Mallen Baker: Faultlines

Trump Suddenly Realises He's Caught In A Trap

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump assumed that waving a big stick in front of Venzuela's Nicolas Maduro would result in him agreeing to step down, since the US has all ...

NATO Wants a More Aggressive Face to Putin – Will Trump Block It?

01 Dec 2025

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NATO is realising that the hybrid warfare being waged against it by Russia, via sabotage, airspace incursions, disinformation and hacking attacks, are...

Leaked Illegal Order On Venezuela Boats Could Be War Crime

30 Nov 2025

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According to the Washington Post, President Trump's defence secretary Pete Hegseth ordered specifically that there should be no survivors from the fir...

Massive Judicial Revolt Over Trump’s Illegal Orders | News Round-Up

28 Nov 2025

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday, November 28th 2025. President Trump faces a major legal backlash as analysis shows hundreds of judges ha...

The World Is Starting To Push Back On Trump

27 Nov 2025

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This week, we saw the Trump Administration trying to blackmail the EU with steel and aluminium tariffs to get it to dismantle its regulations on big t...

Why Michelle Obama Is Wrong About America

26 Nov 2025

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A couple of weeks ago, Michelle Obama said that America wasn't ready to vote for a woman as President. Today, in the UK - which has had three women Pr...

Why Trump’s MAGA Movement Is Falling Apart

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've talked before about the two sides of MAGA - the personality cult / ideological part, which is noisy and enthusiastic at times, and perpetually c...

Trump Demands Thanks For His Ukraine Surrender Plan

23 Nov 2025

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As expected, European and Ukrainian leaders have been locked in urgent talks with the US as they try to negotiate down the Trump Ukraine Surrender Pla...

Trump Aims To FORCE Ukraine Surrender | News Round-Up

21 Nov 2025

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday, November 21st, 2025, we examine the text of Trump's Ukraine surrender plan and the attempt to force Ukra...

Trump And Putin's Secret Plan To Stitch Ukraine Up

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's just been revealed that Putin's Russia has been working in secret with the Trump administration to agree what is described as a 28-point plan, ba...

Humiliating Epstein U-Turn Has Ended Trump’s Power Over His Own Party

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With one abrupt and astonishing U-turn, President Trump has removed all doubt that he's prematurely entering the lame duck phase of his presidency. Fa...

Q&A: Will America Return To Democracy After 2029?

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of questions for this video to celebrate my long-delayed YouTube silver button! Lots on the United States and democracy, what the Trump administr...

Why Trump Just Put All of Latin America on Notice | News Round-Up

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this news round-up of the week for Friday November 14th 2025 - An announcement by Trump's War Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to signal a completely n...

Why Canadians’ Boycott Of Trump’s America Is Turning Into Habit

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Boycotts rarely work, and even the ones that do, rarely stick. But Canadians are making themselves the exception. Ten months in, they are still avoidi...

Even Trump's Best Allies Are Turning Against Him

12 Nov 2025

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The UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer has gone to great lengths to stay on the right side of President Trump since he was re-elected. All the usual fla...

How The BBC Is Losing The War For Reality

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On one level, the BBC made some pretty evident mistakes on impartiality - and most damagingly on a documentary on Trump, the echoes of which quickly r...

Trump’s Panic Offer To Give Everyone Free Money - On One Condition

09 Nov 2025

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President Trump just unleashed a barrage on social media where he railed against the Supreme Court, against anyone and everyone who is against tariffs...

Russia Threatens Trump's America Over Venezuela | News Round-Up

07 Nov 2025

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In this news round-up of the week, Russia considers giving Maduro its latest hypersonic missiles to use to defend himself against Trump's America, eve...

Was THIS The Week Trump Became A Lame Duck President?

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political fortunes can turn on a dime. One second, a major figure can seem immovable, all powerful - then suddenly something shifts and they're left t...

Is Trump's Power About To Be DESTROYED By The Supreme Court?

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The lower courts have both ruled that the bulk of Trump's tariffs are plainly unconstitutional. Now it has come to the Supreme Court, and it's arguabl...

The 'New Elites' Looking To Win The MAGA Civil War

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump MAGA base - with its mix of personality cultists, conspiracy theorists and uneasy traditional Republicans - is in uproar right now as Tucker...

How The ‘Peace President’ Is Bullying The World

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two stories came out today. One - it's becoming clear just how aggressively the Trump administration threatened delegates to the International Maritim...

Why Trump’s Nuclear Test Order Is A Massive Own-Goal | News Round-Up

31 Oct 2025

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In this news round-up of the week, Trump orders a resumption to nuclear testing - a move that would have major global consequences, and apparently he ...

Trump Just Lost The Trade War With China

30 Oct 2025

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President Trump's much-anticipated summit with China's Xi Jinping has confirmed what was already obvious to all but the most MAGA-faithful - Trump los...

Did Bill Gates Just Make A Shocking Admission On Climate Change?

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Headlines are on all the major news sites - Bill Gates just did a major u-turn on climate change. He now says it's NOT the end of the world. He says t...

Trump Wants A Third Term - Why That Could Go Badly Wrong For Him

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We know that Trump would LOVE to run for a third term - not least because he keeps telling us so. And now some of his people, such as Steve Bannon, ar...

Trump Dances In Malaysia - But China Is Not Impressed

26 Oct 2025

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President Trump has arrived in Malaysia for his tour of Southeast Asia. Pausing in Malaysia only to do some embarrassing dancing and signing supposed ...

The Real Reason Trump Pulled Canada Trade Deal | News Round-Up

24 Oct 2025

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In this news round-up of the week - Trump declares sanctions against the two biggest Russian oil companies - will it finally push China and India away...

Top Generals Are Turning On Trump And Hegseth

23 Oct 2025

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Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, in service of President Trump, is on a mission to de-wokify the US armed forces. Well, okay. But what else? The top...

How America’s Fake Free Speech Is Poisoning The West

22 Oct 2025

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President Trump's America is making a thing out of lecturing its allies about the importance of free speech. And yet while doing this, they spread tox...

The Summit Is OFF And America's Allies Make Clear They Don’t Trust Trump

21 Oct 2025

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The planned second summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin is suddenly off - following the realisation that Russia has no intention of negot...

Revealed: Trump Demanded Ukraine SURRENDER In Zelensky Meeting

19 Oct 2025

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We knew that Trump had been somewhat swayed by Russia's Vladimir Putin in their phone call last Thursday, but it has just been revealed today just how...

Trump FURIOUS As World Ignores His Threats Over UN Climate Move

16 Oct 2025

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President Trump is used to getting his way - with just about anyone (except possibly Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping). In particular, he's used to bein...

Trump vs China - The Rest Of The World Is Caught In The Crossfire

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While Trump was being treated as an all-conquering hero in the Middle East, he had hanging over him the one fight he just realised he can't win - his ...

What Happens To US Democracy If MAGA Loses In 2028?

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's say that the 2028 Presidential Election goes ahead, and Trump has imploded over the course of his term, so that regardless of their various atte...

China’s Stark Warning To Trump And The West | News Round-Up

10 Oct 2025

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In this news round-up of the week, China stuns the West and infuriates Trump by expanding its tight control over more of its rare earth minerals - wit...

Trump’s Gaza Peace Deal Is Made Ridiculous By Hubris

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It may only be the first part that will be implemented, but even so the Trump peace deal for Gaza represents - against all the odds - a real breakthro...

Trump Shows EU That His Trade Deals Are Worthless

08 Oct 2025

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The US / EU trade deal was always tricky - within hours of it being signed the two sides were giving radically different interpretations of what it co...

Macron’s France Is Collapsing - And This Is Just The Start

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

French President Emmanuel Macron's fifth prime minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned after just a couple of weeks in post, as it became obvious that the...

What A Judge’s Burning House Says About Political Violence in America

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Judge Diane Goodstein ruled against the Trump administration recently, and got numerous death threats for her pains. Two days ago, her house burned do...

The World Plays ‘Fantasy Trump Peace Deal’ In Gaza

05 Oct 2025

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The Trump 20-point peace deal for Gaza has been welcomed by all the people worldwide who routinely flatter Trump at every opportunity - but also by ot...

Putin SIDELINES Trump On Ukraine | News Round-Up

03 Oct 2025

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In this news round-up of the week, while testing Europe with drones, Russia's President Putin gives a major speech where he makes a substantial pivot ...

Leaked Email Has Farmers FURIOUS On Trump’s Argentina Bailout

01 Oct 2025

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had his email read by a cameraman with a zoom lens, and it exposed the fury going on behind the scenes over President...

US Military Discovers It Is Led BY IDIOTS

30 Sep 2025

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Pete Hegseth insisted on bringing together the very top brass of all the US military into one room so he could ... lecture them on grooming. And the W...

Is MAGA Cruelty Becoming America's Face To The World?

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Ryder Cup made headlines this weekend - because the MAGA crowd barracked the opposing team, hurled abuse at the players, offensive insults at thei...

Why MAGA Gets Away With Blatant Lying And Hypocrisy

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When President Trump and Stephen Miller argue that heated rhetoric encourages political violence, you might think it is a fair comment point of view. ...

Trump's Shock Indictment of Former FBI Boss Comey | News Round-Up

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this news round-up of the week, we cover the Trump DOJ move at last to put into practice the boss's public instructions to get an indictment. Even ...

Why Trump’s Huge Pivot On Ukraine Is Not What It Seems

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After his big moment berating the United Nations, President Trump met with President Zelensky and had things to say on the Ukraine war that nobody was...

Kimmel Returns - But This Is Just The Start

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Just when it looked like the Trump Administration could just demand whatever it wanted and all the institutions, all the corporations, all the politic...

The Terrifying Future Of AI-Powered Digital Surveillance

22 Sep 2025

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We all know about China's surveillance state - it's pretty terrifying, but it was built more or less from the ground up to suit the authoritarians. Ev...

Did Trump Just Make The Misstep That Will Bring Him Down?

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Charlie Kirk memorial today marked the inflection point that MAGA believes the event of his assassination represented. As a result, the administra...

How Trump Is Going Full Out To Stay In Power | News Round-Up

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this news round-up of the week - In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the Trump team has been acting quickly on its intended crackdown...

Why The Jimmy Kimmel Firing Crosses A HUGE Red Line

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we already anticipated, the aftermath of the shooting of Charlie Kirk is seeing a wave of increasingly audacious action by the Trump Administration...

Has The World Really Given Up On Climate Change?

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the COP30 climate conference approaches, it's hard to ignore that a backlash against climate policy - and a scepticism in some quarters about clima...

How Dark Is The Trump Crackdown Going To Get?

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump Administration is full of talk about the crackdown they will be bringing in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. President Tr...

How China Is Making Trump Squirm On Tariffs

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The US and Xi Jinping's China have been conducting more trade talks - and today it was announcement that maybe they'd reached a deal ... on TikTok. Me...

Q&A: Is It Time For Europe To Give Up On Trump?

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this Q&A video I cover Europe giving up on expecting Trump to play a part in Ukraine peace process, predictions for our polarised societies - is th...

Will Trump Get His Far-Reaching Retribution? | News Round-Up

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this news round-up of the week for Friday September 12th 2025 - The fall-out from the assassination of Charlie Kirk continues, and the Trump team a...

America's Downward Spiral With Political Violence

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk has jolted America, but seems unlikely to provide the crisis moment that shocks the country awake to its cata...

Putin Tests NATO With A Dangerous Escalation

10 Sep 2025

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Russia sent a number of drones into Poland - the first major incursion into NATO territory that Russia has made in recent times. This provoked NATO fo...

JD Vance's Shocking Take On Venezuela Boat Attack

09 Sep 2025

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The concerns about the Trump Administration's summary execution of eleven people in a boat in international waters off Venezuela - alleged to be gang ...

The Terrible Habit The World Is Picking Up From Trump

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The stoics would tell you that you can't control what happens to you in the world, you can only control how you respond to it. Well, it turns out that...

What Should Brits Do About Trump's State Visit?

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump is coming to the UK in ten days time. And not just for any old visit, but for a 'very special' and 'unprecedented' second state visit. All the p...

Huge Trump Pivot On China Flagged By Leaked Document

06 Sep 2025

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We'd already picked up that Trump's America wanted to pull resources from Europe and the Middle East with a view to concentrating its full focus on it...

Trump Sides With Putin Against Europe | News Round-Up

05 Sep 2025

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In this news round-up of the week, Trump sides with Putin in blaming European leaders for his frustrations about the lack of progress in ending the Uk...

Why MAGA Thinks The UK Has A Free Speech Problem

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The leader of Reform UK and best bud of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, testified to Congress yesterday and told Americans that the UK has a free speech c...

Trump’s Impotent Fury As China Exploits His Mistakes

03 Sep 2025

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China has been hosting an economic summit that brought together Russia, Indian and numerous other countries from the global south. And then it topped ...

International Tourists Avoiding Trump’s America

01 Sep 2025

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Back in May, we saw the numbers of visitors to the United States plummeting in the wake of President Trump's attacks on most countries in the world wi...

If Trump Went Early, America Faces a Techno-MAGA Dictatorship

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of people have been speculating this weekend that maybe Trump has been out of sight because his health isn't good. That all seems overblown, but ...

Trump’s Presidency Is In Chaos After Tariffs Struck Down

30 Aug 2025

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If anything has defined Donald Trump's second term as president, it is his use of tariffs to bully the world into giving the US highly unequal trade d...

The World Is Turning On Trump's America | News Round-Up

29 Aug 2025

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In this news round-up of the week, countries are forming common-interest groups across the world to find ways to reduce their exposure to Trump's Amer...

How Trump Is Making Billions From Being President

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You're not supposed to be able to use the Presidency of the United States in order to enrich yourself. Indeed, previous presidents provoked controvers...

Trump’s Spies Caught Out In Greenland Takeover Plot

27 Aug 2025

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We knew that Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had directed spies to go into Greenland as part of a covert influence operation. ...

How Trump Is Fixing America's Elections So MAGA Never Loses

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We know all about some of the very public moves - gerrymandering in Texas, for instance. But across multiple measures - many of which are hidden in pl...

How Trump’s Bizarre Anti-Science Cult Is Hurting America

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The US used to lead the world in its innovation, including in energy and industry, and also in its medical advances. And that was because it invested ...

Trump’s Ukraine Hypocrisy Exposed

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was just a couple of days ago that President Trump was telling us in no uncertain terms that Ukraine needed to be able to hit deep inside Russia to...

Russia Is Laughing At Trump’s Peace Efforts

22 Aug 2025

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For just a few days, there was an illusion of real momentum arising from the Trump Putin Summit in Alaska, and the Zelensky Europeans meeting with Tru...

Insults To China BLOW UP Trump’s Crony Capitalism Scheme

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump's administration has started getting directly involved with businesses in the United States, especially those considered strategic. Up to, and i...

Why Is Trump Punishing Only India For Buying Russian Oil?

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump loves strong man leaders, and it used to be that he loved Narendra Modi as a result. They were great friends, the world was told, and so Modi th...

Why Trump’s Security Guarantee For Ukraine Is Worthless

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are two live issues being played out following the Alaska summit and the ensemble meeting at the White House. First, Trump's determination that ...

Showdown! Europe And Ukraine Join Forces To Confront Trump

17 Aug 2025

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Following Trump's failure to hold the simple lines agreed with European leaders in advance of his summit with President Putin, the heads of the larges...

Putin Completely Plays Trump For A Fool

16 Aug 2025

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The big summit meeting in Alaska finally took place. After being talked about, written about and speculated about for the preceding week, it turned ou...

China Is Playing Trump’s Game Better Than He Is

15 Aug 2025

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China continues to make the most of its near-monopoly on rare earth minerals and magnets - now it is telling businesses they are not allowed to build ...

America’s Allies Are Ditching the F-35 - Because Of Trump

14 Aug 2025

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In this highly uncertain world, with wars raging and tensions rising - many countries have committed to boosting their defence spending - and that inc...

Trump's America Really IS A Banana Republic

13 Aug 2025

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A week ago, we were noting that President Trump fired the head of the statistics bureau that gave the world the bad news about US jobs growth. And we ...

Why Trump’s Alaska Summit with Putin Is Already a Disaster

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The more that President Trump does his trademark freewheeling in the run-up to his summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, the more it becomes...

Is Britain Falling Apart?

11 Aug 2025

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A growing number of rather vocal people, some with large platforms to amplify their message, are utterly convinced that Britain is in deep decline, on...

Trump’s Putin Summit Based On A Big Misunderstanding?

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump Putin summit has been confirmed to take place in the state of Alaska next Friday. But as more has come to light, it seems possible that the ...

Is Trump Bringing In The New Dark Ages?

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The comforting line is that it's all just temporary. Sacking the scientists. Removing the research studies. Publishing anti-scientific conspiracy nons...

Will The Trump / Putin Summit End The War In Ukraine?

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Suddenly, President Trump and Russia's President Putin are on course to have a face-to-face meeting, possibly as soon as next week. What changed? Was ...

Trump’s Epstein Diversion: What His ‘Revenge Plan’ Really Means

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As he campaigned for re-election, Trump made it quite clear that part of his agenda was one of vengeance against all those he felt had wronged him - e...

There Are No Adults In The Trump White House

05 Aug 2025

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In his first time, President Trump was partly constrained by the so-called 'adults in the room' - people who could explain to him why some particularl...

Is Elon Musk’s New Political Party Dead Already?

04 Aug 2025

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Elon Musk just got the first piece of good news he's had for a long time - a massive $30 billion bonus from the Tesla board if he stays with Tesla as ...

The Real Meaning Of Trump’s Nuclear Threat

03 Aug 2025

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President Trump claims he ordered two nuclear submarines to change their position in relation to Russia, in response to some inflated rhetoric from Dm...

Trump’s America Really Is Becoming A Banana Republic

02 Aug 2025

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Having previously boasted about how good the US jobs numbers were, and taken credit for that, it was obviously an unpleasant surprise for President Tr...

This Is How Trump Intends To Rule The World

01 Aug 2025

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Rather a lot of people believe that once all the countries have either negotiated 'deals' with the United States, or have resigned themselves to highe...

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31 Jul 2025

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In the last few days, President Macron of France, Keir Starmer of the UK, and Mark Carney of Canada have all announced that they will recognise the st...

Has Trump Finally Turned Against Putin?

30 Jul 2025

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President Trump had threatened Russia's President Putin - agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine within 50 days, or I'll hit you with secondary sanctions aga...

Will Canada Stand Up To Trump Where Europe Caved?

29 Jul 2025

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The European 'deal' is rather falling apart within a day of being announced, with various provisions being presented wildly differently by both sides....

Did The EU Just Cave To Trump?

28 Jul 2025

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The EU and US announced a "trade deal" that was declared by Trump to be "the biggest ever". Ursula von der Leyen was less bombastic, but still express...