Friday Focus: The Trump-Elon bromance blows up and Ukraine’s stunning military attack
Friday Focus: The Trump-Elon bromance blows up and Ukraine’s stunning military attack
Rudyard and Janice start the show talking about the bromance blowup between Donald Trump and Elon Musk which took place in spectacular fashion over twitter. Was Elon’s performance a genuine show of dismay at a congressional spending bill that flies in the face of all the cost cutting initiatives he was pursuing with DOGE? Or is this a man having a nervous breakdown in public? And how will this breakup affect support from other tech billionaires and fracture the MAGA coalition? In the second half of the show Rudyard and Janice turn to the surprise Ukrainian drone attack this week that targeted Russian air bases hosting nuclear-capable strategic bombers thousands of km away from the border of Ukraine. How will Putin respond to this brazen attack? How will the use of cheap weapons to destroy expensive weapons change the face of warfare? And finally, will the loss of some of its military capacity affect Russia’s war with Ukraine and its relationship with NATO?
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