The Institute for the Study of War updated its aerial attack chart. More than 1,000 drones attacked Ukraine in less than four days, with many of the new Shahed UAVs (blue) packed with nails and ball bearings.
The orange-colored tips designate “missiles,’ cruise (plane dropped) and ballistic (surface-to-air), which are the most deadly.
We need more Roadrunners.
In his Memorial Day speech, Donald homed in on Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, a 35-year-old cryptological technician and linguist with the Navy who was blown up in Syria in 2019 during a counterterrorism mission.
After her death, Kent’s husband, Joe, campagined unsuccessfully for Congress in Washington state twice. In February, Trump announced plans to nominate him the National Counterterrorism Center, but he’s been stuck at DNI re-wording intelligence briefs for Tulsi.
Joe today is a political flag bearer for the MAGA’s so-called “warrior class” that “must step up and assert themselves.” He has been an outspoken critic of Team USA’s efforts to end Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine. So have Tusli, JD and Pete, who all have have no (zilch, zero) experience in our military theater of operations1 .
It’s been wet for the past week. That means lots of mud.
Süddeutsche Zeitung laments the breakdown in coordination with Team USA on sanctions enforcement against Russia (Abbruch der transatlantischen Abstimmung zu Sanktionsumgehungen)2.
The Europeans obvi are finding it enormously tedious dealing with Team USA’s “warrior class” bureaucrats.
Ende der Absprache mit den USA (Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 27, 2025)