By EJ Ward

I am not going to litigate the legality of this raid. Plenty of people with thicker textbooks and louder opinions will do that for months.

What matters right now is what actually happened on the ground, why it worked, and what comes next.

This was not a bombing campaign that accidentally turned into a capture. It was a capture mission from the start, with violence used to shape the battlefield, not to settle it. The strikes on air bases, ports, power and command nodes were classic isolation tactics. You blind the defender, slow reinforcement, and make the objective feel alone before the door even comes off its hinges.

Sources are already attributing the assault element to Delta Force, supported by the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. That combination tells you everything about intent. This was a snatch operation, not a kill mission. Military precision fused with law-enforcement restraint, at least as much restraint as you get when you are cutting........

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