Notice how the factions emerging on Iran in this administration are also the factions on Russia/Ukraine.

This is a really good all-around analysis of where the war is and how it has evolved. 👇

1/8 🚨🇺🇦🇷🇺 BREAKING: Russia claims its forces seized 172 buildings in Kostyantynivka in 24 hours. This isn’t just false, it’s a deliberate info op to: ✔️ Demoralize Ukraine ✔️ Test Western resolve ✔️ Manufacture momentum Here’s the truth. 🧵

The Russian dictator is now so paranoid that he had this Russian artist murdered in Poland for paintings like this. It'd be a shame if we made his works more popular than ever.

There’s no bottom

I can't think of any strategic targets right off the top of my head.. 😎

The United States has been defeated by Iran, and Sunday evening found Trump out on the lawn waiting for the rain to clear so he could begin his party. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

The bells of the Lavra rang like this when the Mongols invaded and sacked Kyiv in 1240.

We are fighting the satanic west to defend traditional Christian values. By bombing cathedrals.

The "US biolabs in Ukraine" story is one of the Kremlin's oldest and most successful disinformation campaigns. The facilities in question were Ukrainian public health and veterinary laboratories supported by the US Cooperative Threat Reduction Program to improve biosafety and disease surveillance. None of the publicly available documents show evidence of biological weapons. In Russian state media, these facilities are routinely described outright as "US bioweapons labs." Among pro-Kremlin influencers and politicians in the West, the messaging is often more subtle. They simply talk about "dangerous pathogens" and hint at unspecified sinister purposes, allowing audiences to draw their own conclusions. Yet Tulsi Gabbard, a long-time Russia supporter who met Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad twice and questioned the Assad regime's responsibility for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, is now presenting old public documents as newly "declassified evidence." In reality, ODNI simply re-stamped documents that had already been public for years. Many of the slides are excerpts from a Pentagon DTRA fact sheet released publicly in March 2022. Gabbard's office repackaged these documents and presented them alongside Russian fabrications as evidence of a sinister biolabs program. This shouldn't surprise anyone. When it comes to Ukraine, Gabbard has consistently echoed Kremlin talking points. She has argued that the US and NATO provoked Putin into invading Ukraine, framed the conflict as a US-Russia proxy war, claimed that sanctions hurt the West more than Russia, blamed an "elite cabal of warmongers" for the conflict, and suggested that peace negotiations should prioritize avoiding nuclear war. She has repeatedly claimed that the war could have been avoided by ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine. But Putin himself made clear in his essays and speeches before the invasion that his goals went far beyond NATO and centered on denying Ukraine's right to exist as an independent nation. She has also dismissed allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election as a "manufactured hoax" and appeared as a speaker at the "antiwar" Rage Against the War Machine rally in 2023. Tulsi's only goal with all this is to hurt Ukraine and help Russia.

I cannot believe what I’m witnessing in Kyiv tonight. Priests at the Kyiv Lavra one of the holiest Christian sites in Europe are rushing to save crucifixes, icons and sacred artefacts while Russia attacks the city. This is what Moscow’s “Christian values” look like.

Does Putin understand that he’s unleashed a Pandora’s box of revenge?

Westerners were just in Russia proclaiming it the bulwark of Christian civilization. Tonight, Russia bombed the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of Ukraine's most revered Christian sites.

I, too, authorize the opening of the strait

"If a candidate wishes to make his wartime service an essential part of why voters should select him, then he should highlight the traits he wishes to bring to the office, not dismiss the traits he wishes them to ignore." My latest in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Do you happen to oversee an organization, one in which you previously served, also celebrating a birthday today that you didn't mention, but made time to kiss up to the boss?

Regardless of what you think of Bibi, any escalation here is on Hizballah and Iran. Israel cannot be asked to not defend itself. I’m no Bibi fan and I think he’s addicted to perpetual war, but fire into northern Israel from Hizballah cannot be tolerated. Period.

Plot Twist: Rhienmetall by itself produces more artillery, tank, and mortar rounds than the United States

Keep in mind: Dmitriev going all in on the biolabs nonsense is his backing of Gabbard, who was isolated before she was forced out of a job. Ratcliffe despised her and wants ODNI diminished to the point of nullity. Ratcliffe is winning that fight. He’s also very bullish on U.S.-Ukraine intelligence cooperation. The pro-rapprochement Russians are in a sticky position.

Happy 251st birthday to the finest fighting force the world has ever seen.