https://www.youtube.com/watch/az5WrJy8sQ8 Why US failure in Ukraine could collapse Trump’s government
“The midterms are going to see a tsunami, that is going to wash over the Republican Party and dramatically weaken the Trump regime if the elections are free and fair.”
Trump’s failure to end Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has damaged him politically says Ken Harbaugh, Former US Navy Pilot and President of Valour Media Network.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/OdQUBS6cghw President Trump against the world | GZERO World
Michael Froman explains how the world is adjusting to Trump’s more transactional and unilateral approach to global power.
This week on GZERO World, Council on Foreign Relations President Michael Froman tells Ian Bremmer that under Trump’s second term, he’s been less surprised by a single policy shift than by how quickly other countries have adapted to them.
From sweeping tariffs to threats of military action, Trump has demonstrated a willingness to use American leverage early and often. “They’re not happy necessarily about it,” Froman says of US allies and partners, “but they are adjusting.”
The longer-term concern, Froman warns, is structural. If the United States shifts from defending the postwar rules-based order to challenging it, does that create a “permission structure” for others to act unilaterally as well? And what kind of global system emerges if more countries decide to follow Washington’s lead?
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What did Rory and Alastair make of Marco Rubio and Keir Starmer’s speech at the Munich Security Conference? And are European countries preparing for war?
Join Alastair and Rory as they give their reactions from the Munich Security Conference.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/Bsv2Sxj_rRs Who had the most contact with Jeffrey Epstein?
In the years after Epstein pled guilty to soliciting sex from a minor, he maintained consistent contact with a vast network of rich and powerful figures. The Economist’s data team analysed 1.4m of Epstein’s emails to map their relationships.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/YlQpJxE8vRc Challenges facing the transatlantic relationship
In this Quick Take from Munich, Ian Bremmer examines the state of the transatlantic alliance as the 62nd Munich Security Conference concludes.
He points to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech, which “received a standing ovation,” but cautions that European expectations remain low.
Ian focuses on the Ukraine war, noting the pressure on Kyiv and the risk of a US-Russia deal: “Are the Europeans going to hold together if the Americans cut a deal with the Russians by themselves? People are skeptical.”
He also raises concerns about Europe’s economic and political cohesion: “Europe is 27 countries and they’re institutionally hobbled from all acting together.”
Ian concludes that while leaders understand the problems, “they have not settled on the nature of a solution,” leaving the future of transatlantic cooperation uncertain as the US continues to dominate the alliance’s agenda.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/hi6nhq24NCA Russia voices anger over US turn on talks as Rubio headed for meeting with Zelensky
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/HOd05rBptEM Has Putin’s economy hit crisis at the worst moment for Russia? | Q&A
Philip Ingram answers questions from the audience on the war in Ukraine and global security.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/Ha-Ch8VeTL0 Sarah Paine: How Putin is Destroying Russia as Great Power
Great powers rarely fall in a single blow. They weaken when one strategic gamble closes more doors than it opens. That is the story here.
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was intended to restore Russia’s stature. Instead, it has accelerated its loss of great-power autonomy. Sanctions, technological isolation, capital flight, and demographic decline have compounded long-standing structural weaknesses. The war did not create Russia’s fragility — it exposed and intensified it.
The most consequential shift has been eastward.
Before 2022, Moscow could hedge between Europe and China. That flexibility is largely gone. Beijing is now Russia’s primary economic outlet, technological supplier, and diplomatic shield. This is not parity; it is asymmetry. China has options. Russia increasingly does not.
That loss of optionality is the real decline. Great powers retain freedom of manoeuvre. They choose their alignments; they are not compelled into them. By overplaying his hand, Putin narrowed Russia’s strategic space and locked it into a position of dependence.
The concept of “death ground” sharpens the point. When leaders perceive existential stakes, escalation becomes easier than retreat. But operating from that mindset reduces flexibility further. It hardens positions and raises the cost of correction.
Russia still possesses nuclear weapons and a UN Security Council seat — the symbols of great-power status. Yet symbol and substance are diverging. Economic dependence on China, constrained policy space, and mounting internal strain point to a quieter reality: a state that looks powerful, but negotiates from weakness.
Putin set out to restore Russian greatness. His pivotal error may instead mark the moment Russia’s great-power status began to erode in substance, even if it remains intact in form.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/F2vgYdSjvAM Russia’s “shadow war” | Global Stage
Beyond the battlefield in Ukraine, Russia is waging an expanded war across Europe. At the Munich Security Conference, Alina Polyakova calls it a “broad shadow war,” warning that attacks on infrastructure and civilian systems are part of a deliberate strategy to weaken the continent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch/saPOm2h6x64 How the US went from global cop to King of the Jungle | Ian Bremmer Explains
Ian Bremmer breaks down how Trump’s second term is reshaping American power — and what it means for the global order.
In the latest “Ian Explains,” Bremmer examines the shift from decades of US-led global leadership to President Trump’s more unilateral “America First” approach. From withdrawing from international agreements to reviving tariffs and allowing key arms control treaties to lapse, the signals suggest Washington is pulling back. But is it?
From forceful action in Venezuela to an explicit doctrine of dominance in the Western Hemisphere, Trump has shown he’s willing to assert American power — just not through the institutions that defined the postwar order. As allies hedge and adversaries like China step into new leadership roles, Bremmer asks whether the United States is retreating from the world, or redefining how it leads it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/UJ3qbnxidVY Trump White House in SHAMBLES after DISASTER Epstein Hearing
Pam Bondi’s Epstein hearing on Capitol Hill was a total DISASTER. Sarah Longwell of @bulwarkmedia joins Alex Wagner to unpack the fallout.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/ZiH8C57LUGs Putin’s ‘horrendous losses’ could cause riots in the streets of Moscow | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
“Casualties in Afghanistan in the 80s, which were five per cent of what we’re talking about now, which caused riots in the streets… if Putin has to start mobilising in Moscow, it is recognition that they are losing.”
Putin and the Kremlin’s “horrendous losses” on the frontline could be the straw that “breaks the Russian camel’s back”, says former British Army colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon.
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