The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1045

00:00:00.000 Hello, everyone. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seeders. Today, it's episode 1045,

00:00:14.340 and it is Tuesday, the 19th of November, 2024. And today, I'm joined by Beau, and I'm your host,

00:00:22.160 Elios, and we're going to discuss the differences between European and American morale at the

00:00:26.680 moment, Joe Biden's Armageddon, and how multiculturalism in Germany is a disaster, 0.89

00:00:34.040 and not just in Germany. Two things to say. Tonight's forecast, Afriis is coming. It's 1.00

00:00:40.340 snowing right now, very heavily. And also, we are going to talk about the ongoing farmers' protests.

00:00:47.820 Karl is at the moment there, and I'm sure that he is going to be talking about it in the days to come.

00:00:54.280 Right. So, I hate Doomerism. I hate Doomerism incredibly.

00:01:02.780 So do I. Absolutely despise it. Doing our enemies work for us at every turn. 0.95

00:01:07.880 Exactly.

00:01:08.540 Stop being a Doomer.

00:01:09.980 Stop being Doomers. I think we need a morale boost, because at the moment, not many good things are

00:01:16.020 happening in this continent, in Europe. And several good things happen in the Americas, both North and

00:01:24.620 South. I think we need to inject some of their optimism into ourselves. And we are going to show

00:01:32.960 you and compare the morale between the Americas and Europe, and show you why we think we need

00:01:41.640 to make Europe great again. Right. So, let's talk about the U.S. for a bit. Everyone knows Trump won,

00:01:48.520 and everyone is being ecstatic, and everyone is dancing with his YMCA move.

00:01:52.920 Conic dance moves are sweeping the internet and winning him a lot of fans.

00:01:57.540 We see here, people dancing with his hilarious moves. It's really funny, I think.

00:02:02.640 But everyone, it seems everyone is in jolly good mood. And there is a kind of element of

00:02:09.780 unapologetic fun.

00:02:11.560 Quite a lot of football players.

00:02:13.220 Yes.

00:02:15.580 I saw John Jones doing it.

00:02:18.200 Yes. I really want this.

00:02:20.520 Hulk Hogan, of course.

00:02:23.400 It's good to have fun.

00:02:25.480 Just not be miserable all the time.

00:02:27.640 You know, the way that, you know, the socialist welfare state wants us to be, so they can capitalize

00:02:33.380 upon our misery and resentment. I want to have fun.

00:02:36.360 That's one thing I think the United States has historically always done well, has had

00:02:40.340 relatively high morale. I mean, historically, in the last few years, not so much, but that's

00:02:45.520 by design, isn't it?

00:02:46.720 Yeah.

00:02:47.100 But usually in the 20th century, throughout the Cold War and post-Cold War, the 80s,

00:02:52.780 the 80s, very high morale. It's great to see.

00:02:55.620 Oh, we're one of my favorite decades.

00:02:58.340 I've always admired America for that.

00:03:00.620 Yeah.

00:03:00.860 I've kind of always despised that Britain, Europe, but Britain particularly, have got

00:03:05.420 a Debbie Downer on themselves.

00:03:07.620 Yeah.

00:03:08.180 Just as a default mode is to be, oh.

00:03:11.860 Yeah, shameful.

00:03:12.980 Being an Eeyore about everything.

00:03:14.440 Yeah, exactly. And just feeling shame for somehow your history and the past. And Europe has

00:03:21.200 been one of the greatest continents ever.

00:03:23.620 Whole armies, whole nations can be absolutely ruined simply by morale.

00:03:28.080 Yeah.

00:03:28.580 Comes up in history again and again. If an enemy accepts it's defeated, then it's defeated.

00:03:33.540 If it doesn't accept it's defeated, it isn't defeated.

00:03:36.520 That's why one of the main tactics that are used in warfare and also psychological warfare

00:03:41.460 in politics is demoralization.

00:03:43.320 Yeah. The art historian, Kenneth Clark, not the politician, Kenneth Clark, the late art

00:03:48.940 historian, said that we can destroy ourselves more easily, more thoroughly by cynicism than

00:03:54.820 by bombs.

00:03:55.820 Yeah.

00:03:56.820 It's absolutely true. Absolutely true.

00:03:59.080 It's not over until it's over.

00:04:00.720 Right.

00:04:00.920 We have Elon Musk here being really jolly about his Mars mission.

00:04:05.380 Welcome to Terminus, the first Martian city. 0.80

00:04:10.640 It is a bit tacky, but it's a kind of optimism.

00:04:14.920 Now, I won't say I wouldn't go there for two reasons. First of all, it looks like sci-fi

00:04:19.040 Mordor. And also it's called Terminus. And I've watched Walking Dead. I'm not going there.

00:04:26.000 That's supposed to be Mars.

00:04:27.580 Yeah.

00:04:27.960 Okay.

00:04:28.460 He wants to build a colony in Mars and you've done several segments about it, I think.

00:04:33.300 Well, that would be thousands, maybe tens of thousands of years into a future. That's

00:04:36.460 after Mars has been terraformed, isn't it?

00:04:38.340 Sure. Yeah. But I was watching a documentary yesterday and it's saying in five billion years

00:04:42.480 or something, the earth is going to be destroyed by the sun. So yeah, just let's do something

00:04:49.160 about it and let's go to other planets. Let's start working about it rather than crying

00:04:53.760 poor little me.

00:04:55.060 At some point on the scale of hundreds of millions, maybe billions of years, the sun's

00:05:00.000 fuel will start to run out and it will swell. And so one of the steps is we'll have to go

00:05:06.160 to Mars, I would have thought on some level. Have to.

00:05:08.260 And further.

00:05:09.720 Well, yeah, eventually. Eventually the sun itself will die and we'll have to go to other systems.

00:05:13.840 Yeah. I mean, just sitting here and waiting for welfare checks and stuff, it's not going

00:05:18.960 to work. We need to save humanity. Right. So we're going to go to Canada and it seems

00:05:24.860 that the Trump victory has had some effect in Canada. I'll show you what Justin Trudeau

00:05:32.840 says and tell me if you think that there is something changing over there.

00:05:39.060 Immigration. Let's talk about it. In the last two years... 1.00

00:05:42.260 Now you want to talk about it.

00:05:43.740 ...really fast, like baby boom fast. Increasingly bad actors like fake colleges and big chain 0.88

00:05:49.840 corporations have been exploiting our immigration system for their own interests. So we're doing

00:05:54.900 something major. We're reducing the numbers of immigrants that will come to Canada for the 1.00

00:05:59.840 next three years. Today, I'm going to let you in on what happened, where we made some

00:06:04.800 mistakes and why we're taking this big turn.

00:06:09.620 You have your mind, bro. You have your mind. Oh my God. Could it be more infuriating?

00:06:16.780 Yeah. Well, he had Bill C63, I think, which essentially is a retroactive bill that says any kind

00:06:25.640 of criticism of policies of this sort are going to be labeled as hate speech. And now he comes

00:06:32.660 and says, well, some people are taking advantage of the system, but there's something good about

00:06:37.060 it. The system he oversaw.

00:06:38.540 Yeah. I think there's something good about it because I like to be an optimist. You know

00:06:43.180 how a lot of people say that the UK is going to become woke North Korea? It looks like it's 1.00

00:06:48.880 heading that way. I'm realistic. It looks like it's heading that way. We'll say more about this in

00:06:55.660 the segment. But he seems to me like Rocky, Justin Trudeau, because if he can change, then we can

00:07:05.200 change. All right. Okay. Right. Let's go to Bukele. Let's go to South America. The Bukele effect is the

00:07:15.520 fact where you actually enforce the law and make a country safe by just enforcing the law, nothing

00:07:21.620 else. He made El Salvador, which is his country, essentially one of the safest in South America.

00:07:29.840 It was one of the least safe, and now it's the safest. How? Because he didn't listen to all those

00:07:38.760 people, all those people whose mindset is governing Europe, saying that, no, you should preside over the

00:07:45.420 dissolution of your society. You should accept the disintegration of your society as the mandate of

00:07:51.500 prudence. No, he said, no, I'm going to fix it. I'm going to enforce the law. He did it, and he made

00:07:56.700 his country safe. The idea that there's something wrong or illegal about enforcing the law.

00:08:04.380 No. I mean, it's... He just built a couple of, at least one, massive new prison and rounded up

00:08:10.440 everyone that was known to be gangsters. Yeah. Which was a fantastic number of people in El Salvador 1.00

00:08:15.160 and put them in prison. Yeah. Simple as that. And the crime rate falls off a cliff. And you get like,

00:08:21.440 I don't know, I seem to remember Bloomberg website saying, oh, he's a dangerous authoritarian.

00:08:27.640 Yeah. What about the human rights? Yeah. What about the human rights?

00:08:30.720 What about the human rights, the safety of everyone else in El Salvador?

00:08:34.420 Well, as you know really well, the appeal to human rights is notoriously abused. Now,

00:08:42.600 let's talk about another example. We'll go to Millay. Here in Argentina, Argentina was ravaged by

00:08:49.380 inflation, and it has been ravaged by really bad socialist welfare policies, the kind of policies

00:08:56.580 that are governing Europe for decades. And they led to starvation, poverty, and inflation. And now he

00:09:06.020 actually said, I'm going to do something about it. I'm not going to listen to the voices that tell us

00:09:10.200 that we can turn this around. I'm not going to listen to the doomers. He went there and he changed it.

00:09:16.220 And as you see here, the monthly inflation rate is falling. The yearly inflation rate is falling.

00:09:21.640 What was considered to be impossible was actually possible. He just went there and did it. And,

00:09:28.940 you know, he also reduces poverty. There are a lot of accounts and a lot of critics of Millay who are

00:09:35.660 saying, actually, look at the bad situation of poverty in Argentina. The very bad poverty rates of

00:09:42.560 Argentina are essentially what catapulted him into the presidency. This is something that a lot of

00:09:49.640 people don't say. He is also driving, he is also presiding over reforms that are driving record

00:09:57.960 investor returns. And also, they are having really large operation, operations against child sexual

00:10:08.120 exploitation rings. They're brilliant. I didn't know any of this. Yes, brilliant. Exactly.

00:10:13.300 They rescued 70 kidnapped miners. And they arrested 20 pedophiles in 114 raids. So they're doing

00:10:23.900 something about it. They're not sitting down saying, well, let us just, this is how the cookie

00:10:29.440 crumbles. Let's just take our seat and take our money and our prestige and not do something about

00:10:35.140 it. They actually care. And it seems to me that when a safe sign of judging whether a politician

00:10:42.220 is bad is see whether what they're actually putting forward as is essentially micromanaging social

00:10:52.980 decline, where they're rather than saying we're going to tackle the disease, they're just focusing

00:10:59.860 on the symptom. Right. So we have a major European win. It's not all the victories that are on the

00:11:08.300 other side of the Atlantic. Miss Denmark won the Miss Universe Prize context. And she's actually a

00:11:14.400 woman, which I think it's a good thing. So it's two huge victories. But other than that, sadly, we still

00:11:24.300 want to see good results. We haven't seen that good results for a long time now. We see some parties

00:11:31.260 that have patriotic rhetoric rising in numbers. Some of them are winning in some places like in

00:11:38.020 Austria, but they have massive trouble. They have massive problems. And we don't know where all this

00:11:46.700 is going to lead. And essentially, the morale here is pretty low. It's pretty low. And we'll focus

00:11:55.720 on the policies of the welfare socialist state in England right now. Keir Starmer says he's

00:12:04.460 considering of proposing increases in the council tax bill. Well, this tax is one of the least sensible

00:12:14.380 ones. I mean, generally speaking, I hate taxes. I understand that to a small degree, a small percentage

00:12:21.040 of them may be necessary to have some, you know, basic goods and some basic utilities and services

00:12:27.880 functioning. But what on earth is council tax? Why do we have council tax? We have it also...

00:12:35.800 We already do income tax and all sorts of other taxes. Yeah. I mean, if anyone doesn't know, anyone

00:12:40.480 living outside of Britain, council tax is quite expensive. Yeah.

00:12:43.780 It's quite expensive. It'll be one of the biggest things you spend money on. It's up there with your

00:12:48.660 energy bills or car repayments or rent or mortgage. Not quite as big as your rent or mortgage, but it'll

00:12:55.620 be a big chunk of your money every single month. It's a senseless tax. It's just another, yet another

00:13:02.160 way of conducting economic warfare against your people. And it seems like it just keeps going up,

00:13:07.380 especially in the last 10 years or so, just keeps going up and up and up just constantly.

00:13:12.500 Now, why would that be? What are some possible potential reasons why this, that could explain this

00:13:17.840 increase? Well, the councils just spend tons of money, don't they? They just spend tons and tons

00:13:22.600 of money. Like they'll spend thousands of, literally thousands of pounds on making a zebra

00:13:27.140 crossing rainbow colored or something. Then repainting it when some people leave skid marks

00:13:32.740 with their ties. Or they'll spend thousands of pounds on a new bit of a statue or something,

00:13:38.420 a bit of abstract commie art for the middle of town. Or they'll put all new park benches in a park,

00:13:44.400 which doesn't necessarily need them. Thousands and thousands of pounds on that. And on and

00:13:47.660 on and on and on and on. I mean, like I say, of course you need like your, the bins to be

00:13:51.920 taken out or, you know, roads need to be repaired and all that sort of thing. So...

00:13:58.160 Yeah, but that's not a license to just increase your tax perpetuity.

00:14:03.160 Also, it's not just the council tax that they want to raise. They want to raise taxes in farmers.

00:14:08.400 They want to, they are pushing for inheritance tax right now. They're lying about the amount of

00:14:13.520 farmers that this is going to affect. It's going to affect many more. And also, this is senseless

00:14:18.420 because attacking farmers is attacking essentially your food dependency. You're making the country

00:14:25.340 less independent and you're making it more dependent in foreign farmers and foreign industries.

00:14:34.200 This seems to me to be a recipe for disaster.

00:14:37.660 It's this classic thing. I mean, it's literally sort of economics 101, political economy 101.

00:14:42.800 It might be the very first day in an A-level or an undergrad of political economy,

00:14:47.700 is that if you tax people too much, you actually don't get the government. If what you really care

00:14:53.760 about is that the treasury or the central government collects as much money as possible,

00:14:57.480 if that's what you care about. There's a certain threshold where if you keep putting taxes up,

00:15:02.220 your revenues actually go down because people just can't or won't pay it, or the very rich

00:15:08.480 just move away, and all sorts of things. There's sort of a sweet spot.

00:15:12.340 It's the profit motive.

00:15:13.380 We're way beyond that sweet spot.

00:15:15.640 It's the profit motive. Socialists and leftists don't accept the profit motive.

00:15:20.180 And when they constantly increase taxes, at some point people are going to ask, well,

00:15:25.200 themselves, why should they work? Why should they innovate? And that's why there is considerable

00:15:30.180 brain drain. And there are lots of people leaving from Europe to go to the US, especially.

00:15:37.580 Right. So we have all these taxes that constantly arise, and they constantly, what I absolutely

00:15:46.400 despise is that they pretend that this is for the good of society, that it's also, no,

00:15:51.360 it's just politicians caring just to be reelected, redistributing money to their supporters at

00:15:57.220 the expense of the common good. And there is, it isn't just economics that are infuriating

00:16:04.040 in European countries. It's also political matters and also matters of basic safety. And I think one

00:16:13.600 of the most pernicious things that affect our countries has to do with the appeal to the European 1.00

00:16:22.280 Convention of Human Rights. Because right now, it seems like everything that benefits the political

00:16:31.680 allies of leftists is considered a human right, and they are treated preferentially. Everyone else

00:16:40.060 doesn't have an equal moral status. Let's see here. I have this literally harrowing story. It says

00:16:48.240 pedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules. Kicking sex 1.00

00:16:56.140 offender from the Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his family life 0.97

00:17:01.420 tribunal says. We have a pedophile who was convicted of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter 0.90

00:17:06.180 and he was allowed to remain in the UK because deporting him was going to be a breach to his right

00:17:13.940 to a family life. What does that even mean? Absolute madness. I mean, the ECHR is completely

00:17:21.740 out of date and it has been completely subverted to just make us less safe. Exactly. Yeah. To just

00:17:29.220 facilitate sex crime and violent crime. That's all it's doing now. Exactly. And as you will see,

00:17:35.560 this confirms exactly what you just said. They say the man who is in his early 50s and is from Congo

00:17:42.220 was jailed for three years in 2020 for appalling offences, including sexual penetration and sexual

00:17:49.200 assault against his stepdaughter and two other young girls in the family. Because of the severity

00:17:54.460 of his offences, he was ordered to be deported back to his African homeland. However, he successfully 1.00

00:17:59.800 appealed against the sanction with an immigration judge ruling deportation would negatively impact

00:18:06.140 the well-being of his wife and three biological children whom the sexual offences were not committed

00:18:12.440 against. This makes zero sense. All this shows is that appeals to human rights right now are notoriously

00:18:22.640 abused. And what they're doing is just they're instrumentalized in order to support the supporters

00:18:29.740 of the leftists who are destroying Europe. There's two actual ways to deal with that. One,

00:18:35.160 just deport him. Two, if there was some sort of circumstance where it would be, if you could

00:18:40.880 somehow argue it's detrimental to break up the family, well, they can all go back to Congo then, 1.00

00:18:45.520 can't they? Like Tom Holman said. Yeah. In the 60 Minutes interview.

00:18:48.640 But let us just mention this. They're appealing to the welfare and the well-being of the people.

00:18:57.480 Well, what about the well-being of the victims? What about the well-being of people who are scared

00:19:04.360 to live with other people who are criminals and who display strong trends towards criminal behavior

00:19:14.780 and also display zero will to integrate? What about the well-being of native populations in European

00:19:26.720 countries? What about the well-being of the English? What about the well-being of the Scottish? What about

00:19:31.700 the well-being of the Welsh? Well, in the view of the globalists, the traitors, it counts for nothing. 0.83

00:19:38.460 It's just suck it up. And we have a disgusting crime. Yeah, it's an ongoing crime. It's yeah, 0.99

00:19:46.920 it must stop. We have here a headline like this and you see how there is obviously a double standard

00:19:55.340 with the appeal with the human rights. Agony for mother of teen killed in machete attack after learning

00:20:00.340 one of his killers will be released after just six months due to prison overcrowding under new labor

00:20:06.860 scheme. What about her well-being? What about her mental well-being? Doesn't she have a right? 1.00

00:20:14.460 Right. So it seems that things are becoming really bad with this because everyone who speaks against

00:20:22.940 this is labeled someone who is committing hate speech. And we have this really weird banner of

00:20:29.020 being offensive is an offense. What is what is what is offensive? Who is the arbiter of what is offensive?

00:20:36.540 I would retort to that. Being offensive is an offense. No, it isn't. No, it isn't. I don't accept

00:20:44.140 that it is. Simple as that. What I what I want to show is that a lot of people are thinking are talking

00:20:53.100 about the current state. Essentially, it's an authoritarian state that wants to argue that wants to govern

00:20:59.900 arbitrarily. I really think that they don't have any ideology. A lot of, you know, a lot of people think

00:21:07.420 that they have a particular ideology and they want to they want to impose it on on others. I think they're

00:21:13.260 strictly Machiavellian. Personally, it's pure, pure abuse of power. And what they're doing and what why

00:21:20.460 they're using wokeness and why I think wokeness isn't going to disappear anytime soon is because it's the

00:21:26.540 perfect instrument to divide the population and dominate on them. Because suddenly, if you are

00:21:32.780 subjectivizing legislation, and you're you're making it arbitrary, and you can hide arbitrary use of power

00:21:41.740 under a facade of legitimacy, you can have the very operation that violates the rule of law presented as

00:21:49.740 upholding the rule of law. That's why I think people need to wake up. This isn't the right direction

00:21:55.660 for Europe. This isn't the right direction for European countries. And we really need to to protest against

00:22:01.900 this isn't the right direction for civilization for human civilization. It really isn't. Yeah, you called it

00:22:07.180 Machiavellian. Absolutely. It's completely calculated in my opinion. Yeah, we don't accidentally find

00:22:12.860 ourselves here. It's absolutely calculated from above. Yeah. And we have this really weird news

00:22:23.340 from Germany, which seems to me to show exactly what is wrong with current politics in Europe. It's that

00:22:31.020 politicians are focusing not on the on the disease, but they're focusing on the symptom. We have here the

00:22:38.540 German Greens. We're going to do a whole a whole segment devoted on it today. But let me just

00:22:45.580 mention this briefly. German Greens advocate women only train carriages. Increasing sexual

00:22:50.860 violence on public transport prompts misdirected proposal from collapsing governing coalition partner.

00:22:57.580 So if you look, the there is a there is a surge in crime, especially in train stations. And what they're

00:23:06.540 saying is, let's just have segregation of the sexes. They're not focusing on and the Greens are in the 0.97

00:23:14.460 coalition that governs Germany at the moment. They're not focusing on the actual disease. They're

00:23:21.100 focusing just on the symptoms because all they care about is just being reelected. All they care about is

00:23:27.100 just the next electoral, let's say challenge. They want to have their seats and the world be damned.

00:23:35.020 The German Greens want to make sexual segregation great again, apparently. Yeah. 0.96

00:23:40.300 I guess it's just just normal German people just suddenly become much more vital. The amount of just 1.00

00:23:47.260 sex crime amongst native Germans has just suddenly surged. That's all that's happened. 0.98

00:23:51.340 And so I want to say that. Yeah, it's playing. I think in places like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,

00:23:58.300 various places around the world, I think they do have segregated or obviously in a lot of Muslim

00:24:02.300 countries, they'll have segregated everything. That means that we are we are changing Europe

00:24:11.580 and other people are we are dancing at the pace of other civilizations. And no, I don't want this for

00:24:18.780 for I don't want this for Europe. I don't want this for Greece. I don't want this for England. I don't want this for France.

00:24:24.700 I don't want this for Germany. Why? There's no reason we should be doing this. 1.00

00:24:30.220 We I absolutely despise this kind of socialist welfare managing of decline. I want Europe to be made great again.

00:24:39.340 And I guess we'll save this for the third segment where we talk about it in more detail, but I will just say

00:24:44.140 what an odd thing it is that environmentalism, the green movement

00:24:51.340 is completely co-opted by various other ideologies, including Islam. What a weird thing. 0.99

00:24:58.700 We see even in Britain, didn't we, that the Green Party has been infiltrated by

00:25:03.980 super hardline Palestinians or whatever it is, the Greens of all things. If you'd asked me in

00:25:09.900 the year 2003 or something. Yeah. You would have thought, no, that doesn't really make any sense.

00:25:14.860 That what, why would that, that wouldn't add up. Why would that be?

00:25:17.900 It would seem mad to suggest it.

00:25:18.620 It would, wouldn't it? Yeah.

00:25:22.940 Right. So I don't see any ramble comments.

00:25:25.740 Are there any rumble rents?

00:25:28.460 Okay. All right.

00:25:30.140 Let's go to the second segment.

00:25:33.100 All right. So there's been a bit of a development in the Ukrainian Russian conflict. I do like to

00:25:38.380 cover some of the bigger, sort of the bigger war stories and things like that. So with Joe going to,

00:25:45.500 going to leave office in January, it seems like there will be, there's all sorts of changes going on

00:25:51.020 in the actual theater of war. So I thought we could talk about a few of those. The big one recently,

00:25:55.900 I think it was announced on Saturday, certainly by Sunday, that the United States, the Pentagon,

00:26:03.740 whether it, I doubt it's Joe himself making this call, highly doubt it.

00:26:07.580 Adoriously of sound mind.

00:26:09.420 Yeah. Great military strategist and tactician, Joe Biden. No, the Pentagon and the State Department,

00:26:16.700 I suppose, gave Joe the green light to give Ukraine the green light that they could fire missiles with 0.98

00:26:24.700 a longer range. They're called ATACMS, which is the Army Tactical Missile System, with a range of

00:26:33.260 something in the order of 300 miles, something like that. Now, so they're not actually giant, giant

00:26:41.260 missiles. They're not sort of medium range ballistic missiles, even. And they have quite often have a

00:26:47.660 payload of in the range of 300 to 500 odd pounds. So they're not giant, giant missiles, but they're, they're

00:26:54.460 pretty big. I mean, they're pretty big. So in business. Yeah. Yeah. And the, the White House had always said,

00:27:02.380 well, the Pentagon, whoever it is, whoever's, whoever is actually making all these calls, have given these

00:27:07.580 systems to Ukraine or allowed Ukraine to buy them off of them with the money they've given them,

00:27:13.580 but not to actually fire them or rarely to fire them. And Zelensky has been asking for permission

00:27:19.260 to, I mean, talk about, it's, it's a pure proxy war where you have to ask permission to do, to do

00:27:26.540 battlefield things. I mean, it's also when, when, when all your arms and all your weapons come from one

00:27:35.420 major source, they could just turn the key off and you can use them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's not also,

00:27:43.660 there's other systems that the French and the British have given them, which we've also in line

00:27:48.860 with saying, you can just, you can use them now because it seems like maybe not so much the EU as

00:27:55.740 such, but certainly Britain and France, we take our foreign policy cues directly from the United States.

00:28:01.420 Nearly always, nearly always, not always, but nearly always. So if the State Department or the Pentagon

00:28:07.260 say something, we're just suddenly in line, like that day, that moment. Pathetic, really, 0.99

00:28:12.620 really pathetic. So let's watch it. Let's watch a couple of clips. So first one here, then I'll just 1.00

00:28:19.980 play this. Things are escalating in Eastern Europe and President Biden is responding. Saturday night,

00:28:25.420 Russia launched a massive aerial attack, taking out energy infrastructure and causing blackouts

00:28:29.900 throughout Ukraine. On Sunday, Russia doubled down with a strike on a nine story building

00:28:34.860 that killed 10 people and injured more than 50. All of that plus North Korean troops are positioned

00:28:39.900 along the Ukrainian border. President Biden made a key decision to authorize Ukraine to use long range

00:28:46.060 US missiles in its fight against Russia. That weaponry will allow Ukraine to strike targets deep 0.96

00:28:51.740 inside of Russian territory, a capability that will better equip them to bring the fight directly to

00:28:56.940 their Russian aggressors. Fox News correspondent Kevin Cork has more.

00:29:00.780 The decision allowing Ukraine... 0.69

00:29:01.900 We don't need to hear that dude. Okay, so that's sort of the headline. That's where you start the

00:29:06.620 story, the narrative, talking about long range missiles. It's not that long range. I can't get

00:29:11.500 anywhere near Moscow, for example. So the real question is, you know, how bad is this? Are we now

00:29:20.540 seconds away from disaster? I see a lot of people panicking about it.

00:29:24.460 Are we really on the brink of World War Three? Or is it not really, I mean, tactically,

00:29:31.180 really that much of a big deal? So that's what I just want to talk about in this segment.

00:29:34.540 Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.

00:29:35.660 So, right, so obviously, not obviously, but the mainstream media and all sorts of people,

00:29:41.020 then the knee jerk reaction, especially when you hear what Moscow and Putin saying about it,

00:29:45.180 is to be alarmed. It is a bit alarming, isn't it? It is an escalation. But I suppose, spoiler alert,

00:29:53.340 to cut to the chase, the actual military analysts say it's not really that much of a game changer,

00:29:59.740 really, for a few different reasons. They're really expensive. They're like a million bucks

00:30:03.820 apiece. There's not that many of them. They're not that long a range. Russia can do all sorts of

00:30:09.820 countermeasures, so it's not crazily destructive and all sorts of things. One thing before we go on,

00:30:14.300 I mentioned North Korean troops. That's a quirk, isn't it? I just want to spend a moment talking 0.64

00:30:19.660 about that. What a weird quirk that is. Again, just six months ago, or a few months ago, if you'd

00:30:23.660 asked me, would that be a thing? I would have said no. No way. What, Russia, actual Russia, 0.64

00:30:31.020 in the Donbass region, or in the Kursk region, would use North Korean troops, or that North Korea

00:30:36.620 would allow that to happen. No way. That's crazy. And yet here we are. There's like, I think there's

00:30:42.460 supposed to be about 12,000 is the number I've heard bandied about. It might even be one of the

00:30:46.540 clips we've got. 12,000 North Korean infantrymen in the Kursk region. That's a big number.

00:30:55.740 It's quite a lot. It is a lot, yeah. But it's a big number, yeah. And I wouldn't expect it,

00:31:01.980 to be honest. Oh, right. But also, back to what you said before, I think at some point,

00:31:07.500 we get desensitized. And people, generally speaking, get desensitized. Because if you follow

00:31:11.900 the news, the world is literally about to be destroyed every day. So, at some point, I just

00:31:20.140 shut down and just stopped listening to it. It's just, I'm much more likely to think that it's,

00:31:25.980 people just are projecting might with statements. You do get sort of desensitized to almost anything

00:31:32.540 quite quickly. I remember in the days and weeks after 9-11, sort of glued to it for the first few

00:31:38.380 days. And then weeks start ticking by. And you're like, okay. With the COVID thing, at first it

00:31:44.860 seemed alarming. I never had the vax. But in the first few days of it, it seemed very alarming. And

00:31:50.620 in the end, you just get saturated with the alarm. And you're like, okay, I don't care anymore. I mean,

00:31:55.420 I'm going to Vatican City in Rome, walking around the Vatican, which is obviously filled with art

00:32:01.820 treasures, absolutely filled with it. And within a few hours, you're just like, yeah, another

00:32:07.420 Caravaggio. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Another original Michelangelo piece. Yeah. Okay. You can't help

00:32:13.420 it. It's human nature, I think. Yeah, you have. And this has been going on for like two and a half

00:32:17.100 years now. I think they're closing in on like the thousandth day of this conflict. And of course,

00:32:23.340 in a more general sense, the conflict, quote unquote, has been going on much longer than

00:32:27.420 that many years, really. And then when something like other flashpoints flash up, like in Israel

00:32:36.540 or in Yemen or something, and people take their eyes off this particular conflict. And then,

00:32:44.540 yeah, I can see how people are tired of it. Absolutely. So anyway, the headlines have been

00:32:51.100 that there's this massive escalation and Putin might nuke

00:32:56.060 Kiev or might nuke... We hear about this all the time. At any moment, he's got his finger hovering

00:33:02.060 over the button. I mean, this, I don't believe this. No, no, no. I don't believe this because

00:33:08.220 if... Serious analysts say there's no, there's no... I mean, he would have done it so far now. And

00:33:14.300 it's absolutely counterproductive to orders of magnitude. Yeah. You don't achieve anything.

00:33:19.100 He'd get himself... And do it right now where there are the prospects of the war ending are

00:33:25.180 never, have never been better. Right. Yeah. It seems like... Yeah.

00:33:28.700 Just panic. Yeah. No, all the serious military analysts say,

00:33:32.620 despite the sabre rattling, despite what Putin says, he's not going to nuke anyone. Or rather,

00:33:41.020 it's extremely unlikely because it's counterproductive, because sort of NATO and the United States,

00:33:46.300 their doctrine is that they would have to sort of nuke him back. So it's like mutual

00:33:50.460 assured destruction, all that sort of Cold War stuff is just, it's just not, it's just not on the cards.

00:33:54.940 I don't think that that might age very badly and find ourselves in a nuclear winter this time next

00:34:01.020 week. Fingers crossed we don't. Let's keep everything crossed we don't.

00:34:06.300 If we're massively wrong about this, no one is going to tell us. Right. Yeah.

00:34:11.660 No one's going to say, Sibo, you were wrong. I'll have a six minute warning to sit at home saying,

00:34:16.780 yeah, that will age badly. Oh yeah. But no one's going to watch it again. So let's listen to this

00:34:22.300 little clip where they talk about the attack. Please from the Ukrainians, America has finally 1.00

00:34:27.900 allowed Ukraine to use US missiles to strike deep inside Russian territory. So is this the game

00:34:34.860 changer that could turn the tide in Kyiv's favour? The Americans had already provided Ukraine with the

00:34:40.620 MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System, but there were limitations on its use. Known as attackums,

00:34:48.140 they're long range ballistic missiles that can strike targets 186 miles away with a warhead

00:34:55.020 that can hold about 375 pounds of explosives. Attackums... Just quickly say, they keep calling

00:35:01.900 it a long range missile. It's not that long range. Technically it's a ballistic missile. Well,

00:35:07.020 it absolutely is a ballistic missile, but it's, you know, people might hear that and think of

00:35:11.580 intercontinental ballistic missiles that can go thousands of miles or can hit anywhere in the world.

00:35:16.460 That's absolutely not what this is, right? It's not. But if you weren't careful or you weren't

00:35:21.820 listening carefully, then you might think, oh, like the big one, like the old school Cold War

00:35:29.340 giant thing, it's not, it's not really anything of that order. But anyway, let's carry on.

00:35:33.260 You can have two types of warhead, a single high explosive variant,

00:35:37.420 as well as a warhead that can carry cluster munitions. Ukraine has said they could be used to

00:35:42.780 stop or slow down troop movements or destroy Russian air or military bases, which would help 1.00

00:35:48.940 Ukraine in the defense of its own territory. And this map shows how far the missiles could reach

00:35:55.820 inside Russia and the potential targets. They include airfields, ammunition warehouses, radars,

00:36:02.860 and missile bases. Now on the face of it, it's a big military edge. But the Russians are already 0.95

00:36:09.020 responding by moving hardware and personnel out of range. The Biden administration has made clear

00:36:16.700 it's the presence of North Korean troops here in the Kursk region that pushed them to change their

00:36:22.940 minds on the use of attackants. It means the Ukrainian army can now use them to repel Russia's 0.89

00:36:28.940 anticipated counteroffensive in Kursk. Ukraine captured this territory in August and is now

00:36:35.260 attempting to defend it. President Biden's decision will likely see the British government follow suit,

00:36:40.860 allowing the use of its Storm Shadow missiles. Storm Shadow has a shorter range, about 155 miles,

00:36:48.060 and it's launched from an aircraft. But the Russians are furious, seeing this latest development as a

00:36:53.820 major provocation, as it crosses some of Putin's red lines. They've not made clear how they'll respond,

00:37:00.140 but a response is coming. It could take the form of support for the West's enemies,

00:37:04.860 or even a cyber attack on its interests.

00:37:07.260 Okay. Okay, so a bit there. Just to mention the Kursk region again,

00:37:13.100 the Ukrainians pushed into that only in August this year, so it's a relatively new development.

00:37:17.900 Now, I think that, and I'm not the only one here, this is not some sort of crazy insight,

00:37:24.060 that the brilliant mind of my own came up with. I think a lot of people will think this and say this,

00:37:29.580 that when Trump gets in office, he will try to, he's promised, and I believe him, he will at least try

00:37:36.460 to broker a peace, broker some sort of deal. And he's quite good, like him or loathe him,

00:37:41.180 he is quite good at cutting deals. Russia have wanted peace since winter 2022. It's only the

00:37:50.460 Ukrainians sort of refusing to, and I understand why they would, because they've lost a big chunk

00:37:54.940 of their country. If the Donald can get them round a table and strike some sort of peace,

00:38:04.380 from Putin's point of view, from the Kremlin's point of view, they're not, they're going to want

00:38:08.380 Kursk back. I really doubt Putin will sit down and hash out some sort of peace with Kiev whilst he's

00:38:18.780 lost Kursk. So, if that is the case, it seems likely, I mean, all that sort of stands to reason,

00:38:25.660 I would have thought it's fair to say. He's going to want to push them out of Kursk before then. 1.00

00:38:31.180 So he's got between now and January to do that. It seems what it is. And I think everyone knows that,

00:38:37.980 really. Ukraine know that, the State Department and the Pentagon know that. That's why they've let

00:38:41.900 them use these missiles, particularly in the Kursk region. That's all there's going to be focused.

00:38:48.380 Right, exactly. The focus of this conflict now is there, it seems. Because they have zero

00:38:55.100 incentive to do it in another region of Russia. So everything's going to be there.

00:39:01.420 Yeah. I mean, maybe another clip later on, but they were saying that it's something in the order

00:39:08.780 of 1,200 casualties a day in this country. That's not small beans. 1,200 a day. That's big.

00:39:17.100 It's one of those things where you see clips coming out of this war. You might see various clips on

00:39:26.620 Twitter and on the news. And it still seems sort of fairly remote. Well, it is kind of remote.

00:39:34.220 And it seems like it's not necessarily, you know, like a kick-ass, skull-crushing, World War I-style,

00:39:41.420 attrition, artillery exchanges, trench lines. You see a bit of that. But you don't, I don't anyway,

00:39:47.500 even though I watch a lot of this stuff, you don't really get the impression of 1,200-odd casualties a

00:39:52.540 day. A day. That's too much. It's a full-scale war. It's not just like this thing bubbling over

00:40:01.580 and sometimes there's some exchange of artillery and the odd sniper shot and the odd drone here or there.

00:40:06.620 No, it's sort of full-blown. And also, I think if we focus on the number, warfare isn't what it

00:40:14.300 used to be 100 years ago in terms of numbers of casualties and stuff. So for someone who is a

00:40:24.540 World War I or World War II aficionado, for instance, they may hear 1,200 and say it's not particularly big,

00:40:30.540 but it is a big number. Oh yeah, it is big. Yeah. And I mean, to compare anything to World War I

00:40:36.380 is World War I was sort of, in terms of just pure battlefield soldiers, unprecedented. There's more

00:40:43.660 casualties in World War II, but a lot of those were civilians and it wasn't in sort of such a

00:40:50.140 concentrated, it wasn't as concentrated as a battlefield thing. So anyway, the thing I think is

00:41:00.620 another interesting thing is that, I've probably said it too many times already, but I'm fascinated by

00:41:11.500 the parallels in history or the echoes from history. So the idea that Russians are fighting in and around

00:41:18.700 Kursk, for example. I mean, anyone who doesn't know, the biggest battle of all time or set of battles were

00:41:25.260 at Kursk in World War II. You have an e-books about it, haven't you?

00:41:31.180 Yeah. Where is it? Oh, there it is. So I did a two-part series in conversation with Mr. Carl Benjamin.

00:41:37.820 Um, there's a part one, um, the biggest battle of all time, Kursk, where, uh, yeah, the Germans and

00:41:45.180 the Soviet, the Nazis and the Soviets faced off some, some of the biggest tank engagements,

00:41:50.860 some of the biggest aerial engagements took place at Kursk in 43, was it? Um,

00:41:58.300 so to be, still be fighting, it's interesting to me, I just think it's interesting, worth saying,

00:42:02.540 or spending a minute or two, but there's certain places in the world where there's just always

00:42:08.140 conflict. Because even going back, um, to time immemorial, I mean, the Mongols 1.00

00:42:13.020 and not a pretty much raised, kind of annihilated Kiev in what, the 14th century. That part of the world,

00:42:23.500 that sort of Eurasian steppe, endlessly, literally since time immemorial, since before Herodotus,

00:42:31.340 uh, they have steppe peoples coming, coming through the, the Yamna people, the Scythians, whatever,

00:42:37.100 coming through that area of the world, around the river Dnieper, Dnieper, I think the D's silent, 1.00

00:42:43.500 well, on the river Dnieper, um, which is exactly where this conflict is now, right? I mean, in,

00:42:49.100 again, in World War II, there was three battles of Kiev, uh, of Kharkov. The second was the biggest

00:42:55.740 one, the Kharkov pocket, sort of over a quarter of a million Soviets. They, they went back and forth,

00:43:01.100 passed Kiev multiple times. I think there's three battles of Kiev. Um, certainly two big ones.

00:43:10.860 Um, you know, like places like the Mesopotamian deserts. Yeah. I always thought it was interesting,

00:43:17.660 stroke crazy, stroke bizarre, that in my lifetime, they've been giant, more than one giant conflagrations

00:43:24.780 and battles raging up and down the Tigris and the Euphrates, where there has always been war.

00:43:30.700 It seems right. Going back to the Sumerians, going back to the age of Akkad. And you can only imagine 0.99

00:43:36.540 before that as well. Right. So anyway, that part of the world where modern day Ukraine is,

00:43:43.500 and Belarus, that part of Eurasia, um, it's unfortunate really, I feel very, very sorry for

00:43:51.420 those people. And going up into sort of where modern day Poland is, um, just perennial conflict.

00:43:58.220 Hopefully, hopefully it can be brought to an end early next year. But it seems like,

00:44:03.980 because what often happens in war, not always, of course, but what often happens in wars is that

00:44:09.420 the amount of casualties, if you're going to plot the casualties on a graph, it goes up right at the

00:44:13.500 end. Not always at all. Uh, World War I and World War II are examples of that. If you look at the

00:44:19.260 number of deaths in 1945, it spikes. Uh, I think, unfortunately, I feel like that's what's going to

00:44:26.940 happen here because both sides desperately want to get some sort of objectives before the Donald

00:44:32.860 forces them to, or the United States forces them to stop. I think one of the reasons why,

00:44:39.980 yeah, this is, this makes perfect sense, but one of the reasons why the Ukrainians may want the,

00:44:45.260 that region and also to intensify their presence there is to make potential swaps.

00:44:53.020 Because they could get it. They could occupy it. And they say, okay, if you want me to give it back

00:44:57.020 to you, you'll have to give me some other lands back. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. So if, as you said,

00:45:02.140 Trump gets them to the table of negotiation, they could say, well, we don't want to be

00:45:11.020 talking just as the people who have lost two regions. We also want to get in another region and

00:45:18.060 possibly do swaps. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, because it's, it's quite unforgiving, uh, what's

00:45:24.860 going on because when, when you have a major power that wants to, uh, end the conflict, they want to

00:45:31.900 talk about, uh, an antebellum balance. They want to say, okay, right. What happened happened. Let's end

00:45:37.900 it right now. But the Ukrainians want, uh, the land they've, they've lost. So they, if they, 0.89

00:45:44.940 they can't get it back for two and a half years now, perhaps the idea is to just rush to get another

00:45:51.580 part of Russia and, and make swaps. Swaps. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, so I think a lot of people,

00:45:59.740 some people, they're sort of used to how world war one and world war two ended and many big wars,

00:46:04.940 the way the American civil war ended is in one side's abject defeat and complete unconditional

00:46:11.180 surrender. Most wars don't end that way throughout the sweep of human history. Most wars end in some

00:46:17.740 sort of negotiated peace. If you take, for example, the Vietnam war, where lots and lots of stuff was

00:46:24.940 done on both sides for years, just in order so that when they did finally get round, uh, a peace table,

00:46:32.380 they've got a stronger hand in negotiation. It's crazy to think that wars can go on for years and

00:46:38.380 thousands and thousands of men can be killed and untold amount of treasure and material used up

00:46:43.260 just so you've got a slightly stronger negotiating position in Paris or London or wherever it is,

00:46:48.700 wherever you do the deal. It seems like something like that is, I feel like something like that we're

00:46:54.780 now in that stage where Ukraine wants, wants to have a card in their back pocket of, um, maybe Kursk.

00:47:01.900 Russia don't want them to have that card at the table, the peace table eventually, all that sort of

00:47:06.860 things going on. So there's one quick point I want to point out here, is when we look at the map,

00:47:12.380 you can see here this, uh, March 2022, i.e. very soon after it started, um, and then in, broadly

00:47:19.980 speaking, very broadly speaking, haven't, hasn't been giant, giant movements. So, I mean, well, someone

00:47:27.100 could, you could argue that's not the case because we, this is quite a very zoomed out map. These are,

00:47:31.020 these are big chunks of land, but if you look at November 2022, right, it's not in any profound

00:47:38.860 sense, any different to now, really. Like the, so again, very, very broadly speaking, it's still got

00:47:44.620 the Donbass and Crimea is still in Russian hands. And the fact of the matter is the battlefield

00:47:49.900 reality is that despite the United States and other countries giving Zelensky tens of billions of dollars,

00:47:57.100 thousands, untold amounts of men or material and, um, and training and things, and the, the sort of

00:48:07.660 disgusting number of Ukrainian casualties, um, all their counter-offensives haven't really come to a

00:48:14.540 great deal, have they? I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a difficult conflict. I, I think I have two things to

00:48:22.060 add here. It seems to me that, uh, first of all, we need to talk about the panic that a lot of people

00:48:28.940 are spreading about Trump because they're saying that with Trump, you have the rise of power and

00:48:35.100 dictators and the, you have bullish behavior. Assuming, uh, that they are mentioning Putin,

00:48:43.340 the annexation of Crimea happened in 2014. Am I, am I wrong?

00:48:47.500 Uh, is that, is that right? Yeah. It happened under Obama, not under Trump. Okay. The little

00:48:53.580 green men, the original, original thing, right? Yeah. I think that was 10 years ago. And then the,

00:48:59.340 the war right now happened under Biden. So the idea that bullying is, uh, has come back under Trump

00:49:08.460 is, it's, it's completely mistaken in the geopolitical sphere. Now, I don't know what, what I hope is that

00:49:15.660 Trump is going to somehow help end the conflict, but also end the conflict in a way that doesn't,

00:49:27.020 uh, completely, uh, destroy Europe. Cause what, what I don't want to happen is I don't want essentially

00:49:35.580 the Western camp to suffer what the, the communist camp suffer suffered in the early seventies with

00:49:42.460 Nixon and Kissinger who divided Russia and, and the, and China. I don't want any kind of division

00:49:51.020 between the U S and Europe to, of that sort. Now, maybe this, this may be a sort of a panicked thing

00:49:57.580 to say, but this is something that I, I, you know, I'm just saying that I don't want something like that

00:50:03.340 to happen. Fair enough. No, I mean, fair enough. I don't entirely agree, but I mean, coming from

00:50:09.260 Greece, it's a different thing. Greece is on the front line with Turkey. It's, it's, it's sort of

00:50:13.900 on the front line and like you, you very much appreciate, I imagine the umbrella of NATO. Whereas

00:50:21.740 being a Brit with our own, with the Royal Air Force, the British army and our nuclear submarine

00:50:27.820 programme, I feel less, I care, I care about NATO less. I mean, that's, that's a conversation for

00:50:34.700 another, but just one thing to say, the NATO clause, uh, that, uh, didn't work in Cyprus since 1974.

00:50:43.660 Right. We have to say this because there seems to be a sort of NATO clause of, of, um, NATO state,

00:50:49.980 member states need to, um, guard each other when another, when a state, when a country is,

00:50:58.940 is under attack. They didn't help Cyprus in 1974. So that's where NATO didn't actually act

00:51:07.660 as it was supposed to. Yeah. I'm just throwing it out there. Yeah. The United States didn't help,

00:51:13.100 or NATO didn't help when the Suez crisis in the fifties for Britain, just stood back and

00:51:17.660 watched that. They did as little as they possibly could in the Falklands, the United States. I mean,

00:51:23.820 not necessarily NATO, but eventually after Margaret Thatcher actually pulled the trigger

00:51:28.700 on the Falklands, then they were like, okay, we'll allow it. It's like, we've already started.

00:51:32.940 Thanks for doing nothing, running up to it. Thatcher went to the United States, like the UN and said,

00:51:39.180 are you going to help us out? You're going to, and they were like, no, don't do it. Yeah.

00:51:43.340 Let the Argentine aggression go. And Thatcher said, no, and sent a flotilla down there, 1.00

00:51:49.660 battle group. And then they were like, oh, all right, then go on then. We'll allow it.

00:51:55.180 Anyways. All right. So, uh, a couple of last points just to make is just, um,

00:52:01.340 what, what will happen after the peace? Because eventually this, this war will end,

00:52:06.220 right? Like Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. This war is going to end someday. Yeah. They always do.

00:52:11.100 They always will. Um, what will become of Zelensky? I mean, um, AA has said that after the war comes

00:52:21.020 to an end, they'll memory hole it. I think that's actually half decent take. I've been rude about AA's

00:52:28.220 takes in the past. I do kind of take that back. Sometimes he's got some really good takes. I think

00:52:32.060 that's probably what will happen. Um, Biden will be out of office. Trump will make some sort of

00:52:39.100 brokered peace. And the whole thing will be memory hold. Don't worry about where all those

00:52:43.500 billions went. Don't talk about all the Ukrainian and Russian casualties. Don't worry about it anymore.

00:52:49.100 Just move on to the next thing. I mean, people forget. And the idea of we're there for as long

00:52:53.740 as it takes. We don't worry about it. We didn't really ever. I think that's what's going to happen.

00:52:58.460 Probably. Yeah. I mean, so, I mean, I just, I, it's not that I'm pro Kremlin or pro, um,

00:53:06.140 Putin. I'm really not, but I don't support Zelensky. No, I, no, I don't buy the narrative

00:53:13.340 that Putin once he's won in the Donbass will push on into Belarus and Poland and the Baltics.

00:53:20.460 I don't buy that. No. We'll see. I hope it's not true. Yeah. I hope it won't happen.

00:53:27.020 All right. No. Um, and so like the sort of kind of unbelievable amount of basically corruption,

00:53:35.340 the whole Burisma angle. I mean, just look at that image. I mean, it says a thousand words,

00:53:39.580 isn't it? But these people have done a terrible thing, at least for, if you remember Boris deliberately

00:53:45.260 scuppering any sort of peace deal quite early on, like what these, what they've done is a

00:53:52.860 disgusting thing because I say I'm not on board with Zelensky or the Ukrainian government. I don't

00:53:57.100 care where Ukraine's borders are particularly. I care about the completely innocent civilians, 1.00

00:54:03.820 Ukrainian civilians and soldiers that have died unnecessarily. That's terrible. It's absolutely

00:54:10.300 terrible. Like one of the clips we watched earlier is that Russia launched a missile and it hit some

00:54:17.260 building and there were 10 casualties or 18 casualties. It's easy just to say that and go,

00:54:21.820 yeah, right. Yeah. Next thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, wait, there's like women and children 1.00

00:54:26.220 blown to smithereens, blown into chunks of viscera. Like that's, yeah, that's terrible.

00:54:32.460 If we can bring that to an end, the fact that these guys didn't bring that to an end sooner,

00:54:37.260 that's the bad, that's the bad thing. I really want it to end. No, I really want it. Yeah. Yeah.

00:54:44.060 Please. And getting up there smirking about it, laughing about it, LARPing as some sort of military,

00:54:52.060 ah, look at these people, look at these hawks, these murderers. I have to say this because I

00:55:00.780 hear this. I mean, I don't. Look at them. It's all a joke. It's all a laugh. I don't know about,

00:55:05.900 I don't know about this, but I have some Ukrainian friends that I haven't been able to

00:55:11.500 come into contact with ever since the war began because they went there to fight and we've

00:55:16.540 essentially, I can't contact them anymore. And they told me that they, they thought highly of him,

00:55:25.100 of Zelensky. Okay.

00:55:26.700 I don't know. I don't know what's going on behind closed doors and stuff, but they seem to have a

00:55:33.260 tremendous amount of rivalry with the Russians. And the memories of Holodomor actually make a lot 0.99

00:55:41.340 of them. I can't speak for everyone. I'm just saying what was communicated to me. They literally

00:55:48.140 don't think that this is a war that, that the US is forcing on them, that they want to fight it.

00:55:56.300 They want it. That's what they told me.

00:55:58.140 Okay. Well, they're doomed to lose, I'm afraid.

00:56:02.060 I just hope the war ends. 0.95

00:56:04.140 Yeah, me too. Yeah. I mean, the story goes back to sort of the eighth, ninth century.

00:56:09.500 I've got a great bit of content. I think it's a great bit of content of me in conversation with

00:56:13.100 apostolic majesty talking about it. Because you remember when Tucker went and spoke to Putin,

00:56:18.060 Putin started his narrative, I think in the eighth, seventh or eighth century.

00:56:22.380 And Oleg the Great or something.

00:56:24.540 Yeah. Yeah. It goes back, it goes back well over a thousand years. The animosity, the rivalry

00:56:30.380 between the people that inhabit what today we call Ukraine and the people who inhabit what today we 0.95

00:56:35.500 call Russia. Of course, none of those things existed in the ninth century or whatever, but so

00:56:39.420 it's died in the wall. It's deep, deep down. I get that. But it needs to end. There's the

00:56:47.740 political will in the Kremlin to not give up and retreat. He's not going to give up Crimea.

00:56:55.180 So how many, so then how many Ukrainian civilians and soldiers need to die then? Now that's, you know,

00:57:02.140 that's the thing. So I just think, again, future generations will look back at this

00:57:10.300 Russian-Ukrainian conflict much the way we look back at something like World War One, thinking it

00:57:14.860 was largely, if not entirely unnecessary. It was certainly way more bloodier than it needed to be.

00:57:20.460 People at the top were just callous, unbelievably callous and flippant with other people's lives.

00:57:34.620 Sad, really, isn't it? It's all a big joke. Meanwhile, he's, Zelensky has enriched himself massively.

00:57:43.100 He's a very, very rich man now, somehow. I guess that just happens, doesn't it?

00:57:49.420 Yeah, let's not talk about the Burisma angle at all. That's just a footnote that you're not really

00:57:54.060 supposed to bring up anymore. And the last thing to say then, just on it, is that about these

00:58:00.060 attackums, Putin is annoyed, and he had a press conference talking about, we're going to change our

00:58:04.940 entire nuclear doctrine. We're not going to tell you exactly how we're going to change it,

00:58:10.780 but we're going to tweak it and change it. You know, sabre-rattling, talking about nukes.

00:58:15.100 It's just almost certainly not going to happen. And he is annoyed by it, as you can imagine,

00:58:19.580 if you were pro-Kremlin, or you were on that side of the aisle, this would be a provocation.

00:58:25.660 It's called an escalation and a big, profound provocation. And from their point of view, it is.

00:58:33.740 But we'll see how it plays out between now and January. I think there's going to be a lot more

00:58:38.140 stuff go down in that theatre of conflict between now and January, because they know

00:58:47.580 that Trump's coming and will sort of try everything he can, all the levers, all the

00:58:53.580 pressure points he can to sort of stop it. And so you want the best hand possible at that time.

00:58:59.020 Okay.

00:58:59.260 Okay. Should we go to some of the ramble rants?

00:59:02.060 Yeah.

00:59:04.300 All right. Johnny Logo says, does it seem that Ukraine and Russian conflict is just

00:59:09.820 another means of distracting the public from domestic problems? 0.97

00:59:14.940 No, it probably helps. But that's like saying the whole thing's fabricated.

00:59:19.500 I don't think it is fabricated. Well, I mean, sorry, it is fabricated on one level,

00:59:24.540 but not just to distract from what, UK domestic or American domestic issues. No, I think...

00:59:32.220 To an extent, I mean, it could, because a lot of people in the US just started saying about,

00:59:37.020 you know, how we need to beat down fascism and Putin, and they essentially externalized

00:59:43.020 internal conflicts. People's attention was diverted from the very bad situation.

00:59:48.860 I mean, it helps. It helps. But to say that, as we said, the animosity between Ukrainians,

00:59:54.700 or the rivalry between Ukrainians and Russians goes back a thousand years. So it's not just,

01:00:00.860 oh, let's just stoke that up. So people won't worry about the price of oil or gas,

01:00:05.100 gasoline at the pump. No, I think there's more to it than that. Okay. Butterfly247 says,

01:00:10.860 been living rent free for a while. Sorry. Sorry, it's not more. Have a great day from the USA.

01:00:16.940 Thank you very much. And hope you, your situation improves quickly. Okay. Bobo Bad says,

01:00:25.420 if there are Koreans in Russia and Russia borders Finland, will it happen in the final Korean 0.86

01:00:32.620 hyper war about to kick off? That is my real concern. I must be, he must be joking. I don't know,

01:00:38.780 but I mean- Finland versus Korea. That's, that's gotta be a joke. I mean, yeah, but you said,

01:00:43.180 well, yeah, you said it would be, if you were told that Koreans would be, North Koreans would be in 0.97

01:00:49.900 Ukraine, it would be a joke. A couple of nations you would just never think would square off against 1.00

01:00:55.420 each other. I see. Amandine512 says something really nice. You two are my favorite hosts. Have you

01:01:03.180 looked into the cover up happening with the Edinburgh man who they claim was decapitated

01:01:07.980 by a bus? Turns out he was a convicted sexed offender. The story's fishy. We haven't checked

01:01:13.500 it, but I think, um, you know, maybe we'll, we'll see if it's there, but also thank you very much.

01:01:18.620 Yeah. Thank you very much. It's one of those stories when I saw it sort of going around Twitter,

01:01:23.180 like a week ago now, or two weeks ago, something like that is one of those ones where you're like,

01:01:28.140 oh, that's weird, interesting, gross, whatever, but better wait to see what the real details are.

01:01:36.220 Because one of the worst things you can do is to jump out ahead of something,

01:01:40.860 start pontificating about it. And then all the details were wrong or whatever. So it still seems to me,

01:01:47.420 in my opinion, I'd wait for more stuff to come out and then talk and then talk about,

01:01:51.660 but it does seem fishy. I won't deny that. The story is fishy.

01:01:54.940 And also a bold Eagle 1787 says, Trump is the only politician in the US who is looking at the war

01:02:01.180 objectively. He wants the death to stop. Also find it funny that the people who want the war to continue

01:02:06.860 refuse to go there and fight. Yeah. Hawks like Liz Cheney. I remember. Yeah. Also Matt Hammond says,

01:02:16.540 while publicly remaining neutral, the US provided diplomatic and intelligence support

01:02:21.260 to Britain during the Falklands War. The Navy was going to land an aircraft carry if Britain's Navy

01:02:25.900 needed it. That's a fair point. That is a fair point. They didn't do it now. I was exaggerating.

01:02:30.300 They didn't do nothing. They did provide some support. Right. But when we said, well, at one point,

01:02:36.620 the Argentine Air Force could have overwhelmed us if it wasn't for the Harrier jumpjet. At one point,

01:02:41.260 we said to the Americans, look, can you just send over a bunch of F-16s or whatever? And they were

01:02:45.980 like, no. But they did help. They did help some. To be fair. To be fair. Right. Right. Multiculturalism

01:02:52.700 in Europe is a disaster. It's also a disaster in Germany. Now we are looking at a particular report 0.68

01:03:00.460 that was published this August that says that shocking federal police stats indicate more than

01:03:08.140 2,100 crimes per day in Germany in 2023. They said the number of crimes committed in Germany has

01:03:15.660 risen to its highest rate since 2012, according to the federal police's report. The total number of

01:03:23.100 crimes was close to 800,000. It's 790,245. And they say announcing the report at a press conference

01:03:33.100 on Monday, federal police chief Dieter Roman added a shocking number to the already distressing figure,

01:03:38.540 saying that in relation to the total population, non-Germans are statistically six times more likely

01:03:47.180 to resort to knives in an attack than German citizens. And in sexual crimes, it is non-Germans. 0.99

01:03:53.820 And in sexual crimes, it is seven times more likely. So it's basically what everyone would expect.

01:04:01.420 As German, and we see here, they are focusing also in trains. They're saying violence is especially 0.96

01:04:10.140 rife in train stations and on trains with a whopping 25,640 cases recorded by the police last year.

01:04:19.100 11% more than the previous year. Madness. If a stat like that goes up by 0.5%, it's like,

01:04:25.340 whoa, that's a spike. 11%. 11%. And also sexual violence in general rose by 15% in a year,

01:04:35.420 this is yearly, to 2,498 cases, while the number of pickpocketing incidents increased by 16% to 27,849.

01:04:47.180 And non-Germans are likely to be doing these crimes to the tune of six or seven times. 0.89

01:04:51.100 Yeah. Six, 700% more likely to be doing it.

01:04:53.900 Right. So what have they, what have they done? So what have they done?

01:04:57.980 To summarize, a lot of groups are over-represented in crime and in particular categories of crime.

01:05:05.660 Right. So we have the German Greens who are advocating women-only train carriages. 0.99

01:05:11.340 Why not? That'll fix it. Yeah. They'll make sex, sexual segregation great again, as you mentioned. 0.78

01:05:17.660 That'll fix it. Yeah. And they're saying transport hubs across 0.88

01:05:21.820 Germany are becoming less safe. Federal police recorded 13,543 violent crimes at train stations in

01:05:30.700 the first half of 2024. Now, if this number doubles, we have an increase from 2023. And 2023 had a

01:05:39.740 ridiculous increase. So we are looking at also an increase of that sort because last year it was 17,25,640.

01:05:53.260 If this gets doubled, it goes to more than 27,000. So it's a considerable rise. Things are not going better.

01:06:02.060 Things are not going worse. Right. And remember, each one of those is potentially a life ruined.

01:06:08.060 It's not potentially. It is a life ruined. Right, yeah.

01:06:10.060 It is, you know, these kinds of, these kinds of, um, of crime leave scars to people. It scars people's

01:06:17.740 psychology. These numbers, if they go on year after year after year, it becomes a point where there's

01:06:21.660 barely a household unaffected. Yeah. Right. Yeah. At some point, reality can be ignored indefinitely.

01:06:30.060 And that's the problem that the political establishment of Europe, to a very large extent,

01:06:36.140 is demonizing people who are raising awareness about reality. It wants people to keep thinking

01:06:43.020 that they can ignore reality indefinitely. Right. So we have here the,

01:06:48.140 reports of a particular crime that led to this. We say here, in response to soaring crime

01:06:55.580 on German public transport, due in large part to mass migration, the Berlin Greens want to make

01:07:01.820 women-only train cars available. The demand was put forward by Berlin Green Party MP Ange Kapek,

01:07:09.260 who pointed to the terrible attacks on women, noting that many of the attacks occur even when it is

01:07:14.700 very crowded. Now, one thing, we are following German politics, um, to, to a degree. We, we've made many

01:07:21.260 segments. We've co-hosted many segments about politics, about politics in Germany, and we see the

01:07:27.180 same pattern that happens there. So. Well, I did an interview with that Peter Boringer, who is one of

01:07:31.260 the deputy vice chairman of AFD. Yeah. Yeah. You should definitely check it out. And the interviews on our

01:07:38.620 website. So there's a pattern with four stages. We have crime. Then we have empty virtue signaling

01:07:46.220 by politicians. Then we have stage three, which is that the crime is treated as an isolated incident,

01:07:52.540 where we listen about a man who did something, an abstract man who did something, who did a bad,

01:08:00.060 bad thing. And stage four statements and headlines are scaremongering about rise of the far right.

01:08:05.340 Meanwhile, if that's not something to be afraid of, you know, I'm, I'm a mad man.

01:08:13.980 Because, you know, they're threatening about, they're, they're panicking people about the threat,

01:08:21.020 the potential threat of something. Meanwhile, they're literally allowing, they're doing nothing,

01:08:27.820 they're micromanaging rising crime. And a rising crime shouldn't be accepted.

01:08:32.780 And it's, it's not, it's no radical to say, we want the law to be enforced. It's not an issue of

01:08:39.260 legislation here or an issue of, of, of philosophy or of any weird take about modernity or of,

01:08:47.340 of anything. It's just pure enforcing the law. It's pure law enforcement. Right. So they say here,

01:08:54.540 as many German papers mentioned, a rape directly on a train in Berlin has jumpstarted the proposal.

01:09:00.460 However, what no paper mentions is who was actually behind this rape. Allegedly, they're talking about

01:09:06.700 a man who did it. It was, in fact, a dangerous Iranian migrant, 33 year old Moshen K, who raped a 63 year 0.91

01:09:15.420 old woman reportedly belonging to Berlin Heinz Society. So yet another thing, crime, empty virtue 0.91

01:09:22.940 signaling by politicians. It is going to be treated as an isolated incident by people saying, well,

01:09:28.380 you shouldn't be mentioning anything about culture because doing so is far right. Culture has to be,

01:09:35.820 is important. It has to be mentioned. Right. So it seems to me that the German greens are

01:09:42.780 showing or displaying one of the most worrying symptoms that shows bad politicians.

01:09:48.140 They're focusing on the symptom of the disease. They're not focusing on their disease. And this

01:09:54.700 seems to me that to constitute the empty virtue signaling of politicians who are just entirely

01:10:01.180 narcissistic and they don't care about their country. All they care about is their seat and

01:10:06.060 their power and their fame. I said it in the first segment, but maybe we can expand upon it now. The,

01:10:11.820 the, the strange nexus between environmentalism or green, the green movement, greenism, is that even

01:10:20.300 a thing? And open borders, treason, empathy with the criminal. Why would that be? It's, it's really

01:10:32.620 weird and strange. I mean, I suppose it's not, I suppose in some ways it, well, it can make sense,

01:10:39.340 but the idea that if someone's politically leaning one way, a lot of their views will be of a certain

01:10:46.300 stripe. So for example, it does go often, not always, but it does go hand in hand that if you're sort of

01:10:53.580 right leaning or even just conservative leaning, you're likely to think a certain way about

01:10:58.380 environmentalism, for example. And not necessarily connected, not necessarily, but that's just the way

01:11:04.060 it is. If you're right leaning, you're more likely to think about abortion one way and on and on, all

01:11:08.860 sorts of these things. The idea that environmentalism would be a bedfellow of sort of pro-sex crime,

01:11:18.540 essentially, it's what it boils down to now, of mass immigration to change demographics

01:11:25.660 and to facilitate mass violence and sex crime. And that's what the Greens want, of all things,

01:11:34.620 of all things, the Greens. I think a lot of, a lot of people who, who buy into these ideologies,

01:11:41.100 they're mainly driven by resentment and they much, it's, it's like what Machiavelli says, people are

01:11:47.020 focusing on their daily lives and they don't care if someone else has power over them and they don't

01:11:53.420 see the, this person on their weekly lives. They care about the person who gives them trouble in

01:11:59.500 their daily lives. That's why in a lot of businesses, the, the people who have really

01:12:03.900 high positions, they have, they're really jolly and everyone likes them because the people underneath

01:12:08.940 them are doing the, the, the, you know, the, the, how should I say? All the hard work, all the hard

01:12:17.420 work, but also they attract the resentment of other people. It's like having middle managers,

01:12:22.700 they're doing the hard work, they're putting people in line. People will say, okay, I hate

01:12:26.780 this person because he gives orders to me on a daily basis, but they don't, they, they don't

01:12:32.300 think that this person has been placed there by someone else who's just playing golf for the top

01:12:38.780 floor. And you think that Greens, their mindset is that they're, they're above it. They're in that

01:12:43.740 senior leadership team and don't have to worry about what happens. Or they, they focus so much on

01:12:48.700 their own society. And they say, I hate the people of my society so much that they don't care about

01:12:56.140 the idea that someone else in Palestine would throw them off a rooftop.

01:13:02.300 Maybe other, some, some others may not know, but it seems to me that they're mainly driven by

01:13:07.900 resentment for society rather than any kind of positive element. Right. We have here,

01:13:14.140 it just came out today. Germany foreigners commit 59% of all sexual crimes in trains and train stations,

01:13:20.300 sexual crimes double since 2019. Now let's talk really fast about the genius of the Greens,

01:13:27.740 which ties a lot to what you said before. They are, they are pushing forward the net zero

01:13:34.460 nonsense. And also they are advocating for the destruction of Germany's nuclear program.

01:13:40.620 And it seems that they succeeded. Germany has turned its back to its nuclear program. 0.78

01:13:47.580 They're not going for fossil fuels, fuels or nuclear.

01:13:51.900 Yeah. They, they, they literally, they literally turned their back to the nuclear product.

01:13:57.260 We have here, they're saying they're green. The policy is by 2023, 25.6% of German electricity comes

01:14:04.700 from coal. Before the decision to close nuclear, 31% came from nuclear. Also they have been, they're

01:14:15.980 pushing forward the net zero policies that were particularly harmful to, to farmers and the farmers

01:14:23.180 were protesting. They are essentially saying that all these policies are raising taxes

01:14:29.740 on us. They're making domestic agriculture more expensive. We want cheaper stuff. All these policies

01:14:39.740 are making things worse for us. And the people in the previous EU elections in summer 2024 weren't

01:14:48.700 particularly good to the Greens. They lost 14 seats. From 67 seats, they lost 14. They went to 53. And in

01:14:57.740 Germany, they seem to literally plummet. Their percentages seem to literally plummet because

01:15:05.020 they're really destructive. Do you remember what's just reminded me? I think it was in Sri Lanka, 0.99

01:15:08.860 was it? A year or two ago, they had like a really, some sort of really green government agenda come in

01:15:13.820 and the people just completely rebelled, literally rebelled sort of, there was some sort of run on the

01:15:20.780 presidential palace or whatever. And they were just like, no, this is nonsense. You're going to starve us all.

01:15:24.700 Yeah. You're going to destroy the country, the economy, and we're all starved. So no,

01:15:27.820 we're not having it. They just get, I think it was Sri Lanka and they just got things done. They just,

01:15:33.900 anyway, that spun to mind.

01:15:35.660 There are two things to say here about how they are reacting to things like that. I think you're

01:15:41.420 absolutely correct with what you said about the alliance between the Greens and other people,

01:15:47.580 because I think it's very simple. Non-Europeans frequently, non-Westerners have more of a long-term

01:15:57.260 strategic thinking about their countries. And they take advantage of the politicians in Europe who

01:16:05.180 just care about their election. And what they want to open borders because they send a lot of,

01:16:11.020 they send large numbers of the population that support open borders within the West,

01:16:16.940 but they support closed borders and very conservative policies outside the West in their countries of

01:16:22.300 origin. It's just a way of increasing the power of the lobby within the West.

01:16:28.620 But isn't it odd to think that someone in the West,

01:16:33.020 in the West think, oh, I'm really concerned about global warming. I'm really concerned about the

01:16:38.140 number of parts per million there are in CO2 in our atmosphere, but also I want open borders,

01:16:44.300 a welfare state and censorship so that no one can criticize Islam. That all makes sense. 0.99

01:16:48.460 Yeah. And there is also the other thing that when they come into contact with the effects of

01:16:59.500 their policies, we have here the German politician, I think he's from Turkey, who says that young migrant 0.71

01:17:07.900 men sexually harassed his daughter as he condemned the country's migration policies for causing massive

01:17:14.060 social upheaval. So now it's a problem. Right. It affected his daughter. Yeah. Now, let me just say, 0.85

01:17:20.220 obviously it shouldn't happen to anyone's daughter, but it's very telling when you see politicians like

01:17:26.380 uh, these waking up only when they personally. It was like Anna Kasparian when, when some tramp in LA 1.00

01:17:36.700 with a mildly sexually assaulted her or some, she had some sort of horrible interaction with some druggy 0.76

01:17:41.980 person. And now it's, now it's a problem. Oh, now she, now she's realized, now she's noticed.

01:17:47.340 She noticed. Right. So we have this clip that we can't show, but definitely anyone who wants to show,

01:17:54.940 check out the link. It's about someone in, it's about a migrant in a carriage, a train carriage,

01:18:03.900 who is incredibly vulgar and, uh, he is basically inciting, uh, doing, committing incitement to

01:18:11.420 violence against, uh, women in the carriage and also against some lesbians. We can't play it because

01:18:17.740 it's very explicit, but it shows how, you know, sometimes the people whose personal well-being

01:18:26.220 and personal standard of living is going to be affected the most are the most frequently, the

01:18:33.020 most ardent defenders of multiculturalism and more prone to demonize us for saying multiculturalism is

01:18:39.900 a dead end. It, we shouldn't do it in Europe. We've tried it before in my neighborhood, in the Balkans.

01:18:45.740 There's a reason why it's called Balkanization because Yugoslavia 1.00

01:18:49.420 completely, was completely destroyed because they had also so many ethnicities and they couldn't 1.00

01:18:57.500 get along. Now, diversity isn't a strength. Homogeneity is a strength. Multiculturalism 1.00

01:19:02.700 is a failed project and in fact wrongheaded from inception. Yeah. And I don't care that early

01:19:09.420 20th century Germans held that view. I don't care. It doesn't matter. It's still true. It's 2024 right now 1.00

01:19:17.740 in case people don't know. Because that is one of the things that the mustachioed Australian 1.00

01:19:23.900 painter did talk about in his book of my struggle. A lot of it is when he was young in Munich

01:19:32.300 and in Vienna talking about how disgusted he was by multiculturalism. Well, just because that is true, 1.00

01:19:38.140 just because that's a fact, that doesn't mean I will just watch my country be flooded by all other

01:19:44.700 cultures to the point where there's 10-15% increases in violent crime or sex crimes year on year.

01:19:50.380 No, no, I'm not having that. No. I'm going to say something about that. Why aren't they saying this

01:19:54.700 about taxes though? Because he was also pro-taxes. But suddenly they don't want to be against taxes

01:20:01.100 to show how different they are. We have this piece of news. They say Jews and gay people should hide

01:20:06.860 identity in Arab neighborhoods, says Berlin police chief. Isn't this just a statement of we can't 0.83

01:20:13.100 police the country anymore? It's just surrender to Islam. That's what that is. That's just pure 1.00

01:20:20.380 surrender. Just hide yourself away. I want to say this. It's simple cause and effect. If you flood some

01:20:28.940 areas with people who hate some groups, at some point members of these groups are not going to be

01:20:34.300 welcome in those areas. That's the same way it functions in a neighborhood. It can function

01:20:39.820 in a wider area, a county, a city, a country as a whole, and also a continent. That's the same thing.

01:20:49.420 Just endlessly tolerate their intolerance. Anyway, I think multiculturalism is a very bad idea in 1.00

01:20:57.180 Europe, especially as it is forwarded, and especially as people advocate it, without having

01:21:03.740 any mechanism for course correction. We have M. H. M. Hammerlein. One says,

01:21:11.420 I find it hard to believe North Korea would be willing to send any personnel out of the country.

01:21:16.620 They're always so worried about defectors as well. Their military is garbage, so it's very odd. 0.97

01:21:21.180 Right. I think we have seven videos. I think we should go and play them. 0.99

01:21:26.620 I wanted to celebrate my 100th video comment. Turns out I'm at 160. It's been two years of comments,

01:21:34.060 and I'm probably not even the most prolific. The 30-second challenge breeds creative focus,

01:21:39.660 and I am naturally long-winded. Crafting scripts down alone takes time and effort. And where other

01:21:45.980 commenters now forge their way on their own channels? For now, I'm happy enough like this.

01:21:53.100 Cool. Well, thank you. So nice. Almost one in ten of all podcasts. Yeah. Also,

01:21:57.340 and thank you for your wholesome videos. Let's go to the next one. All right,

01:22:01.740 everybody in Lotus Eaters land. This is Minner speaking, and I put this on my channel. It's called

01:22:06.060 FEMA ain't coming. I wrote this song last weekend. Here you go.

01:22:08.940 I'm a simple man with a simple plan. If the TV says so, I hate my fellow man. How can I be callous

01:22:17.660 and with so much hate? It's easy when I'm paid a G8 rate. FEMA ain't coming. You got a Trump side.

01:22:24.220 FEMA ain't coming. You got a Trump side. Thanks, Alex. Let's go to the next one.

01:22:35.820 FEMA ain't coming. In the early 1980s, the then-new Channel 4 broadcast a mock trial of Richard III

01:22:41.420 that can be watched on YouTube. It's a window on how trials present evidence and expert testimony.

01:22:46.780 Particularly, Testy was one witness for the prosecution who was shown to be rather prissy

01:22:51.020 and unsympathetic when the barrister referred to him as... Thank you so much, Mr. Starkey.

01:22:55.740 Dr. Starkey. I shan't ask. I'm so sorry, Dr. Starkey. I shan't ask him.

01:22:59.580 Doesn't he look young? That's our Starkey. Yeah, yeah. Let's play the next one.

01:23:09.100 Okay, Lotus Eaters. We are through with the scrimmages. It is now game day. Opening of Ohio Pheasant.

01:23:18.940 So far, they've already put one up with the help of some friendly German short-haired pointers. The

01:23:25.500 girls are doing all right. Starting the season off right, there's a daily limit. The shotgun for 1.00

01:23:30.860 today's adventure was a Hooglue side-by-side chambered in 20 gauge. They're also marketed under

01:23:37.580 the CZ brand. Nice. Nice. Poor pheasants. Side-by-side shotguns are pretty cool. Yeah,

01:23:45.260 but the dogs are gonna have fun. Right. Let's go to the next one by Michael Drabelbiss.

01:23:50.620 Not to denigrate Bo Biden's service, but he was a U.S. Army JAG officer. A lawyer. A major. So no burn

01:24:00.860 pits. No getting shot at. No standing a post in full gear at 60 degrees C. No, 100 pounds of gear.

01:24:09.340 The idea that his military service led to his death is ludicrous. Let's not pull a Tim Walsh with him.

01:24:19.580 Okay. Yeah. I didn't know. I didn't know that. I thought the burn pit thing, I thought that was

01:24:26.700 what people said. Obviously, I guess it's just a fabrication or a lie. I should look into it.

01:24:30.620 Thanks, Michael. I didn't know that. Let's go to the next one.

01:24:33.180 You're watching Sky News today. Still to come, farmers preparing to protest in Westminster as

01:24:39.980 inheritance tax anger grows. We'll be speaking to cereal farmer Olly Harrison.

01:24:47.740 Is that like British farmers firing ballistic missiles? Yeah. They have the permission. Look,

01:24:53.260 the farmers pulling it. Missiles assume the position. Right. Let's go to the last one. Alex

01:25:01.020 Ogle. You mentioned in your video comment about the Hobbit trilogy that Guillermo del Toro's film

01:25:08.140 The Shape of Water reveals what a horrible communist he really is. However, if you go back further in

01:25:17.100 del Toro's film career, a film that really highlights that is Pan's Labyrinth.

01:25:24.620 Okay. Alex, you should check out the video by Sam. I've not seen the first one he mentioned,

01:25:35.260 and I saw Pan's Labyrinth, but years ago, and I can't really remember it very well. It's foreign 1.00

01:25:41.980 language. It's a foreign language. Some people think it's a bit of a common movie. I can't remember it that

01:25:47.660 well. When you get to my age, there's things that you read or you watched years ago, 20 years ago,

01:25:53.900 25, 30 years ago, and you definitely watched it. Yeah. There's books I've definitely read,

01:25:58.780 definitely 100%, and I can't remember anything about it. Right. I've watched Dark Crystal,

01:26:04.700 can't remember anything about it. I've watched Pan Labyrinth. I've got like a couple of snapshots

01:26:08.780 of memory and nothing else. I started sleeping every movie I put. Oh, really? Yeah. It's just

01:26:14.300 embarrassing. Right. Let's go to the comments. For the first segment, Colin P says, reducing

01:26:19.900 immigration for the next three years. So even Canada wants to keep out the fleeing US celebs.

01:26:26.460 Sorry, say that again. No, Colin P is referring to Justin Trudeau, who is saying that he is reducing

01:26:33.580 immigration for the next three years. He says, so even Canada wants to keep out the fleeing US celebs.

01:26:39.100 Right. Because all of them were saying they're going to leave if Trump leaves the right. All right.

01:26:43.900 Omar Awad, just throwing this out there, but I'm pretty sure depriving criminals of their rights to

01:26:49.020 interact with society was the entire point of the justice system. I think so in Planet Sanity,

01:26:57.820 I think, um, Baron Von Dama's prison overcrowding is causing issues. A sane ruler who loves his people

01:27:05.660 would order a new prisons built. The death penalty reinstated and foreign criminals banished from his 0.87

01:27:11.180 realm. A labor ruler would release the machete wielding maniacs from prison after giving them a 0.99

01:27:16.860 slap on the wrist. I mean, this is just mad, just mad. It was what you would do if you want to endanger 0.63

01:27:23.820 your people and ruin your country and society. William Snedeker on Millet and Bukele. It's amazing what you 0.99

01:27:30.300 can achieve by actually trying. Yeah. Yeah. Charles Ellington, the woman who won the beauty contest is 1.00

01:27:38.140 trans. Sorry, guys. I don't think she is. She's not. I don't think she is. It's a very, very good one. If she 1.00

01:27:44.460 was, if it, what he, no, I don't think she is. No, um, Charles is pulling a leg. And, uh, someone online, we not only

01:27:53.660 have a different level of morale compared to Europe, we also have a different morality. One where we

01:27:58.620 ought to understand that the government is evil and not to be trusted, whereas Western Europe is like

01:28:03.980 if Reddit was a continent. And, uh, Lord Nerova, you can tell the Europeans don't want to fall in line 0.96

01:28:10.620 with Trump, but they're going to have to. The endlessly complex, hand-wringing bureaucracy of

01:28:15.820 America is about to be gutted, but it's all Europe has. Let's hope it, let's hope it's gutted in the US. 0.96

01:28:21.900 Do you want to read some of your comments or do you want me to read them?

01:28:24.860 I haven't got them on this screen. Oh, okay. So, Colin P., one of the more worrying

01:28:29.260 things I've heard about the Ukraine conflict is that storm shadow can only be operated by

01:28:34.540 British military personnel, meaning their use would bring us into direct active conflict,

01:28:39.500 even though, of course, our special forces are probably operating there.

01:28:43.340 I don't know about that. I know that that particular thing is slung underneath a fast,

01:28:48.540 a fast jet, I believe. So I imagine we would be training a Ukrainian pilot to do it,

01:28:55.900 but I don't know. But as for special forces, yeah, absolutely. I think I would have thought,

01:29:00.620 I'm pretty sure our special forces have been there for a long time, if not actually in gunplay with

01:29:08.860 Russian infantrymen showing Ukrainians how to, how to do stuff and training them in tactics and things.

01:29:16.460 Alex Ogle, it's not the permission to use longer range missiles being granted by Biden

01:29:22.780 or his handlers that precipitates an escalation to the war. It is Zelensky being uncontrolled enough 0.90

01:29:27.900 to actually use them. I don't know. I think what they're going to try to do is to gain a region to

01:29:35.820 possibly negotiate a swap. I think one of the points that maybe didn't make or didn't stress enough in

01:29:42.460 my segment was that there's very few of them. Like I say, there's a million, they're a million bucks

01:29:47.100 a piece. And I think we only ever gave them or they only ever bought a handful of them. It's not

01:29:54.140 like they've got 20,000 of them and they can sort of carpet bomb an area with them. And like I say,

01:30:01.500 they're not that, they're not that big. 300 pound, 500 pound warhead. I mean, that's a big explosion,

01:30:07.100 but it's not stupid big. I mean, for example, in World War II, they had what they called a blockbuster, 0.77

01:30:13.260 4,000 pound bomb blockbuster. So 300, 500 pound, I mean, it's big, but it's not stupid big. So 0.86

01:30:23.340 it's not going to ruin the Russian army one way or another.

01:30:27.740 Jack, do we have a few extra minutes for some comments?

01:30:35.260 Okay, thank you. So Arizona Desert Rat says, I was about to ask why Ukraine needs permission to 1.00

01:30:40.780 fire missiles. Now I know the Ukraine military has to play Mother May with a US nanny state and North 0.88

01:30:48.380 Korea troops. Hmm. Yeah, they can only do what America says they can do. It's a true proxy war. 0.94

01:30:59.100 Justin B. I would be surprised if Trump hasn't already called Zelensky to warn him not to use

01:31:04.140 them if he doesn't want repercussions when Trump is sworn in. I mean, I think Trump is going to act

01:31:10.460 like a statements man afterwards. I don't know to what extent he has to. So he will have phoned him,

01:31:17.820 I think.

01:31:18.700 Yeah, I think Trump can talk to Zelensky whenever he wants, within reason, I would have thought.

01:31:24.060 Quick thing to say, I've seen two angles on that. One, and the first one is probably one I agree with,

01:31:28.620 that this is just a headache. This is a fine screw you from Biden to Trump. There's just an extra level

01:31:34.460 of headache to hand over to you. And I've seen, but I've seen someone else argue, a military analyst,

01:31:40.140 argue the exact opposite. I don't think I agree with him, but he argued the exact opposite,

01:31:43.740 that this is great. It's a gift to Trump because it's now in his behest to take that away and look

01:31:52.460 like the good guy or look like the peacemaker.

01:31:54.220 Because he won Kamala Harris.

01:31:55.740 Okay. Michael Brooks, in the West's eyes, the Cold War never ended. Russia presents a far too easy 0.96

01:32:05.340 enemy to rally the country. I think that's sadly true. It's sadly true. And I've had an interview

01:32:13.900 with Dr. Geoffrey Baio, who is working on terrorism and terrorism studies. And he said this, that after

01:32:22.860 the fall of the Berlin Wall, they didn't change military personnel. And most people, they were

01:32:29.340 completely, you know, Cold War people. Just in the America, yeah, focused on Russia. And they weren't

01:32:38.300 at all taking the terrorists seriously. Right. So, and let's go to some of the next comments. Lord

01:32:46.700 Nereva, those responsible for multiculturalism belong in the Hague. You just know that the sort 1.00

01:32:51.740 of people who support it are the sorts of people who would describe the rape and murder of thousands

01:32:56.140 of Europeans as teething issues. Never forget that this has inflected upon us on purpose. And those 0.59

01:33:04.780 responsible are still out there and still in charge. Lancia and Joya, Greens hate civilization. So yeah, 1.00

01:33:11.660 they're pro-Islam. They never were for nature, just against civilization. Theodor Brewer, all green 1.00

01:33:17.020 parties are like watermelons. Green on the inside and red on the, on the, green on the outside,

01:33:22.700 red on the inside. It's the first time I... It's good, you haven't heard that before. That's a good one.

01:33:27.180 Yeah. The Greens are communists, are wolves in leaf-like clothing. Right. And we have 0.92

01:33:34.620 Grant Gibson saying, failed Australian painter. And it was actually Australia's fault. He did have 0.94

01:33:40.540 a flawless German accent though. Someone online, they see criminals as the real victims. Society

01:33:45.740 made them bad. So it's actually society's fault that bad things happened and it's society that needs

01:33:50.780 to be punished. And I think that this is one of the major philosophical differences. There's much more

01:33:56.860 of a focus on individualism and individual responsibility when it comes to, to, to the

01:34:04.140 Americas. Here in Europe, it's much more structures and let's all be very sophisticated and see how

01:34:13.820 structures impact behavior. I want none of that.

01:34:16.220 When you look at Marx, a European, Thomas Jefferson, quintessential American, how different their 0.96

01:34:25.260 world views are about, when it comes to individualism or collectivism and stuff. Yeah.

01:34:30.700 Yeah. I mean, we could talk about, we could do an hour talking about that, don't we?

01:34:33.660 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We should at some point. Yeah. Right. Okay. And on that note, we've ended the

01:34:38.540 podcast today. We had a really good time. I had a really good time. I hope you did as well.

01:34:43.100 I will be here tomorrow at 1 PM. See you all tomorrow.

01:34:48.300 Good morning.

01:34:57.740 Good morning.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - November 19, 2024

Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1045

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