Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke · 2h

More proof, as if any were needed, that Zelensky is a totally loathsome character. The U.S. government has stated that Starshield, the Pentagon's system, is not available to Ukraine. I assume that statement is true, but even if it isn’t, the whole purpose of such a denial would be to prevent World War III. Yet Zelensky casually announces that he is using Starshield anyway, actively courting World War III. Just breathtaking recklessness. The sooner he is gone, the better for everyone.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa

The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions. The speeds are now where they need to be. The restoration began overnight, and by this morning, speeds were already sufficient. This matters: for our frontline logistics, for defending Ukraine against jet-powered “shaheds.”

I thank all Americans and all our partners who took this seriously and truly helped – members of Congress, senators, all the media, the State Department, and the President. Protecting lives matters.

 

 

It really is like the CIA is creating them in a lab!

 

J.D. Haltigan, PhD @JDHaltigan · 16h

The incessant performative narcissism of Slotkin is indistinguishable from the psychopathology of Taylor Lorenz & Jennifer Welch. It is Leftist feminized cluster B pathology. These people should be nowhere near the levers of political power.

 

 

Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele

Translated from Spanish

Many messages, analyses, and comments like this one, ensuring that Haiti's gangs are not like those in El Salvador; that they are bloodthirsty, that they are heavily armed, that no one has been able to defeat them, that all missions have failed, that we are falling into a trap, that we don't know what we're up against, that it will be our ruin, that we're heading toward our Waterloo.

But when God grants us victory, the same people who say all that today will change their tune. They'll say it was always easy, that anyone could have done it, that Haiti's gangs weren't as dangerous as people thought.

In short, we've never listened to them, and we're not about to start now.

Everyone who has enlisted is a believer, and we have entrusted this mission to God, while Haiti's gangs are satanic, and it's public knowledge that they carry out human sacrifices.

God will grant us victory. The Creator of the Universe is with us.

Deuteronomy 28:7

“The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven directions.”

 

Humberto Salazar @drhsalazar

Translated from Spanish

BUKELE AND HIS WATERLOO?

With the announcement of the deployment from El Salvador to Haiti of a contingent of 3,000 troops, whose mission is to locate the 4 members of that country's armed forces who were kidnapped last Sunday—when they entered territory controlled by gangs and were attacked by a gang of armed irregulars—fierce armed clashes are looming in the coming hours.

At this point, knowing how things are resolved in Haiti, the chances of these soldiers still being alive are minimal. So, if there's no possibility of negotiating anything, what we're facing is an armed confrontation between El Salvador's troops and the gangs that control the territory where the Central American soldiers were attacked and kidnapped.

According to reports in the international press, those responsible are two criminal organizations that dominate the “Croix des Bouquets” area. One is led by Claude Celestin, head of the Chen Mechan gang (rabid dogs), and the other by Wilson Joseph (“Lammo San Jou”), leader of the 400 Mawozo gang.

Yesterday, the latter publicly challenged President Nayib Bukele in a video posted on social media, where he warned that he won't leave Haiti and displayed thousands of rounds of ammunition and gear with weapons of various calibers, which he said are waiting for the Salvadorans.

We thus have the table set for an armed confrontation just 45 km from the Dominican Republic-Haiti border: an army of armed gang members with nothing to lose facing off against regular El Salvadoran troops, who will fight an urban war in the streets of a country that isn't theirs and is utterly unknown to them.

In the recent past, the United States sent 20,000 soldiers in 1994 and tried to organize Haiti to bring it back to what they call democracy. Then in 2004, they invaded again alongside Canada, which ended in the creation of a multinational force, MINUSTAH, that culminated in utter failure. In other words, we're dealing with a problem that has no solution.

If there's anyone with experience fighting gangs, it's Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador. His history of battling the “Maras” is there for all to see. The only issue is that Haiti isn't the friendly terrain where he fought that war—a Spanish-speaking country with Hispanic culture where he played on home turf. The Caribbean nation is an African transplant in the Americas, with a history of violence typical of primitive societies.

When Napoleon sent his troops in 1802 to crush the Haitian Revolution, he thought thousands of soldiers could return the colony to its owners. But just a year later, Dessalines and yellow fever forced their surrender. Will Haiti be Bukele's Waterloo?

Time will tell.

 

86 ARRESTED. 766 TRUCKS PULLED OFF THE ROAD. Nearly $1 MILLION in stolen cargo recovered. All in 3 DAYS across 4 STATES.

Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Ohio.

Operation Highway Shield just exposed what's really happening on our highways.

This wasn't a routine DOT check. They targeted driver qualifications, CDL fraud, and unsafe operations — and what they found should alarm every driver and every family on the road.

The results:

51 people detained for being in the country illegally.

21 of them were behind the wheel with non-domiciled CDLs issued by California and New York.

36 drivers failed basic English proficiency requirements.

766 drivers and vehicles placed out-of-service.

86 operators arrested — for offenses including road rage and domestic violence.

Nearly $1M in stolen freight recovered.

In THREE DAYS.

Now think about this:

When a driver gets arrested mid-run hauling 80,000 lbs, what happens to that truck? That load? Who's paying to recover it? Who's liable if something goes wrong?

Because here's the question nobody wants to answer:

Somebody hired them.

Somebody handed them the keys.

Somebody was supposed to verify they were qualified, legal, and safe to operate that rig.

Pulling dangerous drivers off the road matters. But does accountability end at the steering wheel?

After 86 arrests and 766 out-of-service orders — should trucking companies face real consequences for putting unqualified drivers on the highway, or is it all on the driver?

Credit: David Harris Jr.