The Friday Brief, June 19, 2026
Inside
Moscow Is Burning
Iran Won: It’s Official.
Don’t Think, Don…It Hurts The Team
Florida Resident Tommy Tuberville
The Far Right Is Winning In Britain
American Flag Blue, Algae Green
Another Old NYC Favorite Goes Dark
So You’re Telling Me Vaccines Work?
Mythos, Fable, and Worse
The Big Picture
Moscow Is Burning
Donald Trump’s role model, friend, blackmailer, and boss, Vladimir Putin, is hearing the sound of death coming for him, with Ukrainian drones bringing the fight to Moscow.
For four years, Vladimir Putin sold his people a three-day “Special Military Operation” against Ukraine. It was a war against someone else’s cities, someone else’s children, someone else’s apartment blocks turned to dust, the whole cost of war borne by Ukrainian civilians. Russia was too big, too powerful for tiny Ukraine to survive, much less retaliate.
It went wrong for Russia, fast.
Russia rolled everything they had in a play to take Kyiv. They were crushed. They’ve taken ground by inches in the East, lost it against Ukraine’s drones and technology. Russia’s military is gutted, hollow, and failing.
Putin’s American allies Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, and paid-off, treasonous MAGA influencer class did everything they could to delay and starve Ukraine of weapons and support.
They failed. Ukraine changed the game. Ukraine is winning. Slowly, at terrible cost, but Russia and Putin smell of death.
Putin will die. Russia will fall. And that’s the ballgame.
Four years in, and with over a million Russian boys dead for Putin’s war, the battlefield was stalemated; Russia couldn’t win, but Ukraine wouldn’t lose. Then came the Ukrainian realization that Trump was Putin’s ally, and long-range attack help was never coming. So they built their own.
