While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the USCGC Stratton seizes a narco-submarine more than 200 miles south of Mexico.  The submarine was carrying 275 bales of cocaine worth over 181,000,000 “dollars.”

       NOTE: Seizures such as this are seen merely as a cost of doing business by cocaine traffickers; most cocaine shipped in this manner gets by undetected.

       [added 12/28/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.