The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1337

00:00:00.000 Hello, everyone. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters. Today is podcast number 1337.

00:00:06.940 And I'm pleased today to be joined by Brother Harry and Brother Josh. Hello there. I'm Brother

00:00:12.940 Stelios, your host. And today we're going to be talking about the ongoing Greenland crisis,

00:00:18.540 the proclaimed collapse of globalism. It dies a thousand deaths and AI predictive crime.

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00:00:50.360 Yeah. So $14.99. And also we are having, this isn't working.

00:00:57.520 Again?

00:00:59.280 We are having a round table at 3pm for Greenland, the Greenland crisis. So it's going to be me,

00:01:07.840 Harry, Carl and Dan.

00:01:10.440 I believe that is the lineup right now.

00:01:12.320 Yes. So we are going to discuss Greenland and Trump and the EU from multiple angles. So do check

00:01:21.300 it out. Join us for that round table. Right. So I think we should start talking about the...

00:01:29.480 Before we start, before we start. Samson, how can we please solve this?

00:01:35.640 What happened was it was changing the tabs down on our screens here.

00:01:39.320 Right. We are going to talk about the ongoing Greenland crisis. And this is a crisis that we

00:01:46.900 have spoke about before. Josh and I did a segment about a year ago. And we were very prophetic.

00:01:52.860 Yeah, we did have the people in the comments telling us that us two know nothing. But no,

00:01:56.980 we know a lot of things. And we were absolutely right.

00:02:00.660 I know some things.

00:02:01.840 Yeah.

00:02:02.220 True. I don't.

00:02:03.580 We were absolutely right. And we are going to talk about Greenland and the crisis that is happening

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00:02:29.000 Right. Right. Let's go to Greenland. For some time now, we didn't hear Trump talking about

00:02:36.440 Greenland to the extent that he talked about last January. But now he has revisited his

00:02:42.480 rhetoric about acquiring Greenland and sometimes invading. And there has been consistent meme

00:02:49.620 posting about Greenland becoming U.S. territory. Here we see Donald Trump having this, the United

00:02:57.940 States flag in Greenland and says Greenland U.S. territory till 2026. And there is a meme

00:03:06.780 war, but also diplomatic tension right now unfolding. And we have also Greenlanders mocking American

00:03:15.400 culture by imitating fentanyl users. This is just, you know, people mock each other. They're

00:03:21.780 at the point where they are doing banter.

00:03:24.400 Yeah. I think it's a bit unfair to say it's just American culture.

00:03:28.880 Yep. Good soundtrack, though. Don't get copyrighted. At least they picked some good American music.

00:03:35.360 But it's at the moment now where everyone is just trashing each other. Americans are saying

00:03:40.300 you have a high suicide rate. The Greenlanders are trolling them for being fentanyl users.

00:03:46.440 So there's a bit of European-style banter going on. This is normally reserved for Europe because,

00:03:52.520 you know, it doesn't travel that well. But it's good to see that they're slowly integrating,

00:03:57.400 it seems. They're preparing for their takeover.

00:04:01.240 Well, let's see if it's going to happen. Because personally, I don't know. I'm not certain that it

00:04:07.360 will happen.

00:04:08.140 I agree with you on that, I think.

00:04:09.460 Right. So we are going to talk to you about some of the statements that have been made,

00:04:15.060 some of them from Trump. And then we're going to discuss the larger context and what is good

00:04:21.940 about this and what is bad about this, at least from our point of view. Right. So here, Trump

00:04:27.180 sent a message to the Norwegian PM, which personally I find a bit unhinged. He says,

00:04:33.860 Dear Jonas, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped

00:04:39.380 eight wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be

00:04:44.900 predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the US, United States of America.

00:04:51.060 Denmark can't protect that land from Russia or China, or why do they have a right of ownership

00:04:55.220 anyway? There are no written documents. It's only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago,

00:05:00.420 but we had both landing there also. I've done more for NATO than any other person since its founding

00:05:08.340 and how NATO should do something and now NATO should do something for the US. The world is

00:05:12.900 not secure unless we have complete and total control of Greenland. Thank you, Donald J. Trump.

00:05:18.260 So my understanding of this, at first, obviously, I was a little bit like, well, that's not the best

00:05:24.420 way of going about it. And then I realized that this might, this approach might work a

00:05:30.260 little bit better in the United States, but it doesn't particularly travel well outside of it.

00:05:35.700 It's sort of applying an approach here that it's sort of very culturally entrenched in America of

00:05:43.620 saying, listen, I've done all this stuff, you need to give me what I deserve. Whereas in Europe,

00:05:49.060 we don't really talk in these terms. And people just see it as what amounts to a threat because

00:05:54.820 he's saying he no longer thinks of peace, and that he's very narcissistic because he's patting himself on

00:05:59.940 the back for lots of stuff. And also comparing landing the boats to Greenland as if that's

00:06:06.580 equivalent to the Vikings going there, or at least, you know, in the Middle Ages.

00:06:12.260 Is this part of the art of the deal? Is this a chapter that nobody's told me about,

00:06:15.940 the acting like a narcissistic senile blowhard? Is that part?

00:06:20.420 Maybe it's the madman theory, because it is a bit mad to say, now that I didn't get the Nobel

00:06:28.020 Peace Prize, I can now think about what is good and proper for my country. And so were you postponing

00:06:33.060 it to see if you would get the Nobel Prize? Well, anyway.

00:06:37.300 And similarly, I've seen Keith Woods speak about this as well, that Americans have been telling

00:06:41.940 people like Keith Woods when they've been discussing this, well, you need to have America owning

00:06:46.180 Greenland because if you don't have America owning Greenland, China's going to come and swoop in

00:06:50.660 and use anti-colonial narratives to try and undermine Danish rule of Greenland, and China's

00:06:56.820 going to use that to destabilize it and take control of it anyway. Whereas America is actually

00:07:01.540 also using anti-colonial decolonizing language there anyway, such as the whole, what's the right

00:07:08.260 of ownership they have for it anyway? They just landed a few boats there, we landed boats there too.

00:07:13.620 But I was listening to a stream last night that was discussing some of the history of

00:07:17.540 Denmark with Greenland. Obviously it's actually been part of the Danish Kingdom since the 1300s,

00:07:23.060 they arrived there before there anyway. But also something that I didn't know was that the

00:07:28.740 Inuit, native, whatever you want to call them, population of Greenland is more like American blacks

00:07:36.660 than they are other native tribes in America. Because I learned that they're actually

00:07:41.940 ethnically 25% Danish. They're a mixed population. So even if you want to go with the anti-colonial

00:07:49.860 narratives, well actually it's already been, they've already been mixing for at least 700 years anyway.

00:07:55.140 I can't remember whether it is Iceland or Greenland, you might know Harry, but wasn't it that they came

00:08:01.140 after European settlers as well?

00:08:03.220 Well, that's Greenland.

00:08:04.500 Oh, is it really? Okay.

00:08:05.860 Yeah, we showed up first, or at least the Danes showed up first.

00:08:10.580 Right, we have to move on here. Trump is threatening with tariffs anyone who will say no to him,

00:08:17.620 and anyone who will say that they disagree with his position on Greenland, which I think isn't good for

00:08:24.260 the global economy, including the U.S. economy. For several reasons, Fox News says here daddy's about

00:08:30.820 to land and he has needs. Well, I don't know. Let us play this.

00:08:37.540 He's no.

00:08:40.660 I bet Al's already started drinking because daddy's about to land and daddy has needs.

00:08:45.700 I'm going.

00:08:47.620 Yeah. So, yeah, you heard Jesse Waters from Fox News, daddy's about to land and he has needs.

00:08:54.980 Right. And Trump also reposted someone who says basically something weird.

00:09:02.660 This Bobby D says, so at what point are we going to realize the enemy is within?

00:09:08.100 China and Russia are the boogeymen when the real threat is the UN, NATO and this religion.

00:09:14.180 I put religion in quotes because it's not a religion. It's a death cult. Yeah, I went there.

00:09:19.460 Are they talking about Islam?

00:09:21.220 So, no, they're talking about NATO. And the point is, if Trump wants Greenland

00:09:29.700 as a matter of national security against Russia and China and their operations in the region,

00:09:36.100 why does he repost someone who says, well, no, it's a boogeyman to talk about Russia and China,

00:09:42.580 forgetting the fact that Trump is perhaps one of the biggest voices against China for years now.

00:09:49.060 And suddenly they're not enemies.

00:09:50.980 Suddenly they are just, no, it's only UN and NATO who are enemies.

00:09:55.380 I personally find this nonsense.

00:09:57.940 I think the best thing here for the Americans and Denmark and Greenland is a similar agreement to

00:10:06.340 what the United States has with, say, Germany or Britain, whereby they have the ability to have bases

00:10:12.180 and, you know, you can set up these in Greenland and you're not going to disturb too many people

00:10:16.580 because there's lots of space to have a military base, right? And they don't actually need to formally

00:10:21.620 own it. Denmark can continue to have it as its territory. They can have the military bases for

00:10:28.020 the security if that's truly what they're interested in. No problem, right? Because it's already a

00:10:34.180 precedent set with other European countries. I don't think they're going to object to, okay,

00:10:39.060 we can help your defense. It seems like there's something other than that, because that would be

00:10:44.420 the obvious approach.

00:10:45.620 There is already military presence there by the US. And that is the issue because right now lots

00:10:50.980 of people on X and especially in the US, they are formulating a misleading question. The question is,

00:10:58.100 what does Trump gain from purchasing Greenland? That's a misleading question. The question they

00:11:02.980 should be asking is, what does Trump gain by pursuing Greenland that he doesn't already have

00:11:10.820 and at what cost? Because is it national security? Sorry, that's misleading. The US is already there.

00:11:18.500 They have a 1951 treatise. They have the pitufek base there. There is already military presence by the US

00:11:27.540 in Greenland. And there is already an invitation by the Greenlanders to the Americans, to the US to do

00:11:34.900 business with respect to mining the rare earth minerals. So all of this isn't just for national

00:11:42.420 security and access to rare earth minerals. All of this is just for an extra, for a better deal.

00:11:50.500 I was going to say, they're not already security arrangements in place through NATO and through

00:11:55.380 all the diplomatic agreements that they have with Denmark that would allow them to place bases and

00:12:00.580 extra military presence on Greenland if they asked or negotiated for it anyway. Similarly,

00:12:05.380 the question of whether it's just for the security of trade routes going through the Arctic Ocean

00:12:11.700 as well. Everybody likes the point, well, if you look at the globe from the top, you can see why

00:12:15.700 Greenland is so important. But the thing is like, if you're worried that Russia is going to disrupt those,

00:12:21.220 well, there are eight countries that inhabit that region of the Arctic Ocean, which all border it,

00:12:27.700 right? Of the eight of them, seven of them are already in NATO. Like, one of them is Denmark through

00:12:33.780 Greenland. There are security arrangements through NATO there. One of them is Canada. One of them is

00:12:39.060 the US through its presence in Alaska. It's got Norway, it's got Finland. Like, why is it absolutely

00:12:46.260 paramount that outside of the already existing security arrangements that are there, that they have to

00:12:52.980 own it, just fully own it? And it's also at what cost? Because personally, I don't think that there

00:12:58.180 is so much an issue with coming to an agreement, and the US purchasing Greenland, because it has

00:13:04.740 happened before they did it with Alaska, they did with the Virgin Islands, they have purchased land

00:13:09.460 before. I think it has happened five, six times in the in the in the history. But I think that what is

00:13:15.220 important here to to to say is that the way Trump is going about it is very bad for the entire Western

00:13:22.740 world. It's very it's needlessly disruptive for the Western camp. And it's also very bad for the US

00:13:29.380 economy. If you if you are a member of the audience from the US and you say, I don't care about Europe.

00:13:35.140 No, you may not care about Europe, but you should care about the US economy. And one of the issue is

00:13:41.700 that the more chaotic the environment becomes, and the more people understand that Trump is using tariff

00:13:48.660 talk for as a means of negotiation, well, the more investors are going to be scared away from the US

00:13:57.460 economy. Because stability and predictability are the sort of bedrock of encouraging investment.

00:14:03.140 Exactly. So if you may not care about Europe, but care for your own economy. And it's not just that it's

00:14:08.980 also invading an ally. Invading an ally means your word doesn't count means you're losing credibility.

00:14:14.820 That's what he's doing. Do you know what I think is going on here? Like what underlies a lot of

00:14:20.500 the way Trump has approached this? I think that it's coming up to the midterms. Maybe they're a little

00:14:25.700 bit worried about how they're going to do. Maybe they think that they could underperform a little bit.

00:14:30.980 I don't think they're going to do too badly. But at the same time, I think that the base isn't

00:14:35.540 especially galvanized. And if you throw out some red meat, just like, yeah, America's taking over

00:14:40.500 new territory under us, we're going to make America more powerful than ever. That's good red meat for

00:14:46.100 people who are patriotic to go out and say, actually, you know, I like the guys who make

00:14:50.820 America more powerful. I'm gonna vote for them. Yeah, it has plausibility. I think that to an extent,

00:14:55.860 you're correct. I also think that the way he's going about it is having is unpopular even amidst

00:15:02.020 Republicans. And it's actually going to make the Republicans life much more difficult in the

00:15:09.060 midterms. Here, Scott Besant says, I'm telling everyone, sit down, take a breath, don't retaliate.

00:15:14.660 And that trust the plan, trust Trump. I can see from a European perspective how people wouldn't trust

00:15:22.340 Trump. Right. He says here that Trump is talking about the stock market, but there have been some

00:15:30.020 tensions in the stock market. They are saying that right now there's a dip. Of course, there are

00:15:36.340 people who are saying, don't get into it, buy the dip, and things are going to get better. Personally,

00:15:41.860 I believe, yeah, things will get better relatively soon-ish. But these are indications of volatility

00:15:49.380 that shouldn't exist. It doesn't need to happen. And they're saying NASDAQ and S&P 500 have erased

00:15:55.540 all of their 2026 gains. And 1.3 trillion has been wiped out from the US stock market today till now.

00:16:03.300 And this comes as US-EU trade tensions rise, Japan's bond market continues to weaken, and pension funds

00:16:11.060 begin cutting exposure to US treasuries. And now there is a... I believe also I saw some talk of

00:16:16.980 European nations saying that they might seek to sell off all of their American assets, which would,

00:16:23.700 of course, flood the US market with dollars, which could cause huge problems for the dollar currency,

00:16:31.060 the value of it. We have here the US 30-year yield rising a lot, and this isn't particularly

00:16:40.340 good for the house market. We also have the same inflation-adjusted home prices graph here. Again,

00:16:50.100 it doesn't look too good. And then there is also a sort of problem for the crypto market. They're

00:16:57.860 saying that it fell significantly. Again, we'll see. The market goes up and down, but I think...

00:17:04.580 Typically, crypto is very volatile. And even though that's, you know, a little bit of a significant

00:17:09.860 drop, I don't think it's to the degree where it's a catastrophe or anything.

00:17:14.580 Yeah, but the point is that there are two points here. Number one is that the narrative that it's

00:17:20.420 only the Japanese bond blowout that is causing this is very much simplistic. And they are trying

00:17:27.620 to downgrade the influence that the EU market has for the US market and its largest trading partner.

00:17:36.020 I do agree. And I think that obviously with the things like stock markets, there's a multi-layered

00:17:41.780 number of factors. But I do think that the European retaliation would have a significant

00:17:46.580 influence on people's willingness to invest.

00:17:48.660 And it's at the end of the day, it's the same thing with tariffs, that people understand that

00:17:54.100 Trump is using tariffs as a negotiation tactic. The more chaotic the world becomes, and the Greenland

00:18:00.660 talk does contribute to more global destabilization, the more investors get scared away because they

00:18:07.540 think that, no, it isn't a good time to invest. The market is incredibly volatile. So it tends to

00:18:14.660 scare off some investors away. Now, you may tell me some of them don't because they bought the dip and

00:18:19.780 it's going to go well. But the general tendency is one that is a downwards one.

00:18:25.460 Yeah, especially when the use of the tariffs is just like completely random as to whatever he feels

00:18:29.540 like that day, like earlier on, just threatening a potentially 200% tariff on French wine.

00:18:35.620 Yeah, I support that makes it cheaper for me, which helps me to add to my collection.

00:18:40.340 That's the thing though, isn't it? Is that those kinds of tariffs will ultimately not end up helping

00:18:46.260 average Americans because it's not the sellers who are going to be paying those tariffs. It's people

00:18:51.380 who are importing it over in America. And Basic Economics 101 says that when they pay those tariffs,

00:18:57.380 they pass the costs onto the consumer. And of course, it's not like there's a lack

00:19:01.780 of market for French red wine. In Europe. Or the world. All of a sudden,

00:19:07.140 it's a little bit cheaper for the rest of us. Carry on, please. And it says here,

00:19:12.100 the EU is the largest single trade partner. It's 18.3% of all US trade. So yeah, more chaos,

00:19:21.540 more volatility, less investment, more tariffs. So it seems to be unpopular among everyone. Basically,

00:19:29.620 even even Republicans don't like it. According to several polls, some diehard Trump fans may

00:19:38.980 may be with him on this. But generally speaking, they seem to be opposing taking Greenland by force.

00:19:45.060 And just there's the other bit that taking Greenland by force is also invading an ally. But also,

00:19:50.580 just think about this. Just think of Canada, for instance. If the US invaded Canada from a

00:19:56.580 Republican perspective, there are many reasons to not want this. Why would you want to add Democrat

00:20:02.340 voting states? Think of all the Indians you'll be absorbing. Yeah. Well, that's one of the things

00:20:08.900 when I see people salivating over the idea of a Pax Americana stretching across the entire

00:20:14.580 Western Hemisphere. If you're already worried about demographics within America, that's just

00:20:18.660 another way to suddenly find yourself swamped. Swamped within a larger territory, which now all

00:20:24.900 of a sudden whites are an absolute minority. You'll never get a job at a corner shop ever again.

00:20:29.940 And it seems here also Trump's approval rating is declining, which won't be good for the midterms.

00:20:35.060 And also this poll here suggests that the GOP has a depression problem and people feel demotivated to

00:20:46.100 go and vote for the midterms. To be fair, though, I think that this sort of happens in every midterm

00:20:52.420 election. It's a little bit of a wave where the incumbent party tends to have a little bit of

00:20:59.700 being out of favor each time. That's just the way it seems to go as it cycles through each midterm.

00:21:07.300 Right. So I want to share with you a few thoughts about Greenland. First of all, invading an ally

00:21:13.860 discredits your word and by implication alienates and sabotages your existing allies and inhibits

00:21:19.860 future partnerships. It's sort of the equivalent of betrayal. There is already US military presence

00:21:26.580 in Greenland and also the potential to do business with the Greenlanders to mine their

00:21:31.620 earth, rare earth minerals. It seems like this is unpopular. Many polls suggest that even as high

00:21:41.140 as 70 percent of Republicans are against him and 86 percent of Americans are against him.

00:21:47.540 Also, I want to say one thing is that it seems to me that he is very mindful of his image.

00:21:52.660 And he started the year really well with Maduro and the extraction. But then there was an episode

00:22:00.980 in Iran where he told the protesters, keep protesting, help is on the way. And then Qatar denied him the

00:22:07.620 right to use a US airbase in Qatar in order to operate in Iran. And that was a blow to his image,

00:22:14.740 at least in some circles. I think that one of the reasons why he wants to revisit this rhetoric now,

00:22:21.940 and I'm talking about the style of rhetoric, not the negotiation to potentially purchase Greenland.

00:22:30.100 I'm talking about the way he goes about it could be potentially to offset negative consequences of

00:22:37.620 what happened in Iran and Qatar. And as I say here, at least I think the issue is not with purchasing

00:22:44.260 Greenland. The issue is with his style of negotiation. And I know some people who care only about owning

00:22:51.780 the libs may like this. But the point is that this has negative effects for the entire Western camp

00:22:58.820 because it alienates existing allies and it pushes them to deepen the ties with the sides that Trump,

00:23:06.900 first and foremost, has said are problematic, such as China and then Russia. To be fair,

00:23:12.820 he doesn't talk about Russia as being the problem. And one thing to say here, because it's an issue of

00:23:20.180 conservatives around the world, is that this is sabotaging conservatives who, in many cases,

00:23:26.820 have supported Trump, even against Kamala Harris, but also on a day-to-day basis. This is definitely

00:23:35.780 causing a really bad time for them. We'll cover it more in my segment, but if this carries on for

00:23:43.860 European right-wing populist parties, and even, for instance, reform in Britain where Nigel Farage has

00:23:51.620 made no secret of the fact that he's a big Trump supporter and a MAGA fan,

00:23:55.620 this could turn to electoral poison for them. Because the liberal, the entrenched liberal elite

00:24:03.540 of Europe get to present themselves as the defenders of Europe against a belligerent enemy

00:24:10.420 across the Atlantic Ocean. Whereas all of these people can then be smeared and tarred by association.

00:24:16.660 And this is what it led to in Canada. It led to Mark Carney getting elected. Why? Because

00:24:24.580 the Pope Pierre Poilievre and his conservative party were heading the polls. Let me show you this here.

00:24:32.180 And then when Trump started here, where Trudeau resigned, when Trump started talking about

00:24:39.300 the invasion of Canada, and lots of people would say, trolling, trolling, trolling. Well,

00:24:44.580 too much trolling makes one a buffoon. When he started doing this, the liberals, the image of

00:24:50.980 the liberals in Canada got boosted and the conservative party got de-boosted and he had

00:24:57.300 Mark Carney. So this here could have been avoided if he cared about China not exerting influence in the

00:25:08.580 hemisphere. In his hemisphere, all he had to do was not to talk about invading Canada to own the libs.

00:25:15.940 Go back to that graph again. Just like look at the absolute magnitude of that recovery. The liberals

00:25:23.300 were dead. They were almost reaching the lows of the third biggest party. They were about to dip to

00:25:30.020 become a third runner here. But instead, they made a shocking recovery after the conservatives had

00:25:37.300 been leading for a year. A massive lead for a year up until that point. That is how badly this affected

00:25:43.860 Canada. That was sort of, it sort of doubled their percentage. Near enough, yeah. And this was also,

00:25:52.740 this also had an effect in Australia. We have here Drew Pavlov saying also that this sort of the same

00:25:59.220 thing happened in Australia, that the conservatives in Australia were doing well and they got massively

00:26:06.420 sabotaged by this. Because this kind of rhetoric boosted the image of all the leftists, of the leftist

00:26:15.060 governments around. And also here we have Jonathan Pallison who talked about Denmark, the largest Danish

00:26:22.020 left-wing party looked to be losing the upcoming elections, but now had a large bump due to Trump's

00:26:27.700 Greenland posturing. He had the same effect on the Canadian election and the election in Australia.

00:26:33.460 And it's just detrimental effect. He could have way more allies than he now has. And all of it isn't

00:26:43.140 without talking about purchasing Greenland, it's without talking about invading Greenland.

00:26:47.860 I mean, already in Canada, already within the EU, I believe Maloney, who is considered one of his

00:26:54.900 strongest allies next to somebody like, I forgot his name all of a sudden in Hungary.

00:27:02.100 Orban, thank you for the reminder, gentlemen. Maloney is one of the only people who hasn't been

00:27:07.060 supportive of the rest of the EU member states in saying that, no, this is belligerence, this isn't

00:27:13.220 rhetoric that we like to hear, this isn't how we should handle Greenland. Come the next election,

00:27:19.060 that could be used against her. Maloney was willing to sell us out to a foreign power.

00:27:24.500 That could be the line. And foreigners.

00:27:26.900 Yeah. And foreigners in general, outside of all of the other failures with Maloney.

00:27:31.300 It gives the argument to people who would be pro-US in Europe. It gives the arguments to leftists

00:27:38.900 to say that these people who are pro-US in Europe are Kremlin stooges. This is what happened. That is why

00:27:44.820 Trump is losing the European right. And by doing this, he is pushing not just Canada, but also the

00:27:51.060 EU to go to deepen its ties with China. And all of that just to own the libs.

00:27:56.020 Right. Here we have Steven Crowder talking again about this false piece of information that somehow

00:28:07.220 Europe doesn't pay for NATO and Europe doesn't pay for its own defence. Yes, there is US contribution,

00:28:13.140 but this rhetoric that somehow the US is paying for the EU's defence 100% is completely mistaken.

00:28:22.580 And he got community noted here. And it says here, citing the NATO data,

00:28:32.100 the 2014 NATO commitment that every member country should spend at least 2% of the GDP for their defence

00:28:38.900 and military by 2024 was met by every single member in 2025. They have here this graph if you want to

00:28:46.340 check out. It's in the first pages. It shows about the number of allies meeting 2%. So yeah, it's

00:28:56.020 it's a, it's a very, it's a very, let's say low resolution, low resolution rhetoric. And they say here,

00:29:05.940 Joe, Joe Williams says, since the Cold War successive US governments have gaslit Americans into thinking

00:29:12.420 Europeans get free healthcare, free education and decent parental leave while Americans don't,

00:29:17.700 because the US pays for Europe's self defence. It's a myth that also helps them justify 750 plus US

00:29:26.260 bases worldwide. Europe spends $550 billion a year on defence, more than China and Russia combined.

00:29:34.820 So even without the US, Europe is the most heavily defended continent on Earth. And they're saying that US

00:29:40.980 bases in Europe cost approximately 3.5% of the US annual defence budget and delivered outside strategic

00:29:49.940 power. And it's just, this just isn't charity. And I have here NATO data that you can check out. We

00:29:57.460 have the link, you can just check it out. So here, NATO spending as percentage of GDP, let's go here.

00:30:03.380 Finland 2.4%, Norway 2.2%, Denmark 2.4%, let's say Estonia 3.43%, Latvia 3.15%, Poland 4.12%, Germany 2.1%, France 2.6%,

00:30:26.820 the United Kingdom 2.6%, the United Kingdom 2.33%. And let us, I want to give you a number of how much

00:30:32.900 that is, because you may say, oh, 2% in the UK, it isn't much. No, it is $55 billion per year.

00:30:40.900 75. Yeah, 75. Here, Germany, 67. Poland, 31. France, 61. Spain, 24. Let's just give you some examples.

00:30:54.820 The US here spends 916 billion, but not all of it is for NATO. It's to maintain military presence. And there

00:31:05.460 have been studies that say that for NATO, the US is paying roughly the same as Germany, 16%. So yeah,

00:31:15.140 the US contribution to NATO is important. Europeans aren't saying that they don't want it or that they

00:31:21.380 feel ungrateful or something. It's just, it's not true to say that NATO is only for the defense of

00:31:28.580 Europeans and that Europeans are not paying for their own self-defense. So this talk about Canada,

00:31:36.020 again, I'll say the issue isn't with saying that he's interested in purchasing Canada, with purchasing

00:31:42.100 Greenland. It's the way he's going about it is creating needless cracks in the Western world. It

00:31:49.060 brought in Mark Carney and the Liberals. It gave them the second life, basically. It gave them,

00:31:56.100 it brought them back to life. And Mark Carney is very enthusiastic about deepening his ties with China.

00:32:05.140 And also with his talk, he alienates and makes the life of the pro-US people in Europe much more difficult.

00:32:13.940 And yes, the EU right now will also deepen its ties with China. So this isn't particularly good strategy.

00:32:21.060 This just isn't. If the strategy was isolating China and surrounding it by teaming up with Russia,

00:32:28.580 teaming up with India and surrounding it also with Japan, South Korea, Australia and talks about Iran and

00:32:38.340 something, this doesn't seem to have the effect he wants. And the point is, all of it is just with

00:32:44.980 a rhetoric that works well on X to own the libs, but doesn't work well with serious diplomacy.

00:32:56.580 All right. And here I have this video, if you want, by Henry Bolton,

00:33:00.100 who is explaining some of the stuff about the myth that the Europeans aren't paying for their defense.

00:33:08.260 Excellent. Well, we've got some rumble rants come through if you wanted to read them.

00:33:10.820 Yep.

00:33:13.300 I'll scroll down for you. Where's the mouse? There it is.

00:33:17.380 Yeah. So LukeSaint91, good day. All feel like America getting Greenland would be a lot easier if

00:33:23.060 it was anyone but Trump. And I feel that the reason why neither side is giving up deal if Trump wins

00:33:28.180 Europe can say no to Trump. Exile 29, many European populations dislike their government's

00:33:35.460 underspending on defense. Trump could have just supported the rise of populist party and let them

00:33:40.820 solve defense spending rather than all this. Absolutely. I completely agree with you. And all of it is just

00:33:48.420 because it's the rhetoric, the own the libs rhetoric. It's completely needless. It creates needless cracks

00:33:54.580 in the Western camp. Again, that's a random name.

00:33:58.980 Oh, bloody hell. Whoa, a load just loaded in.

00:34:01.860 Right. LukeSaint91 for $5. Thank you. Like the Nobel Peace Prize, this feels like the only time

00:34:07.780 they can kind of stop Trump as he continues to try and break the current managerial rule we're living under.

00:34:13.460 Again, I think, again, LukeSaint91 for another $5. Thank you. I think people who like this sick of the

00:34:24.020 managerial decline, the fact that a lot of former great European countries are giving away their

00:34:30.820 holding so they're shrinking, shrinking all countries like China expand. Well, Trump is helping them.

00:34:36.980 A drunk changeling with a Nobel Prize piece off the table. Trump has decided to pursue the Nobel

00:34:43.540 War Prize. Yeah. When did they bring that in? Again, LukeSaint91. Sorry, meant to say, unlike China,

00:34:51.540 that's trying to expand. We got you, don't worry. Yeah. Let's, again, LukeSaint91. The biggest thing that

00:35:01.620 F the conservatives over in Australia just before the election might stop talking about all their policies

00:35:06.820 and allowed Labour to attack them, they didn't bother to fight. That's a random name, says,

00:35:11.460 although everything you guys said about Canada is correct. Our Tories are just like your Tories,

00:35:16.740 a bunch of traitors. The only good party is the PPC, he says, which will never get elected because

00:35:22.420 democracy is G-H-E-Y. Kasadwin says, Trump could have made any number of agreements here. Instead,

00:35:31.140 he blasters and looks like an idiot. Americans are coping as per. Sure, you can invade Greenland,

00:35:37.780 but doing that is a defeat in itself. I wouldn't tar all Americans with the same brush there. I think

00:35:43.300 there's signs that a lot of Americans understand the strategic failures that are going on here.

00:35:48.660 Most of them are opposites, yeah. Ocegdor for £5 says, how is the pro-US any different from the current pro-import population?

00:36:00.180 Well, the problem is, as we'll discuss, is the dichotomy presented is false, because what we are witnessing

00:36:07.460 right now, if you wouldn't mind getting my segment up, Samson, please, is the collapse of the New World

00:36:15.460 Order and the establishment of a new New World Order. What was once new is now old. The post-World Order,

00:36:23.620 as presented by NATO and all of the security agreements that were established during the Cold

00:36:29.300 War and maintained afterwards, are disintegrating before our very eyes, or at the very least that

00:36:36.020 is what we are being shown and that is what we are being told. So currently, right now, as we speak,

00:36:41.940 as we are recording and streaming, the World Economic Forum Davos Conference is going on right now.

00:36:48.820 And that is, of course, the meeting of hundreds of world leaders and many business leaders as well to

00:36:56.900 discuss what's going on, the plans for the future, how they're going to navigate all of the trials and

00:37:02.180 hurdles that pop up throughout the year, their plans for the future. And this year, and I will say as well,

00:37:10.340 right now, Donald Trump, as far as I know, in the lead up to this, has not given his speech yet. I

00:37:16.820 believe he is going to be giving his speech either during this broadcast or immediately after we have

00:37:22.180 finished broadcasting because his plane was a little bit late. So this information might need changing

00:37:30.180 by the time you watch this on YouTube, but it's still relevant for right now. There's still a lot of

00:37:34.020 relevant information here. So the spirit of dialogue is the current theme for it as we speak.

00:37:41.060 But really, when you look at what is being said, it's really talking about perhaps the failures of

00:37:46.500 globalism, globalism as having been led by America in the world order and how that has collapsed over

00:37:54.100 the past year or so. They were speaking in similar kinds of terms this time last year. Ursula von der Leyen

00:37:59.860 spoke this time last year about the worries of the collapse of global cooperation and the return

00:38:07.940 of a kind of competitive and hierarchical world order. And the wool has been pulled from everybody's

00:38:14.420 eyes by Trump and by the fact the Americans have seemed to kind of embrace their role as world

00:38:21.460 hegemen. They have embraced their role as the head of an empire rather than just saying that they are

00:38:27.300 the leaders of an international rules-based order. They've kind of pulled away from that and said,

00:38:32.420 yeah, we're just in charge because we have the biggest stick. The whole rules-based order thing

00:38:37.220 was what we wanted and needed it to be at any particular time so that we could get what benefited

00:38:42.260 us the most. As such, there's been a recalculation and they are discussing this on the world stage

00:38:49.220 and saying that this has been torn down. This has been torn down. We need a new establishment,

00:38:58.100 new security arrangements, new understandings of how we all relate to one another on the world stage

00:39:04.980 so that we can ensure our own freedom and security for the future. And that's a lot of the stuff that's

00:39:10.420 been spoken about on this. But carrying on the theme from the last segment, in that Trump's belligerence

00:39:18.420 regarding Greenland and his geopolitical moves recently are deeply affecting the populist right

00:39:29.060 in Europe and negatively affecting them as well, is that there is a real threat here for anybody who is

00:39:37.380 dissident to the current Eurocrat elite, right? And what that is is that America is now establishing

00:39:44.020 itself as kind of a global bully. They're being explicit about it with the way that Donald Trump

00:39:48.900 is saying that we'll throw tariffs here, we'll throw tariffs there so that we can get what we want.

00:39:53.060 If we don't like how you're negotiating with us, we might just invade your territory. We might invade

00:39:58.420 your sovereign territory. And so what this allows is for Eurocrat elites who, as we know, are

00:40:07.220 open borders liberals. They are happy for Europe to be invaded by foreign third world nations,

00:40:14.740 they're happy to establish censorious laws to prevent people from doing anything about it

00:40:19.860 or saying anything about it. It allows them to present themselves as the defenders of Europe.

00:40:26.020 It gives them that rhetorical wiggle room to say,

00:40:30.580 you, populist right-wing who are supportive of MAGA, why were you letting America push us around?

00:40:36.740 Why were you letting America tell us what we can and can't do? We are the ones who are defending the

00:40:42.820 interests and sovereignty of our own nations, and it gives them that wiggle room to potentially just have

00:40:50.660 more casus belli for censoring you even more, for potentially tearing these parties apart. You might even,

00:40:57.940 if you have been too supportive of MAGA in the way that I'm discussing, be able to be designated as a

00:41:04.100 foreign threat if MAGA carries on down this path right now. They might use it as a stick to tear the

00:41:12.500 European right-wing apart.

00:41:14.020 And the more Trump deepens his ties with Putin's Russia, the more the populist right, the pro-US

00:41:24.980 right in Europe is going to be seen as Kremlin stooge.

00:41:30.100 Yeah, they can be seen as a Kremlin stooge or the equivalent of a Kremlin stooge if America is just

00:41:36.420 like, if they're just saying, we'll take what you want.

00:41:39.220 Look guys, yeah, you are basically just obeying someone who wants to divide Europe and conquer it,

00:41:46.820 and just wants to destabilize the region in order to be able to have more negotiation of power when he

00:41:55.780 is negotiating against individual nations. And of course, in Europe, there's been this

00:42:01.220 massive push as well, talking about, oh, Ukraine will never cede territory to Russia,

00:42:05.940 and it's sort of primed people to think about in terms of, okay, Europe will not cede territory to

00:42:11.540 its enemies. And then you've got the United States coming around trying to take Greenland off of a

00:42:15.940 European country. So, at the minute, the sort of psychology of both the populist and leaders is,

00:42:22.660 we're not ceding any territory to people outside of Europe. And then it's kind of the worst time

00:42:28.580 Trump could have done it with the Ukraine stuff going on.

00:42:31.060 I'm in favour of a strong Europe. I'm in favour of a strong Europe, and I want Britain to be

00:42:38.020 involved with that, not necessarily as part of the EU or anything, but I don't think that America

00:42:44.420 is doing any of us any favours right now. But a strong Europe should not be led by these people,

00:42:51.460 because these people do not have Europe's best interests in mind, as I will demonstrate as we

00:42:57.060 go along. But it lets somebody like Emmanuel Macron get up on stage wearing cool aviators.

00:43:05.940 What's going on here? Was it really hung over or something?

00:43:08.980 I would only hope so, but I think what's happened is he had eye surgery.

00:43:12.740 Some are suggesting that perhaps Bridget was a little bit too harsh to him the night before,

00:43:18.900 and he's had some black eyes.

00:43:20.340 Candice will become relevant again. What happened?

00:43:23.060 Yep. This is how he looks after he's put out the 17th hit on Candice Owens this week. He's

00:43:31.220 feeling very powerful.

00:43:32.020 He's had so many meetings with Eastern European hitmen that he's sort of taken on some of their

00:43:37.620 dress sense.

00:43:38.180 Yeah, their aesthetic. But it lets Emmanuel Macron present himself as the great French patriot,

00:43:45.380 wanting to stop these mean big American bullies from coming in and taking their stuff.

00:43:51.060 We have a place where rule of law and predictability is still the rule of the game. And my guess

00:44:02.260 is that it is largely underpriced by the market. Having a place like Europe, which sometimes is too slow,

00:44:10.260 for sure, and needs to be reformed, for sure, but which is predictable,

00:44:16.740 loyal. And when, where you know that the rule of the game is just the rule of law,

00:44:26.580 it's a good place. And I think this is a good place for today and for tomorrow.

00:44:33.140 So, yeah, Macron, who has been one of the people who's been banging the drum on European security

00:44:39.860 for a long time, you can go back to immediately following the start of the Ukraine conflict,

00:44:44.260 and he's got interviews with outlets like The Economist, where he's talking about the need to

00:44:48.980 increase European defence spending, to secure European borders against foreign threats. Now he

00:44:56.340 gets to double down on that. He gets to double down on saying that we are in charge, look how cool I am

00:45:04.260 in my aviators, we are going to wear the mask of virtue. We may be a little bit slow sometimes,

00:45:10.500 we may be a bit, need a bit of reform, but we are loyal, we are kind, we are good-hearted,

00:45:16.820 unlike those Russians to our east and those Americans to our west.

00:45:21.540 I mean, say what you will about Macron, but he's sort of playing the right notes here.

00:45:28.500 He is, and in the same speech he's calling out, shifting to a world without rules. Again,

00:45:34.100 this is what I mean with this, people are having to reorient themselves. Now that the facade of the

00:45:40.260 rules-based international liberal order has kind of been torn down, they're having to reorient themselves,

00:45:45.620 and that's what we're seeing here, we're shifting to a world without rules, imperial ambitions

00:45:49.620 are resurfacing. President Macron referencing fundamentally unacceptable tariffs used as

00:45:55.300 leverage against sovereignty. This is all stuff that is going to play very, very well

00:46:00.420 to a European populace that begins to feel threatened. Yeah, they feel threatened domestically

00:46:05.220 as well, but that's part of the point, is they get to distract from that. Paris and the rest of

00:46:10.500 France gets to distract from all of the terrible riots that tend to go on, all of the foreign crime

00:46:15.700 that gets committed because it unites them against a foreign enemy. That's how this works.

00:46:22.260 People speaking even more plainly, the Belgian Prime Minister Bart Deweuwe, I don't know if that's

00:46:27.300 how you pronounce his name, saying this. But now so many red lines are being crossed that you have the

00:46:35.140 choice between your self-respect. Being a happy vessel is one thing, being a miserable slave is something

00:46:41.940 else. If you back down now, you're going to lose your dignity, and that's probably the most precious

00:46:48.260 thing you can have in a democracy, it's your dignity.

00:46:52.180 So, I mean, just outright admitting there from an international leader that, yeah, we were a vassal.

00:47:01.140 We were a vassal, but at least we got something out of it. At least we got some kind of stability

00:47:05.140 out of it. At least we had some kind of level of fair play. There were reasonable trade agreements.

00:47:12.260 We could predict what was going to happen. That was the whole point of this New World Order that

00:47:17.300 was established following the Second World War. Now that's been torn down, we don't want to be the

00:47:22.900 unhappy slaves, so we're going to have to get back together and re-establish ourselves. Which, again,

00:47:30.100 would be a good thing if only it weren't that the Eurocrats in charge don't actually care about

00:47:37.220 European people and their well-being. Even America, America's diplomats, the Secretary of Commerce,

00:47:43.860 Howard Lutnik, went up and just outright said that the Trump administration and I are here to make a

00:47:48.420 very clear point. Globalisation has failed the West and the United States of America. It's a failed

00:47:54.100 policy and it's left America behind. America is done exporting jobs and offshoring its future.

00:47:59.780 We'll no longer give in to globalisation. These are all very strong statements regarding how this

00:48:06.820 globalist world order has completely failed. And I'm not a fan of the globalist world order either.

00:48:13.300 It's just that this is interesting how this is all just being flat out said. Mark Carney, Prime

00:48:20.020 Minister of Canada, came out and said, American hegemony in particular helped provide public

00:48:25.300 goods, open sea lanes, stable financial system, collective security, but this bargain no longer

00:48:30.740 works. Let me be direct, we're in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Recently great powers have

00:48:35.860 begun using economic integration as a weapon, tariffs as a leverage. And he goes on to talk about how the

00:48:41.700 globalisation and integration of these international economies has led to America being able to put the

00:48:50.420 boot on their neck through use of tariffs, through use of economic leverage. So perhaps this will split

00:48:58.180 things up. Perhaps, as you're suggesting, it will continue to push people into the arms of a China

00:49:04.020 that may potentially be a future international threat, but at the moment is presenting itself

00:49:09.380 as simply a benign trading partner. Well, there's multiple things going on here. The first of which

00:49:14.740 I think is actually a good thing in that it's probably good for Europe to be more independent, and I

00:49:20.580 very much welcome that. And even though it's not necessarily intentional by the Trump administration,

00:49:26.260 the fact that it's giving Europe basically a kick up the backside to do this is great. And I think it's

00:49:31.700 necessary for Europe to succeed, to be more self-sufficient. And at the minute, I think all China really

00:49:38.820 needs to do is not rub anyone the wrong way and continue trading with them to capitalise on the

00:49:45.220 US's losses here. We have Trump now speaking on the World Economic Forum, who says that Europe should

00:49:52.100 follow the US in putting a halt to mass migration and stop transferring its capabilities to the third

00:49:58.980 world countries. And he says that many cities in the West are now unrecognisable and not in a good

00:50:05.060 way. Yeah, but he... This is all just playing to... He was, he did, he did sabotage, perhaps unintentionally,

00:50:13.140 but he did, the people in Europe who are talking about this, precisely with his talk of invading

00:50:21.780 Greenland. And also, I don't think that when he's talking about mass migration, I think there is more

00:50:27.700 mass migration to the US than there is in Europe. And we do talk about Europe and about the problems

00:50:36.340 with mass migration in Europe, but it's not that he has, that the US doesn't face them and that he

00:50:43.140 has stopped facing them now one year into... The demographics in America are much less stable than

00:50:48.260 they are in Europe. And that's even with mass migration into Europe. Europe is still, most countries

00:50:54.100 within Europe are still well majority European countries. If you go to somewhere like California,

00:51:02.420 in America, you're basically in Mexico. You're, that's just, that's just that if you go to southern

00:51:08.580 Texas, you're basically in Mexico. That's how these demographics changes work. If you look at American

00:51:16.180 birth rates of the white versus non-white birth rates, some of those southern states and even some of the

00:51:22.020 ones going a little bit north up the western seaboard, the white birth rates are terrible.

00:51:28.580 They make up a vast, like a tiny minority of the overall births going on here. European birth rates

00:51:34.900 aren't great either, but we are still in a better position to remain European than America is to remain

00:51:41.460 a European descended nation. And what Trump is just appealing to there is rote populist talking points.

00:51:49.460 Ultimately, he can say all of that, but his actions outside of that speak louder than his words.

00:51:55.220 And what he is doing through all of this is further entrenching an elite class that don't agree with

00:52:01.620 him on those points. That actually present a threat to Europe remaining European going forwards.

00:52:08.980 And what I'm talking about here is like Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, going up and saying that,

00:52:18.500 you know, there's an age of populism and deep institutional mistrust. We've lost all of the

00:52:24.660 trust in elites and we need to regain that trust. This is the opening. This is the opportunity for all of

00:52:32.500 these traitorous elites to regain that trust by again facing out towards a new foreign enemy on

00:52:41.220 both sides. Russia to the east, America to the west. You have Finland's president saying that again,

00:52:49.300 and I think this is a good thing that people are talking like this, that Europe can unequivocally

00:52:54.500 defend itself without the Americans.

00:52:57.220 That's a factually correct statement as well in that, you know, they talk about the threat of

00:53:03.460 Russia, but compared to the entirety of Europe, that's not equivalent, right? It is absurd to

00:53:09.300 even suggest that. Even looking on just purely industrial capability and things like that,

00:53:15.300 all of Europe plus their trading partners, it's not comparable.

00:53:19.220 Not comparable. Germany has been speaking about what a mistake it was to get rid of some of its

00:53:24.100 nuclear plants. And it certainly was. And it absolutely was. In which case,

00:53:30.740 how long would it take Germany to put that infrastructure back in place?

00:53:34.500 I think. Quite a time, I think. Quite a time, unfortunately.

00:53:37.540 I think the current chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Mertz, did say that he is planning on revisiting

00:53:43.620 nuclear plants in Germany. The most common sense thing.

00:53:47.700 Yeah. It took him about 10 years to understand common sense.

00:53:51.140 Yeah. Deindustrialization and disarmament was a huge mistake, but it was all predicated,

00:53:59.540 it was all done under this now old new world order. And now we're moving into a completely different

00:54:06.420 paradigm.

00:54:06.900 There's a trend at a sort of domestic level that I've noticed that places that do particularly

00:54:14.260 well, cities and towns that tend to have opportunities for all of the different strata

00:54:20.980 of society and are economically prosperous for it, tend to have about 15 or so percent of their economy be

00:54:27.860 industry, which is very rare in the West these days, other than perhaps the United States,

00:54:32.900 which has been better at preserving it. But in Europe in particular, because we've deindustrialized,

00:54:37.780 we've lost this key part of our economy, which, you know, for the working classes, believe it or not,

00:54:44.660 they sort of need those jobs because not only are they opportunities for people to, you know,

00:54:50.980 go beyond themselves, but also they're very valuable to have in your country for defense.

00:54:56.340 Certainly. Certainly. Absolutely.

00:54:57.780 And, but here's where it comes to reminding everybody that the people who are all saying

00:55:02.740 this aren't our friends in Europe, they're not friends of the European people or European values

00:55:09.380 or demographics or preserving any of those things. Because one of the announcements that was made

00:55:14.340 by Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU, was that the EU is on the cusp of making the mother

00:55:19.700 of all deals with India. And again, this is one of those things, well, we might not be able to trade

00:55:25.060 quite as securely with America as we could. India is a huge market, an enormous market.

00:55:31.620 So let's go over to them. But the thing is, with deals with India come little strings attached

00:55:38.340 that Modi likes to put in there, which is, well, India has a huge, huge excess population.

00:55:45.300 So we would like it if we could have some kind of exchange of labor as well.

00:55:50.980 So with trades with India comes also massive influx of Indian immigration.

00:55:56.180 It's one of the main exports, to be honest.

00:55:58.340 Yes.

00:55:58.900 Is Indian people themselves.

00:56:00.740 So if we're further entrenching this, that's not great for anybody. That's not great for any of us.

00:56:07.860 And again, this is what we covered a little bit in your segment as well, but I just want to remind

00:56:12.980 everybody that this kind of belligerent rhetoric was one of the main movers of the liberals getting

00:56:20.180 reelected, despite the fact that the conservatives in Canada, who would have been better allies to

00:56:25.860 Trump as a northern neighbor, that's what led to them losing. And there's testimonies in this

00:56:32.340 article from people who were saying that, you know, I was a lifelong conservative voter in Canada,

00:56:38.180 but America saying that they were going to annex us, positioning ourselves as an enemy of Canada,

00:56:43.940 and themselves as an enemy of Canada, and Polivier positioning himself as a friend of MAGA,

00:56:50.260 therefore also enemy of Canada, meant that I voted liberal for the very first time in my life.

00:56:55.380 Yeah.

00:56:55.940 There's, there's like, there's like half a dozen.

00:56:58.180 And all of this was just to own the libs on Twitter.

00:57:01.140 Yeah, this says Polivier's campaign, during which he focused on small government and libertarian issues,

00:57:05.380 combined with dissatisfaction at the scandal, hit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the

00:57:09.940 economy, uh, to see the conservatives move 24 points ahead of the liberals in January,

00:57:14.980 according to a poll tracker. But within a matter of weeks, everything changed. Trudeau announces

00:57:19.460 resignation, while Trump swept back to power in the U.S., threatening to use economic pressure to

00:57:23.860 annex Canada as a 51st state, before imposing sweeping 25% tariffs on goods from America's northern

00:57:29.940 neighbour, sparking outrage across the country, pushing them all into the arms of the liberals.

00:57:38.260 And, uh, this is one of the threats of European right-wing populist parties as well, like the AFD.

00:57:44.660 There are a number of articles all talking about how the AFD, for a while now, has had major support

00:57:50.500 from MAGA. JD Vance went and spoke about how great the AFD was, and all of the threats that

00:57:56.180 Germany faces from mass migration. There is a definite connection that the two parties have,

00:58:02.180 and this one's going back a few months. You've got multiple articles, German far-right courts Donald

00:58:07.700 Trump and MAGA in hunt for powerful friends, the MAGA war on European democracy, and then you start to see

00:58:14.580 the shift. The global populist right has a MAGA problem. Until you get to this recent article,

00:58:22.020 and you quoted the one from, um, what's-her-face, um, uh, from the unheard article in the last

00:58:29.380 segment. Here's another one by Maurice Frank. The AFD is losing patience with MAGA. They're having

00:58:35.380 to suddenly heel turn to switch around to flip their rhetoric because the comments about Greenland

00:58:41.540 in recent days suggest the duo have been following the latest polls. 72% of Germans consider the US

00:58:47.700 attack on Venezuela and Maduro's arrest unjustified. Only 12% feel Trump is doing a good job as president,

00:58:54.420 and an all-time low of 15% consider the US to be a trustworthy partner. The AFD enjoys the support

00:59:02.340 of a roughly, uh, quarter of voters, and now it doesn't want to alienate the German mainstream

00:59:07.540 by getting too close to a deeply unpopular president. So this puts everybody in a massive bind. The AFD

00:59:13.940 doesn't want to alienate their voters, but also they do have strong ties to MAGA, and presumably

00:59:19.540 also wouldn't want to alienate those ties to MAGA at the same time if they're still going to be the

00:59:24.660 government for the next three years in America. So this is just putting everybody in a difficult position,

00:59:32.020 and this is reforging the world order as it has existed for years at this point, and it is very

00:59:38.660 interesting to see where these, uh, where this all may fall as, uh, as the year progresses, particularly

00:59:44.020 when we get to the midterms and see how that affects MAGA as well. All right, I'll go through

00:59:50.020 the, uh, super chat. It's got quite a few again. Fleet, all details, examples I have heard so far

00:59:54.900 are excuses, noise. US wants full authority to operate in Greenland to keep them from keeping

00:59:58.900 infested by the CCP. Look, WTF happening in Canada. Well, partially what's happening in Canada is,

01:00:05.940 again, the fault of US rhetoric, pushing Mark Carney into the position that he's in,

01:00:12.260 and then pushing him to try and strengthen deals with China. This year's Davos theme is dialogue,

01:00:18.260 as in stop having dialogue, you effing plebs, and obey our dialogue. That's what it always is,

01:00:23.380 but now you're giving them, now you're giving them reason to present themselves as the good guys.

01:00:29.300 Luke's Saint 91 is going to be interested with them trying to say that they're protecting you from

01:00:34.820 without when everyone's pissed off with a problem that they let in and they're continuing to let to

01:00:39.940 faster. Yeah, absolutely true. And again, this presents a problem, potentially, we know how

01:00:46.420 censorious these people are as well. So if you're one of those, it's, it's dangerous if you're in

01:00:52.420 Europe and in Britain, if you have been somebody who has been overtly supportive, say, of MAGA,

01:00:59.220 potentially, if you're one of those people making jokes of, oh, you got Majuro, now let's get,

01:01:04.500 come over here and get Starmer. Like, if, if America presents itself as an enemy to all of these

01:01:10.180 states and these governments, what stops those governments from saying, like, well, I mean,

01:01:16.180 you're actively calling for a foreign coup of us right now, so we'll just sweep you up.

01:01:22.340 That's, that's, that's not necessarily exactly what's going to happen, who knows the chances,

01:01:28.100 but it is a potential. Luke, I think European right-wing parties could be fine, I see them

01:01:33.060 moving and constantly attacking the immigration problem, especially if you've got more crimes

01:01:36.500 keep happening, they just have to keep going. That is entirely possible. That is possible as well,

01:01:42.020 but it does create problems for some of them like the AFD who've cozied up. It gives them a, a,

01:01:47.940 the boost, and it, it boosts the image of the people we have right now in, in the EU who are

01:01:54.580 actually doing a very good job, very bad job. Yeah. Bass tape, stop defiling our language or

01:02:00.020 our black in your other eye, you down syndrome sounding frog. Cigarette, if you have something

01:02:06.900 to say to us, you write it down and have a Brit speak it out, revolting accent. I don't mind Frenchy

01:02:13.060 speaking English actually, I think it's quite pleasant. They have to swallow their pride to do it as well,

01:02:17.460 it's very rare to hear a French person speak English, so you've got to make the most of it.

01:02:21.780 It's like, ah, we, we know you can speak it. Yeah. They keep it very quiet, don't they? And Luke again,

01:02:27.460 yeah, maybe if we hadn't let China in we probably wouldn't have been in this problem because they

01:02:31.460 seem to be doing all this economic warfare for ages, it's about time we use that weapon. Yeah,

01:02:35.540 well part of the problem is as well that America de-industrialized massively and then shipped it all off to

01:02:39.780 China as well in a shocking, shocking episode of no foresight whatsoever. Should we help our main

01:02:48.580 geopolitical rival build up their manufacturing block? Yes.

01:02:52.500 I need mouse. Give me mouse. Squeak, squeak. That is the internal monologue of a cat right there.

01:03:00.020 Okay, I'm going to double check this works first. Yes, it does. Oh, lucky day. Look at that.

01:03:09.380 So this might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it is not. Apparently police in

01:03:15.140 Britain are trialing the use of AI to predict future crime. And the Telegraph wrote about this,

01:03:22.820 so I was actually reading a newspaper on the train like I'm in the 19th century and I saw this story

01:03:27.780 and I couldn't believe it and I had to do some digging. And what I found was actually very,

01:03:32.900 very sinister. And not even in a hyperbolic way, in a sort of, wow, they're actually saying this out

01:03:39.620 loud sort of way. So police chiefs are currently evaluating around a hundred different projects

01:03:44.980 trialing the use of AI. And the government in Britain is looking to invest around four million

01:03:50.340 pounds in creating an interactive AI driven map of England and Wales by 2030 to stop criminals

01:03:57.460 before they commit their crimes. They're basically creating this map. I presume it operates like a

01:04:01.620 heat map where it will analyze data to show where crime is likely to happen so that the police can

01:04:08.820 get there before it happens to prevent it happening in the first place. And the examples given are

01:04:16.260 use official data to identify areas likely to see criminal activity. So that seems to support my

01:04:21.700 understanding of what this means. And also to spot early warning signs of antisocial behaviour,

01:04:27.300 which I think is interesting that they mention antisocial behaviour of all things, because

01:04:32.020 actually a lot of the time antisocial behaviour is pretty predictable. Normally it happens in,

01:04:36.340 say, city centres and areas with high alcohol consumption, or if there's a riot going on,

01:04:42.740 there's antisocial behaviour. A football game, and these are predictable things that

01:04:47.460 you can guess in advance without AI in the first place. Which makes me have a little suspicion,

01:04:53.380 which we'll be revisiting in a minute. So in an interview with The Telegraph, Sir Andy Marsh,

01:04:59.460 the head of the College of Policing, explained some of this, because The Telegraph seemed to be the

01:05:05.380 only ones on the money on this. And they said one of the key uses of the three uses they're thinking of

01:05:11.780 using AI in policing. Predictive analytics is one of them. And he's proposing to use technology to

01:05:18.340 identify the thousand most dangerous predatory men who pose the highest risk to women and girls in

01:05:24.260 England and Wales. Which, were it limited to monitoring basically what amounts to sex offenders,

01:05:31.060 by the sounds of it, I would be a little bit less concerned. But of course, this is the socially

01:05:37.220 acceptable face of a technology that no doubt, once it's implemented, will expand beyond this

01:05:44.260 application. And we all know it will, right? But similarly, I have pattern recognition

01:05:49.140 abilities that allow me to pick out potential sex predators from a crowd. So where's my paycheck?

01:05:55.860 I know. Why aren't they employing us? We could do it for a fraction of the cost. You haven't been approved.

01:06:01.220 You can give me a quarter of that four million. For a million pounds, I will tell you all of my secrets.

01:06:08.100 I can show you all of my secret racist hate crime facts about all the patterns of criminals. And you'll

01:06:15.540 save lots of money. I, again, I always point this out, but I will bring to the Metropolitan Police's

01:06:21.300 attention the drill gang map. The interactive drill gang map that they post online. I know. They just post it

01:06:30.260 online. It's that easy. So he says, the head of the College of Policing says,

01:06:36.580 we know the data and the case histories tell us that. Unfortunately, it's far from uncommon for

01:06:40.660 these individuals to move from one female victim to another. We understand all of the difficulties

01:06:45.220 bringing successful cases to bearing court. So he's basically saying they can monitor people who they

01:06:50.260 can't necessarily pin down and prosecute, which is why they're out in the first place. That's his

01:06:55.780 explanation. So what we want to do is use these predictive tools to take the battle to those

01:07:00.820 individuals that they are the ones who are frightened because the police are coming after

01:07:05.380 them and we're going to lock them up. And then they claim that it's going to make officers more efficient

01:07:11.060 with them spending less time form filling and doing bureaucratic work and more time bringing criminals

01:07:15.380 to justice. Although I can't see how AI predicting crime in the future does that other than the crime

01:07:21.060 doesn't take place and therefore they don't have to fill out the forms talking about it and reporting

01:07:25.700 it internally. And then in this article, there was also something that I found probably the most

01:07:33.940 concerning of all that these moves are being headed up by Shabana Mahmood, the Labour Home Secretary.

01:07:40.900 And then she here says, when I was justice secretary, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal

01:07:46.580 justice system was to achieve by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his

01:07:52.980 panopticon. That is, that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. She literally said this out loud

01:08:01.540 publicly, that the eyes of the state will be on you at all times. Who thinks that this is just going to be limited

01:08:08.500 to those thousand most dangerous men and not the entire population at large? When you have the technology,

01:08:14.260 when you're implementing it, and there's the political incentive to do it, who's to say that

01:08:19.300 this isn't going to expand well beyond the original means? And I'm not a betting man, but I place pretty

01:08:25.620 much everything I own on the fact that it's not going to be limited in scope. And I'm sure you both

01:08:30.180 agree with me here. They're going to expand this once it's done its initial trials beyond these thousand

01:08:36.820 criminals to perhaps more criminals, then maybe to political dissidents, and then maybe to the whole

01:08:41.940 population at large. It's a total disaster. And it's the end of privacy. And what is interesting with

01:08:48.500 talking about privacy is that you start defending privacy on grounds that lots of people in the

01:08:56.980 culture reject. Because for instance, everyone will start saying, yeah, yeah, I want privacy. And I don't

01:09:04.420 like the panopticon. But then they will go out and say, no, it's bad individualism that is harming our

01:09:10.660 society and its individualism and liberalism and etc. Where if you are that that is a major problem

01:09:17.300 with it. Because if you don't treat privacy as a value on its own, as or and also as instrumental

01:09:25.620 to, you know, developing your own individuality, you have a you have a real trouble saying why you

01:09:31.780 you oppose things like this.

01:09:33.220 I think also people who have a war on privacy have basically here a war on human nature,

01:09:38.020 because I don't think it's ideological or something we're taught necessarily that we want

01:09:42.900 a private life. I think it's something innate within us, a desire not to be surveilled and watched,

01:09:49.540 because it's an inherently unnerving thing even for non-human animals to be constantly under surveillance,

01:09:55.300 right? It puts them under stress.

01:09:57.380 I think there's just an underlying logic for technology like this, which is once it exists,

01:10:03.460 the people who have control of it will just try and apply it to as much as possible.

01:10:06.820 Of course.

01:10:07.380 It's just a managerial mission creep.

01:10:09.860 It is exactly that. And what I wanted to actually look at is what is this panopticon? Because it

01:10:16.020 it speaks of a desire of the technocratic, bureaucratic, globalist elite, basically,

01:10:23.940 I think, this view of using technology to surveil people. So the panopticon, as I'm sure Stelios is

01:10:31.460 well aware of, originated with the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century,

01:10:36.020 and the concept basically allowed all prisoners within a prison to be observed by a single prison

01:10:42.260 officer without the inmates knowing whether or not they were being watched. And although it's

01:10:46.420 impossible for the guard to watch all of the prisoners' cells at once, the fact that the inmates

01:10:51.780 cannot know whether they're being watched motivates them to act as though they are being watched at

01:10:55.860 all times. So the fact that this is mentioned, and in the context of using technology to surveil people,

01:11:02.340 the implication here is that citizens will have to feel like they're under surveillance by the

01:11:08.740 state at all times because that will be the one way in which the government can control their behaviour.

01:11:15.140 And it's worth mentioning that these panopticons are not abstract, right? And in fact, here is one.

01:11:22.260 And the two countries in the world that actually built Bentham's panopticons for prisons was Cuba

01:11:30.020 in the 1920s and the Dutch. So well done for being the two most dystopian countries in this one

01:11:37.780 respect. Do they work? I presume so. I'm curious as to whether they achieve their intended effect.

01:11:45.220 I think they probably would, otherwise they wouldn't be using it as an analogy for technological expansion

01:11:51.300 and surveillance. But it feels a little bit dystopian here. This is the Dutch built three, one in

01:11:57.860 Haarlem, one in Breda and one in Arnhem. And weirdly enough, they're sort of dystopian side

01:12:04.900 direction here, a sort of tangent if you will. They've, in a sort of dystopian twist, one has

01:12:11.780 become an upmarket venue, this circular prison, because they were built in the late 19th century.

01:12:19.700 And you can see this has become weirdly dystopian in and of itself. One has become an office space

01:12:27.380 and one's become an escape room. I don't want to work in the office that's literally a panopticon.

01:12:34.020 But I think there's an analogy here. And the reason I've included it is that

01:12:38.820 this sort of encapsulates something that I think is an adaptation of the old timey

01:12:46.180 totalitarianism. It's not just prisons and dissidents now that were sort of viewed in the

01:12:52.180 past as the focus of this tyranny, but sort of everyone, isn't it? And the fact that it's

01:12:57.060 encompassing, you know, going to a bar or a restaurant in one, you've got an office space

01:13:03.940 in another, and then like entertainment in an escape room in the third. It's sort of symbolic

01:13:10.180 of the application of this sort of technology today in that it's going to be in all areas of life now.

01:13:16.500 And the fact that, you know, they're just like, here's a horrible totalitarian building. Let's convert

01:13:22.260 it into something nice.

01:13:23.220 I think they're governed by voyeurists. Only a voyeurist would want this.

01:13:29.540 And here's the one in Cuba, by the way, which was not adapted, but you can see the sort of

01:13:35.460 idea of the structure where you've got the guard tower, where the one guard can be,

01:13:38.980 and then all the cells facing the middle. It does seem a bit dystopian, in my opinion.

01:13:42.900 This didn't work. Everyone escaped.

01:13:46.020 Yeah, well, they had to build walls.

01:13:47.780 Yeah, if only we'd put walls on the outside of the cells.

01:13:50.740 And just in case you weren't concerned enough, it's worth mentioning that Shabaman and Mahmood

01:13:58.740 said this panopticon thing in a conversation with Tony Blair at the Tony Blair Institute

01:14:04.900 of global change, or for global change.

01:14:06.900 I bet he started drooling.

01:14:08.740 He did. And it's interesting in the first place that there was this meeting going on,

01:14:14.420 and of course, Tony Blair being the sort of platonic ideal of a technocrat and a globalist.

01:14:21.380 I think he's the sort of quintessential one, isn't he? And following this meeting,

01:14:25.140 mysteriously enough, Tony Blair gave her the stamp of approval, which is interesting.

01:14:32.180 This came the day after they had that meeting, and she started talking about creating this AI

01:14:38.580 panopticon. And then I looked into this a little bit more, and thankfully, the government just

01:14:44.980 announces its evil things in statements, which is a good thing. We've still got this element

01:14:50.580 of Germanic honesty about us, just like, we're going to do this evil thing. Here's exactly how

01:14:54.660 we're going to do it with this evil outcome. And here you go.

01:14:57.620 And here's the timescale we're expecting as well.

01:14:59.700 Mm-hmm. And one thing that I noticed of this is in the bullet points here

01:15:06.660 was this. And maybe I'm reading into it a little bit too much, this part here.

01:15:12.340 So it says,

01:15:13.860 the tool to be fully operational by 2030 with Britain's brightest minds backing

01:15:18.340 law-abiding majority over lawbreakers. So this framing I found interesting, particularly

01:15:25.460 law-abiding majority over lawbreakers, because it could signal one of two things, in my opinion.

01:15:32.260 Either they're trying to get the public angry about thinking about criminals, like, yeah,

01:15:36.180 this minority is ruining it for the rest of us, rather than thinking about surveillance. That's

01:15:40.180 possible. That is a sort of rhetorical thing. Or more sinisterly, again, it suggests that the future

01:15:47.460 scope might be to impose what is presented as the political desires of the democratic majority

01:15:52.180 upon dissidents. And it's a sort of accidental reveal of the hand here.

01:15:57.860 Because why would you frame it as that, the law-abiding majority?

01:16:03.220 That's a curious phrase to use about this sort of thing. And again, it could just be rhetorical to

01:16:09.220 try and get this through. But I think that there's enough incentives in place to apply

01:16:14.820 this to political opposition, that that phrase should be concerning to me. What do you guys think

01:16:19.700 of it? Do you think I'm right to be concerned here? Or is it just reading too much into it?

01:16:23.620 I think the rest of it is concerning enough by itself to worry so much about the specific

01:16:29.300 wording of one sentence. I think the rest of it speaks.

01:16:32.500 That's fair enough.

01:16:34.260 Yeah? What do you think? I think, I mean, I wouldn't pay so much attention at the

01:16:40.340 law-abiding majority of lawbreakers personally. But I think I agree with Harry. I think that

01:16:46.100 it's correct. And it is disturbing because there is a very split, let's say, very

01:16:53.060 dual approach that the left has with the crime. It's either you go full prevent

01:16:59.780 or like, you know, or just, it's constantly an issue of how they have been, the criminal

01:17:06.020 has been acculturated and if they are, they belong to a minority group or something. And

01:17:11.060 it's all an issue.

01:17:11.940 Didn't have enough youth centers.

01:17:12.900 Always society's help. Always society's fault. Or they go full, you know, full like this,

01:17:19.140 just punitive on everything. You're watching everything you go. Just, they're completely

01:17:24.980 extreme at anything they're doing.

01:17:26.660 Well, I think there are different factions of the left. The more radical left, I think,

01:17:30.980 are also concerned about this sort of thing. And actually, the surveillance state is something

01:17:35.780 that... They're concerned they aren't in control of it, but they will definitely use it, especially

01:17:40.580 if they're radical.

01:17:41.060 I don't think they're coming at it from quite the same moral position. They see themselves,

01:17:44.740 they're more concerned about, well, we're going to be surveilled as well. And you do see them

01:17:48.180 talking about this sort of thing because it is the less radical left wing, but more technocratic

01:17:54.820 globalists that are more in favor of this, I think. And they're the faction that are pushing this,

01:18:02.020 which I think is why Blair is involved and why he's giving a stamp of approval to Mahmood,

01:18:07.220 who's probably affiliated with many similar circles to Blair himself. And we can see the implications of

01:18:15.140 this already, this sort of philosophy. So part of Mahmood's approach is that there are going to be

01:18:22.420 live facial recognition cameras planned for every town centre, which is concerning. And all prisoners

01:18:31.860 that were released early, of course, there's this scandal about Labour releasing lots of prisoners early,

01:18:36.740 and there were ones that also went on to commit crimes again. But what didn't get the same

01:18:41.220 attention was that all of them were tagged. And this obsession with tagging people and being

01:18:46.900 able to monitor where they're going, the basic philosophy here is that it's a sort of secondary

01:18:52.100 prison. That's how it was actually framed as the justification for this. But tie all of this

01:18:58.660 together and what you've got is an AI system that has access to facial recognition data from all the

01:19:07.380 town centres. All the wrongdoers are constantly surveilled. AI is then also predicting people who have

01:19:15.060 committed crime or even, you know, eventually people who are political dissidents who have never broken a

01:19:20.660 law. And it can estimate when they're going to do something based on data. And I'd imagine that

01:19:28.660 you know, these estimates would at least sometimes be accurate as well.

01:19:32.820 So it creates this interesting scenario whereby the philosophy of the state is now to surveil people

01:19:40.180 as much as possible to prevent them from behaving in ways in which the government doesn't approve

01:19:46.100 fundamentally. And I think that it is going to go more and more that direction with this sort of

01:19:50.420 technology. And it's something to be concerned about. And I think that not nearly enough attention has

01:19:55.220 been brought upon it. And that it's something that people should push back on.

01:20:03.940 Do you want to?

01:20:05.060 Sure. Luke says it is like how they try and use AI with medicine, and it became too racist for them.

01:20:13.700 I don't see it going far, especially when the AI keeps pointing at certain communities that have

01:20:18.100 a grooming problem. But here's the thing, because it's AI, they don't have to reveal any of the workings.

01:20:24.020 It can be a sort of, you know, a sort of mysterious box that comes out with outputs that the police act

01:20:32.740 on. But because it's the AI making the predictions, then they don't have to show it publicly. It can be

01:20:39.460 saying, listen, you need to be monitoring black people. And the police can take that and interpret

01:20:45.940 it however they want. And it doesn't have to be broadcast. It's all internal, right? And so even if the AI is

01:20:54.820 noticing the same patterns that, you know, right wingers are noticing, it doesn't necessarily mean that

01:21:01.300 they're going to shut it down and ignore it. And in fact, they can have that data and choose to overlook

01:21:05.620 it quite comfortably, because it won't be public in the first place.

01:21:08.660 Sigil Stone says, implement the pedofinder AI immediately have it to shut down. I can't say that.

01:21:16.420 Although it made me laugh.

01:21:17.380 I can hear Samson laughing.

01:21:21.460 I don't think we have any video comments.

01:21:23.140 Right. Okay, let's go to the comments. Let me see if we have any honorable. No, right. Okay.

01:21:29.140 Okay, so Sophie Liv, I actually think this is very simple. Denmark just doesn't have the resources to defend

01:21:35.140 Greenland. America has pretty much been the Greenland defense since the Second World War,

01:21:40.100 their bases, their soldiers, their equipment. And yet, despite being the ones defending Greenland,

01:21:45.460 they don't get to reap the benefits of it. And Trump is done with American charity like that. I

01:21:50.580 really think it's that simple. If they're going to spend resources defending it, Trump think they

01:21:55.780 should own it. Right. So, Sophie, I think there's a simple response to it. Greenland does have

01:22:04.500 resources. And the people from Greenland have said, and the Danes are interested in doing business

01:22:12.180 with people who want to mine these resources, including the Americans. Right. Okay. George Happ,

01:22:19.700 the acquisition of Greenland is a reminder that the US is a geopolitical enemy of Europe. The

01:22:25.220 dunderheads in charge need to realize this and start playing realpolitik instead of a toothless

01:22:31.220 bureaucracy. Stop. The suicidal empathy of accepting the world's garbage would be a good

01:22:36.740 first step. People don't use the term dunderhead enough. I very much appreciate it. I'm quite upset

01:22:44.020 that midwit replaced dimwit because I think dimwit's actually much better. It sounds more aristocratic,

01:22:50.500 doesn't it? Yes. Get over here, you dimwit. Why are you being so dimwitted? Terra Toddler,

01:22:56.180 I don't get it. America is NATO. Just give them the bloody island and move on. If America pulls

01:23:01.620 out of NATO, then NATO is basically dead. I don't want NATO to exist. So that's good. But also,

01:23:06.900 as I showed you during the end of the segment, the idea that Europeans aren't paying for NATO is

01:23:13.940 complete bullshit. Right. Roman observer reading some tweets from the MAGA crowd turned neocon. I'm

01:23:20.980 under the impression they're suffering from the opposite of TDS, the infamous Biden whiplash

01:23:26.660 syndrome. Everything Trump or administration do is perfect. USA policies were always the correct

01:23:32.420 ones. All the international crisis were caused by the Europeans and so on. Roman observer, I think it's

01:23:37.780 another form of TDS. It's Trump defecation syndrome. It's derangement and defecation. Yep,

01:23:45.220 that's it. You're correct. Arizona desert rat. It would be nice to get the rare earth minerals

01:23:50.980 from somewhere besides China and Africa. And I hate tariffs. Also, I think Ukraine has lots of

01:23:58.580 rare earth minerals. Yes, but all basically in the oblasts. Last time I checked. Yeah, it's funny why

01:24:06.580 all of a sudden they're very keen to continue the war when they did the minerals deal and realized all

01:24:10.740 the minerals are in the parts that Russia controls. Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex. Apparently the last

01:24:16.740 island that Denmark sold to the US was Little St. James. I've heard that as well. And I've seen it

01:24:22.500 fact checked. That is true. Jimbo G. Trump's like we need a bigger one. Super Epstein. Oh no. Jimbo G.

01:24:31.540 Super Epstein. Trump winning so much has ultimately become cursed. The endless threats

01:24:37.140 of tariffs. The Greenland posturing. I'm so over it and it only seems to be making European leaders

01:24:43.940 circle their wagons to double down on their WEF agenda for us. Yep, that's what it does. It's

01:24:50.340 handing them a tremendous boost in image. In the same way it did it for Mark Carney in Canada.

01:24:59.220 Asperger's and Fry's. A meme war alongside diplomatic tensions. Wow, you're telling me that in several

01:25:05.060 decades I'm going to open my kids history textbook into the section about chaos of the 2020s and

01:25:11.860 I'll find an early AI generated Trump Greenland meme. This is somehow the most depressing and the

01:25:17.540 funniest timeline. One thing he posted on his Truth Social account himself. It's just the whole

01:25:24.420 own the libs thing. It works on Twitter. It works on X. It works, you know, in the media, but it works

01:25:30.980 until it doesn't. And there's a time where constant trolling makes one a buffoon. And when you have a

01:25:36.580 leader, you have to take their words seriously. There's room for bluffing, but you have to be

01:25:41.540 able to take their words seriously. And John V says, good morning, Stelios, Josh and Harry. Trump showing

01:25:47.940 his great statesmanship as usual. LOL. And eight wars. Maybe stop seven. But India defected Pakistan on

01:25:55.060 their own. Jokes aside, this is definitely not a good look. I've got a good idea for India, actually.

01:26:01.220 India should just, like, catapult in small child-sized scarecrows into Pakistan. And all

01:26:06.900 the Pakistanis will swarm towards them and be distracted. And then they strike. Just an idea.

01:26:12.580 If you need a consultant... Josh has lots of plans for aggression against Pakistan.

01:26:19.540 You show the nuclear power part, you know. Do you want me to read your...

01:26:25.220 I don't have a mouse, so I can't scroll. Great. Okay. So, Michael Dribelbis. Hi, Michael.

01:26:30.260 The biggest issue with Trump is that he's a blowhard. His braggadocio is off-putting and

01:26:35.060 alienates friends and foes alike. While that may work in business and negotiations, government is in

01:26:40.820 business and hurt feelings are more meaningful in diplomatic situations than in business. In business,

01:26:46.340 they may hate you. But if you can make a profit, it doesn't matter. The Eurocrats have a vested

01:26:50.980 interest in not dealing with Trump. I will say there's no... It's not also just an issue of

01:26:56.020 Eurocrats and Trump. It's also an issue of, you know, pro-US people in Europe. It's just...

01:27:04.580 He doesn't have to just shit on us. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you are making life way more hard,

01:27:11.220 difficult for pro-US people within Europe. And also, yeah, this isn't business because, like,

01:27:17.140 yeah, you're supposed to make money for the shareholders or whatever, but you don't get

01:27:22.260 voted in by those people for the most part. What happens in this situation is that you're

01:27:31.620 accountable to your electorate if you're in a democratic system. So all of them having their

01:27:36.900 feelings hurt by it as well, that forces you into action.

01:27:40.420 D'Argeny is nuts.

01:27:44.580 A Frenchman trying to make a capitalist appeal to investment by calling it predictable and stable

01:27:49.300 is a little show. It's like calling the average French worker unrushed. I'm sorry,

01:27:54.340 I've never met a French person with a noun of work ethic, akin to anything remotely Protestant.

01:27:59.860 Is New York country revolting on a monthly basis because it can't

01:28:03.780 balance its social benefits budget? Well, they are a primarily Catholic country,

01:28:08.580 so it makes sense. They also have a very all-encompassing welfare state,

01:28:14.900 so they've got a worse situation than many other European countries.

01:28:20.100 Richard Schmier says, you see, the thing is...

01:28:24.340 I don't... sorry, I don't see... Yeah, no.

01:28:25.860 He says it doesn't actually matter how Europeans take it. The thing that matters is that it's going

01:28:29.300 to work. Nobody cares if you think it's rude or if you think Trump is a blowhard.

01:28:32.100 Yeah, yeah.

01:28:32.660 I mean, if you say so, but I think if America alienates itself from all of its allies in the

01:28:39.540 Western Bloc, then it might have a very rude awakening that actually having allies is a good

01:28:44.340 thing. Yeah, it's not going to work. It doesn't seem to be working in Canada, so it's not working.

01:28:51.620 Yeah, especially if all of those then-former allies go and align themselves with your main

01:28:56.660 geopolitical rival. Anonyme, European SLIBS are 100% going to take control of patriotism.

01:29:02.500 Labour were putting up flags in their videos. When people were putting up flags,

01:29:05.700 it's not hard to co-opt it. All you need is the boomers to vote for you,

01:29:09.060 and if you say the right things, people think it's patriotic and it harkens to World War II.

01:29:13.700 Yeah, that's the problem, is that you are ceding the ground of patriotism to

01:29:18.260 Eurocrats who hate Europe, or at least what Europe was.

01:29:22.100 Josh Firm, feeding a horse a lemon, says,

01:29:26.020 AI predicting crime before it happens was what started Marvel Comics Civil War II.

01:29:30.660 That didn't go well for anyone involved. And Omar Awad, you, the pleb, having privacy is a

01:29:35.860 national security risk. I, the enlightened MP elite, being monitored is a national security risk.

01:29:42.020 I must have privacy, learning the difference. I hope they'll all live long enough to find out

01:29:47.860 that digital panopticon is an infinite hall of mirrors.

01:29:51.860 So do I. And I think that was well said.

01:29:54.820 Yeah.

01:29:55.460 Right. Okay. So we come to, we came to an end. Do join us for the round table with,

01:30:02.820 with Dan and Carl. It's going to be Harry and myself. We're going to talk about Greenland

01:30:09.300 and the, the whole context about it. Right. So if we don't see you there, see you tomorrow at 1pm.

01:30:17.860 Goodbye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 21, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1337

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