Peter Frankopan

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Peter Frankopan

It has been quite a week. In fact, it has been quite a start to the year. The news cycle never stops – but it has rarely moved faster. Donald Trump’s threats to invade Panama seem an aeon ago – even the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House feels like it happened months ago. If you like your politics to be action-packed, it’s hard to beat the chaos of Trump’s second term in office.

1 week ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

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2 weeks ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

‘Liberation Day’ has brought chaos to global stock markets, torpedoed confidence in the US as a reliable partner and set fire to business confidence - as well as to people’s pensions and long-term plans. President Trump keeps maintaining that the US is on the cusp of a new golden age, assuring his followers on social media that the cunning plan is working and that everyone will surely bend at the demand of the leader of the free world.

2 weeks ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

The Roman emperor Nero, wrote Suetonius, ‘practiced every sort of obscenity.’He was a man, according to a host of Roman authors, who was a bad ruler with an even worse character. He was attention-seeking and narcissistic; he was petulant and arbitrary; he was prone to insulting and humiliating people in public. Global Threads with Peter Frankopan is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

2 weeks ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

No need to panic anyone ! Everything is under control. ‘Things are going very well’, said the leader of the Free World as he single-handedly wiped trillions off the global economy, set the world on course for a depression and torpedoed the post-war global order. ‘I said this is exactly the way it is’, Trump continued. ‘We have six or seven trillion dollars coming into our country.’ That will be needed to replace the $4trn the markets have lost since his grand plan was announced on Wednesday.