2025-10-15
23 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Blau.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
In recent months, Ukraine has inflicted massive damage on Russia's oil refineries and its fuel distribution system.
In parts of the country, there are now long queues for petrol.
We explore the impact.
And at a time when many British pubs are closing, the Wetherspoons chain is going gangbusters.
Its outlets tend to be surprisingly bright and surprisingly cheap.
Good thing as our correspondent felt duty bound to drink a pint in one to report this piece.
But first...
America's policy on international aid used to be about alleviating poverty and making allies by doing so.
Cash was doled out via charities and agencies, as well as the IMF and World Bank, backed in large part by American contributions.
In Donald Trump's second term, that changed, swiftly, inefficiently, in many cases, cruelly.
But all that funding, that interest in the international community, it didn't go away.
Our international economics correspondent, Cerian Richmond-Jones, says it's just being repurposed.
Donald Trump has totally destroyed international aid over the course of the past nine months.
He's destroyed the world's biggest aid agency to lots and lots of controversy.
That's left children in Africa without bed nets, it's affected democracy charities in Poland.