Author: Guy D. McCardle

A new week opens with drone wars, diplomatic pressure, and Hezbollah defiance across volatile frontlines. Welcome to Monday, July 7th, 2025.

From Gaza to Tehran to the blockchain, America’s enemies are throwing grenades, empty promises, and crypto scams—and whether it’s veterans under fire, Iran’s fair-weather friends, or digital con men, the message is clear: the U.S. isn’t backing down. Welcome to the SOFREP evening brief for July 6th, 2025.

When the ghost of Hitler starts sounding like the only guy in the room with historical perspective, you know the circus has pitched its tent in City Hall.

From Elon Musk blowing up his bromance with Trump to start the America Party, to the gator-guarded swamp gulag known as Alligator Alcatraz, to deporting foreign convicts to a war zone they’ve never set foot in, American politics this week feels less like a constitutional republic and more like the fever dream of a Red State Dr. Moreau. Welcome to Sunday, July 6th, 2025. This is your SOFREP morning brief.

The CIA’s decades-long Oswald cover-up is finally unraveling, Trump’s Medicaid cuts are gutting rural America like a trout on a dock, and even his “ceasefire magic” with Putin fizzled faster than a wet match—three reminders that truth, health care, and peace are all in short supply. Here is your SOFREP Brief for Saturday evening, July 5th, 2025.

Robin Olds roared into combat with a handlebar mustache, a middle finger to bureaucracy, and a brain wired for turning aerial warfare into an art form.

While Kyiv burned under a record-breaking Russian drone assault and Hamas eyed a ceasefire deal with fingers crossed behind their back, President Trump saluted B-2 pilots at the White House—just not by name, because in 2025, even heroes have to hide. Welcome to Saturday, July 5th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

Hamas weighs US-brokered ceasefire deal, Russia strikes Kyiv hard, and Congress passes major cuts. Here’s your July 4th Evening Brief.

In 2001, a pint-sized German diesel sub snuck past an entire carrier strike group managing to get within ramming distance of the mighty USS Enterprise, like a ghost in broad daylight. She fired a mock torpedo, then surfaced to wave hello with green flares—just to let everyone know they’d been “sunk.”.

Border militarization expands, Russia ramps up chemical warfare, and more. Welcome to Friday, July 4th, 2025. This is SOFREP’s Morning Brief.

Fireworks blast in California, Gaza aid scandal, Russia backs Taliban—Thursday evening’s headlines span chaos from Esparto to Kabul.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” throws a fat wad of cash at the Pentagon like a drunken high roller in Vegas, while quietly gutting social programs and daring the debt ceiling to blink first.