WarRoom Battleground EP 897: China’s Grip Over UK Political Class Exposed
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been on a mission to infiltrate the Westminster political class in order to get to the heart of the Whitehall bureaucracy. And they have been doing so by infiltrating every level of government and the civil service, from the top to the bottom of the bureaucratic hierarchy. But is it working? And is it actually working?
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to
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medieval on this people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people
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the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do
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everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and
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where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of
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these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer
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is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k bann
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we've made it to the end of the week friday 21st of november and no domini 2025 harnwell here at the
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helm at steve bannon's war room well folks you might have seen in the press there was this interesting
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article in the times of london which had suggested an absolute infiltration of the westminster political
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class by the ccp the chinese communist party thanks very much denver that's the article there up on the
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screen now so i thought who better to to bring on the show then and digest this than joseph robertson
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who was writing about this very thing somewhat prophetically back in october october the 12th
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um the dragon in whitehall there you go um so joseph thanks for coming back on the show last time you
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came on a couple of months ago you were talking about the infiltration of the labor party due to the
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the fabian society this sort of secretive ancient bit like 100 years old network sort of placing its
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crypto communists all over the place and now we're on a different type of communist infiltration and the
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westminster political class tell us essentially what um the murdoch press has been covering then in the last few
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days regarding these apparently thousands of approaches made right across the the parliamentary
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westminster class well thanks for having me ben yeah i i think the first thing to say is that this
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isn't new news to anyone who's followed british politics for the last 20 years or so you'll know
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that there's a rapid turn towards um not just pandering towards china but also actively pursuing policy that
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enables china to keep pushing its tentacles further and further into the british establishment
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and so this comes as no shock at all to really see that as uh as you said what i was already writing
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about uh the dragon in whitehall the reality that china has been pursuing this aggressive agenda of
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trying to um not just uh necessarily um find out secrets i think they're pretty good at that stuff
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already but also to ameliorate people to their way of thinking and actually have active pursuance of
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the ccp agenda within whitehall i think that's the uh the most important takeaway from all of this it's
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all about manpower and no one does it better than the chinese when it comes to actually uh you know
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infiltrating but also getting people on side you know they've got people placed throughout um all the
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layers not just government but of the civil service and uh indeed across europe i would say um and so
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what we've got to try and think about is uh you know how bad is it really is it is it actually too
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far gone well look let's break this down then because what the times of london is talking about
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is thousands of approaches um and that's obviously not a part-time occupation for a diplomatic mission
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right this is this obviously something that they're taking very seriously and i cannot help but flag up the
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fact that they're that the chinese still want to go ahead and build this super mission uh one of
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their largest embassies anywhere in the world right in london and the fear is of course that that is going
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to be a launch pad for precisely this type of operation tell me then a bit about what they've been doing
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with these and i quote thousands of approaches right across the uk political class well to get to the
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heart of the master they've but they've essentially been trying to get people to soften uh to the way
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they do business which basically means that they will try and get some low level information from
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people at a pretty high cost normally to themselves they will offer decent remuneration um sometimes it
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will be a job offer sometimes it will be a sort of uh you know a way of getting someone to work for
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them directly through a through an agency or through another means but the way they approach people
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generally has seemed to be either via linkedin or email outreach trying to get people to engage
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um to give up some sort of information be that low level low hanging fruit that isn't necessarily
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publicly available but won't do any damage at state level um and then they'll offer a shed load of money
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to these people and slowly slowly bring them further and further up the chain which is you know how these
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things work it's always money that's the incentive i don't know if you remember a few years ago there
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was a case of an mp going for a job with a lobbying company while still in office and they actually
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recorded footage i can't remember who took the footage now it's one of these um sort of investigative
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journalist stings basically to show how easy it was to get someone who is a quite senior position in
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government to to lobby for you and if you then apply that by a multiplier of thousands uh with the
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chinese state behind it uh you know just how bad it is uh you mentioned something interesting there
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um about the attempt to be hoovering up low level information um as i understand it the approach
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that's quite sort of subtle i think in terms of this infiltration is going um as you say because
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there aren't any sort of there aren't there there aren't going to be a huge number of major secrets
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that the ccp isn't already aware of um but the idea of specifically targeting low level information
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from people who are one step removed from the principles from from the key players is that they
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want to build relationships they want to build relations of trust you get little bits of gossip uh in
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exchange for cash in envelopes and that way uh because of course once you do that you're then
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compromised right uh and and then it's difficult to extricate yourself like like any sort of cartel
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relationship um and then of course that means that the ccp to use the word that you used before
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has now its tentacles right across uh already bought and sold political class
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yeah well that's right and also one thing to remember is that china never builds for tomorrow
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it builds for 100 years from now and that's one of the reasons why the west loses out so often to
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its adversaries in the bricks because all of these countries in the shanghai cooperation organization
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iran russia china itself they build for long-term trajectories they don't build for the now
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um of course they have key targets that maybe they want to uh get involved in now be that you
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know making sure that we seed up as much of our natural resources and energy as possible through
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to infiltrating our education system on a day-to-day basis with the confucius programs
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um there are very high level targeted attacks on the west tiktok being another example if you
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watch tiktok in china it's an incredibly different experience to what you see in the west in the west
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it's glorified uh liberalism in china it's very much uh just patriotic posts and uh fairly um harmless
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kind of stuff so they have this double warfare going on some of it is intellectual educational
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some of it is financial but always they're thinking 100 years from now how will this look
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how can i weaken my enemy in such a way that he actually becomes my friend and i don't need to fight
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a war um they're thinking on a much uh deeper level than we are and so when we look at stuff like
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this basically it's it's been going on for a long long time it's just that the internet gives them
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yet another tool to excavate their efforts um you know and with the advance of ai i i i'm slightly
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more concerned that people are going to not just be directly uh brought in but also going to be
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regularly hacked with uh what seems to be videos from a friend uh what seems to be an email that
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completely perfectly copies the style of someone's writing we're seeing this kind of phishing attack
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now happening um to the political classes and it will continue to get worse and worse and of course
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it's not just china you've got russia doing this stuff as well um and i think we're pretty behind
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the curve um as a nation over here i want to ask you a bit about your article your substack article um but
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first i know that sir lindsey hoyle the speaker of the house of comments put out a statement wrote to he
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or members of parliament tell me just something about the response to the um to the british
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establishment to these revelations it seems to me a little bit performative uh like that they know
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they've been caught with their pants down somewhat um tell me tell me what the response has been
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generally and are you happy with it no not at all if i can be blunt um you know i think the easiest way
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to say this is that they are pandering still to china with the response uh simply because they
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will not designate china as a threat to national security that's the first thing you have to do
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when you realize that a hostile foreign power is spying on you now they refuse to do that because
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they know that our national interests are so entrenched with the chinese national interests
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look at the matter of chagos that's happening right now which perhaps the americans
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won't seem as uh impactful as it does over here chagos is literally the military base uh if you want to
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control the indo um indo region and africa that is essentially the kind of main military not just
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naval base but also strategic landing base for uh planes as well we're giving that up we're ceding
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that to mauritius which is essentially a chateau of of china um if you look into the geopolitics of it
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mauritius is is massively controlled by china um now for us to do that means that we have to be
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a not just not caring about our own country but also actively uh in some ways helping china you just
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don't do something like that unless there is someone at the top the very top of government
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who is actively working against national interest um and many people have said this at this point you
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know i'm not alone in saying this but i would go so far as to say without naming names
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that there are genuine manchurian candidates at the top of our government
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um i would definitely like you to name names but probably better um we don't want to throw
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ever more larger portions of our salaries to uh malignant friends um which would clearly be the
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response were we to name names um but you know what you were saying there about the the the refusal of
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part of the uk government to officially designate china as a threat to national security as under
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the national security act 2023 is something that you did somewhat prophetically indicate just a couple
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robertson joseph in in your article there you you absolutely do nail this uh on on the reluctance of
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the british state to declare china using the the national security act 2023 as the the instrument
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the legal instrument to do this they refuse to do so um so you think basically the response is is
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performative it's theatrics right pretty much i mean if you look at the calls at the moment within the
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labor party of course pushed by the fabian change that i talk about so much essentially what they're
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calling for is a system that mirrors the ccp's social control system in china you've got digital
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id being thrust on us i think once those civil liberties are gone uh we will be at the point
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where we can effectively say that we have communist rule here in this country um if we do get to that
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point we will have seen essentially a mirroring as i said of the ccp's policies now why would a
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government that's on track to mirror the ccp's policies even if it doesn't buy into the chinese
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agenda why would it halt it because of course if you copy the chinese you get exactly what you want
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which is irreversible change and of course my whole point with fabianism and what i always talk about
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when i'm on here and on twitter is this thing of gradualism it's slow change it's incremental but
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it's irreversible very often and unless you have massive legislative changes but also massive mindset
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shifts across the civil service across government across policing across our very fabric um we are
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not going to be able to contain this we're not going to be able to stop it because it's so far ahead
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and not only are china trying to take over from outside i believe they're also trying to take over
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from within as i alluded to earlier and i think digital id is really the hill we've got to die on if
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that comes in uh it seems uh almost nonsensical to say it when you have bank cards you have all kinds
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of digital tracking already on the go and of course london is one of the most heavily surveilled cities
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in the world if not the most surveilled um it seems odd to say it but once digital id comes in and they can
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track not just where you work and what you earn but where you move and who you see then you are going
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to be living under authoritarian uh ccp mirrored uh regime control can i play devil's advocate on this
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um and as someone you know i i do have substantial libertarian leanings uh so i share your concern with
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regards to all forms of compulsory identification but here's to play devil's advocate given that the uk
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the other crisis at the uk one of the one of the other existential crisis crises in the uk at the
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moment is the illegal alien invasion that's been taking place over over the last decade is it not
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the case that if everyone was obliged to carry some form of digital id or any kind of idea on their
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person removing identifying and removing those who are present illegally um in the uk would actually
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be a far easier operation if you don't have a passport then sure i mean you know the reality
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is most british adults have a passport um you know and i i'm sure there are a number of people who don't
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there are i know a number of people who don't but they must carry either a driver's license or a
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passport and in the rare number of cases where they don't have either um then perhaps they should
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have to have a passport you know there's nothing wrong with enforcing holding your credentials as a
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sovereign national of the british isles but i do have a problem with digital id because it takes away
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uh what should be the mandatory documents of national citizenship which is the passport and it replaces it
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with a kind of nebulous more what i consider to be a globalist id card which transcends borders in some
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way i don't think that will be used at all to control the immigrant crisis in fact it will be
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used to obfuscate those who perhaps don't have the right to be here but still are able to access for
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some reason an id and you know that could actually create further tensions down the line what should
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be happening is that those who are born here with the right to live here with national citizenship
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should be issued with a document of national citizenship and shouldn't have to carry a digital id just
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to prove that they're not an illegal immigrant i think that that's uh you know a twisting of of the
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way things should be um now do i think that perhaps those who are here without national identity uh
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without citizenship here perhaps they should have to carry some form of id identifying the fact that
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they're not from here um that absolutely should be something to consider particularly when it comes to
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employment rights and all that kind of stuff um i mean it wasn't that long ago we saw
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i think 10 or so illegal immigrants working carefree on a solar panel farm down in kent uh that was last
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year i believe um the reality is that illegal immigrants do get into work in this country and
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we've got to find a way to stop that but i don't think digital id is the solution
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it's not the solution um i was being devil's advocate uh here in italy where i am right now uh it's
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felt like for decades and decades and decades you you are obliged to carry state-sanctioned id
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the moment you leave your house for whatever purpose you always have to carry it with you
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and italy has a crisis probably one along with the uk has a huge crisis it's the main point one of the
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two main points in europe of people flooding into the country over the med um and the fact that
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regular italians carrying their id um are obliged to have it makes no difference whatsoever they're
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punished ever more by the state and of course you get you find quite you know gypsies and illegals who
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steal cars and what have you they're hardly even stopped by the police now because it's uh too much
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paperwork when you stop someone who has no papers so of irene of irene of irene is the consequence is is that
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these things always hit those who are law-abiding more and that those who are um paperless consider
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ever more invisible um what you really need if you wanted to solve the migrant crisis is a government
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serious about solving it um rather than one just looking for performative excuses to pretend to be
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interested in dealing with it just because it knows that people popular opinion is now getting
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unmanageable um so you'll have that the theatrics but zero interest actually in dealing with it
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look i know there's a minutes are are counting the way we only have a a few left i just wanted to ask
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you about something because again it was in the times article but it was very much also in your own
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piece on substack and and this is the collapse of the case against the two spies um the two christophers
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i don't know what it is about the uk where the wild spooks seem to carry the name christopher uh
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that that that these do christopher cash i see uh there's another christopher christopher steel
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that will obviously be known to to american audience what's going on there um but just tell us again
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you say that this again you make the same point that this is down to the fact that the uk refuses to
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nominate china a threat to national security but just in if you can in 60 seconds what was the
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collapse of this case about well essentially it was uh you know the fact that they couldn't prosecute
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them under the correct acts because china is not officially designated as a national security threat
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which again is insane um but leaving that point aside um the reality is that there was no appetite
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to pursue conviction because if there had been the government would have found a way and once again
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this takes us back to the point that uh perhaps they don't want further investigation because that's
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just the tip of the iceberg don't forget these were fairly low level recruits um to all intents and
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purposes and of course deny wrongdoing but if you take the approach that you are going to prosecute
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all of these cases equally with a measured hand then you will find that you're prosecuting
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prosecuting many people uh in the civil service quite rapidly and of course the government doesn't want
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that because it would unravel exactly what it's trying to achieve um now i can't accuse our own
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national government of being in bed with china so i won't say that but i will say that their
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interests align in a way that is mirrored and unless we wake up to that fact we are going to fall into
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communism oh well well well on the way on that one right um christopher cash and christopher berry
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the the two gentlemen uh against whom the the the the um the legal action collapsed uh and i have to
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compliment you on that because you were here talking about this and it's the importance
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um a full two months before times of london came around to it with the revelations um that we
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discussed about the the the the operation the cultivation operation over thousands of people
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across with westminster look there is one quick thing i must ask you about because this sort of
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illustrates here in europe the fact that we're not dealing with the the theoretic issues here in
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germany if i quickly may in the last sort of two minutes of this half of the show in germany uh a very
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important german politician maximilian kraer afd politician former member of parliament present
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member of parliament the the bundestag uh he had an aide who was just been sent to jail for five years
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just uh and that was just like uh a month or two ago and so that's the just tell us if you if you
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will what what that situation was because i think that indicates how serious this is uh right across
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continental europe right right well once again i mean the the basic premise is that the ccp is using a uh
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one-step removed individual from the source of power to try and undermine democratic process and
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presumably to push policies and uh to lobby for its own agenda um and of course if you can lobby in
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the office of one of the most powerful politicians without noticing then perhaps there's a again a
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wider problem because how is the state not responding to this i'll tell you what i think the real problem
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is ban across the entire west is that we don't have a united response to this at all we don't understand
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our enemy but also we don't understand how united our enemy is against us this goes into the wider
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problem of the bricks of the shanghai cooperation organization what the russians call the multipolar
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world it is a reality now and we know this because we can see russia china iran and the shanghai
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cooperation organization talking against the west trying to block off our access to rare minerals trying
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to take over nations that i would call uh in the middle those in africa those in in in western asia
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and in other areas where there are key natural resources and of course in western countries
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as well they're trying to uh take over while we sleep and we are sleeping heavily at the moment we've
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got to wake up and coordinate this response against them that's all we have time for today folks stay
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with us after the break we'll be going back to the to the bundesdog and hearing from philip gasper uh
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in the afd group to talk to precisely these themes in the meantime joseph robertson thank you very much
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once again for coming on the show sharing your expert knowledge with us where do people go on
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social media to keep up with your analysis uh you can follow me on x at jr types and on instagram
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at joseph robertson uk and of course on substack at jr types as well so wherever you prefer to find me i
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will be there joseph robertson many many thanks indeed we'll catch up again with you soon stay
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and be part of the movement welcome back well staying with the afd theme of today's show we're
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going to be talking now to uh philip gaspar who's a balkan analyst working at the bundesdag the german
00:32:12.960
parliament for the uh the afd um and why are we talking to philip gaspar today because
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next month in the middle of december we are going to be marking commemorating the 30th anniversary of
00:32:28.880
the the dayton accords which marked the end of the war in bosnia and herzegovina and the reason i
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think this is particularly important not just because it's the 30th anniversary that most people have
00:32:40.960
totally forgotten about this is the fact that right now we're also talking about some kind of
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u.s guaranteed security guarantees for um for ukraine and presumably also for gaza
00:33:02.080
and i just thought it might be useful to highlight here for the warring posse that these things can go
00:33:07.040
on and on and on long after people have forgotten about it philip welcome on to the show uh you're a
00:33:16.880
great expert on this tell us why don't you just synthesize very briefly for the war room posse the
00:33:24.080
current situation in bosnia and herzegovina as a protectorate um you've written quite recently quite
00:33:32.240
eloquently in fact about the whole situation that this is effectively a protectorate not capable of
00:33:38.640
standing on its own two feet and very much is still reliant after 30 years on us and eu support that i
00:33:49.600
think absolutely you know the world has moved on people don't think about it but this as a viable
00:33:54.320
entity would not continue without america and the european union uh and i just like you if you wouldn't
00:34:00.400
mind just to outlie what what the current situation is there for our audience yeah thank you thank you
00:34:08.400
very much for having me on the show so um first of all as you said so i'm born and raised in germany
00:34:14.080
with my my family is from former yugoslavio especially from bosnia to govina so my two older brothers
00:34:21.120
are were born in sarajevo and so the first fact i always try to clarify to don't get me wrong to let's
00:34:27.840
say foreign people is there is no such thing as a like a bosnian nation so the bosnians though do
00:34:35.120
not exist not legally not historically not politically so bosnia is a it's not a state
00:34:41.840
built on equality of it's built on equality of three different nations two different constitute people
00:34:48.240
that stopped the war together built and made this peace agreement signed in paris which was which was
00:34:54.160
at that time made out in in dayton but then you have those three constitute people that are bosniacs
00:35:01.360
not bosnians bosniacs that are predominantly muslims they also make the demographic majority then you
00:35:07.760
have the croats the predominantly catholic like my well like my family and then you have the serbs that
00:35:14.160
are predominantly serbian orthodox so these are and these are not three subgroups or regions they are the
00:35:21.040
three nations that founded the state bosnia and herzegovina after the this bloody bloody war even
00:35:27.200
the most most cruel and bloody war after the second world war in the core in the core of europe that
00:35:34.160
most of the people um even today sometimes even haven't heard about it but today now what we have
00:35:41.600
the situation after the next month the 30 years of the dating agreement uh people often say bosnia
00:35:48.800
you have to go i wouldn't say it's not a failed state it's as you said it's a it's a managed state
00:35:54.640
so by the last proctorat proctorat in europe okay um no please i didn't mean to interrupt you quite so
00:36:03.920
abruptly but you were just talking we had up on the screen your article in the berliner zeitung um outlining
00:36:11.360
this your thesis um and on this point that you're talking right now it's clear from your analysis
00:36:18.640
that the state at the moment the territory the protectorate i'll let you choose the the word you
00:36:24.400
want to to ascribe to it it's stable and there is no war um and there is uh let's call it an imposed
00:36:32.880
peace right that is absolutely true after 30 years but your writing is clear
00:36:38.000
that this stability would not survive um between the three very separate peoples
00:36:47.360
um were it not for the continued eu and us support is that correct exactly so as i try to figure out
00:36:57.200
in my article so it's a managed peace and thank god we had we had bosnia's government got peace after
00:37:03.360
after the bloody war but it's it's a managed sustainability so there's no progress after 40
00:37:08.320
years so this so this date an agreement was made to stop the war but as i said it's uh it's there is
00:37:14.720
peace but it's not there is no sovereignty so the so the the state itself is not it's not developing
00:37:20.880
it's not progressing at all it's uh i think even the most complicated political system we have
00:37:26.640
maybe i wouldn't say in the world but when it comes to europe is um definitely like three different
00:37:34.080
presidents 14 parliaments two different identities in such a small country and i think with the most
00:37:40.720
complicated veto rights that that we have just to give you some examples of it but to answer a question
00:37:46.640
so yeah that's the point do you see any potential for a similar situation emerging in ukraine
00:38:01.120
it's a it's a good good question i'm i'm right at the moment i'm that is to say philip specific
00:38:08.560
specifically what i'm asking um and i'm basing this question now on the latest reports of the trump
00:38:15.840
peace plan in ukraine which is um the us will offer security guarantees not only to ukraine um but
00:38:25.360
also to europe in in the face of um russian aggression um
00:38:32.400
and that will that the the requirement on ukraine is to cede even sort of more parts of the donbass
00:38:40.000
to uh to russia than than that which russia currently has what i'm asking specifically is
00:38:45.200
do you think there's a possibility obviously you you you wouldn't replicate the the total
00:38:51.040
situation in the former yugoslavia in ukraine but what i mean to say is is there a potential that you
00:38:56.400
can see where there will be peace but that peace is only ever going to be guaranteed by us and eu
00:39:04.880
oversight and support yes and i see i am i see the danger of some parallel so like like the data
00:39:12.400
an agreement now there could be there could be a similar situation in ukraine so that
00:39:16.640
that the war will be stopped but then you have to separate as you mentioned the crimea or let's
00:39:20.720
say eastern eastern ukraine which then will officially probably be a be a part still of the ukraine but
00:39:28.000
protected with security guarantees from from the us or even from europe or or with german soldiers
00:39:34.560
whatever so it will stop it will stop the war it will implement peace but it will be like similar to
00:39:40.480
bosnia to govina there won't be any progress so actually basically it will stop the war or break
00:39:45.360
it but then to answer a question yes i see that i see the danger it's the similar situation we could
00:39:50.880
have with no progress after 30 years still with the same situation the the so-called ukraine not so
00:39:58.720
called the ukrainians and the russians on the one side um separating one part is small looking even
00:40:05.440
more going towards russia the other part of european union so yeah definitely definitely see that i would
00:40:12.960
call it danger some other people probably would call it a chance or or the solution yeah on the
00:40:20.400
war we'll definitely call that a danger standby folks we'll be back with philip gasper in just a
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again that's bannon to nine eight nine eight nine eight back to philip gasper why don't you just give
00:41:24.800
us a quick word philip and explain what the actual structure is right now in bosnia and herzegovina
00:41:32.000
where you have this strange creature this high representative which seems almost like a lord
00:41:38.640
to protect her in the in the cromwellian sense effectively a dictator which astonishingly enough
00:41:44.880
sits above all the 14 parliaments which you mentioned above the courts um has the free power
00:41:50.800
to annul or ratify laws and dismiss politicians that the point is and you very correctly said that
00:41:57.120
there is a potential development um in ukraine um a quagmire that the west is never going to get out of
00:42:06.080
that might follow the similar situation here in the form of yugoslavia why don't you just say how
00:42:12.400
invested the us and the eu are on a day-to-day basis via this high representative which i think is is
00:42:21.760
christian schmidt right now exactly it's a it's a german christian schmidt former mp for the csu
00:42:29.840
who has this um some people would call it colonizer function so as you as you mentioned he can impose any
00:42:36.480
he's the heart of the colonial structure i mean um you can't even imagine or can make up something
00:42:43.120
like this or uh a function with the so-called bond powers that were established 97 so he has to
00:42:49.600
this bond powers allow him to impose laws by decree maybe doing like this abolish laws rewrite legislation
00:42:58.480
dissolve parliaments freeze administrative acts basically he is uh basically some make jokes he's the new
00:43:05.840
tito in in bosnia-herzegovina but i can change the criminal code basically can do everything
00:43:11.440
without asking asking someone and as he did this summer uh with the with the in the case of the
00:43:18.240
that time um doric case when the sovereignty collapsed with the with the president president
00:43:24.160
of the republica srpska which is one of the two entities that we have in bosnia-herzegovina no not
00:43:28.880
sure if you're familiar with the with the fact with the case what happens what happened there so i can
00:43:34.960
just um explain it shortly if you want so yeah as far as far as i'm aware president doddik refused to um
00:43:43.760
to confirm decrees issued by christian schmidt the high representative so schmidt dismissed him
00:43:50.240
and an elected effectively european bureaucrat dismissed a president exactly who has a mandate
00:43:58.960
who then appealed and obviously lost the appeal um and then strangely enough politically the appeal
00:44:07.600
in political terms went to washington dc where the trump administration turned around did something
00:44:13.760
quite surprising and unexpected back in october if i'm not mistaken where they actually lifted the
00:44:21.040
sanctions that had been imposed on him basically saying you guys need to sort this self sort this out
00:44:27.360
why don't you use that platform philip just to explain now the difference in approach between the us
00:44:34.080
and the eu to handling the the situation in bosnia and herzegovina i would explain i would answer and
00:44:42.720
explain it shortly just just to make it for the viewers once again because it's so ridiculous actually
00:44:48.080
it sounds like france kafka so so um so think about what it means so you have an elected president
00:44:54.480
doesn't matter if you like him or not elected president at that time milora doddik by the serbs
00:44:58.720
and and based on a law that was created on on by created by the high representative
00:45:06.080
um and who cannot be reviewed by any court in the country that's that's even a point
00:45:12.000
so this is not a constitution constitutional democracy and there's rule by exception
00:45:18.000
and because milora doddik well or the president one didn't want to apply this law he got he got um
00:45:24.000
removed or out of his function but to answer a question towards the two approaches i i just think
00:45:29.440
that under the new um let's say the new government by donald trump it's just a more realistic approach
00:45:35.280
uh means guys it took you with guys i means the um the free people of bosnia and sugovina it took
00:45:40.960
you 40 years you couldn't handle it so um get your stuff together talk talk to each other we are not
00:45:46.640
anymore um putting in any money into it or whatever you invest so sort your things out because at the
00:45:52.960
end of the day you free people have to live together and and so the us they are not they don't want to
00:46:00.880
they don't want to remove the function of the high representative i think they just emphasize it that
00:46:05.760
that the people down there needs at the end of the day talk to each other and work sorted out by
00:46:12.800
themselves which is good but then on the other side you have to let's call the european approach or
00:46:17.360
even the german approach i mean german um foreign minister waterful just this week was uh had a
00:46:25.120
was in bosnia and he and he gave his um support once again he met with christian schmidt he was in
00:46:32.240
sarajevo he met with christian schmidt and and said that that the high representative plays
00:46:37.680
a still an important role and is supported supported strongly by the german government
00:46:42.880
so if you if you ask me what's the right approach it's definitely it's definitely um from the from the
00:46:50.240
from the american administration when you ask me how something will end we have a joke here in
00:46:55.120
germany we have no idea how it will how it will um go on but we we know in the end the germans will pay
00:47:01.520
when it comes to europe in a global in a global in a global scale probably the us when it comes to europe
00:47:06.480
scale then germany will pay for it um that's that's probably the case in bosnia and herzegovina
00:47:12.960
uh with with with regards to ukraine i think uh that everyone is going to be putting their their
00:47:18.800
hands and i saw something in the press today uh talking referring to something like over 165 billion
00:47:25.840
dollars 165 billion dollars are going to be needed immediately um to invest in in in ukraine and we know
00:47:35.840
where that sort of money is going to come from um and it can't come from germany because germany
00:47:40.480
doesn't have the money right now i mean that's the point i mean even though germany has at um at
00:47:46.400
friedrich metz's specific request changed its constitutional lockdown on on its national on its
00:47:53.840
deficit limit in order to fund the war in ukraine it's heading into recession there's the money the
00:47:59.440
money's simply not there i don't even think germany's going to be able to go forward with this draft that
00:48:04.960
is promising to do in order to take the reins from from the us in ukraine so it's clear that that
00:48:11.840
germany doesn't know the powerhouse the economic powerhouse of the eu uh doesn't have money for the
00:48:17.200
foreseeable future neither for the former yugoslavia neither for ukraine look we've only got a couple
00:48:23.680
of minutes left philip i just want to read you this quote from valentine insko who was the high
00:48:28.960
representative before um christian schmidt and he said when he you know uh when he was still in office
00:48:36.320
that we have to wait for the moment that bosnia herzegovina is irreversibly on its way to euro
00:48:43.840
atlantic integration then we should shut down the office um that's a pretty blatant maneuver on behalf
00:48:51.440
of an unelected bureaucrat meddling in what ought to be a sovereign decision of a of of um of a
00:49:01.760
tripartite people but it's clear that it's not a sovereign nation it has the stability and the peace
00:49:08.560
that the high representative imposes but it doesn't have the sovereignty uh and that's really the the
00:49:14.800
reason that's really the reason that that binds the us and the eu the eu still as as you wrote in
00:49:22.960
your article almost 30 years after the the signing of the the date and peace accords um this is the
00:49:30.320
investment that that these kind of deals involve um and that's why i'm very grateful that that you
00:49:37.360
that you've come on the show today to highlight this because in the rest of the world and i know
00:49:41.920
germany does take a leading role now and it is part of the political debate but elsewhere in the eu
00:49:47.040
certainly not in the united states no one is talking about about bosnia herzegovina nobody um you know
00:49:53.040
everyone's sort of still making the contributions uh to keep the thing going but it's it's not on the
00:49:58.320
political radar and that's the risk exactly when when the united states comes in and says uh as the as
00:50:07.040
president trump has done um will offer the security in order for peace in ukraine will offer security
00:50:13.680
guarantees not only to europe not only to the uk to ukraine as i was saying before but also to europe
00:50:19.360
this is an investment that is going to go on and on and on and on just just give me just 30 seconds if
00:50:26.480
you wouldn't mind philip what was your reaction to that quote by valentine insko
00:50:31.120
um who is from the he's from austria but um from slovenian by by heritage i think so i mean from for
00:50:41.920
me it sounds like a typical typical quote from a from a foreigner that has absolutely absolutely no
00:50:48.480
idea what's going on and it sounds nice of course yeah then so he said the moment bosnia becomes a
00:50:55.760
sovereign state who doesn't they don't need the high representative anymore yeah of course so
00:50:59.840
basically um this won't happen in the near future so i think if you if you want to get rid of this
00:51:06.800
function and really help the people then don't listen to him listen to trump it the the when it
00:51:14.720
becomes a sovereign state for sure but it's specifically the part that catches me is is the reference to the
00:51:20.080
euro um integration to shepherd it in shepherd this territory and this protectorate into the european
00:51:27.280
union and of course that what that will do is absolutely bind in the other western european
00:51:33.440
nations into into a one-way a one-way conveyor belt of of financing and funding philip gasper very
00:51:43.120
very grateful for you coming on the war today to share your expertise uh please you know perhaps come
00:51:48.640
back uh as we as we near i think what is it december the 14th december the 15th the actual 30th
00:51:53.600
anniversary uh with with your uh most recent observations but in the meantime where do people go on social
00:51:59.920
media to keep up with your writing you know to make account gaspar gaspar philip exactly that's it
00:52:09.680
that's great that you can find analysis and anything you need thanks for having me on the show and
00:52:15.440
philip thanks very much for joining us thank you to to victorio franco who put this together to will
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