It's becoming increasingly difficult to understand what happened to Donald Trump, once regarded by many Israelis as the greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House. After months of threats, ultimatums, and dramatic declarations, what exactly has been achieved? By every visible measure, this looks like a remarkable victory for Iran. Trump himself now acknowledges that Tehran will retain the ability to enrich uranium. The only party paying a price appears to be the United States, which is signing what looks disturbingly like a surrender agreement. And Israel? Israel is reduced to the role of a dependent client state, forced to watch from the sidelines as decisions affecting its survival are made elsewhere. Instead of eliminating the threat, this deal merely postpones it while handing Tehran something even more valuable: time. Time to regroup, rebuild, rearm, and continue advancing its ambitions. Without the complete dismantling of Iran's enriched uranium stockpiles, without addressing its ballistic missile program, and without seriously confronting its regional terror network - Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other Iranian proxies - the regime is effectively being granted breathing room to continue its campaign of destabilization and terror. The president whom most Israelis viewed as a historic ally, the leader whose election was celebrated across Israel, may ultimately be remembered as one of the greatest disappointments in the history of U.S.-Israel relations. Many Israelis opened champagne bottles when Trump won. They believed they were witnessing the return of a president who understood the Iranian threat better than anyone. Instead, Israel has been thrown under the bus, its hands tied in Lebanon and Gaza, while its most dangerous enemy is rewarded with resources, legitimacy, economic relief, and the oxygen it needs to continue pursuing its long-term goal: the destruction of the Jewish state. The same president who fiercely denounced Obama's Iran deal and proudly withdrew from it is now on the verge of signing an agreement that may prove even worse. A tragic and historic mistake.

Russians struck the famous Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Monastery, one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churches. Monks are trying to save devotionals. Barbarism made in Russia. You can understand why Russia is one of the few countries having good ties with the Taliban, who - along with some washed up social media personalities - only recently were cordially invited to Saint Petersburg, Russia, at the „SPIEF 2026“. Source of video: @CaolanReports

Today is Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, representing eight decades of a man who has done more than anyone to hurt the West, elevate its enemies, and trap us in a post-truth nightmare. While he is certainly a symptom of a deeper political illness, he has actively made things much worse. Let us be clear that there is nothing to celebrate today, because Trump is the most traitorous, deeply corrupt, and overall worst president in the history of the US. He is a compromised, horrible human being who has lost the respect of anyone with half a brain. His deep ties as a best friend to Jeffrey Epstein prove he knew exactly what was going on behind closed doors. He is the lowest of the low. He has spent years threatening American allies, appeasing foreign enemies, and losing the reckless trade wars he started. His leadership has left Americans poorer, more stupid, more polarized, and trapped inside a decadent, ever more authoritarian joke of an administration that hurts the whole world. He is a traitor. His alignment with autocracy is clear in how he sides with Russia over Ukraine and China over Taiwan. He even systematically undermined domestic safety by installing a Russian asset as the Director of National Intelligence and an anti-science, anti-vaxx Russian asset as Health Secretary. No one is better than Trump at sabotaging the US. The only bright side to his birthday is that he is old, ensuring he will not be able to stay in power forever. He will never be missed by anyone with a brain and/or a heart, and if I believed in hell, I would seriously doubt it is bad enough for him

HODGES: I don't think Russia is bottomless pit of manpower. Many of the youngest ones are either dead or have fled the country. Year ago, I heard Putin complaining there weren't enough people to work in the factories. Well, no shit, because they're all dead, gone, or deployed. The vast majority of Russian troops come from well outside St. Petersburg and Moscow. They come from poorer regions of Russian Federation, where people are happy to take signing bonuses to join the army. Kremlin seems to have studiously avoided any mobilization that would require pulling people from Moscow and St. Petersburg, because it would then be impossible to hide the scale of the disaster.