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President Trump's approval rating has fallen to near-historic lows. With economic disruption from the tariffs likely to hit next month, his numbers will probably get even worse; this administration could reach unprecedented levels of unpopularity. If I were a far-right populist, I would be thinking hard about a strategy to prevent the blowback from crippling the movement. Such a strategy is easy to come by. Anger over DOGE and deportations has a natural floor. If Trump's base starts abandoning him, it will be because of the tariffs. But tariffs aren't a load-bearing part of the MAGA platform. Other right-populist leaders like Orban, Bukele, and Modi show no interest in them. They seem an idiosyncratic obsession of Trump's, a cost that the rest of the movement pays to keep him around. So, (our hypothetical populist strategist might start thinking after Trump's approval hits the ocean trenches and starts drilling) - whatever. MAGA minus Trump's personal idiosyncrasies can remain a viable platform. You don't even have to exert any effort to make it happen. Trump will retire in 2028 and pass the torch to Vance. And although Vance supports tariffs now, that's only because he's a spineless toady. After Trump leaves the picture, Vance will gain thirty IQ points, make an eloquent speech about how tariffs were the right tool for the mid-2020s but no longer, and the problem will solve itself. Right? Don't let them get away with this. Although it's true that tariffs owe as much to Trump's idiosyncrasies as to the inexorable logic of right-wing populism, the ability of a President to hold the nation hostage to his own idiosyncrasies is itself a consequence of populist ideology. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-populist-right-must-own-tariffs

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In this episode...02:29 - The Russian Spring Offensive is showing its new priorities10:05 - Zelensky goes to Turkey for Russia to put on a production of diplomatic theater24:16 - Pope Leo XIV showing himself to be a friend of Ukraine30:06 - US Ambassador to Ukraine resigns in protest over Trump policy34:03 - Orban government in Hungary grows increasingly hostile as their designs on the Zakarapatia region become public45:25 - Romanian presidential elections come in with a victory for the pro-Ukraine candidate over the pro-Russia one54:30 - Eurovision song contest 2025TwitterAnthony: @BartawayRomeo: @VagrantJournoUkraine Without Hype: @HypeUkraineOther Social Mediahttp://youtube.com/@UkraineWithoutHypehttp://tiktok.com/@ukrainewithouthypehttp://instagram.com/ukrainewithouthype/Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/UkraineWithoutHypeResources and Charitieshttps://linktr.ee/ukrainewithouthypeMusicHey Sokoli (Traditional)

Zum dritten Mal innerhalb von drei Jahren haben die Menschen in Portugal gestern ein neues Parlament gewählt. Gewonnen haben die Wahl der portugiesische Ministerpräsident Luis Montenegro und sein konservatives Bündnis. Weitere Themen: · Antisemitische Vorfälle: Wie die Situation in der Schweiz ist. · Ungarn: Die Partei von Minister-Präsident Orban plant ein umstrittenes Gesetz. Kritikerinnen und Kritiker werfen der Regierung vor, sie wolle damit vom Ausland unterstützte Medien und Nichtregierungsorganisationen mundtot machen. · Neue Forschung über Bienen: Wie sich Bienen in ihrem Stechverhalten unterscheiden.

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, May 15: We look at a crucial court ruling in EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's "Pfizergate" scandal. But first, Hungary's government examines a bill that would allow it to shut down media or NGOs considered a threat to national security. Plus, Australian researchers find that Barbie's feet have become flatter over time and it's linked to her growing independence! The Hungarian government is considering an extremely repressive law. There seems to be little interest in the main Hungarian newspapers – except in Telex, one of the last independent news sites in the country. And for good reason: the government is mulling a law that would allow it to monitor, penalise and possibly shut down all independent media and NGOs deemed a threat to national sovereignty. In other words, as Telex notes wryly, the Fidesz party's new bill is similar to the one that has served Russian President Vladimir Putin well in building a dictatorship. Radio Free Europe notes that this bill follows a series of similar repressive moves in the country. In March, Prime Minister Viktor Orban cracked down on journalists and politicians who receive foreign funding. Last month, a constitutional amendment banned public displays of homosexuality and gender diversity, while allowing police to use facial recognition technology. The timing of this bill is particularly interesting. As the Guardian notes, Orban's bill is a move to crack down on dissent ahead of elections in Hungary next year. It comes amid the rising popularity of the Tisza party, headed by Orban's former ally Peter Magyar, who could pose an unprecedented challenge.Staying in Europe, a tribunal has handed down a verdict against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the Pfizergate scandal. French paper Libération takes us through the scandal, which came to light in 2021 after The New York Times published an article about the negotiations of the biggest ever EU vaccine contract with Pfizer. During the first few months of 2021, von der Leyen exchanged several SMS with Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, in the negotiation of a multi-billion-euro contract for Covid vaccines. For its article about the negotiations, The New York Times made an official request for the SMS, but the EU Commission denied the request. It offered various unclear explanations, saying the messages had the disappearing message function or were deleted. The EU's general court ruled yesterday that von der Leyen failed in her obligation to be transparent. As Politico notes, it raises very interesting issues about the legitimacy of SMS and WhatsApp messages as official documents. The judge's "bombshell ruling", as Politico puts it, indicates that the Commission was wrong to deny access to the messages. The Commission says the messages were too boring to count as documents. The judgment suggests that text messages should be considered official documents, but it's not at all binding. Public access to officials' SMS will mostly likely continue to not be granted freely.Finally, we discover a fascinating study led by Australian researchers about Barbie's feet! According to The Conversation, Australian podiatrists were particularly interested in Barbie's feet after a memorable scene from the 2023 film. They decided to study the shape of her feet from 1959 to 2024 – that's 2,750 Barbies in total. What they found is fascinating: basically Barbie's high-heeled feet became flatter over the decades, something that appears to mirror broader societal changes. Barbie ditched her high-heeled posture the more she climbed the career ladder. In the 1960s, you only had tip-toed Barbies. By the 2020s, only about 40 percent wore heels. As Barbie became more diverse and inclusive, but also more athletic and representative in male-dominated fields, her feet flattened. It suggests a correlation between flat-footed Barbie and her emancipation from societal constraints!You can catch our press review every morning on France 24 at 7:20am and 9:20am (Paris time), from Monday to Friday.

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Keir Starmer, sounding in tone closer to Nigel Farage than previous Labour prime ministers, has called immigration a failed lab experiment and decreed it's time to take back control. Introducing the government's immigration white paper, the PM says that high net migration has done "incalculable damage" to the country. It's language that suggests he has been spooked by Reform's recent successes. But language, he presumes, voters now want to hear from their leader. Is he right? And what happens to our most vulnerable if we don't have NHS staff and care home workers to fill the job gaps no one here is taking? But we start with an extraordinary interview with Victor Orban's right hand man. In the week where Zelesnkyy and Putin could meet in Istanbul for a potentially crucial moment in attempts to bring the Ukraine war to an end, why is Hungary at odds with the rest of the EU over Russia? Why have Hungary and Ukraine accused each other of spying over the weekend? And is Starmer's language on immigration now mirroring Orban's a decade earlier?The News Agents is brought to you by HSBC UK - https://www.hsbc.co.uk/

Essentiel – Le rendez-vous culture de RCJ – présenté par Sandrine Sebbane. Elle reçoit Christine Orban pour son livre « Mademoiselle Spencer » aux éditions Albin Michel. et Sophie Tal Men pour son roman « La Tendresse des autres » chez Albin Michel. À propos du livre : « Mademoiselle Spencer » paru aux éditions Albin Michel De son enfance pleine de rêves à sa disparition brutale, Diana Spencer a connu le destin fulgurant d'une héroïne tragique. Mais qui se cachait derrière la princesse trahie et bafouée ? Quels mots n'a-t-elle pas pu dire ? En lui prêtant sa plume pour comprendre de l'intérieur ses non-dits, Christine Orban ressuscite la voix d'une femme qui ne demandait qu'à être aimée. Sacrifiée sur l'autel de la monarchie, Lady Di finira malgré tout par se libérer de ses chaînes. Savant jeu de miroirs, déchirante confession, le portrait intime d'une femme comme les autres mais qui restera à jamais « Mademoiselle Spencer ». « J'ai aimé l'audace et le talent de la romancière, changée en biographe le temps de mettre en scène cette femme ardente dans un roman vrai. » Dominique Bona, Version Femina « Absolument génial. Christine Orban conte le destin méconnu de Jacqueline, la soeur de Blaise Pascal, et c'est déchirant. » Flavie Fillipon, Elle « On songe à Stefan Zweig. » Sébastien Lapaque, Le Figaro  Christine Orban a publié une vingtaine de romans, récits et recueils qui ont connu un vif succès, parmi lesquels L'Attente, Le Silence des hommes, La Mélancolie du dimanche, N'oublie pas d'être heureuse, Virginia et Vita, Charmer, s'égarer et mourir... Son dernier roman, Soumise, (Albin Michel, 2023) salué par la critique, lève le voile sur la relation ardente, fusionnelle et conflictuelle entre Jacqueline et son frère Blaise Pascal. À propos du livre : « La Tendresse des autres» paru aux éditions Albin Michel " Un histoire poignante jonglant entre médecine et littérature, entre émotions brutes et finesse d'écriture."La Fringalle Culturelle Parfois, je doute d'être à la hauteur. Et puis je me dis que je ne laisserai personne le faire à ma place. Lorsqu'après un accident son petit garçon se renferme en lui-même et décide qu'il n'est plus capable de marcher, Lucie met sa vie entre parenthèses pour tenter de lui donner à nouveau goût à la vie. Un parcours de combattante qui met ses émotions, son couple, sa confiance en elle et toute la famille à rude épreuve. Mais un invité surprise vient bousculer leur quotidien et leur donner une belle leçon de vie : d'un accident on peut en faire une aventure ! Et permet à Lucie de comprendre qu'elle ne peut pas tout porter et réparer seule, et qu'il est plus que temps de faire de la place aux gens qui l'entourent... Car ensemble on est toujours plus fort.

Edition No141 | 10-05-2025 - World leaders attending the military parade in Moscow to mark the end of the second world war bring shame on themselves and their countries. This is what Donald Tusk of Poland said, and I completely concur. Shaking hands with, embracing, and even normalising a blood-thirsty tyrant and killer, and one that is actively engaged in a war with genocidal characteristics against its neighbour and former colonial subject is revolting, despicable, morally bankrupt. Tusk says this after Slovak prime minister Robert Fico became the only European Union leader to attend. Orban was perhaps too concerning about the fragile political situation in Hungary, in case once he left the country he couldn't return. And the home for involuntarily retired dictators and Kremlin puppets in Moscow is becoming a little overcrowded at present. “I try not to comment on the decisions and behaviour of leaders of states, especially from our community,” Tusk told a news conference. “But there is no doubt that being at the victory parade in Moscow and applauding President Putin … brings shame to everyone who is there.”----------Links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly3807exynohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/09/russia-victory-day-putin-ukraine/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/09/russia-ukraine-zelensky-putin-war-latest-news529/https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/russia-parade-world-war-ii-putin-china-xi-trade-deal-tariffs-rcna205534https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/zelenskyy-calls-upcoming-victory-day-parade-in-moscow-parade-of-cynicism-/3560667https://kyivindependent.com/death-regiment-counters-russias-victory-day-celebrations-in-many-protests/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/vladimir-putin-nazi-germany-kremlin-ukraine-russia-b2746910.html----------Your support is massively appreciated! SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon CurtainNEXT EVENTS - LVIV, KYIV AND ODESA THIS MAY.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run a minimum of 12 events in 2025, and potentially many more. We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/-----------

Mai mulți parlamentari maghiari care au întrerupt cu fumigene o sesiune parlamentară care vota interzicerea gay pride în Ungaria au fost suspendați între 4 și 6 luni și li se vor reține și lefurile. În Slovacia, premierul maghiar și cel slovac și-au reafirmat criticile față de Uniunea Europeană. Robert Fico a spus că el și Orban nu sunt totuși niște plângăcioși care merg la Bruxelles să provoace probleme în Uniune. Pentru prima dată în istoria democrației parlamentare din Ungaria, mai mulți parlamentari au fost oficial suspendați din parlament, relateazătelex.hu. Legislativul de la Budapesta a aprobat propunerea președintelui instituției, László Kövér, pedepsirea lui Ákos Hadházy și a altor cinci parlamentari din partidul Momentum. Acești aleși au perturbat desfășurarea sesiunii din 18 mai în timpul adoptării amendamentului legislativ care viza interzicerea Gay Pride, prin aprinderea de fumigene în sală.Parlamentarii care au aprins fumigenele pentru a întrerupe sesiunea au fost suspendați pentru 12 zile de ședință, în timp ce alți trei au primit câte șase zile de suspendare pentru acțiunile lor de protest de la prezidiu. Conform calendarului parlamentar, cei trei parlamentari implicați în utilizarea fumigenelor, nu vor mai putea intra în clădirea Parlamentului pentru restul sesiunii de primăvară. Întoarcerea lor nu este așteptată decât la mijlocul lunii septembrie, la începutul sesiunii de toamnă.Pe lângă suspendare, deputații vor fi pedepsiți prin rețineri salariale: între patru și șase luni de salariu. 82 de milioane de forinți, adică aproximativ 200.000 de euro vor fi reținuți din onorariile celor șase parlamentari implicați.Cum a mințit guvernul maghiar că UE îi cere să renunțe la a 13-a lună de pensieChiar dacă guvernul știa de la început că era o minciună, a inundat țara afișe, scrie tot telex.hu.Publicația se referă la o informație falsă potrivit căreia Uniunea Europeană ar fi cerut Ungariei să renunțe la acordarea celei de-a 13-a luni de pensie.„Această minciună a fost repetată timp de șase luni și 3 miliarde de forinti din bani publici au fost cheltuiți pe această propagandă,” scriu jurnaliștii maghiari.Eva Hrnčířová, purtătoare de cuvânt pentru afaceri sociale la Comisia Europeană, a declarat: „Este pur și simplu greșit că instituțiile europene au cerut Ungariei să elimine cea de-a 13-a lună de pensie, deoarece orice decizie privind cea de-a 13-a lună de pensie trebuie luată de guvernul maghiar.”„Viktor Orbán a declarat într-o postare pe Facebook, înainte de sesiunea UE din octombrie, că Bruxellesul încearcă să-l determine să accepte tot felul de măsuri economice. Printre altele, eliminarea celei de-a 13-a luni de pensionare, dar nu va permite ca aceasta să fie pusă în aplicare. Cu toate acestea, la această întâlnire, nu s-a abordat deloc problema,” adaugă telex.hu.Slovacia și Ungaria critică UE dar nu rezolvă un proiect comun început de 50 de anispravy.pravda.skscrie despre vizita pe care Viktor Orbán a făcut-o la Bratislava săptămâna trecută. Orban și premierul slovac, Robert Fico au criticat UE, dar nu au vorbit deloc despre un dosar rămas nesoluționat între cele două țări de zeci de ani: barajul Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros.Inițiat prin Tratatul de la Budapesta din 16 septembrie 1977 între Republica Socialistă Cehoslovacă și Republica Populară Ungară, proiectul a avut ca scop prevenirea inundațiilor pe Dunăre, îmbunătățirea navigabilității fluviului și producerea de energie electrică curată.Doar o parte a proiectului a fost finalizată în Slovacia, sub numele de Barajul Gabčíkovo, deoarece Ungaria a suspendat mai întâi, apoi a încercat să renunțe la el din probleme de mediu și economice. Ambele părți s-au adresat Curții Internaționale de Justiție pentru o decizie.„Dar Gabčíkovo nici măcar nu a fost menționat,” punctează jurnaliștii slovaci care adaucă că premierul Fico susține că relațiile dintre cele două țări nu au fost niciodată mai bune.Cei doi prim-miniștri au semnat un memorandum privind dezvoltarea transfrontalieră, au salutat reciproc pozițiile politice și relațiile dintre Slovacia și Ungaria și au convenit asupra problemelor pe care le percep în Uniunea Europeană.Fico a mai spus că Uniunea Europeană ar trebui să-i mulțumească lui Orbán pentru politica sa de migrație și a cerut statelor membre să nu-l considere pe el și pe prim-ministrul ungar drept „niște plângăcioși care vin să semene probleme în UE”. În încheierea conferinței de presă, el a spus că Occidentul organizează „Maidane” împotriva guvernelor legitime din Serbia și Georgia și că, în opinia sa, Albania este mai bine pregătită să adere la UE decât Ucraina. Au participat la Revista Presei, Europa Plus:Kevin KOVÁCS, UngariaAnna Réka, RÁFI, UngariaDominika ZVARIKOVÁ, Slovacia

Manu and Stefan were back for the Bundesliga preview show (a day late due to travel), and there's plenty to unpack. Here's your weekly conversation-style recap from the pod: Bayern on the Brink (Without Kane) Manu: “This could be it — if Bayern beat Leipzig, they win the title.” Stefan: “And Harry Kane won't be on the pitch, which just writes its own jokes.” Still, Kane and Eric Dier will get their first career trophies if Bayern wrap it up. Stefan joked Dier could do a John Terry and show up in full kit at full-time. Stefan: “Bayern won't delay the title for sentimental reasons. They'll get it done.” Both agree this season's been mixed for Bayern, but Kompany has done the job that matters: reclaiming the Bundesliga title. Leipzig's Squeaky-Bum Time Manu: “This game is massive for Leipzig. If they don't get a result, Champions League football could be gone.” Stefan: “They're up against it. Orban and Gulácsi are out. Without them, they're hopeless.” Leipzig are under pressure from Dortmund and Freiburg. Without Champions League qualification, they may need to sell key players like Xavi Simons. Stefan: “They've been sleepwalking for years. Leverkusen's rise is forcing them to wake up.” Manu: “The issue isn't ambition. It's their failure to find the right formula.” The coaching situation is also in focus. Manu and Stefan suggest Leipzig need to make a bold hire — maybe Sandro Wagner or Cesc Fàbregas. Freiburg's Big Chance Manu: “If Freiburg beat Leverkusen and Leipzig lose, the door to the Champions League really opens.” Stefan: “Julian Schuster has actually improved on Streich's work.” Freiburg are two points ahead of Leipzig. Despite struggling against top-four teams this season, they have a chance to change that now. Stefan: “They need to break the curse. If you want to be top four, you have to beat top-four clubs.” They've signed a replacement for Ritsu Doan and could have Noah Atubolu back in goal — a major boost. Manu also explained why Freiburg shouldn't be considered a small club anymore. Manu: “Freiburg's greater metro area is bigger than Dortmund. They're a sleeping giant with real infrastructure now.”

The first 100 days of Trump's second term have come to an end… so, what comes next? Overseas, Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has transformed his country into electoral autocracy using tactics that bear a striking resemblance to those currently playing out in Trump's America. To close out the Trumpland series, MSNBC's Alex Wagner travels to Hungary and speaks with lawyers, journalists, politicians, and advocates on the ground who offer important lessons for America while they continue to fight for democracy in their own country. Sign up for MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen to this episode ad-free, plus get an upcoming exclusive bonus episode of Trumpland!

100 dagen zit Donald Trump in het Witte Huis en met het tempo waarmee hij de Amerikaanse instellingen afbreekt, geeft hij zelfs autocraten als Orban en Erdogan het nakijken. In drie afleveringen van DS Vandaag bespreken we of we de VS nog wel een democratische rechtstaat kunnen noemen. In de derde en laatste aflevering hebben we het over hoe Trump het Congres helemaal buitenspel zet. ­ Journalisten Steven De Foer, Roeland Termote | Presentatie Alexander Lippeveld | Redactie Yves Delepeleire | Eindredactie Yves Delepeleire, Febe De Fraine | Audioproductie en muziek Niels De Keukelaere | Chef podcast Alexander LippeveldSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

100 dagen zit Donald Trump in het Witte Huis en met het tempo waarmee hij de Amerikaanse instellingen afbreekt, geeft hij zelfs autocraten als Orban en Erdogan het nakijken. In drie afleveringen van DS Vandaag bespreken we of we de VS nog wel een democratische rechtstaat kunnen noemen. In de tweede aflevering hebben we het over de wraak van Trump op de academische wereld en de culturele elite. ­ Journalisten Steven De Foer, Roeland Termote | Presentatie Alexander Lippeveld | Redactie Yves Delepeleire | Eindredactie Yves Delepeleire, Fien Dillen, Febe De Fraine | Audioproductie en muziek Niels De Keukelaere | Chef podcast Alexander LippeveldSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Few analysts are more familiar with the politics of both contemporary Turkey and the United States than my old friend , the distinguished Turkish political scientist Soli Ozel. Drawing on his decades of experience in both countries, Ozel, currently a senior fellow at the Institut Montaigne, explains how democratic institutions are similarly being challenged in Trump's America and Erdogan's Turkey. He discusses the imprisonment of Istanbul's popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, restrictive speech in American universities, and how economic decline eventually undermines authoritarian regimes. Ozel emphasizes that effective opposition requires both public discontent and compelling leadership alternatives, which Turkey has developed but America currently sorely lacks. Most intriguingly, he suggests that Harvard's legal battle against Trump could be as significant as the 1925 Scopes trial which marked the end of another bout of anti-scientific hysteria in America. 5 Key Takeaways* Populist authoritarianism follows a similar pattern regardless of left/right ideology - controlling judiciary, media, and institutions while claiming to represent "the people" against elites.* Academic freedom in America has declined significantly, with Ozel noting he experienced more classroom freedom in Turkey than at Yale in 2019.* Economic pain combined with a crisis of legitimacy is crucial for challenging authoritarian regimes, but requires credible opposition leadership to succeed.* Istanbul mayor Imamoglu has emerged as a powerful opposition figure in Turkey by appealing across political divides and demonstrating practical governance skills.* Turkey's strategic importance has increased due to its position between war zones (Syria and Ukraine) and Europe's growing need for security partners as American support becomes less certain. Full TranscriptAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. It's not great news these days that the U.S. Brand has been, so to speak, tarnished as a headline today on CNN. I'm quoting them. CNN, of course, is not Donald Trump's biggest fan. Trump tarnishes the U S brand as a rock of stability in the global economy. I'm not sure if the US was ever really a rock of stability for anything except itself. But we on the show as. As loyal viewers and listeners know, we've been going around the world, taking stock of the US brand, how it's viewed around the word. We did a show last week with Simon Cooper, the Dutch-based Paris writer of the Financial Times, who believes it's time for all Americans to come and live in Europe. And then with Jemima Kelly, another London-based correspondent. And I thought we would broaden. I asked european perspective by visiting my old friend very old friend Soli Ozel. iVve known him for almost forty years he's a. Senior fellow of international relations and turkey at the montane institute he's talking to us from vienna but he is a man who is born and spends a lot of his time thinking about. Turkey, he has an interesting new piece out in the Institute Montaigne. Turkey, a crisis of legitimacy and massive social mobilization in a regional power. I want to talk to Soli later in this conversation about his take on what's happening in Turkey. But first of all, Soli, before we went live, you noted that you first came to America in September 1977. You were educated here, undergraduate, graduate, both at uh, sized in Washington DC and then at UC Berkeley, where you and I studied together at the graduate program. Um, how do you feel almost 50 years, sorry, we're dating ourselves, but how did you feel taking off your political science cap, your analyst cap, how did you feel about what's happening in America as, as a man who invested your life in some ways in the promise of America, and particularly American education universities.Soli Ozel: Yeah, I mean, I, yes, I came to the States or I went to the States in September of 1977. It was a very different America, post Vietnam. And I went through an avant garde college liberal arts college.Andrew Keen: Bennington wasn'tSoli Ozel: Bennington College, and I've spent about 11 years there. And you and I met in 1983 in Berkeley. And then I also taught at American universities. I taught at UC Santa Cruz, Northwestern, SAIS itself, University of Washington, Yale, and had fellowships in different parts. Now, of course, in those years, a lot has changed in the US. The US has changed. In fact, I'm writing a piece now on Christopher Lash. And reading Christopher Lasch work from the 60s and the 1970s, in a way, you wonder why Trumpism has not really emerged a bit earlier than when it did. So, a lot of the... Dynamics that have brought Donald Trump to power, not once, but twice, and in spite of the fact that, you know, he was tried and found guilty and all that. Many of those elements have been there definitely since the 1980s, but Lascch identified especially this divergence between educated people and less educated people between brainies and or the managerial class and the working class in the United States. So, in a way, it looks like the Trumpism's triumph came even a bit late, although there were a couple of attempts perhaps in the early 1990s. One was Pat Buchanan and the other one, Ross Perot, which we forget that Ross Perot got 19% of the vote against in the contest when Bill Clinton. Won the election against George H.W. Bush. So underground, if you will, a lot was happening in the United States.Andrew Keen: All right. And it's interesting you bring up Lash, there's that sort of whole school Lasch Daniel Bell, of course, we had Daniel Bell's son, David Bell, on the show recently. And there's a lot of discussion, as I'm sure you know, about the nativism of Trump, whether it's uniquely American, whether it was somehow inevitable. We've done last week, we did a show about comparing what's happening now in America to what happened after the First World War. Being less analytical, Solé, my question was more an emotional one to you as someone who has built their life around freedom of expression in American universities. You were at Bennington, you were at SICE, you're at UC Berkeley, as you know, you taught at UC Santa Cruz and Yale and many other places. You come in and out of this country giving lectures. How do you personally feel about what's happening?Soli Ozel: Yeah, okay. I mean, in that sense, again, the United States, by the way, I mean the United States has been changing independently of Mr. Trump's presidency. It was much more difficult to be, I mean when I went to college in Bennington College, you really did not bite your tongue when you were going to speak either as a student or a professor. And increasingly, and especially in my last bout at Yale in 2019, I felt that, you know, there were a lot of constraints on what you could say or how you could say it, whether you would call it walkism, political correctness, whatever it was. It was a much, the atmosphere at the university was much more constrained in terms of what transpired in the classroom and that I mean, in Turkey, I had more freedom in terms of how we debated things in class that I felt that...Andrew Keen: That is astonishing. So you had more freedom in...Soli Ozel: As well, you did in Yale in 1990. I'm talking about not the political aspect of things, but how you debate something, okay, whether or not, I mean, there would be lots of views and you could you could present them without insulting anyone, however you presented them was fine, and this is how what the dynamics of the classroom had been when I was a student. So, in that sense, I guess it wasn't just the right that constrained speech, but also the left that constrained the speech, because new values were added or new norms were invented to define what can and cannot be said. And of course, that goes against the grain of what a university education ought to be. I mean, I had colleagues. In major universities who told me that they really were biting their tongue when they were giving their lectures. And that is not my understanding of education or college education and that certainly has not been my experience when I came to the States and for my long education here for 11 years.Andrew Keen: Solit, you and I have a long history of thinking about the Middle East, where back in the early 80s, we TA'd a class on the Arab-Israeli conflict with Yaya Sadowski, who at that time was a very independent thinker. I know he was a close friend of yours. I was always very influenced by his thinking. You're from Izmir, from a Jewish family in Turkey. So you're all too familiar with the complexity of anti-Semitism, Israel, the Middle East, Turkey. What do you personally make of this hysteria now on campus about anti-semitism and throwing out anyone, it seems, at least from the Trump point of view, who are pro-Palestinian? Is this again, I mean, you went back to Christopher Lasch and his thinking on populism and the dangers of populism in America. Or is this something that... Comes out of the peculiarities of American history. We have predicted this 40 years ago when you and I were TAing Sadowski's class on Arab-Israeli conflict at Berkeley.Soli Ozel: The Arab-Israeli conflict always raises passions, if you will. And it's no different. To put it mildly, Salvador, I think. Yeah, it is a bit different now. I mean, of course, my hunch is that anti-Semitism is always present. There is no doubt. And although I followed the developments very closely after October 7. I was not in there physically present. I had some friends, daughters and sons who were students who have reported to me because I'm supposed to know something about those matters. So yeah, antisemitism is there. On the other hand, there is also some exaggeration. We know that a lot of the protesters, for instance, were Jews themselves. But my hunch is that the Trump administration, especially in their attack against elite universities, are using this for political purposes. I'm sure there were other ways of handling this. I don't find it very sincere. And a real problem is being dealt with in a very manipulative political way, I think. Other and moreover So long as there was no violence and I know there were instances of violence that should be punished that I don't have any complaints about, but partially if this is only related to what you say, I'm not sure that this is how a university or relations between students at the university ought to be conducted. If you're not going to be able to say what you think at the university, then what else are you going to say? Are you going be able say it? So this is a much more complicated matter than it is being presented. And as I said, my view or based on what I follow that is happening at colleges, this is being used as an excuse. As somebody I think Peter Beinhart wrote today in the New York Times. He says, No, no, no. It is not really about protecting Jewish students, but it is protecting a certain... Type of Jewish students, and that means it's a political decision, the complaints, legitimate complaints, perhaps, of some students to use those against university administrations or universities themselves that the Trump administration seems to be targeting.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's interesting you bring up Beinart. He was on the show a year or two ago. I think he notes that, I mean, I don't want to put words into his mouth, but he seems to be suggesting that Jews now have a responsibility almost to speak out, not just obviously about what's happening in the U.S., but certainly about what is happening in Gaza. I'm not sure what you think on.Soli Ozel: He just published a book, he just published the book being Jewish in the US after Gaza or something along those lines. He represents a certain way of thinking about what had happened in Gaza, I mean what had happened to Israel with the attack of Hamas and what had happened afterwards, whether or not he represents the majority. Do you agree with him? I happen to be. I happen to be sympathetic to his views. And especially when you read the book at the beginning, it says, look, he's a believer. Believer meaning he is a practicing Jew. So this is not really a question about his own Jewishness, but how he understands what being a Jew actually means. And from that perspective, putting a lot of accent to the moral aspects of Jewish history and Jewish theological and secular thinking, He is rebelling, if you will, against this way of manipulative use. On the part of some Jewish organizations as well of what had gone on and this is this he sees as a along with others actually he also sees this as a threat to Jewish presence in the United States. You know there is a simultaneous increase in in anti-semitism. And some people argue that this has begun even before October 7. Let us not forget Charlottesville when the crowds that were deemed to be nice people were chanting, Jews will not replace us, and those people are still around. Yeah, a lot of them went to jail.Andrew Keen: Yeah, I mean Trump seemed to have pardoned some of them. And Solly, what do you make of quote-unquote the resistance to Trump in the U.S.? You're a longtime observer of authoritarianism, both personally and in political science terms. One of the headlines the last few days is about the elite universities forming a private collective to resist the Trump administration. Is this for real and is it new? Should we admire the universities or have they been forced into this position?Soli Ozel: Well, I mean, look, you started your talk with the CNN title. Yeah, about the brand, the tarnishing of the U.S. Whatever the CNN stands for. The thing is, there is no question that what is happening today and what has been happening in my judgment over the last two years, particularly on the issue of Gaza, I would not... Exonerate the Biden administration and the way it actually managed its policy vis-a-vis that conflict. There is, of course, a reflection on American policy vis a vis that particular problem and with the Trump administration and 100 days of storm, if you will, around the world, there is a shift in the way people look at the United States. I think it is not a very favorable shift in terms of how people view and understand the United States. Now, that particular thing, the colleges coming together, institutions in the United States where the Americans are very proud of their Madisonian institutions, they believe that that was there. Uh, if you will, insurance policy against an authoritarian drift in their system. Those institutions, both public institutions and private institutions actually proved to be paper tigers. I mean, look at corporations that caved in, look at law firms that arcade that have caved in, Look at Columbia university being, if you will the most egregious example of caving in and plus still not getting the money or not actually stopping the demands that are made on it. So Harvard after equivocating on this finally came up with a response and decided to take the risk of losing massive sums of grants from the federal government. And in fact, it's even suing. The Trump administration for withholding the money that was supposed to go to them. And I guess there is an awakening and the other colleges in order to protect freedom of expression, in order, to protect the independence of higher education in this country, which has been sacrosanct, which is why a lot of people from all around the world, students... Including you and I, right? I mean, that's why we... Yeah, exactly. By the way, it's anywhere between $44 and $50 billion worth of business as well. Then it is there finally coming together, because if you don't hang together, you'll hang separately, is a good American expression that I like. And then trying to defend themselves. And I think this Harvard slope suit, the case of Harvard, is going to be like the Stokes trial of the 1920s on evolution. It's going to be a very similar case, I believe, and it may determine how American democracy goes from now.Andrew Keen: Interesting. You introduced me to Ece Temelkuren, another of your friends from someone who no longer lives in Turkey. She's a very influential Turkish columnist, polemicist. She wrote a famous book, How to Lose a Country. She and you have often compared Turkey. With the rest of the world suggesting that what you're going through in Turkey is the kind of canary in the coal mine for the rest the world. You just came out with a piece, Turkey, a crisis of legitimacy, a massive social mobilization and regional power. I want to get to the details of what's happening in Turkey first. But like Ece, do you see Turkey as the kind of canary and the coalmine that you got into this first? You're kind of leading the narrative of how to address authoritarianism in the 25th century.Soli Ozel: I don't think Turkey was the first one. I think the first one was Hugo Chavez. And then others followed. Turkey certainly is a prominent one. But you know, you and I did other programs and in an earlier era, about 15 years ago. Turkey was actually doing fine. I mean, it was a candidate for membership, still presumably, formally, a candidate for membership in the European Union, but at the time when that thing was alive. Turkey did, I mean, the AKP government or Erdogan as prime minister did a lot of things that were going in the right direction. They certainly demilitarized Turkish politics, but increasingly as they consolidated themselves in power, they moved in a more authoritarian path. And of course, after the coup attempt in 2016 on the 15th of July, that trend towards authoritarianism had been exacerbated and but with the help of a very sui generis if you will unaccountable presidential system we are we find ourselves where we are but The thing is what has been missed out by many abroad was that there was also a very strong resistance that had remained actually unbowing for a long time. And Istanbul, which is, of course, almost a fifth of Turkey's population, 32 percent of its economy, and that's where the pulse of the country actually beats, since 2017 did not vote for Mr Erdogan. I mean, referendum, general election, municipal election. It hasn't, it hasn't. And that is that really, it really represents the future. And today, the disenchantment or discontent has now become much broader, much more broadly based because conservative Anatolia is also now feeling the biting of the economy. And this sense of justice in the country has been severely damaged. And That's what I think explains. The kinds of reaction we had throughout the country to the first arrest and then incarceration of the very popular mayor of Istanbul who is a national figure and who was seen as the main contender for the presidency in the elections that are scheduled to take place in.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and I want to talk more about Turkey's opposition and an interesting New York Times editorial. But before we get there, Soli, you mentioned that the original model was Chavez in Venezuela, of course, who's always considered a leftist populist, whereas Erdogan, Trump, etc., and maybe Netanyahu are considered populists of the right. Is that a useful? Bifurcation in ideological terms or a populist populism that the idea of Chavez being different from Trump because one's on the left and right is really a 20th century mistake or a way of thinking about the 21st century using 20th-century terms.Soli Ozel: Okay, I mean the ideological proclivities do make a difference perhaps, but at the end of the day, what all these populist movements represent is the coming of age or is the coming to power of country elites. Suggests claiming to represent the popular classes whom they say and who are deprived of. Uh, benefits of holding power economically or politically, but once they get established in power and with the authoritarian tilt doesn't really make a distinction in terms of right or wrong. I mean, is Maduro the successor to Chavez a rightist or a leftist? I mean does it really make a difference whether he calls himself a leftists or a rightists? I is unaccountable, is authoritarian. He loses elections and then he claims that he wins these elections and so the ideology that purportedly brought them to power becomes a fig leaf, if you will, justification and maybe the language that they use in order to justify the existing authoritarianism. In that sense, I don't think it makes a difference. Maybe initially it could have made a difference, We have seen populist leaders. Different type of populism perhaps in Latin America. For instance, the Peruvian military was supposed to be very leftist, whereas the Chilean or the Brazilian or the Argentinian or the Uruguayan militaries were very right-wing supported by the church itself. Nicaragua was supposed to be very Leftist, right? They had a revolution, the Sandinista revolution. And look at Daniel Ortega today, does it really matter that he claims himself to be a man of the left? I mean, He runs a family business in Nicaragua. And so all those people who were so very excited about the Nicaraguan Revolution some 45 years ago must be extraordinarily disappointed. I mean, of course, I was also there as a student and wondering what was going to happen in Nicaragua, feeling good about it and all that. And that turned out to be an awful dictatorship itself.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and on this sense, I think you're on the same page as our mutual friend, Moises Naim, who wrote a very influential book a couple of years ago. He's been on the show many times about learning all this from the Latin American playbook because of his experience in Venezuela. He has a front row on this. Solly, is there one? On this, I mean, as I said, you just come out with a piece on the current situation in Turkey and talk a little bit more detail, but is America a few stops behind Turkey? I mean you mentioned that in Turkey now everyone, not just the urban elites in Istanbul, but everyone in the country is beginning to experience the economic decline and consequences of failed policies. A lot of people are predicting the same of Trump's America in the next year or two. Is there just one route in this journey? Is there's just one rail line?Soli Ozel: Like by what the root of established wow a root in the sense of youAndrew Keen: Erdogan or Trump, they come in, they tell lots of lies, they promise a lot of stuff, and then ultimately they can't deliver. Whatever they're promising, the reverse often happens. The people they're supposed to be representing are actually victims of their policies. We're seeing it in America with the consequences of the tariff stuff, of inflation and rise of unemployment and the consequences higher prices. It has something similar. I think of it as the Liz Truss effect, in the sense that the markets ultimately are the truth. And Erdogan, I know, fought the markets and lost a few years ago in Turkey too.Soli Ozel: There was an article last week in Financial Times Weekend Edition, Mr. Trump versus Mr. Market. Trump versus, Mr. Market. Look, first of all, I mean, in establishing a system, the Orban's or Modi's, they all follow, and it's all in Ece's book, of course. You have to control the judiciary, you have to control the media, and then all the institutions. Gradually become under your thumb. And then the way out of it is for first of all, of course, economic problems, economic pain, obviously makes people uncomfortable, but it will have to be combined with the lack of legitimacy, if you will. And that is, I don't think it's right, it's there for in the United States as of yet, but the shock has been so. Robust, if you will, that the reaction to Trump is also rising in a very short period, in a lot shorter period of time than it did in other parts of the world. But economic conditions, the fact that they worsen, is an important matter. But there are other conditions that need to be fulfilled. One of those I would think is absolutely the presence of a political leader that defies the ones in power. And I think when I look at the American scene today, one of the problems that may, one of problems that the political system seems to have, which of course, no matter how economically damaging the Trump administration may be, may not lead to an objection to it. To a loss of power in the midterms to begin with, is lack of leadership in the Democratic Party and lack of a clear perspective that they can share or program that they present to the public at large. Without that, the ones that are in power hold a lot of cards. I mean, it took Turkey about... 18 years after the AKP came to power to finally have potential leaders, and only in 2024 did it become very apparent that now Turkey had more than one leader that could actually challenge Erdogan, and that they also had, if not to support the belief in the public, that they could also run the country. Because if the public does not believe that you are competent enough to manage the affairs of the state or to run the country, they will not vote for you. And leadership truly is an extraordinarily important factor in having democratic change in such systems, what we call electoral authoritarian.Andrew Keen: So what's happened in Turkey in terms of the opposition? The mayor of Istanbul has emerged as a leader. There's an attempt to put him in jail. You talk about the need for an opposition. Is he an ideological figure or just simply younger, more charismatic? More attractive on the media. What do you need and what is missing in the US and what do you have in Turkey? Why are you a couple of chapters ahead on this?Soli Ozel: Well, it was a couple of chapters ahead because we have had the same government or the same ruler for 22 years now.Andrew Keen: And Imamo, I wanted you to pronounce it, Sali, because my Turkish is dreadful. It's worse than most of the other.Soli Ozel: He is the mayor of Istanbul who is now in jail and whose diploma was annulled by the university which actually gave him the diploma and the reason why that is important is if you want to run for president in Turkey, you've got to have a college degree. So that's how it all started. And then he was charged with corruption and terrorism. And he's put in zero. Oh, it's terrorism. There was.Andrew Keen: It's terrorism, they always throw the terrorist bit in, don't they, Simon?Soli Ozel: Yeah, but that dossier is, for the moment, pending. It has not been closed, but it is pending. Anyway, he is young, but his major power is that he can touch all segments of society, conservative, nationalist, leftist. And that's what makes people compare him also with Erdogan who also had a touch of appealing to different segments of the population. But of course, he's secular. He's not ideological, he's a practical man. And Istanbul's population is about anywhere between 16 and 18 million people. It's larger than many countries in Europe. And to manage a city like Istanbul requires really good managerial skills. And Imamoglu managed this in spite of the fact that central government cut its resources, made sure that there was obstruction in every step that he wanted to take, and did not help him a bit. And that still was continuing. Still, he won once. Then there was a repeat election. He won again. And this time around, he one with a landslide, 54% against 44% of his opponent, which had all theAndrew Keen: So the way you're presenting him, is he running as a technocrat or is he running as a celebrity?Soli Ozel: No, he's running as a politician. He's running a politician, he is a popular politician. Maybe you can see tinges of populism in him as well, but... He is what, again, what I think his incarceration having prompted such a wide ranging segments of population really kind of rebelling against this incarceration has to do with the fact that he has resonance in Anatolia. Because he does not scare conservative people. He aspires the youth because he speaks to them directly and he actually made promises to them in Istanbul that he kept, he made their lives easier. And he's been very creative in helping the poorer segments of Istanbul with a variety of programs. And he has done this without really being terribly pushing. So, I mean, I think I sense that the country sees him as its next ruler. And so to attack him was basically tampering with the verdict of the ballot box. That's, I, think how the Turkish public interpreted it. And for good historical reasons, the ballot box is really pretty sacred in Turkey. We usually have upwards of 80% of participation in the election.Andrew Keen: And they're relatively, I mean, not just free, but the results are relatively honest. Yeah, there was an interesting New York Times editorial a couple of days ago. I sent it over. I'm sure you'd read it anyway. Turkey's people are resisting autocracy. They deserve more than silence. I mean from Trump, who has very peculiar relations, he has peculiar relations with everyone, but particularly it seems with Turkey does, in your view, does Turkey needs or the resistance or the mayor of Istanbul this issue, need more support from the US? Would it make any difference?Soli Ozel: Well, first of all, the current American administration didn't seem to particularly care that the arrest and incarceration of the mayor of Istanbul was a bit, to say the least, was awkward and certainly not very legal. I mean, Mario Rubio said, Marco Rubio said that he had concerns. But Mr. Witkoff, in the middle of demonstrations that were shaking the country, Mr. Witkof said it to Tucker Carlson's show that there were very wonderful news coming out of Turkey. And of course, President Trump praised Erdogan several times. They've been on the phone, I think, five times. And he praised Erdogan in front of Bibi Netanyahu, which obviously Bibi Netanyah did not particularly appreciate either. So obviously the American administration likes Mr. Erdogans and will support him. And whatever the Turkish public may or may not want, I don't think is of great interest toAndrew Keen: What about the international dimension, sorry, Putin, the Ukrainian war? How does that play out in terms of the narrative unfolding in Turkey?Soli Ozel: Well, first of all, of course, when the Assad regime fell,Andrew Keen: Right, and as that of course. And Syria of course as well posts that.Soli Ozel: Yeah, I mean, look, Turkey is in the middle of two. War zones, no? Syria was one and the Ukraine is the other. And so when the regime fell and it was brought down by groups that were protected by Turkey in Idlib province of Syria. Everybody argued, and I think not wrongly, that Turkey would have a lot of say over the future of Syria. And I think it will. First of all, Turkey has about 600 miles or 911 kilometer border with Syria and the historical relations.Andrew Keen: And lots of Syrian refugees, of course.Soli Ozel: At the peak, there were about 4 million, I think it's now going down. President Erdogan said that about 200,000 already went back since the overthrow of the regime. And then of course, to the north, there is Ukraine, Russia. And of course this elevates Turkey's strategic importance or geopolitical importance. Another issue that raises Turkish geopolitical importance is, of course, the gradual withdrawal of the United States from providing security to Europe under the umbrella of NATO, North Atlantic Alliance. And as the Europeans are being forced to fetch for themselves for their security, non-EU members of NATO such as Britain, Norway, Turkey, their importance becomes more accentuated as well. And so Turkey and the European Union were in the process of at least somewhat normalizing their relations and their dialog. So what happened domestically, therefore, did not get much of a reaction from the EU, which is supposed to be this paragon of rights and liberties and all that. But But it also left Turkey in a game in an awkward situation, I would think, because things could have gone much, much better. The rapprochement with the European Union could have moved a lot more rapidly, I will think. But geopolitical advantages are there. Obviously, the Americans care a lot for it. And whatever it is that they're negotiating with the Turkish government, we will soon find out. It is a... It is a country that would help stabilize Syria. And that's what President Trump also said, that he would adjudicate between Israel and Turkey over Syria, because these two countries which have been politically at odds, but strategically usually in very good terms. Whether or not the, so to avoid a clash between the two in Syria was important for him. So Turkey's international situation will continue to be important, but I think without the developments domestically, Turkey's position and profile would have been much more solid.Andrew Keen: Comparing US and Turkey, the US military has never participated, at least overtly, in politics, whereas the Turkish military, of course, has historically. Where's the Turkish Military on this? What are they thinking about these imprisonments and the increasing unpopularity of the current regime?Soli Ozel: I think the demilitarization of the Turkish political system was accomplished by the end of the 2000s, so I don't think anybody knows what the military thinks and I'm not sure that anybody really wonders what the army thinks. I think Erdogan has certainly on the top echelons of the military, it has full control. Whether or not the cadets in the Turkish military are lower echelons. Do have political views at odds with that of the government that is not visible. And I don't think the Turkish military should be designing or defining our political system. We have an electorate. We do have a fairly, how shall I say, a public that is fairly attuned to its own rights. And believes certainly in the sanctity of the ballot box, it's been resisting for quite some time and it is defying the authorities and we should let that take its course. I don't think we need the military to do it.Andrew Keen: Finally, Soli, you've been very generous with your time from Vienna. It's late afternoon there. Let's end where we began with this supposed tarnishing of the U.S. Brand. As we noted earlier, you and I have invested our lives, if for better or worse, in the U S brand. We've always been critical, but we've also been believers in this. It's also important in this brand.Soli Ozel: It is an important grant.Andrew Keen: So how do we, and I don't like this term, maybe there is a better term, brands suggest marketing, something not real, but there is something real about the US. How do we re-establish, or I don't know what the word is, a polish rather than tarnish the US brand? What needs to happen in the U.S.Soli Ozel: Well, I think we will first have to see the reinvigoration of institutions in the United States that have been assaulted. That's why I think the Harvard case... Yeah, and I love you.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and I love your idea of comparing it to the Scopes trial of 1926. We probably should do a whole show on that, it's fascinating idea.Soli Ozel: Okay, and then the Democratic Party will have to get its act together. I don't know how long it will take for them to get their act together, they have not been very...Andrew Keen: Clever. But some Democrats will say, well, there's more than one party. The Sanders AOC wing has done its job. People like Gavin Newsom are trying to do their job. I mean, you can't have an official party. There's gonna be a debate. There already is a debate within the party between the left and the right.Soli Ozel: The thing is, debates can be endless, and I don't think there is time for that. First of all, I think the decentralized nature of American governance is also an advantage. And I think that the assault has been so forceful that everybody has woken up to it. It could have been the frog method, you know, that is... Yeah, the boiling in the hot water. So, already people have begun to jump and that is good, that's a sign of vitality. And therefore, I think in due time, things will be evolving in a different direction. But, for populist or authoritarian inclined populist regimes, control of the institutions is very important, so you've got to be alert. And what I discovered, studying these things and looking at the practice. Executive power is a lot of power. So separation of powers is fine and good, but the thing is executive power is really very... Prominent and the legislature, especially in this particular case with the Republican party that has become the instrument of President Trump, and the judiciary which resists but its power is limited. I mean, what do you do when a court decision is not abided by the administration? You cannot send the police to the White House.Andrew Keen: Well, you might have to, that's why I asked the military question.Soli Ozel: Well, it's not up to the military to do this, somehow it will have to be resolved within the civilian democratic system, no matter where. Yes, the decks are stacked against the opposition in most of these cases, but then you'll have to fight. And I think a lot hinges on how corporations are going to react from now on. They have bet on Trump, and I suppose that many of them are regretting because of the tariffs. I just was at a conference, and there was a German business person who said that he has a factory in Germany and a factory in Ohio. And he told me that within three months there would not be any of the goods that he produces on the shelves because of tariffs. Once this begins to hit, then you may see a different dynamic in the country as well, unless the administration takes a U-turn. But if it does take a U turn, it will also have weakened itself, both domestically and internationally.Andrew Keen: Yeah, certainly, to put it mildly. Well, as we noted, Soli, what's real is economics. The rest is perhaps froth or lies or propaganda. Soli Ozel: It's a necessary condition. Without that deteriorating, you really cannot get things on values done.Andrew Keen: In other words, Marx was right, but perhaps in a slightly different context. We're not going to get into Marx today, Soli, we're going to get you back on the show. Cause I love that comparison with the current, the Harvard Trump legal thing, comparing it to Scopes. I think I hadn't thought of that. It's a very interesting idea. Keep well, keep safe, keep telling the truth from Central Europe and Turkey. As always, Solia, it's an honor to have you on the show. Thank you so much.Soli Ozel: Thank you, Andrew, for having me.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. 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Americans, it's time to move to Europe! The American geo-strategist Jason Pack anticipated last week's advice from Simon Kuper and moved to London a few years ago during the first Trump Presidency. Pack, the host of the excellent Disorder podcast, confesses to be thrilled to have escaped MAGA America. He describes the esthetics of contemporary Washington DC as "post-apocalyptic" and criticizes what he sees as the Trump administration's hostile atmosphere, ideological purity tests, and institutional destruction. Contrasting this with Europe's ideological fluidity, Pack warns that Trump's isolationist policies are increasing global disorder by fundamentally undermining America's global leadership role with its erstwhile European allies. Five Key Takeaways* Pack left America because he found the "esthetics" of working in policy and media spaces increasingly distasteful, particularly during Trump's first administration.* He argues that European political systems allow for greater ideological fluidity, while American politics demands strict partisan loyalty.* Pack describes Washington DC as "post-apocalyptic" with institutions functioning like zombies - going through motions without accomplishing anything meaningful.* Unlike European populists who want to control institutions, Pack believes Trump's administration aims to destroy government institutions entirely.* Pack warns that America's deteriorating relationships with traditional allies is creating a "rudderless world" with increased global disorder and potential for conflict. Full TranscriptAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. Over the last few days, we've been focusing on the impressions of America, of Trump's America around the world. We had the Financial Times' controversial columnist, Simon Cooper, on the show, arguing that it's the end of the American dream. He had a piece in the FT this week, arguing that it's time to move to Europe for Americans. Not everyone agrees. We had the London-based FT writer Jemima Kelly on the show recently, also suggesting that she hasn't quite given up on America. She is, of course, a Brit living in the UK and looking at America from London. My guest today, another old friend, is Jason Pack. He is the host of the Excellent Disorder podcast. Jason's been on the shows lots of times before. He's an observer of the world's early 21st century disorder. And he is an American living in London. So I'm thrilled that Jason is back on the show. Jason, did you have a chance to look at Simon Cooper's piece? Is it time for Americans to move to Europe?Jason Pack: You've already moved. Well, he's just popularizing what I've believed for eight or 10 years already. So yeah, I looked at the piece. I really enjoyed your podcast with him. I don't think many Americans will move because most Americans are not particularly global in their outlook. And as disenchanted as they will be, their networks of family and of perspective are in America. Some elites in media and finance will move. But for me, I just found the aesthetics of America becoming distasteful when I worked in D.C. during the first Trump administration. And that's why I pursued a European citizenship.Andrew Keen: Jason, it's interesting that you choose the word aesthetics. Two thoughts on that. Firstly, America has never been distinguished for its aesthetics. People never came to America for aesthetics. It's never been a particularly beautiful country, a very dynamic place, a very powerful place. So why do you choose that word aesthetic?Jason Pack: Because for most upper middle class Americans, life under Trump, particularly if they're white and heterosexual, will not change tremendously. But the aesthetics of working in the policy space or in the media will change. Having to deal with all the BS that we hear when we wake up and turn on the TV in the morning, having to interact with Republican nutcase friends who say, oh, the fat is being trimmed by the doge and don't worry about all those people who've been being laid off. The aesthetics of it are ugly and mean. And I have found among some Republican colleagues and friends of mine that they love the vileness of this dog-eat-dog aesthetic.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's an interesting way of putting it. And I understand exactly what you're saying. I'm less concerned with the aesthetics as with the reality. And my sense in some ways of what's happening is that the Trump people are obsessed with what you call aesthetics. They want to appear mean. I'm not actually sure that they're quite as mean as they'd like to think they are.Jason Pack: Oh, they're pretty mean. I mean, people are running around the NIH offices, according to colleagues of mine. And if you're out to the bathroom and your card is inserted in your computer, they go in, they steal the data from your computer.Andrew Keen: Actually, I take your point. What I meant more by that is that whereas most traditional authoritarian regimes hide their crimes against migrants. They deny wrongdoing. My sense of the Trump regime, or certainly a lot of the people involved in this Trump administration, is that they actually exaggerate it because it gives them pleasure and it somehow benefits their brand. I'm not convinced that they're quite as bad as they'd like to think.Jason Pack: Oh, I agree with that. They make Schadenfreude a principle. They want to showcase that they enjoy other people's pain. It's a bizarre psychological thing. Trump, for example, wanted to show his virility and his meanness, probably because he's an inner coward and he's not that feral. But we digress in terms of the aesthetics of the individual American wanting to leave. I experienced American government, like the State Department, and then, the bureaucracy of the policy space, say think tanks, or even the government relations trade space, say working for oil companies and government relations, as already authoritarian and ass-kissing in America, and the aesthetics of those industries I have always preferred in Europe, and that's only diverging.Andrew Keen: One of the things that always struck me about Washington, D.C. It was always uncomfortable as an imperial city. It always has been since the end of the Second World War, with America dominating the world as being one of two or perhaps the only super power in the world. But Washington, DC seems to always have been uncomfortable wearing its imperial mantle cloak in comparison, I think, to cities like London or Paris. I wonder whether, I'm not sure how much time you've spent back in America since Trump came back to power. I wonder if in that sense DC is trying to catch up with London and Paris.Jason Pack: I actually was giving a briefing in Congress to staffers of the House Foreign Affairs Committee only three weeks ago, and DC seemed post-apocalyptic to me. Many of my favorite restaurants were closing. There was traffic jams at bizarre hours of the day, which I think this is because the Trump people don't know how public transport works and they just ride their cars everywhere. So, yes, it seemed very bizarre being back. You were trying to gauge the interlocutor you were speaking to, were they merely pretending to be on board with Trump's stuff, but they actually secretly think it's ridiculous, or were they true believers? And you had to assess that before you would make your comments. So there is a slide to a kind of, again, neo-authoritarian aesthetic. In my conference, it became clear that the Republican Congressional staffers thought that it was all junk and that Trump doesn't care about Libya and he doesn't understand these issues. But we needed to make lip service in how we expressed our recommendations. So, fascinatingly, various speakers said, oh, there's a transactional win. There's a way that cheaper oil can be gotten here or we could make this policy recommendation appeal to the transactional impulses of the administration. Even though everyone knew that we were speaking in a Democrat echo-chamber where the only Republicans present were anti-Trump Republicans anyway.Andrew Keen: Describe DC as post-apocalyptic. What exactly then, Jason, is the apocalypse?Jason Pack: I don't think that the Trump people who are running the show understand how government works and whether you're at state or the NIH or USAID, you're kind of under siege and you're just doing what you're supposed to do and going through the motions. I mean, there's so much of like the zombie apocalypse going on. So maybe it's more zombie apocalypse than regular apocalypse, whereby the institutions are pretending to do their work, but they know that it doesn't accomplish anything. And the Trumpian appointees are kind of pretending to kind of cancel people on DAI, but the institutions are still continuing.Andrew Keen: I'm going to vulgarize something you said earlier. You talked about Trump wanting to appear bigger than he actually is. Maybe we might call that small penis syndrome. Is that, and then that's my term, Jason, let's be clear, not yours. Maybe it's fair or not. He probably would deny it, but I don't think he'll come on this show. He's more than welcome. Is that also reflected in the people working for him? Is there a bit of a small penis syndrome going on with a lot of the Trump people? Are they small town boys coming to America, coming to D.C. And in all their raison d'état trying to smash up the world that they always envied?Jason Pack: 100%. If you look at the Tucker Carlson and the Hegset, who went to Princeton in 03, and obviously Tucker Carlsen's WASP elite background is well known, they wanted to make it conventionally and couldn't. Hegson didn't achieve the rank of lieutenant general or colonel or anything in the army. He didn't make it in finance and Vance, obviously had just a minor career in finance, they didn't make the big time except through their hate and resentment of the establishment that succeeded on merit. So, I mean, you could call that small penis syndrome. I think another thing to point out is that many of them have been selected because whether they've been accused of rape or financial crimes or just meanness, they owe the great leader their ability to be in that position. And if he would throw them overboard they're entirely exposed, so that cash patels of the world and the Hexeds of the world serve at the mercy of the great leader, because if they were thrown to the wolves, they could be devoured for their misdeeds. And I think that that makes it a place where it's all about loyalty to the boss. But maybe we could pivot to the initial topic about how I think Europe is a place where you can reinvent yourself as an individual now. Certainly in the political and ideology space, and America really hasn't been for much of my left.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's interesting. And this is how actually our conversation you're doing. You're a much better podcast host than I am, Jason. You're reminding us of the real conversation rather than getting led down one Trumpian byway or another. I did a show recently on why I still believe in the American dream. And I was interviewed by my friend, David Maschiottra, another old friend of the show. And I suggested I originally came to America to reinvent myself and that's always been the platform with which Europeans have come to America. You're suggesting that perhaps the reverse is true now.Jason Pack: I really enjoyed that episode. I thought you were a great guest and he was a natural host. But I realized how it wasn't speaking to me. Many of my European friends who work in law, finance, tech, startup, you know, they finished their degrees in Italy or in England and they moved to America. And that's where they raised venture capital and they go on the exact success trajectory that you explained and they fetishize, oh my God, when my green card is gonna come through, I'm gonna have this big party. That never resonated with me because America was never a land of opportunity for me. And it hit me in hearing your podcast that that's because what I've aspired to is to work in government slash think tank or to be a professional expert. And if you don't ally yourself with one of the major political movements, you're always branded and you can never move ahead. I'll give a few examples if you're interested in the way that my trying to be in the center has meant that I could never find a place in America.Andrew Keen: Absolutely. So you're suggesting that your quote-unquote American dream could only be realized in Europe.Jason Pack: So I moved to the Middle East to serve my country after 9/11. If Gore had been elected president, I likely would have joined the army or the Marines or something. But Bush was president and I knew I needed to do this on my own. So, you know, I lived in Beirut, then I went to Iraq. Where did you graduate from, Jason? I graduated from Williams in 2002, but I was changing my studies as soon as the 9-11 happened. I stopped my senior thesis in biology and I pivoted to doing the Middle East. I thought the Middle East was going to be the next big thing. But I didn't realize that if you wanted to do it your own way, for example, living in Syria prior to working in government, then you couldn't get those security clearances. But in the UK, that's not really a problem. If you go to Leeds or Oxford and you got sent to study Arabic in Syria, you can work for the UK government, but not in America. If your went and did that your own way, your loyalties would be questioned. You wouldn't get your security clearance. I got an internship to work at the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, where I fell afoul of my supervisors because I was someone who wanted to speak in Arabic with Omanis and, for example, go to hear prayers at the mosque and really be a part of the society. And I was told, don't do that. But aren't we here to understand about Oman? And they're like, no, it's really important to mostly socialize with people at the embassy. But my British colleagues, they were out there in Omani society, and they were, for example, really participating in stuff because the relationship between the Omanis and the Brits and the Americans is a happy one. That's just a small example, but I wanna make the kind of further point, which is that if you wanna get promoted in think tank world in America, it doesn't matter whether it's Cato or Heritage on the right or New America Foundation or Middle East Institute on the left. You have to buy in hook, line, and sinker to the party line of those institutions. And if that party line is DEI, as it was at the Middle East Institute when I was there, and you're a white heterosexual male, you're not going to get promoted. And if, for example, you want to then interact with some Zionist think tank like FDD, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, I was going to a fellowship there for work that I had done about monitoring ISIS in Libya, and they had proposed a funding line for my project, which was just technically reading jihadi Facebook posts and monitoring them. And then they did some more research on me, ironically, after we had already signed the funds. And they said, oh, we're so sorry, we are going to have to pull back on this. We are going have to pay you a kill fee. We are really, really sorry. And I came to understand why that was. And it was because I had advocated that the Iranians should be allowed to get the bomb so that they could have mutually assured destruction theory with Israel.Andrew Keen: Well, Jason, I take your point, but everyone has their own narrative when it comes to why their career didn't did or didn't take off and how they know what that doesn't happen in Europe. I'm just making a contrast. Let me just come back to my argument about America, which is it isn't necessarily as straightforward as perhaps at first it seems. I think one of the reasons why America has always been a great place for reinvention is because of the absence of memory.Jason Pack: No, but what I'm saying is Google will inspire on you, and if you're not within the ideological cadre, you cannot progress at these kind of institutions.Andrew Keen: Okay, I take your point on that, but thinking more broadly, America is a place where you can, I've done so many different things in this country from being a scholar to being an internet entrepreneur to being an expert on technology to being a critic of technology to being against podcasts, to being a podcaster. And you can get away, and I've failed in practically all of them, if not all of them, but the fact is that because people don't have memory, you can keep on doing different things and people won't say, well, how can you get away with this? Last week you were doing X. My sense, and maybe correct me if I'm wrong about London or Europe, is there is much more memory. You can't get away with perpetual reinvention in Europe as you can in the U.S. and maybe that's because of the fact that in your language, living in Europe with its memory and respect for memory is more aesthetically pleasing. So I'm not suggesting this is as simple as it might appear.Jason Pack: I agree with that last point, but I think I'm trying to bring something else out. In spheres like tech or podcasting, there isn't credentialism in America. And therefore, if you're just good at it, you don't need the credentials and you can get going. And you and other Europeans who had great merit, as you do, have benefited from that. And in Europe, you might run up against credentialism, but, oh, but you didn't work at the BBC, so you don't get the job. I'm making a different point about ideological purity within the very specific realms of, say, working for an American presidential candidate or briefing a policymaker or rising up at a think tank. I have briefed labor MPs, Lib Dem MPs and Tory MPs. And they don't ask my politics. I can go in there and get a meeting with Keir Starmer's people on Libya, and they don't care about the fact that I want him to do something slightly different. Criticized him and praised him at different times on my podcast, try having an influence with some Trump people and then say, Oh, well, you know, I really think that I can help you on this Libya policy, but I happened to run a fairly anti-Trump podcast. No, you just can't get the briefing because America is about ideological purity tests and getting your ticket punch in the government and think tank and exporting professions, and therefore it's not some place you can reinvent yourself. If you're clearly an anti-Trump Republican McCainite, you can't all of a sudden become an AOC Democrat for the purpose of one meeting. But in Europe you can, because you can be a Lib Dem like Liz Truss and then be a Tory Prime Minister. And no one cares what my position on these topics are when they ask me to brief Keir Starmer's people and that's something that I find so fantastic about Europe.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, you know this stuff better than I do. But isn't someone like Truss rooted in ideological purity? She was a Lib Dem when she was at Oxford. Yeah, but that was a long time ago. I can reverse that, Jason, and say, well, when Trump was young, he ran around with Bill and Hillary Clinton, he went to their wedding, he funded them. He never was even a Republican until 2014 or 15. So, I mean, he's an example of the very ideological fluidity that you idealize in Europe.Jason Pack: I agree with your point. I think that he's an exception there and he wouldn't have allowed it from his staffers. They now have essentially loyalty tested everything. It's not a place where if you were Democrat with ideas that would benefit the Trumpian establishment, you can be heard. I'll give an example. I like the Abraham Accords and I have a colleague who wants to help extend the Abraham Accords to Pakistan, she can only work with ideologically pure Republicans in the pitching of this idea. She can't work with someone like me because I don't have the ideological purity, even though this is a nonpartisan idea and it should be embraced if you can get the Trumpians to be interested in it. But that's not how America works and it has not been. Reagan, of course, if you said that you like taxes, and I'm someone who likes taxes and I don't believe in the Laffer curve, and neoliberalism is a sham, you couldn't be on that economic team. So there are different ideological tests. Trump was never a politician, so he's not an expert like me in the expert class where we've been litmus tested our whole careers.Andrew Keen: Interesting. Jason, yesterday I was talking to someone who was thinking of hiring me to do a speech in Europe to a business group, and we were discussing the kinds of speeches I could give, and one of the things I suggested was a defense of America, suggesting that we can believe in America and that everyone's wrong. And these people have hired me before. I've often made provocative counterintuitive arguments, there was a little bit of a silence and they said, you can't make that speech in Europe. No one will take it seriously to a business community. What's generally, I mean, you travel a lot, you talk to lots of different people. Have people really given up on the promise of America, particularly within the establishment, the business establishment, the political establishment?Jason Pack: I don't know. I think that many Europeans still think that this is a passing phase. I will comment on the fact that I do not see anti-Americanism in my daily life as a result of Trump, the way that, for example, you do see anti-Semitism as a results of Netanyahu's policy. The individual Jew is tarred by horrible things happening in Gaza, but the individual American is not tarred by the deporting and illegal detentions and sacking of people by Doge because people in Poland or London or even the Middle East understand that you're likely to not be a Trump supporter and they're not targeting you as an individual as a result of that. So I think they believe in the promise of America and they still might like to move to America. But on individual level if you want to be a political animal inside the beast of campaigns, rising up to be a David Axelrod kind of figure. America has been a place of these litmus tests. Whereas in Europe, you know, I feel that there's tremendous fluidity because in Italy they have so and so many political parties and in Germany, what's the distinction between the SPD at one moment in the CDU and the Greens and there's a tradition of coalitions that allows the individual to reinvent himself.Andrew Keen: One of the things that came up with Cooper, and he's certainly no defender of Marine Le Pen or Meloni in Italy, but he suggested that the Trump people are far to the right of Le Pen and Meloni. Would you agree with that?Jason Pack: Because they want to break down institutions, whereas Le Pen and Meloni simply want to conquer the institutions and use them. They're not full-blown, disordering neopopulists, to use the language of my disorder podcast. When Meloni is in power, she loves the Italian state and she wants it to function merely with her ideological slant. Whereas the Trumpians, they have a Bannonite wing, they don't simply wanna have a MAGA agenda, use the U.S. Government. No, they want to break the Department of Agriculture. They want to break the EPA. They simply want to destroy our institutions. And there's no European political party that wants that. Maybe on the fringe like reform, but reform probably doesn't even want that.Andrew Keen: But Jason, we've heard so much about how the Bannonites idealized Orban in Hungary. A lot of people believe that Project 2025 was cooked up in Budapest trying to model America on Orban. Is there any truth to that? I mean, are the Trump people really re-exporting Orbanism back into the United States?Jason Pack: That there is some truth, but it can be overplayed. It can go back further to Berlusconi. It's the idea that a particularly charismatic political leader can come to dominate the media landscape by either having a state media channel in the Berlusconi sense or cowing media coverage to make it more favorable, which is something that Orban has done geniusly, and then doling out contracts and using the state for patronage, say, Orban's father's construction business and all those concrete soccer stadiums. There is an attempt potentially in Trump land to, through an ideological project, cow the media and the checks and balances and have a one-party state with state media. I think it's going to be difficult for them to achieve, but Chuck Carlson and others and Bannon seem to want that.Andrew Keen: You were on Monocle recently talking about the Pope's death. J.D. Vance, of course, is someone who apparently had a last, one of the last conversations with the Pope. Pope wasn't particularly, Pope Francis wasn't particularly keen on him. Bannon and Vance are both outspoken Catholics. What's your take on the sort of this global religious movement on the part of right-wing Catholics, and how does it fit in, not only to the death of Francis, but perhaps the new Pope?Jason Pack: It's a very interesting question. I'm not a right-wing Catholic, so I'm really not in a position to...Andrew Keen: I thought you were Jason, that's why you could always come on the show.Jason Pack: I think that they don't have the theological bona fides to say that what they call Catholicism is Catholicism because obviously Jesus turned the other cheek, you know, and Jesus didn't want to punish his enemies and make poor black or Hispanic women suffer. But there is an interesting thing that has been going on since 1968, which is that there was a backlash against the student protests and free love and the condom and all the social changes that that brought about. And Catholics have been at the forefront, particularly Catholic institutions, in saying this has gone too far and we need to use religion to retake our society. And if we don't, no one will have children and we will lose out and the Muslims and Africans will rule the roost because they're having babies. And that right-wing Catholicism is caught up in the moral panic and culture wars since 1968. What I argued in the monocle interview that you referenced from earlier today is something quite different, which is that the Catholic Church has a unique kind of authority, and that that unique kind of authority can be used to stand up against Trump, Bannon, Orban, and other neopopulists in a way that, say, Mark Carney or Keir Starmer cannot, because if Mark Kearney and Keir Stormer say, you guys are not sufficiently correctly American and you're not following the American laws, blah, blah blah, the kind of Americans who support Trump are not convinced by that because they say, these are just, you know, pinko Brits and Canadians. I don't even care about Mark Kearny, but it's quite different if the next Pontiff is someone who comes not only from the school of Francis, but maybe more so is a great communicator vested in the real doctrines of the church, the Lateran Councils and Vatican too, and can say, actually this given thing that Trump has just said is not in line with the principles of Jesus. It's not inline with what the Vatican has said about, for example, migration or social equity. And I find that that is a unique opportunity because even the right-wing Catholics have to acknowledge the Pope and Christian doctrine and the ability of the Catholic hierarchy to say this is not in line with our teachings. So I think there's a very interesting opportunity right now.Andrew Keen: Perhaps that brings to mind Stalin's supposedly famous remarks to Churchill at Potsdam when they were talking about the Pope. Stalin said to Churchill, the Pope, how many divisions does he have? In other words, it's all about ideology, morality, and ultimately it doesn't really. It's the kind of thing that perhaps if some of the Trump people were as smart as Stalin, they might make the same remark.Jason Pack: That was a physical war, and the Pope didn't have divisions to sway the battles in World War II, but this is an ideological or an influence war. And the Pope, if you've just seen from media coverage over the last week, is someone who has tremendous media influence. And I do think that the new pontiff could, if he wanted to, stand up to the moral underpinnings of Trump and pull even the most right-wing Catholics away from a Trumpian analysis. Religion is supposed to be about, because Jesus didn't say punish your enemies. Don't turn the other cheek and own the libs. Jesus said something quite different than that. And it will be the opportunity of the new Catholic leader to point that out.Andrew Keen: I'm not sure if you've seen the movie Conclave, which was very prescient, made by my dear London friend, or at least produced by Tessa Ross at House Productions. But I wonder in these new conversations whether in the debates about who should the new Pope be, they'll mull over TikTok presence.Jason Pack: I hope they will. And I want to point out something that many people probably are not aware, which is that the College of Cardinals that constitutes the conclave does not have to pick one of their member to be pope. For the last six centuries, they have always chosen one of their own number, but they don't have to. So they could choose someone who has not only an ability to make great TikToks, but someone who can put forth a vision about climate change, about tax equity, for example, maybe about AI and what constitutes humanity from within the Catholic tradition, but reaching new faithful. And I think that they might actually consider we're doing this because in places like Western Europe, attendance is down, but in Eastern Europe and Latin America, it isn't. And in Africa, it's surging. So they may want to reach new millennials in Gen Z with a new message, but one which is rooted in their tradition. And I think that that would be a great counterbalance to what Trump and his ilk have done to how media coverage place things like climate change and migrants these days.Andrew Keen: Speaking of Trump and his ilk, Jason, lots of conversations here about the first cracks in his monolith. Speaking to me from London, I always look at the front page of The Telegraph, a conservative English newspaper. I refuse to give the money, so I never actually read any of the pieces. But I'm always curious as to the traditional conservative media attitude to Trump. What do not so much the Conservative Party, which seems to be in crisis in the UK, but what does Conservative media, Conservative thinkers, what's their take currently on Trump? Are you seeing a crack? Are people seeing this guy's absolutely insane and that the tariff policy is going to make all of us, everybody in the world poorer?Jason Pack: Well, Trump has always been a vote loser in the UK. So that even though Farage brags about his relationship, it isn't something that gets him more votes for reform. And whether it's Sunak or Badnak, and Badnak is the current leader of the Tory party, which is an opposition, she can't so closely associate herself with Trump because he's not popular in even right-wing British circles. However, the Tory media, like the telegraph and the spectator, they love the idea that he's owning the Libs. We talked about Schadenfreude, we talked about attacking the woke. The spectator has taken a very anti-woke turn over the last five to 10 years. And they love the ideal of pointing out the hypocrisies of the left and the effeminacy of it and all of that. And that gets them more clicks. So from a media perspective, there is a way in which the Murdoch media is always going to love the click bait, New York post bait of the Trump presidency. And that applies very much, you know, with the sun and the Daily Mail and the way that they cover media in this country.Andrew Keen: Although I was found in the U.S. That perhaps the newspaper that has been most persistently and usefully critical of Trump is the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Murdoch.Jason Pack: Yeah, but that's a very highbrow paper, and I think that it's been very critical of the tariff policy and it said a lot of intelligent things about Trump's early missteps. It doesn't reach the same people as the New York Post or the Daily Mail do.Andrew Keen: Finally, Jason, let's go back to Disorder, your excellent podcast. You started it a couple of years ago before this new Trump madness. You were always one of the early people on this global disorder. How much more disordered can the world become? Of course, it could become more disorded in terms of war. In late April 2025, is the world more disordered than it was in April 2024, when Biden was still in power? I mean, we still have these wars in Gaza, in Ukraine, doesn't seem as if that much has changed, or am I wrong?Jason Pack: I take your point, but I'm using disorder in a particularly technical sense in a way by which I mean the inability of major powers to coordinate together for optimal solutions. So in the Biden days of last year, yes, the Ukraine and Gaza wars may be waging, but if Jake Sullivan or Blinken were smarter or more courageous, they could host a summit and work together with their French and British and Argentinian allies. Put forth some solutions. The world is more disordered today because it doesn't have a leader. It doesn't have institutions, the UN or NATO or the G7 where those solutions on things like the Ukraine war attacks could happen. And you may say, but wait, Jason, isn't Trump actually doing more leadership? He's trying to bring the Ukrainians and the Russians to the table. And I would say he isn't. They're not proposing actual solutions. They don't care about solving underlying issues. They're merely trying to get media wins. He wants the Japanese to come to Washington to have the semblance of a new trade deal, not a real trade deal. He's trying to reorder global finance in semblance, not in reality. So the ability to come to actual solutions through real coordinating mechanisms where I compromise with you is much weaker than it was last year. And on the Disorder Podcast, we explore all these domains from tax havens to cryptocurrency to cyber attacks. And I think that listeners of Keen On would really enjoy how we delve into those topics and try to see how they reflect where we're at in the global system.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's a strongly, I would strongly agree with you. I would encourage all keen on listeners to listen to Disorder and vice versa if this gets onto the Disorder podcast. What about the China issue? How structural is the tariff crisis, if that's the right word, gonna change US relations with China? Is this the new Cold War, Jason?Jason Pack: I'm not an economist, but from what I've been told by the economists I've interviewed on my podcast, it's absolutely completely game changing because whether it's an Apple iPhone or most pieces of manufactured kit that you purchase or inputs into American manufacturing, it's assembled everywhere and the connections between China and America are essential to the global economy. Work and it's not like you can all of a sudden move those supply chains. So this trade war is really a 1930s style beggar thy neighbor approach to things and that led to and deepened the great depression, right? So I am very worried. I had the sense that Trump might back off because he does seem to be very sensitive to the markets. But maybe this is such an ideological project and, you know, Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC was just saying, even though he's willing to back off if the T bill rate changes, he thinks that his strategy is working and that he's going to get some deals. And that terrifies me because that's not what's happening. It isn't working. And God forbid that they'll push this to its logical conclusion and cause a new recession or depression.Andrew Keen: I know you've got to run Jason. So final question, let's return to where we began with America and the changing nature of America. Your last episode of Disorder was with Corey Sharpe, who is a very, very good and one of Washington DC's, I think, smartest foreign policy analysts. She asks, what's America without allies? If this continues, what, indeed, I mean, you're happy in London, so I don't sound like you're coming back, whatever. But what will America become if indeed all these traditional allies, the UK, France, Germany, become, if not enemies, certainly just transactional relationships? What becomes of America without allies?Jason Pack: Wow, great question. I'm gonna treat this in two parts, the American cultural component and then the structural geopolitical component. I'm a proud American. Culturally, I work on Sundays. I don't take any holiday. I get angry at contractors who are not direct. I am going to be American my whole life and I want an American style work ethic and I wanna things to function and the customer to always be right. So I didn't move to Europe to get European stuff in that way, and I think America will still be great at new inventions and at hard work and at all of that stuff and will still, the NFL will still be a much better run sports league than European sports leagues. Americans are great at certain things. The problem is what if America's role in the world as having the reserve currency, coordinating the NATO allies. If that's eviscerated, we're just going to be living more and more in the global enduring disorder, as Corey Schacke points out, which is that the Europeans don't know how to lead. They can't step up because they don't have one prima inter Paris. And since the decline of the British Empire, the British haven't learned how, for example, to coordinate the Europeans for the defense of Ukraine or for making new missile technologies or dealing with the defense industry. So we're just dealing with a rudderless world. And that's very worrying because there could be major conflict. And then I just have to hope that a new American administration, it could be a Republican one, but I think it just can't be a Trumpian one, will go back to its old role of leadership. I haven't lost hope in America. I've just lost hope in this current administration.Andrew Keen: Well, I haven't lost hope in Jason Pack. He is an ally of ours at Keen On. He's the host of the Excellent Disorder podcast. Jason, it's always fun to have you on the show. So much to discuss and no doubt there will be much more over the summer, so we'll have you back on in the next month or two. Thank you so much. Keep well. Stay American in London. Thank you again.Jason Pack: It was a great pleasure. Thanks, Andrew. See you then. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

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It's official. The American Dream is dead. And it's been resurrected in Europe where, according to the FT columnist Simon Kuper, disillusioned Americans should relocate. Compared with the United States, Kuper argues, Europe offers the three key metrics of a 21st century good life: “four years more longevity, higher self-reported happiness and less than half the carbon emissions per person”. So where exactly to move? The Paris based Kuper believes that his city is the most beautiful in Europe. He's also partial to Madrid, which offers Europe's sunniest lifestyle. And even London, in spite of all its post Brexit gloom, Kuper promises, offers American exiles the promise of a better life than the miserable existence which they now have to eek out in the United States. Five Takeaways* Quality of Life.:Kuper believes European quality of life surpasses America's for the average person, with Europeans living longer, having better physical health, and experiencing less extreme political polarization.* Democratic Europe vs Aristocratic America: While the wealthy can achieve greater fortunes in America, Kuper argues that Europeans in the "bottom 99%" live longer and healthier lives than their American counterparts.* Guns, Anxiety and the Threat of Violence: Political polarization in America creates more anxiety than in Europe, partly because Americans might be armed and because religion makes people hold their views more fervently.* MAGA Madness: Kuper sees Trump as more extreme than European right-wing leaders like Italy's Meloni, who governs as "relatively pro-European" and "pro-Ukrainian."* It's not just a Trump thing. Kuper believes America's declining international credibility will persist even after Trump leaves office, as Europeans will fear another "America First" president could follow any moderate administration.Full TranscriptAndrew Keen: Hello everybody. It's Monday, April the 21st, 2025. This conversation actually might go out tomorrow on the 22nd. Nonetheless, the headlines of the Financial Times, the world's most global economic newspaper, are miserable from an American point of view. US stocks and the dollar are sinking again as Donald Trump renews his attack on the Fed chair Jay Powell. Meanwhile Trump is also attacking the universities and many other bastions of civilization at least according to the FT's political columnist Gideon Rachman. For another FT journalist, my guest today Simon Kuper has been on the show many times before. All this bad news about America suggests that for Americans it's time to move to Europe. Simon is joining us from Paris, which Paris is that in Europe Simon?Simon Kuper: I was walking around today and thinking it has probably never in its history looked as good as it does now. It really is a fabulous city, especially when the sun shines.Andrew Keen: Nice of them where I am in San Francisco.Simon Kuper: I always used to like San Francisco, but I knew it before every house costs $15 million.Andrew Keen: Well, I'm not sure that's entirely true, but maybe there's some truth. Paris isn't exactly cheap either, is it? Certainly where you live.Simon Kuper: Cheaper than San Francisco, so I did for this article that you mentioned, I did some research on house prices and certainly central Paris is one of the most expensive areas in the European Union, but still considerably cheaper than cities like New York and San Francisco. A friend of mine who lives here told me that if she moved to New York, she would move from central Paris to for the same price living in some very, very distant suburb of New York City.Andrew Keen: Your column this week, Americans, it's time to move to Europe. You obviously wrote with a degree of relish. Is this Europe's revenge on America that it's now time to reverse the brain drain from Europe to America? Now it's from America to Europe.Simon Kuper: I mean, I don't see it as revenge. I'm a generally pro-American person by inclination and I even married an American and have children who are American as well as being French and British. So when I went to the US as firstly as a child, age 10, 11, I was in sixth grade in California. I thought it was the most advanced, wonderful place in the world and the sunshine and there was nowhere nice than California. And then I went as a student in my early 20s. And again, I thought this was the early 90s. This is the country of the future. It's so much more advanced than Europe. And they have this new kind of wise technocratic government that is going to make things even better. And it was the beginning of a big American boom of the 90s when I think American quality of life reached its peak, that life expectancy was reached, that was then declined a long time after the late 90s. So my impressions in the past were always extremely good, but no longer. The last 20 years visiting the US I've never really felt this is a society where ordinary people can have as good a life as in Europe.Andrew Keen: When you say ordinary people, I mean, you're not an ordinary person. And I'm guessing most of the people you and your wife certainly isn't ordinary. She's a well known writer. In fact, she's written on France and the United States and parenthood, very well known, you are well known. What do you mean by ordinary people?Simon Kuper: Yeah, I mean, it's not entirely about me. Amazingly, I am not so egomaniac as to draw conclusions on some matters just looking at my own situation. What I wrote about the US is that if you're in the 1% in the US and you are pursuing great wealth in finance or tech and you have a genuine shot at it, you will achieve wealth that you can't really achieve in Europe. You know, the top end of the US is much higher than in Europe. Still not necessarily true that your life will be better. So even rich Americans live shorter than rich Europeans. But OK, so the 1% America really offers greater expansion opportunities than Europe does. Anywhere below that, the Europeans in the bottom 99%, let's say, they live longer than their American equivalents. They are less fat, their bodies function better because they walk more, because they're not being bombarded by processed food in the same way. Although we have political polarization here, it's not as extreme as in the US. Where I quote a European friend of mine who lives in the American South. He says he sometimes doesn't go out of his house for days at a time because he says meeting Trump supporters makes him quite anxious.Andrew Keen: Where does he live? I saw that paragraph in the piece, you said he doesn't, and I'm quoting him, a European friend of mine who lives in the American South sometimes doesn't leave his house for days on end so as to avoid running into Trump supporters. Where does he live?Simon Kuper: He lives, let me say he lives in Georgia, he lives in the state of Georgia.Andrew Keen: Well, is that Atlanta? I mean, Atlanta is a large town, lots of anti-Trump sentiment there. Whereabouts in Georgia?Simon Kuper: He doesn't live in Atlanta, but I also don't want to specify exactly where he lives because he's entitled.Andrew Keen: In case you get started, but in all seriousness, Simon, isn't this a bit exaggerated? I mean, I'm sure there are some of your friends in Paris don't go outside the fancy center because they might run into fans of Marine Le Pen. What's the difference?Simon Kuper: I think that polarization creates more anxiety in the US and is more strongly felt for a couple of reasons. One is that because people might be armed in America, that gives an edge to any kind of disagreement that isn't here in Europe. And secondly, because religion is more of a factor in American life, people hold their views more strongly, more fervently, then. So I think there's a seriousness and edge to the American polarization that isn't quite the same as here. And the third reason I think polarization is worse is movement is more extreme even than European far-right movements. So my colleague John Byrne Murdoch at the Financial Times has mapped this, that Republican views from issues from climate to the role of the state are really off the charts. There's no European party coeval to them. So for example, the far-right party in France, the Rassemblement National, doesn't deny climate change in the way that Trump does.Andrew Keen: So, how does that contextualize Le Pen or Maloney or even the Hungarian neo-authoritarians for whom a lot of Trump supporters went to Budapest to learn what he did in order to implement Trump 2.0?Simon Kuper: Yeah, I think Orban, in terms of his creating an authoritarian society where the universities have been reined in, where the courts have been rained in, in that sense is a model for Trump. His friendliness with Putin is more of a model for Trump. Meloni and Le Pen, although I do not support them in any way, are not quite there. And so Meloni in Italy is in a coalition and is governing as somebody relatively pro-European. She's pro-Ukrainian, she's pro-NATO. So although, you know, she and Trump seem to have a good relationship, she is nowhere near as extreme as Trump. And you don't see anyone in Europe who's proposing these kinds of tariffs that Trump has. So I think that the, I would call it the craziness or the extremism of MAGA, doesn't really have comparisons. I mean, Orban, because he leads a small country, he has to be a bit more savvy and aware of what, for example, Brussels will wear. So he pushes Brussels, but he also needs money from Brussels. So, he reigns himself in, whereas with Trump, it's hard to see much restraint operating.Andrew Keen: I wonder if you're leading American liberals on a little bit, Simon. You suggested it's time to come to Europe, but Americans in particular aren't welcome, so to speak, with open arms, certainly from where you're talking from in Paris. And I know a lot of Americans who have come to Europe, London, Paris, elsewhere, and really struggled to make friends. Would, for Americans who are seriously thinking of leaving Trump's America, what kind of welcome are they gonna get in Europe?Simon Kuper: I mean, it's true that I haven't seen anti-Americanism as strong as this in my, probably in my lifetime. It might have been like this during the Vietnam War, but I was a child, I don't remember. So there is enormous antipathy to, let's say, to Trumpism. So two, I had two visiting Irish people, I had lunch with them on Friday, who both work in the US, and they said, somebody shouted at them on the street, Americans go home. Which I'd never heard, honestly, in Paris. And they shouted back, we're not American, which is a defense that doesn't work if you are American. So that is not nice. But my sense of Americans who live here is that the presumption of French people is always that if you're an American who lives here, you're not a Trumpist. Just like 20 years ago, if you are an American lives here you're not a supporter of George W. Bush. So there is a great amount of awareness that there are Americans and Americans that actually the most critical response I heard to my article was from Europeans. So I got a lot of Americans saying, yeah, yeah. I agree. I want to get out of here. I heard quite a lot of Europeans say, for God's sake, don't encourage them all to come here because they'll drive up prices and so on, which you can already see elements of, and particularly in Barcelona or in Venice, basically almost nobody lives in Venice except which Americans now, but in Barcelona where.Andrew Keen: Only rich Americans in Venice, no other rich people.Simon Kuper: It has a particular appeal to no Russians. No, no one from the gulf. There must be some there must be something. They're not many Venetians.Andrew Keen: What about the historical context, Simon? In all seriousness, you know, Americans have, of course, fled the United States in the past. One thinks of James Baldwin fleeing the Jim Crow South. Could the Americans now who were leaving the universities, Tim Schneider, for example, has already fled to Canada, as Jason Stanley has as well, another scholar of fascism. Is there stuff that American intellectuals, liberals, academics can bring to Europe that you guys currently don't have? Or are intellectuals coming to Europe from the US? Is it really like shipping coal, so to speak, to Newcastle?Simon Kuper: We need them desperately. I mean, as you know, since 1933, there has been a brain drain of the best European intellectuals in enormous numbers to the United States. So in 1933, the best university system in the world was Germany. If you measure by number of Nobel prizes, one that's demolished in a month, a lot of those people end up years later, especially in the US. And so you get the new school in New York is a center. And people like Adorno end up, I think, in Los Angeles, which must be very confusing. And American universities, you get the American combination. The USP, what's it called, the unique selling point, is you have size, you have wealth, you have freedom of inquiry, which China doesn't have, and you have immigration. So you bring in the best brains. And so Europe lost its intellectuals. You have very wealthy universities, partly because of the role of donors in America. So, you know, if you're a professor at Stanford or Columbia, I think the average salary is somewhere over $300,000 for professors at the top universities. In Europe, there's nothing like that. Those people would at least have to halve their salary. And so, yeah, for Europeans, this is a unique opportunity to get some of the world's leading brains back. At cut price because they would have to take a big salary cut, but many of them are desperate to do it. I mean, if your lab has been defunded by the government, or if the government doesn't believe in your research into climate or vaccines, or just if you're in the humanities and the government is very hostile to it, or, if you write on the history of race. And that is illegal now in some southern states where I think teaching they call it structural racism or there's this American phrase about racism that is now banned in some states that the government won't fund it, then you think, well, I'll take that pay cost and go back to Europe. Because I'm talking going back, I think the first people to take the offer are going to be the many, many top Europeans who work at American universities.Andrew Keen: You mentioned at the end of Europe essay, the end of the American dream. You're quoting Trump, of course, ironically. But the essay is also about the end of the America dream, perhaps the rebirth or initial birth of the European dream. To what extent is the American dream, in your view, and you touched on this earlier, Simon, dependent on the great minds of Europe coming to America, particularly during and after the, as a response to the rise of Nazism, Hannah Arendt, for example, even people like Aldous Huxley, who came to Hollywood in the 1930s. Do you think that the American dream itself is in part dependent on European intellectuals like Arendt and Huxley, even Ayn Rand, who not necessarily the most popular figure on the left, but certainly very influential in her ideas about capitalism and freedom, who came of course from Russia.Simon Kuper: I mean, I think the average American wouldn't care if Ayn Rand or Hannah Arendt had gone to Australia instead. That's not their dream. I think their American dream has always been about the idea of social mobility and building a wealthy life for yourself and your family from nothing. Now almost all studies of social ability say that it's now very low in the US. It's lower than in most of Europe. Especially Northern Europe and Scandinavia have great social mobility. So if you're born in the lower, say, 10% or 20% in Denmark, you have a much better chance of rising to the top of society than if you were born at the bottom 10%, 20% in the US. So America is not very good for social mobility anymore. I think that the brains that helped the American economy most were people working in different forms of tech research. And especially for the federal government. So the biggest funder of science in the last 80 years or so, I mean, the Manhattan Project and on has been the US federal government, biggest in the world. And the thing is you can't eat atom bombs, but what they also produce is research that becomes hugely transformative in civilian life and in civilian industries. So GPS or famously the internet come out of research that's done within the federal government with a kind of vague defense angle. And so I think those are the brains that have made America richer. And then of course, the number of immigrants who found companies, and you see this in tech, is much higher than the number percentage of native born Americans who do. And a famous example of that is Elon Musk.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and you were on the show just before Christmas in response to your piece about Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid in South Africa. So I'm guessing you don't want the Musks and Thiels. They won't be welcome in Europe, will they?Simon Kuper: I don't think they want to go. I mean, if you want to create a tech company, you want very deep capital markets. You want venture capital firms that are happy to bet a few billion on you. And a very good place to do that, the best place in the world by far, is Silicon Valley. And so a French friend of mine said he was at a reception in San Francisco, surrounded by many, many top French engineers who all work for Silicon Valley firms, and he thought, what would it take them to come back? He didn't have an answer. Now the answer might be, maybe, well, Donald Trump could persuade them to leave. But they want to keep issuing visas for those kinds of people. I mean, the thing is that what we're seeing with Chinese AI breakthroughs in what was called DeepSeek. Also in overtaking Tesla on electric cars suggests that maybe, you know, the cutting edge of innovation is moving from Silicon Valley after nearly 100 years to China. This is not my field of expertise at all. But you know the French economist Thomas Filippon has written about how the American economy has become quite undynamic because it's been taken over by monopolies. So you can't start another Google, you can start another Amazon. And you can't build a rival to Facebook because these companies control of the market and as Facebook did with WhatsApp or Instagram, they'll just buy you up. And so you get quite a much more static tech scene than 30 years ago when really, you know, inventions, great inventions are being made in Silicon Valley all the time. Now you get a few big companies that are the same for a very long period.Andrew Keen: Well, of course, you also have OpenAI, which is a startup, but that's another conversation.Simon Kuper: Yeah, the arguments in AI is that maybe China can do it better.Andrew Keen: Can be. I don't know. Well, it has, so to speak, Simon, the light bulb gone off in Europe on all this on all these issues. Mario Draghi month or two ago came out. Was it a white paper or report suggesting that Europe needed to get its innovation act together that there wasn't enough investment or capital? Are senior people within the EU like Draghi waking up to the reality of this historical opportunity to seize back economic power, not just cultural and political.Simon Kuper: I mean, Draghi doesn't have a post anymore, as far as I'm aware. I mean of course he was the brilliant governor of the European Central Bank. But that report did have a big impact, didn't it? It had a big impact. I think a lot of people thought, yeah, this is all true. We should spend enormous fortunes and borrow enormous fortunes to create a massive tech scene and build our own defense industries and so on. But they're not going to do it. It's the kind of report that you write when you don't have a position of power and you say, this is what we should do. And the people in positions of power say, oh, but it's really complicated to do it. So they don't do it, so no, they're very, there's not really, we've been massively overtaken and left behind on tech by the US and China. And there doesn't seem to be any impetus, serious impetus to build anything on that scale to invest that kind of money government led or private sector led in European tech scene. So yeah, if you're in tech. Maybe you should be going to Shanghai, but you probably should not be going to Europe. So, and this is a problem because China and the US make our future and we use their cloud servers. You know, we could build a search engine, but we can't liberate ourselves from the cloud service. Defense is a different matter where, you know, Draghi said we should become independent. And because Trump is now European governments believe Trump is hostile to us on defense, hostile to Ukraine and more broadly to Europe, there I think will be a very quick move to build a much bigger European defense sector so we don't have to buy for example American planes which they where they can switch off the operating systems if they feel like it.Andrew Keen: You live in Paris. You work for the FT, or one of the papers you work for is the FT a British paper. Where does Britain stand here? So many influential Brits, of course, went to America, particularly in the 20th century. Everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Christopher Hitchens, all adding enormous value like Arendt and Ayn Rand. Is Britain, when you talk of Europe, are you still in the back of your mind thinking of Britain, or is it? An island somehow floating or stuck between America, the end of the American dream and the beginning of the European dream. In a way, are you suggesting that Brits should come to Europe as well?Simon Kuper: I think Britain is floating quite rapidly towards Europe because in a world where you have three military superpowers that are quite predatory and are not interested in alliances, the US, China and Russia, the smaller countries, and Britain is a smaller country and has realized since Brexit that it is a small country, the small countries just need to ally. And, you know, are you going to trust an alliance with Trump? A man who is not interested in the fates of other countries and breaks his word, or would you rather have an alliance with the Europeans who share far more of your values? And I think the Labor government in the UK has quietly decided that, I know that it has decided that on economic issues, it's always going to prioritize aligning with Europe, for example, aligning food standards with Europe so that we can sell my food. They can sell us our food without any checks because we've accepted all their standards, not with the US. So in any choice between, you know, now there's talk of a potential US-UK trade deal, do we align our standards with the US. Or Europe? It's always going to be Europe first. And on defense, you have two European defense powers that are these middle powers, France and the UK. Without the UK, there isn't really a European defense alliance. And that is what is gonna be needed now because there's a big NATO summit in June, where I think it's going to become patently obvious to everyone, the US isn't really a member of NATO anymore. And so then you're gonna move towards a post US NATO. And if the UK is not in it, well, it looks very, very weak indeed. And if UK is alone, that's quite a scary position to be in in this world. So yeah, I see a UK that is not gonna rejoin the European Union anytime soon. But is more and more going to ally itself, is already aligning itself with Europe.Andrew Keen: As the worm turned, I mean, Trump has been in power 100 days, supposedly is limited to the next four years, although he's talking about running for a third term. Can America reverse itself in your view?Simon Kuper: I think it will be very hard whatever Trump does for other countries to trust him again. And I also think that after Trump goes, which as you say may not be in 2028, but after he goes and if you get say a Biden or Obama style president who flies to Europe and says it's all over, we're friends again. Now the Europeans are going to think. But you know, it's very, very likely that in four years time, you will be replaced by another America first of some kind. So we cannot build a long term alliance with the US. So for example, we cannot do long term deals to buy Americans weapons systems, because maybe there's a president that we like, but they'll be succeeded by a president who terrifies us quite likely. So, there is now, it seems to me, instability built in for the very long term into... America has a potential ally. It's you just can't rely on this anymore. Even should Trump go.Andrew Keen: You talk about Europe as one place, which, of course, geographically it is, but lots of observers have noted the existence, it goes without saying, of many Europe's, particularly the difference between Eastern and Western Europe.Simon Kuper: I've looked at that myself, yes.Andrew Keen: And you've probably written essays on this as well. Eastern Europe is Poland, perhaps, Czech Republic, even Hungary in an odd way. They're much more like the United States, much more interested perhaps in economic wealth than in the other metrics that you write about in your essay. Is there more than one Europe, Simon? And for Americans who are thinking of coming to Europe, should it be? Warsaw, Prague, Paris, Madrid.Simon Kuper: These are all great cities, so it depends what you like. I mean, I don't know if they're more individualistic societies. I would doubt that. All European countries, I think, could be described as social democracies. So there is a welfare state that provides people with health and education in a way that you don't quite have in the United States. And then the opposite, the taxes are higher. The opportunities to get extremely wealthy are lower here. I think the big difference is that there is a part of Europe for whom Russia is an existential threat. And that's especially Poland, the Baltics, Romania. And there's a part of Europe, France, Britain, Spain, for whom Russia is really quite a long way away. So they're not that bothered about it. They're not interested in spending a lot on defense or sending troops potentially to die there because they see Russia as not their problem. I would see that as a big divide. In terms of wealth, I mean, it's equalizing. So the average Pole outside London is now, I think, as well off or better than the average Britain. So the average Pole is now as well as the average person outside London. London, of course, is still.Andrew Keen: This is the Poles in the UK or the Poles.Simon Kuper: The Poles in Poland. So the Poles who came to the UK 20 years ago did so because the UK was then much richer. That's now gone. And so a lot of Poles and even Romanians are returning because economic opportunities in Poland, especially, are just as good as in the West. So there has been a little bit of a growing together of the two halves of the continent. Where would you live? I mean, my personal experience, having spent a year in Madrid, it's the nicest city in the world. Right, it's good. Yeah, nice cities to live in, I like living in big cities, so of big cities it's the best. Spanish quality of life. If you earn more than the average Spaniard, I think the average income, including everyone wage earners, pensioners, students, is only about $20,000. So Spaniards have a problem with not having enough income. So if you're over about $20000, and in Madrid probably quite a bit more than that, then it's a wonderful life. And I think, and Spaniards live about five years longer than Americans now. They live to about age 84. It's a lovely climate, lovely people. So that would be my personal top recommendation. But if you like a great city, Paris is the greatest city in the European Union. London's a great, you know, it's kind of bustling. These are the two bustling world cities of Europe, London and Paris. I think if you can earn an American salary, maybe through working remotely and live in the Mediterranean somewhere, you have the best deal in the world because Mediterranean prices are low, Mediterranean culture, life is unbeatable. So that would be my general recommendation.Andrew Keen: Finally, Simon, being very generous with your time, I'm sure you'd much rather be outside in Paris in what you call the greatest city in the EU. You talk in the piece about three metrics that show that it's time to move to Europe, housing, education, sorry, longevity, happiness and the environment. Are there any metrics at all now to stay in the United States?Simon Kuper: I mean, if you look at people's incomes in the US they're considerably higher, of course, your purchasing power for a lot of things is less. So I think the big purchasing power advantage Americans have until the tariffs was consumer goods. So if you want to buy a great television set, it's better to do that out of an American income than out of a Spanish income, but if you want the purchasing power to send your kids to university, to get healthcare. Than to be guaranteed a decent pension, then Europe is a better place. So even though you're earning more money in the US, you can't buy a lot of stuff. If you wanna go to a nice restaurant and have a good meal, the value for money will be better in Europe. So I suppose if you wanna be extremely wealthy and you have a good shot at that because a lot people overestimate their chance of great wealth. Then America is a better bet than Europe. Beyond that, I find it hard to right now adduce reasons. I mean, it's odd because like the Brexiteers in the UK, Trump is attacking some of the things that really did make America great, such as this trading system that you can get very, very cheap goods in the United States, but also the great universities. So. I would have been much more positive about the idea of America a year ago, but even then I would've said the average person lives better over here.Andrew Keen: Well, there you have it. Simon Cooper says to Americans, it's time to move to Europe. The American dream has ended, perhaps the beginning of the European dream. Very provocative. Simon, we'll get you back on the show. Your column is always a central reading in the Financial Times. Thanks so much and enjoy Paris.Simon Kuper: Thank you, Andrew. Enjoy San Francisco. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Viktor Orban is in his fourth consecutive term as Prime Minister of Hungary. In that time, he has dismantled democratic checks and balances, taken control of the country's media, civil society and universities, and consolidated power in him and his Fidesz party. NPR's Rob Schmitz looks at how Orban's step-by-step dismantling of Hungary's democracy has become a point of fascination for political scientists around the world, including those advising the Trump administration.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1364 - Full Version (With repeater ID breaks every 10 minutes) Release Date: April 19, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Ed Johnson, W2PH, Alan Shephard, WK8W, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:59:30 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1364 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Fram2Ham Mission Declared A Success 2. AMSAT: OpenGD77 Handheld Radio Firmware Aids FM Satellite Operating 3. AMSAT: A New Breed of Satellite and Space Focused Makers Is Emerging 4. AMSAT: Starliner's Wild Ride 5. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 6. ARRL: ARRL Files Comments Responding To FCC Request for Input On "Delete Delete Delete" NPRM - Four parts 7. ARRL: World Amateur Radio Day – International Amateur Radio Union Formed 100 Years Ago 8. ARRL: Events to Honor World Amateur Radio Day 9. ARRL: ARRL Documents Next Generation DXing Program At International DX Convention 10. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union - Amateur Radio Services At The Forefront 11. ARRL: Former ARRL Vice Director and Contest Advisory Committee Chairman Wayne Overbeck, PhD N6NB/SK 12. ARRL: Solar Prognosticator Paul “Tad” Cook, K7RA, SK 13. Zero Retries Is Hosting Its Inaugural Conference 14. Australian Communications & Media Authority Seeks Comments On Class License Conditions 15. Young Amateurs Can Attend The Upcoming Dayton HamVention For Free 16. Florida Trail Events Takes Ham Radio On Its First Journey 17. HamSci Receives Two Honors From The RSGB For Propagation Studies 18. ARRL: ARRL Public Relations Field Day Workshop is coming up on April 23rd, 2025 19. ARRL: The Youth On The Air Camp is set for July 2025. Registration is now open. 20. ARRL: The 2024 Cass Awards are announced. 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings. 22. FCC: FCC to weigh loosening power limit rules for Starlink Satellites 23. WIA: Ford Motor Company patents new technology to support AM radio in electric vehicles 24. WIA: United Airlines receives FAA approval to add Starlink Wifi on planes 25. RAC: Radio Amateurs of Canada will not be attending HamVention this year 26. RWD: Mystery surrounds three pending United States Shortwave Stations 27. ARRL: ARRL Iowa section wins ham radio exemption from new hands free driving law 28. ARRL: Effort to save Marconi Towers in Canada - Public invited to vote on proposed project 29. ARRL: Broadcast audio processor manufacturer Orban donates unit to the ARRL for upcoming auction 30. ARRL: Armed Forces Day Crossband Test is scheduled for Saturday, May 10, 2025 31. Montana Radio Club donates amateur radio books to several public libraries Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, "What is Amateur Radio Really About?" * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and more * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR - A Century Of Amateur Radio - This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to the mid 1920's to witness amateurs' continued efforts to get their signals across the Atlantic in an episode called, "Crossing Two, Androsan" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

Marc & Kim welcome Jim Carafano from Heritage to break down the latest in Ukraine, including Zelensky's accusations about China arming Russia and the broader geopolitical chess match between Putin, Trump, and Congress. Carafano outlines three likely outcomes for the conflict and explains why Trump's “pedal to the metal” approach could prevail. Plus, a surprise gym encounter with RFK Jr. gets a few laughs, and Carafano critiques the Democrats' obsession with Trump, even as they try to intervene in El Salvador's legal matters. El Salvador's President Bukele, likened to Orban, is siding with the U.S. long-term, but he won't be handing over a deported criminal just to please D.C. Democrats.

Carl Benjamin Socials:X: https://x.com/sargon_of_akkad?lang=enYoutube: https://youtube.com/@sargonofakkad?si=V0xSngB5I30O9lDE--*Note: This episode is a clip from my in-person interview with Carl BenjaminThank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review.FOLLOW me on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DrTurleyTalksSign up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts to get lots of articles on conservative trends: https://turleytalks.com/subscribe-to-our-newsletter

Tras doce años de Pontificado, el legado del Papa Francisco ya está perfilado; y constituye un avance tan significativo como las posibilidades mismas que tuvo para hacer avanzar la compleja y ortodoxa jerarquía de la Iglesia de Roma. Desde promover una iglesia más austera y transparente en el uso de los dineros, con la creación de la Secretaría de Economía,  hasta el nombramiento de Raffaella Petrini, la primera mujer presidenta de la gobernación, el segundo puesto de mayor jerarquía del Estado Vaticano.  Francisco también impulsó acercamientos con el mundo islámico, intermedió entre Estados Unidos y Cuba y defendió decididamente la dignidad de las personas desplazadas y migrantes. Conformó también la Comisión Pontificia para la protección de los menores, con la obligación de rendir informes anuales respecto de los dramáticos casos de abusos sexuales. Otro enorme aporte de sus  encíclicas y llamados, se dirigió a la protección del planeta ante la crisis del cambio climático y el calentamiento global. Sus decisiones movieron a los bloques más conservadores de la Iglesia, frente a los de mayor apertura y progresismo ligados a su  pontificado, el primero de Latinoamérica. Un logro no menor tiene que ver con la recomposición del colegio cardenalicio. El 80% cardenales electores de  su sucesor (110 de 138) fueron designados por él. Y precisamente dada su precaria condición de salud ya se mencionan los nombres de posibles herederos al trono de San Pedro: el italiano Matteo Zuppi, el ghanés Peter Turkson y el filipino Luis Antonio Tagle, califican como continuadores de sus reformas.  Y del lado más tradicionalista se menciona a los cardenales Leo Burke, de Estados Unidos (cercano a Donald Trump) y Péter Erdo, proclive al régimen del húngaro Víctor Orban . Para hacer balance de la obra y legado de Francisco conversamos con Alberto Rojas, sociólogo y teólogo del Observatorio de lo Religioso de la Universidad Nacional.

In his fifteen years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban has steadily chipped away at his country's democratic freedoms. We go to Budapest to see what the erosion of democracy looks like and we find that many of Orban's strategies are being studied by politicians elsewhere.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

L'Ungheria approva un emendamento costituzionale che vieta gli eventi pubblici LGBTQ+. Anche il Pride.https://www.radiobullets.com/notiziari/15-aprile-2025-notizie-donne-lgbtq-podcast-mondo/

1) Medio oriente, cresce il dissenso interno a Israele sulla guerra a Gaza. Centinaia di riservisti, veterani e ex agenti del Mossad sostengono una lettera che chiede la fine del conflitto. Intanto sul tavolo dei negoziati arriva una nuova proposta. (Emanuele Valenti) 2) Due anni di guerra in Sudan, la più grave crisi umanitaria al mondo. In esteri la testimonianza da Khartoum. (Matteo D'Alonzo - Emergency) 3) In Ungheria il governo Orban stringe ulteriormente il cappio intorno ai diritti umani. Il parlamento approva una riforma della costituzione che reprime ulteriormente il dissenso. (Yuri Guaiana - All Out) 4) Escalation nella crisi franco-algerina. Algeri chiede a 12 funzionari dell'ambasciata francese di lasciare il Paese entro 48 ore. (Francesco Giorgini) 5) Ecuador, il presidente uscente Daniel Noboa vince di nuovo le elezioni. L'opposizione – divisa – denuncia brogli elettorali. (Alfredo Somoza) 6) E' morto Mario Vargas Llosa. Un gigante della letteratura ma un personaggio politico controverso. (Bruno Arpaia)

Massimo Giannini, editorialista e opinionista di Repubblica, racconta dal lunedì al venerdì il suo punto di vista sullo scenario politico e sulle notizie di attualità, italiane e internazionali. “Circo Massimo - Lo spettacolo della politica“ lo puoi ascoltare sull’app di One Podcast, sull’app di Repubblica, e su tutte le principali piattaforme.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Officieel geldt in Gaza nog een staakt het vuren, maar Israël blijft aanvallen. En nu ook herkenbare hulpverleners niet veilig blijken te zijn, heeft minister Veldkamp de Israëlische ambassadeur ontboden. In een gesprek vandaag wil hij opheldering over de dood van vijftien medewerkers van de Rode Halve Maan. Zij reden in een VN-konvooi met ambulances. En hoewel Israel eerst zei dat het konvooi er verdacht uitzag, dook deze week een video op waarin te zien is dat de voertuigen met hun zwaailichten en verlichting, duidelijk herkenbaar waren. Premier Netanyahu van Israël vliegt intussen de wereld over, voor een bezoek aan premier Orban van Hongarije, en een ontmoeting met president Trump in het Witte Huis. Tegen Netanyahu is een internationaal arrestatiebevel uitgevaardigd, maar meerdere landen geven al aan dat ze hem niet zullen oppakken. Mag dat zomaar? En wat kan de wereld doen als Israël mogelijk het oorlogsrecht schendt?  Reageren? Mail dedag@nos.nl Presentatie en montage: Dieuwke Teertstra Redactie: Ulrike Nagel en Rosanne Sies

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode. Berman discusses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip to Hungary, followed by his unexpected stop in the US. Netanyahu was welcomed warmly by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. A call between Orban, Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump during the visit led the Israeli prime minister to accept the last-minute invite to head to the US for a meeting in the Oval Office. Berman says Trump surprised Netanyahu with several statements, including his announcement about high-level talks this Saturday between US and Iran, the existing tariffs on Israel and unexpectedly effusive comments and praise from Trump for Turkey's Erdogan. The matter of the 59 remaining hostages in Gaza did not dominate the conversation, although it was discussed, says Berman. Please see today's ongoing liveblog for more updates. For further reading: After softball visit to Hungary, Netanyahu strikes out in DC meeting with Trump Stressing ‘billions’ in aid, Trump refuses to commit to removing tariffs on Israel Trump suggests he can mediate between Israel and Turkey on Syria Hosting PM, Trump announces direct nuke talks with Iran; Tehran: Indirect dialogue only Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves. IMAGE: President Donald Trump, left, greets Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing, which is followed a full installment of The Times of Israel's newest podcast series, the Friday Focus. Qatar on Thursday denied funding a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting Egypt’s role in negotiations to free Israelis held hostage in Gaza, amid a swirling Israeli investigation around the Gulf state’s links to two of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides. Berman weighs in on why he's unconvinced. Yesterday, the courts extended the remand of Eli Feldstein and Jonatan Urich, the two aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who are key suspects in the ongoing Qatargate probe. The two men are suspected of having taken money from Qatar to spread pro-Qatari messaging to reporters while in the prime minister’s employ. We hear what further developments we saw yesterday in the investigation. Berman, who accompanied the prime minister to Budapest, describes the reception the Israeli delegation was met with and then speaks about Hungary's announcement that it was leaving the International Criminal Court. Please see today's ongoing liveblog for more updates. Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves. For further reading: Qatar denies paying to spread media narrative undermining Egypt’s role in hostage talks Detention of key Qatargate suspects extended till Friday, as judge criticizes media leaks Freed Jerusalem Post editor decries arrest, says he got ‘no benefits’ from Qatar trip Netanyahu, in Budapest, lauds Orban’s withdrawal from ‘corrupt, rotten’ ICC Hungary announces withdrawal from ICC as Netanyahu arrives for state visit IMAGE: An Israeli flag is raised on the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, with the Buda Castle in Budapest in the background on April 2, 2025, as preparations are under way for the visit of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Netanyahu accolto in Ungheria, è scontro con la Corte penale internazionale, dalla quale Budapest annuncia l'uscita. Intanto a Bruxelles vertice dei ministri degli esteri NATO. Il tutto con i nuovi dazi americani sullo sfondo. Ne parliamo con Marco Di Liddo, direttore del Centro Studi Internazionali.Amazon pronta ad acquisire TikTok (ma solo negli Stati Uniti). La "ghiblificazione" delle immagini con ChatGPT solleva interrogativi sul rispetto del diritto d'autore e le proteste dei fan di Miyazaki. Sentiamo il nostro Enrico Pagliarini.

Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Christo-Fascist Hegseth had displays of the contributions of American Jewish women during World War II removed before his visit to the Naval Academy.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Idaho Republican state representative has accused her own party of weaponizing federal immigration authorities against her after she publicly criticized Trump's immigration policies; Georgia MAGA lawmakers pushed through a religious freedom bill despite its clear discrimination against non-Christians; and, North Dakota voters banned lawmakers from seeking term limit changes, but MAGA did it anyway.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Turkish police detained eleven people for supporting a shopping boycott as part of the protests against the imprisonment of Erdogan's main rival; and, Hungary plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court as Netanyahu arrives for talks with Orban, despite an international arrest warrant against Bibi.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

1) I dazi di Trump fanno tremare il mondo. Crollano le azioni statunitensi in borsa, mentre i paesi preparano la reazione. Il presidente francese Macron incontra le imprese più colpite e chiede di sospendere gli investimenti negli stati uniti. (Roberto Festa, Francesco Giorgini) 2) Striscia di Gaza. Verso il piano delle 5 dita. Con la creazione del nuovo corridoio Morag, Israele sembra richiamare il piano ideato da Sharon. 3) Netanyahu in viaggio in Ungheria. Il premier israeliano incontra Orban che non solo non lo arresta, ma annuncia l'uscita del paese dalla Corte Penale Internazionale. (Massimo Congiu) 4) Terremoto in Myanmar. Continua a crescere il bilancio delle vittime. Sono più di tremila mentre i soccorsi e gli aiuti faticano a raggiungere le persone più bisognose. (Paolo Tedesco - Asia Ngo) 5) World Music. Al festival delle Culture di Ravenna arriva “Voci e musica dalla Palestina”. (Marcello Lorrai)

Auf US-Beistand innerhalb der NATO dürfen wir uns nicht verlassen, sagt unser Gast. Und: Der Besuch von Netanjahu in Ungarn ist ok, nach Deutschland sollte er aber nicht eingeladen werden. Unser Host schaut derweil auf die globale Zoll-Erschütterung. Von WDR 5.

Romania made headlines—and shocked the world—when it annulled a presidential election at the end of last year, citing evidence of foreign interference aimed at supporting a pro-Russian far-right candidate. It was a bold and necessary move, one that stands in stark contrast to what the U.S. should have done—and is now facing the consequences for not doing. But why would Romania take such a decisive stand? The answer lies in its history. Romania's Moscow-backed dictatorship was among the most brutal behind the Iron Curtain, a painful past that still unites much of the country today. In this week's episode, we delve into Romania's complex history, weaving in a personal story from Andrea's own family. Her father-in-law, Mihai Victor Serdaru, a medical student in 1956 Bucharest, attempted to lead a student protest in solidarity with the Hungarian Uprising next door. To help make sense of her years of research, Andrea turned to Dr. Corina Snitar, a historian and Lecturer in Central and Eastern European Studies at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Dr. Snitar is the author of Opposition, Repression, and Cold War: The 1956 Student Movement in Timișoara and contributed the chapter Women's Experiences of 1956: Student Protesters and Partisans in Romania to the book Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The discussion of how to topple a dictator will continue in this week's bonus show for our Patreon community, where we'll dive into a lively book club salon for political scientist Gene Sharp's revolutionary handbook, From Dictatorship to Democracy. Sharp's work has inspired liberation movements worldwide, and we'll explore its urgent lessons for us today. Look for that on Friday. A huge thank you to everyone who supports the show. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you! “Just as military officers must understand force structures, tactics, logistics, munitions, the effects of geography, and the like in order to plot military strategy, political defiance planners must understand the nature and strategic principles of nonviolent struggle.” ― Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy   Want to enjoy Gaslit Nation ad-free? Join our community of listeners for bonus shows, ad-free episodes, exclusive Q&A sessions, our group chat, invites to live events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit!    Show Notes: 100 Organizations Supporting Trans People in All 50 States Discover the organizations working tirelessly to support trans people across the country and combat anti-trans legislation. Read more: https://www.them.us/story/orgs-fighting-back-anti-trans-legislation The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix Watch the powerful trailer for The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, a documentary about the life and legacy of a pioneering activist. Watch the trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pADsuuPd79E MAGA Influencer Ashley St. Claire Returns Her Tesla Ashley St. Claire calls out Elon Musk for being a deadbeat dad as she returns her Tesla. Watch the video: https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1906741930467225671 Elon Musk Says His DOGE Role is Hurting Tesla's Stock Price In a candid interview, Elon Musk admits that his involvement with DOGE is impacting Tesla's stock price. Read more on CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-doge-very-expensive-job-tesla-stock-down-wisconsin/ Donald Trump Gives DOGE Update as Musk Announces He'll Step Down in May Elon Musk confirms he'll step down from his role in May. Details on Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gives-doge-update-elon-musk-says-hell-step-down-may-2053368 Trump Won't Rule Out a Third Term, Says 'There Are Methods' Donald Trump hints at the possibility of a third term in the White House, stating there are ways to make it happen. Read more on NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-white-house-methods-rcna198752 Dr. Corina Snitar's Bio Learn more about Dr. Corina Snitar, a respected scholar and educator in social and political studies. Read her bio: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/corinasnitar/ TeslaTakeDown.com Join the Tesla protest here! It's fun and easy. Learn more at TeslaTakeDown.com DOGE Hitler Youth DOGE Teen owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC' and worked at a startup that has hired convicted hackers. Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive U.S. government systems. Read more on Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/ Introducing ArchiveGate: Trump's Dangerous Attack on the National Archives  Listen to the episode: https://gaslitnation.libsyn.com/introducing-archivegate-trumps-dangerous-attack-on-the-national-archives MAGA Reddit Reacts to Trump Seeking a Third Term  Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1jnkvv0/trump_teases_running_for_a_third_term_not_joking/ EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: April 7 4pm ET – Security Committee Presents at the Gaslit Nation Salon. Don't miss it!  Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon. Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon. 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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to visit Budapest tonight in his very first trip to a European country since the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against him and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over war crimes committed in Gaza. But Netanyahu will not be detained in Viktor Orban's Hungary and the ICC not only will be defied but it also has limited means to respond to this trip. But what is Hungary's plan to defy the arrest warrant and why is Netanyahu meeting up with Orban?Join us on our journey through the events that shape the European continent and the European Union.Production: By Europod, in co production with Sphera Network.Follow us on:LinkedInInstagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PLANUL PENTRU 2025 - CRISTIAN ONETIU #IGDLCC[00:00:00] George Buhnici: Elon Musk. Eu zic Elon Musk, tu spui?[00:00:02] Cristian Onetiu: Da eu zic Peter Thiel. Există cineva [00:00:05]mai șmecher decât Elon Musk acolo? Peter Thiel, clar. De ce? a fost? Păi întotdeauna a fost și [00:00:10] angajatorul lui principal și finanțatorul lui principal. Cum? După ce am trăit suficient de mulți ani în pace, ne [00:00:15]imaginăm că dacă vine un lider mesianic ăla nu va fi dictator.[00:00:18] Așa au zis și în [00:00:20] 40-i când au venit Partidul Muncitoresc și care a zis că le dă pământ oamenilor și [00:00:25] le-a dat pământ după care le-a luat. America tinde să aibă un comportament la [00:00:30] fel ca al rușilor și ca al chinezilor, adică semnează acte dar nu se tinde ele. Și atunci ne [00:00:35]decidem dacă e imigrant sau nu în America sau în Rusia?[00:00:37] Și atunci, acum când vedem că toți dau în [00:00:40] Europa... Cred că fiecare român trebuie să-și ia o decizie identitară. Sunt european sau [00:00:45] sunt rus sau sunt ce-o fi. Te îngrozești să mai ieși și spui, haideți la vot. [00:00:50] Că nu știi cine vine. De fapt tu nu știi ce-i acolo.[00:00:53] George Buhnici: Ăștia care se uită la noi trebuie să meargă la [00:00:55] vot.[00:00:55] Cristian Onetiu: Da, ăștia da. Dacă acest maga, dacă [00:01:00]suveranismul american reușește, crezi că următorul parlament de la noi va fi suveranist? [00:01:05] Dacă o face grozavă da. Dar mă îndoiesc că pot să o facă.[00:01:08] George Buhnici: Martie 2025, Cristian [00:01:10] Nețiu a spus așa că Trump nu o să reușească.[00:01:12] Cristian Onetiu: Singurul lucru pe care văd să-l reușească este să [00:01:15] facă o dinastie din familia lui.[00:01:17] George Buhnici: Nu m-ai deprimat niciodată așa de mult [00:01:20]astăzi. Jur.[00:01:21] Cristian Onetiu: Da, dar nu avem istoric baza discuției. [00:01:25][00:01:25] George Buhnici: Salutare tuturor și bine v-am regăsit la ICDLCC, informații gratis despre lucruri care costă, cu Cristian [00:01:30] Nețiu, cu care nu ne-am văzut nici la sfârșitul lui 2024, nici la începutul lui 2025, dintr-un motiv foarte [00:01:35] simplu.[00:01:36] E atât de multă incertitudine încât mi-a fost teamă să [00:01:40] mă duc la oracol și să frec globul de cristal pentru că nu știu ce ai fi putut să-mi spui [00:01:45] până acum, sincer. Pare că suntem așa într-un hiatus, suntem cumva în [00:01:50] purgatoriu. Așteptăm să vină sfârșitul luna mai să scăpăm o dată de politică și să ne reapucăm poate de [00:01:55] treabă.[00:01:55] Așa că ne revedem astăzi să vedem ce facem cu banii în 2025, dacă [00:02:00] ne luăm un job, dacă ne mai facem business sau nu, pentru că din câte aud, românii sunt [00:02:05] atât de neîncrezători încât nu-și mai au casă, stau în chirii, țin de job-urile pe care le-au, [00:02:10] concedierii se fac, dar se fac pe șustache, nu prea se vorbește.[00:02:13] Către America nu prea [00:02:15] mai poți să fugi că ne amenință ăștia de la ambasadă că să nu te duci pe nașpa. Avea mai multe [00:02:20]provocări Mai multe provocări decât oportunități În 2025? Sau vezi [00:02:25]ceva care chiar merită să te arunci și să te [00:02:30] duci, gata, mă duc și fac bani acum?[00:02:32] Cristian Onetiu: Am venit pregătit, am pregătit vreo 10 [00:02:35]tipuri de modele de business pe care poți să le faci exact în [00:02:40] situațiile astea foarte tricky, așa cum le [00:02:45] descriai tu.[00:02:47] Dar ca să începem așa pe [00:02:50] ce ai spus tu mai devreme, cuvântul ăsta așteptăm. Este cel mai [00:02:55] rău în perioada asta. Toată lumea așteaptă. Nu toată lumea [00:03:00] Tu ai stat de pămană o să ne povestești ce ai făcut. Să împărțim pe leere populația, că [00:03:05] nici America nu este America lui Trump, nici România nu este România lui [00:03:10] Iohannis, așa cum și audiența ta este o audiență [00:03:15] dintr-o categorie care are niște particularități.[00:03:18] Și cred că ei au [00:03:20] puterea și să miște, au și puterea de a vedea oportunități, au și puterea de a [00:03:25] își găsi informațiile corecte pentru a găsi mai aproape a fi mai [00:03:30] aproape de adevăr. Și cred că ei sunt și schimbarea. [00:03:35] Pentru că dacă vorbim despre marea masă a României, atunci n-ar rău să discutăm [00:03:40] despre nimic rațional sau oportunistic în [00:03:45] sensul bun.[00:03:46] Însă noi suntem aici să vorbim unei Categorii [00:03:50] de oameni ușor diferiți și nu zic asta cu[00:03:53] superioritate, ci[00:03:54] [00:03:55] cu segmentare. Se[00:03:57] George Buhnici: vede în analitice, oricât de mult mi-ar plăcea mie să [00:04:00] fiu urmărit de mai mulți oameni, genul de discuții pe care le avem aici și genul de [00:04:05] invitați selectează. Da. Și atunci oamenii care vor un pic de divertisment sunt în altă parte.[00:04:09] [00:04:10] Clar. Și sunt mult mai mulți. Și sunt mult mai mulți. Deci vorbim un pic de [00:04:15] oportunitate, suntem un pic oportuniști încercăm să facem mai mult decât să stăm să săpice, [00:04:20] parămălăiață sau să mergem nu știu, la opt ore. Adică chiar dacă ești într-un job [00:04:25] de opt ore, sunt convins că oamenii care se uită caută și altceva pe lângă mai au o idee, se [00:04:30] mai uită și la alte lucruri.[00:04:31] Asta e un cuvânt bun. A căuta față[00:04:33] Cristian Onetiu: de a aștepta, deja e o mare diferență. [00:04:35]Dacă oamenii încep să caute, știi că e și vorba aia istorică. Caută [00:04:40] și vei găsi, bate și ți se va deschide. Primul lucru pe care trebuie să-l faci pe Google, [00:04:45] primul lucru pe care trebuie să-l faci pe un CGPT, trebuie să cauți.[00:04:49] Diferența [00:04:50] între oamenii care caută și oamenii care așteaptă să-i se livreze o informație de-a gata [00:04:55] și pe care să o înghită și pe care să o accelereze în ei și să o sedimenteze și apoi [00:05:00] să mai intre și în algoritmul social media în care se spună a, s-a uitat tot [00:05:05] 15 secunde în loc de 3, deci îi place treaba asta, să-i dă mai mult, să înghită mai mult.[00:05:10][00:05:10] Asta e o diferență foarte mare între oamenii. Adică cei care așteaptă sunt unii. [00:05:15] Mai e o categorie mai joasă decât cei care așteaptă. E categoria care [00:05:20] nu doar așteaptă să vadă ce se întâmplă, ci așteaptă salvatorul. Și [00:05:25] America, cu MAGA și Trump a speculat chestia asta, se vede și în [00:05:30] Europa, se vede peste tot.[00:05:31] Rusia, China, practică deja modelul ăsta [00:05:35] Emiratele Arabe la fel au un model în care stăpânirea unui individ pentru [00:05:40] că ce se întâmplă acum este trecerea la încrederea sau așteptarea [00:05:45] unui sistem mesianic care să rezolve lucrurile cum era democrația către un [00:05:50]individ mesianic care să rezolve. Și toată atenția și toată puterea și [00:05:55]tot leverage-ul politic și Și puterea executivă să se ducă la un singur om, [00:06:00] care el este exponentul salvării acelui neam.[00:06:04] Asta e [00:06:05] marea problemă pe care îi paște și pe americanii.[00:06:07] George Buhnici: Este deja susținută [00:06:10] ideea de care spui tu, de studii care arată că mai ales noua generație își [00:06:15] dorește un astfel de lider mesianic și deja inclusiv Marea Britanie [00:06:20] tinerii spuneau că ei ar fi de acord să preia puterea cineva cu o autoritate eventual militară [00:06:25]și să facă ordine.[00:06:26] Adică după ce am trăit suficient de mulți ani în pace [00:06:30] ne imaginăm că dacă vine un lider mesianic ăla nu va fi dictator, ăla nu va face [00:06:35] așa Așa au zis și în[00:06:36] Cristian Onetiu: 40 când au venit Partidul Muncitoresc și care a [00:06:40] zis că le dă pământ oamenilor și le-a dat pământ după care le-a luat. Deci n-a fost decât câțiva [00:06:45] ani de zile în care s-au ținut de promisiune după care au schimbat tot, au luat înapoi tot și s-a transformat în [00:06:50] ceea ce știm 40 ceva de ani de comunism.[00:06:52] Nu există nicio [00:06:55] referință în istorie în care cineva care a acumulat toată puterea s-o fi gestionat [00:07:00] în favoarea oamenilor sau fără să... Cineva care n-a schimbat [00:07:05] regulile jocului fundamental după aceea și n-a oprimat populația Uite acum la[00:07:09] George Buhnici: Erdogan [00:07:10] zilele astea. Și-a arestat principalul oponent și vrea să schimbe din nou [00:07:15] legea ca să poate să mai candideze încă un mandat Săptâna trecută a fost o [00:07:20] știre pe exemplu că liderul curzilor din închisoare l-a spus curzilor să lase armele, că s-au [00:07:25] înțeles, s-a înțeles cu Erdogan ca să-l poată să aibă destule voturi ca să-și poată extinde mandatul și ăla.[00:07:30][00:07:30] L-ai pe Victor Orban lângă noi. Am fost zilele trecute în [00:07:35]nordul și nord-vestul Transilvaniei Bihor, [00:07:40] Satu Mare, Baia Mare, toți oamenii aia spun, zice, băi, la noi e bine. Când treci în Ungaria, ai [00:07:45]impresia că te-ai întors deja 10, 15 20 de ani. Băi ăsta-i mandatul lui Orban. [00:07:50] Și la fel în toate țările în care ai lideri în ăștia lider maxim.[00:07:54] [00:07:55] Întrebarea este, ce se întâmplă cu America? De ce fac americanii chestia asta? Ce crezi că o fac? Pentru că [00:08:00] oricine[00:08:00] Cristian Onetiu: vrea să fie liderul maxim. Iar după cum ne uităm la America acum, [00:08:05] care, again, nu este America lui Trump, este America câștigată de MAGA, care și [00:08:10] are probleme în interior, că n-a fost doar Trump acolo a fost MAGA, ăștia lucrează de 8 ani de zile pe [00:08:15]ideologia asta.[00:08:17] Mai sunt și... Liderii [00:08:20] companiilor mari de tehnologie care au venit și ei pe final și au zis veniți și noi cu [00:08:25] modul nostru de a conduce tehnologic. Mai era și [00:08:30] Trump care vrea să fie în față și să-și ia revanșa pentru ceilalți. Este și un mix. Ei au câștigat împreună fără [00:08:35]să aibă aceeași doctrină însă având aceleași interese.[00:08:38] Miliardari[00:08:39] George Buhnici: cu[00:08:39] Cristian Onetiu: [00:08:40] rednecks. N-ai mai văzut vreodată așa? Ce înseamnă asta? Și ei recunosc că este un [00:08:45] amestec total heterogen. Pentru că au avut aceeași miză. Și oamenii [00:08:50] sau prădătorii se adună pentru miză, dar după aceea se și ceartă între ei. Eu mă aștept să [00:08:55] fie destul de dură despărțirea dintre aceste trei categorii mari, care [00:09:00] unii sunt ideologi MAGA Originals, Trump care este [00:09:05] doar power-oriented și marile companii tehnologice care [00:09:10] au cu tot o altă perspectivă și care [00:09:15] prin Peter Thiel și prin Elon Musk și ceilalți vor să imprime o altă direcție.[00:09:19] Deci oricum [00:09:20] n-au o viziune comună dar au avut un obiectiv comun, să câștige puterea. Exact. S-a [00:09:25] întâmplat chestia asta, dar încă o dată asta nu e America toată. Este o parte [00:09:30] care a fost trasă de aceste trei diferite zone de [00:09:35] influență care au dus la rezultatul ăsta.[00:09:40][00:09:41] Se înțeleg între ei și urmașii lui Trump transformă America [00:09:45] într-o dinastie de 100 de ani, așa [00:09:50] cum încep să vorbească de pace și prosperitate, adică stați liniștiți la pământ că [00:09:55] noi conducem, înseamnă că liderul lumii libere [00:10:00] a murit Pentru că noi până acum ne uităm la America întotdeauna ca [00:10:05] liderul lumii libere.[00:10:06] Și înseamnă că Europa rămâne ultima zonă [00:10:10] discutabilă greoaie, ultra-reglementată [00:10:15] coruptă în anumite zone, care încă mai păstrează principiile democrației liberale. [00:10:20] Și cred că asta este miza noastră între această [00:10:25] politică globală dar multipolară de putere. [00:10:30] Adică China vede dintr-o perspectivă, Rusia vede dintr-o perspectivă.[00:10:33] Ăștia au [00:10:35] povestea lor. Putin o spune de mult, de 10 ani.[00:10:40] [00:10:45][00:10:49] Ne [00:10:50] orientăm către țara noastră să o conducem ca lumea și apoi să devenim liderii [00:10:55] globali, tehnologici și militari ca să putem să redevenim prin forță liderul [00:11:00] planetei. Chinezii mai spun din când în când niște lucruri, dar aici văd de treaba lor liniștit și [00:11:05] între timp cresc economic și financiar de rup și nu poți să-i ignori.[00:11:09] [00:11:10] Deci Iranul începe și el să găsească loc și oportunități și [00:11:15] Europa va fi hărțuită de toți, pentru că atunci când rămâi ultimul [00:11:20] standard al unei democrații fragile, toți vor da în tine. Mai [00:11:25]ales că au interes, adică Europa mai are încă multe colonii, adică mai au ce fura de [00:11:30] acolo. Fiecare din ăștia patru pe care i-am zis așteaptă de mult să mai ia niște [00:11:35] teritorii pe care ele aveau acolo și încă țin de un stat european.[00:11:38] Deci au Și [00:11:40] apropo cum am început? E ca la o crimă, știi Care e motivul Dar găsești motivul, [00:11:45] te apropii mai mult de adevăr. Și motivul e? Motivul este că fiecare vrea să devină o [00:11:50] super putere în felul ei Și Europa este o [00:11:55] doamnă bătrână obosită pe care[00:11:57] George Buhnici: toți... Bă, da, e, dar chiar e Europa [00:12:00]pentru că se leagă de discuția de la care am început, că nu ne-am dus aici.[00:12:04] Hai nu [00:12:05] anțăm bătrânii. Zicem că și noi suntem pasivi da? Da. Și România este Europa. Ne place sau nu să [00:12:10] acceptăm suntem de acum și noi de acolo. Și atunci e clar că jucăm și noi în filmul ăsta [00:12:15] în care părăm lenți pasivi prea puțin proactivi. Bă, dar stai [00:12:20] să-ți[00:12:20] Cristian Onetiu: spun că dacă reinterpretăm puțin treaba asta asta, o să ne dăm seama că a fi o doamnă [00:12:25] bătrână cu multă istorie și cu multe cicatrici astăzi reprezintă un mare [00:12:30] beneficiu.[00:12:31] Pentru că noi avem o mare imunitate la o grămadă de lucruri. Americanii n-au avut [00:12:35] război americanii n-au avut comunism, n-au avut titratură Noi avem o [00:12:40] mare imunitate în tot procesul ăsta, pentru că noi am fost acolo de curând Noi înseamnă asta. Noi știm. Ăia nu [00:12:45]știu. Generațiile lor nu se așteaptă Nici măcar nu poate să-și [00:12:50]imagineze ce poate să însemne un dictator.[00:12:52] Ei nu știu așa ceva, ei au învățat în niște [00:12:55] cărți, au citit, dar nu a fost niciodată despre ei. departe se întâmplă în alte țări, în alte [00:13:00]părți pe planetă. Niciodată niciodată. ce Nu la noi. Deci noi avem imunitate. Faptul că e o [00:13:05] doamnă bătrână e în sensul bun, pentru că bătrân înseamnă [00:13:10] și înțelept. Înseamnă că nu te prostesc unii atât de repede și faptul că avem atât multe [00:13:15] culori, țările astea care au specificul lor e și mai multă [00:13:20] imunitate Adică avem anticorpi [00:13:25] naționali specifici la anumite vrăjeli, pe care dacă le simțim în [00:13:30] Franța, noi le semnalăm din România.[00:13:31] Când alții le găsesc în România, le semnalază de [00:13:35] acolo. Avem o multitudine de anticorpi. Așa că o doamnă [00:13:40] bătrână și birocratică în această etapă n-am crezut că o spun [00:13:45] vreodată acum 10 ani de zile nu credeam, nici acum 5 ani de zile nu credeam că o să spun, că [00:13:50] prefer o doamnă înțeleaptă sau un domn înțelept cu anticorpi și cu [00:13:55] înțelepciune și cu istorie care să poată să ia decizii liniștite fără să fie [00:14:00] abrupte.[00:14:00] Aș fi crezut întotdeauna că a fi abrupt și a [00:14:05] schimba totul peste noapte Este singura soluție Când mă uit acum [00:14:10] către ce duce o schimbare abruptă, foarte mult mi-am nuanțat [00:14:15] perspectiva în ultima[00:14:16] George Buhnici: perioadă. Deci dacă am învățat ceva în ultimii ani, asta e. Apropo de [00:14:20] varietate. Am fost anul trecut prin Germania și știi că așa, stai pădurile într-o veselie.[00:14:25][00:14:25] Știi de ce nu? Că au insecte asta, au gândac care le intră pe [00:14:30] sub scoarță, intră în trunchi și începe să hrănească din seva [00:14:35] copacului. Și până ajunse să-ți seama e prea târziu și nu există tratament. [00:14:40] Și și-au dat seama de o chestie nemții că de fapt nu-i de vină gândacul, ci ei au fost de vină, [00:14:45] pentru că au plantat păduri numai de brad, fără să facă suficiente varietate.[00:14:50][00:14:50] Cristian Onetiu: Asta e frumusețea Europei diversitatea asta și [00:14:55] faptul că dacă începem să comunicăm și dacă începem să lucrăm ca o Europa și cred că asta e cea mai mare [00:15:00] oportunitate de până acum ca Europa să opereze ca Europa.[00:15:03] George Buhnici: Cea[00:15:03] Cristian Onetiu: mai mare de până acum. Dar [00:15:05] ce[00:15:05] George Buhnici: ar putea să fie Europa asta? Că noi ne agățăm de ideea asta de democrație, [00:15:10] dar știm că fără capitalism nu suntem un jucător suficient,[00:15:14] Cristian Onetiu: [00:15:15] suficient de competitiv.[00:15:16] Da, suntem încă cei mai sărași de la masă. [00:15:20] Deci e clar că avem de adăugat valoare în România ca să putem să ne creștem [00:15:25]puterea valoarea adăugată în Europa, contribuția pe care o aducem dar faptul [00:15:30] că noi putem învăța de lângă ei și putem să stăm la masă cu ei, să [00:15:35] ne spunem tot mai tare opinia, să ne șeruim aceștia [00:15:40]anticorpii ai noștri sau această înțelepciune și inteligență locală care s-ar putea să aibă [00:15:45] valoare și pentru ei, ăsta e deja un prim mare pas.[00:15:50][00:15:50] Suntem acolo și cred că ne agățăm de democrația [00:15:55] liberală pentru că știm cum a fost în istoria recentă altfel. [00:16:00] N-avem altă variantă adică orice am încercat, nu știm o altă variantă mai [00:16:05]meritocratică decât asta, că și meritocrația asta e foarte debatable. [00:16:10]Deci n-avem altă variantă decât să stăm împreună.[00:16:13] Și acum când vedem că [00:16:15] toți dau în Europa, cred că fiecare român trebuie să-și ia o decizie identitară. Sunt [00:16:20] european sau sunt rus sau sunt ce-o fi. Trebuie să iau o decizie la nivel mai [00:16:25] mare decât sunt din regiunea Banat, Muntenea sau nu știu care, sunt [00:16:30] în țara asta. În ce regiune mai mare joci? Pentru că singur nu mai poți să faci față.[00:16:35][00:16:35] Singur te păcălești toți. Trag de tine toți. [00:16:40][00:16:40] George Buhnici: Și atunci ne decidem dacă emigrăm sau nu în America sau în Rusia? În Dubai? Păi [00:16:45] te-ai renunțat la Dubai, nu? Da, am avut 3 ani de zile planificați am stat 2 ani și 8 [00:16:50] luni. Deci după aproape 3 ani de Dubai te-ai întors aici, nu [00:16:55] te-ai uitat nici spre America, deși este pentru business teoretic cel mai bun loc de pe planetă nu?[00:16:59] Cristian Onetiu: [00:17:00] Da.[00:17:01] George Buhnici: Și totuși e[00:17:01] Cristian Onetiu: aici. Pentru că acolo nu am certitudinea [00:17:05]siguranței personale și a familiei. Mi-e destul de... [00:17:10] Am fost de patru ori în America. De fiecare dată am trăit lucruri pe care nu le-am trăit niciunde [00:17:15] în lume. Apropo de violență, apropo de... [00:17:20] apropo de puterea organelor de ordine atât de brutale. [00:17:25] Mi-e greu să trăiesc acolo.[00:17:28] La fel cum mi greu să [00:17:30] trăiesc și într-o țară te-a grăsat poliția? Dar într-o formă de asta în care n-a [00:17:35] ajuns să mă pună culcat pe jos. Dar mi s-a tăiat orice [00:17:40] formă de când am intrat în țară când treci acolo și când îți dai seama că ai [00:17:45] călcat o linie și ăla vine și urlă la tine la 30 centimetri și [00:17:50] după aceea te împinge într-o zonă și după aceea te pune să ții [00:17:55] mâinile la spate că ești periculos că ai călcat pe o pe o dungă [00:18:00] galbenă și când ieși afară din parcare și când te duci cu mașina și [00:18:05] te oprește primul polițist cu un ton de parcă ai omorât pe cineva [00:18:10] fără să ai făcut nimic și fără să înțelegi care sunt drepturile și cum să gestionezi [00:18:15] relația respectivă e o altă lume, pentru noi europenii e o altă lume, cel puțin pentru [00:18:20] mine sigur că are și o grămadă de lucruri foarte mișto, dar vezi peste tot trebuie să-ți alegi pachetul, [00:18:25] apropo de pachet dacă te hotărăști să fii european trebuie să iei pachetul ăsta [00:18:30] Da, avem niște reglementări care sunt idiote, care ar trebui să le schimbăm, ar trebui să [00:18:35] revizităm anumite lucruri care opresc inovația, dar ar trebui să avem și noi [00:18:40] puterea noastră militară pentru că este ciudat.[00:18:42] Noi suntem 550 de [00:18:45] milioane de oameni care urlăm la 300 de milioane de oameni să ne apere de 150 [00:18:50] de milioane care nu pot să-i bată pe 30 de milioane sau 50 de milioane cât să-ți spune Acum le-ai prea frazat pe [00:18:55] Donald Tusk care a zis foarte bine. Așa e. Da, așa e. Așa e. Acum mai e [00:19:00] totuși o nuanță în toată chestia asta.[00:19:02] Când noi [00:19:05] ne ducem la ăștia pentru că au puterea militară nucleară pentru că ne-au prostit să nu o facem pe noastră [00:19:10] ca să ne apere de ăștia din dreapta care au un milion jumate de militari [00:19:15] și care nu se bat cu 50 de milioane ci se bat cu toată restul lumii care [00:19:20] le-au dat toate armele. Deci în toată discuția asta aveți aceeași [00:19:25] știre, aceeași poveste spusă din două perspective, o dată frumos, cealaltă pe [00:19:30] cifre.[00:19:30] Când unul are 70% din puterea nucleară și celălalt are un [00:19:35]milion jumate de infanterici de militari, păi nu-i de joacă. [00:19:40] Și noi nu avem nimic în toate chestiile astea. Avem un pic prin Franța, avem un pic prin... [00:19:45] Nu ai[00:19:45] George Buhnici: senzația asta că ne luptăm cu barbarii? [00:19:50]Pentru că noi în Europa am cam depășit faza asta cu războaie la graniță.[00:19:53] Da. [00:19:55] Adică nu ne mai împărțim. Am înțeles o chestie În Europa, noi am înțeles, toate [00:20:00] țările ca să intre în Europeană, au tratate în alea de bună vecinătate, nu mai am niciun fel de pretenții [00:20:05]teritoriale asupra nimănui. Da, da, noi încă mai credem în tratate. Asta a[00:20:07] Cristian Onetiu: fost problema mea Păi da[00:20:08] George Buhnici: în Europa[00:20:09] Cristian Onetiu: nu avem [00:20:10] războaie la graniță.[00:20:11] Problema mea în Emirate, ca să-ți doar așa o mică paranteză, a fost că eu am [00:20:15] crezut că sunt regulă din Europa. Am discutat cu [00:20:20]fonduri de investiții care au semnat binding term sheets pentru [00:20:25]investiții care s-au răzgândit fără niciun fel de motiv și fără să aibă niciun fel de [00:20:30] responsabilitate. Și noi am zis...[00:20:31] Așa ceva nu se poate, nu e normal, adică [00:20:35] voi ziceți că operați după regulile vestice, dar voi de fapt aveți regulile voastre pe care și nici [00:20:40] măcar nu dați nicio explicație, pur și simplu nu aveți chef. Sau mai rău ați intrat în business [00:20:45] și acum nu vreți să ieșiți dar n-ați pus contribuția voastră și când vine capital call-ul [00:20:50] voi ziceți că mai ne mai gândim.[00:20:51] Dar nu ieșiți din companie și începeți să cereți [00:20:55] beneficiile pe care compania asta le-ar avea. Deci America [00:21:00] tinde să aibă un comportament la fel ca al rușilor și ca al chinezilor, adică [00:21:05] semnează acte dar nu se ținde ele. Aduți aminte ce ușor a semnat Putin cu [00:21:10]Obama. Nu mai facem stai că nu mai... S-a dus și a intrat în...[00:21:14] a încălcat. [00:21:15] America a semnat cu anumite zone, se retrage. China a semnat o grămadă de [00:21:20] documente De ce înseamnă poluare, nu s-a ținut de ele. Marile puteri [00:21:25] nu joacă după bunul simț democratic, vestic, al Europei. Și [00:21:30] noi trebuie să ne revenim din ideea asta că ei joacă după reguli.[00:21:33] George Buhnici: Ei nu joacă după [00:21:35] reguli.[00:21:35] Revenim la IGDLCC în dată ce-ți spun despre sponsorul nostru, Darkom Energy, [00:21:40] cei care ne garantează că nu ni se sting luminile din studio. Adică nu avem [00:21:45] niciodată pene de curent. Panourile fotovoltaice, invertoarele și bateriile sunt [00:21:50] inima sistemului nostru energetic și cred cu tărie că sunt investiții importante, dar [00:21:55] și rentabile.[00:21:56] Cu acest sistem am economisit deja mii de euro la facturi, dar [00:22:00] și mai important avem electricitatea garantată fără fluctuații care ne pot defecta [00:22:05] electricele și electronicele. Dacă ai în plan să construiești, să renovezi [00:22:10] orice fel de clădire, inclusiv industrială alege o soluție solidă de [00:22:15] generare și stocare de energie Noi colaborăm cu echipa Adarcom Energy și îi [00:22:20] recomandăm.[00:22:20] I-am auzit pe europeni siderați, șocați, că după ce au lansat comenzi de [00:22:25] F-35, au aflat că... Dar a zis-o cu gura lui Trump zilele trecute. Zice, o să le vindem [00:22:30] aliaților noștri niște arme toned down, că poate mai încolo le vine [00:22:35] o idee să ne atace cu ele.[00:22:37] Cristian Onetiu: Păi[00:22:37] George Buhnici: gândește[00:22:38] Cristian Onetiu: că noi nu avem acces la [00:22:40] Nvidia, la procesoare.[00:22:41] Adică prea avem acces. Adică [00:22:45] cantitatea pe care el a comandat-o și a zis mie să-mi dai primul că eu vreau să fiu cea mai mare putere [00:22:50] de procesare de date și AIU-ul meu vreau să domine tot și vreau să fiu cel [00:22:55] mai bun în tehnologie. Noi nu prea mai avem acces la [00:23:00] procesatoare. Hai să zicem că găsim putere de procesare, dar nici acolo nu suntem foarte bine.[00:23:05][00:23:06] E tot un război și ăsta și e pe față [00:23:10] Și într-un fel să știi că mie îmi place că e pe față acum. Cumva cred că ar trebui să ne [00:23:15]trezim dintr-un vis frumos în care toți ăștia sunt [00:23:20] așa de corecți și de etici și numai noi, europenii eram ăia care nu ne [00:23:25] țineam de treabă și nu țineam. Nu e chiar așa. Ne trezim la realitate și ceea ce până acum părea.[00:23:30][00:23:30] Era implicit, adică nu se putea spune, deodată devine explicit. Uită-te și [00:23:35] la gender equality, apropo de zona asta socială. Era implicit [00:23:40] diferența asta între femei și bărbați. Adică și dacă o spuneai cineva zicea, hai mă că nu-i [00:23:45] chiar așa. Acum când îl vezi pe Conor McGregor la [00:23:50] Trump în birou și pe Andrew Tate favorizat și adus în țară ca [00:23:55] să facă treabă și pe Elon Musk și pe Trump în sine cu [00:24:00] toate lucrurile astea este explicit.[00:24:02] Că ei vor să facă din [00:24:05] nou patriarhat global. Este explicit. Dar asta e foarte bine [00:24:10] pentru că bărbații care până acum li se părea că e o conspirație [00:24:15] altora unii și altora, acum se retrag și ei și zic, bă știi ce, ar trebui să fim mai moderați. [00:24:20] Adică înțelegem că treaba asta e reală. Se vede că [00:24:25] gender gap și gender equality nu e o vrăjeală.[00:24:28] Sunt niște oameni [00:24:30] care o împing cu agenda, o împing cu intenție, ea nu [00:24:35] mai la subteran, a ieșit afară. Și văd din ce în ce mai mulți bărbați [00:24:40] care încep să vorbească despre lucrurile astea, despre cum putem să [00:24:45] devenim sau să contra Să creăm [00:24:50] contexte care femeile și bărbații să lucreze bine împreună pentru că știm că ăsta e viitorul, pentru că știm că [00:24:55] ăsta este singura metodă prin care noi vom crea valoare mai multă.[00:24:58] Unul plus unul va crea [00:25:00] trei.[00:25:01] George Buhnici: În toate țările unde ai femei în poziții de management și de conducere, [00:25:05] crește prosperitatea. Da, uite, sunt doar 15% la nivel de leadership[00:25:09] Cristian Onetiu: [00:25:10] position.[00:25:11] George Buhnici: Iar în[00:25:11] Cristian Onetiu: România, hai să fim serioși. Să știi că în România nu [00:25:15] suntem chiar așa de rău la nivel de antreprenori. Studiile pe care le știu eu la nivel de antreprenoare și antreprenori [00:25:20] suntem pe primul loc la nivel de număr de antreprenoare față de [00:25:25] europeni.[00:25:26] Față de europeni? Da, și au făcut multe firme. [00:25:30] Probabil că sunt și multe firme liberale, poate sunt neapărat companii cu angajați, că nu am statistică atât în [00:25:35] profunzime de câți angajați au, dar nu stăm rău, să [00:25:40] știi, pare că România e în zona de [00:25:45] gender gap undeva pe la mijlocul Europei. Grecia fiind în partea de jos, Germania fiind sub noi, [00:25:50] chiar dacă sunt mult mai educați, adică dacă te uiți pe rapoartele de gender gap și gender equality, [00:25:55] vei vedea că nu stăm chiar așa de rău.[00:25:56] Ar trebui să începem să găsim mai multe lucruri bune pe care le [00:26:00] avem deja. Încep să fie obositoare toate [00:26:05] topurile în care suntem numai praf. Suntem în topuri și în zona bună. Și dacă [00:26:10] nu putem fi, putem alege să fim într-o anumită zonă și să nu mai vedem numai partea [00:26:15] negativă. Suntem ultimii pe treaba aia Ok, hai să stabilim dacă e o prioritate cu toții și să ne [00:26:20] apucăm de ea.[00:26:20] Pentru că dacă tot așteptăm ca alții să ne-o facă, nu o să ne-o facă. [00:26:25] Noi am avut noroc până acum în democrația noastră de lideri hoți și proști. [00:26:30] Dar n-am avut norocul nostru că n-am avut și un megaloman. [00:26:35] Au încercat.[00:26:35] George Buhnici: Păi am avut un Dragnea. Am avut un Ponta. [00:26:40] Băsescu s-a retras democratic. Iohannis a fost aruncat sub autobuz.[00:26:45][00:26:45] S-a aruncat singur în avion și după ce[00:26:48] Cristian Onetiu: ani nu l-am mai văzut. 23 [00:26:50] de milioane? 25 de milioane de dolari? Până pe avioane? Ne luam niște avioane bune. [00:26:55] Deci într-un fel... Tot ce spunem acum că e rău, putea fi mult mai rău. Și știu că [00:27:00] nu e o variantă bună să spunem că, băi ăsta, să ne mulțumim că [00:27:05] se putea mai rău, știu.[00:27:06] Băi imaginează[00:27:06] George Buhnici: 20 de ani cu Iliescu sau cu Băse [00:27:10] sau cu Constantinescu sau cu oricare. Băi, e bine. Există o teorie a lui Taleb care [00:27:15] spune că pur și simplu simplul fapt că poți să schimbi îți aduce mai bine. Da. [00:27:20] Opționalitatea, faptul că poți să alegi simplul fapt că poți să alegi nu contează că alegi [00:27:25] întotdeauna vei alege răul cel mai mic și când alegi răul cel mai mic, măcar ai ce să alegi Da.[00:27:29] Nu rămâi [00:27:30] înțepenit într-o singură opțiune cu care trebuie să te duci. Sunt [00:27:35] foarte multe țări pe planetă, prea multe deja, care nu au văzut alți lideri. [00:27:40] Da. Bine și la noi sunt două opțiuni.[00:27:44] Cristian Onetiu: Și [00:27:45] când ai trei opțiuni trebuie să ai un pic de critical thinking, [00:27:50] să știi, să gândești. Și când te uiți în zona de [00:27:55] alegeri și vezi că prezența mai mare la vot de fapt nu aduce oamenii [00:28:00] liniștiți educați, care știai că te gândeai că stau acasă liniștiți și nu votează, ci aduc [00:28:05] alte pături sociale, te îngrozești să mai și spui haideți la vot.[00:28:09] [00:28:10] Că nu știi cine vine, de fapt tu nu știi ce-i acolo. Ăștia care se[00:28:13] George Buhnici: uită la noi trebuie să meargă la vot. Da, [00:28:15]ăștia da. Și ceilalți trebuie ajutat să înțeleagă să facă diferența.[00:28:19] Cristian Onetiu: Da. [00:28:20][00:28:20] George Buhnici: Da, pentru că fiecare trebuie la votul lui și votul meu e egal cu votul lui Nea Vasile.[00:28:24] Cristian Onetiu: Da. [00:28:25][00:28:25] George Buhnici: Asta e democrația până[00:28:25] Cristian Onetiu: la urmă. Eu m-am implicat în ultimele săptămâni luni [00:28:30] să construiesc un gimmick, un deck.[00:28:33] Curiozitate prin care [00:28:35] să-i ajut pe oameni să gândească critic, să aibă mai multe perspective [00:28:40] deodată. E o platformă în care sunt puse știri [00:28:45] crude, cât crude se poate ca să nu intrăm în subiectul ăsta, adică nu la [00:28:50] mâna a treia, a patra, interpretate deja cu un ton ovoi, ci mai aproape de [00:28:55] sursele de știri simple.[00:28:57] S-a întâmplat asta, asta s-a întâlnit cu ăla, asta s-a întâlnit, [00:29:00]asta s-a întâmplat Cum îi zice? Cetățean.ro încă nu e, urmează să fie, [00:29:05]dar îți arăt cum funcționează, adică iei o știre de acolo care e crudă, de la Reuters, de la [00:29:10] Jetpress, din zone care, să zicem că sunt mai mult știri, știu, toate au bias-ul [00:29:15] lor, știu, toate au, dar te duci un pic mai aproape de unele mai curate mai clean.[00:29:19] [00:29:20] Ok. Să-ți gândești tu pe ce se întâmplă pe fapte. [00:29:25] Și poți să-ți setezi niște profile. De comentatori [00:29:30] care preiau prin AI tone-of-voice-ul unor comentatori cunoscuți și [00:29:35] care sunt unii mai progresiști, unii mai conservatori, unii mai moderați, unii mai activiști, unii mai [00:29:40] pasivi social și așa mai departe. Îi vezi pe o matrice de nouă [00:29:45] pătrățele și începi să faci pe aceeași tire interpretări diferite de la [00:29:50] unul mai progresist unul mai conservator, unul mai naționalist, unul mai așași pentru că îi [00:29:55] identifici și poți să-ți și numești ca nume acolo ca să îi ai ca referință și [00:30:00] AI-ul ia din tone-of-voice-ul lor și din interpretările acelui profil și îți [00:30:05] arată cum poți să vezi în cinci feluri diferite aceeași tire.[00:30:08] Ca să nu mai cazi pradă [00:30:10] algoritmului care dacă te-a uitat cumva la două știri de un anumit fel să creadă că îți place [00:30:15] și să te ține acolo trei săptămâni de să nu mai știi de capul tău să ți se îngusteze lumea.[00:30:19] George Buhnici: [00:30:20] Cum a făcut Nenea la Agigea, să nu știu unde s-a urcat pe pod de dimineață că el vrea [00:30:25] neapărat turul doi înapoi[00:30:26] Cristian Onetiu: Da.[00:30:26] Și[00:30:27] George Buhnici: l-au luat și l-au luat la spital să-l caute un pic și la căpuț, pentru că ăla [00:30:30] probabil a văzut pe TikTok atât de multe chestii despre că trebuie să ieșim în stradă [00:30:35] că el a ratat faptul că s-a închis, gata, dacă vrei să[00:30:38] Cristian Onetiu: protestezi, s-a [00:30:40] dus. Când intri pe platformă, intri pur și simplu și îți faci un profil.[00:30:44] Îți faci un profil [00:30:45] care, uite, arată așa. Deci sunt 9 cadrane în care te încadrezi în funcție de răspunsuri Eu am făcut un test [00:30:50] aici. Păi și îmi faci bulă cu AI cu chestia asta? Nu-ți fac bulă, din potrivă. Eu ți-arăt... Mă scoți [00:30:55] din bulă? Te scoți din bulă. Tu ai o interpretare subiectivă a ta, răspunzi la 12 [00:31:00] întrebări și spui eu sunt cam așa așa mi-arată.[00:31:01] Ok, bun. După care începi să te uiți la [00:31:05] știri și când ai la știri, vezi o știre, da? Și când vezi o știre tu [00:31:10] o interpretezi. Nu știu, e una de astea, da? Și îți [00:31:15] redefinești niște comentatori cu AI. Aici sunt niște nume pe care le-am editat [00:31:20] eu în așa fel încât să-mi fie mai ușor să văd perspectiva lor. Am pus CTP, Cristoiu, [00:31:25] Tolontan, Călin Georgescu, mai sunt câțiva.[00:31:29] Și atunci... [00:31:30] Păi nu, că este în stilul lui. Eu îl editez. Eu nu-l dau [00:31:35] în platformă și atunci tu ți-l pui cum vrei. Dar îți dau niște referințe ca să poți să le înțelegi. Și tu dacă... că [00:31:40] și aici scrie dacă tu dai pe unul de ăsta, spune ăsta nu este el. Este un AI care [00:31:45]interpretează tonul voice-ul și profilul în care l-am încadrat pe acel individ.[00:31:47] O să țară ăștia în capăt să zică că le-ai furat [00:31:50] identitatea. Ai grijă. După care faci o generare Dacă intri gura lui CTP? [00:31:55] Păi nu, că eu mi-am editat Eu acolo sunt blank. Platforma nu-i numește. Tu ți-i editezi cum vrei tu. Tu le-ai dat nume. [00:32:00] Da. Eu îți dau o serie de personaje care seamănă de acolo și tu ți-o îndenumești cum vrei tu.[00:32:04] Am [00:32:05] înțeles. Da? Și asta-i generat de CTP, de Profilul ăsta pe care [00:32:10] l-am numit ăsta. Tu-ți selectezi de aici ce-ți place, zici bă, asta e interesantă. Și ți-o [00:32:15] păstrezi în... ți pui în partea de... Ți-ai salvat-o. [00:32:20] Te mai uiți și la altul, ți-ai salvat-o și după aceea îți pui o perspectivă personală în care [00:32:25] tu spui bă, părerea mea este asta, că așa văd eu lucrurile și îți generează un [00:32:30] răspuns în funcție de cum îl vrei, stil analitic, explicativ, pamfletar, [00:32:35] socratic, narrativ sau chiar și inversui, în care tu îți generezi un articol al [00:32:40] tău.[00:32:40] Îl editezi, îl lucrezi și după aceea ți-l publici Și fiecare articol pe [00:32:45] care îl publici este din nou procesat să-ți arate dacă e în cadranul tău sau tu pe [00:32:50] diferite puncte de vedere ai abordări diferite. Te cunoști mult mai bine când tu crezi despre tine [00:32:55] că ești, nu știu, progresist, moderat civic, dar tu vezi că în toate articolele [00:33:00] pe care tu le publici sau le salvezi, poți să nu le publici de fapt ești în altă parte sau ai [00:33:05]subiecte pe care nu ești deloc așa adică nu seamănă cu ce ești tu în mod [00:33:10] declarat Altfel spus, ești din bulă, ești din algoritm vezi perspective [00:33:15] diferite deodată în același timp și...[00:33:17] Încep să te cunoști mai bine pe tine, să vezi care [00:33:20] sunt subiectele, pentru că în realitate tu n-ai simțit vreodată că pare așa că suntem [00:33:25] schizofrenici, la unele suntem foarte conservatori, la unele suntem foarte progresiști, băi bine să ne vedem [00:33:30] istoric notițele noastre și articolele noastre unde suntem mai progresiști, unde suntem mai [00:33:35]conservatori, unde suntem mai naționaliști înflăcărați, trebuie să [00:33:40]începem să ne cunoaștem pe subiecte Și dacă noi nu începem să ne cunoaștem, nu avem cum să [00:33:45] vorbim altora mai asumat.[00:33:47] Și dacă noi nu începem să vorbim mai asumat, oamenii [00:33:50]care se uită la noi și ne întreabă cum o să fac eu, cu cine votez, [00:33:55] nu o să aibă argumentație. E un ghimic, e un test E un fel de anti-algoritm. [00:34:00] Să vezi unde te potrivești tu în algoritm și să ieși de acolo. Exact. Pe măsura ce tu [00:34:05] îți creezi conținut, tu te cunoști mai bine pe tine.[00:34:07] Nu algoritmul te cunoaște și tu nu știi [00:34:10] că el știe mai multe despre tine. Tu începi să știi mai multe despre tine pe[00:34:13] George Buhnici: subiecte. Acum o întrebare pentru [00:34:15] cei care ne urmăresc să hotărăscă ei dacă au timp chef, disponibilitate să facă așa [00:34:20] ceva. Vreți să faceți așa ceva? Vreți să aflați în ce parte a [00:34:25]bulei sunteți și să ieșiți din bulă?[00:34:26] Eu fac exercițiul ăsta de la începutul [00:34:30] carierei Până că mi-am dat seama făcând școala de jurnalistică [00:34:35] facultatea mi-a dat seama clar că unii o dau așa și unii o dau așa. Și nu există adevăr [00:34:40] obiectiv sute la sute. Există nuanță întotdeauna, orică timpul te limitează. [00:34:45] Cât timp ai să cercetezi, cât timp ai să comunici chestia aia, cât timp ai să procesezi.[00:34:49] Asta am [00:34:50] și făcut de fapt Ce[00:34:50] Cristian Onetiu: înseamnă AI până la urmă? Aici înseamnă pe scurt, înseamnă o [00:34:55] metodă mult mai rapidă de a căuta de mii ori mai multe informații și de [00:35:00] a-ți găsi o soluție la o problemă mult mai repede. Problema asta e AI-ul. Și, de fapt asta și vrem să [00:35:05] facem aici. Să-ți dureze la fel de mult să-ți creezi o proprie opinie, văzând mai multe perspective, [00:35:10] decât să citești o știre biasată de nu știu ce post astăzi de celălalt post astăzi sau după aceea [00:35:15] când te prinde algoritmul de aceleași surori care îți dau aceiași informații.[00:35:18] George Buhnici: Să-ți ia la fel de[00:35:19] Cristian Onetiu: [00:35:20] [00:35:25] [00:35:30] [00:35:35][00:35:40] [00:35:45] puțin timp. Da? [00:35:50] Bă, dacă îl citești pe ăsta, asistăm la un nou episod din telenovela balcanică intitulată nu știu ce, dacă îl pui [00:35:55] pe cel pe care l-am numit Cătălin Tolontan, e cu totul [00:36:00]altfel. Adică profilul ăsta, o să-ți spun imediat profilul ăsta cum e, ăsta [00:36:05] este profil încadrat foarte activ, [00:36:10] moderat folosești un ton sobru, factual, orientat spre detalii [00:36:15] concrete, citează cifre, date, statistici și așa mai departe.[00:36:18] Regruparea extremei drepte în [00:36:20] jurul, nu știu care prin o schimbare semnificativă, fiecare are perspectiva lui, te înveți, eu după ce m-am, [00:36:25] îți seama că testând, mă uit și zic doamne, eu nici măcar nu știam până acum să [00:36:30] pot să-mi dau seama de diferențele de interpretare a unei știri. Cu toate că... [00:36:35] Mă credeam capabil să fac asta.[00:36:37] George Buhnici: Nu eram antrenat. Singurul mod în care [00:36:40]poți să o faci manual, dacă vrei, nu așa cu AI, este să te uiți pe mai [00:36:45]multe canale de televiziune Și să vezi aceeași tire pe 5-6 canale diferite dacă mai [00:36:50] dă cineva aceeași tire Da, dar nu le găsești[00:36:52] Cristian Onetiu: același timp. Nu le vezi sincron. Deci [00:36:55]trebuie să-ți iei câteva ore pe zi ca să faci treaba asta.[00:36:57] Asta făceam[00:36:58] George Buhnici: în începutul anilor 2000. [00:37:00] Da. Că pe vremea aia nu aveam social media și efectiv stăteam și mă uitam [00:37:05] și la chinezi și la Al Jazeera, mă uitam și la BBC și la CNN și după aceea începeam să fac o idee. Așa e. [00:37:10] Dar este un efort și chestia asta până la urmă te poate face [00:37:15] mai greu de manipulat, mai sarcastic.[00:37:18] Nu, nu cred că [00:37:20] ajungi la sarcastic cred că[00:37:20] Cristian Onetiu: sarcastic ești mai... Mai[00:37:22] George Buhnici: sătul,[00:37:23] Cristian Onetiu: te saturi de toată [00:37:25] manipularea. Păi da, dar atunci ești[00:37:26] George Buhnici: devis sătul când nu înțelegi. Când înțelegi Când înțelegi, cred [00:37:30] ajung la un moment dat să ți se ia de toți ăștia. Păi nu da, observi[00:37:32] Cristian Onetiu: Că toată lumea[00:37:32] George Buhnici: minte.[00:37:33] Cristian Onetiu: Păi da, da, devii observator.[00:37:34] Devii [00:37:35] observator. Și asta e drept. Nu mai ești sarcastic nu mai devii sarcastic [00:37:40] victimă ci devii cinic față de lume, [00:37:45]observator. Tu zici, păi așa funcționează lumea când o înțelegi cum funcționează lumea, nu mai te superi, nu mai [00:37:50] ai așteptări de la ea.[00:37:51] George Buhnici: Trebuie să înțelegem lumea că de aia suntem aici.[00:37:53] Cristian Onetiu: Da.[00:37:54] George Buhnici: Și tu ai [00:37:55] capacitatea asta de a evalua, ai și o metodă de care mi-ai povestit de pe stel Aplicăm pe stelul, pe [00:38:00]situația actuală?[00:38:01] Cristian Onetiu: Da, pe scurt așa.[00:38:02] George Buhnici: Poate că ne-am lălăit-o noi un pic, dar cred că [00:38:05] aveți un pic mai mult context în legătură cu felul în care ne raportăm, inclusiv la America și la alte părți [00:38:10] ale lumii în momentul ăsta, dar și la Europa, și înțelegem că are mai multe bune decât [00:38:15] credem, că diversitatea ne face mai rezistenți ca în pădure, că dacă ai diversitate, dacă [00:38:20] bradul ăsta a fost atacat, gândacu' nu are cum să sară motorul brad dacă mai sunt niște [00:38:25] fagi, niște carpeni între ei, știi?[00:38:26] Și atunci dacă în România ai probleme și n-ai probleme în [00:38:30]Germania sau invers, poți să ajungi în cele din urmă ca lucrurile astea să se... Dacă începem să funcționăm ca organism,[00:38:34] Cristian Onetiu: [00:38:35] dacă nu funcționăm ca organism, nu transferăm informațiile ADN de [00:38:40] la unul la altul, nu ducem anticorpii, dar dacă începem să funcționăm ca organism Europa, [00:38:45] Atunci vom face[00:38:46] George Buhnici: acest transfer rapid.[00:38:47] Ani de zile am observat chestia asta, nici o televiziune de [00:38:50]la noi nu avea corespondenți la Bruxelles, nu știu dacă ai observat. Și dintr-o dată un [00:38:55] european și-a dat seama că are o problemă de comunicare și în ultimii doi ani a început să [00:39:00] aibă corespondenți acolo să transmită europarlamentarii să aducă din [00:39:05] țările lor oameni care să vadă cum se întâmplă procesul ăsta pentru că e destul de ușor să te uiți la [00:39:10] distanță Ai mă că ea sunt într-un turn de filde și acolo și fac chestii.[00:39:12] Bă, până la urmă noi am votat, am venit să fac niște chestii.[00:39:14] Cristian Onetiu: [00:39:15] Dar tu uite-te la știri. Câte știri sunt în care se vorbește despre ceva de la Bruxelles, comparativ cu ce s-a [00:39:20]întâmplat în America, în Rusia, în China sau altul de acolo? Zero. Zero, da Nici măcar nu știm [00:39:25] ce rol are Parlamentul Europei. Exact. Noi nu știm.[00:39:28] Noi ne uităm și spunem, ce faceți mă [00:39:30] acolo? Cum ați ajuns să aveți atâta Binecurație, uite ce salarii au! Da, deci nu știm. Nu știm [00:39:35] Nici măcar comparativ cu alte sisteme [00:39:40] centralizate ca așa noastre, ce salarii au aia comparativ Ce roluri au? Cât de [00:39:45] democratic[00:39:45] George Buhnici: funcționează asta față de altele Habar n-avem.[00:39:47] Până la urmă tot la federalizare vom ajunge, dacă vrem să [00:39:50]fim competitivi și trufea sau altul din Europeană trebuie să se comportă ca o federație.[00:39:54] Cristian Onetiu: [00:39:55] Iar antreprenorii și oamenii cu spirit antreprenorial trebuie să înțeleagă lumea repede, pentru că dacă [00:40:00] nu înțeleg, s-ar putea să construiască modele de business [00:40:05] strâmbe, inutile sau să nu înțeleagă [00:40:10] stakeholderii, fie că e vorba de consumatori, e vorba de stat și administrație [00:40:15] publică centralizată sau locală, furnizori.[00:40:18] Deci dacă ai un [00:40:20] business care vinde în toată lumea, trebuie să te gândești bine în noua economie ce să faci Dacă ai furnizori din [00:40:25] America trebuie să te gândești rapid ce să faci și trebuie să înțelegi lumea pentru că tu nu poți să aștepți [00:40:30] doar când îți vine un mail de la furnizorul tău în care spune că îți vinde cu 40% mai scump sau tu [00:40:35] îi vinzi cu 30% mai scump.[00:40:36] Trebuie să anticipezi lucrurile astea. Trebuie să cunoști lumea Și [00:40:40] doi cred că, acum dau spoiler din ce mi-am pregătit [00:40:45] aici, cred că vor fi o grămadă de oameni. Întreprenori de nevoie. [00:40:50] Nu de vocație sau de pasiune sau de viziune. [00:40:55] Antreprenori de nevoie. Pentru că își vor pierde relevanța job-urile lor în pozițiile pe care le au [00:41:00] acum.[00:41:00] Ajungem acolo.[00:41:02] George Buhnici: Câteva întrebări foarte directe și aplicate, ca să fim [00:41:05] și un pic concreți, că mulți oameni o zică vorbiți mult, dar da ține ceva. Bun. Dolari. [00:41:10] Ținem dolari asaltea sau nu? Aș recomanda nu. De ce? [00:41:15] Politic sau...?[00:41:16] Cristian Onetiu: Și, și. Și, și. De [00:41:20] ce dolarul este moneda internațională? Pentru că [00:41:25] stăpânul sau capul lumii libere era american.[00:41:28] Când capul lumii [00:41:30] libere nu mai e american, eu nu știu cine o să fie, ar fi bine să te gândești că nu mai va, [00:41:35] nu, nu, îi va fi greu să păstreze [00:41:40] puterea absolută pe care a avut-o. Plus că avem pe alții care au interese. Uite pe ăștia cu [00:41:45] BRICS-ul, uite pe alții care așteaptă la colți de mult. Adică și ei vor fi loviți de, [00:41:50] așa cum Europa e lovită în democrație și dolarul va fi, așteaptă la cotitură de prea mult timp alții să [00:41:55] vină cu concorența unui currency.[00:41:58] Deci vorbești de[00:41:58] George Buhnici: competiție, da? [00:42:00] Crezi într-un scenariu în care administrația americană va devaloriza dolarul ca să [00:42:05] lăcută la[00:42:05] Cristian Onetiu: export? Da, a început de mulți o să continue să facă treaba asta. Deci și prin [00:42:10] genul ăsta de măsuri, și prin măsurile care de fapt [00:42:15] erodează încrederea în capacitatea Americii de a mai vrea să fie [00:42:20] polițistul lumii și puternicul lumii.[00:42:24] [00:42:25] Ok, deci nu ținem dolari. Aș recomanda să [00:42:30] ne obișnuim cu... Ideea de [00:42:35] Wall Street, de a avea multe forme de asset-uri și [00:42:40] să ne uităm dimineața să vedem care a scăzut, care a crescut. Mai bine să ne obișnuim să [00:42:45] avem 10 currency-uri și 10 tipuri de asset-uri care au o anumită fluctuație [00:42:50] decât să stăm îngrijorați cu toate ouăle puse pe dolar și toată [00:42:55] dimineața să ne uităm, să vedem ce-a făcut ăia.[00:42:58] Dacă vrei să nu fii la mâna [00:43:00] altora, trebuie să ai diversificare. Diversificare înseamnă să ai și euro, [00:43:05] înseamnă să ai și currency-uri internaționale care circulă dar și [00:43:10] currency-uri netradiționale. Adică deja [00:43:15] poți în orice companie să-ți faci conturi de cripto, poți să operezi, adică de ce să nu [00:43:20] ai mai multă mai puțină expunere față de...[00:43:25][00:43:25] Degemonia unui dolar. Deci mai puțin dolar și mai mult euro. Mai mult [00:43:30] euro, mai mult... Chiar și cripto. Chiar și cripto da. Trebuie să ai stomac [00:43:35] de jucător pentru chestia asta. Adică trebuie să te uiți dimineața să nu te panichezi că a [00:43:40] scăzut 10%, că a făcut nu știu cine, nu știu ce. Adică trebuie să ai un pic de stomac.[00:43:44] [00:43:45] Dolarul nu va scădea 10% peste noapte, dar în 3 ani de zile va fi și [00:43:50] va avea și el niște spaicuri. Mă aștept să aibă niște spaicuri. Dar trebuie să fii jucător și trebuie să te înțelegi că [00:43:55] nu mai e lumea de mai demult când te culci cu 10 lei în buzunar și te treci tu cu [00:44:00] 10 lei și poți să cumpere acele lucruri cu 10 lei.[00:44:02] Adică noi ce vorbim aici vorbim din părerile [00:44:05] noastre personale. Nimic din ceea ce spun eu nu vreau să fie luat ca mai [00:44:10] mult altceva decât o opinie personală din ceea eu gândesc și ceea fac pentru business-urile mele. [00:44:15] Noi ne strângem informațiile din sursele noastre și ajungem la niște [00:44:20] concluzii.[00:44:20] George Buhnici: Am mai spus chestia asta, nu cheltui pe crypto decât banii pe care ești pregătit să-i [00:44:25] pierzi pentru că s-ar putea să-i pierzi.[00:44:26] Sunt șanse mai mari de zero să pierzi bani în [00:44:30] crypto, da? Da, în multe alte zone, chiar[00:44:32] Cristian Onetiu: și în piață de capital. [00:44:35] Dacă te duci acum și începi să pui bani în piață de capital și să cumperi acțiuni și să vinzi, come [00:44:40] on. Adică știi vorba, unii în bursă vin cu experiență unii vin cu bani, [00:44:45] aia care a venit cu experiență pleacă cu bani, aia care a venit cu bani pleacă cu experiență.[00:44:49] George Buhnici: Iar la [00:44:50] crypto, chestiile astea sunt și mai dure, pentru că am văzut inclusiv oameni din jurul lui Trump care [00:44:55] au făcut monede și tot felul de combinații de crypto. Pare un free-for-all, toată [00:45:00] lumea este, e foame de bani, băieții , e foame de bani așa e. E foame de bani dar pe [00:45:05] partea de crypto, cum o vezi în perioada asta?[00:45:07] Ți se pare că piața e sus, e jos? E [00:45:10] sub-evaluată e supraevaluată[00:45:11] Cristian Onetiu: Sub. De[00:45:12] George Buhnici: ce?[00:45:14] Cristian Onetiu: Pentru[00:45:14] George Buhnici: că[00:45:14] Cristian Onetiu: o [00:45:15] țin. Au mai fost perioade în istorie în care au ținut-o acolo până [00:45:20] când și-au făcut ITF-urile lor, până când au cumpărat la prețul la care au vrut ei.[00:45:23] George Buhnici: Am mai[00:45:24] Cristian Onetiu: spus chestia [00:45:25] asta. În continuare ea prin surprindere. Deci e atât de [00:45:30] avantgardist scripton cât i-a luat...[00:45:32] Bitcoin-ul [00:45:35] le-a luat înainte. Ei se gândeau la lucrurile astea, dar le-a luat-o înainte mult, abia s-au prins cu [00:45:40] el care-i treaba, dar sunt încă întârziați cu tot ce poate, crypto, [00:45:45] blockchain și tot ce înseamnă tehnologiile descentralizate de astăzi DAO și așa mai departe. Ei [00:45:50] de-abia țin pasul, e o mașină care a pornit...[00:45:53] Cu 800 la oră [00:45:55] și ești cu un elastic prins în spate și mai trage câteodată elasticul așa și mai prind, [00:46:00] dar se uită iar a plecat mașina, bă de abia ne-am prins cu treaba asta, bă iar a plecat. [00:46:05] E mult mai dinamic, e mult mai dinamic domeniul decât pot ei duce [00:46:10] și pot nu reglementa ci strânge [00:46:15] sau[00:46:15] George Buhnici: capitaliza ei, știi?[00:46:16] Cristian Onetiu: Dar[00:46:17] George Buhnici: până la urmă, uite și guvernanții americani după ce [00:46:20] păreau anti-anti-anti, acum declară public că vor încerca să acumuleze din orice sursă [00:46:25] posibil. Păi de ce? De[00:46:26] Cristian Onetiu: ce până acum au fost anti? Dacă mie nu-mi place că faci tu platforma [00:46:30] cetățean.ro și deschizi mintea oamenilor, o-ți dau 10 [00:46:35] motive să închizi și să urlu la tine și peste 3 ani când ești și tu [00:46:40] pregătit, o să spui uite am făcut și eu noi un tool cu un AI care să-i ajute pe oameni.[00:46:43] Dar ea e a, nu mai e [00:46:45] descentralizat, nu mai e, nu. E, îl controlez eu acolo dau la butoane dau eu. Mai așa, mai [00:46:50] așa. Așa-i peste tot. Atunci când nu înțelegi ceva și știi că-i potențial acolo, îl [00:46:55]reglementezi și dai în el până-l omori. Și când îl omori cumperi ieftin și după aceea [00:47:00] zici, bă știi ce? Bă nu-i chiar așa de rău.[00:47:02] Am început să-l înțelegem. În[00:47:04] George Buhnici: [00:47:05] paranteze și am început să-l deținem. De ce? E încă de vreme. Pentru că de [00:47:10] cele mai multe ori ni se pare că am ratat și ideea asta, când de fapt schimbarea nu se întâmplă [00:47:15] peste noapte, durează o vreme și sunt încă destul de multe lucruri care încă [00:47:20]sunt în infanție, cum zicem.[00:47:23] Știi Sunt la început. [00:47:25] Alte lucruri mai vezi că sunt încă de vreme. Pentru... Partea[00:47:28] Cristian Onetiu: asta de [00:47:30] America, am intrat deja în zona asta și speranța mea este ca Europa să [00:47:35] rămână bastionul democrației, fragil, mușcat de [00:47:40] fund din toate părțile și izolat, chiar văd o [00:47:45] izolare în viitorul în perioada următoare, și pe toți ceilalți care [00:47:50] încearcă să muște.[00:47:51] În România cred că politic ne [00:47:55] vom... Ne vom bătători mințile, nu știu cum o să fie, [00:48:00] pentru că o să continue toată zona asta de populism economic. Mă uit [00:48:05] îngrijorat la tot ce înseamnă impactul promisiunilor dubioase, [00:48:10] politice în zona de cifre. Nu au niciun fel de sustenabilitate, dar [00:48:15] mă îngrijorează că oamenii nu sunt curioși de a înțelege [00:48:20] cifrele.[00:48:20] Adică să te lași așa ușor păcălit de cineva care spune că o să-ți [00:48:25] dau, nu o să-ți mai iau fără să înțelegi că... Că împărțim la toată lumea...[00:48:30] [00:48:35] [00:48:40][00:48:44] Că genul [00:48:45] ăsta de mesaj nu că prinde, înțeleg că prinde. Dacă nu ne trezim și că [00:48:50] nu există voci raționale care să vorbească numai despre asta, zic că, bă, știi ce, eu nu [00:48:55] mai vorbesc la emisiunea asta despre nimic până nu mă răspunzi la întrebarea asta. Pentru că tu îți bazezi tot [00:49:00] mesajul pe genul ăsta de argumente.[00:49:03] Până nu mi-e explici, eu nu te mai [00:49:05] întreb ce ai mai făcut când ai fost mic, cu cine te-ai mai certat, eu nu-ți mai dau spațiu de emisie până când nu [00:49:10] rezolvi axiomele cu care tu pornești sub formă de platformă program și care nu sunt [00:49:15] sustenabile. Dacă mi le explici pe alea după aceea vorbim despre tot ce vrei tu.[00:49:18] Dar nu mi-ai răspuns la [00:49:20] lucrurile pe care... Marșalitatea emisiunilor de televiziune par spălări zilele astea Da. Da, deci aici [00:49:25]trebuie să avem grijă unii de noi și trebuie să ne manifestăm spiritul civic mai mult între [00:49:30] prieteni, între apropiați, între oamenii care pot vorbi despre ceva. Dar scurt pe[00:49:34] George Buhnici: partea politică de [00:49:35] la noi, oamenii au impresia că totul se joacă acum, nu mai nu se joacă tot.[00:49:38] Din punct de vedere parlamentar [00:49:40] e închisă pentru voturile patru ani. Deci avem parlamentul rezolvat, guvernul n-ai cum să îl dai jos, [00:49:45] poate să vină orice președinte, nu poți să schimbi configurația care e la putere în momentul ăsta. Hai [00:49:50] să ne trezim un pic. Bătălia este pentru cine pune și la servicii. Pe [00:49:55] partea asta politică este multă gargară se vorbește mult, sunt tins să-ți dau dreptate [00:50:00] că următorii patru ani ne vor arăta cât departe se poate duce suveranismul ăsta la noi.[00:50:04] Cristian Onetiu: [00:50:05] Da. Da? Deci asta, nu vorbesc numai până la alegere, acum. Eu vorbesc de... În următorii patru ani. Da. [00:50:10]2025, 2026, 2027. Deci asta se va amplifica tot mai mult. Ok. Pentru că indiferent ce se va întâmpla și [00:50:15] dacă câștigă un suveranist sau nu președinția, subiectul ăsta nu s-a [00:50:20] terminat. Corect El nu se închide acum.[00:50:21] Din potrivă, el se amplifică sub o formă de [00:50:25] gherila, că am rămas ne-au furat, sau sub formă de hai să le arătăm la aia și hai [00:50:30] să dărâmăm tot ce e așa că nu-i bun. Deci asta va continua într-o formă sau alta, ambele [00:50:35] Va trebui să ne înarmăm cu rațiune și cu discuții de critical [00:50:40] thinking, că tot am vorbit de critical thinking și critical thinking îmi scria cineva pe [00:50:45] un comentariu dom'le, dar să nu mai fim atât de critici Critical thinking nu înseamnă că îl critici pe [00:50:50] celălalt înseamnă că despachetezi, de acolo vine din greacă despachetezi un termen [00:50:55] să-l înțelegi adică îl raționalizezi puțin îl pui pe hârtie, nu că tu ai o idee și [00:51:00] critical thinking înseamnă eu să fiu împotriva ta[00:51:02] George Buhnici: să te[00:51:02] Cristian Onetiu: critic.[00:51:03] George Buhnici: Critical thinking, dacă [00:51:05] acest maga, dacă suveranismul american reușește, crezi că [00:51:10] următorul parlament de la noi va fi suveranist? Va avea majoritate suveranistă? În Europa? Da. [00:51:15]Adică MAGA, ce vor ei? Da, pentru că MAGA nu a reușit să [00:51:20] facă Europa MAGA încă, dar dacă planul lui Trump cu roligarhii [00:51:25] lui cu MAGA, cu toate mișcarea asta reușește în America să o facă cumva nu știu, great, [00:51:30] grozavă dacă fac America grozavă în mătorii 2-3 ani, până la mătoare alegeri [00:51:35] crezi că poate să răstoarne și America și Europa să o facă MAGA?[00:51:38] Cristian Onetiu: Dacă o face [00:51:40] grozavă, da dar mă îndoiesc că poate să o facă adică [00:51:45][00:51:46] George Buhnici: apropo de cinism Hai că-mi notezi, fii atent, suntem în [00:51:50] neapropiem de, ne registrăm încă în martie martie 2025, Cristian Nețiu a spus așa [00:51:55] că Trump nu o să reușească[00:51:56] Cristian Onetiu: Nu cred, nu pentru că are foarte multe lucruri adică singurul [00:52:00] lucru care-l văd care văd să-l reușească este să facă o dinastie din familia lui [00:52:05] asta o văd sau din apropiații lui, să zicem Știi că a vrut să o pună pe Ivanka [00:52:10] să candideze Păi Uite-te și tu la pozele astea, cum vezi toată familia acolo, nu-ți [00:52:15] arată dinastie?[00:52:16] Adică când dacă venea Obama, [00:52:20] nu că țin eu cu Obama, nu țin nici cu nici care, n-am nicio treabă cu ei, dar zic ca și [00:52:25]comparație, dacă venea cu Michel în dreapta să o pună nu știu ce, păi sărea toată [00:52:30] lumea în sus. Dar a încercat Clinton. Noroc că s-a [00:52:35]împiedicat Clinton. Da mă de fapt în esență, toți încearcă același lucru.[00:52:39] Când [00:52:40] ai putere absolută.[00:52:42] George Buhnici: Nu puterea absolută [00:52:45] orbește absolut.[00:52:46] Cristian Onetiu: Te face cea mai [00:52:50] absolutistă persoană din lume. Nu există, nu există nu ne-a arătat istoria niciodată până acum, [00:52:55] că doar din istoria care o știm noi așa nostalgică, că acel mare cezar a fost bun pentru [00:53:00] oameni. Nu știu Nu știm A fost tot despre puterea lor și despre toate Tot revenind la America, dar[00:53:04] George Buhnici: [00:53:05] trebuie să te mai întreb ceva.[00:53:06] Da,[00:53:06] Cristian Onetiu: ultima.[00:53:06] George Buhnici: Elon Musk. Eu zic Elon Musk, tu spui? [00:53:10][00:53:10] Cristian Onetiu: Eu[00:53:10] George Buhnici: zic Peter Thiel Adică? Păi [00:53:15] trebuie să te duci mai sus. Apropo de știri, știi? Există cineva mai șmecher[00:53:18] Cristian Onetiu: decât Elon Musk acolo? Peter Thiel, [00:53:20]clar. De ce? a fost. Păi întotdeauna a fost. Și angajatorul lui principal și finanțatorul lui principal [00:53:25] cum? Adică nici nu se pune problema cine-i...[00:53:26] Păi Musk e cel mai[00:53:27] George Buhnici: bogat[00:53:28] Cristian Onetiu: unul de pe[00:53:28] George Buhnici: planetă. [00:53:30][00:53:30] Cristian Onetiu: Că așa... Și teoretic cel mai puternic. Eu sunt în 500 Forbes, dar [00:53:35] eu mai știu încă 10.000 care nu sunt acolo și care au mult mai mulți bani [00:53:40] decât... Eu n-am atâția bani cât scriu acolo și au de 100 de ori mai mulți bani și nu știe nimeni. [00:53:45] Nu e vorba de asta. E vorba de...[00:53:46] Lupta nu mai e pe banii. Banii sunt peste tot. E o luptă [00:53:50]ideologică Peter Thiel este un ideolog puternic. Foarte puternic. Foarte [00:53:55] puternic. Și a învățat de la René Girard niște lucruri fantastice care le-a [00:54:00] concretizat într-un capitalism [00:54:05] brutal. Brutal. [00:54:10] Elon Musk e mai... Umanist, parcă decât [00:54:15] Peter Thiel. Adică acolo ce văd eu mai departe ce [00:54:20] pot să înțeleg mai departe, că acolo este vârful [00:54:25] acestor mari bogații ai lumii cu companiilor [00:54:30] tehnologice.[00:54:30] E doar putere? E doar obsese de putere? Nu. Cei mai periculoși sunt [00:54:35] ăștia care au ideologie. Care cred că lumea asta era [00:54:40] cum e, că ne ducem în râpă, [00:54:45] inevitabil. Dar, vezi, și fașismul tot așa funcționează. Identifică [00:54:50] un lider maxim care te salvează, nu o instituție. Trebuie să identifice un pericol și [00:54:55] un dușman.[00:54:55] Deci acestea sunt caracteristicile premergătoare unui în [00:55:00]Italia, fașist. Așa s întâmplat. E aceeași rețetă. [00:55:05] Ok.[00:55:06] George Buhnici: Deci cât mai dorează relația lui Elon cu Trump? [00:55:10] Depinde de[00:55:11] Cristian Onetiu: pilă.[00:55:12] George Buhnici: Cel al cărui nume nu-l pronunțăm nu? Ca Harry Potter [00:55:15] Exact, exact. Voldemort. Depinde de vil că til l-a pus și pe Vens. Ascul [00:55:20] niște podcast-uri din state în care ei vorbesc cu foarte multe în fază despre acest patriotism al [00:55:25] oamenilor din tehnologie care vor să salveze țara și [00:55:30] trebuie să repare guvernul că e plin de s

Today's Headlines: EU leaders (minus Hungary's Orban) plan to expand sanctions on Russia but remain divided on a $40 billion defense fund. Meanwhile, details from Trump's call with Zelensky reveal he proposed U.S. control of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant—a suggestion Zelensky rejected. In Gaza, war has fully resumed, with Hamas launching rockets at Israel and Israeli forces expanding ground operations while blocking humanitarian aid. Israeli officials estimate Hamas still has over 25,000 fighters. The Trump administration has given Columbia University a deadline to place its Middle Eastern studies department under academic receivership. A French scientist was reportedly denied U.S. entry over private criticisms of Trump's research policies. Meanwhile, a leaked memo shows the Social Security Administration may limit its toll-free customer service line, despite previous denials and Tesla is recalling nearly all 46,000 Cybertrucks due to exterior hardware issues. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode:  The Guardian: EU ready to impose more sanctions on Russia after summit talks | European Union NY Times: Trump Wants to Take Over Ukraine's Nuclear Plants. What Would That Mean?  NY Times: Israel Expands Gaza Ground Offensive as Hamas Fires Rockets at Tel Aviv NY Times: Why Trump's Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education  The Guardian: French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found | US news  Axios: Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support  Reuters: Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Bridget Schwartz and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Thursday, March 20th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Jonathan Clark Irish pastor in hot water for preaching outside hospital Authorities in Northern Ireland are prosecuting a retired pastor for preaching outside a general hospital. Seventy-six-year-old pastor, Clive Johnston, held an open-air Sunday service outside the facility last July. While the hospital does perform abortions, he made no reference to abortion, pointing people to Jesus Christ. Officials are charging Johnston with violating the Abortion Services Safe Access Zones Act.  He now faces a criminal record and fines totaling thousands of pounds.  The Christian Institute is representing Johnston. Simon Calvert, Deputy Director of the group, said this. CALVERT:  “Prosecuting someone for preaching John 3:16 near a hospital on a quiet Sunday is an outrageous imposition on free speech and Gospel freedom.” John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Hungary bans events that celebrate sexual perversion Hungary's parliament passed a law Tuesday banning events that celebrate sexually perverted lifestyles. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán pulled no punches. ORBAN: “I advise [homosexual and transgender] pride organizers not to bother with the preparation of this year's parade. It would be a waste of money and time.” Orban wrote on X, “Today, we voted to ban gatherings that violate child protection laws. In Hungary, a child's right to healthy physical, mental, intellectual, and moral development comes first. We won't let woke ideology endanger our kids.” In response, members of a liberal opposition party, known as Momentum, lit colorful smoke flares inside the Hungarian Parliament while Orban was talking. They also rudely displayed manipulated pictures of Orban kissing Vladimir Putin. Plus, homosexual and transgender activists blocked a bridge in central Budapest in protest.  And one homosexual man offered his analysis. PROTESTER: “It's quite terrifying, to be honest, because we had the same in Russia. It was building up step by step. I feel like this is what's going on here. I'm not surprised that Viktor Orban doesn't have any original ideas. He only copying Putin or Trump.” Hungary's new law builds on the previous Child Protection Law which bans the promotion of homosexuality.  Dept. of Defense to cut 60,000 civilian jobs In the United States, the Defense Department plans to cut up to 60,000 civilian jobs.  The department aims to cut 5% to 8% of its civilian workforce which numbers nearly 900,000. Already 21,000 employees have voluntarily resigned.  The department hopes to make many of the cuts by simply not replacing workers who leave on a regular basis.  The cuts are part of President Donald Trump's efforts to slim down the federal workforce.  Trump paused $175 million to UPENN over male in women's sports FOX Business reports the Trump administration paused $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania yesterday. At issue is the university's inclusion of men, pretending to be women, in women's sports, specifically William Thomas, a senior, who now goes by the feminine name Lia, and stole first place from Riley Gaines, a biological woman. The Department of Education is also investigating the Ivy League school following Trump's executive order to keep men out of women's sports. At stake is the university's total federal funding which amounted to around $1 billion last year. Minneapolis ordered to pay $450,000 to pro-life group over violation The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota agreed to pay $450,000 in a pro-life case last week. The city had barred Pro-Life Action Ministries from working near an abortion mill. The ministry sued the city in 2023 and won their case thanks to the help of the Thomas More Society.  Peter Breen, executive vice president of the Christian legal group said, “Politicians seeking to hinder and silence the efforts of pro-life sidewalk counselors should think twice—or it will cost them.” U.S. birth rate up thanks to Hispanic women U.S. births rose slightly last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were just over 3.6 million births last year, up 22,250 births from 2023. The rise in births is due in part to a rise in births among Hispanic women.  The U.S. birthrate has been falling for years, and experts don't expect last year's uptick to change the overall trend.  52% of Protestant churches grew after COVID pandemic Lifeway Research released a new report on worship service attendance for Protestant churches in the U.S. since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The report found 52% of churches experienced growth in worship attendance. Meanwhile, 33% saw attendance plateau and 15% experienced decline.  Also, around half of Protestant churches had at least 10 people make a new commitment to Jesus Christ as their Savior in the past year. Christian college students wrote Gospel of John on sidewalks And finally, Christian students wrote the entire Gospel of John on campus sidewalks at Western Kentucky University last week. Nearly 70 students from Baptist Campus Ministry and Cru, formerly Campus Crusade for Christ, and Hilltoppers for Christ got together with chalk to complete the task in about two and a half hours. Afterwards, they prayed for students at the university.  Luke Alford, Vice President of Baptist Campus Ministry, told Kentucky Today, “People look for answers in a lot of different things, and I think it's really good to have answers right in front of them.” John 1:1, 4 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” Close And that's The Worldview on this Thursday, March 20th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Subscribe by Amazon Music or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Los líderes de la UE estrechan sus contactos para profundizar en su proceso de rearme y para seguir comprometidos con el apoyo a Ucrania. Lo han hecho en un Consejo Europeo dominado por la cuestión ucraniana y por los desafíos que plantea fortalecer de forma contundente la defensa del continente.En el Donbás continúan los bombardeos por lo que parecen de momento lejanas las negociaciones de un posible alto el fuego. Estaremos allí con nuestro enviado especial.Estamos pendientes de varios asuntos en Oriente Próximo. Enseguida vamos a estar con nuestra corresponsal en Jerusalén.Sabremos qué ocurrió este miércoles en las protestas en Buenos Aires contra los recortes del gobierno de Javier Milei en Argentina. Además estaremos en Japón donde se cumplen hoy 30 años del atentado con gas sarín en el metro de Tokio. Vamos a tener una entrevista sobre el tema.Escuchar audio

Edition No113 | 17-03-2025 - Massive protests have erupted in Belgrade and Budapest against the corruption and kleptocracy of incumbent governments. In Bucharest, Romania thousands gathered to declare their solidarity with Europe and Ukraine, and reject Russia attempts to interfere with and corrupt their democracy. Romania is Europe, is the sentiment on the streets, and there is anger also at the attempt of Trump and his supporters to try and enable this Russia interference and gerrymandering, under the pretext of free speech. Streets are flooding with people, in an echo of the 100+ days of protests ongoing in Georgian towns and cities. Protestors brand their national flags, as well as EU flags, and are chanting Russia be damned, and its attempts to destabilise their democratic processes and process. Orbán in Hungary was elected democratically, but his behaviour increasingly resembles that of a dictator, and his regime is seen as pro-Russian. He shut down public transportation to prevent people coming from across the nation gathering in the capital.Opposition leader Péter Magyar declared: "The spring is here. The spring of the Hungarians. And we, together will end Orban's winter!" Orbán's regime is facing collapsing poll numbers and massive protests, but he continues to double down on actions that align with the Kremlin's strategic interests. He has put to the EU a list of ‘demands' and continues to frustrate and block measures to support Ukraine. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------LINKS:https://www.dw.com/en/hungarys-orban-vows-crackdown-on-media-ngos/a-71932327https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-vows-crackdown-shadow-army-political-opponents/https://kyivindependent.com/eu-resists-pressure-from-hungary-extends-russia-sanctions-including-those-on-mikhail-fridman/https://apnews.com/article/hungary-orban-crackdown-media-ngo-38776560a2edf5948482dd4839461411https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/03/15/7503069/https://www.kyivpost.com/post/48992----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run a minimum of 12 events in 2025, and potentially many more. We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

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