i don't have a lot of sympathy for drug traffickers and am happy to blow them up if it's serious, but what venezuela traffics is cocaine, and trump actually just pardoned a cocaine boss in honduras. remember iran-contra? it's a pretext; it's bullshit.
and this is over the top.
there was another franklin, an american franklin, who developed a branch of science that mr hegseth may need to get acquainted with, if he gets what is coming to him, which is by no means clear.