The likely motivation for the corruption scandal embroiling Zelensky has made itself known.

UK Secretary of State for Defence John Healey has put “military options” on the table after a Russian research and intelligence vessel allegedly fired lasers at Royal Air Force pilots tracking it off the coast of Scotland.

A railway line was “sabotaged” in Poland along the Warsaw-Lublin line, leading to another psyop meant to induce a mass panic and further stoke the flames of war:

Thousands of mostly young protesters packed Mexico City’s historic center in anti-government protests over cartel violence that turned into street fights with riot police.

A note on the Russian energy attacks by Ukraine. There has been an interesting confluence of new reports that contradict the narrative of how badly Russia is suffering from these Ukrainian strikes.

A woman was found with a gunshot wound after crashing into a street sign near a Clark County Fire Station in the south Las Vegas Valley Sunday morning, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

We’ve got a longer one today, and we’re starting with what looks like a band-aid conscription fix.

It eases people into the idea of a draft without going all-in yet, but it sure feels like they’re quietly warming everyone up for the moment they might have no choice but to flip the switch.

Major efforts are stepping up to put pressure on Zelensky in what’s beginning to look like a campaign to finally evict him from power:

Prosecutors in Istanbul just filed an indictment asking for more than 2,000 years in prison for Ekrem Imamoglu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief rival. The case labels him the head of a criminal organization.

Yesterday Russia officially established its Unmanned Systems Forces as a new separate branch of the Armed Forces.