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Nigeria is running out of runway, and every day Washington hesitates is another day armed groups tighten their grip on a country too strategically important to watch slide into chaos.

The so-called Trump peace plan is not a roadmap to stability but an insult to Ukrainians and Europeans alike, a political stunt that hands Putin a strategic win while sidelining real diplomacy in favor of photo-op victory laps.

Mr. Trump has treated his solemn oath as a disposable campaign slogan, shredding constitutional norms and moral standards while his enablers in Congress cower in silence before his vengeful whims.

America lost its footing when unrestrained corporate power, partisan fearmongering, and a billionaire-backed political machine hollowed out the institutions meant to protect the public, clearing a path for a leader who embodies the consequences of that long decline.

In the end, when law is bent to serve a vengeful president, the burden falls on the men and women in uniform to choose conscience over career and remember that their oath is to the Constitution, not to the occupant of the White House.

At a moment when Americans are once again tempted to choose sides over country, we must decide whether we want a president in the mold of Lincoln, who labored to heal the Union, or a leader who treats the office as a vehicle for grievance and personal gain.

As Trump boots Marjorie Taylor Greene out of the MAGA family photo, federalized Guard units quietly file out of Portland and Chicago, and Chileans cast mandatory ballots with crime and migration front and center, you can see the same story stretching from Georgia to Santiago: fearful publics, strained institutions, and leaders turning security into the sharpest political weapon in the room. It’s Sunday morning, November 16th, 2025. Here is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

As Trump scrambles to ease grocery costs by cutting food tariffs, South Carolina presses ahead with another firing squad execution, and Europe’s $200 billion Ukraine rescue package stalls in Belgium, three very different fronts show how political pressure is reshaping hard choices at home and abroad. Welcome to Saturday, November 15th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

Christians are dying in Nigeria, but so are Muslims and countless other civilians, and the bloodshed has less to do with a holy war than with a government that has let the country slip into the hands of jihadists, militias, and land-grabbers.

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.

You cannot make peace with a group that rejects it, you cannot stabilize Gaza with foreign troops the region distrusts, and you cannot replace political courage with cash.

Before sunrise Boston hunts two masked runners after a Harvard Med lab floor blast, Chicago neighborhoods turn block chats into shields against ICE, and in Hanoi Pete Hegseth pairs war legacy work with lift and logistics as U.S. and Vietnam tighten defense ties. It’s Sunday, November 2nd, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.