Evening Brief: BBC Execs Resign over Trump Speech Edit, Trump Promises $2,000 Tariff Dividends, Hamas Releases Body of Long-Held Hostage

From London boardrooms to Washington power plays and the tunnels of Gaza, November 9, 2025, proved that truth, power, and redemption still come at a price—whether it’s the BBC losing its crown, Trump promising tariff-fueled salvation, or Israel finally bringing one of its own home. It’s Sunday evening, November 9th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.

How I Joined the Ukrainian Military

I went to Ukraine thinking I could choose how to help, only to find that on the morning the war began everything I knew—plans, love, even my sense of who I was—was smashed by artillery, paperwork, and the chaotic, makeshift mercy of volunteers who’d been thrown together to survive.

Ukraine Will Win

In a sunlit Kyiv shop three months after Putin’s invasion, a stranger kissed my hand and thanked America, a small human moment that crystallized why Ukraine’s fight for hearth and home deserves unwavering support even amid the Kremlin’s reckless threats.

Trump, Orbán, and the Price of Peace in Ukraine

Watching Pokrovsk ground to dust meter by meter, I see Washington and Budapest flirting with an alliance of convenience that would codify the stalemate into Western policy and rename exhaustion as realism.