Craig Maefs

Retired Army Officer, War Veteran, retired Area IT Support Supervisor at Northrop Grumman. Board of Directors for Old Fort Niagara, Christian, father, husband.

[The Defence Blog @Defence_blog]

The U.S. Air Force's new special ops attack plane can carry missiles and loiter for 6 hours — but has nowhere to store crew gear on deployments. The solution: a lockable pod on the wing. The Air Force is now asking industry to build one.

https://t.co/dEXTqeZG1a

[Lew Anno Support#USA#NATO#Ukraine 24/2-22 @anno1540]

Russia's southern logistics depend on three towns: Chernihivka, Kamianka, Rozivka. Four field armies receive supplies through them. All sit astride a railway.

Ukraine's drone campaign hunts Russian trucks on the deep highways—150 km from the front. The farther back you hit, the bigger and less protected the cargo. "They simply cannot secure all these logistics routes," one Ukrainian officer said.

But the 1 June strike near Chernihivka hit a different layer. The last-mile chokepoint. Trucks have to converge on those three towns to deliver. There's no alternate route for the final kilometers.

1,391 trucks destroyed in three days. Now Ukraine is targeting where they arrive. https://t.co/OjYY9wKF2z

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

D-Day is underway. Some would argue that what's happening right now is the most daring and ultimately successful operation in the history of military Alliances.
Note: the majority of troops are friends of the US from eight countries. Eisenhower has been told that three-quarters of the 23,400 airborne troops will be lost. He's hoping that the prediction will be wrong.

[ChinaVideos @ChinaVideos1]

It is rumored that on June 3, two heavy mechanized brigades of the 82nd Group Army stationed in Baoding were transported by rail to Fengtai in Beijing, where they confronted the rail guard units of the Beijing Garrison District in Fengtai! It is said that the order from the Beijing Garrison District to block the 82nd Group Army's heavy mechanized units from entering Beijing was issued by Xi Jinping and carried out by Commander Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan, during his tenure as commander of the Shanghai Armed Police, had assisted Xi Jinping in the murder of Li Keqiang, earning merit for which he was transferred by Xi from Shanghai to Beijing and appointed as commander of the Beijing Garrison District. Meanwhile, the order to mobilize the 82nd Group Army's heavy mechanized units into Beijing came from Liu Yuan, who is currently the highest military commander of the anti-Xi faction.

Video from @WanjunXie

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

According to British Intelligence, Russia regularly "drops" guided aerial bombs on its own and occupied territories due to inadequate military training and crew fatigue.

[Rep. Mike Collins @RepMikeCollins]

On this day in history in 1989, the CCP said nothing happened.

[COL (Ret) Jeff in 🇦🇹 @JeffFisch]

STEP ONE! Success!
The House vote to bring the Ukr aid bill to the floor passed! 218-208.

The next vote will be for the actual aid! Slava Ukraini!

[WW3finalboss @WW3finalboss]

🇺🇦🇷🇺 LYMAN’S RIVER LINE WON’T SAVE RUSSIA

Russian forces outside Lyman just discovered their “medieval moat.”

The Zherebets River.

Now they are pulling back behind it, hoping water can do what trenches, armor, and assaults could not.

But this is not the Middle Ages.

Ukrainian drones are watching from above, artillery is waiting, and every retreat behind a river still has to move, resupply, and survive under fire. That is not a fortress. That is Russia looking for somewhere else to lose from. @actfast

[Wanjun Xie @xie_wanjun]

On May 26, rumors circulated that Xi Jinping had decided to arrest all mid- to high-ranking officers of the Central Security Bureau and disarm all its troops. However, on the very same day, May 26, the Central Security Bureau launched a coup, arresting and placing Xi Jinping under house arrest.

It is alleged that because Xi Jinping has lost control of the Central Security Bureau's troops, and rumors circulate among the top CCP officials that Cai Qi, in command of the Central Security Bureau, is plotting to arrest and kill Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping has decided to use the Beijing Garrison and the Central Internal Security Special Forces to secretly arrest all mid- to high-ranking officers of the Central Security Bureau under the guise of a meeting. At the same time, he will disarm all the Central Security Bureau's troops under the pretext of a troop rotation.

This rumor alarmed all officers and non-commissioned officers in the Central Security Bureau. According to CCP regulations, if a portion of the officers in an army defect, all officers in the entire unit will be arrested and investigated, and the entire unit will be disarmed. Once these officers are detained and investigated, they will either be dismissed, sentenced, or, in more serious cases, sentenced to death by a military court. Therefore, this rumor inevitably caused panic among all officers and soldiers in the Central Security Bureau. Furthermore, the Central Military Commission of the CCP issued a document declaring that all mid- to high-ranking officers in the entire army would undergo centralized investigation, scrutinizing them one by one. Any officer found to have made disloyal remarks or engaged in behavior disloyal to Xi Jinping would not only be dismissed but also sentenced, and could even be sentenced to death for treason. The Central Military Commission's notice deciding to investigate all mid- to high-ranking officers convinced all mid- to high-ranking officers in the Central Security Bureau that the rumor of Xi Jinping's plan to arrest and investigate them was indeed true.

On May 26, driven to the brink of desperation, all officers and soldiers of the Central Security Bureau were forced to launch a coup and arrest and place Xi Jinping under house arrest.

Since receiving Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Xi Jinping has not made any public appearances; his planned visit to North Korea was cancelled; the Politburo meeting scheduled for May was not held until June 4th; according to CCP rules, the replacement of provincial party secretaries must be decided by a Politburo meeting, but the party secretaries of Hebei and Hubei provinces were replaced, so the Politburo meeting in May must have been held, but no communique was issued due to Xi Jinping's troubles; the CCP's military newspaper published an article stating that the military should strengthen collective leadership and de-centralize, which effectively removes Xi Jinping's responsibility as Chairman of the Central Military Commission and his core position. All of these events indirectly confirm that a coup has occurred within the CCP's top leadership, and the rumors that Xi Jinping has been stripped of his military power and even his freedom are likely true!

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

🚨 BREAKING Scientists may have just cracked the code on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's — WITH ONE PILL.

A drug called Buntanetap was just published in a peer-reviewed journal with Phase 3 data.
Phase 3 means that we are on the verge of FDA approval.

It targets the ROOT CAUSE of both diseases simultaneously.

Here's what you need to know 🧵👇
#Alzheimers #Parkinsons

[American Freedom Alliance @AFAlliance]

"After the end of World War II; The two forces, the communists and the nationalists, were fighting to take over China"

@XVanFleet at American Freedom Alliance – Los Angeles, March 31, 2026

Survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and fierce defender of liberty, Xi Van Fleet delivered a powerful, unflinching warning: America didn’t just watch Communist China rise — we enabled it.
In this must-watch event, she reveals the hidden history from her new book Made in America — how U.S. missteps, from Woodrow Wilson to Nixon, built the CCP into our greatest threat, and how the same Marxist forces fuel the threat within.
A page-turning wake-up call packed with history, hard truths, and urgent lessons for today.
Watch the full event now — you won’t see the China threat the same way again.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[Inconvenient Truths — Jennifer Zeng Reports @jenniferzeng97]

🛑 This matter is still purely a rumor so far. Please treat it as such.

According to former Chinese entrepreneur Michael Hu (胡力任) @Michael59206407, a long-time close friend of his told him that on May 26, some kind of coup-like event occurred in Beijing, and Xi Jinping may have been attacked.

However, who attacked him, whether he was injured, or how seriously he was injured, remains unknown at this time.

Michael Hu said he received this information a while ago but had not spoken about it earlier because he was observing the situation.

Xi Jinping’s last public appearance was on May 25, when he held talks with Serbian President Vučić, who was in China for a state visit.

Additionally, Xi Jinping’s close aide Cai Qi has also had no public appearances since May 25.

There are two other unusual developments:

㊙️ First: As of today (June 4, 2026), the Chinese Communist Party’s official media has not released any report on the regular Politburo meeting for May 2026. This differs from the usual practice of reporting such meetings at the end of each month (or shortly after). It is unknown whether the Politburo meeting was even held.

㊙️ Second: Lao People’s Revolutionary Party General Secretary and President Thongloun Sisoulith is currently visiting China. He arrived in Hangzhou on June 2 and reached Beijing today.

This is a state visit at Xi Jinping’s invitation. However, so far, Xi Jinping has not met him, nor have any other senior CCP officials.

When he visited the CCP's Central Party School—where he once studied—only his former Chinese teachers received him; not even the school’s senior leadership met with him.

⁉️Does everyone think this is normal?

Thongloun is expected to leave China on June 6. If Xi Jinping still has not met him before then, it would be highly abnormal.

This video is from Thongloun’s visit to the Central Party School today, released by the official media outlet China Daily.

P.S.: Michael Hu said that if Xi Jinping was indeed attacked, he believes it would most likely have come from other CCP “princelings” (red second generation) or from the military.

⚠️ By the way, Xi Jinping's previous longest record of not appearing publicly was approximately 21 days. (From July 29, 2024 to August 19, 2024)

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Russia is considering lowering the country’s working age to 12 and reopening Soviet child labour camps to solve the country's job crisis

🖇️ https://t.co/6uXSNubBCu

[雪柔 @xu96175836]

天安门广场64真实视频，看完你就不会再相信中共的谎言了，看完你就不会再恨日本了，看完你就会明白中共为什么要你恨日本了。
除了中共解放军，世界上没有任何一个国家的军队会开着坦克纵队在首都广场上，向自己成千上万的大学生大学生开枪扫射。

[Eduardo Menoni @eduardomenoni]

🇨🇺 ULTIMA HORA: Protestas masivas en La Habana, el pueblo cubano exigen luz, agua y libertad. ¡Ya no aguantan más apagones y miseria. CUBA TIENE QUE SER LIBRE!. El régimen Cubano quiere OCULTAR ESTO.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

Akagi was no ordinary carrier. Laid down as a battlecruiser and converted in the 1920s, she was the flagship of the Kido Butai, the strike force that hit Pearl Harbor, and Admiral Nagumo's own ship. By June 4, 1942, she had never lost a battle.

That morning she was at her most vulnerable. Nagumo had spent hours flip-flopping on whether to arm his reserve aircraft with land bombs for a second Midway strike or torpedoes for the American fleet. The result: her hangars were crammed with fueled aircraft, open fuel lines, and ordnance stacked loose on the deck because crews had no time to strike the swapped bombs down to the magazines. Her fighter cover was at wave height, slaughtering the American torpedo squadrons.

At about 10:25, three Dauntlesses peeled off toward her. Just three, led by Lt. Richard Best of Bombing Six, who had broken off from the mass attack on Kaga after realizing nearly the whole squadron was diving on the same ship. Best's two wingmen, Kroeger and Weber, near-missed. One bomb exploded close astern, wrecking her rudder so she could only steam in helpless circles.

Best's bomb did the rest. A single 1,000-pounder punched through the flight deck at the edge of the midships elevator and burst in the upper hangar, in the middle of armed and fueled torpedo planes. The hangar became a furnace. Stored torpedoes and the bombs left lying on deck began cooking off in chain-reaction explosions her damage control teams could never get ahead of. One bomb, almost certainly the most destructive single bomb hit of the Pacific War, had killed a fleet flagship.

The fires drove everyone off the bridge. Nagumo, stunned, initially refused to leave. His chief of staff had to argue him into it, and the admiral of the world's most feared carrier force finally climbed down a rope from a bridge window at 10:46 and transferred to the cruiser Nagara, his fleet collapsing behind him.

The crew fought the fires all day. By 13:50 she was dead in the water and most of the crew was evacuated, leaving Captain Taijiro Aoki and his damage control parties aboard. Aoki, by tradition, intended to die with his ship; accounts hold that he had himself lashed near the anchor windlass to wait for the end. His officers and a direct order eventually got him off, under protest. He survived the war.

Even then Tokyo couldn't let her go. Yamamoto, who had once captained Akagi himself, hesitated for hours before authorizing the unthinkable: the first scuttling of a Japanese warship by Japanese torpedoes. At 04:50 on June 5 he gave the order. Four destroyers, Arashi, Hagikaze, Maikaze, and Nowaki, each fired a torpedo, and at 05:20 Akagi went down bow first, taking 267 of her crew. Arashi, fittingly, was the same destroyer whose wake had led Best's group to the fleet in the first place.

She rested undisturbed for 77 years until October 2019, when the research vessel Petrel found her 5,490 meters down, sitting upright on the Pacific floor.

[NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX]

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the war with Iran has reshaped the Middle East, leaving Tehran weaker, Israel stronger, and President Trump with a historic opportunity to secure long-term regional stability. MORE: https://t.co/CMAZue7Wxo

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Fuel has completely run out in parts of Crimea: 'Military Informant' reports that Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev stated that fuel tankers were unable to arrive in the city, so fuel will not be available for sale today.

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

UKRAINE UNVEILS ITS NEW TACTICAL WEAPON FOR LARGE-SCALE TARGET ENGAGEMENT

Ukrainian forces have showcased a new tactical weapon designed to effectively destroy fortified enemy positions.

During testing, the system reportedly demonstrated high accuracy and significant firepower. According to representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it is intended to strike concentrations of equipment and personnel at considerable distances.

The development has successfully completed testing and is said to be ready for deployment on the battlefield.

Military analysts believe that such a system could significantly enhance the combat capabilities of the Ukrainian armed forces.