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Happy Easter! Welcome to Sunday, April 20th, 2025. Here’s what’s making news today: Russia shatters its Easter ceasefire with continued strikes in Ukraine, the Pentagon halves its troop presence in Syria, the Naval Academy cancels Ryan Holiday’s speech, and VP JD Vance heads to India for pivotal trade talks.

Good Evening! Here is your SOFREP Evening Brief for Saturday, April 19, 2025. The Trump administration has transformed federal COVID-19 websites into platforms pushing the lab leak theory while erasing vital health guidance, as Putin declares a short Easter ceasefire in Ukraine amid ongoing attacks and skepticism from Zelensky, Israel escalates airstrikes across Gaza killing scores of civilians in humanitarian zones, and Hamas offers to release all hostages if Israel ends the war and meets sweeping demands—marking a week of high-stakes global conflict and domestic political rebranding.

When your balls look like they just escaped from Dresden and your taint feels like it went ten rounds with a flamethrower, you realize some life lessons come not in whispers, but in oozing, radioactive screams.

What stays with me most isn’t just the devastation we sifted through by hand, but the faces of those who showed up every day—bloodied, exhausted, unflinching—determined to do right by the dead.

The service academies weren’t built to accommodate dishonesty—they were built to reject it, and their growing tolerance for ethical failure reveals a leadership more committed to protecting reputation than enforcing principle.

In 2099, war isn’t fought by heroes—it’s waged by lab-grown psychopaths in exo-armor who vape nanite swarms and get hardwired kill orders beamed straight into their cortex.

Good Morning! It’s Saturday April 19, 2025. Here’s a little of what’s going on in the world today. As U.S.-Iran nuclear talks resume in Rome under tense geopolitical strain, the Trump administration’s balancing act between sanctions relief and non-proliferation is colliding with growing skepticism at home and abroad.

Stay on top of the news with the SOFREP Evening Brief: Top updates on defense and global affairs for April 18, 2025.

Nicknamed the “Green Meanie” for its color and cold precision, the L96A1 was more than just a rifle—it was a turning point in the way the British military approached long-range lethality.

Dakota Meyer already gave more than most men could in a lifetime—and now he’s laced his boots up again, proving once and for all that some warriors never leave the fight.