Mallen Baker: Faultlines
Episodes
Why Trump Is Already Panicking About The Midterms
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump only just completed his first hundred days, so it's a bit early to be thinking about it all ending, right? Except, by all reports, Trump is alre...
Why Trump LOST To China Even Before Talks Started
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Having created a major impasse between the US and China with mutual tariff obliteration, Trump has been trying to work out how the US can extract itse...
US Caught Spying On Greenland To Prepare For Takeover
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump may have (reluctantly) accepted that Canada is not going to fall into his embrace, but he is going full speed ahead in his quest to get Greenlan...
How Trump Bullied Tariffed Nations To Accept Musk’s Starlink
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Trump's so-called 'Liberation Day', a number of countries suddenly discovered that they were to be whacked with massive tariffs from the United Sta...
Why Trump Will Fail — But What Comes After Will Be Worse
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether in his stated terms, the policy changes he aims to make, or in the Project 2025 actions he's taking to bring in an autocratic system to the US...
The Trump-Style Farage Revolution Coming To The UK?
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In elections in Canada and Australia, we saw figures who had been even lightly associated with Donald Trump's MAGA movement losing, whereas before Tru...
Trump’s America Declares A WORLD WAR Against Truth
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we know if the economy is doing well? There are reliable statistics for that. How do we know what's happening with the climate? There is reliab...
Will Ukraine Rain (Missiles) on Putin’s Parade?
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russia's President Putin is gearing up for the annual grand military parade in Moscow. This year is a big one because it's the 80th anniversary of the...
Trump’s Deportation Blitz Is Failing Badly In The Courts - Why It Matters
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On day one, he declared several emergencies. Later, he backed this up by invoking the Alien Enemies Act. This has been an ongoing and deliberate push ...
The MAGA-Inspired Populist Surge That’s Changing Everything
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In some places, such as Canada and maybe this weekend Australia, populist-right politicians, although they clearly show the signs of being influenced ...
Ukraine’s Minerals Deal with the US: Hidden Costs, False Promises?
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So Ukraine has finally signed the Minerals Deal with the Trump Administration. And news commentators are full of speculation about how much this deal ...
Tariffs Chaos Shrinks US Economy - And This Is Just The Start
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The news arrived today that the US economy has dramatically cratered - shrinking in the first quarter of the year, whereas it had been strongly growin...
The Trump Spoiler Move That May Be Carney's First Big Test
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Carney's Liberal Party has won the Canadian election. It was close, but still extraordinary that he was able to turn around the massive deficit t...
What Everyone Missed About This Iconic Moment
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The big story about the Pope's funeral - bigger than the event itself on some measures - was a 15 minute one-on-one conversation between Presidents Tr...
Why Trump Is Suddenly Lying About Talking To China
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're used to the idea that Trump lies a lot - I mean, even his supporters know this, although they will use euphemisms to make it sound ok. But WHY h...
Why Elon Musk’s DOGE has been a dismal failure
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Musk's time with DOGE is coming to an end - or at least will be massively dialled back. But the fact is that the exercise, which promised so much, see...
Trump's tariff blunders blow up in his face
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's official. Trump's tariffs on the world, but especially on China, are making the whole world poorer. Trump wants China to make a deal - but he set...
Trump’s Meltdown As Ukraine Surrender Plan Fails
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the start of the day, Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff were on their way to a top-level meeting in London to discuss President Trump's seven-point "pe...
American Institutions Fight Back Against Trump Power Grab
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump came out of the gates quickly in his second term, testing the limits of his power in all directions at once, and assaulting numerous i...
Pentagon Chaos: Will Trump Finally Fire Pete Hegseth?
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reports are coming into view about complete disarray at the Pentagon under Trump's controversial pick for secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth. He has f...
Should Denmark Throw America Out Of Its Greenland Base?
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Answering a question from a Patreon supporter - Should Greenland kick the US out of its one remaining Greenland base, since - if Trump were to make go...
Why Did Trump Suddenly Stop Attacking Canada?
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've been witnessing something really strange over the last three weeks. Trump has been ... silent. OK, only about one thing, but even so. He's been ...
Trump Defies Courts To Lock People Up Without Due Process
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court ruled decisively 9-0 that the man incorrectly removed from the USA to one of the most notorious prisons in El Salvador, Abrego Garci...
Can the West Trust China More Than Trump?
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump / China Trade War enters its third week, and the stakes are only getting higher and the measures more intense. While Trump is busy pulling v...
How Trump Is Dismantling Election Protections
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If the Trump administration is taking the United States in the direction of autocracy, there are certain steps that you would commonly expect to see b...
Harsh Tariff Truths Sinking In, While MAGA Celebrates Trump 'Genius'
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump reversed course, and the stock market flowered in response, and everything's now OK, right? Well, except that a lot of damage has been done, mos...
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...