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David Hookstead talks about Russia unleashing a massive missile attack against Ukraine that resulted in many people being killed and wounded. There are also reports of North Korean troops flooding in and more issues with Russia's air defenses.

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This could be the new normal for quite a while

It’s looking more and more that we’ve reached an impasse in Iran.
Trump will not accept Iran's newest terms as that would signal a clear US defeat. However, a significant escalation to change the dynamics also seems unlikely. That leaves us with how things sit today: Iran with de-facto control of the Strait of Hormuz. Sanctions will stay in place and economic relief won't be granted, but real nuclear negotiations probably won't come together anytime soon.

Now President Trump remains optimistic just a few hours ago stating "It will work out. It always works out.”

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Today, there are important updates from the Liman direction.  

Here, Ukrainian forces are increasingly shifting their counterattacks toward the forests southeast of Liman by transferring reinforcements with their improved logistical lines. The initial Ukrainian goal is to clear the forests west of Dibrova to consolidate full control over the village itself before pushing down the railway line and recapturing the strongpoints along the way, while other Ukrainian units secure the lakes northeast of Dibrova. Russian infantry had repeatedly exploited this difficult terrain to infiltrate toward Liman and Yampil, using the vegetation to conceal tiny assault groups from Ukrainian reconnaissance. 

Now Ukraine is attempting to reverse that pressure and clear the forest belt that supported Russia’s southern approach to remove the Russian infiltrators before they can accumulate into meaningful positions. Clearing the adjoining forests would consequently do two things simultaneously: strengthen Liman’s southeastern defenses and provide Ukraine with better conditions for stabilizing Yampil.

The forest has already suffered enormous destruction after years of artillery, drones, and close-range fighting. However, the autumn season creates an advantage for the Ukrainians, because as foliage disappears, Russian soldiers who previously relied on it for concealment become increasingly vulnerable to thermal-equipped reconnaissance drones.

As part of their clearing operation, Ukrainian drone pilots systematically scan the tree lines for heat signatures before directing FPV drones or infantry toward suspicious positions. Russian soldiers sheltering beneath trees, inside dugouts, beside wrecked vehicles, or underneath ruined structures remain difficult to identify visually, but thermal optics can reveal signatures that ordinary cameras miss.

Fiber-optic FPV's provide another useful tool in the area because, unlike radio-controlled drones vulnerable to electronic warfare, they maintain their connection through physical fiber, allowing operators to penetrate wooded terrain where trees interfere with conventional signals. Using them, Ukrainian operators can follow paths between trunks, investigate suspected shelters, and attack positions concealed beneath the remaining vegetation.

Once the Ukrainian drones located a Russian group and narrowed down their exact location, Ukrainian assault troops moved forward, while strike drones suppressed or destroyed individual hideouts. Due to these advances, Russian forces mostly withdrew from their salient southeast of Liman and are attempting to defend a small bridgehead west of the Zherebets River, northeast of Yampil.

The broader development becomes particularly significant when combined with Operation Vivaldi, as Ukraine has already eliminated the large Russian salient north of Liman, undermining Moscow’s attempt to create a northern pincer around the city. Clearing operations in the forest southeast of Liman now collapsed their southern flank. 

At the same time the terrain severely restricts what Russia can do next, as dense forests make the use of armored vehicles almost impossible, and those vehicles that can still go through are channeled onto predictable roads and tracks, making mechanized assaults vulnerable to mines, artillery, and drones. The Russian command can continue sending small infantry groups through the forests, but the increasingly improved Ukrainian positions make those movements easier to detect and eliminate.

Overall, Ukraine has an opportunity to further exploit Russia’s setback rather than merely consolidate it, as Ukrainian pressure is now moving southeast toward Yampil. If Ukrainian forces can systematically clear the remaining forest positions around the settlement and stabilize this flank, Russia will lose much of the terrain that allowed infiltrators to approach Liman under concealment. From there, Ukraine can increasingly turn eastward and transform what began as an operation to save Liman into a broader effort to push the frontline farther away from the city.

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Drones struck the Russian city of Ulyanovsk overnight, hitting the Iskra Research and Production Plant

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Today, the most intense news is coming from the Liman direction.

Russians just unleashed a massive swarm of fixed-wing attack drones in an attempt to halt the Ukrainian advance in its tracks. Video footage shows how Russians launched waves of Molniya drones across the river and into the newly gained Ukrainian territory. These Russian Molniya drones are equipped with heavy explosives and sometimes even anti-tank landmines that cause major destruction when they hit. The dedicated interceptor drone unit codenamed Destroyer shared footage showing the interception of over sixty-six of these enemy strike drones over the ongoing Ukrainian Vivaldi operation in a single day. The Ukrainians have fully integrated interception capabilities into their frontline units, with the Destroyer unit integrated with the Ukrainian sixty-sixth Mechanized Brigade using dispersed radar systems to launch an interceptor drone within a minute of detecting an enemy UAV. Using various interceptor drones of similar design, they are then able to neutralize the Russian waves with remarkable efficiency.

When looking at the situation on the ground, Ukrainians are advancing way faster than the Russians expected, and liberating far more territory than they had imagined. This even caused problems for Ukrainians however, who were advancing so deep that they threatened to move out of the cover of their fire-support units. The entire Ukrainian kill-chain of observation and strike drones, artillery, logistics, and command staff now has to be moved to the new line of contact. By launching the intense Molniya drone barrage, Russians were attempting to strike Ukrainians in the midst of this movement, hoping to prevent and undermine Ukrainians from getting ready to cross the river next. However, they were not expecting Ukraine to have already moved forward their frontline drone interception units, and their barrage was taken out in mid-air.

Notably, Russians were trying to do more than just strike Ukrainian support units on the move, but were preparing to follow up with a major counteroffensive of their own. As Russians cannot afford to lose their bridgehead across the Zherebets River completely, they are desperately trying to take it back. The massive wave of frontline strike drones was the fire preparation that Russians could have needed for a counterattack to succeed. Counterattacking while Ukrainians are still reorganizing would be their only real chance of making any rapid clawback.

The reason why Russians cannot lose the bridgehead is that it allows Ukrainians to maintain a much more stable defense of Liman itself. Due to the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russians are now over twenty-two kilometers removed from the nearest logistical strongpoint supplying Liman. This puts Ukrainian logistic hubs out of range of Russian tube and rocket artillery, as well as Russian FPV drones. While Russian FPV drones have the capability on paper to strike this deep, using FPV drones at such long ranges requires larger fixed-wing drones to serve as relays. And Ukrainians have just clearly demonstrated their capability to rapidly detect and destroy these fixed-wing type drones with ease, allowing supplies and reinforcements to arrive at the needed positions with no delay.

Overall, Ukrainians just destroyed the most massive Russian fire preparation launched in a single day. While Russians attempted to strike Ukrainian support units and staff while on the move and take advantage of their destruction with a follow-up counterattack, the cleverly integrated drone defenses were able to neutralize the Russian threat. As the Ukrainian kill-chain is being moved up to the new line of contact, Russian forces will soon be faced with a deadly choice: either throw their men into the Ukrainian meatgrinder, or suffer whatever the Ukrainian general staff has planned for them next.

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David Hookstead talks about President Donald Trump and the U.S. military releasing new UFO footage. Much of the footage was recorded by the U.S. military in the Middle East.

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Zelensky has a warning for Moscow: if Russia keeps targeting Ukraine’s electricity and heating, Ukraine will make winter painful for Russia too. Could Russia’s historic ally—“General Winter”—turn against it?

I examine that warning, Ukraine’s struggle to secure scarce missile interceptors, and Poland’s direct message to the Russian delegation: you can kill more people, but you cannot win.

I also discuss the reported return of U.S. troops to the Baltics, concerns about sabotage and drone operations in Europe, and the competing arguments over inviting Putin to the G20. Zelensky sees a potential opportunity—but would Putin actually attend?

Finally, I examine Trump’s welcome for Xi Jinping, Michael McFaul’s criticism of U.S. foreign policy, and why Taiwan deserves close attention as Washington and Beijing negotiate.

Throughout, I distinguish reported developments, official statements, and my own interpretation.

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00:00 Zelensky’s winter warning to Russia
01:35 Ukraine’s race for missile interceptors
02:52 Ex-prosecutor reportedly relocates to Austria
03:33 Ukraine diplomacy and European funding
04:48 U.S. troops and Baltic deterrence
06:54 Poland confronts Russia at the UN
09:15 Fire at a Polish Starlink ground station
10:15 French politics and trade with Russia
11:10 Sanctions relief and the hostage precedent
11:49 Reported warning about Russian drone operations
12:15 Putin’s G20 invitation: opportunity or mistake?
15:04 Alleged Russian ownership of a Pentagon supplier
15:26 Trump welcomes Xi—and McFaul pushes back
18:28 U.S.–China negotiations and Taiwan
19:25 Immigration protections for Ukrainians
19:41 Xi says partners, not rivals
21:25 McFaul’s response to criticism
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Today, there is important news from the Druzhkivka direction. 

Here, a dangerous Russian penetration formed northeast of Dobropillia, as Russian forces had spent time accumulating troops around the Shahove area, attempting to expand in several directions around Hruzke and Novomykolaivka. Elements of Russia’s Ninetieth Tank Division and the Eighth Combined Arms Army sought Ukrainian logistical routes that could support an operational encirclement of Druzhkivka while opening another route toward Dobropillia. Had that worked, Russia could have threatened communications supporting the wider Ukrainian defense of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration. Instead of waiting for that to develop, Ukraine attacked the penetration systematically from multiple directions.

Once Ukrainian commanders concluded Russia was establishing a staging area rather than conducting isolated infiltrations, reinforcements were called in. The First Azov Corps deployed its Tuman special-purpose detachment alongside elements of the recently subordinated Skala Assault Regiment. The operation also involved Azov reconnaissance  battalions with experienced drone operators. Crucially, representatives from participating formations planned the operation together rather than operating independently.

Their first objective was not immediately storming Russian positions. Ukraine instead isolated the concentration area with firepower, restricting Russian movement and preventing additional expansion before assault groups advanced. The Ukrainian soldiers attacked the Russian positions on the ground while FPV drones, bomber drones, and artillery worked around them. When Russian soldiers entrenched themselves in shelters that would have been expensive to storm directly, Ukrainian troops stopped, transmitted their locations, and requested drone strikes. Once those positions were suppressed or destroyed, assault troops moved forward and cleared them.

That coordination allowed Ukraine to squeeze the penetration from multiple directions rather than simply pushing against its strongest point. Ukraine simultaneously attacked Russia’s fire support by conducting a specialized operation against Russian artillery, employing drone-delivered munitions designed to damage howitzer barrels. Destroying those guns reduced Russia’s ability to suppress Ukrainian assault groups while they advanced, while Ukrainian artillery provided another layer of support, creating a combined reconnaissance-strike system around infantry moving through extremely difficult terrain.

This was particularly important because evacuation was dangerous, as open terrain and dense Russian drone activity meant a seriously wounded Ukrainian soldier could be difficult to extract. Commanders therefore emphasized destroying detected Russian positions remotely whenever a direct assault created unnecessary risk.

To achieve the essential real-time coordination, a liaison officer from the Twelfth Azov Brigade remained at the command-and-observation post, allowing assault troops, drones, and supporting formations to exchange information immediately. Skala’s participation was particularly significant because this became its first operation under Azov’s operational command. The result was the dismantling of the Russian concentration and the complete elimination of the breakthrough that had taken months to establish. Azov reported two-hundred-thirty-seven Russian soldiers killed, forty-four wounded, and three captured during the operation.

Overall, more importantly than the number of losses, Russia failed to transform its infiltration into the logistical breakthrough it needed. As a result, the reinforced Russian formations around Dobropillia failed to generate major advances despite substantial redeployments during the summer. At the same time, Ukraine has now bought additional time around Druzhkivka and Dobropillia while forcing Russia to absorb another round of losses. Instead of becoming the staging ground for a wider breakthrough, the penetration became an isolated concentration attacked by Ukrainian infantry, artillery, and drones from multiple directions. That means another delay for the Russian command’s broader objective: breaking Ukraine’s Donetsk defenses and capturing the remaining Ukrainian-held part of the region.

Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler cover Iran’s reported demands to end the war, including the release of frozen funds, an end to U.S. attacks, and the removal of the naval blockade.

They also look at Canada and Mark Carney’s push for closer economic ties with Europe, the strategic importance of Greenland and the Arctic, and growing competition involving Russia, China, and the Panama Canal.

Other topics include immigration, assimilation, religious tensions in Europe and the United States, DEI and rising racial and ethnic tribalism, the unresolved legal legacy of 9/11, October 7 and the war in Gaza, and conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie Kirk’s killing—including claims that Mossad was involved.


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