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Mallen Baker: Faultlines

"Dangerously reasonable" analysis on politics, science, and particularly the bit where they bump into each other. I aim to give an independent, fact-focused, non-ideological take on the issues that matter.

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00:23:04

US Ammunition Crisis As Iran Grows Bolder | News...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/13

In this news round-up of the week for Friday March 13th 2026. Pentagon insiders reveal that Trump's war on Iran has burned through years of critical munitions in two weeks of his illegal war on Iran. And this could seriously weaken the US in dangerous times. As the Pentagon tries to isolate and damage AI company Anthropic for ethical restrictions on what its system will do, Microsoft has stepped out, risking billions in government contracts, to stand alongside it. And Trump's threats and insults

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00:14:17

How The Massive Impact Of Trump’s War Is Hitting The...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/12

The alarm bells across the world are really starting to sound loudly now, as the short-term effects on the cost and availability of energy and fertiliser is hitting the citizens of countries across the world. President Donald Trump's war of choice with Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz. He has proven unable to reopen it, and the future consequences if this remains the case for an extended period have been predicted as being 'catastrophic'. Let's do the quickest of canters across the globe to see

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00:13:45

Peter Magyar vs Putin, Trump AND Orban | Hungary’s...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/11

Today, the Financial Times reported on a leaked proposal for Russia to engage in a disinformation and influence campaign in support of the re-election of autocrat Viktor Orban. This comes as his opponent in next month's election, Peter Magyar, is significantly ahead in independent polling. But President Vladimir Putin does not want to lose his best ally in Europe. President Donald Trump likewise. And hence begins what may be a template election for Russian and American influence campaigns on behalf

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00:14:00

Is Trump About To TACO Out Of Iran?

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/10

Trump has started talking in terms of the war being complete, and stressing that it was just an 'excursion' - a sign, according to stock markets and commodity traders, that he is looking pretty urgently for an off-ramp from the Iran war. Is Trump, some are asking, about to TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) out of the Iran war? Well, unfortunately, it's not quite that simple. In a war, it doesn't fall to just one side whether it stops or not. And, in this case, there is plenty of evidence that the

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00:15:28

Why Trump's Iran Assassination Threats Are A Huge Deal

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/09

Even before Iran had announced the selection of its new Supreme Leader, President Trump and Israel had said they were intending to assassinate whoever it was - unless Trump was involved in the selection. It's a breathtaking statement of imperial ambition - and one that has not been revised after the revealing of Mojtaba Khamenei as that leader. It's also a major breach of the last 400 years of statecraft. This is not a new norm the world wants to set, and yet who is really standing up to defend the

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00:18:59

China's Five Lessons From Trump's Iran War

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/08

Xi Jinping's China sees itself as the rising primary power in the world, soon to take over from the fading old empire of the United States. But it knows its new, rapidly growing military, is untested, and may remain so up until it gets called into action over Taiwan. So it has been taking a very keen interest in President Donald Trump's war in Iran, and took the unusual step of releasing five of the key lessons they have learned from doing so. They are real points, and quite instructive, so let's

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00:22:36

Kristi Noem Is Fired - For Making Trump Look Bad |...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/06

In this news round-up of the week for Friday March 6th 2026. The first of Trump's Cabinet Secretaries to be fired is Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Trump declares that he will only accept Unconditional Surrender from Iran, but don't worry - it's not REALLY a war. We discuss something you may not have noticed, sparked by the appearance of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office. And Anthropic is officially designated a risk to national security - and yet Claude is now number one

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00:11:37

Spain Doesn't Mince Words About Trump's Illegal War

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/06

Most of the international community know that President Donald Trump's war on Iran, having been launched without any sort of imminent threat, having been focused on assassinating all the leadership of the regime, is illegal under international law. Hence why they have not been queueing up to take part in the offensive operations. But so far, they have mostly been muted in their criticism. Step forward Pedro Sanchez, prime minister of Spain, who has been extremely forthright in his condemnation of

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00:17:17

Trump's Leaked Plot to Take Over Elections Exposed

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/05

President Donald Trump has muttered darkly about the need to take federal control of the mid-term elections. And now, the evidence suggests that his team has a plan for how to do it - how to take control, and you have to presume to seek to get the outcome that he desires. This is the key pivot point for American democracy - because this will either be the moment that shocks America awake to its democratic backsliding - or it chooses not to engage, and accepts the end destination of elective

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00:17:01

Total IDIOTS Are Leading America’s War In Iran

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/04

War is a serious business. You would hope. But since President Donald Trump announced the start of the war against Iran, the US conduct has been typified by constantly changing commentary on why the war was started, and what its objectives are, constant lying about various details, and nothing that suggests that the mortal danger created for American servicemen and Iranian civilians is being created with any sort of care and attention. Indeed, it could best be described as a clown show. If the US

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00:17:43

Trump Just Demolished 80 Years of Global Order

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/02

There are seven ways that President Donald Trump has broken, or significantly altered, the US system, and the global political or economic system. Ways that mean that, when he has finally left office, the world will still remain a very different place to how it was when he most recently found it. Let's look at each of those seven ways, along with the two that either are not yet broken, or might yet still be retrievable. And we'll reflect on why none of this should be the end of focus and hope for

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00:18:29

Trump Getting A Taste For War Is Not Going To End Well

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/03/01

President Trump has declared war - not a special military operation, not an in-and-out abduction. A full-on offensive assault with the stated goal of regime change. The assault has targeted the country's senior leadership, has been accompanied by calls to the people to rise up and depose their government. And the argument has been that this is okay because the regime is genuinely deplorable and deserves to fall. And yet, Donald Trump and his bizarre collection of loyalists is the very definition of

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00:21:44

Anthropic Stands Up To Trump Despite The Cost | News...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/02/27

In this news round-up for the week of 27 February 2026: If 2025 was about corporate cowardice and capitulation to the Trump revolution, 2026 is seeing more and more standing up to the bullying. So the AI company Anthropic - threatened with massive sanction by the Pete Hegseth's Pentagon - has regardless refused to give it the right to use its models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Netflix publicly defied President Trump over a board member not to his liking because, and walked away

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00:18:06

Epstein Files And The Massive Gap In Accountability

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/02/26

Today saw Hillary Clinton being quizzed in Congress about the man she never met, while President Trump, who is all over the files, faces no such pressure. We have news that certain key files, including testimony about Trump's alleged wrongdoing, is being withheld by the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, across Europe, real people are feeling much more robust repercussions for their own part in one of the worst scandals in modern history. Why is it one way in the US, and another way elsewhere? And

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00:14:41

Trump Flailing And FURIOUS On His Way To State Of Union

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/02/24

Trump promised that the State of the Union address 2026 would be 'long, because there's lots to talk about'. Some of that talk is likely to be peevish, complaining, even angry. After all, having started the year on a high, it's been pretty much a massive slog ever since. And especially with the huge setback on tariffs, that we have to pretend wasn't a setback at all, and the uncomfortable fact that having marched the US navy to Iran, he doesn't quite know what he wants them to do while they're

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00:09:13

Trump’s Most Absurd Greenland Gambit - What’s Really...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/02/22

In (yet another) moment of the truly surreal, President Trump announced this weekend that he is sending a hospital ship to Greenland to help with all the people getting sick there who are being left untreated. Which is odd, since that's not happening. It seems, on its face, to be the world's clumsiest attempt to curry favour with a people who you've literally just united against you by threatening to take them over by force. So what's going on? Let's discuss.

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00:13:46

Supreme Court Hands Trump His Biggest Defeat Yet |...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/02/20

In this news roundup of the week for Friday February 20th 2026. The Supreme Court strikes down President Trump's emergency tariffs in the single biggest setback since he started his second term. We discover exactly why Trump flip-flopped yet again on the UK transferring ownership of the Chagos islands. And Trump makes a dramatic new announcement - about aliens.

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00:11:57

How Trump’s Autocrats Club Is Looking To Profit From...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/02/19

Trump's Board of Peace had its first meeting today, and it was pretty much what you would have expected. Lots of praise for Trump, lots of big promises for the great future ahead of Gaza with all the development that will be coming - and relatively little attention to the tricky obstacle that none of it can happen until Hamas agrees to disarm, which they show little inclination to do. And while Trump and the assembled mostly-autocrats wax lyrical on peace, Trump is pondering the options for

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00:13:01

Three Ways Reality Is Smacking Trump In The Face

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/02/17

It would be entirely possible for President Trump, or A.N.Other autocrat, to seek to dismantle the guardrails of democracy in their country and all the rest of it, while still keeping a firm grasp of what is, or isn't reality, and dealing with it as needed. But that is not the current way, because Trump is determined to believe only his own version of reality, even when that is massively and easily contradicted by facts and events. The trouble is that if you insist on flying in the face of reality,

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00:14:04

'Presidential' Rubio Demands Europe Falls In Line...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2026/02/16

Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke this weekend at the Munich Security Conference, and he made probably the most cogent and professional speech on behalf of the MAGA world view we've heard. Unfortunately, the sentiments it expressed stood in stark contrast to the words of his boss and the actions of the administration - a fact that was not lost on his audience. But the quality of the speech, and the way he handled the occasion, has some chattering with renewed vigour about the possibility

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