Foreign Policy

Israel-Iran ceasefire wobbles, Gaza toll soars, and NATO backs 5% defense goal. Welcome to your Tuesday Evening Brief for June 24, 2025.

Trump’s lust for confrontation has overridden prudence, plunging America into another conflict with no justification, no congressional approval, and no clear endgame—just echoes of past blunders cloaked in fresh arrogance.

As U.S. bunker-busters hammer Iran’s nuclear sites and Tehran threatens to choke off the Strait of Hormuz, a deadly suicide bombing at a Damascus church shows just how fast the fuse is burning across the Middle East. Welcome to Sunday, June 22nd, 2025. This is SOFREP’s Evening Brief.

America used to carry a big stick—now we’re stuck writing strongly worded emails while the world lights up like a Fourth of July test range.

We did more than send a message—we carved it into the bedrock with a 30,000-pound pen named MOP and left Tehran to read it in the dark.

After the U.S. dropped bunker busters on Iran’s nuclear sites, Tehran fired off missile barrages at Israel, kicking off a brutal exchange that’s drawn in Washington, rattled the region, and made clear this fight is only getting hotter. Welcome to Sunday, June 22, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

Israel’s nuclear strategy is like a loaded pistol tucked under the table of a poker game—never acknowledged, always implied, and pointed squarely at anyone thinking about cheating.

Missiles fly, embassies evacuate, and NATO braces for discord—Friday’s headlines span war zones, diplomacy, and rising global tensions.

SOFREP Evening Brief, June 19, 2025: Iran strikes Israeli hospital, Kyiv reels from deadly missile, and SpaceX faces new Starship setback.

Khamenei’s threats land with all the force of a wet firecracker—loud, smoky, and ultimately harmless to anyone not standing in the puddle.

You don’t surge tankers, raise force protection levels, and send the Marines east unless somebody, somewhere, just greenlit the next chapter.

When it comes to missile defense, you can’t afford to gamble—standard doctrine may call for firing two or three interceptors per threat, but with modern missile swarms and decoys, it’s a long shot at best.