According to Bloomberg, citing a senior diplomat posted in the region, Oman, historically a mediator between Iran and the U.S., and Turkey played key roles in keeping open back channels between the U.S. and Iran, with Egypt, India, and Saudi Arabia also playing some level of a role in talks as well.
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has announced, that at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, military forces under Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS) carried out a series of strikes today, December 18, against two alleged narco-trafficking vessels operating in the Eastern Pacific. According to SOUTHCOM, intelligence indicated that the vessels were transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and carrying illicit narcotics, with a total of five suspected narco-terrorists killed in the strikes, three in the first vessel and two in the second, all believed to have been members of a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO).
@MarkSwanger760 @AngieEarley01@GuntherEagleman Wait, so the democrats paid Putin and Russia to invade Ukraine to help with their cover? So Democrat/Russian collusion?