The Sky Just Took One Giant Step Against Russia

A Ukrainian F-16 brought down a Su-35 using Western tech.

Today, we flip the script.

We’ve got some bad news, but also a pile of good news — so good it’s starting to scare my pants off. First, let’s get the bad stuff out of the way. Then we’ll break down the good bits, one win at a time.

It’s been nine days since Ukraine launched Operation Spiderweb and knocked out a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet — in the most humiliating fashion imaginable. The FSB is supposed to be the one sneaking radioactive substances into foreign cities. Russian spies are the ones meant to recruit foreigners to torch warehouses and weapons plants. Not the other way around. And definitely not losing a bomber fleet Putin can’t replace anytime soon.

So when Putin told Donald Trump that he had to retaliate, and Trump promptly behaved like his press secretary, there was some expectation that a massive missile and drone barrage would follow. Pundits predicted hundreds of missiles. I wasn’t so sure.

Here’s why. Putin’s largest salvos have maxed out around 100 missiles. That’s his limit — and missiles are his last line of defense. It’s the cash hidden under the mattress when you’re already staring at bankruptcy. You don’t touch it unless the roof’s…