In this week’s episode of Mid-Atlantic, the panel dissects two unsettling scenes of political drama — one on the streets of Minneapolis, the other in the corridors of Westminster. The fatal ICE shooting of a civilian in Minneapolis, initially misrepresented by the Trump administration, has unleashed a bipartisan backlash. Tensions flare as footage shows an unarmed veteran stepping in to aid a protester only to be shot dead. Host Roy Field Brown is joined by panelists Logan Phillips and Mike Donahue for a conversation that shifts from outrage to hard political analysis, exposing a nation’s frayed moral seams.

Across the pond, the Labour Party blocks Andy Burnham — the “King of the North” — from contesting a Westminster seat, triggering speculation of Keir Starmer’s insecurity. Is this about party discipline or political self-preservation? Corey Bernard decodes the local maths in Manchester’s Gorton and Denton constituency, while Leah Brown challenges Starmer’s leadership style, likening it to brittle control masquerading as strategy.

This episode weaves grief, fury, and policy fatigue with snappy transatlantic banter — and asks the fundamental question: when institutions crack, what do ordinary people do?

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If you thought the idea of the US buying Greenland was a historical curiosity, think again. In this episode of Mid-Atlantic, Roy Brown returns to YouTube with geopolitical analyst Pytor Kurzin of The Global Gambit to unpack the icy mess Trump-era foreign policy is creating in the North Atlantic. Spoiler: It’s not just about a frozen island with more musk oxen than people. It’s a full-blown stress test for NATO, Europe, and what’s left of the post-WWII international order.

Kurzin lays out the Trump worldview: alliances are optional, leverage is everything, and territorial sovereignty is up for negotiation. European leaders are adjusting, some more bravely than others. Macron is saying the quiet part out loud, Germany is quietly recalibrating, and the UK is hedging its bets, Brexit hangover and all.

This isn’t just about Greenland. It’s about whether Europe can finally stop outsourcing its security to a partner that may now be actively undermining it. The conversation ends with an uncomfortable but necessary truth. If this is the new normal, then Europe, Britain included, needs to grow up, gear up, and rethink everything from trade to deterrence.

Selected Quotes from the Episode

1. “Trump sees Greenland as an extension of the Americas, which therefore by default is de facto America’s to control.”
2. “Europe needs to behave in the reality that it is, not in the way that it wants it to be.”
3. “We live in an age of international disorder.”
4. “Britain needs to pick a side. Be more consistent in its messaging and positioning.”
5. “Hope is not a strategy.”

Further Reading & References from the Episode

The Global Gambit YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@TheGlobalGambit

The Global Gambit Substack

https://theglobalgambit.substack.com

Financial Times illustration of global powers carving up the world

https://www.ft.com

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A defection, a photocopied resignation, and an airborne crisis: welcome to politics in 2026.

In this week’s episode of Mid-Atlantic, Royfield Brown leads a transatlantic panel through the latest signs of fracture on the British right and a chaotic shift in U.S. foreign policy. Robert Jenrick’s defection from the Conservatives to Reform UK is dissected not as a grand ideological realignment, but as a cynical career move amid a floundering party machine. Corey Bernard and Tanya Altrade offer little sympathy, framing the departure as more “photocopier farce” than political earthquake, while Logan Phillips warns of what happens when short-termism becomes the only strategy left standing.

Attention then pivots to Washington, where Trump’s erratic foreign policy has turned the Monroe Doctrine into something far more impulsive—and combustible. From the disastrous optics of promising support to Iranian protesters (then ghosting them), to the bizarre muscle-flexing over Greenland, Logan paints a picture of a White House driven by ego, not doctrine. As European troops cautiously land in Greenland and NATO solidarity is tested in real-time, the panel reflects on the geopolitical aftershocks of U.S. unpredictability.

The episode closes on a lighter note—sort of—with Gregorian chants, Game of Thrones hypotheticals, and Roy Field’s lament that YouTube might be eating TV’s lunch… and possibly dinner.

Selected Quotes:

Further Reading & Links Mentioned:

1. Race to the White House – Logan Phillips' election forecasting site
2. Breaking Points on YouTube
3. Three-Eyed Theorist on YouTube (Game of Thrones What-Ifs)
4. Chess.com YouTube Channel
5. Screen Crush – Film and Marvel Commentary
6. Gregorian Chant YouTube Search

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Join us next time as Mid-Atlantic shifts to YouTube—bringing panelist beards, political insights, and probably more broadband-related complaints into full 4K view.

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