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Back to SearchTrump Enrages Key Ally Japan – Just As China Unveils A Game Changer
Episode 331
The Trump Administration's trademark abrupt bullying has just led to key regional ally Japan cancelling an annual security summit. Between America's sudden unreliable ally status, and its assault on …
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Trump ‘Not Ruling Out’ Dropping A Nuke On Iran
Episode 330
You read that right - The Fordow nuclear enrichment site in Iran, located as it is beneath a mountain, is considered by some in the Pentagon to be so hard to reach, that even America's famed 'bunker-…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
It’s Official - The World Hates Trump’s America
Episode 329
New research by the Pew Research Centre has looked at worldwide attitudes to President Trump, and as a consequence Trump's America. Some of it won't be hugely surprising - yes, with the exception of …
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump Broke The World Order - So Is War With Iran Next?
Episode 328
The G7 Summit of 2025 may come to represent the last gasp of the old rules-based world order, condemned to impotence and irrelevance as President Trump pondered whether to enter the war with Iran, an…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
How Trump Is Breaking the Last Barrier to Dictatorship
Episode 327
The most frequent setbacks to the Trump Administration have been in the courts, up to and including the Supreme Court with its Trump-appointed judges - as things it seeks to do are found to be illega…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Ukraine Made The Iran War Inevitable
Episode 326
The G7 summit is under way in Canada, and the biggest agenda item by far is the war between Israel and Iran. Almost certainly, nothing said or done there will make the slightest difference. Since Rus…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Alarming Rise of Political Violence in America
Episode 325
This weekend, we saw the tragic eruption once again of political violence in America. Unfortunately, this is just the extreme end of a growing wave of threats, intimidation and occasionally worse tha…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump’s Quiet Immigration U-Turn Just Exposed His Weakness
Episode 324
Something happened almost, but not quite, unnoticed. Trump admitted that his administration's approach to its mass deportation project was having a major consequence - and the policy on illegal immig…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Israel’s Iran Attack Just Exposed Trump’s Biggest Weakness
Episode 323
Israel has transformed the world geopolitical stage again by launching a direct and sustained assault on Iran. It wrongfooted President Trump by doing so in open defiance of his wishes, and it has pr…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump’s America vs the World: AUKUS, NATO, G7 at Risk
Episode 322
A period of extreme stress has begun for many of the leaders of the free world. Beginning with the announcement from the US that it is throwing the Aukus partnership into the air to see if it lands '…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago