SpaceX capped StarShield terminals overnight and Ukrainian missions failed. If one American company can choke Kyiv’s war effort, Washington is already a party to the fight, and a party can leave.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner asked European officials in Miami to unfreeze part of roughly 260 billion euros in Russian central bank assets and move it into a vehicle overseen by Washington. Europeans rejected it.
Ukraine’s drones keep hitting the Russian diesel and gasoline supply that sets prices for American drivers, weeks before the midterms, while the Russian LNG Europe buys in record volumes stays untouched.
L. Todd Wood takes apart NATO SACEUR Gen. Alexus Grynkewich’s claim that Russia is taking far heavier casualties than Ukraine.
Drones hit two cargo ships off Bulgaria’s coast overnight and one sank, the second such attack in a week, with no one claiming responsibility.