Smedley D Butler

BREAKING: France announces its fighter jets have started flying combat missions over the UAE to shoot down Iranian drones 🇫🇷🇦🇪

JD Vance has a message for Germany: "You don’t have shared values if you silence your people."

To every “conservative” who criticized Never Trumpers: they were right. You were catastrophically wrong. They saw the consequences of this man's emptiness clearly and from the start. This, the ICE/CBP violence, the corruption, the lawlessness. All of it. You owe them your apology

Ukraine’s SBU finally put real numbers on something many of us have been watching happen piece by piece. Over the past year, Ukraine’s Security Service says it destroyed or disabled roughly $4 billion worth of Russian air defense systems. S-300s. S-350s. S-400s. Buk-M1s. Buk-M2s. Pantsirs. These are not backup systems. These are the core of Russia’s layered air defense network. From where I am, this is not abstract. This is how Ukraine stays alive while being outmanned and outgunned. You do not beat Russia by lining up tank on tank. You beat them by stripping away their protection. You punch holes in air defense, force them to spread assets thin, and open corridors for long range drones to fly deep. Bases. Warehouses. Airfields. Production sites. That is what this campaign is actually about. The SBU said it clearly. These strikes had a systemic effect. Once corridors opened, Ukrainian drones could move freely into Russian territory and hit military infrastructure that actually matters. That changes the math of this war. Look at Taganrog last week. SBU and the Ukrainian Navy hit the Atlant Aero factory. That facility produced Molniya drones used daily against Ukrainian troops. Production halls destroyed. Capacity reduced. Fewer drones launched. That means fewer soldiers killed tomorrow. This is not symbolic. This is cause and effect. Can every strike be independently verified in real time. No. Anyone who has been in a war knows that. But patterns do not lie. Russia is constantly repositioning air defense. Assets keep getting hit far from the front. Ukraine keeps adapting faster than Russia can plug the gaps. This is what modern asymmetric warfare looks like when it is done right. Patient. Methodical. Relentless. Do not underestimate what Ukraine is doing quietly in the background. And do not pretend Russia is not paying a very real price for this war. Slava Ukraini. Heroyam Slava. 🇺🇦

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate