Moscow on Fire; Hegseth Guts NATO; JD Vance Turns on Israel's Hawks, and SCOTUS Set To Redefine Who Can Be American

FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev · Jun 18, 2026 · 36m

Five stories, one motion. On Thursday the president pulled America back from almost everything it has held for eighty years — the alliance that contained Russia, the war he says he ended, the courts that check him, even the Israeli hawks he used to arm. Each retreat left a space, and into every one of them someone else is already stepping. That was the through-line of today’s Fivestack.

5️⃣ Vance Tells Israel “You Can’t Kill Your Way Out”

For the first time, a senior Trump official said it to Israel’s face. JD Vance — who helped negotiate the Iran framework — named Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar…