SOFREP Saturday Cartoon: From Kremlin to Casket
In Putin’s Russia, getting fired means exactly that—usually with a 9mm exit interview and a state-issued shovel for the cleanup crew.
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Evening Brief: Khamenei Warns US After Strike on Qatar Base, Downplays Nuclear Damage
Missiles fly, alliances strain, and aid routes clash—here’s your Thursday, June 26, 2025, rundown from Tehran to Taiwan.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine: Musings From Day 1,213 of the War
While the world’s eyes are fixed on the Middle East, Ukraine is slugging it out in a no-holds-barred brawl with Russia, trading drones, artillery, and defiance in a fight that’s shaping the future far beyond its borders.
Evening Brief: Trump Says Relationship with Musk Over, Supreme Court Gives DOGE Access to Social Security Info, Russian Spies Don’t Trust China
Trump’s bromance with Musk implodes as the billionaire steps away from DOGE leadership, leaving the agency—now under ambiguous control—to rummage through Americans’ private data with Supreme Court approval, while Russian spies secretly label China a threat, and Gaza’s aid efforts collapse into deadly chaos. This and more in your Evening Report for Saturday June 7th, 2025
Morning Brief: The Trump/Musk Feud and National Defense, Russia Strikes Back, Israel Targets Beirut
As Trump trades blows with Musk, Russia rains missiles on Kyiv, and Israel pounds Beirut’s suburbs, the world feels less like a chessboard and more like a powder keg with a lit fuse. Welcome to Friday, June 6, 2025, here is your morning brief.
Operation Spiderweb: Ukraine’s Drone Blitz Deep into Russia
When Ukraine launched Operation Spiderweb, it didn’t just cross into Russian airspace—it rewrote the whole playbook and sent Moscow scrambling to find the pages.
Evening Brief: Israel Issues Ultimatum to Hamas as Ceasefire Talks Hang in the Balance
Stay on top of the news with the SOFREP Evening Brief: Top updates on defense and global affairs for Friday, May 30, 2025.
SOFREP Morning Brief: Drastic Cuts to National Security Council, Kyiv Attacked After Prisoner Swap, Nuclear Power Fast Tracked
The Trump administration just swung a wrecking ball through Washington’s national security and energy playbooks—gutting the NSC, greenlighting battlefield-ready nuclear reactors, and watching Kyiv burn under Russian missiles all in the same 48 hours. Welcome to Saturday May 24th, 2025, this is your SOFREP morning brief.
SOFREP Evening Brief: Russia Detains Tanker Departing Estonia in Apparent Response to Baltic Provocations, Vance and Zelensky Meet in Rome, Israel To Allow a Small Amount of Aid Into Gaza, Biden Diagnosed With Cancer
As Russia plays hardball in the Baltic, Zelensky pushes for diplomacy in Rome, and Israel walks a tightrope between security and starvation in Gaza, the global chessboard is starting to feel more like a minefield.
SOFREP Morning Brief: Russians Demand Ukrainian Troop Withdrawal, DoD Downsizing Civilian Workforce, Homeland Security Asks for 20,000 National Guard Troops For Immigration Enforcement
Russia showed up to peace talks in Istanbul with demands so unrealistic they read more like a blueprint for Ukraine’s surrender than a genuine path to peace.
The Illusion That is The Ukraine Minerals Deal
Clause VI of the Ukraine minerals deal quietly transforms blown-up Patriot launchers into phantom investments, setting taxpayers up for a billion-dollar fleecing that won’t show up until the ink is dry and the cash is long gone.
Meet Russia’s S8000 Banderol Cruise Missile: Cheap, Lethal, and Born for the Drone Age
The S8000 Banderol is what you get when a cash-strapped Kremlin raids the global hobby shop and slaps a warhead on it.
