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The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

The news which is making the headlines is of course the results of the midterms in the United States. I would point out that these were very accurately predicted by Robert Barnes and Rich Baris in a programme we did with them on The Duran which you can see here (

How much actual difference this is all going to make in terms of US foreign policy is another matter. Trump of course is still there, but putting that aside, it looks to me as if all that has happened is that one neocon pro-war party in Congress has replaced another.

As to US domestic policy, here we probably will see significant changes. Trump's economic policy based on tariffs is now almost certainly dead (or so it seems to me) and there may be significant battles over immigration and data centres. My guess is that it won't take very long before Americans sour on the Democrats again. But ultimately all this is a purely internal issue.

Much more important is whether any of ...

Shouldn't all these leaders have been removed right after admitting that they got into power through fraudulent promises and with malevolent intentions?

"Does Trump care that he’s destroyed MAGA, while ruining his own legacy?
It seems not. Here an etiolated Trump admits that the elections were lost because of the war, but that he’d do it again if he had to because keeping Israel safe from Iran trumps everything else in importance...

"Last week, Italian defense minister Guido Crosetto shocked audiences when he told an interviewer that he doesn’t care if the public disagrees with Italy’s military support for Ukraine, as their opinion doesn’t matter...

"Not long after, Germany’s reviled Chancellor Merz likewise explained that his historically low approval rating is owed to the fact that he doesn’t care what the German public thinks of him:
Merz once again admits he couldn’t care less what Germans think:“If I weren’t involved in this conflict, my personal approval ...