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From "we will take Kyiv in 2 weeks to almost no 9th May parade". No large equipment, no mechanized equipment, no large parade. Peskov is using the "terrorist attacks" card. We believe him, right?

Russian President Putin and U.S. President Trump have held phone call. The call lasted over 1.5 hours and the two discussed Iran, according to Kremlin aide Ushakov.

Ship captain who traveled with Pete Hegseth here. When we toured the nation’s next supercarrier together and sat down to lunch with the crew, every eye in the room tracked Pete. It wasn’t electric. It wasn’t rhetoric. It was reciprocity. Everyone from the seaman recruits to the three-star admiral was locked in, because he wasn’t self-conscious, wasn’t buried in his notes, wasn’t reading off a script. Every person in the room felt seen and heard, even the ones who never said a word. Most journalists take copious notes. I soak in details and run simulations. Or maybe that’s not the journalist in me. It’s the ship captain. We were standing in a cavernous hangar bay and I was already running a flooding scenario. What if the ship heeled hard and water poured into the compartment? I was working it fast: watertight integrity, tie-down points, where the water would pool, where the escape routes were. Then a hand landed on my shoulder. Pete. He pulled me back into the room, and we talked briefly. The guy is watching everything. And not just inside his inner sanctum of four-star GOFOs and PhD advisors like Elbridge Colby. He has rare situational awareness for what the warfighter actually needs. And he’s reading X too. I can’t tell you how often something posted on X with real consequence gets clocked by Pete and processed inside his office. The guy has his head on a swivel.

You have to admire the delusion...of course the U.S. military can open the Strait of Hormuz with military means and this promoted General would likely not be around to see it if the President directs that course of action.

A Malian official says that “The Russians betrayed us” after Russia’s Africa Corps negotiated a withdrawal with rebel forces in the northern city of Kidal -RFI Russian forces are reportedly preparing to withdraw from additional positions in northern Mali.