Taste Under Pressure Is Not Taste — It’s Capacity

What was the name of the mission in Venezuela? Absolute Resolve / Resolution.

Whether people remember the name correctly is almost beside the point.

What matters is why that phrasing exists—and when it shows up.

Because language like that doesn’t emerge during comfort.

It appears only when stakes are asymmetric, reputationally fatal, or geopolitically irreversible.

That’s not branding.

That’s intent crystallized into words.

Absolute Resolve Is Not a Slogan

It’s a filter.

It separates:

• actors from commentators

• operators from analysts

• authors from observers

And once you see that, you stop asking whether someone’s style is convincing.

You ask a better question:

Does it survive when retreat is no longer an option?