David Hookstead talks about Iran opening fire on more ships in the Strait of Hormuz following President Donald Trump canceling an attack he said would have been the biggest since WWII. Is there any chance of a peace deal or is war the only option?

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Ukraine and Great Britain are building a defense partnership that could reshape modern warfare. Greg Terry joins Alex from Ukraine to examine Britain’s planned access to Ukraine’s Avenger AI Labs, a battlefield database containing roughly five million images of tanks, artillery, drones, and other military assets.

They also discuss British cooperation involving technology and classified component information connected to SCALP and Storm Shadow cruise missiles. The significance extends far beyond individual weapons: Ukraine’s battlefield experience, technological innovation, and rapidly expanding defense partnerships are changing how Europe prepares for future conflicts.

Greg and Alex reflect on Ukraine’s Independence Day, the Budapest Memorandum, the Kremlin’s furious reaction to British support, and Russia’s partnerships with North Korea and Iran. They also confront the difficult questions ahead—from manpower and mobilization to deep strikes, Russian infrastructure, and the possibility of a longer war.

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David Hookstead talks about Russia hitting Poland with a cruise missile during a massive attack on Ukraine. The world is now waiting to see how Poland and NATO respond.

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We separate confirmed facts from developing claims, examine Iran’s warning about “new weapons,” and explain the Patriot, THAAD and Aegis sensor-to-shooter network protecting U.S. forces. Plus: Houthi attacks involving Saudi Arabia, President Trump’s meetings with Gulf leaders and Xi Jinping, and the reported 44-page Russia-Iran cooperation plan covering nuclear, financial, energy and aviation ties.
The Tehran object, B-1 destination, attacker in the Hormuz incident and weapon used remain unconfirmed at publication time.

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If I can bring any extra encouragement and energy to the brave Iranian people, it will all be worth it.
Victory!

Lyrics:

آزادی آزادی آزادی

From the shadows of Tehran, voices rise in the night,
Unarmed hearts beating strong, facing down the fight.
No chains of theocracy, no terror in your name,
You didn't choose this madness, this endless game of blame.

They fund the fires worldwide, from Hezbollah to Hamas,
Murder their own in silence, nothing to discuss.
But you stand tall, oh brave ones, with nothing but your will,
Risking all for tomorrow, on this revolutionary hill.

نترسید نترسید ما همه با هم هستیم

Freedom! Let the lion roar, break the walls they've built so high.
Courage in your eyes, unarmed but unbowed, touching the sky.
A free Iran will shake the earth, like Berlin's fall anew,
No more oil for the terror, a world reborn in you.

جاوید شاه
جاوید شاه

Imagine streets without fear, where dreams can finally breathe,
No nukes in tyrants' clutches, no more need to grieve.
From Yemen to Iraq, the chains will finally break,
Your uprising lights the way, for humanity's sake.

نه غزه، نه لبنان، جانم فدای ایران
نه غزه، نه لبنان، جانم فدای ایران

And in this storm of voices, the dawn begins to gleam,
United in the struggle, fulfilling the dream.

Freedom! Let the lion roar, break the walls they've built so high.
Courage in your eyes, unarmed but unbowed, touching the sky.
A free Iran will shake the earth, like Berlin's fall anew,
No more oil for the terror, a world reborn in you.

جاوید شاه
جاوید شاه

Hold the line, Iran rises, your dawn is breaking through.
The world stands with you, brave souls — victory belongs to you.

نه به اسلام، نه به قرآن، جانم فدای ایران
آزادی آزادی آزادی

Strange seeing these tanks with so little protection

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It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Russian armored assault so I guess they thought they’d try again. And the results are about as expected. With one Russian commentator saying “the front is ablaze”. We also have even more Wildberries factories burning in Russia and a deadly strike on a Ukrainian defense Expo.

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In just four days, Ukraine has taken out 1/3 of the gas stations in Belgorod - a critically strategic border region north of Kharkiv. It's eerily similar to what Ukraine did in Crimea, methodically cutting off the peninsula from fuel and supplies. It brings to mind a question - what's Ukraine's strategy here? Could Ukraine be preparing for another incursion, similar to the Kursk incursion? Or does Ukraine have a deeper plan, preparing for upcoming Russian mobilization? I cover it all.

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Ukraine’s position strengthened—not because of one dramatic battlefield victory, but because several hard truths finally moved into the open.

President Zelenskyy warns that Putin is preparing new missile attacks, additional Russian mobilization, and a possible winter escalation. At the same time, Zelenskyy’s meeting with Raytheon brings Ukraine closer to licensed Patriot interceptor production and a stronger long-term air-defense partnership.

We also examine Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi’s blunt rejection of Soviet military thinking, the divisions developing around Putin, and the consequences of the Marco Rubio–Sergey Lavrov meeting as questions grow about Russia’s support for Iran.

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2:51 Zelenskyy Warns of Putin’s Winter Escalation
4:30 The Hard Truth Ukraine Needed
6:45 Iran Is Diverting America’s Attention
7:56 Cracks Are Growing Around Putin
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10:53 Raytheon Meets Zelenskyy in Kyiv
13:21 Drapatyi Rejects the Soviet Military Mindset
14:55 Rubio and Lavrov Meet in Manila
16:43 Rubio Pressed on Russia Helping Iran
18:30 What These Developments Mean for Ukraine

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Recently, a Ukrainian raid proved far more successful than simply winning ground, setting a domino effect in motion that beheaded a crucial section of the Russian frontline and left several gaps wide open. It all began when Ukrainian operators attacked and cleared a Russian strongpoint in the forest of the Li-man direction. Ukrainian soldiers can be seen wearing ghillie suits to blend into the forest, helping them avoid detection by Russian soldiers and reconnaissance drones simultaneously while they are moving forward. Modern ghillie suits are also tailored to dampen heat signature, which further reduces the possibility of being detected by thermal drones. After stealthily moving through thick vegetation, the Ukrainian soldiers reached the Russian strongpoint, as the poor trash discipline evident from the visible empty cans they left all over the position had revealed the Russian presence. As the Ukrainian operators pushed deeper, they quickly came into contact with two Russian soldiers in the next dugout. After a fierce firefight broke out, the Ukrainians killed the Russian infiltrators and pushed deeper to fully clear the position. Ukrainians took off jackets and gear so they could go through the intelligence from cover, instead of out in the open. They captured documents, maps, and radios that the Russians had on them. This kind of captured intelligence and sensitive equipment is extremely valuable, as Ukrainians use this to tap into Russian communications and listen in on commanders revealing key information.

After tapping into the Russian communications, the Ukrainians were able to track down the commander of Russia’s thirty sixth Motor Rifle Regiment. They followed the exact movements of the commander, mapped out his routine, and patiently waited until he was exposed. The ideal moment to strike came while he was completely vulnerable and exposed on the road, as there is no option to quickly hide or run away, with cars often driving over one hundred kilometers per hour on damaged roads to reduce travel time and minimize exposure to Ukrainian observation. However, this did not save him this time, as a Ukrainian kamikaze drone closed in on the commander's car and hit it over eighty-seven kilometers behind the front line near the settlement of Dmitrivka. As a result of the successful Ukrainian drone strike, the newly appointed regiment commander was heavily wounded, and three of his staff travelling with him sustained injuries as well and were out of commission, effectively beheading the entire Russian regiment with a single drone.

This is crucial because now this Russian regiment has lost its commander and his entire entourage, leaving its command without an immediate replacement. By wounding the commander's second, third, and fourth replacements as well, it will be hard to reinstate the command of the regiment and find other subordinates who can do their duty. This is particularly damaging because Russian command remains highly centralized and junior officers generally have limited freedom to make decisions without approval from higher headquarters, effectively paralyzing the full regiment. That paralysis quickly spreads beyond the headquarters itself because this regiment is currently responsible for advancing through the forests toward Lyman, with multiple assault groups relying on the headquarters to coordinate their movements and direct artillery, drone, and aviation support. Once that command structure is disrupted, communications begin breaking down, assault groups lose coordination, and supporting fires become delayed or unavailable. Because modern frontlines are tightly interconnected, the neighboring units depend on each other to secure their flanks. If one regiment suddenly becomes static because its leadership has been removed, the formations on either side become exposed. They must either divert forces to cover the growing gap or continue advancing while risking encirclement. This creates exactly the opportunity Ukraine is looking for because now, Ukrainian forces can exploit these weak points, maneuver through the emerging gaps, outflank neighboring Russian units, and threaten their rear. In this way, the elimination of a single regiment commander can trigger a chain reaction across the sector, disrupting the Russian offensive and potentially undoing months of hard-fought progress, or at the least massively delaying their efforts.

Overall, this operation demonstrates that Ukraine is increasingly targeting the Russian military's decision-making rather than just its frontline positions. By combining intelligence gathered during a small infantry raid with precision drone strikes, Ukrainian forces can paralyze entire formations at minimal cost...

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Belarus has now officially crossed the red line, violated the recent agreement with Ukraine, and engaged itself in Russia’s long-range drone campaign, providing relay infrastructure on Belarusian territory to guide Shahed drones in real time. The latest indication came from a jet-powered, camera-guided Shahed strike against the Ukrainian city of Malyn.

Analysis of the drone’s flight path shows it was following and maneuvering closely to the Belarusian-Ukrainian border before turning along a highway toward Korosten and then following a railway line directly to its target. Such precise navigation strongly suggests continuous operator control rather than a simple pre-programmed GPS route. Because the target lay roughly two hundred and sixty kilometers from the Russian border, maintaining direct radio contact from Russia alone would have been technically impossible, as no airborne Russian relay drones were operating in the vicinity.

That leaves ground-based relay stations inside Belarus as the only explanation, as they extend communications range, allowing operators to alter routes in real time to avoid Ukrainian air defenses, evade interceptor drones in modern-style drone dogfights, and adjust onto the target if needed. Without these relay networks, Shahed drones would be limited largely to predetermined waypoints, making them substantially less flexible and easier to intercept.

This development comes after Belarusian President Lukashenko had already received an explicit warning from Kyiv, as President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded that Belarus dismantle any infrastructure supporting Russian drone guidance, warning that Ukraine would destroy the network itself if Belarus failed to act. Ukrainian officials subsequently stated that approximately five hundred military-related targets inside Belarus had already been identified should further assistance to Russian operations continue. As a result, Lukashenko caved to the threat and turned the relays off, only to be forced by Russia to go back on his decision now.

Recent Ukrainian deep-strike campaigns against Russia demonstrate that such threats cannot be dismissed lightly, as Ukraine has repeatedly launched massive drone raids involving up to one thousand long-range drones during a single night, at times simultaneously striking Moscow, Crimea, and other distant regions while overwhelming dense Russian air defenses in all of them.

Belarus possesses nothing comparable to Russia’s multilayered defensive network; with its smaller inventory of S-Three-Hundred systems, limited S-Four-Hundred batteries, Buks, Tors, Pantsirs, and aging fighter aircraft, it would face enormous difficulties responding to Ukraine’s large-scale saturation attacks. The country's proximity to northern Ukraine further compresses reaction times, leaving only minutes to detect, classify, and intercept incoming low- and fast-flying drones before they reach critical infrastructure.

At the same time, provoking Ukrainian retaliation against Belarus may actually serve Russia’s broader interests and be part of a larger Russian strategy. Near-assuredly, Belarus's putting the relays back up has come under pressure from Moscow, despite knowing Ukraine’s threats and the risks to Belarus. Russia hopes that if Ukraine is forced to redirect a portion of its long-range strike campaign toward Belarusian military and relay infrastructure, the pressure on Russian territory could decline. Belarus would effectively become a sacrificial lamb, absorbing Ukrainian retaliation while Russia gained valuable time to replenish interceptor stocks and reorganize its air defenses.

However, this strategy may ultimately fail because Ukraine possesses far more options than drone strikes alone. Communications relays, command nodes, and supporting infrastructure inside Belarus do not necessarily need to be destroyed through large-scale aerial attacks. Cyber operations, electronic warfare, sabotage, or special forces insertions behind enemy lines could neutralize these networks without consuming Ukraine’s long-range strike assets, especially as Ukraine is creating a dedicated Cyber Forces branch within the Armed Forces, with specialized research infrastructure for its units.

Such an approach would allow Ukraine to maintain the overwhelming majority of its drone campaign against Russian oil facilities, logistics hubs, and military infrastructure while simultaneously degrading Belarusian support through covert means. Rather than choosing between Russia and Belarus, Ukraine possesses a wide series of complementary instruments capable of operating in parallel, denying Moscow the breathing space it hopes to create by drawing Belarus further into the conflict.

Iranian proxies have announced a blockade against Saudi Arabia in the Bab-El Mendeb, while simultaneously conducting an attack on a large oil tanker within the Strait of Hormuz. Largely it appears that the Islamic Republic of Iran is now aiming for multiple different angles (invasion of Iraq/ Kuwait - Houthi Blockade) to try and build any pressure possible to make the US give up on the current war. Meanwhile US forces have been striking missiles forces inside of Iran and bombarding the coastline. The names of 2 US deceased service members has been released, including Private Gonzales and 1st Lt. Freehan of the US Army Air Defenses. Meanwhile Ukrainian forces have conducted another drone attack on Moscow, while damaged ships from the Azov sea attacks pile up in ports all around the area. Air defenses forces have been hit in Crimea, and Ukraine is still working towards a possible replacement for Oleksandr Syrski.

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David Hookstead talks about Ukraine successfully bombing and obliterating a Russian Tu-95 nuclear bomber, more details are out about the secret CIA meeting in Moscow and Russians were captured in Poland. Russia's oil industry continues to be a top target, and another refinery is being lit up. President Donald Trump also offered new comments about Russian leader Vladimir Putin and NATO.

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