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Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome back, retired lieutenant general. He's a former commanding general of the U.S. Army in Europe.

He's the pride of CBC High School in St. Louis, Missouri. It's, of course, Mark Hartling. How you doing? Hey, good, Tim. I don't know why you're asking me on today. There's nothing at all to talk about. well you said in the green room you want to try to be optimistic about something.

So I'm excited to see where that comes.

Yeah, because my topic outline here has a lot of bleakness. I want to start. I've been obsessed with the story, but just have another chance to get to it. And that's kind of the nature of our world right now. And so I want to start with it. and that is the attack, I guess, on the drug running boat,

the alleged drug running boat, the alleged

drug running boat outside of Venezuela. If you will miss this on Tuesday, the Pentagon made a

precision strike against what they say is a drug vessel operated by Trendaaragua. Trump said

11 members of that Venezuelan gang had been killed while transporting the

drugs. He shared a video of the attack on a speedboat. I've got a lot of concerns and questions here,

but just I'm curious that the biggest picture, what you think about that news.

There are so many things to talk about with that particular issue.

The context of, was it legal?

Why are we doing it this way?

What's the operational design?

What kind of mission set is the Navy have versus a Coast Guard?

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