On COI #397, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover Kiev’s decision to continue sending soldiers to their death in the Bakhmut “meat grinder,” Senator Lindsey Graham’s calls for the US to begin shooting down Russian planes, Senators calling for Washington to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, Israel’s recent bombing in Syria, corruption at the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing on expanding the Abraham Accords, potential Saudi investments in Iran as a result of the normalization deal brokered by China, and the possibility that the warming ties between the Saudis and the Iranians could boost efforts to end the war in Yemen.