Morning Brief: Maduro Removed, Iran Warns U.S., Ukraine Fights Gray Zone

Morning Brief: Maduro Removed, Iran Warns U.S., Ukraine Fights Gray Zone

Delta Force with DEVGRU support removed Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. moves toward prosecution and a short stabilization plan, Iran threatened U.S. forces after Trump warned Tehran over killing protesters, and Russia claimed Huliaipole while Ukraine and independent mappers describe a heavily contested gray zone in Zaporizhzhia.

Evening Brief: US Strikes ISIS in Syria, Russia Hits Odesa, Bellevue OIS

Evening Brief: US Strikes ISIS in Syria, Russia Hits Odesa, Bellevue OIS

After a deadly ambush near Palmyra, US forces hit more than 70 ISIS targets across central Syria in a heavy retaliation strike meant to keep ISIS cells from regrouping. Russia is pounding Odesa while massing forces near Pokrovsk, and back home a Bellevue officer-involved shooting is under review by King County’s independent investigators as both the officer and suspect recover.

What’s Wrong with America — Could it be the MAGA Cult? 

What’s Wrong with America — Could it be the MAGA Cult? 

America is not collapsing from outside pressure but hollowing itself out from within, trading shared civic responsibility for grievance, celebrity worship, and the comforting lies of a cult that mistakes cruelty for strength and ignorance for conviction.

Why Switzerland Was Right to Reject a Draft for Women

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.