Professor Roman Sheremeta
Feb 20, 2025
U2, together with British musician Ed Sheeran and the Ukrainian band Antytila, have released a joint song “Yours Eternally.”
The song tells the story of a Ukrainian soldier addressing his loved ones, urging them not to lose faith and to continue dreaming despite the war.
Lyrics excerpt:
Don’t sleep, don’t even think about it
No need, maybe a little bit
Still dream about waking up free
As free as we can be
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“Ukraine peace talks have been little more than a mafia-style shakedown by the US and Russia.”
The Independent
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“Right now, russia is losing 30,000-35,000 troops per month, killed or seriously wounded. They are paying with the lives of 156 people to occupy one kilometer of Ukrainian land.”
- President Zelenskyy
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“Putin is not interested in peace. Therefore, we must provide military aid: Tomahawk missiles, interceptors for Patriot, more F-16s, drone production, and a whole range of necessary weaponry.”
US Senator Richard Blumenthal
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The U.S. markets are actually not doing great.
You have probably seen the recent memes with Pam Bondi saying, “But have you seen the Dow just hit 50,000?” She was trying to defend Trump’s incompetent policies.
But for all the talk about being a “great businessman,” Donald Trump is now presiding over the weakest first-year stock market performance of any U.S. president in two decades.
From Inauguration Day to January 20, 2026, the S&P 500 rose 13%. That may sound decent in isolation, but it is the worst first-year performance since 2005.
And this underperformance is happening under unusually favorable conditions. Trump inherited:
- Back-to-back years of 20%+ market gains
- A powerful AI-driven bull run
- Strong corporate balance sheets
Yet despite those tailwinds, U.S. markets lagged, while international stocks outperformed the U.S. in 2025 for the first time in years.
Why? Because markets don’t just price earnings — they price risk. And Trump has injected a lot of it.
Investors are now dealing with policy whiplash, unpredictable trade threats, politicized economic institutions, and growing concerns about rule-of-law stability.
Political risk under Trump is actively weighing on U.S. assets, pushing capital toward safer and more predictable markets abroad. This is the quiet but devastating part of Trump’s economic record: not a sudden crash, but a slow erosion of confidence.
And this is how Trump is making “America great again” — by weakening it.
The troubling part is that there are still people who support this.
Thank you Taras Topolia, his band Antytila, Ed Sheeran and U2 for raising awareness with this moving song at such a crucial time :-
U2, Ed Sheeran, Antytila release lyric video for their new collaborative songU2, Ed Sheeran, Antytila release lyric video for their new collaborative song :
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13% is a pretty decent performance given the terrible putler-inflicted state of the world and the abysmal policies of Krasnov.
But this due to the remarkable resilience of the big blue chips and U.S. consumers, not anything else.
The FTSE has done ok too, largely because its top 100 are doing well in the U.S. The redistributive policies of UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves are appalling, but FTSE is doing well in spite of, not because of her.
“Putin is not interested in peace. Therefore, we must provide military aid: Tomahawk missiles, interceptors for Patriot, more F-16s, drone production, and a whole range of necessary weaponry.”
We need this to be mainstream bipartisan opinion, not left field.