🚨HOLY SHIT: Crowds BOOO Trump as he arrives at Madison Square Garden in NYC to see Game 3. Protesters are holding a huge sign that says "GO KNICKS, F**K TRUMP.” He’s the most hated president in history!

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP JUST HAD HIS WORST MELTDOWN EVER. Trump completely unravels when Kristen Welker challenged him on his California election claims. Instead of providing evidence, he called her "crooked" and "stupid," attacked the press, and abruptly WALKS OUT in the middle of the interview. She did what every journalist should do every time Trump spews his unfounded bullsh*t. Thank you, Kristen.

Ukrainian long-range drones struck a fuel depot in Ust-Labinsk in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia this morning. Thousands of cubic meters of gasoline and diesel are going up in flames. Most of it would have been sent to Crimea.

President Zelenskyy presented state awards to Ukrainian and foreign media professionals on the occasion of Journalist’s Day. The Order of Merit, III class, was awarded to: Nataliya Gumenyuk @ngumenyuk, Natalia Husak, Kostiantyn Doroshenko, Igor Kazanzhy, Andrew Kravchenko @kravchenkofoto, Oleksandr Nazarenko, Robert Opalenik, Pavlo Pavlov, Andriy Pochtiev, Liubov Rudia, Yegor Terletskyi, Sergiy Tomilenko @Stommedia, and Oleksandr Khimich. The Order of Princess Olga, II class, was awarded to Yuliia Kyriienko-Merinova. The Order of Princess Olga, III class, was awarded to: Ella Bilostotska, Olena Blizniakova, Victoria Butenko, Kseniia Vasylenko, Olga Dunska, Nelly Kovalska, Daryna Krasnolutska @DarynaKrasno, Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis, Ghanna Mamonova, Karina Piliuhina @karinapiliuhina, Valerie Proshchenko @lproschenko, Elvina Seitbullaeva @seitbullaieva, Sofiia Troshchuk, and Gulsum Khalilova @KhalilovaGulsum. The Order of Merit, III class, was also awarded to foreign journalists: Zarina Zabrisky @ZarinaZabrisky, Ibrahim Naber @IbraNaber, Caolan Patrick Robertson @CaolanReports, and Stephane Siohan @stefsiohan. The President conferred the honorary title Merited Journalist of Ukraine on Oleg Borysov, Natalia Bratushka, Ihor Darmostuk, and Serhii Cherevatyi. In addition, the Head of State awarded the Order of Merit, III class, posthumously to Viktoria Bobrova (Kvitka). president.gov.ua/documents/4…

Шкода, ніхто не хотів серйозно сприймати російську загрозу. Зараз платимо велику ціну за свої помилки.

Zelensky: “We are ready to support Romania in whatever way is necessary.” 🇺🇦🇷🇴

Romania, a Shahed drone hit a residential building in the city of Galati. This is a city on the Danube river bank near the Romanian-Ukrainian border. A couple was just sleeping in their apartment on the 10th floor when a Russian drone flew right into them. Two people are wounded. This is no longer some debris falling in a field, this is a direct hit on a residential high-rise in a NATO country. And what will NATO do? Absolutely nothing, classic impotence. Now they will call their pathetic Article 4 consultations, express maximum concern yet again, wag a finger at the ambassador, and put out a memo saying the main thing is not to escalate. The Alliance is so fucking terrified that they are ready to just swallow it, even when their own citizens apartments are blowing up. Meanwhile, the Kremlin just looks at this circus and realizes they can pull off any type of shit because nothing will happen to them. This fear of escalation is exactly what feeds the escalation.

The Pentagon has quietly told European allies that America is slashing its military footprint across the continent: fewer fighters, bombers, warships, drones, and tankers. This is not some routine reshuffle. It is Trump turning the Monroe Doctrine into a blunt instrument to punish Europe for refusing to join his Middle East adventures while simultaneously twisting capitals into signing fat long-term contracts for overpriced American weapons to backfill the gaps he creates. Europe now stares at classic blackmail dressed up as alliance management. The shift toward the Pacific makes cold strategic sense on paper, yet the execution reveals something uglier. Washington under Trump no longer pretends to be a reliable security guarantor. Former allies watch commitments evaporate with a tweet, NATO credibility erodes daily, and the message lands in every European defense ministry: buy American or defend yourselves with whatever you can scrape together. This is not partnership. It is transactional predation that accelerates the very dependency Washington claims to hate. European publics who spent decades under the American umbrella suddenly face the bill for decades of underinvestment in their own defense industries. The panic is audible from Brussels to Berlin. Here is where Ukraine becomes the unexpected adult in the room instead of the perpetual recipient. Kyiv cannot conjure aircraft carriers or strategic bombers overnight, but it can deliver scalable, battle-proven systems in air defense, ballistic missiles, drones, and next-generation interceptors at costs and speeds Moscow cannot match and Washington cannot sustain alone. Joint production deals would let Europe diversify suppliers, reduce future leverage points for any American administration, and turn Ukrainian factories into the continental arsenal that actually works against Russian aggression. The perceptual flip from security consumer to security donor is already happening in quiet briefings. We must lock it in with concrete industrial coalitions before the window slams shut. Turkey sits politically sideways to the European project, leaving a genuine gap only Ukraine can fill without importing new headaches. Building supplemental defense alliances and co-production lines does not replace NATO. It reinforces the alliance by creating resilient European capacity that no single erratic president can unplug with a phone call. Every euro invested in Ukrainian lines today returns as proven technology, shorter supply chains, and a frontline partner that has paid in blood for the right to lead rather than beg. Isolationist voices in Washington can keep pretending this is charity. The numbers and the battlefield results say otherwise. Europe must choose: keep feeding the American weapons bazaar or seize this moment to forge real strategic autonomy alongside the only European nation already fighting the enemy that threatens them all. The choice will define whether the continent wakes up as a serious player or keeps hiding behind Ukrainian soldiers while complaining about the price. Kyiv is ready to build the arsenal that makes blackmail obsolete. The question is whether European capitals still possess the spine to say yes.