Mallen Baker: Faultlines

Trump’s Panic Tariff Pause - Why It Might Be Too Late

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The news is just in - after all the bluster and the boasting, Trump finally noticed that not all was going swimmingly with his tariffs on the entire w...

Why China Won't Back Down On Trump's Tariff Shakedown

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When President Trump announced his tariffs to the world, China was right at the top of the list, and it was hit with one of the largest tariffs of the...

The GOP Is ALREADY Preparing for the Post-Trump Fight

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump is at the centre of things - throwing the global economy into turmoil in the aim of reshaping everyone's relations with the US, as well as resha...

Is Trump about to invoke the insurrection act?

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act back in 2020, but he was prevented by the opposition of his then-defence secretary and the Joint...

Is The US (Still) On Course For Civil War?

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I've been talking about the likelihood of the US heading towards a second civil war for some time on this channel. Patreon supporter Peter asked me if...

Why does JD Vance hate Europe?

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The recent Signalgate text messages leak gave us a real insight into just how much JD Vance really actually hates and despises Europe - much more than...

Trump Sparks World Economic Crisis

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump called it 'Liberation Day' - but that's not what many others were calling it. Instead, the wide-ranging raft of tariffs levied on impo...

Trump’s Science Purge: Why Researchers Are Leaving the US in Droves

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Health researchers, climate scientists, and more - they are finding significant projects being axed for what appear to be purely ideological grounds. ...

Elon Musk is nearly finished at DOGE - what next?

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk has been all over the Federal Government for the last ten weeks. But his original term of office is coming to an end, and both Trump and Mus...

Marine Le Pen BARRED - Harsh Justice Or Legal Coup?

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The front-runner for the next French Presidential elections, according to current polls, Marine Le Pen has been sensationally barred from standing by ...

What Makes A Democracy Turn Into A Dictatorship?

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In their book 'How Democracies Die', Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt identify the four tells for a despot-in-waiting, the democratic guardrails tha...

JD Vance SLATES Denmark, Hides from Greenland

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So the visit to Greenland of the Vice President JD Vance finally happened. Originally intended to be a 'charm offensive' to the population, eventually...

Ukraine Stunned As Trump’s Ruthless Minerals Grab is BACK ON

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the immediate aftermath of the debacle in the Oval Office, it was reported that Trump wanted the minerals deal toughened up to 'punish' Ukraine. Th...

National Security Disaster Gets Bigger - And They Just Don’t Care!

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After various members of the senior Trump administration stated flatly that no classified information was revealed in the group chat on the bombing of...

Is INCOMPETENCE America’s biggest security threat?

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Convention would have you believe that the most classified American secrets - such as live military operations to strike at targets abroad - are handl...

Trump's shock move on Greenland provokes fear and fury

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If the people of Greenland thought they would get a respite while they engage in the slow negotiations to form the next government following their rec...

Has the European populist wave been killed by MAGA?

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last few years, the rise of populist and far right parties in a number of key European countries has been a feature of the changing political...

America’s Institutions Are Caving to Trump —Here’s Why

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the key guarantees against authoritarian rule in the United States is the independence of a number of key institutions, especially the judiciar...

Is Trump's America leading the world to autocracy?

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new report about the state of democracy in the world makes for sobering reading. But the most striking thing about it is that it adds additional con...

Why Trump's Putin call was a total bust

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So President Trump finally held his call with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. And for all his advance pronouncements that they would be carving up ...

UK's Net Zero consensus EXPLODES

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has announced an end to her party's support for the previously consensus climate change policy target of n...

Trump boasts of giving Ukraine's assets to Putin

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump and President Putin have a direct call scheduled to take place tomorrow (Tuesday 18th Mar). In talking about it, Trump said that part ...

Two signs Putin could be about to TURN on Trump

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The awkward pause continues, with Russia's President Putin keeping the world, and specifically President Trump, waiting and guessing about his ultimat...

Elon Musk is self-destructing

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nobody has been so embedded with the Trump operation as Elon Musk has been over the last couple of months. And it's fair to say he's been everywhere -...

How Putin is playing Trump on Ukraine ceasefire

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Putin has said he accepts Trump's unconditional ceasefire agreement ... with some conditions. In this video, we look at the game of chess that's being...

Has Trump's Gaza plan been thwarted?

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump had a dream of the Gaza Riviera, where the Palestinians had been cleared from their own country and resettled in neighbouring Egypt and Jordan, ...

The US-Ukraine Ceasefire Plan - Why it's a big problem for Putin

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So the US - Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia conclude with a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire. A full ceasefire, not the partial one the Ukrainians had in...

What would fascism in America REALLY look like?

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Various people have been asking if the radical new type of government the US has found itself with - undoubtedly more authoritarian by instinct than p...

Why Trump’s Ukraine betrayal will come back to bite the US

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The US-Ukraine talks begin tomorrow in Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine at least will find out then just how ruthless the US intends to be in threatening to ...

Is Mallen 'off the fence' on President Trump?

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I've had a couple of YouTube comments recently asking if the slightly different tone of videos in the last few weeks means that the non-partisan posit...

Yes, Trump really DOES mean to annex Canada

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When he first said it, everyone thought he was joking. It was a joke that Canadians found insulting, but even so. But then in subsequent discussions, ...

Trump just killed NATO - but they won't admit it

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The current European leaders, along with the NATO Secretary General, are all agreed that NATO remains solid, the United States partnership likewise, t...

Trump's secret moves to bring down Zelensky

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today it was revealed that senior members of the Trump administration have been talking to the political opposition in Ukraine, seeking to find who wo...

Ukraine's Zelensky is walking into a trap

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zelensky has sent the letter to president Trump that was demanded - agreeing to sign the one-sided minerals deal, to put himself 'under Trump's strong...

European peace plan in tatters as Trump cancels Ukraine support

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In spite of Europe's hopes that somehow there would be a path to keeping Trump onside with supporting Ukraine, the inevitability of the dashing of tho...

Trump's pro-Putin anti-Zelensky stance hardens

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Europe and Ukraine's desperate plan is to win back Trump to the cause of supporting Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. But while they work on ...

The Starmer plan to win Trump for Ukraine back - and why it will fail

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Europe has been regrouping with president Zelensky and trying to come to terms with the fallout from the massive meltdown in the Oval Office on Friday...

What nobody's saying about the Oval Office meltdown

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Macron and Starmer had had visits to the White House that had been described as triumphs, simply because they avoided humiliation. In other words, the...

Starmer's visit to Trump - not quite a triumph

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are being told that UK prime minister Keir Starmer's visit to Trump in the White House was a 'triumph'. On one level - that of managing a potential...

Did Trump accidentally save Canada's Liberals?

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the last couple of years, it has looked a foregone conclusion that Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party was going to go down in flames at the next elect...

Trump's minerals deal changed the world

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ukraine has negotiated a form of Trump's critical minerals deal that it is prepared to sign. We haven't seen it yet, but it's clear that it has been n...

Is DOGE starting to FAIL?

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the last few weeks, all we've been hearing about has been Doge! According to some, it's slashing through government bureaucracy spectacularly layi...

Can Europe go it alone in supporting Ukraine?

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Germany elected a new government yesterday, and the new chancellor led off with his ambition to make Europe and Germany independent of America. As if ...

Ukraine stunned by US demands it withdraws Russia-critical UN motion

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

February 24th is the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and - as with the previous years, Ukraine and co-sponsors has put a motion to be vot...

US threatens to PULL STARLINK from Ukraine

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zelensky's refusal to sign an apparently absurdly one-sided deal where Ukraine hands over half of the value of its resources for nothing in return fro...

Anti-woke right divided on Trump's Ukraine pitch

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump's demand for total loyalty while also making statements such as 'Ukraine started the war' and 'Zelensky is a dictator' is dividing his natural s...

How Russian disinformation poisoned our society

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The mere word 'disinformation' has become controversial in the modern culture wars - which is great news for the hostile states who actually use disin...

Trump and Putin's shock call - what no-one's saying

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Putin and Russian commentators were delighted, and Ukraine and Western ones were distraught, when Trump announced that he had a long call w...

China's shocking progress on Taiwan a test for Trump

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

China has its sights on reunification with China - what people don't realise is how much progress it has been making over the last year in the directi...

Trump's Gaza plan has changed the Middle East

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Trump announced his extraordinary vision for the future of the Gaza Strip, many dismissed it as just a madcap idea. But while the enormity of wha...

Trump shreds American soft power

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump has bashed America's close allies Canada and Mexico in return for stuff they were already doing anyway. He has threatened the EU with ...

DC air crash tragedy - can we get past the politics?

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At Reagan National Airport in Washington DC, we have seen a major tragedy with the mid-air collision of a passenger airliner and a military helicopter...

China's new AI destroys America's tech complacency

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Chinese company DeepThink has just released its latest AI large language model - and it has caused a massive reaction. It runs rings around the Am...

Trump's Ukraine war pitch: NOT what we were expecting

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In his first week back as president of the United States, Donald Trump started making significant noises on the Ukraine war, and his opening pitch cou...

How the mainstream media lies to you

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You hear it often - the mainstream media lies. You can't trust them. But the fact is that - in volume terms - they do so only very occasionally. It's ...

Musk and Cummings 'plot' to overthrow Keir Starmer?

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Reports came out on Sunday that the former advisor to the prime minister and Brexit campaign supremo Dominic Cummings has been in discussion with Elon...

Why Trump's Greenland gambit has changed everything

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a press conference this week, president-elect Trump said that he wanted to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal - not ruling out the use ...

Elon Musk takes on the world - this won't end well

04 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk has been ... busy. Attacking Keir Starmer and his government in the UK, whilst praising Tommy Robinson and calling for him to be released fr...

This podcast / channel in 2025

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This channel has always had a perspective, but it has been something of a blank page - always looking at whatever seems important that has come into v...

2025 will be PEAK TRUMP - but it's going to be tougher than he thinks

28 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Looking forward to 2025 - there's no doubt it is going to be the year of Trump. But not only that, it's going to be the year of peak Trump. With every...

Normalising violence - the response to Luigi Mangioni

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the last week, there has been much comment on the astonishing internet response to the murderer of CEO Brian Thompson. Large numbers of people have...

Are Nigel Farage and Elon Musk about to transform UK politics?

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Keir Starmer made a keynote speech laying out his six milestones for how the Labour government should, in his view, be judged at the next e...

Do-it-yourself cults - are you in one?

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of groups in these polarised times get accused by their opponents of 'being in a cult'. And sometimes, actually quite often, they have a point. B...

UK Parliament approves assisted dying - at least in principle

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The UK Parliament today debated a groundbreaking assisted death bill that could reshape how we approach end-of-life care. The Labour Party has brought...

Electric vehicles facing struggles worldwide

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We know the story - China is dominating the EV industry with its remarkable and cheap cars which the Western bloated manufacturers simply can't compet...

The British farmers protests - explained

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the UK, farmers are protesting in a way they haven't in recent times. They are furious about proposed inheritance tax changes to be brought in by t...

America's extremes are tearing it apart

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the regular topics of discussion in the media in the US recently has been how polarised and divided the country has become, even to the extent ...

China has now caused more global warming than the EU

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week sees the COP29 conference on climate change, where the expectation is that the next US president will walk away from the issue, leaving Chin...

Trump's cabinet picks get wild - but can they get through?

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy Jr are amongst the recent names released by President-Elect Trump as his nominations for his cabinet. T...

Why Kamala lost and Trump won big

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After years of our lives being taken up by the campaign for the US presidency, we finally have a result. And against the apparent polling, it is a cle...

The US election is here, and it got even more stupid

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The US election has ... finally ... arrived. It's all over, bar the shouting. Except that the shouting has gotten pretty loud, and it's likely to cont...

Israel and Hamas War - Making sense of where we are

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It has been the sort of week that will be referred to in decades, even centuries, hence as being one that was a turning point in history. There is a l...

Electric vehicles - the new battleground for the world

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the US, in the UK and the EU - the proposed shift from internal combustion cars to electric vehicles is starting to become a major factor in a big ...

UK net zero debate just changed ... for the better

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Rishi Sunak just announced pushing back of a few net zero targets - but much more significantly signalled a shift in campaign positioning t...

Civil war talk hits the mainstream

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

More mainstream voices are starting to be raised highlighting the likely outcome for where America is currently headed. One of them is Ray Dalio, the ...

Is Elon Musk now the face of unaccountable power?

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk is so often at the centre of every important issue or controversy - he is a techno-optimist, he is pro-free speech, he is desperate for man ...

Ukraine's slow counter-offensive - this could last for years

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Two months in to Ukraine's counter-offensive, and so far - while there have been gains - they are well short of what people had hoped for. The implica...

A new political phase on climate change is emerging

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Over time, how we understand an ongoing issue, and aim to act on it, will evolve and change. We've been in the same phase on climate change for severa...

Exclusive diversity - has values-led business gone astray?

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Maybe companies should have values. But should they have the sort of values that are about holding powerful corporations to account, or the ones that ...

Can Britain stop worshipping its failing health service?

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Support this channel!https://patreon.com/mallenbakerThe Mallen Baker Show covers news, current affairs, science and politics. It aims to be independen...

Putin's bad week

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It wasn't a coup, but it looked like a coup. Putin wasn't bothered, but he certainly looked bothered. Really, it was just a protest. The sort of prote...

The Boris question: Should voters be allowed to vote for liars?

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Boris Johnson has left the building - before launching a broadside against the Parliamentary Privileges Committee process just before it delivered its...

Will Rishi and Joe save us from the AI slaughterbots?

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met the US President Joe Biden and amongst the various topics they discussed was Britain’s desire to c...

1.5 degrees warming coming soon?

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There has been a lot of talk this week about how the world may nose its way across the 1.5ºC line soon. It's been held up as a major landmark for so ...

Donald Trump could be president in 2025

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Trump's Town Hall on CNN gave him his very best day of his 2024 election campaign, by far. How did it happen at all? And how much does it really chang...

Nobody tried to kill Putin

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A drone attack hits the Kremlin building. Once again, the world is left wondering "who dunnit?". Was it a false flag attack by a Russian leadership de...

The REAL reason Xi Jinping called Zelensky

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He's spoken to Vladimir Putin five times since the war started - but this was the first time he picked up the phone to Ukraine's Volodymir Zelensky. W...

Poverty vs Climate Change - The World Bank's Dilemma

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

During the last week, a major summit that was supposed to advance climate onto the World Bank agenda hit an impasse. Meanwhile, China is rapidly gaini...

The dismal truth revealed by the US intel leak

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A hugely significant leak of US intelligence has dominated the week ... and it's one unlike any that came before it. But what's really interesting, is...

Trump Indictment - America Gambles Bigly

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some reflections on the week that saw former president Donald Trump appearing in criminal court for the first - but surely not the last - time. Is thi...

China makes its move on Ukraine

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

China’s Xi Jinping to visit Putin in Moscow as China outflanks the US on the world stage. Silicon Valley Bank, Credit Suisse – is the world econom...

Nordstream sabotage - now it's getting weird

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Suggestions come from US intelligence that a pro-Ukraine group was responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions. We learn that the UK governmen...

UK Covid lockdown mistakes revealed

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s retro news week, apparently. A massive leak of whatsapp text messages from the heart of government shows the unedifying reality of the UK’s r...

Are we inevitably drifting towards technocracy?

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, the former UK Labour prime minister Tony Blair, and  the former would-be Conservative prime minister William Hague produced a joint report...

One year on - Not where we wanted to be

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The world marks the one year anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war with big speeches on all sides saying nothing new. China puts itself forward ...

Will Russia or Ukraine exhaust themselves first?

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war approaches both sides burn through their resources at a rapid rate. The EU’s corruption crisis co...

Did the spy balloon wreck US China peace hopes?

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A Chinese sky balloon is blown out of the sky along with recent hopes of easing tension between the two countries. Russia apparently begins to ramp up...

Trans row could dethrone Scotland's leader

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Corruption continues to be the focus as more are raided in Ukraine and the EU and the UK have problems of their own. The UK’s armed forces recruitme...

Did corruption in Ukraine deflect from the war?

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Support this channel!https://patreon.com/mallenbakerThe Mallen Baker Show covers news, current affairs, science and politics. It aims to be independen...

Putin's real war is not in Ukraine

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Putin’s latest moves suggest he’s fighting a political war at home as much as a military one in Ukraine. China urges its people not to travel for ...