Ukraine

Evening Brief: Washington Flood Response, Army National Guard 388th Birthday, Ukraine Power Grid Attack, and UK Military Intelligence Overhaul

Floods in Washington, a brutal drone-and-missile strike in Ukraine, and a new UK intel superstructure all point to the same truth: when things go sideways, it’s the quiet professionals on watch, on shift, and on the ground who keep people alive. And on the Army National Guard’s 388th birthday, the message is simple: everyone loves the Guard the moment the mission gets real, because these citizen-soldiers show up, do the unsexy work, and hold the line.

Morning Brief: Grey Bull’s Venezuela Exfil, Peru’s K2 Tank Buy, and Ukraine’s Security Service Alpha Caspian Strike

Grey Bull Rescue founder Bryan Stern exfiltrated Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in a donor-backed operation that treated high risk like routine. Meanwhile, Peru is buying K2 tanks and K808 armored vehicles from South Korea, and Ukraine’s SBU Alpha is linked in open-source reporting to a long-range drone strike claim against Russia’s Filanovsky Caspian oil infrastructure.

Why Switzerland Was Right to Reject a Draft for Women

Switzerland was right to reject drafting women because any society that has seen real war knows you don’t coerce women into the zero line unless you’re out of men, and pretending biology, psychology, and the brutal math of ground combat don’t exist is how you trade restraint for barbarism.

Ukraine–Russia War: A 2025 Assessment

After a summer of costly Russian pressure and strained Ukrainian defense, the war now feels less like a contest of maneuver than a slow, punishing struggle in which every kilometer is bought with blood and neither side can yet break the other.

Putin’s Lies Have a Shelf Life

From the shattered bridges outside Kyiv to the hollow eyes of Russian officers who once confessed that their whole lives had been a lie, I have watched the same rotten empire of untruth stagger forward, and I am convinced that Ukraine’s refusal to bow will help bring it crashing down.

Ukraine, Trump, and the Rewritten Peace Blueprint Taking Shape

Ukraine is working from a rewritten American peace blueprint that trims the harshest demands from the original plan, but whether this marks the start of a real endgame or another turn in a grinding war will be decided in the fine print and on the battlefield.