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❗️ BREAKING: After Ukraine granted security for the Russian parade, Putin just announced there will be no promised exchange of POWs. “Ukraine, before Victory Day, showed us they are not ready for the exchange,” he claimed. Never trust a Russian or the Orange Monkey

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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 The full sequence of the last 48 hours is the most dangerous chain of events in the entire war... Here's what actually happened in order: 48 hours ago: Iran attacked UAE's Fujairah Port with more than a dozen ballistic and cruise missiles. Iran officially denied responsibility. 24 hours ago: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait cut U.S. access to their airbases, furious that the Pentagon publicly downplayed the Fujairah attack as not rising to the level of breaking the ceasefire. The Trump administration, angered at Riyadh's pushback, ended Project Freedom rather than continue without Gulf cooperation. The official framing was "great progress in negotiations." The actual reason was operational impossibility without Saudi airspace. Earlier today: U.S. forces attacked the Iranian tanker Hasna in the Strait of Hormuz, disabling its rudder with a Super Hornet's cannon. Iran launched missiles, drones, and fast attack boats at three U.S. destroyers (Truxtun, Mason, Rafael Peralta) transiting Hormuz into the Gulf of Oman. The destroyers survived through a layered defense. Less than 6 hours ago: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait restored U.S. access to their airbases. The diplomatic crisis between Washington and Riyadh appears to have been resolved. Within the past 2 hours: U.S. strikes hit Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, and Minab. Fox News reports the strikes are in response to Iran's Fujairah attack and the destroyer engagements. Iran has launched retaliatory attacks on U.S. vessels in the Persian Gulf off the UAE coast. Step back from the timeline and look at what just happened. In 48 hours, the U.S. and Iran went from "great progress on a one-page framework" to active combat operations against each other, with U.S. forces striking Iranian territory and Iranian forces hitting U.S. naval vessels. The "ceasefire" that has officially held since April 8 is now sustaining itself through controlled exchanges of fire while both sides publicly insist nothing has changed.

King: Are we abandoning Ukraine? Hegseth: We want Europe stepping up and funding and shouldering the burden. They are rich countries worth $20T versus economy of $2T [Russia]. Europe can step up. Europe can fund it. 1/

🇺🇸 U.S. oil exports hit a record 6.4 million barrels per day