Greenland standoff rises as CIA courts Caracas and Gaza panel meets in Cairo. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.
A firefighter battles a large blaze after an overnight Russian missile strike in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, January 8, 2026. Image Credit: State Emergency Service of Ukraine via @SESU_UA/X
Someone always thinks they are collecting a debt, but Sebastián and William proved the only way to stop the blood math is to close the books before the next man picks up the receipt.
Two sons of rival underworlds stand back to back, armed by inheritance, separated by history, and trapped in the same cycle of debt and violence. Image by the author.
At treetop height over the Coral Sea, with fuel gauges bleeding toward empty and silence enforced by secrets that could not survive daylight, a handful of P-38 pilots flew straight into history to cut down the architect of Pearl Harbor.
Rex Barber’s P-38G Lightning attacks Admiral Yamamoto’s G4M1 bomber.
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Europe can hear the music, see the water move, and still insists on arguing about the weather while the dock creaks beneath the weight of decisions postponed too long.
Everyone can hear the music, but Europe keeps fishing like the dock was built for storms that have not arrived yet. SOFREP original cartoon by Bob Lang.
American power succeeds only when it enters a conflict with limits, legitimacy, and a political end state already within reach, and it fails when it tries to invent those conditions at gunpoint.
A soldier returns fire in Sarajevo on April 6, 1992, as civilians and defenders come under sniper fire from Serbian positions. Photograph by Mike Persson, AFP/Getty Images.
Battleship costs soar, Europe sends troops to Greenland, Machado meets Trump. Here’s your Friday morning brief for January 16, 2026.
US President Donald Trump meets with María Corina Machado in the Oval Office, where she presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize, on January 15, 2026. Image Credit: The White House
Minneapolis unrest grows as Trump threatens troops and US seizes another oil tanker. Here’s what’s making headlines this Thursday evening.
An ICE officer’s fear and ego do not add up to a lawful kill, and if the badge cannot deliver accountability when deadly force is avoidable, then the badge starts meaning less to everyone.
Trump’s Greenland purchase talk signaled to allies that Washington was willing to treat sovereignty like a business deal, and that kind of transactional posture weakens NATO unity while giving China and Russia room to press their Arctic ambitions.
America is finally learning how to win with scalpels and sledgehammers, pairing Special Operations Forces, defense tech, and precision air power to break enemy momentum and reshape outcomes without marching another generation into a forever war with no exit.
China did not need to fire a shot in Ukraine to come out ahead; it only had to wait while the West bled will and capacity and Russia slid, predictably, into Beijing’s pocket.
FBI raids reporter’s home, Iran shuts airspace, and Ukraine warns mass desertions. Here’s your Thursday morning brief for January 15, 2026.
Overdose drop slows as Trump probes Slotkin, halts visas, and pushes Greenland. Here’s what’s making headlines this Wednesday evening.
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Jammed in the back of a deuce-and-a-half with nowhere to spit, I learned fast that in the Army the ritual matters as much as the nicotine, and Black Buffalo is built for the people who refuse to give up either.
As Patagonia burns and Argentina reaches for an old, familiar villain, Israeli backpackers are being cast as arsonists on the strength of rumor, recycled myth, and the comforting lie that disaster always has a single foreign hand behind it.
America’s enemies have built a coalition around one simple strategy: keep America divided, keep it distracted, and let our own dysfunction do the work their missiles and tanks cannot.
Iran crackdown worsens as US faces Venezuela probe and Greenland pushback. Here’s your Wednesday morning brief for January 14, 2026.
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