They’ve all been hoodwinked by the sh1t show that is the orange blob and muskrat show.
It’s not just the journalists who are not doing their job - look at the appalling behaviour of our Irish government leaders - wasting time they should be giving to mitigating the orange foe’s proposed actions to “speaking rights in the Dail”. Such a middle finger to Irish citizens - blatantly telling them that the social issues of housing, health and the cost of living don’t merit their time. As for Trump - their biggest worry is that they won’t be invited to the White House.
We are in for some storm, and ireland will be least prepared due to the male ego of our Taoiseach 😢
Thanks Deirdre. Yes, watching Irish politicians fiddling while the world burns is quite a sight.
It’s not really the fault of (most) journalists. Their employing organisations have, for the most part, been devastated by falling revenues and appalling management. Most of the good journalists have migrated to platforms like this one. That said, I still think there is room for somebody in mainstream media to do things well. There are enough people out there who realise that most modern media is utter bilge - but you get what you pay for. If some of our readers our kind enough to pay us a few quid for what we do on this site, there must be a viable business model for somebody to do it in a larger market,
This is all about Vance. His decision to be the most extreme version of MAGA because of the way he has been marginalised during the first few weeks of Trump. Maybe he has overplayed his hand. But he is a thug.
They rehearsed their verbal attack on Zelensky the day before, when they also sent a message to him at his hotel that he needed to come to The White house in a suit. The intent was humiliation and intimidation to sign the rare earth minerals agreement, with no security guarantee.
The World just wants to know whose side the US is on.
America's agreements are worthless. The Budapest Memorandum, signed by the US giving Ukraine a Security Guarantee in return for Ukraine giving up their nuclear weapons is a prime example.
That is a really important point. Every news story today involves a journalist writing/talking about Keir Starmer, Macron & Zelensky trying to cobble together security guarantees with Trump for Ukraine. Hardly anybody notes this has been done before: Ukraine was given security guarantees in the 1990s that nobody honoured.
After 3 years of brutal war. horrifically high losses and sanctions, the Russian economy is nearing implosion and collapse. This is why Putin wants a ceasefire quickly, to recover. Which in turn is why Trump wants things to move quickly, as members of his team say in every interview. Trump was targeted by the KGB as an asset when he was in Moscow in 1987. this has already been reported in some media. Putin has stuff on him that could sink his Presidency. Now is the time Putin needed to play this card out of deperation. The West and Ukraine must keep fighting, otherwise Ukraine will cease to exist and be under the heel of Putin.
The catch-22 for Putin is that while he might want the war to end, if he ends it and tries to return to a normal economy the shock to the economy moving from wartime mode could collapse the economy and his regime. He has to end the war but also keep the wartime economy going. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
I don't believe Ukraine gave up their nukes for security guarantees only. They were broke and couldn't maintain them. They were probably happy to get a so called security guarantee, empty as it was, for help to get the expensive rockets off their territory, and not have rotting nuclear material in silos.
And look what’s happening at WaPo now too. I trust the now mandatory editorial position on being pro- free market will have plenty to say about tariffs…
Really appreciate the acknowledgement of the gas price, I've been left scratching my head at the lack of reporting around this. Not in any way an expert in energy, but I do have alook at the European Dutch TTF to follow it and see if energy companies react. Incredibly, RTE have run and article just recently about how SSE Airtricity are hiking their prices again, pointing to recent rises in prices in wholesale costs. What was incredible was that the journalist obviously failed to maybe, I don't know, have even the slightest glance to see an enormous drop, as you've pointed out, since roughly February 10th. You'd hope for so much better, and these companies rarely get the scrutiny necessary to justify their prices. Anyway rant over, love the Pod and hope you keep up the good fight on this topic.
Ah guys - so true
They’ve all been hoodwinked by the sh1t show that is the orange blob and muskrat show.
It’s not just the journalists who are not doing their job - look at the appalling behaviour of our Irish government leaders - wasting time they should be giving to mitigating the orange foe’s proposed actions to “speaking rights in the Dail”. Such a middle finger to Irish citizens - blatantly telling them that the social issues of housing, health and the cost of living don’t merit their time. As for Trump - their biggest worry is that they won’t be invited to the White House.
We are in for some storm, and ireland will be least prepared due to the male ego of our Taoiseach 😢
What hope have journalists in working properly??
Thanks Deirdre. Yes, watching Irish politicians fiddling while the world burns is quite a sight.
It’s not really the fault of (most) journalists. Their employing organisations have, for the most part, been devastated by falling revenues and appalling management. Most of the good journalists have migrated to platforms like this one. That said, I still think there is room for somebody in mainstream media to do things well. There are enough people out there who realise that most modern media is utter bilge - but you get what you pay for. If some of our readers our kind enough to pay us a few quid for what we do on this site, there must be a viable business model for somebody to do it in a larger market,
Last Friday in The White House, Trump and Vance tried to do to Ukraine economically what Putin has tried to do militarily since 2014.
Take it and make money out of it...
These are men cut from the same cloth.
This is all about Vance. His decision to be the most extreme version of MAGA because of the way he has been marginalised during the first few weeks of Trump. Maybe he has overplayed his hand. But he is a thug.
They rehearsed their verbal attack on Zelensky the day before, when they also sent a message to him at his hotel that he needed to come to The White house in a suit. The intent was humiliation and intimidation to sign the rare earth minerals agreement, with no security guarantee.
The World just wants to know whose side the US is on.
America's agreements are worthless. The Budapest Memorandum, signed by the US giving Ukraine a Security Guarantee in return for Ukraine giving up their nuclear weapons is a prime example.
That is a really important point. Every news story today involves a journalist writing/talking about Keir Starmer, Macron & Zelensky trying to cobble together security guarantees with Trump for Ukraine. Hardly anybody notes this has been done before: Ukraine was given security guarantees in the 1990s that nobody honoured.
After 3 years of brutal war. horrifically high losses and sanctions, the Russian economy is nearing implosion and collapse. This is why Putin wants a ceasefire quickly, to recover. Which in turn is why Trump wants things to move quickly, as members of his team say in every interview. Trump was targeted by the KGB as an asset when he was in Moscow in 1987. this has already been reported in some media. Putin has stuff on him that could sink his Presidency. Now is the time Putin needed to play this card out of deperation. The West and Ukraine must keep fighting, otherwise Ukraine will cease to exist and be under the heel of Putin.
Yes, the parlous state of the Russian economy is yet another under reported story. As is that story about Trump’s links to Putin.
The new US-Russian dialogue about business arrangements of financial benefit to the US is the smokescreen...
The catch-22 for Putin is that while he might want the war to end, if he ends it and tries to return to a normal economy the shock to the economy moving from wartime mode could collapse the economy and his regime. He has to end the war but also keep the wartime economy going. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
Britain and France (nuclear powers) are trying to honour it, the US and Russia, not so much...
I don't believe Ukraine gave up their nukes for security guarantees only. They were broke and couldn't maintain them. They were probably happy to get a so called security guarantee, empty as it was, for help to get the expensive rockets off their territory, and not have rotting nuclear material in silos.
And look what’s happening at WaPo now too. I trust the now mandatory editorial position on being pro- free market will have plenty to say about tariffs…
Really appreciate the acknowledgement of the gas price, I've been left scratching my head at the lack of reporting around this. Not in any way an expert in energy, but I do have alook at the European Dutch TTF to follow it and see if energy companies react. Incredibly, RTE have run and article just recently about how SSE Airtricity are hiking their prices again, pointing to recent rises in prices in wholesale costs. What was incredible was that the journalist obviously failed to maybe, I don't know, have even the slightest glance to see an enormous drop, as you've pointed out, since roughly February 10th. You'd hope for so much better, and these companies rarely get the scrutiny necessary to justify their prices. Anyway rant over, love the Pod and hope you keep up the good fight on this topic.