Welcome to this week’s World Briefing Plus — the video edition where I press the pedal to the metal.
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This week, two powerful currents define our world:
🇺🇸 The mood in the United States — I crossed into the country for the first time since the dawn of Trump 2.0, and what I found was chilling. From journalists to academics, an anxious quiet has settled in. Advocates of free speech tread carefully as the administration’s rhetoric sharpens into threat.
🇺🇦 The war in Ukraine — As we approach the four-year mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion, there’s both good news and bad. Washington appears ready to upgrade intelligence sharing and provide more lethal, long-range weapons. But Moscow is striking back hard — targeting critical infrastructure ahead of winter and deploying high-tech means to evade missile-defense systems.
I’ll unpack what these shifts mean, and I’ll also share a re…
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