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Erika Kirk vows to carry on her slain husband’s work as Tyler Robinson faces charges for the Utah killing, Ryan Routh flails in court over his alleged Trump assassination attempt, and President Trump pressures NATO to unite on sanctions against Russia and tariffs on China. It’s Saturday, September 13th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
Slap a new label on the Pentagon and call it what you want—war by any other name still smells like cordite and tears.
Banks shouldn’t be allowed to play politics with people’s livelihoods, and Trump’s executive order slamming the brakes on debanking is the first real shot fired in the fight to keep America’s financial system free from partisan chokeholds.
Putin walks out of Alaska with the optics he wanted, West Virginia’s Guard rolls into D.C. to stiffen the perimeter, and New Orleans’ mayor gets hit with a federal indictment—power projection abroad, domestic muscle at home, and accountability snapping at the heels. It Saturday, August 16 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
At Alaska’s icy table, two nuclear heavyweights have a clean shot to freeze the slide—keep New START’s caps alive, put numbers on tac nukes, and fence Europe off from new land-based missiles.
This summit between Trump and Putin, held without President Zelensky’s participation, risks trading away Ukraine’s sovereignty while setting a dangerous precedent for sidelining smaller nations in decisions about their own future.
Trump didn’t summon an army of occupation; he pulled a field-expedient tourniquet—the D.C. Guard—to cinch the capital’s bleeding edges and keep the streets from turning into a fracture line.
Ceding Ukrainian land to Russia would not only violate Ukraine’s sovereignty and international law, but also reward aggression, embolden further expansionism, and undermine the global order the U.S. and its allies are bound to defend.
From Alaska to London, the past 48 hours saw Zelensky slam a Trump-Putin “peace” plan, gunfire wound three in Times Square, Nagasaki warn the world on nuclear war’s brink, Germany curbs arms to Israel over Gaza, and hundreds in the UK are hauled off for backing a banned pro-Palestinian group. This is the world we live in, today, August 9th, 2025.
From high-stakes diplomacy in Alaska and a firm Mexican stand on sovereignty, to the loss of an American space legend, the death of a Marine-turned-cop in Atlanta, and the capture of a Montana bar gunman, this week’s headlines read like a collision of history, heroism, and hard reality.
In a world where Russia bellows bravado and breaks treaties, the U.S. answers with silent, deep-sea patience—four to five Ohio-class submarines are lurking in the shadows, each armed with dozens of warheads, holding the still-fragile threads of deterrence tight as New START’s expiration looms next year.
Trump’s two-week ultimatum is less a diplomatic move and more like tossing a lit stick of dynamite into a bear’s den and yelling, “Negotiate!”
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