Vanan Murugesan

And Donald Trump's actions have really helped mask a reality that may be hitting.

It's going to be about to hit us extraordinarily hard in the next four to six weeks, which may explain why he so desperately wants to find a way out.

So let me talk about sustainability here.

And I'm sure you are familiar with this, but let me share this story for your audience if they're not so familiar.

And, you know, whether it's he thinks that maybe he can bomb the leadership into submission.

But for a nonprofit entity, it's usually the national funders who come in to catalyze a newsroom, right?

I think that is of question.

This is a regime that has no problem killing its own people as it is.

And so they see a need.

Why does he think making the Iranian people suffer through blackouts and lack of water, this is Donald Trump, that it's somehow going to bring the regime to its knees?

right hey minnesota great news ecosystem but man that's a huge segment of the population that's been neglected boom let's invest in sahan journal okay and the from a national foundation perspective they they like that you know they they catalyze they whatever you want to call it the uh shiny object kind of thing but eventually they believe and i agree with them that

So I think that is one miscalculation here.

So then, of course, you know,

If he's got to open the Strait of Hormuz and he's essentially alienated all of our allies for the last year through tariffs and through what he's done in Europe and through his lack of interest in helping Ukraine and all of that.

The work needs to be sustained from the local foundation perspective, from the local readers perspective and whatnot.

And that's the journey where Sahan is in this midpoint.

Right.

He's mad at NATO now while he's been treating NATO allies like crap for the last year.

We still have national funders, but the conversation is that, hey, we need a little bit more time, but we are slowly moving into local foundations and local readers.

He's mad at other countries not helping.