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What is the real job of a spy? What is the role of the UK’s intelligence community in Trump’s new world order? How does the relationship between politicians and intelligence services work?
00:00 – Putin’s mindset and Russia’s posture toward the West
00:28 – Introduction to Alex Younger and career overview
02:22 – How the world has changed since the Cold War
04:06 – MI6 secrecy and a story about telling his mother
06:34 – Motivation and idealism in joining MI6
08:10 – How MI6 officers work today: fieldwork vs. digital
09:36 – Shift to counterterrorism post-9/11
13:14 – The Iraq War and intelligence failures
15:02 – Speaking truth to power and the role of spies
20:01 – Afghanistan and the political nature of insurgency
22:57 – Gaza, Israel, and the intelligence agency’s role
24:08 – October 7 attacks and Israeli intelligence failure
26:26 – International intelligence cooperation and Five Eyes
27:26 – Trump’s appointments and intelligence leadership
28:45 – Trump and dismantling of intelligence alliances
30:26 – Hard power, Europe, and America’s retreat
33:01 – UK’s strategic focus and technology as power
34:30 – Worst-case scenario: US withdraws from Ukraine
36:00 – What happens if the US pulls out of Ukraine
39:14 – Russia’s long-term intentions and hybrid threats
43:33 – China as a pacing threat and espionage strategy
45:07 – Chinese spying in the UK and double standards
46:47 – US security leaks and signal group incident
47:48 – China’s charm offensive in Europe
50:01 – US, China, and the shift in global power dynamics
52:02 – Global South and integrating soft and hard power
53:43 – Personal loss: death of his son and its impact
55:04 – The future of intelligence and global threats
56:35 – Big tech, accountability, and power vs. states
57:54 – Government inertia vs. entrepreneurial agility
58:32 – Closing thanks and reflections on Alex Younger
1:00:01 – Hosts’ reflections on Younger’s character
1:02:27 – Final thoughts on ethics, integrity, and leadership
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Donald Trump
President of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present)
Donald Trump was recruited by KGB with codename ‘Krasnov’, claims ex-Soviet spy
The Mirror
In the past few months, the Liberal Party made a remarkable comeback in the polls. Heading into 2025, the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre were favored to win the most seats in Parliament. But a series of events … boosted the chances of the Liberals and Mark Carney, the new prime minister. – NYT
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Vladimir Putin. The fella on the right
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
Scottish woman blamed for giving birth to a Russian Spy
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump
Mother of Donald Trump (1912–2000)
Mary Anne Trump was a Scottish-American socialite and philanthropist. She was the wife of the real-estate developer Fred Trump and the mother of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. Born a native Scottish Gaelic-speaker in the Outer Hebrides, MacLeod immigrated to the U.S but was it legal?
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump must be turning in her grave at the wilful egregious actions of her son years after her death.
And becomes Krasnov…
BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️
@mmpadellan
People in the future honestly won’t believe that a Bible-selling, gold sneaker-selling, sexual assaulting, sleepy, farting, diaper wearing, insurrection-inciting, lying CRIMINAL with 91 felony counts was the Republican presidential nominee of 2024.
I can hardly believe it myself.
Donald J Krasnov Trump
President of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present) and soviet spy, according to The Mirror newspaper in the UK…
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DearElon Musk.
You are one billionaire I can think of who hasn’t stolen their way to their profits. Your continued support for the Starlink system upon which President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy of Ukraine and his countrymen and women rely to defeat the one-sided illegal onslaught. Please step up to the mark. Malcolm Patten
NB Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls since July 2024.
PS Your new name for “La Manche” will upset the French… When you move into your new office pay particular attention to the Sobchak reading lamp bulbs. Your security team may wish to pay particular attention in view of the history that may apply to them…
Additionally, read Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney, among other books, plus anything by Anna Politkovskaya.
PPS French television journalists are complaining that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian sleeper Agent…
Russia: Don’t join NATO, we’ll protect you.
Eastern Europe: Protect us from what?
Russia: From what we might do if you try to join NATO…
Cartoon by Jeff Danziger for Counterpoint
Cartoon by Jeff Danziger for Counterpoint
BREAKING: Trump wants to Ban This AI Photo showing him worshiping Elon Musk
Trump insiders told us, “Trump is disgusted by This AI photo and wants it banned from the internet.”
Possibly the essence of the Steel Report?
Update to this: Trump landed with £300,000 costs after losing ‘Dirty Dossier’ case against Christopher Steele! Donald J Trump handed bill in UK court after he fails to prove former MI6 spy breached data protection law. And he has not paid it. Surprise surprise. Another scam…
Who would have thought it? A man who has his tiny hands on nuclear codes and who is Commander in Chief of the worlds most powerful military complex is at he same time weak and timid before another man who is simply brighter and in charge of a crumbling economy, a resourceful yet badly led military and who will not win the war he has engaged in since 2014. He just doesn’t have all the cards!
This ‘Tiny Hands’ man Trump deserves to be charged with war crimes, alongside Putin for the death of countless Ukrainians after Krasnov applied the Kill Switch to US intelligence recently. What bravery and one up to the KGB!
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The United States of America is the UK’s Number One Military Ally. We shall have to endure a malign stochastic sociopath felon becoming the US president. How does that work we wonder…
“Judge Juan Merchan seems hellbent on making Donald Trump take the oath of office saying, ‘I, Donald Trump, a convicted felon, do solemnly swear … .’ He’s scheduled Trump’s hush money sentencing for January 10 and doesn’t seem inclined to change it, though he does say he won’t send the president to prison. Trump is suing. Inauguration Day is the 20th.”-CB
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“Trump talked the talk; will he walk the walk? Or maybe that would be too hard for him because, you know … bone spurs (or any other excuse he can come up with.)”-PM
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“The front-runner candidate of the Republican party who — along with his most fanatical accomplices — has spent recent years trying to deny that he is a puppet of Putin, is becoming more and more explicit in his adoration of the criminal Russian dictator.” – PM
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