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Trump warns Russia on Ukraine, Gaza truce advances, China-Philippines clash flares. Here’s your Monday morning rundown, October 13, 2025.
Trump threatens a 100 percent China tariff amid a rare earth squeeze, St. Helena reels after a bar shooting that left four dead and 20 wounded, and Trump and Sisi push a Gaza ceasefire toward a harder Phase Two at Sharm el Sheikh. It’s Sunday, October 12th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
At one point during the service, a friend led Hawkeye, JT’s faithful chocolate Lab, to the military casket sat draped with its American flag.
As the steppe turns to mud and the skies to low cloud, Russia trades men for meters while Ukraine adapts, holds its hubs, and waits for the freeze.
In McGarvey’s, the jukebox glowed like a field altar, each slot a dog tag on a guitar string, and Marcus realized the living keep the dead in tune.
As the Durand Line crackles with Kabul claiming 58 Pakistani dead and Gaza braces for a 20 hostages handover by nightfall, Trump orders the Pentagon to tap R and D cash so U.S. troops still get paid while Washington’s shutdown grinds on. Welcome to Sunday, October 12th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
From a Tennessee explosives plant ripped apart at dawn to Israeli jets smashing Hezbollah’s toolbox in the south and Melania Trump prying open a Kremlin backchannel to send abducted Ukrainian children home, the week showed how force, risk, and quiet leverage tug the same frayed world. It’s Saturday October 11th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Report.
Putting a Qatari fighter school in Idaho feels like parking a lit cigar in a powder magazine and trusting the wind to behave.
I didn’t teach Kamal to swim; I taught him to harness fear until it pulled him across ten feet of water like a tide he commanded.
When devils start pricing snow tires and pitchforks double as ski poles, you know the ceasefire paperwork is real enough to fog a mirror, even if the lava in the background stays at a slow simmer.
Amid a fragile ceasefire and aid stacked at the gates, Mansour spoke at length yet never said whether Hamas will disarm, the only answer that could turn a pause into peace.
From Gaza’s fragile 72 hour hostage clock to Pyongyang’s Hwasong 20 flex with hypersonic glide talk to India planting a full embassy in Kabul, the week reads like a field manual on pressure, posture, and positioning. You made it to Saturday, October 11th, 2025. Here is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
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