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US hits IS targets in Nigeria as Zelenskyy–Trump talks near and border clashes surge. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

America has always been a beautiful, loud, half-broken experiment run by argumentative primates, and the only reason it keeps surviving its own dumpster fires is because enough people keep choosing the hard option, speaking up when power tells them to shut up.

Haunted by the mine blast outside Da Nang in 1968 and the ringing that never stopped, my father carried survivor’s guilt home from Vietnam and spent a lifetime asking the same question: Why Them and Not Me?

Between Myanmar’s bloodletting, the 2016 interference debacle, and Cambridge Analytica, Facebook stopped looking like a neutral town square and started looking like an accelerant that only reached for the fire extinguisher once the building was already burning.

Denmark and Greenland should deny this envoy entry and engagement, because sovereignty is not a courtesy extended at Washington’s convenience but a hard line that allies have a duty to respect.

US hits IS in Nigeria, Yemen tensions rise, and Japan boosts defense spending. Here’s your Friday morning brief for December 26th, 2025.

Trump’s NORAD calls, Pope’s plea for peace, Ukraine hits Russian energy sites. Here’s what’s making headlines this Thursday evening.

Holiday cheer in uniform is surviving “mandatory fun” on mystery meat and bad decisions, then realizing the only thing keeping it all from going off the rails is the same foul mouthed camaraderie that has carried us through worse.

Merry Christmas from SOFREP

Flying at treetop height with cold-war iron and nerves of steel, Ukraine’s Mi-24 crews have turned an aging “Flying Tank” into a blunt instrument of precision and audacity, proving that in this war, skill and nerve still matter more than the calendar on the airframe.

The cold sat with them like an old debt, unpaid and unspoken, while Christmas passed quietly somewhere far enough away to feel almost merciful.

Fallen troops honored, DOJ delays Epstein files, global tensions rise. Here’s your Thursday morning brief for December 25th, 2025.