que ce soit chante, ni dise des vérités, en vers ou en prose, au petit président qui ressemble de plus en plus à Hitler.

Ils ont assassiné par balle Renée Nicole Good, trente-sept ans. On dit qu’elle écrivait « comme quelqu’un qui ouvre une fenêtre dans une maison assiégée ». Elle savait sûrement, avant de recevoir cette rafale de balles dans un « pays baigné de sang », comme l’a décrit Paul Auster, qu’elle était destinée à être une victime de la répression trumpiste, du Corollaire du nouveau flibustier, de la Nouvelle Stratégie de Défense Nationale, du pédocriminel, réincarnation — c’est ce que croit le président bandit — de James Monroe, et qui représente aussi le Gourdin de Teddy Roosevelt. La poétesse savait qu’ils allaient la tuer.

Elle a été une autre victime du système qui bombarde depuis des années, parfois avec des bombes atomiques, parfois avec d’autres bombes — mortelles, ça oui —, des cibles civiles, des populations entières, qui assassine des gens comme ceux du village de My Lai, ou d’Irak, ou de Syrie, ou de Libye, aussi du Venezuela. Et il tue des poètes. Comme ça. Peut-être comme s’il imitait celui qui a assassiné à Grenade García Lorca, parce qu’il était pédé, ou poète, ou parce qu’il était contre l’oppression.

Ils lui ont tiré dessus, comme ça, à bout portant et avec assurance, une jeune fille, oui, c’était encore une jeune fille en fleur, qui écrivait des poèmes. Il fallait effacer ses vers, penait le flic, le serviteur du système, l’assassin patenté. Il fallait faire taire une voix, un crayon, des strophes, des lignes... Nous n’avons pas besoin de poètes, mais de tueurs, de bombardiers, de criminels. Telle est la vulgaire prose de l’impérialisme, de Trump et de ses complices, de ceux qui applaudissent non seulement les fanfaronnades du pirate sanguinaire, mais aussi ses actions criminelles dans tout l’univers.

Tuer une poétesse peut être insignifiant. En plus d’être facile, et plus que tout, ça peut rester impuni. Ce n’était qu’une femme, une jeune fille qui écrivait, qui saluait les immigrants, qui leur disait comment s’unir, comment s’embrasser, comment rester vigilants face à la répression. C’était ça, tellement sans valeur, tellement dénué de sens pour un individu comme le président. La Gestapo de Trump l’a assassinée.

Qu’est-ce qui peut arriver à un empire, ou à un criminel qui se protège en étant président d’une superpuissance (en déclin), pour le meurtre d’une femme qui écrivait, par exemple, « je veux récupérer mes fauteuils à bascule » et connaissait « les tercets des cigales » (comme la cigale, tant de fois ils m’ont tuée, tant de fois je suis morte, et pourtant je suis là, ressuscitée...), qui avait « donné des bibles à des magasins d’occasion », qui savait — c’était une poétesse — qu’entre son pancréas et son gros intestin, « se trouve l’insignifiant ruisseau de mon âme ».

Les sans-âme l’ont désanimée. Les assassins lui ont effacé les mots, l’envie de faire justice, les désirs irrépressibles de chanter contre l’injustice, de bénir la rencontre entre l’ovule et le spermatozoïde. Ils lui ont arraché l’âme à coups de feu.

Mais le truc, comme on dit, c’est qu’aucun policier, aucune balle, aucun fusil, ne vient à bout de la poésie. Elle continue de vivre au-delà du poète. La poésie de Renée vole maintenant plus haut, va de Minneapolis à Chicago, de Los Angeles au Texas, du pays des libertés mortes, de la démocratie détruite, vers l’au-delà de la planète bleue. C’était l’après-midi du sept janvier 2026, quand un policier du Service de l’Immigration et de Contrôle des Douanes des USA (ICE), a tiré avec férocité sur une jeune fille qui écrivait des vers et qui, depuis ce moment, vole, comme ce papillon qui, de ses battements d’ailes, est capable de provoquer un tremblement de terre à Pékin ou de faire jaillir une larme quelque part dans le monde où il y a des gens qui chantent.

Renée Nicole est maintenant feu. Elle n’est pas cendre. C’est une voix puissante qui réclame justice dans le monde et pour que l’utopie continue de vivre, ou, au moins, de mettre en marche beaucoup de gens.

La poétesse assassinée à Minneapolis

Minneapolis

08/01/2026

Président Petro, dialoguez avec Trump mais faites gaffe

Tigrillo L. Anudo, 8/1/2026
Traduit par Tlaxcala

Ce vieillard sociopathe instrumentalise tout au service de sa soif de s’approprier les fortunes des autres. Vous, président Petro, êtes l’un des rares cailloux dans la chaussure de ce déjanté. C’est pour cela qu’il vous a appelé. Ce n’est pas vous qui l’avez appelé.


Gardez à l’esprit que Trump a rembourré son portefeuille  immobilier avec l’aide de Chepe Santacruz, un narcotrafiquant colombien. Comprenez que s’il vous accuse d’être un narco, c’est parce qu’il est hanté par les bénéfices qu’il a lui-même tirés des mafias.

Trump a eu des associés narcotrafiquants, des clients narcos dans ses hôtels. Il vient de gracier Juan Orlando Hernández, ancien président du Honduras, condamné à 45 ans de prison aux USA pour trafic de drogue. Le fantôme de la drogue empêche ce sociopathe de dormir.

Trump sait que c’est vous qui avez le plus poursuivi les narcotrafiquants. Pour vous détrôner de cet honneur, il vous diffame. Il veut se poser en sauveur des USA face à la drogue. C’est une fausse bannière. À Trump et à l’élite économique, l’existence du narcotrafic convient parfaitement. Sur chaque dollar issu de la vente de drogue, 70 cents restent dans les banques usaméricaines. La lutte contre la drogue a toujours été et sera toujours un prétexte pour intervenir dans les affaires intérieures des pays latino-américains.

Pourquoi Trump vous appelle-t-il à dialoguer à la Maison-Blanche ? Parce qu’il veut calmer le jeu. Il cherche à se débarrasser un peu de cette image de tyran raciste et xénophobe à l’égard des immigrés latinos. Vous avez été, président Petro, le seul chef d’État qui, sans concessions, a rejeté les rafles indiscriminées aux USA, les bombardements criminels contre de malheureux bateliers dans la mer des Caraïbes, qui a condamné le génocide à Gaza et s’est opposé à l’intervention militaire au Venezuela.

La difficile situation intérieure que traverse Trump le pousse à vous utiliser comme facteur de diversion. Il fait face à des accusations d’abus sexuels et de conspiration putschiste, à des dénonciations pour pédocriminalité, à la rébellion de gouverneurs et de maires d’États qui subissent les actions violentes des agents de l’immigration – l’ICE – contre leurs propres citoyens usaméricains. Hier, 7 janvier, ces agents ont assassiné de sang-froid Renee Good (37 ans, mère d’un enfant) à Minneapolis. Trump ordonne l’arrestation et la déportation des Vénézuéliens qui sont descendus dans la rue pour célébrer l’arrestation de Maduro et la mort de 100 personnes lors de l’incursion. Pour couronner le tout, il se moque avec mépris des Vénézuéliens qui manifestent à Caracas contre l’intervention, ce qui lui a valu encore plus de critiques sur sa gestion.

Président Petro, vous êtes économiste. Vous savez très bien que le principal objectif de Trump est d’éloigner les pays latino-américains des échanges commerciaux, industriels et culturels avec la Chine. Cet objectif est peut-être plus important encore que le pillage du pétrole vénézuélien et le saccage des ressources naturelles de l’Amérique du Sud. La croisade et le bellicisme de Trump visent le dragon de l’Orient, qui est en train de dédollariser le commerce international et de gagner la guerre commerciale contre les USA.

L’expérimentation de Gaza est déjà arrivée en Amérique latine. Vous l’avez clairement annoncé. Ce qu’ils font à Gaza, ils le feront dans d’autres pays si nous ne réagissons pas. Ils veulent nous recoloniser par des menaces, des chantages et des bombardements. Les peuples dignes d’Amérique latine font confiance à votre voix et à votre engagement indéfectible en faveur de la souveraineté, de la démocratie, de la justice sociale et environnementale.

07/01/2026

Venezuela: ‘I dreamed of planes that clouded the day’..., by Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein

 Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, 6/1/2026
Original español: Yo soñé con aviones, que nublaban el día…
Translated by John Catalinotto

A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Silvio Rodríguez (see translation below)

It is quite difficult to express something new and different from what I have said and written in the last three days. It seems to me that the most important thing has been that Venezuela has managed to ensure constitutional continuity in the management of the state and the government after the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro. This, much to the chagrin of the United States, has been verified.

The chain of events in recent days reflects a solid rule of law and the existence of strong institutions that guarantee the strength of a country that functions in strict accordance with its National Constitution. Approved by popular referendum on December 15, 1999, the Constitution sets out a political, legal, and social contract that transcends individuals and leaders who are no longer physically present. 

We lost Commander Hugo Chávez, but before that, on Dec. 8, 2012, he showed us the way. President Maduro was kidnapped, but he, being foresighted, left us the Decree of External Emergency so that, in the event of his absence, the country would continue to function.

Since December 15, 1999, this country, Venezuela, has been following the path of law and justice in accordance with its Constitution. To interrupt this path, it is not enough to assassinate Commander Chávez and kidnap President Maduro. Let's look at what happened after January 3:

1.    That same day. Approval in the Constitutional Chamber of the temporary absence of President Maduro. It should be clear that this is not a permanent absence. To that extent, he remains the constitutional president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Delcy Rodríguez is the vice president and now in charge of the presidency. Thus, the constitutional thread has been maintained.

This is very important because European countries and the opposition attempted to argue that new elections and a “peaceful and orderly transition” were necessary. There will be no transition here because there has been no change in the regime or the government. What has happened, I repeat, is legal and constitutional continuity. This is no minor issue because it will influence the next steps and because, as President Maduro himself pointed out in his first appearance before the judge in the United States, he is—according to international law and even U.S. domestic law—a sitting president who has been illegally kidnapped.

2.    On January 3 itself. The Decree of External Emergency signed in advance by President Maduro comes into force, anticipating a situation such as the one that occurred in the early hours of that day. The decree restricts freedom of movement and the right of assembly, provided that these measures are proportionate to the seriousness of the situation. However, it does not limit the right to life, it prohibits torture and incommunicado detention. The State continues to guarantee the right to due process, to defense, and to access to timely information.

3.   January 3. Meeting of the National Defense Council (State Public Powers, Minister of Defense, Chief of the Strategic Operational Command of the Armed Forces, Vice President of Citizen Security, Councils of Vice Presidents, Foreign Minister, and some special guests). According to Article 323 of the Constitution, this body is the highest authority on matters of defense.

4.   January 5. The new National Assembly for the 2026-2031 term was sworn in with the deputies elected in the last legislative elections on May 25, 2025.

5.   January 10. The Vice President, in her capacity as acting president, will deliver the annual message to the National Assembly and the country, reporting on the activities of the State during 2025. According to what President Maduro had previously announced, the fundamental themes of the message will be: Democracy and Participation; Community Strengthening; Economy and Production; Security and Defense; and Training and Communication.

Of course, the return of President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores will be the top priority. I have been able to gather some information about what happened. The attacks resulted in around 80 deaths, including 32 Cuban allies of the president, and that was just in Fuerte Tiuna. There are other casualties in different parts of the country, but they have not been counted. Investigations are still ongoing to detect security breaches.  The loss of weapons was minimal because they had previously been dispersed throughout the country.

President Trump is lying when he says there were no casualties. There were casualties, but they took the bodies away and hid them because, having carried out an illegal operation under U.S. domestic law, he has no way of justifying the deaths of his country's soldiers.

 The U.S. elite have no inhibitions against killing citizens of any other country in the world, but they are highly sensitive to the casualties of their own people, in this case it is in an unauthorized war. Their wounded were transferred in complete secrecy first to Puerto Rico and then on a secret flight to a military hospital in Houston, Texas. 

At this moment, in Venezuela, there is territorial control by the people together with the Armed Forces throughout the country and a military deployment across the entire national territory. Today, the country is battered and hurt by the kidnapping of the president and his wife, but in strategic terms, the United States' action cannot be considered a victory. Even if the operation had a tactical purpose of achieving certain objectives, the United States did not achieve them either.

1. It did not succeed in changing the regime or the government. It was unable to install a friendly puppet government in Venezuela’s national territory.

2. It did not succeed in fracturing the Armed Forces, which remain united around the acting president.

3. It did not fracture the government or the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which is the backbone of the political process initiated by Commander Chávez.

4. Nor did it succeed in seizing Venezuela's natural, energy, and mineral resources.

As [author of “The Art of War”] Sun Tzu says, “if a strong contender fails to defeat the weak, then he loses, regardless of the damage he has inflicted.”

The institutional framework of the state remains strong. This was already evident on the afternoon of Jan. 3, following the solid and forceful intervention of Delcy Rodríguez, who has taken on her new responsibility with integrity.

 On Monday the 5th, in an event that received little coverage but was of the utmost emotional, spiritual, and moral importance, the acting president, after taking the oath of office before the National Assembly, went to the Cuartel de la Montaña, where the remains of Commander Chávez rest, to pledge before him to continue his work and his thinking.

She then went to the General Cemetery of the South to perform the same ceremony at the tomb of her father, Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, a brilliant revolutionary leader who was assassinated in July 1976 after being captured and brutally tortured by the repressive forces of the representative democracy that ruled Venezuela for 40 years.

It has become clear that if the United States eventually dares to invade the country, defense plans will be put into action to repel the aggressor. Not only is the Bolivarian Revolution active in the streets, but the resistance will continue, even if it lasts for many years and produces many losses, and the struggle will be fought with a strategic geopolitical vision. Therefore, the fundamental elements to guarantee resistance are:

1.    Political unity to defeat the enemy's attempts to divide the Bolivarian Revolution.

2. A people in arms, in a popular-police-military fusion.

3. Strategic patience, as reaffirmed by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez in her speech.

4. Nerves of steel, calm and sanity, so as not to fall for the provocations of the United States, or its lies and its threats.

5. Maximum awareness that emerges from political training and organization.

Now, a new battle has begun, a legal one in the United States. Initial reports from New York indicate that President Maduro is well prepared and politically strengthened to wage this new fight in which life has placed him. He has very good lawyers, but above all, he has the conviction that—even in conditions of extreme adversity—his cause is just and belongs to the people.

In the last three days, encouraging events have taken place that could signal a different course from that outlined by the imperial forces. Given the lack of consistency in the charges, the U.S. government has been forced to withdraw the accusation that the president led a non-existent drug trafficking organization called the “Cartel of the Suns.” It is one thing to construct a farce that the media is eager to reproduce and quite another to present evidence to prove it. 

Likewise, the displays of solidarity with Venezuela and with President Maduro and his wife, the mass marches, the statements by political and social organizations, governments, and leaders from all corners of the globe, could be signaling that, without our having intended it, the cause of Venezuela and the freedom of President Maduro—especially given the integrity and dignity he displayed in his first appearance before the judge—could become an instrument of struggle and organization for millions of citizens around the world who love justice, freedom, and independence. 

Similarly, we must be alert to the threat of the United States taking over Greenland.

 It is not that I wish the same fate on the noble Inuit people as we have suffered, but given that the largest island on the planet is Danish territory and therefore part of the European Union and under NATO control, it remains to be seen what would happen under all these circumstances if Trump carries out his threat. Will European countries judge him in the same way they now judge Venezuela?

 Even without carrying out his intimidation and extortion, Trump is forcing European powers to take a stand on what would be another clear outrage against what was once called international law and even today, when this law no longer exists, states cling to it like an umbilical cord that provides them with a hypocritical attachment to life.

If this were not the case, how can we explain how one of the two most obsequious allies of the United States in the world, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, demanded that Trump provide explanations for his operation in Venezuela? As the old saying goes, “when you see your neighbor's beard on fire, put yours in water.

These are events that are beginning to emerge in a world that was shaken on Jan. 3. Since Aug. 19, I have stated countless times that an invasion of Venezuela by large units of the U.S. armed forces did not seem possible. 

However, I also said on several occasions, such as in September during the Workers’ Party (PT) seminar in Mexico, that: “Notwithstanding the above, we cannot rule out the possibility that the United States will carry out some other type of terrorist action against Venezuela. In this context, its big problem is how to get out of the conflict it [the U.S.] got itself into with a ‘victory’ that allows it to demonstrate to its public opinion that the action taken made the United States safer. That is not so difficult in the face of public opinion that has been dumbed down by the media.”

On Oct. 12, I said: “What we are seeing is the parallel development of a psychological war that is reaching all parts of Venezuela and the world. This psychological warfare aims to create division and panic, to try to cause some kind of chaos that will provoke internal confrontation and thus be able to take advantage of the disorder to kidnap and/or assassinate leaders and officials with special tactical operations.”

I have also always said that this situation will be resolved in Venezuela and the United States. It will not be China or Russia or anyone else who will resolve this confrontation. These and other countries have been sincere allies and friends of Venezuela. We appreciate that, but beyond statements of condemnation and rejection and Security Council meetings whose resolutions are useless because the United States vetoes them, they will do nothing more. They have their own problems and their own issues. Venezuela does not seem to be one of them.

We will resolve it ourselves if we are able to resist, but the real decision will be made in the United States, where almost 70% of citizens reject Trump's declared war against Venezuela, even repudiating his decision to override the authority of Congress, as he himself has said, when he also proposed as a new mission to assassinate the president in charge of Venezuela. 

Just two weeks ago, I wrote an article in which I characterized the U.S. government as Nazi. Some considered it an exaggeration. In it, I gave the disputes, among them that “...Nazi ideology is characterized by ultra-nationalism and supremacism, which establish the existence of a superior race that must expand based on hatred against so-called ‘inferior beings’; totalitarianism that imposes absolute control of the state, as Trump seeks to do by minimizing and undermining Congress, the courts, and other branches of power; militarism that involves the exacerbation of military force and aggression as instruments of expansion and war; and finally, anti-communist and anti-liberal ideology in opposition to socialism and democracy…”

Today, not only the U.S. people, but also a large part of the media that retains some semblance of decency, and even the elite, repudiate Trump for the events of Jan. 3. They do so not out of love for Venezuela or President Maduro. They do so because Trump is on track to destroy the political system of the United States and, with it, the hegemonic system of world domination that the U.S. rulers have built since the end of World War II.

That does concern them, and they will take extraordinary measures to save it. Citizens will have to wait until November to express their opinion at the polls. If Trump is defeated, his base of support will weaken and the Republicans will have to take a position. These 11 months will be extremely dangerous. It is not only the fate of Venezuela or Latin America that is at stake, but the future of humanity.

During World War II, humanity united against Nazi-fascism. Today, part of the planet, including some major powers, seems comfortable coexisting with the Nazi government of the United States. They seem preoccupied with their own problems while accepting that Latin America and the Caribbean are the “backyard” of the United States. 

Many things will happen in the coming years. We must be prepared for them. Contrary to what one might assume, I am optimistic because I learned from Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro that a revolutionary, when he believes in the people, always is one. And I feel confident because, as that extraordinary phrase from Cuban popular dialectical thought says, “The good thing about this is how bad it is getting.”

In the early hours of Jan. 3, as I woke my son to move him to a safer room in the house, given the proximity of the place where the democratic missiles of the United States were striking, I don’t know why, but I remembered Silvio’s words: 

“I dreamed of planes that clouded the day, just when people were singing and laughing the most...” and immediately I saw the end of his poem, which becomes a song of struggle for the peoples of Our America: “...if I capture the perpetrator of so much disaster, he will regret it...”




04/12/2025

Hegseth is “the killer”… and this is not a Netflix series

 Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, 4-12-2025
Translated by Tlaxcala

While Donald Trump was sketching out the composition of his cabinet after being elected and before taking office, he made a decision: the neoconservatives who had caused him so many problems during his first administration would have no place this time. Thus, he excluded, among others, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, John Bolton and Elliott Abrams, who had held senior positions in his previous government.

But something went wrong. After the last Senate election, the upper chamber ended up with 53 Republican senators, 45 Democrats and 2 independents who usually vote with the Democrats. Among the 53 Republicans elected, four — Rick Scott and Ashley Moody, both part of the Florida mafia, Bernie Moreno, of Colombian origin and senator for Ohio, and Ted Cruz, of Cuban origin and senator for Texas — later joined by Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, identify ideologically with the fascist far-right grouped within the neoconservative sector of the current U.S. administration.

Although a minority, they held enough votes to determine outcomes in the Senate. They made this known to Trump, who needed them to pass his projects, so he reluctantly had to accept whatever they demanded… and they demanded the State Department, where they installed one of their own: Marco Rubio. From that moment, Trump became politically blackmailed by this group. Many decisions stem from this coercion exerted by the neoconservative wing of his government. And apparently, he can do nothing, because thanks to them not only his cabinet was approved, but also the budget and the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA),” an absurdity passed by senators eager to please the president.

Thus, Trump managed to get his cabinet nominations approved. However, when it came to appointing the head of what was then the Department of Defense — now renamed Department of War — the vote resulted in a tie that had to be broken by Vice President J.D. Vance.

 
How to draw Pete Hegseth, by  Michael de Adder

This is how Peter Brian Hegseth, known as Pete, assumed the country’s highest military office despite the rejection of half the senators, including three Republicans. The arguments against him centered on his lack of experience, as well as rape accusations brought by a woman in 2017 — apparently “resolved” through a payment for silence.

Hegseth, a shadowy figure born 45 years ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose prior “experience” amounts to being a television host known for ultra-reactionary and conservative views — including pronounced and explicit homophobia based on the notion that homosexuality was alien to Western civilization — had declared that “the homosexual lifestyle is abnormal and immoral.”

His disposition is also plainly visible in his tattoo of the “Jerusalem Cross”, symbol of the Christian crusaders, reflecting extremist Christian ideology. Another tattoo includes the expression “Deus Vult”, Latin for “God wills it”, a Crusades battle cry later adopted by white supremacists.

Hegseth has authored four books. In the first, he offers an apology for the slave-based societies of the Southern states prior to the Civil War. He also believes that “women should never have been given the right to vote.” In his second book, American Crusade (2020), he wrote: “Just as the Christian crusaders repelled the Muslim hordes in the 12th century, American crusaders must show the same courage against today’s Islamists.”

Trump considered his brief participation in the U.S. Army National Guard sufficient grounds to appoint him secretary of Defence, ignoring the fact that he rose only to the rank of captain and completed no advanced officer or strategic command training. What must generals and admirals with 35 or more years of service think of being commanded by a captain? Someone might argue that expertise is not gained only within the armed forces — true — but this captain has no political experience either: he failed in his bid to become a senator for his home state, which pushed him into a television job at Fox News, where lack of qualifications are not a great obstacle.


Upon assuming the new post, quickly revealing his lack of preparedness for such responsibility, he — in collusion with Marco Rubio — has led his tenure in two directions. First, he has pushed for a strategic reorientation of U.S. military doctrine, shifting its priorities from countering China and Russia — repeatedly stated by senior military leaders in congressional testimony — toward internal threats and the situation in the Western Hemisphere. According to an expert consulted by the German outlet Politico, the shift “does not appear to align at all with President Trump's aggressive positions toward China.”


The second orientation, arising from the first, is that military doctrine should focus on protecting U.S. borders supposedly threatened by drug trafficking and migration, including combating these “enemies” inside the country itself.

An increasing number of influential voices in the U.S. are warning about the risks such a doctrine poses. Journalist Tucker Carlson warned that “in the future, the United States could face a civil war.” His argument is based on protests against ICE and on the disturbances linked to Antifa, designated by the Trump administration as a “terrorist organization”. Hegseth and Rubio want to involve the U.S. armed forces on behalf of Trump and the Republicans in any such internal conflict. Likewise, governors have shown increasing resistance to allowing military presence in their states without authorization.


Another facet of Hegseth’s leadership is his intention to “clean out” the Pentagon of high-ranking officers “linked to the Democratic Party” or who adopted inclusive policies under the Biden administration. In this context, the secretary of War (he changed the department’s name from Department of Defence) has fired or sidelined at least two dozen senior military officers in the past ten months. Likewise, about twenty generals and admirals have requested early retirement, including Admiral Alvin Hosley, head of U.S. Southern Command.


Many of these officers were expelled with little explanation, sometimes contradicting the advice of senior commanders who had served with them in combat. These actions have reportedly created a climate of “anxiety and distrust”, forcing leaders to take sides and at times pitting them against one another.

Simultaneously, sources reveal that the Pentagon chief has delayed or cancelled the promotions of at least four senior officers because they previously worked for retired General Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until 2023.


In one of the most notable changes, Trump appointed a new vice chief of staff of the Army to replace General James Mingus, who served less than two years. He nominated Lieutenant General Christopher LaNeve — unsurprisingly, a close adviser to Hegseth in his role as Senior Military Assistant.

This was the context in which, on Tuesday, September 30, Hegseth gathered — for the first time since World War II — more than 800 generals and admirals at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, about 30 km from Washington.


The unusualness of the meeting was not only its scale but its purpose. One might assume it was meant to discuss global strategic matters, but it was not. Despite Trump’s introductory remarks about a “very beautiful meeting” to discuss “excellent military results”, the reality was different.

The atmosphere was tense: many generals worried about the security risks of bringing so many high-ranking officers into one location, when a videoconference using the Pentagon’s secure internal systems would have sufficed, avoiding complex logistics. Confidentiality was also compromised.

 Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News

In his speech, Hegseth attacked “woke ideology”, claiming it had developed within the military under previous administrations. Among measures he announced: no allowance for overweight personnel, bearded personnel, long-haired personnel, or “superficial individual expressions”. He also attacked women, saying they would not be allowed in combat, and announced the return of “hard-core fighters” who had left under the “woke department”. He promised reforms in harassment-investigation methods, declared “the end of men wearing dresses”, as well as of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, promising a new army shaped after the MAGA administration.

Before Hegseth’s remarks, Trump had declared that major urban centers were “very dangerous places [so] we will bring them to order one by one […] It will be an important task for some of the people in this room […] It is an internal war,” he concluded.

The meeting will not go down in history for its content but for the stunned faces of generals and admirals listening to the speeches and to the tirades against obesity, beards, homosexuality in the armed forces, and the need to limit the presence of women.

Another facet of Hegseth’s management is his unprecedented attacks on the media, targeting individual reporters and the industry as a whole. Since his arrival, some outlets have been expelled from shared spaces, journalists’ movement inside the Pentagon has been restricted, and some press credentials have been revoked.

Among the journalists harshly attacked is Jennifer Griffin of Fox News, a veteran Pentagon reporter repeatedly targeted by Hegseth’s “acid” remarks. Courtney Kube of NBC News was also targeted after coverage that — according to The New York Times — included unflattering information about Hegseth’s past, such as testimony from a family member regarding abusive behavior toward his second wife. These details surfaced during his nomination. Shortly after taking office, Hegseth ordered that she be expelled from the Pentagon — an order that could not be executed for lack of legal basis.

In his most recent action, Hegseth allegedly ordered the killing of two fishermen who survived an attack after being baselessly accused of drug trafficking. Democratic Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut called the attacks “illegal killings” and “troubling”, and stated that Congress is receiving very little information from the Trump administration. Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, acknowledged but dismissed a White House memorandum justifying the attacks. “Based on what I know now and on reading this memo, these are illegal killings,” he said. “They are illegal because the idea that the United States — and this is the administration’s justification — is engaged in an armed conflict with any Venezuelan drug trafficker is absurd. It would not stand in any court.”

In this context, a true internal war has erupted, with discussion emerging about the loss of “confidence” in Hegseth’s ability to negotiate at high levels, according to a Politico article published on November 21. This led to an escalation of rhetoric within MAGA circles. One of its most notorious representatives, far-right activist Laura Loomer, accused Driscoll of ties to the Democratic Party and of “planning a coup d’état against Hegseth.”

According to Politico, the latest trip to Kiev by senior Pentagon officials, led by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, illustrates Hegseth’s loss of credibility and relevance.

No one knows whether Hegseth can withstand the heavy pressure he is under. Weeks ago, a source close to the Pentagon said he appeared so nervous that he seemed “on the verge of exploding.” Surrounded by one of the world’s most powerful protective apparatuses, he has been particularly concerned for his safety since the assassination of ultraconservative activist Charlie Kirk during a public event.

According to the British Daily Mail on September 29, citing sources close to him, Hegseth’s fear “is reflected in erratic behavior toward his staff.” Two anonymous Pentagon insiders said that in recent weeks he has launched tirades, lashed out at subordinates and become obsessed with security matters. “He has a manic quality — or rather, an even more manic quality, which is saying something,” said one source, describing him as visibly distracted, restless, standing up and pacing during meetings.

Now, like the coward he is, he has refused to take responsibility for the “kill them all” order that led to the murder of the fishermen in the Caribbean, pushing Admiral Frank M. Bradley, head of U.S. Special Operations Command, to absorb all the repercussions. According to The Washington Post, “Bradley, then head of Joint Special Operations Command, oversaw an attack in the Caribbean on September 2, 2025, ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against a vessel suspected of drug trafficking. The Post reported that “Bradley ordered a second strike after identifying two survivors via drone feed, following Hegseth’s directive to leave no survivors.”

We shall see what consequences might arise from admirals with more than 35 years of service — now commanding aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, destroyers and cruisers — ending their careers by destroying small civilian vessels and killing peaceful fishermen. This may also help explain why suicides, drug addiction and post-war trauma are rising daily within the U.S. armed forces. To maintain this machinery, they also need the drug trade they claim to fight. It is part of the functional framework of that decadent society.

Hegseth est «the killer»… et ce n’est pas une série Netflix

 Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, 4/12/2025
Traduit par Tlaxcala

Lorsque Donald Trump ébauchait la composition de son cabinet après avoir été élu et avant d’entrer en fonction, il prit une décision : les néoconservateurs, qui lui avaient causé tant de problèmes lors de sa première administration, n’auraient cette fois aucune place. Ainsi furent exclus, entre autres, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, John Bolton et Elliott Abrams, qui avaient occupé des postes de haut niveau sous son précédent gouvernement.

Mais quelque chose tourna mal. Après la dernière élection sénatoriale, la chambre haute se retrouva composée de 53 sénateurs républicains, 45 démocrates et 2 indépendants qui votent généralement avec les démocrates. Parmi les 53 républicains élus, quatre d’entre eux — Rick Scott et Ashley Moody, membres de la mafia de Floride, Bernie Moreno, d’origine colombienne, sénateur de l’Ohio, et Ted Cruz, d’origine cubaine, sénateur du Texas — auxquels s’ajouta ensuite Lindsay Graham, de Caroline du Sud, s’identifient idéologiquement à l’extrême droite fasciste regroupée dans le secteur néoconservateur qui fait partie de l’actuelle administration des USA.

Bien qu’ils soient minoritaires, ils disposaient de suffisamment de voix pour faire basculer les votes au Sénat. Ils le firent savoir à Trump, qui avait besoin d’eux pour faire adopter ses projets ; il dut donc accepter à contrecœur ce qu’ils exigeaient… et ils exigèrent le Département d’État, où ils placèrent l’un des leurs : Marco Rubio. À partir de ce moment, Trump fut pris en otage par ce groupe. Beaucoup de décisions découlent de ce chantage exercé par le secteur néoconservateur de son gouvernement. Et apparemment, il ne peut rien y faire, car grâce à eux non seulement son cabinet a été approuvé, mais aussi le budget et la « One Big Beautiful Bill Act » (OBBBA), la soi-disant « plus belle loi du monde », une aberration que les sénateurs votèrent pour plaire au président.

Ainsi, Trump parvint à faire approuver ses propositions pour remplacer les membres du cabinet. Cependant, lors du vote pour désigner le titulaire de ce qui était alors le département de la Défense — aujourd’hui rebaptisé département de la Guerre —, le scrutin déboucha sur une égalité qui dut être départagée par le vote favorable de J.D. Vance, le vice-président.

 
Comment dessiner Pete Hegseth, par Michael de Adder

C’est ainsi que Peter Brian Hegseth, alias Pete, assuma la plus haute responsabilité militaire du pays, malgré le rejet de la moitié des sénateurs, dont trois républicains. Les arguments contre sa nomination mettaient en avant son manque d’expérience, mais aussi les accusations de viol formulées par une femme en 2017 et qui furent apparemment « réglées » par un paiement contre silence.

Hegseth, personnage obscur né il y a 45 ans à Minneapolis (Minnesota), dont « l’expérience » se limite à avoir été présentateur de télévision célèbre pour ses opinions ultra-réactionnaires et conservatrices — notamment son homophobie déclarée, fondée sur l’idée que cette orientation sexuelle serait étrangère à la civilisation occidentale — affirmait que « le mode de vie homosexuel est anormal et immoral ».


D’autre part, son tempérament est visible au premier regard à travers son tatouage de la « croix de Jérusalem », symbole des croisés exprimant l’extrémisme chrétien. Un autre tatouage porte les mots « Deus Vult », en latin « Dieu le veut », cri de guerre des Croisés repris plus tard par les suprémacistes blancs.

Hegseth a écrit quatre livres. Dans le premier, il fait l’apologie des sociétés des États du Sud qui, avant la guerre de Sécession, fondaient leur économie sur l’esclavage. Il estime également que « les femmes n’auraient jamais dû obtenir le droit de vote ». Dans son second livre, American Crusade, publié en 2020, il écrit : « Comme les croisés chrétiens qui repoussèrent les hordes musulmanes au XII siècle, les croisés américains devront faire preuve du même courage face aux islamistes d’aujourd’hui. »

Trump considéra que son bref passage dans la Garde nationale de l’armée usaméricaine suffisait pour le nommer secrétaire à la Défense, sans tenir compte du fait qu’il n’avait accédé qu’au grade de capitaine, sans avoir suivi aucun cours d’état-major ni de commandement stratégique. Que penseraient des généraux et amiraux ayant plus de 35 ans de service d’être commandés par un capitaine ? On pourrait argumenter que l’expertise ne s’acquiert pas seulement au sein des forces armées — ce qui est vrai —, mais ledit capitaine n’a pas non plus la moindre expérience politique : il échoua comme candidat au Sénat de son État natal, ce qui le contraignit à se recycler comme chroniqueur pour Fox News, où la formation requise pour obtenir un travail est minime.

En accédant à son nouveau poste, exposant très vite son inexpérience pour une charge aussi lourde, il a orienté son action, en connivence avec Marco Rubio, dans deux directions. D’une part, il tente de réorienter la doctrine militaire de son pays, déplaçant les priorités de la confrontation avec la Chine et la Russie — ce que les hauts commandements militaires répètent sans cesse lors de leurs auditions au Congrès — vers la défense contre des menaces internes et la situation dans l’hémisphère occidental. Selon un expert cité par le portail allemand Politico, ce changement « ne semble absolument pas conforme aux positions agressives du président Trump envers la Chine ».

La deuxième orientation, déduite de la première, est que la doctrine militaire doit mettre l’accent sur la protection des frontières des USA, prétendument menacées par le narcotrafic et les migrations, incluant la lutte contre ces « ennemis » à l’intérieur même du pays.

De plus en plus de voix influentes aux USA alertent sur les risques qu’impliquerait l’application de cette doctrine. Le journaliste Tucker Carlson a averti que « dans le futur, les USA pourraient être confrontés à une guerre civile ». Son argument s’appuie sur les protestations contre les actions de l’ICE et les émeutes du mouvement Antifa, désigné par l’administration Trump comme « organisation terroriste ». Hegseth et Rubio souhaitent impliquer les forces armées usaméricaines au service de Trump et des Républicains dans cet éventuel conflit. Parallèlement, les gouverneurs manifestent une résistance croissante à l’idée d’accepter la présence de militaires dans leurs États sans leur autorisation.

Une autre facette de la gestion d’Hegseth est sa volonté déclarée de « nettoyer » le Pentagone des officiers supérieurs « liés au Parti démocrate » ou ayant adopté les politiques inclusives de l’administration Biden. Dans ce cadre, le secrétaire à la Guerre (il a changé la dénomination du département, auparavant appelé Département de la Défense) a renvoyé ou écarté au moins deux douzaines d’officiers supérieurs au cours des dix derniers mois. Par ailleurs, une vingtaine de généraux et amiraux ont demandé leur retraite avant la fin de leur temps légal de service, parmi eux l’amiral Alvin Hosley, chef du Commandement Sud.

Beaucoup de ces officiers ont été expulsés sans explication, contredisant parfois les avis d’autres hauts gradés ayant combattu avec eux, selon certaines dénonciations. Ces actions auraient créé un climat « d’anxiété et de méfiance », obligeant les hauts commandements à prendre parti, voire à s’opposer les uns aux autres.

En parallèle, des sources révèlent que le chef du Pentagone a retardé ou annulé les promotions d’au moins quatre officiers supérieurs parce qu’ils avaient auparavant travaillé pour le général Mark Milley, chef de l’état-major interarmées jusqu’en 2023.

Dans un des changements les plus remarqués, Trump a nommé un nouveau vice-chef d’état-major de l’armée pour remplacer le général James Mingus, qui n’avait occupé le poste que moins de deux ans. Le président a nommé le lieutenant-général Christopher LaNeve. Sans surprise, LaNeve travaille actuellement comme conseiller d’Hegseth, en tant qu’assistant militaire supérieur — un de ses plus proches alliés.

C’est dans ce contexte que, le mardi 30 septembre, Hegseth réunit — pour la première fois depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale — plus de 800 généraux et amiraux sur la base des Marines de Quantico, en Virginie, à environ 30 km de Washington.

L’aspect inhabituel de la réunion ne tenait pas seulement à sa convocation, mais à son objet. On aurait pu penser qu’il s’agissait de débattre de questions politico-militaires globales, mais il n’en fut rien. Malgré le discours introductif de Trump, qui parla d’une « très belle réunion » pour discuter des « excellents résultats militaires », la réalité fut toute autre.

L’atmosphère n’était pas des meilleures : nombre de généraux redoutaient les risques sécuritaires que représentait le rassemblement en un seul lieu d’un si grand nombre d’officiers, alors qu’une vidéoconférence via les systèmes internes hautement sécurisés du Pentagone aurait suffi, évitant des déplacements exigeant une logistique considérable. Ainsi, la confidentialité qui aurait dû entourer une telle réunion fut compromise.

Mettre fin au wokisme, par Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News

Dans son discours, Hegseth attaqua violemment l’idéologie « woke », qui se serait développée au sein de l’armée sous les administrations précédentes. Parmi les mesures qu’il annonça : l’interdiction des personnes en surpoids, des barbus, des militaires aux cheveux longs, et de « certaines expressions individuelles superficielles ». Il s’en prit également aux femmes, déclarant qu’elles n’auraient plus leur place au combat, et annonça le retour des « combattants inconditionnels » qui auraient quitté l’armée sous le « département woke ». Il promit une réforme des processus d’enquête pour harcèlement, déclara la « fin des hommes en robe », des politiques d’équité, de diversité et d’inclusion, promettant une armée à l’image de l’administration MAGA.

Avant l’intervention d’Hegseth, Trump avait déclaré que les grands centres urbains du pays étaient « des lieux très dangereux [et que] nous les remettrons en ordre un par un […] Ce sera une tâche importante pour certaines personnes présentes dans cette salle […] C’est une guerre interne », conclut-il.

La réunion ne restera pas dans l’histoire pour son contenu, mais pour les visages stupéfaits des généraux et amiraux alors qu’ils écoutaient les discours de Trump et d’Hegseth et leur diatribe contre l’obésité, les barbes, l’homosexualité dans les forces armées et la nécessité de limiter la présence des femmes.

Une autre facette de la gestion d’Hegseth se manifeste dans ses attaques sans précédent contre les médias, visant à la fois des journalistes individuels et l’industrie dans son ensemble. Depuis son arrivée au Pentagone, certains médias ont été expulsés de leurs espaces de travail partagés. Les journalistes ont vu leur liberté de circulation réduite, et plusieurs accréditations de presse ont été retirées.

Parmi les journalistes durement pris pour cibles figurent Jennifer Griffin, reporter de Fox News avec une longue expérience de la couverture du Pentagone, victime de déclarations « acerbes » répétées d’Hegseth. Courtney Kube, correspondante de NBC News, a été également visée après avoir publié des informations peu flatteuses sur le passé d’Hegseth, notamment des témoignages familiaux relatifs à son comportement abusif envers sa seconde épouse. Ces révélations avaient émergé lors de sa nomination. Peu après son entrée en fonction, Hegseth a tenté de faire expulser la journaliste du Pentagone — une décision finalement impossible à mettre en œuvre faute de base juridique.

Dans son action la plus récente, Hegseth aurait ordonné l’assassinat de deux pêcheurs ayant survécu à une attaque après avoir été faussement accusés de narcotrafic. Le représentant démocrate Jim Himes, élu du Connecticut, a qualifié ces attaques d’« assassinats illégaux » et d’« inquiétants », affirmant que le Congrès reçoit très peu d’informations de l’administration Trump. Himes, membre le plus haut placé de la Commission du renseignement de la Chambre, reconnut l’existence d’un mémorandum publié par la Maison-Blanche, mais le jugea irrecevable. « Sur la base de ce que je sais aujourd’hui et de la lecture de ce mémorandum, ce sont des assassinats illégaux », déclara-t-il, ajoutant : « Ce sont des assassinats illégaux parce que l’idée que les USA — et c’est la justification avancée par l’administration — seraient en conflit armé avec n’importe quel narcotrafiquant vénézuélien est absurde. Cela ne tiendrait devant aucun tribunal. »

Dans cette situation, une véritable guerre interne a éclaté, évoquant une perte de « confiance » envers Hegseth, jugé incapable de gérer des négociations de haut niveau, selon un article de Politico du 21 novembre, citant des sources informées. Cela a entraîné une escalade de conflits rhétoriques au sein du mouvement MAGA. L’une des figures de l’ultra-droite, Laura Loomer, a accusé Dan Driscoll d’être lié au Parti démocrate et de « préparer un coup d’État contre Hegseth ».

Selon Politico, la dernière visite à Kiev de hauts responsables du Pentagone dirigés par Dan Driscoll illustrerait la perte de crédibilité et de protagonisme d’Hegseth.

Nul ne sait si Hegseth pourra supporter la pression croissante à laquelle il est soumis. Il y a quelques semaines, une source proche du Pentagone a affirmé que le secrétaire à la Guerre semblait si nerveux qu’il paraissait « sur le point d’exploser ». Entouré de l’un des dispositifs de sécurité les plus puissants du monde, Hegseth s’est montré particulièrement préoccupé depuis l’assassinat de l’activiste ultraconservateur Charlie Kirk lors d’un événement public.

Selon un article publié par Daily Mail le 29 septembre, citant des sources proches, la peur d’Hegseth « se reflète dans un comportement erratique envers ses employés ». Deux informateurs anonymes du Pentagone ont confié que ces dernières semaines, il multipliait les diatribes, s’emportait contre ses subordonnés et était obsédé par sa sécurité. « Il a une qualité maniaque. Ou plutôt, une qualité encore plus maniaque — ce qui est déjà beaucoup dire », a déclaré l’un d’eux, le décrivant comme distrait, agité, se levant et marchant de long en large pendant les réunions.

À présent, comme le lâche qu’il est, il n’a pas assumé la responsabilité de l’ordre « tuez-les tous », qui a conduit à l’assassinat des pêcheurs dans les Caraïbes, laissant l’amiral Frank M. Bradley, commandant des opérations spéciales, affronter seul les conséquences. Selon le Washington Post, « Bradley, alors commandant du Joint Special Operations Command, a supervisé une attaque dans les Caraïbes le 2 septembre 2025, ordonnée par Hegseth, contre un navire soupçonné de narcotrafic. Le Post rapporte que « Bradley a ordonné une seconde attaque après avoir identifié deux survivants via un drone, suivant la directive d’Hegseth de ne laisser aucun survivant ».

On verra quelles répercussions pourrait avoir le fait que des amiraux ayant plus de 35 ans de service —commandant aujourd’hui des porte-avions, sous-marins nucléaires, destroyers et croiseurs — terminent leur carrière en détruisant de petites embarcations civiles et en assassinant de paisibles pêcheurs. On comprendra aussi pourquoi les suicides, la toxicomanie et les traumatismes post-guerre augmentent chaque jour dans les forces armées usaméricaines. Pour cela aussi, elles ont besoin de maintenir en fonctionnement le commerce de drogue qu’elles prétendent combattre. C’est une pièce du puzzle de cette société décadente.