Welcome back to The Restricted Handling Podcast — your unfiltered, high-energy, intelligence-grade rundown of global security and geopolitical chaos. In this episode, “RH 10.13.25 | Russia: Tomahawks, Drones, and a Cracking Kremlin,” we’re diving straight into one of the most consequential 48-hour stretches in the Russia-Ukraine saga so far. It’s the kind of episode where diplomacy meets drama, where intelligence operations run hotter than the headlines, and where the Kremlin’s poker face is starting to twitch. First up: the big one. U.S. President Donald Trump openly threatens to send Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine if Vladimir Putin refuses to end his war. These are the long-range, 2,500-kilometer beasts that could put Moscow itself within reach. Putin’s team is freaking out — “extreme concern,” “dramatic escalation,” all the usual fire alarms — while Belarus’s Lukashenko is out here trying to play the world’s least convincing therapist. We break down what this means, how real the threat is, and what happens if Washington decides to actually pull the trigger. Meanwhile, behind the bluster, U.S. intelligence is already helping Ukraine wage a devastating drone campaign deep inside Russia. Since July, Ukrainian drones have taken out refineries and oil depots across the Russian heartland — with U.S. intel quietly mapping the routes, timing, and targets. The result? Gas shortages, long lines, and a furious Kremlin scrambling to patch up the economic bleeding. Putin’s emergency subsidy decree is just the latest Band-Aid on a hemorrhaging war economy. But that’s not all. Estonia shuts a border road after spotting unmarked Russian troops — the first “little green men” sighting near a NATO border in years. The RAF responds with a 12-hour intelligence flight right along Russia’s frontier, shadowed by U.S. tankers, sending a clear message: NATO’s awake, armed, and not amused. We also cover Ukraine’s fresh battlefield advances in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk, where Zelensky’s forces are retaking ground meter by meter — plus Russia’s own chaotic missteps, from a malfunctioning sub surfacing near France to an imploding recruitment system at home. And if that wasn’t enough, we look at China’s quiet retreat from Moscow’s side, Moldova’s election debacle that cost Putin $300 million, and a propaganda-fueled FSB “terror plot” that sounds more like a bad Netflix pitch than intelligence work. This is geopolitics with caffeine — sharp, fast, and impossible to ignore. Buckle up. 

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