Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. Rishi is still on vacation, so Sam Skove has once again stepped in to co-pilot another edition.

Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: the U.S. military’s ongoing operations in Latin America, the State Department’s push to Make Europe Great Again, and why the energy crisis could persist even if there’s an Iran peace deal.

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. Rishi is still on vacation, so Sam Skove has once again stepped in to co-pilot another edition.

Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: the U.S. military’s ongoing operations in Latin America, the State Department’s push to Make Europe Great Again, and why the energy crisis could persist even if there’s an Iran peace deal.

Meanwhile, in the Western Hemisphere…

Wednesday marked five months since the U.S. military raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. A lot has happened across the globe since then, including the outbreak of the Iran war. But U.S. President Donald Trump has not moved on from the Western Hemisphere by any means.

He has maintained a sizable U.S. military presence in the region, and it’s not just there for show.

Here’s what’s happening in the Western Hemisphere, where the Trump administration has vowed to assert U.S. dominance as part of the “Donroe Doctrine.”

Drug boat strikes. The U.S. military is continuing to conduct lethal strikes on civilian boats allegedly transporting narcotics in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. The latest known strike occurred on June 3. The campaign, which began in September 2025, has killed more than 200 people, according to Airwars, a watchdog that tracks civilians killed in conflict zones.

Volker Turk, the United Nations’ human rights chief, has called on the United States to stop what he described as “the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats,” and legal experts have warned that the campaign is illegal under both U.S. and international law.

And in a congressional hearing this week, two U.S. senators—a Democrat and a Republican—cast serious doubt on Trump’s justification for the operation. They said that, according to classified military briefings they had received, the........

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