00:03:03.900So for the first time ever in the elections earlier on in this week
00:03:11.460For the Western European and others group
00:03:18.340For the first time ever Germany declined when putting itself forward for election to get elected
00:03:24.700It lost out to Portugal and Austria if I'm not mistaken
00:03:31.140This, if I'm not mistaken, is a massive blow to Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democratic Chancellor of Germany, who always vaunted himself on his foreign policy credentials and connections and relationships.
00:03:54.820didn't work now as you go into this and i have a few observations first of all let's go um take
00:04:02.600your analysis on this i think the brussels signal has the best write-up on this um it's pretty much
00:04:09.680the only write-up i have seen in the press that's taken this um story giving it the seriousness that
00:04:15.820it deserves why don't you give us a quick rundown and explain exactly what has happened this week
00:07:30.640What I wouldn't mind quickly, Ralph, picking your brains on here,
00:07:35.360I want to go to something that the German foreign minister, Johann Waderfuhr, claimed in trying to analyse how it was that Germany lost this election amongst its peers, didn't get the two-thirds majority it needed from the General Assembly.
00:07:54.160I'll just give the figures if folks are interested, because Germany got 101 votes.
00:08:00.400Austria, your native country of ours, 131 votes.
00:08:05.060Portugal just slightly ahead, 134 votes.
00:08:08.580So even though it pays, I think it's the fourth largest contributor to the UN, it fell significantly short.
00:08:18.440And the German foreign minister says that he blamed the loss on Berlin's strong support for Ukraine and Israel, thinking that that would have cost votes amongst countries in the global south.
00:08:38.920and Mertz himself suggested that Germany,
00:08:44.980they're trying to put a brave face on it,
00:08:47.640but it says that Germany remains a reliable pillar
00:11:26.600Well, what I'll say, just coming back to this, let me get my quotation here.
00:11:33.840The idea that Friedrich Mertz was representing a restoration of Germany's reputation vis-a-vis Olaf Scholz,0.83
00:11:45.720I would question that strategy on behalf of the CDU, because for all his faults, you know, we'll talk a little bit later about the huge numbers of naturalizations that Germany is doing.
00:11:58.800And I think that was that was that was signed off in the dying days of Olaf Scholz's government.
00:12:05.180um but for all so i said i i'm not by any means uh a fanboy of Olaf Scholz but so for all his
00:12:16.200faults i think he was he was more um more um credible on the international stage than Friedrich
00:12:25.620Mertz has been in the what little over a year he's been chancellor and that's that's basically
00:13:19.200This is my reading of it. You can say I'm right, you can say I'm wrong.
00:13:21.620I think he was trying very, very hard to keep Germany out of this.
00:13:25.900And that's a diametric opposition to the position of Friedrich Mertz, who pushed very hard, even though he wasn't even chancellor yet, when he was still leader of the opposition, pushed very hard successfully for Germany to scrap its historic constitutional, its basic law provision of not allowing the government to deficit spend.
00:13:51.040And he said, no, no, no, Mertz said, no, no, no, we have to start taking on debt so we can invest it in defense.
00:13:58.720So I think there's a huge contrast on that.
00:14:00.780And I think that this is the thesis that some of Mertz's openness and malleability with regards to Washington
00:14:11.980would have gone against him because Russia isn't as isolated on the world stage as the U.S. military
00:14:20.360industrial complex likes to present. Russia still does have friends, right? China still has friends.
00:14:25.460And I think Mert's overt pushing of Germany in that direction, I think that would have counted0.66
00:14:32.660against him. Just give me your view on that and then we'll move on. I have a different take on0.51
00:14:37.980this first of all i recall very much when all of schultz was claiming that joe biden is you know at
00:14:42.900the top of his game and there is absolutely no indication that he's in mental decline that was
00:14:46.960shortly before the u.s election so schultz was obviously lying about this if you look at the
00:14:51.800actual numbers of german support for ukraine i think they were number two after the u.s at least
00:14:57.220on a per capita basis so schultz might talk the big game but ultimately his support was just as
00:15:03.180as significant as the support by Friedrich Merz.
00:15:05.800And let's not forget that Scholz's party is still part of the government.
00:15:10.180This is a quote-unquote, it's not a great coalition, I mean, this is just the name that
00:15:13.380people use, but it's Friedrich Merz's CDU, and it's the SPD, the Social Democrats.
00:15:18.680I mean, they're no longer led by all of Scholz, but they're still part of the government.0.81
00:15:22.620So I think the Germans try a little bit to split the baby down the middle.0.98
00:15:26.980The things that they say in public is one thing, but what they do is something other.0.85
00:15:31.260And even Mertz, I think that the Taurus rockets, right, kind of this medium to long-range missiles,
00:15:36.280even on the Mertz, they have not been delivered to Ukraine.
00:20:45.040And let me give you a very concrete example.
00:20:47.020I mean, I wonder how many, some probably do,
00:20:49.320but how many of your viewers know that the two people
00:20:52.200who were responsible for the industrial war effort
00:20:55.140of the United States during World War II
00:20:57.140was a native guy from Denmark named William Knudsen
00:21:00.720and a second-generation German immigrant named Henry J. Kaiser.
00:21:04.840So those who got insurance at Kaiser Permanente, they're kind of still in that sphere.0.99
00:21:10.160And this is the kind of immigrants that you want to have.
00:21:12.700You want to have migrants that, A, make your country better, and B, are completely and utterly devoted and loyal to their new home.
00:21:20.560And what's currently happening in Germany, in Europe, and also, by the way, in parts of the United States, Ohio, Minnesota, and some others.
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00:32:18.240welcome back folks well i'm just gonna pick off the the statistics that i was just before
00:32:25.680talking about just before the break here and i'm going from the the brussels signal article here
00:32:31.480uh headlined german naturalizations hit historic record for the fifth year running
00:32:37.360332 500 people received german citizenship in 2025 ralph schulhammer the figure i want to pick
00:32:47.200to you um and then we'll bounce off this and go straight into your article uh on on this very
00:32:53.300theme is here's a question for you of all of those applications for citizenship in um 2025
00:33:02.760do you know the percentage that were actually refused turned down blocked by the german state
00:33:10.820i think if i'm not mistaken it was somewhere it was somewhere between five and seven percent if
00:33:16.680i'm not mistaken three three three three percent it's basically three percent um well i'm quoting
00:33:22.880brussels signal here um so i'll assume that i'll assume that's true three percent that is a that's
00:33:29.160basically they get they're giving it out they are giving out german citizenship to anybody who asks
00:33:35.140for it to all intents and purposes before we let me just make this point i made last wednesday i
00:33:40.600have a solution to this for Germany, for Italy, for France, for the UK, for the United States,
00:33:46.760right? Go through your tax records and start this way. Anybody invader or regularised,
00:33:54.960I'm indifferent to it. Anybody who's not born on your soil, who has not paid taxes1.00
00:34:06.620according to the level of the median average for your country should have three months to0.99
00:34:14.420regularize their affairs depart voluntarily or be deported forcefully um that is that that would be
00:34:24.140under a Hanwell dictatorship that would be day one um everyone in the country who is who is not
00:34:30.840contributing to the economic life of the country out and stop taking away jobs from the lowest rung
00:34:37.380of the social ladder now okay i i mentioned this in the first half of the show i'm going to
00:34:42.540mention it again that one of the best articles um i have read on this truly worth reading sharing
00:34:51.300digesting it's a it's somewhat of a philosophical article ralph it's your own it's your own story
00:34:58.480here where you break this down and you and you suggest that um there it is our culture fails
00:35:04.620europe will not certify its way out of this crisis with passport exams and you'd go through country
00:35:13.840by country indicating the performative nature of what's being done now to say okay this is what
00:35:19.780we're doing to make sure we're giving citizen citizenship tests they've got to be able to sort
00:35:24.500to say what the national holidays are uh so on and so forth um it's a real i think it is
00:35:32.120you know we're relying on the political class here that got us into this crisis through lies
00:35:38.140and deceit to get us out and of course they're not going to get us out because they're exactly
00:35:43.320where they want us to be in in the declining society that has no social stability dependent
00:35:50.260on the state dependent on them um and in order to face the chaos that they've caused they're
00:35:57.700taking away our civil civil liberties our ability to communicate freely to exchange ideas freely
00:36:04.020they want to be able to access our phones our iphones they want to scrap end-to-end encryption
00:36:08.700on messages they want to be able to arrest us for dms on twitter they've thrown in the uk they've
00:36:16.400thrown people in prison for what they've said on Twitter when they've been complaining against the
00:36:21.260invasion. And that's their solution. And this is just supposed to buy us off. Tell me your thesis
00:36:28.120in your own words, Ralph, about this article. Well, my thesis is very simple, right? Which is
00:36:33.360that a citizenship is not just a document or a piece of paper. It is, if you want, the symbol
00:36:38.660of a person's emotional attachment to a country. And that's the most important thing. Let me tell
00:36:44.180a quick anecdote because i think this highlights the lunacy in europe uh quite well there was just
00:36:49.400a couple of years ago this idea in the netherlands where they said you know every migrant that comes
00:36:54.080to netherlands will be shown a video where two men kiss and the idea was so if you show somebody
00:37:00.300from syria or afghanistan or morocco a video of two guys kissing they will say oh my god this is
00:37:06.320amazing this is great all my previously held beliefs are out of the window and this is this
00:37:11.480is going to be my new identity. They do not understand that that identity for most people,
00:37:16.720including, I think, Ben, you and myself as well, is not just something you can change, like, you
00:37:21.800know, your pants or your shirt. This is something you have an affection towards. It's something
00:37:26.880that's important to you. And even if you sign a piece of paper, like it is now in Germany,
00:37:30.980every migrant has to sign a piece of paper that says, we recognize the right of the state of
00:37:35.700Israel to exist. I mean, what's that supposed to accomplish? I can sign all kinds of pieces of
00:42:52.940I mean, take the case, I'm sure that American viewers have heard about it, because Elon
00:42:56.280Musk tweeted about it as well, of Henry Novak, right?
00:42:59.120This young guy that was stabbed in the UK.
00:43:02.220And we know now as a fact that the British police was told to basically or actually literally have a bias against white British people.
00:43:15.400I mean, at some point, and you have this pretty much all over the place, I'd say you have it also a bit in the United States,
00:43:20.140so that at some point people will say, I do not identify, I do not voluntarily support that kind of political system or that kind of country makes complete sense.
00:43:29.400and that's your analogy with weimar right um it didn't have a serious affinity with the people
00:43:36.180um and there's easily thrown away dismissed swatted aside by the rise of the nazis that's
00:43:43.540the point there you make the point if people are let let he let him who has eyes to see see um
00:43:50.480that's the argument and i think it's a very valid argument uh the european elites have they've done
00:43:55.480one thing since what the end of the second world war it's eradicate from all signs of european
00:44:03.000life country by country the one thing that really did bind people in and invest into the system
00:44:08.440which was i think the christian faith the relationship between christianity the churches
00:44:12.760and civic society that was an anchor that bound people together the society together the elites
00:44:19.240have pushed that aside in their contempt for Christianity,
00:44:23.720and they've allowed a vacuum now to subsist,
00:44:27.500and all sorts of things are rushing to fill that vacuum.
00:44:32.220I mentioned this other point, your second point that I wanted to reference,
00:44:36.320because it's allied to what you were just saying,
00:44:39.900though we don't have time to discuss it in detail.
00:44:42.120Perhaps we'll hold it over to next week.
00:44:44.140And that is your subject, and I quote your article,
00:44:46.620The genius of European nationhood in its better moments was that it rested on culture rather than blood.
00:44:53.160This is the argument in favour of cultural nationalism rather than ethno-nationalism.
00:44:59.440And I will make this statement to our progressive audience that follow us and listen to us.
00:45:08.040If we are blocked, if the populist nationalist iterations that are that are broadly culturally nationalist rather than ethno-nationalist, if we are blocked from fulfilling our agenda, we will be dismissed because we are not the most right wing version of politics available.
00:45:29.440There are further things to our right and they are going to come in and and assuredly take power if we are blocked from it.
00:45:38.520So people can choose. They can either. It's definitely going to be nationalism, right?
00:45:42.620The future, which first and foremost is protecting the integrity of the nation and kicking those who have come in illegally,0.96
00:45:49.500haven't been contributing, haven't been assimilating, kicking those people out.
00:45:53.580That is the hashtag number one project of the nationalist movement.
00:48:21.760All of these issues are low, low, low ranking for the British public.
00:48:27.160What they really want is someone to come in
00:48:29.300and take control of the immigration issue.
00:48:32.020Tell me what else is there in the poll.
00:48:36.120Well, I think what it particularly tells you, right, if you look at these numbers, is they go even back because they have been doing these polls for quite a while.
00:48:43.820I would argue that as a major issue, migration has never gone away.
00:48:49.760The increasing numbers that you see regarding the NHS, I think, is just a demographic fact.
00:48:54.920As people get older, we notice, I guess, ourselves and many of your viewers and listeners as well, when you are 20 or 25, the National Health Service is not something that's constantly on your mind because you're young, you're fit.
00:49:06.600Insurance is not really something that you concern yourself with.
00:49:09.640The older you get, the more important this is.
00:49:12.020So this is a completely natural phenomenon.
00:49:14.280But of course, what it does show you, and this is the crucial point, is that people
00:49:18.200understand intuitively that this is an existential question.
00:49:22.660A country that is built on a common heritage, a common identity, and that actually has citizens
00:49:29.940and the population that feels an affection and a connection to that heritage
00:49:34.040can make it through almost everything.
00:49:37.020I mean, I always take Germany as an example, and it was a major topic today.
00:49:42.460You can have your country almost entirely destroyed
00:49:45.100and still come out quite powerful if you have this sense of belonging,
00:49:49.400because people then can cooperate, right?
00:49:51.360People can, you know, you can solve the, to sound like a social science professor,
00:49:55.080you can solve the collective action problem.
00:49:57.380But if you just have competing groups of tribes, you know, some of Syrian descent, some of German
00:50:03.520descent, some of Afghan descent, right, they have no interest in maintaining German culture,0.64
00:50:09.180German civilization. And again, the same is true, I think, in the United States as well.1.00
00:50:13.260Not everybody, of course, you know, I don't want to generalize, but there are people in the United
00:50:17.960States who have no interest in continuing the United States. They are there because they want
00:50:22.060to take advantage of the system. And once there is nothing left to take advantage of,
00:50:26.320They will turn against it or, in the worst case, so to speak, they bleed it dry and then they leave or they live in the ruins that they have themselves caused.
00:50:35.580And this is the difference to a country that has a strong national cohesion, right?
00:50:39.540If things break down, you want to rebuild them because they're important to you.
00:50:43.480But we have a growing number of people in our countries for whom the country and its continuation is simply not that important.
00:50:49.540yeah um the crisis continues and the fundamental crisis beyond the the the invasion that we have
00:51:01.360at the moment taking place across europe across the world is no it's not even this is a symptom
00:51:07.600rather than the cause the actual real issue is that our political class holds its various
00:51:14.460it's country by country, it's electorates, it's peoples, in contempt.