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PDB Situation Report | June 7th, 2025: Inside Ukraine’s Drone Strike On Russia & Clan Militias Target Hamas
07 Jun 2025
In this episode of The PDB Situation Report: Ukraine strikes deep inside Russia, damaging multiple long-range bombers in a drone operation that reportedly took 18 months to plan—and may have used artificial intelligence. Weapons expert and intelligence analyst Ryan McBeth joins us to break down how Ukraine pulled it off and what it means for Russia’s air defenses. And in Gaza, a new rebellion is quietly taking shape—not just against Israel, but against Hamas. Israel is backing a clan-led militia in the south, and outside aid groups are beginning to undermine Hamas' monopoly on humanitarian relief. Joe Truzman from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies joins us to explain the growing challenge to Hamas' power. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com.Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief.YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybriefRyan McBeth: https://www.youtube.com/@RyanMcBethProgrammingJoe Truzman: https://x.com/JoeTruzman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to the PDB Situation Report. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed. New details are emerging about a drone strike deep inside Russia that damaged multiple long-range Russian bombers. Now, Ukraine says the operation took some 18 months to plan and may have utilized artificial intelligence.
Ryan Macbeth, intelligence analyst and weapons expert and all-around smart guy, gives us his insight into the attack and the fallout. Later in the show, a quiet rebellion is taking shape in Gaza. This is a very interesting situation. Israel is arming a Klan-backed militia to challenge Hamas, and a new aid group is threatening Hamas's grip on power.
Joe Drusman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies joins us for more on that. But first, today's PDB Spotlight. Last Sunday, Ukraine pulled off a bull strike deep inside Russian territory, now damaging several long-range strategic bombers in one of the war's most complex drone and intelligence operations yet.
The attack used modified shipping containers to launch over 100 drones, possibly guided by artificial intelligence. The goal? Well, the goal was to strike at the heart of Russia's long range bomber fleet. These are planes which have been regularly used to launch missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilians.
It's a dramatic shift in modern warfare and a glimpse into what the future might look like on the battlefield. Joining us now is Ryan McBeth. He's an intelligence analyst, a weapons expert, an all-around smart guy, a friend of the show, by the way, and the author of a really great novel. It's called The Wind Machine. The road to hell is paved with intervention. And that's available on Amazon.
Ryan, thank you, as always, for joining us here on The Situation Report. Thank you so much for inviting me. It's always a pleasure. Okay, give me your top-line take on this Ukrainian drone assault on the Russian strategic bombers.
I've often said you need to create dilemmas, not problems for your adversary. A problem has one or more solutions. A dilemma has two or more solutions, each of which are equally bad. And in this case, by Ukraine taking out these Russian bombers, it's going to force Russia to do a couple of things. Those bombers were used to launch cruise missiles toward Ukraine.
And now Russia has fewer of those platforms to work with. So that means they have a couple of options, all of which are bad. They can move those bombers constantly to avoid an attack like this ever happening again. That's a bad option because it creates crew fatigue, it creates stress on the airframe, and you're not able to use your assets as much as you'd like to.
Option two is to launch land-based cruise missiles or sea-based cruise missiles. Now, those are only going to come from a couple of directions. If they're from the sea, it's going to be from the Black Sea, Sea of Azov. If it's from the land, it will probably be from Russian-occupied territory. It won't come from Belarus.
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