Claims and repeated posts by U.S. officials that the Strait of Hormuz is no longer blocked do not change the reality: the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked and will not be reopened until Iran’s conditions are accepted.

In the United States, fatal drug overdoses have dropped dramatically. Flows of fentanyl are way down.

Crossings at our southwest border have dropped to zero.

The murder rate in American cities is at modern all-time lows. Historic drops in crime.

The fake news media has tried to discredit and delegitimize Operation Southern Spear.

The same voices said nothing when governments allowed an unprecedented border crisis and record drug overdoses and deaths.

Yet now they deny and try to diminish our shared success.

The previous U.S. administration under Joe Biden, especially the previous administration here at SOUTHCOM, stood in front of you promoting priorities like gender issues, women peace and security, climate change, diversity, or dudes in dresses.

The Department of War is done with that nonsense.

To be clear, there is no legitimate basis for the ICC's lawless power grab that they will entertain anywhere they can in the world. Our efforts—in this effort [Operation Southern Spear]—are 100% lawful under the laws of armed conflict.

It's striking that this so-called court and other globalist bodies undermine our efforts but do nothing to hold real terrorists and real tyrants accountable. And that's why the ICC poses a threat to your national sovereignty, your constitutional mandates, and the national interests of your people, just as it does ours.

I strongly encourage every ACCC member to leave the ICC and reject their attempts to rob your governments and your courts of your sovereignty.

I know as a soldier, I swore an oath to the Constitution, not some fake and illegitimate international court.

Following a request from Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered this evening, the immediate dispatch of an aid delegation to Colombia following the earthquake disaster that struck the country.

The State of Israel shares in the grief of the families of those killed in the disaster and will provide full assistance to the Republic of Colombia.

President Trump has asked me to continue serving as a top advisor to him on the outside, and I will always remain a vocal advocate for MAGA and the Republican Party.

Our country is facing an existential threat from an increasingly extremist Democrat Party that seeks to destroy everything great about America, and I believe it is incumbent upon all of us who care about this country to fight back against that threat.

My fight is entering a new phase, but it is far from over.