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BREAKING: Pete Hegseth Lied About How Two US Destroyers Came Under Attack By Iranian Forces Last Night
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- May 5, 2026
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Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. Today the President of the United States looked at a sustained naval battle in the Strait of Hormuz and called it a skirmish. The Senate looked at a billion dollars for a ballroom and called it modernization. The Met looked at a hundred-thousand-dollar seat and called it culture. A Canadian province being bought through Dutch troll farms got called a poll. And the Kremlin called the coup talk a psy-op while Putin hid in a bunker. Five stories. One muscle-memory move from power: take the thing that’s happening, and call it something else. Our job today was to give it back its real name. 5️⃣ Where’s Putin? Vladimir Putin fired the head of his air defenses today. A Ukrainian drone slipped past three layers of Russian air-defense — S-400, S-300, Pantsir — and slammed into a luxury apartment block on Mosfilmovskaya Street, four miles from the Kremlin and less than two from the Russian Defense Ministry. Gen. Viktor Afzalov is gone. Putin himself is in an underground bunker in Krasnodar, on the Black Sea coast, weeks at a time. He has not visited a single military facility in 2026. Cooks, photographers, and bodyguards are now banned from internet-connected phones; surveillance cameras have been installed inside their homes. The May 9 Victory Day parade is four days away. The Duma announced today that there will be no military equipment in this year’s parade. According to reporting we cited on the show, ruling-party MPs have been told not to attend in person — Putin is keeping the political class away from his own movements. Through intermediaries, the Kremlin asked Zelensky for a temporary stand-down on May 9. Zelensky’s reply: only if it becomes a full ceasefire and Russia w…