The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1340

00:00:00.000 Hello, and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1340 for Monday, the 26th of January, 2026.

00:00:09.140 So, happy Australia Day to our Australian viewers in the audience.

00:00:13.160 Today, I'm joined by Firas and Josh.

00:00:16.160 Hello.

00:00:16.780 Oh, hello.

00:00:17.480 And we're going to be talking all about today the absolute chaos in Minneapolis.

00:00:22.380 We're going to be also talking about who benefits from war with Iran.

00:00:26.680 And then we're going to be talking about the humiliation ritual that is the Chagos Islands deal.

00:00:33.580 So, obviously, just to remind you once again, if you haven't heard, if you've been stranded in the Gobi Desert for the past three weeks with no signal, we have Islander out now.

00:00:44.060 It's £15, basically, rounded up on the main website.

00:00:48.800 Go and get it.

00:00:49.440 Wonderful aesthetics by Rory.

00:00:51.360 Fantastic articles, meditations on power and heroism.

00:00:55.200 It's a terrific one.

00:00:56.220 So, do go and check that out.

00:00:58.040 I liked your Aragon piece a lot, by the way.

00:01:00.380 Oh, thank you very much.

00:01:01.380 Yeah, yeah.

00:01:02.280 Aragon's in there as well, ladies and gentlemen.

00:01:04.540 All right.

00:01:05.100 Josh, anything been going on in Minneapolis recently?

00:01:08.600 That would have been a good segue, except I need a mouse. 0.87

00:01:11.960 Do you?

00:01:12.520 Oh, fine.

00:01:14.360 Thank you.

00:01:15.480 Josh, anything been happening in Minneapolis recently?

00:01:19.380 What was that, Samson?

00:01:22.940 He said, don't forget to plug RealPolitik.

00:01:24.960 Okay.

00:01:26.180 All right.

00:01:26.780 Yeah.

00:01:27.240 Right.

00:01:27.760 And also, ladies and gentlemen, Firas is going to be doing RealPolitik at three o'clock.

00:01:33.500 You know, you're going to be live, aren't you?

00:01:34.700 Talking all about the new imperial order, so should be a really good one.

00:01:39.560 Josh, anything happening in Minneapolis recently?

00:01:43.240 No, let's move on.

00:01:47.460 Now I've got to transition to a very serious tone.

00:01:51.980 Oh, yes.

00:01:52.820 Good luck with that.

00:01:53.600 I mean, appropriate, but never mind.

00:01:54.940 So recently, there was a shooting in Minneapolis, and I'm going to break it down, talk about

00:02:01.940 why it happened, what actually happened, and some of the narratives around it.

00:02:07.440 And I think that a lot of this is politics by other means, really, isn't it?

00:02:12.860 So lots of the sort of left-wing factions in Minneapolis and Minnesota more widely have

00:02:21.960 been activated.

00:02:23.340 And as you can see, they are turning out in their droves.

00:02:26.200 This is obviously quite a significant turnout.

00:02:28.600 You can see the U.S. Bank Stadium in the background for sort of scale.

00:02:33.560 Well, that's a big turnout.

00:02:36.300 There's no overlooking it, really.

00:02:39.160 There are a lot of people here protesting ICE being in the state, which is interesting

00:02:44.800 in and of itself.

00:02:46.780 However, what they have been doing, they've taken it a bit further than protesting.

00:02:52.180 They've been driving around trying to follow ICE vehicles, and we've seen people on ICE

00:02:58.600 watch, as they've been calling it, where they have signal chats, where they share location

00:03:05.120 data of where ICE is with one another in a sort of weird citizen clandestine operation

00:03:11.820 to surveil, basically, federal agents.

00:03:14.760 May I comment on that?

00:03:16.240 Of course.

00:03:16.560 I just got a message from a former military friend of mine, and basically, just copying

00:03:24.780 someone else's post, but the point was that this is far more organized than regular civilian

00:03:30.480 activity, that what they seem to have done is break down the tasks in a way that will

00:03:37.460 be very recognizable from a military standpoint, where there is a division of labor between

00:03:42.680 spotters who are identifying vehicles, sort of back-end support, checking these vehicles,

00:03:50.240 license plates, trying to figure out who they are, chasers who are going around after

00:03:56.840 these ICE vehicles and maintaining up-to-date locations, protesters who are there to disrupt

00:04:04.320 the actual detention and capture of illegals, etc., etc.

00:04:10.200 And it seems to be quite well organized, with a good comms backing, with decent financial

00:04:18.760 support, with a lot of people who either have a lot of free time on their hands, or are

00:04:24.480 getting paid.

00:04:25.960 And if you look at the scale of the fraud that has been committed in Minnesota in general,

00:04:32.240 you might have an inkling as to how that money is being channeled.

00:04:35.700 Yeah, and there's also the fact that people like Will Stancil are turning up and going

00:04:40.560 on Ice Watch, and it's been turned into this thing in this sort of democratic world whereby

00:04:46.120 it's now a sort of acceptable thing to just go out and do this, which has effectively undermined

00:04:53.380 the actions of federal agents.

00:04:55.120 And you have the consent straight from the top of Minnesota as well, from Jacob Frey and

00:05:00.740 obviously the mayor of Minneapolis and all the rest of them, Tim Walsall, they all agree

00:05:06.600 with us.

00:05:06.780 We'll be talking about them, don't you worry.

00:05:09.340 So there is a bit of a darker side to this as well, because it's not just ICE, which is

00:05:15.480 concerning enough that they're following, but they're following other people as well.

00:05:19.380 They follow James O'Keefe, who many people might be familiar with through his work with

00:05:26.320 Project Veritas, lots of good work, and apparently lots of people were threatening to kill him,

00:05:32.180 they had bottles thrown at them, they were followed, and the like, and he showed one of

00:05:38.800 the texts that he received because his number got leaked, and people would just message him

00:05:44.280 things like, we know you're in Minneapolis, you're with O'Keefe and his crew, I presume

00:05:49.800 this must be one of the people with him rather than him himself, you're in a white Ford license

00:05:54.820 plate blanked out for the sake of privacy from Florida, you have one hour to leave, or you

00:06:00.360 are dead.

00:06:01.680 I mean, there's no ambiguity here as to what's going on, it's just, we've taken over the

00:06:07.360 streets, the people that we don't want here aren't welcome, and if you don't leave we'll

00:06:12.040 kill you, that's as explicit as it possibly could be, and of course, as everyone is aware

00:06:20.420 now, they're trying to block all sorts of things, ice, and other vehicles as well, this

00:06:29.220 is just a little showcase of what it looks like, but you can imagine what blocking a vehicle

00:06:33.580 is like, right, you don't have to have me show it to you.

00:06:36.860 So, one other interesting thing is this, that one of the people running one of the anti-Ice

00:06:45.560 signal groups has been identified as Amanda Kohler, who is a protest organiser, and also

00:06:51.960 just happens to be a campaign strategist for Tim Walts.

00:06:56.200 What a coincidence.

00:06:57.300 It's almost like there's a political incentive to rile up people as much as possible to make

00:07:03.140 as much of a fuss about this for political ends, right?

00:07:06.860 And it's worth mentioning...

00:07:08.500 And those political ends are, keep every single illegal in our state.

00:07:13.520 And also make ice look bad by forcing situations that need not happen.

00:07:20.060 So, a point that I don't think gets made enough is, to those outside of the US, this is where

00:07:27.520 Minnesota is, and this is where the border with Mexico, where most of the illegals come 0.99

00:07:34.200 from, is, you'll notice that they're opposite sides of the United States.

00:07:39.860 Yes.

00:07:40.400 That occurred to me.

00:07:41.720 And you might be saying, Josh, have you lost your mind?

00:07:44.540 What are you talking about?

00:07:45.480 Well, funnily enough, one quarter of all ice arrests happen in Texas, because, you know,

00:07:51.020 Texas is here, Mexico is there, the southern border is the poorest one, although I'm sure 0.99

00:07:55.320 people come across the Canadian one.

00:07:56.800 It's far less common than the one in Mexico.

00:08:00.380 And so, most of the illegals are down here.

00:08:04.180 Ice is operating down here.

00:08:05.920 Why are you not hearing about this?

00:08:07.980 Well, it's because they don't have Tim Walz as governor, and Mayor Frey, and lots of Democrats

00:08:14.720 looking to cover their backsides, because they've been overseeing some of the largest scale

00:08:20.200 defrauding of the American public in the history of the United States.

00:08:25.440 And so, the difference is that there's a very small number of illegals here compared

00:08:31.060 to down here.

00:08:32.200 I'm not saying it's insignificant, but the fuss is being made here because of the politics.

00:08:38.360 Whereas in Texas, where the majority of ice arrests happen, you haven't seen nearly

00:08:43.180 the same reaction as you get in Minnesota.

00:08:45.320 But you did see three shootings last summer in Texas.

00:08:48.420 You did, yeah.

00:08:49.220 Three separate shootings targeting ICE, and I believe they ended up killing illegals that 0.98

00:08:53.880 ICE was holding.

00:08:54.760 That's right, yeah.

00:08:55.660 So, you saw violence there, and you saw a lot of violence in Los Angeles as well.

00:08:59.980 There was a bunch of riots in Los Angeles.

00:09:02.480 They seem to be maintaining a narrative by focusing all of their activity on one location to maximize

00:09:11.400 the disruption in one location, and have that grab the headlines, and force people to ignore

00:09:17.340 the fact that ICE detentions are happening up and down the United States.

00:09:22.020 But the important thing in those examples with Minnesota and California is that they're

00:09:26.720 DEM strongholds, right?

00:09:28.300 Whereas Texas, less so, although increasingly getting that way.

00:09:31.980 Yeah.

00:09:32.180 And therefore, you have the lone wolf person who seems to have acted alone, and you don't

00:09:37.780 have the wide-scale protesting you have in those other two places.

00:09:41.100 So, I suppose as well, there is also an impetus to do this as quickly as possible before the

00:09:49.040 midterms come around for any potential, you know, political backlash that may come, you

00:09:54.480 know, if they lose the House or the Senate.

00:09:56.980 Well, it seems like a very good incentive.

00:09:59.600 Like, Trump's sending in his stormtroopers to shoot ordinary American citizens.

00:10:04.340 If you don't want to be shot, vote for us.

00:10:07.920 And considering the options available to the Democrats, that's probably the line they're

00:10:13.320 going to go with, because otherwise they're not going to, you know, sell people on their

00:10:18.260 positive vision for America when half of America knows they hate them.

00:10:22.260 So, there was another shooting.

00:10:25.440 Don't worry, you don't actually see anything graphic.

00:10:28.020 So, I'm going to play it without the audio, though, just so you don't have to hear it.

00:10:35.240 And there's a few angles of this, and that's necessary to figure out what's going on.

00:10:40.000 And so, if you please do humour me going over it quite a bit, because it is important to

00:10:44.760 break down the nuance here.

00:10:46.260 And there's a lot of nuance in this.

00:10:47.900 It's not like some of the other shootings we've seen, you know, even things like George

00:10:52.640 Floyd and other things like that.

00:10:55.600 There's less ambiguity there than this one.

00:11:00.680 And I would like to highlight that, because I had to watch the video maybe 10, 15 times

00:11:06.060 before I actually realised what happened here.

00:11:09.120 So, I'm going to play it from a couple of angles, and then I'll explain what I think

00:11:14.920 happened.

00:11:15.880 Of course, I'm not a perfect, you know, omnipotent judge of what happened, but I'm going to give

00:11:21.720 it my best attempt.

00:11:22.680 And maybe if you think I'm wrong, and you have other information that I'm not privy

00:11:27.220 to, please let me know.

00:11:30.580 So, I'm just going to skip this forward a bit.

00:11:33.200 But people are interfering with ICE here.

00:11:38.140 There's a bit of a tussle.

00:11:40.900 And eventually, they get someone on the ground here.

00:11:43.960 Notice that the guy that they get on the ground is dressed like ICE.

00:11:46.660 Yes, exactly.

00:11:48.260 Interesting choice, isn't it?

00:11:50.200 Yeah.

00:11:50.480 So, it's a deliberate attempt at confusing the agents.

00:11:56.860 So, and then he gets shot.

00:11:59.280 So, if you're looking at this without watching it over and over and over again, it looks like

00:12:05.020 they shot an unarmed guy on the ground.

00:12:07.380 And at first, to be honest, in the first few watches, it's like, wow, that's actually what

00:12:12.720 happened.

00:12:13.520 And then I watched it over and over again from multiple different angles.

00:12:16.740 Let's watch it at another angle, shall we?

00:12:21.500 They're doing too much, man.

00:12:22.920 And they keep pushing people.

00:12:24.000 I don't need a Mexican guy narrating it, thank you. 1.00

00:12:28.540 They're doing too much, man.

00:12:30.480 Shush.

00:12:31.520 So, you can see this is a much better angle as it's from the other side.

00:12:35.140 You can see the angle we just watched it from here.

00:12:37.780 You can see they're trying to detain this guy here.

00:12:41.020 Multiple ICE agents.

00:12:42.240 It's difficult to tell because some of them are wearing winter coats.

00:12:47.240 But there's lots of struggling going on.

00:12:49.680 And then there's the shooting.

00:12:51.100 So, you still can't really see what's going on here that well.

00:12:56.780 It just looks like a struggle.

00:12:58.060 Then you get shot.

00:12:59.960 Here's another angle for the sake of time.

00:13:02.600 I'm not going to go over this one, but it's linked down below in the website if you want

00:13:06.180 to make up your own mind.

00:13:07.800 This isn't as useful as some of the others.

00:13:10.640 And then someone stabilized the original footage we saw, which makes it a lot easier to figure

00:13:16.460 out what's going on because, of course, the camera was very shaky.

00:13:21.100 So, you can see there down on the ground.

00:13:26.920 Keep an eye on this guy as well.

00:13:29.440 I think he's the one that takes the gun or one of these around here.

00:13:34.200 And then he gets shot.

00:13:38.600 Yes.

00:13:39.420 So, it's still not as clear.

00:13:42.860 But I think the clearest thing here is this.

00:13:47.680 This is a slowed down bit of footage.

00:13:50.780 So, as someone takes the gun...

00:13:53.200 It fires.

00:13:56.700 It fires, yeah.

00:13:59.340 See?

00:14:00.100 And zigs do that. 1.00

00:14:01.380 They do, yeah.

00:14:02.040 We'll be talking about those.

00:14:03.240 Don't worry.

00:14:04.020 So, what I think actually happened here was they were detaining a guy.

00:14:08.640 And you can hear from the audio, which I didn't play, but you can watch the original clips,

00:14:13.160 that someone says, gun.

00:14:14.580 And then a few seconds later, the guy is shot.

00:14:17.060 And what I think happened is one of the ICE agents sees that he has a gun, says gun.

00:14:23.700 Either he or another ICE agent takes the gun off of the guy, but the other agents don't

00:14:31.360 know that he's taken the gun already because it's happening so quickly.

00:14:34.820 It's in a matter of a few seconds.

00:14:36.320 And so, they think, he's got a gun, therefore, we need to return fire, right?

00:14:42.800 Because I think the law states, and I've looked this up, that you don't need to wait to be

00:14:47.780 shot at to shoot upon someone.

00:14:50.520 And so, as long as someone's armed and they're either, you know, assaulting you, resisting

00:14:54.320 arrest, or in a similar situation to that, legally, they are allowed to shoot.

00:14:59.500 However, they didn't realize that they had been disarmed prior to that.

00:15:03.960 And therefore, it complicates things.

00:15:05.800 And I think still, legally, the ICE agents would be okay.

00:15:09.140 This is still a lawful shooting.

00:15:11.000 But at the same time, I think we can all recognize that the person being unarmed is not a good

00:15:16.800 look.

00:15:17.620 And the fact that he had a gun in the first place is, of course, something that we're

00:15:22.220 going to get to in a second.

00:15:23.780 But I think that they took the gun off him.

00:15:26.720 It went off.

00:15:27.980 They thought he was firing at them.

00:15:30.760 They shot him.

00:15:31.520 And it seems to my mind that it is an accident more than anything.

00:15:38.300 It doesn't seem like they necessarily executed him deliberately after they disarmed him, because

00:15:45.720 it seems like there wasn't communication or necessary communication.

00:15:49.060 The gun went off on its own, which I think is ultimately the thing that sealed the guy's

00:15:53.260 fate more than anything, is that he bought a gun that wasn't reliable and went off on

00:15:57.620 its own, which, you know, avoid at all costs.

00:16:01.360 And when you hear a...

00:16:02.660 Sorry, when you're in law enforcement and you hear the first gunshot, the first thing you

00:16:06.980 do is not ask questions.

00:16:08.800 It is to shoot the suspect to make sure that, you know, the other officers or yourself don't

00:16:15.920 end up getting shot.

00:16:16.980 And of course, with tempers as they are at the minute, people aren't going to necessarily

00:16:20.360 see that nuance.

00:16:21.840 Well, this is just what I was about to say.

00:16:24.200 Not only that they won't see it, but that they won't wish to see it either.

00:16:28.100 You know, I remember, obviously, when we covered what happened recently with the killing of

00:16:32.960 Rennie Goode, also in Minneapolis.

00:16:36.020 And that was just a prime...

00:16:37.320 And I think that that was an easier case to figure out than this one here.

00:16:43.760 You know, I've had you explaining it.

00:16:46.200 That's a lot to piece together from all the different camera angles.

00:16:49.280 But you see how quickly this is just devolving into pure factionalism.

00:16:54.800 And that actually the nature of each death as they come seems to matter less and less

00:17:01.600 to people.

00:17:02.600 And all that matters are the two grand narratives surrounding it.

00:17:06.420 Yeah, and I was actually going to touch on this because the actual events themselves

00:17:11.140 aren't necessarily important to the politics.

00:17:13.740 The reality isn't actually informing either side, really.

00:17:17.860 But I do still think it's important to talk about it because I think that, okay, it's important

00:17:22.520 to, you know, support your own ends.

00:17:24.720 Exactly.

00:17:25.500 And if there are mistakes on our own side, if you will, then you want to know about them

00:17:33.020 to correct them.

00:17:34.120 And so you've got to look at these things honestly.

00:17:36.520 And you're not undermining the efforts of ICE to analyze them and to break them down.

00:17:41.820 Because, sorry, if I may just say as well, I suppose the thing is with it that even if,

00:17:46.800 in both examples, it is a case of just naked, you know, drunkenness on power and ICE barbarism,

00:17:55.240 which I don't believe to be the case.

00:17:56.900 But even if that were the case, and that these two people were killed and weren't obstructing

00:18:01.740 anyone, it doesn't mean that all of a sudden overnight, oh, right, we'll just let all the

00:18:07.120 illegals stay then, right? 1.00

00:18:08.820 It's still, the work still has to be done of clearing out all of these illegals that 1.00

00:18:15.080 were let in for many reasons, you know, many reasons that have been explored previously.

00:18:21.280 But it is becoming, you can tell that they're emboldening.

00:18:25.580 I agree with you.

00:18:26.500 We've not quite seen rebellion like this.

00:18:29.820 And also, for an example that will be lost on the Americans, just because Dr. Harold Chipman

00:18:34.460 exists doesn't mean I'm not going to go see a doctor if I'm sick.

00:18:37.460 Like, it doesn't necessarily mean you have to tar all people with the same brush.

00:18:43.460 So, oh, that's not working, never mind.

00:18:47.360 So, the White House posted a big long rant, it's almost like it was written by Trump or

00:18:52.480 something, but I'm not going to read all of that.

00:18:54.500 The point is that this is the gun that he had, and it is a SIG, and this type of gun is

00:19:02.440 notorious for going off on its own, which seems to be why it went off on its own.

00:19:07.080 Who would have thought?

00:19:08.080 And the funny thing is, even as a British person who, you know, my knowledge of guns

00:19:13.440 is somewhat limited, I have at least fired some and know, you know, roughly how to do

00:19:19.220 so.

00:19:20.580 Even I know about SIGs and their reputation for firing, you know, rounds when they're not

00:19:27.460 supposed to.

00:19:28.160 And if I knew this, would you really think that someone who, this is quite an expensive

00:19:33.000 gun, all things considered, do you think that they would just overlook that if they're

00:19:38.560 actually truly a proper gun owner?

00:19:40.960 And in fact, someone's broken it down, talking it's a SIG Sauer P320 Custom Works 9mm, and

00:19:49.060 it's not actually a custom, it's still off the rack.

00:19:51.060 And it's known as the gun that goes off randomly when you didn't pull the trigger, and it also

00:19:57.520 has the SIG Sauer red dot, which they claim is cheap Chinese rubbish, with a horrible reputation,

00:20:05.580 and also they had the same ammunition by SIG, which, from what I was reading, is apparently

00:20:13.100 quite good, unlike the gun itself.

00:20:15.960 But the point being that if they had a matching sight ammunition and gun, and the fact that

00:20:22.820 they point out that the magazine here normally, when it gets used, gets worn down, and you

00:20:27.900 start to see some silver underneath the black paint.

00:20:30.720 And so it seems like all of this was newly bought together at the same time, all the

00:20:37.000 same brand, and the choice of gun and the cost of it seems to suggest that someone doesn't

00:20:41.940 know much about guns, yeah.

00:20:45.820 And that's what they're saying here, this person that probably knows more than me, and

00:20:50.160 they're saying that it fits the profile of Commie Street Agitator well, which I think

00:20:55.500 they're right on that, to be honest.

00:20:56.800 The point about this being hollow point is also interesting.

00:20:59.740 Because that's anti-personnel, isn't it?

00:21:02.300 It's anti-personnel, but it doesn't work as well with body armor, and so you would assume

00:21:08.920 that the ice guys are wearing some kind of body armor, and therefore you wouldn't choose 0.99

00:21:13.640 hollow point if you actually wanted to kill ice agents.

00:21:17.800 So...

00:21:18.400 This is not advice.

00:21:20.180 Obviously.

00:21:21.020 Yes.

00:21:21.400 But, you know, here we are.

00:21:24.560 And it's also worth mentioning as well, that apparently an agent's finger was bitten off.

00:21:32.900 I don't know whether this was the same incident, so I wasn't able to find the full press conference

00:21:39.740 here.

00:21:40.740 There was another video of a guy with his hand bleeding, of an ice, of a...

00:21:45.060 I don't think it was ice, I think it was some other federal agent, with his hand bleeding.

00:21:48.880 I don't know if this is related.

00:21:50.940 But I just wanted to throw this in there to show that there is a tangible danger from

00:21:57.040 the protesters to these people, if, you know, someone fighting them with a gun on their

00:22:02.520 hip wasn't enough already.

00:22:04.400 But the reactions to this have been predictable.

00:22:08.220 People rioted, as is often the case, in Minneapolis, for some reason.

00:22:15.320 Although, you know, it's mostly just smoke bombs here, from this footage.

00:22:19.980 But people weren't happy, I suppose, is the way of putting it.

00:22:24.780 And for the sake of time, I'm not going to play this, but a man who's self-described

00:22:29.740 anti-far, he's very sweary.

00:22:32.920 He basically says, we need to arm ourselves.

00:22:34.860 And then he says, I live around the corner from these addresses, we need to assemble here.

00:22:39.760 So it doesn't seem like someone who is just trying to rile people up, but not back it up.

00:22:45.760 He's saying, we need guns, I've been talking about this for a long time.

00:22:49.620 We need to show up and face these people with weapons.

00:22:53.580 Here's the streets where we need to assemble.

00:22:56.180 And things like that.

00:22:57.160 Which is, I think, something that we've not seen up until this point, really.

00:23:02.140 And is concerning, obviously.

00:23:05.900 And the issue is that if the illegals get deported, that ends up affecting the census.

00:23:11.420 The census affects the number of congressional seats that each state gets,

00:23:15.840 and their weight in the electoral college.

00:23:19.020 So deporting all of the illegals, it changes the politics of Congress and of future presidential elections, 0.94

00:23:25.620 which currently favor Democrats.

00:23:29.700 And so they want this operation against illegals to fail, because it is critical to their hold on power. 0.95

00:23:37.120 Absolutely.

00:23:38.040 And because of pathologically pro-foreign. 0.65

00:23:40.960 Obviously.

00:23:41.460 And plus, a generation down the line, these illegals' children are going to be legal American citizens, 0.84

00:23:49.440 because of the way that the, I think, the 14th Amendment is applied.

00:23:54.800 Meaning that you're going to be in a situation where, that's it, the demographics have changed.

00:24:01.480 You are now in a uniparty state forever.

00:24:03.440 Congratulations.

00:24:03.780 Congratulations.

00:24:05.020 So this is quite existential.

00:24:08.440 And if Trump succeeds in this, even though the official deportation numbers are low,

00:24:12.620 even though they could be better, da-da-da-da-da, all of that's true.

00:24:15.960 But if Trump succeeds in this, then the Democrats have a very real problem on their hands.

00:24:21.880 Because increasingly, the white majority votes Republican, especially married whites.

00:24:26.280 We have this profile of the shit white lib, but they are actually a very noisy, annoying minority. 0.99

00:24:35.820 So all of these things factor into play and make this existential.

00:24:39.440 Do you have the links of Obama and Clinton going out in support of the protesters?

00:24:43.540 No, but it's important to mention if you want.

00:24:45.760 Yeah.

00:24:46.120 I mean, when you're a former president, this gives you an enormous amount of legitimacy.

00:24:51.620 Because you've been at the top seat.

00:24:54.080 You've ruled the country.

00:24:56.560 And that means all of the other politicians whose main objective is to be elected will listen to you because you know how to do it.

00:25:04.040 So when two-term presidents like Clinton and Obama come out in support of these protesters...

00:25:11.520 The things that they would never have actually supported when they were presidents.

00:25:15.540 Exactly.

00:25:16.160 And Obama is on record defending removing illegal aliens, etc., etc.

00:25:19.420 Hillary Clinton has a long bunch of rants about the importance of removing illegals, securing the border, all of that stuff. 0.95

00:25:26.480 So when people of that stature within the Democratic Party come out in support of protests and call for more protests,

00:25:34.480 it goes to show you how existential this is for the Democrats.

00:25:37.960 Well, this feeds in nicely to my overarching point that the reason that the Democrats are pushing this is entirely political.

00:25:47.080 And that's why it's all happening in Minneapolis and not elsewhere is that they benefit from making it as much of a situation as possible.

00:25:56.000 Each person that gets shot by ICE is a victory for the Democrats, basically.

00:26:01.320 Because then it makes it seem like they're going in there, or at least more likely to seem like they're going in to target American citizens.

00:26:09.320 They're not just there to innocently round up illegals and send them home in a civil way.

00:26:14.400 They're there to cause problems.

00:26:16.420 And that is why they're doing all of this.

00:26:19.180 This is why they're encouraging people to protest.

00:26:22.080 This is why they're not giving ICE police support and helping them clear the crowds, which is what they should be doing.

00:26:31.180 Ideally, as well, Trump shouldn't be sending in ICE alone with a situation like this.

00:26:37.420 He should also be pushing to support them and clearing the crowds so that they're not impeded

00:26:43.240 and you don't have situations like the one we watched, where it need not have happened had the government basically been doing its job properly.

00:26:53.660 And there are going to be more confrontations like this if this continues, which it will, because there's a strong incentive for them to do it.

00:27:00.700 And as you can see here, people are now turning up with guns, which I think in the coming weekend is going to really, really heat things up.

00:27:10.280 The key thing to mention is that everything that Waltz and Frey and so on are doing is a crime under various statutes that codify the Insurrection Act into law.

00:27:24.960 So Trump has an open goal here in terms of invoking the Insurrection Act, federalizing the National Guard, making the National Guard protect ICE,

00:27:33.860 taking control of the local police forces, just sort of decimating the chain of command, and simply forcing them to apply the law.

00:27:43.900 Well, to be fair, lots of police officers are already defecting to ICE, defecting, if you will.

00:27:50.980 Isn't that a wonderful word, given the context?

00:27:53.560 I know. That's why I chose everything.

00:27:56.460 Yeah, I know. It's a political thing at this point, isn't it?

00:28:00.680 Yeah. And part of the reason, I think, is because the Minneapolis police chief deliberately admits reporting that the victim had a gun in the first place

00:28:10.760 when he was talking about him being shot, which I think is an important detail.

00:28:16.780 And I think the way he talked about it only helped inflame tensions further, even though he went on to say,

00:28:22.020 be calm, be calm. By the way, he was executed.

00:28:24.980 But be calm. Don't go out and protest.

00:28:27.280 But he was unjustifiably killed.

00:28:28.980 That's sort of the subtext of what's going on here, even if it wasn't necessarily intentional, which I have my doubts about.

00:28:36.100 And to an urban environment, to a city that is liberally minded and has been indoctrinated for decades now on,

00:28:42.900 you know, diversity, equity, inclusion being the most important values that they can possess as well.

00:28:48.180 It gives these agitators and these people a moral mission and a sense of purpose in their lives that they're obviously severely lacking.

00:28:56.180 Yep. And Tim Waltz came out and basically said, you need to carry on protesting.

00:29:01.900 This is unjustified. They're coming to target American citizens.

00:29:05.260 Sorry, how is this man just not in prison?

00:29:07.620 I don't know. But to be honest, if the federal, and what he says is the federal government's coming for American citizens,

00:29:13.380 if the federal government were coming for American citizens, you'd have more than two people dead, I think.

00:29:17.580 Like, yes, just a bit of a guess. You hear about this little thing called the American Civil War when the federal government went after the South.

00:29:25.900 I don't think two people died in that. And that was a long time ago.

00:29:30.500 You also have the mayor trying to agitate people.

00:29:33.360 I'm talking about masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death.

00:29:37.620 Just trying to agitate people. Then you've got AOC. I don't know why the video looks like it's from the early 2000s.

00:29:44.760 Looks like, you know, New York City pre-9-11.

00:29:49.020 I don't know why. But she was there, you know, agitating and trying to make it sound as bad as possible.

00:29:55.000 And of course, all this goes in to serve the same political aims that we were talking about earlier.

00:30:00.320 And in a bitter twist of irony, the place where the shooting happened, there are a list of businesses in one address that couldn't possibly exist.

00:30:09.020 Smart Therapy Center, the New American Development Center and the Nicolette Senior Center.

00:30:14.500 And people did some digging and the Smart Therapy Center owned by Asha Farhan Hassan.

00:30:22.020 And there's also others. So it sort of brings it full circle that the site of the shooting in the background, you can see it in the videos, are institutions that are fraudulent fronts for foreign money.

00:30:41.500 I don't call it laundering. I guess fraud is the only way you can really put it.

00:30:46.200 There are these foreigners defrauding your country right behind where the shooting is going on. 1.00

00:30:51.960 And so there's this thematic thread that brings it full circle.

00:30:55.680 And that is exactly what they're protecting.

00:30:57.800 And it's very ironic that it's visible with this flashpoint in the background.

00:31:04.760 So my final point is to wrap up that all of this is political.

00:31:10.340 Of course it is. This is perfectly easy to prevent.

00:31:14.080 You just don't keep the protesters next to ICE.

00:31:18.340 This is possible to separate them. It's possible to separate these two groups.

00:31:22.480 And by allowing this to happen, this is a political choice.

00:31:26.220 And therefore it's safe to say that the political establishment wants these people to be shot for their own power.

00:31:33.800 And that's exactly what Cranky Texan says.

00:31:36.020 He says that they're following the color revolution playbook, exactly, agitating to the point where people get shot.

00:31:41.960 That's the whole purpose.

00:31:43.120 I think he also says that...

00:31:48.240 Sorry, I was moving the mouse.

00:31:50.520 Yeah, fine.

00:31:53.680 Allow it this once.

00:31:55.820 Sorry, Ferris. Please forgive me.

00:31:57.960 I was trying to scroll down.

00:32:00.220 Forgiven, but I can't seem to get this mouse to operate.

00:32:03.780 He's moving.

00:32:04.760 He's just here.

00:32:06.060 Yeah.

00:32:06.740 I've got it.

00:32:07.860 Okay. Go for it.

00:32:09.320 Yours has run out of battery, Ferris.

00:32:10.420 Oh, wonderful. Then I'll have to steal yours.

00:32:13.060 That's all right.

00:32:14.700 Cranky Texan says, there is a lot of oil in and off the shore of Somalia.

00:32:18.440 The West have been trying to extract it for over 30 years.

00:32:21.120 That's why they are learning centers in Minneapolis and riots to defend them.

00:32:25.000 That's an interesting explanation.

00:32:27.940 Tom Ratt says, I think Robert Barnes is right on this.

00:32:30.560 This is bad whether you support ICE or not.

00:32:33.120 Unforced error.

00:32:34.340 That seems pretty reasonable, to be honest.

00:32:36.660 And they say, again, brutal truth is that even though Ferris is 100%,

00:32:40.880 he might as well be completely wrong.

00:32:42.540 Arrests should have been top down, and they aren't.

00:32:45.200 So they are now thrashing in the mud amongst the tramps.

00:32:48.420 Yeah, fair enough.

00:32:52.780 Fair enough.

00:32:53.840 The holy maps.

00:32:55.620 Yeah, sure.

00:32:56.360 Let's talk about something slightly even more exciting, I would say.

00:33:02.360 Well, thank you.

00:33:04.780 So what we have now is a major American military buildup in the Middle East

00:33:12.380 with the very strong possibility of another war to take out the Iranians.

00:33:18.100 The troop levels are at a record high, at least since May,

00:33:23.280 when the first strike happened.

00:33:26.320 There is a huge number of bases already in the Middle East,

00:33:29.380 but a new aircraft carrier is being sent to the region,

00:33:33.620 as well as a bunch of aircraft that are tasked with jamming

00:33:39.280 the communications of the enemy.

00:33:41.020 So clearly aimed at the Iranians, 1.00

00:33:44.020 as well as a huge number of refueling tankers

00:33:46.720 and some new destroyers and Aegis cruisers.

00:33:52.940 The destroyers are obviously there for a land attack,

00:33:56.000 and the cruisers are there to intercept missiles

00:33:59.780 when the Iranians retaliate.

00:34:02.080 We're also seeing an inflow of, we mentioned the tankers,

00:34:07.100 but we're also seeing an inflow of air defense systems,

00:34:09.880 including THAAD and Patriot,

00:34:12.580 that are being deployed to counter the Iranians' retaliation

00:34:17.800 against a possible strike by the United States.

00:34:22.180 And this buildup seems to be quite significant,

00:34:24.840 and it's going on quite quickly.

00:34:27.720 On the 14th, 15th of January,

00:34:32.340 we had a near miss where basically the tankers were in the air

00:34:37.700 in order to support aircraft that would be tasked with attacking Iran.

00:34:43.500 But at the very last moment,

00:34:45.820 a bunch of the Arab states intervened and stopped that,

00:34:48.140 and I'll go over that in a second.

00:34:50.220 But we're also seeing cruisers that are being deployed

00:34:52.960 to the Eastern Mediterranean in order to protect Israel 0.95

00:34:56.600 from the possibility of a retaliation by the Iranians.

00:35:03.660 So this buildup is clearly getting ready

00:35:07.940 to a point of escalation, to a point of no return,

00:35:13.220 and it's really down to Trump to decide

00:35:15.760 whether or not he's going to conduct strikes against Iran,

00:35:18.400 and this time seemingly with the aim of toppling the regime.

00:35:23.540 And I don't fully see the value of this, really,

00:35:32.580 and I don't see how it relates to American interests.

00:35:35.680 Well, I think that there are multiple different things to say here,

00:35:39.540 the first of which is he signaled that he was going to do

00:35:42.580 something a bit more significant,

00:35:45.000 and I'm surprised it's actually taken this long

00:35:47.440 because he was saying, you know,

00:35:49.160 hang on in there, protesters,

00:35:50.520 we're coming to help you out, and then did nothing.

00:35:52.580 Yep.

00:35:52.980 And so one would presume that there's maybe some planning going on

00:35:57.980 that's dragging things out,

00:35:59.180 or they're waiting for the right moment.

00:36:01.740 And the second thing I would like to say,

00:36:03.860 other than the fact that this is going to be

00:36:06.400 an expensive operation that could lead to, you know,

00:36:09.100 deaths and boots on the ground and things

00:36:11.280 that most people don't want,

00:36:13.700 is that if the United States does topple the regime,

00:36:17.100 it's not necessarily a good thing for anyone involved

00:36:21.960 because the United States pays for it,

00:36:24.480 both in blood and treasure, potentially,

00:36:27.160 as well as the fact that then the subsequent Iranian regime

00:36:32.080 will forever be associated with,

00:36:34.340 well, you were only put in by the Americans,

00:36:37.040 even if they were, you know, elected in a free and fair election,

00:36:40.980 they would still have that association.

00:36:43.120 And so that's not going to help them to, you know,

00:36:47.780 launch safely into a sustainable and happy future, if you will.

00:36:52.500 It's only going to burden them.

00:36:54.700 And so it would be better if Iran did this themselves 1.00

00:36:58.680 than it be external.

00:37:00.980 And I think that's the key point here.

00:37:02.840 The key point is that with the collapse of Syria,

00:37:06.320 and essentially it's captured by Turkey

00:37:08.800 and it's de facto dismemberment

00:37:13.200 between the Turks and the Israelis,

00:37:16.180 the Iranians lost Hezbollah

00:37:20.160 in addition to all of the massive losses

00:37:22.920 that Hezbollah suffered

00:37:24.100 during the actual war with Israel.

00:37:26.960 Its entire command structure was decapitated.

00:37:29.260 Its elite units' command structure was taken out.

00:37:34.680 A huge number of lower and mid-ranking commanders

00:37:37.960 were all killed in the months before the big escalation

00:37:41.360 in September 2024.

00:37:44.740 A lot of its warehouses have been destroyed.

00:37:47.240 Its infrastructure in South Lebanon

00:37:48.780 close to the Israeli border

00:37:50.820 has been dismantled or decimated

00:37:55.200 one way or the other.

00:37:56.760 The Israelis have pretty much full freedom of movement

00:37:59.500 over Lebanon

00:38:00.140 and they have full freedom of movement in Syria.

00:38:04.840 So the Iranians actually lost the Islamic revolution

00:38:09.980 because the Islamic revolution was predicated

00:38:12.800 on the revolution being exported to other countries.

00:38:16.340 In Yemen, they have a peace in the north,

00:38:21.480 which is now weirdly kind of in partnership

00:38:24.080 with the Saudis in a very weird way.

00:38:27.760 They and the Saudis are working together

00:38:29.540 against the UAE in places like Somalia and Sudan

00:38:33.560 and maybe in the future in Libya.

00:38:38.580 And the Iranians have been pushed back to just Iraq.

00:38:43.080 And Iraq is a complete basket case. 1.00

00:38:45.420 As a country, it's utterly and completely dysfunctional.

00:38:48.700 And so if the Iranians want to keep 0.99

00:38:50.720 at least the Shia part of it,

00:38:52.700 okay, that's theirs, fine.

00:38:56.660 But in no way does it even still threaten Israel.

00:38:59.740 The missile program could hit Israel

00:39:02.340 and we saw the Israelis getting hit pretty hard

00:39:05.740 by Iranian missiles.

00:39:08.000 And the only reason that the Israelis aren't flying over Iran

00:39:11.100 and regularly bombing it now

00:39:12.500 is because the Iranians can fight back

00:39:14.800 and can cause significant damage to Israel.

00:39:17.080 But that's not a threat to the United States.

00:39:21.880 That's the issue.

00:39:23.500 The Americans aren't actually threatened

00:39:25.420 by Iranian missiles

00:39:26.480 because they'd get obliterated in a full-on war.

00:39:31.340 Even if they can cause significant damage

00:39:33.300 in the region with their missiles,

00:39:35.520 they have no chance of causing damage

00:39:37.640 to the American homeland.

00:39:40.380 So we see this mess where there is this drive to war

00:39:43.640 and there is this massive buildup towards war.

00:39:45.860 And it is being done to benefit the Israelis, obviously.

00:39:52.400 But it isn't obvious to me that the Israelis

00:39:55.700 would benefit from it that much.

00:39:58.600 Because what you have now is Iraq being held together 1.00

00:40:02.300 by a string, more or less.

00:40:05.420 They had an election last year

00:40:08.340 and as they do with every single election,

00:40:11.380 it's followed by a massive political crisis

00:40:13.720 because the Shia powers don't want a strong prime minister 0.99

00:40:17.420 because a strong prime minister might do something

00:40:20.880 to control the corruption.

00:40:21.960 And so they're fighting to see

00:40:25.800 what kind of weak prime minister do they get.

00:40:28.820 And the Sunnis aren't happy 0.99

00:40:30.280 and the Kurds aren't happy.

00:40:32.100 But if the Iranians who are keeping the Shia of Iraq together 1.00

00:40:35.940 stop playing that role,

00:40:38.300 then Iraq falls apart. 0.70

00:40:39.380 Well, who's right next door to Iraq 1.00

00:40:41.980 who absolutely hates Israel

00:40:43.340 and wants to take over Iraq's northern energy infrastructure?

00:40:48.140 The Turks. 0.84

00:40:49.540 The actual new enemies that the Israelis have. 0.65

00:40:52.920 And the Turks are becoming considerably stronger 1.00

00:40:56.060 because over the last week

00:40:57.980 we saw them take over northern Syria,

00:41:00.320 including the Kurdish part of northern Syria.

00:41:02.180 And that's the part of Syria 0.83

00:41:04.400 that has the grains and the oil.

00:41:07.220 So that's the most lucrative part of Syria. 0.99

00:41:11.220 That's the part that's most amenable to investments,

00:41:14.820 that can generate energy,

00:41:16.680 and that energy solves the main problem

00:41:19.780 in the Turkish economy,

00:41:21.280 which is that it doesn't have

00:41:23.020 an independent source of energy.

00:41:25.760 And so by getting rid of Syria, 1.00

00:41:29.140 the Israelis ended up strengthening the Turks.

00:41:32.180 And if they go ahead and get rid of Iran, 1.00

00:41:36.100 guess what?

00:41:37.120 The northern half of Iraq,

00:41:39.380 which is all Sunni,

00:41:40.720 between Kurdish and Sunni Arab,

00:41:43.380 is also going to fall into Turkey's lap 0.99

00:41:46.440 because there's a vacuum

00:41:48.560 and the Turks are in an imperialist mood

00:41:51.140 and they will take over that piece of real estate.

00:41:54.140 And also, in so doing,

00:41:55.880 they would create a larger number of insurgents

00:41:58.580 in the first place

00:41:59.460 that will cause problems.

00:42:01.240 Not just for the Middle East,

00:42:03.380 but also probably for Europe as well.

00:42:05.260 Exactly.

00:42:07.220 And we've seen the United States decide

00:42:09.380 that it's going to move

00:42:10.800 Islamic State fighters

00:42:12.700 from Syria to Iraq.

00:42:14.520 the whole 2014 insurgency

00:42:19.140 and the surge of Islamic State

00:42:20.980 in 2013-2014

00:42:22.500 happened because the insurgents

00:42:25.440 broke their fellow insurgents

00:42:27.900 out of prisons

00:42:28.900 that were controlled by the Iraqis.

00:42:32.080 And so everything is being put into place

00:42:34.120 to create total chaos in Iraq.

00:42:35.800 And who's going to benefit from that?

00:42:39.900 Israel's new big enemy, Turkey. 0.90

00:42:43.020 But if you're Turkey, 0.78

00:42:44.420 you're looking at all of this

00:42:45.520 and you're asking yourself,

00:42:46.640 hold on,

00:42:47.420 if they can take out the Iranian regime,

00:42:49.680 they can probably take us out as well

00:42:51.440 before we've had a chance to consolidate.

00:42:53.840 And the same narratives

00:42:56.480 that are being used against Iran

00:42:57.960 can be turned against Turkey.

00:43:00.120 They're also repressing protesters.

00:43:02.300 They're also turning the country theocratic.

00:43:04.620 They're also an enemy of the West, 0.99

00:43:06.580 et cetera, et cetera.

00:43:07.620 But how strong is Erdogan's consolidation of power?

00:43:12.120 Pretty strong.

00:43:13.700 The elections don't really matter anymore.

00:43:16.180 No.

00:43:16.360 Because he can always manipulate them

00:43:18.020 to get the results that he wants.

00:43:20.200 In 2015, he made them run the election again.

00:43:23.440 In 2018, I believe, he did that,

00:43:26.200 but it failed more so than the first time.

00:43:29.520 But if you look at the Ministry of Defense,

00:43:31.540 the Ministry of Interior,

00:43:32.680 the justice system,

00:43:34.020 the police system,

00:43:36.080 all of the institutions of state,

00:43:38.240 these are fully Erdogan loyalists.

00:43:41.160 And there is a sort of designated successor

00:43:43.700 who is his foreign minister

00:43:45.820 who was the former head of intelligence,

00:43:47.780 meaning that he would have been

00:43:49.440 responsible for the cooperation

00:43:51.180 between Turkey and Islamic State

00:43:54.020 a decade ago.

00:43:56.200 And he was obviously responsible for it.

00:43:58.680 Islamic State had literally

00:44:00.000 an ambassador to Turkey.

00:44:02.980 And now this chaos is being planned

00:44:06.740 for Iran and Iraq.

00:44:08.460 And the objective,

00:44:10.240 from the Israeli perspective,

00:44:11.520 is to make sure that there isn't a state

00:44:13.920 that's strong enough to take on Israel.

00:44:15.820 But if this attack on Iran actually happens,

00:44:20.860 the main beneficiaries are going to be the Turks.

00:44:24.760 And then we're going to have a conversation

00:44:26.860 where the neocons shift their attention

00:44:29.960 from a broken Iran to a pretty strong Turkey.

00:44:34.520 And does that mean that

00:44:37.980 there is going to be an attack on Turkey 0.97

00:44:40.100 in the next decade?

00:44:41.560 I mean, if Constantinople is going to come back

00:44:43.680 to Christendom again,

00:44:45.360 sign me up.

00:44:46.520 Finally, a foreign adventure

00:44:47.800 the US is getting into that I support.

00:44:49.740 Yeah, well, it may or may not play out that way.

00:44:54.660 I'm being facetious, of course.

00:44:56.120 I know, I know.

00:44:56.860 I don't actually mean it.

00:44:57.580 I know.

00:44:59.120 But we saw already,

00:45:00.760 after the strike on Qatar,

00:45:03.380 that Saudi Arabia ran

00:45:04.920 and signed the defense pact with Pakistan

00:45:06.940 to put Saudi Arabia under their nuclear umbrella,

00:45:11.840 under the Pakistani nuclear umbrella.

00:45:14.300 And so if this attack on Iran happens,

00:45:17.020 and we can all see that Turkey

00:45:19.580 is going to be the next target,

00:45:21.520 what are the Turks going to do?

00:45:22.860 They're going to place themselves

00:45:24.140 under the Pakistani nuclear umbrella.

00:45:26.760 And they're going to work with Pakistan 1.00

00:45:28.580 and North Korea

00:45:29.340 to acquire their own nuclear weapon.

00:45:31.640 And they won't make the mistake

00:45:33.080 that the Iranians made, 1.00

00:45:34.200 which is sort of use this

00:45:35.780 to negotiate endlessly for two decades

00:45:37.920 as they tinker with the possibility

00:45:40.240 of a nuclear program.

00:45:42.260 All the time from a weaker and weaker position.

00:45:45.100 All the time from a weaker and weaker position.

00:45:46.720 They're just going to buy a turnkey solution

00:45:49.520 and say,

00:45:51.080 we now have 10 Pakistani nuclear weapons

00:45:53.960 that are deployed in Anatolia.

00:45:56.440 If you attack us, we're going to use them. 0.85

00:45:58.700 That will be the reasonable Turkish reaction 0.62

00:46:01.780 to this mess.

00:46:05.160 That said,

00:46:06.060 there's a bunch of speculation

00:46:07.200 on what the Iranians do about this.

00:46:09.080 And I want to discuss that for a moment.

00:46:11.180 The Iranians always say or make noises 1.00

00:46:15.980 about closing the Strait of Hormuz.

00:46:19.380 Let's think this through.

00:46:21.940 Firstly, it means that the Americans

00:46:24.100 end up destroying the Iranian energy infrastructure,

00:46:27.980 all of it,

00:46:28.920 which is concentrated on one tiny island.

00:46:32.300 The export infrastructure is concentrated

00:46:33.960 on one tiny island,

00:46:35.200 and that can just be erased.

00:46:38.000 So the Iranians will be in a situation 1.00

00:46:40.060 where they won't export energy

00:46:41.560 for another 10 years, 15 years.

00:46:45.220 It's not a good proposition.

00:46:47.400 And if they say to the Saudis

00:46:49.280 and to the Emiratis,

00:46:50.800 you're not allowed to export your oil anymore,

00:46:53.800 well, Saudi Arabia has 150

00:46:56.320 F-15 American-made jets.

00:46:59.400 The Emiratis have something like 55

00:47:02.860 F-16s American-made.

00:47:05.500 And they have, I think,

00:47:06.840 44 Mirage aircraft.

00:47:11.020 These will be placed under American command. 0.60

00:47:14.080 Because, you know,

00:47:15.180 what else are they going to do?

00:47:17.040 There is one crazy thing

00:47:18.300 that they could do,

00:47:19.020 which is to join the Iranians 0.68

00:47:20.340 in an oil embargo.

00:47:22.220 And then the Chinese economy

00:47:23.980 suffers massively,

00:47:25.040 but Europe falls apart too.

00:47:27.740 So, because that's 20%

00:47:29.540 of the world's oil

00:47:30.420 that goes through

00:47:31.620 the Strait of Hormuz

00:47:32.360 every single day.

00:47:33.500 20 million barrels a day,

00:47:34.740 total demand of around

00:47:35.860 100 million barrels.

00:47:36.760 And I imagine because of

00:47:37.740 recent developments in Venezuela

00:47:39.200 and the oil that the Americans

00:47:41.200 have got a hold on there,

00:47:42.460 it'll mitigate any effects on America.

00:47:44.840 So the Americans are already 0.94

00:47:45.880 the world's biggest producer

00:47:47.140 of oil, I think.

00:47:48.160 I think they produce

00:47:49.200 13 million barrels a day,

00:47:50.560 give or take,

00:47:51.240 because with fracking,

00:47:52.380 the numbers change.

00:47:53.140 But between the American 0.91

00:47:55.120 domestic supply

00:47:56.040 and the Canadian supply,

00:47:57.520 the Americans can't 0.99

00:47:58.720 take care of themselves.

00:48:00.720 And with Venezuela,

00:48:01.860 it takes a while

00:48:03.000 to get all of this

00:48:04.940 potential oil up to speed.

00:48:07.140 Sure.

00:48:07.620 So they'll still be

00:48:08.680 at around a million,

00:48:09.600 a million and a half,

00:48:10.380 at most,

00:48:11.660 barrels per day,

00:48:12.480 which is not enough,

00:48:14.880 but which together

00:48:16.180 with the Americans' 0.79

00:48:17.160 domestic supply

00:48:17.820 and the Canadian supply

00:48:18.780 kind of help solve problems.

00:48:21.080 And then there are

00:48:22.160 all kinds of technical things

00:48:23.620 around which refineries

00:48:26.080 are suited to which oil.

00:48:27.860 So it causes a headache

00:48:29.100 for the Americans,

00:48:30.260 but it's not as big

00:48:31.480 of a headache

00:48:31.940 as the one that is suffered

00:48:33.280 by the Europeans

00:48:34.040 and especially the Asians.

00:48:36.460 So that's one possibility,

00:48:39.400 that we see the Strait of Hormuz

00:48:41.200 closed and then the Iranian 1.00

00:48:42.340 energy industry is destroyed,

00:48:44.060 or the Arabs decide

00:48:46.120 we've had it with the Americans.

00:48:47.740 I think that's not likely,

00:48:49.320 but we'll see.

00:48:50.920 The other thing

00:48:51.920 that they could do

00:48:52.520 is actually build

00:48:53.300 a nuclear weapon.

00:48:54.880 Well, guess what?

00:48:55.780 With the attacks

00:48:56.660 that happened

00:48:57.360 against the Iranians 1.00

00:48:58.320 last time,

00:48:59.640 what we saw was that

00:49:00.700 the Iranians

00:49:01.300 were deeply penetrated,

00:49:03.740 that Israeli intelligence

00:49:04.980 really knows

00:49:05.900 what the Iranians 0.55

00:49:06.700 are up to.

00:49:07.640 Israeli and American intelligence

00:49:08.820 really knows

00:49:09.340 what's happening.

00:49:11.640 And so if they actually

00:49:12.420 try to build a weapon,

00:49:13.720 they have zero guarantee

00:49:14.740 that it won't be detected.

00:49:15.700 And if it gets detected

00:49:18.840 that the Iranians

00:49:19.720 are planning

00:49:20.140 to build a weapon,

00:49:21.860 we know

00:49:22.620 what kind of media narrative

00:49:25.000 will be used

00:49:25.760 and we know

00:49:26.400 that that might result

00:49:27.320 in them being actually nuked.

00:49:29.700 So both of their options

00:49:31.120 are suicidal.

00:49:33.400 And their only viable option

00:49:35.560 is to keep on firing missiles

00:49:37.080 at the Americans 0.93

00:49:37.900 for as long as they can

00:49:39.700 in order to show

00:49:40.680 that they survived.

00:49:41.400 OK, but again,

00:49:45.680 this isn't to deal

00:49:47.400 with a threat

00:49:47.880 to the United States.

00:49:50.620 And we know

00:49:51.380 that Britain

00:49:51.740 is going to be involved

00:49:52.740 because we know

00:49:54.140 that the base in Cyprus

00:49:55.100 is going to be used

00:49:56.060 and whatever

00:49:57.280 refueling capability,

00:49:58.700 intelligence capability

00:49:59.480 that Britain has

00:50:00.500 is going to be placed

00:50:02.460 under American command

00:50:03.820 and in partnership

00:50:04.460 with the US.

00:50:05.800 And we know

00:50:06.840 from the June war

00:50:08.520 in 2025

00:50:09.800 that all of the

00:50:13.220 French and German

00:50:15.960 available assets

00:50:17.100 are also going to be used

00:50:18.780 because Britain,

00:50:20.820 Germany and France

00:50:22.380 were all involved

00:50:24.060 in intercepting

00:50:24.920 Iranian missiles

00:50:25.760 that were being fired

00:50:26.840 at Israel

00:50:27.360 and Iranian drones.

00:50:29.620 So we know

00:50:30.560 that this is going

00:50:31.000 to be a European thing

00:50:32.180 as well.

00:50:33.360 It's not going to be

00:50:34.220 just an American thing.

00:50:35.920 And we know

00:50:37.200 that all over Europe

00:50:39.020 we have the pro-Palestine 0.98

00:50:40.740 lunatics

00:50:41.200 constantly marching.

00:50:42.720 These guys are going

00:50:43.500 to activate.

00:50:44.740 But we know

00:50:45.340 that there are

00:50:45.740 specific Iranian assets

00:50:46.960 because for Quds Day

00:50:49.720 which is to

00:50:50.620 which is the Iranians

00:50:52.120 kind of celebrating

00:50:53.020 the Jerusalem

00:50:55.380 and how they plan

00:50:56.520 to take over

00:50:57.020 Jerusalem one day.

00:50:59.040 Don't we all?

00:51:00.120 Don't we all?

00:51:00.760 Don't we all?

00:51:01.240 Yes.

00:51:01.520 I mean,

00:51:01.760 who amongst us

00:51:02.700 hasn't wished

00:51:04.500 for Jerusalem

00:51:05.080 to come back

00:51:05.720 into its rightful

00:51:06.440 Christian hands? 0.90

00:51:07.540 But we know

00:51:10.380 that these groups

00:51:11.340 are going to operate

00:51:12.360 in Sweden

00:51:13.140 and in Germany

00:51:14.280 and in London

00:51:15.480 and in Paris

00:51:16.700 and all over.

00:51:18.520 And we're going

00:51:19.220 to have the Shia minority

00:51:20.760 which is actually

00:51:21.940 quite crazy

00:51:22.560 and quite vocal

00:51:23.220 in Europe

00:51:23.680 also get involved

00:51:25.920 in rioting

00:51:26.660 and in protesting

00:51:27.220 and maybe in terrorist attacks.

00:51:29.800 And the question is

00:51:31.100 if we assess

00:51:32.460 this objectively

00:51:33.500 the main beneficiaries

00:51:35.520 of an attack

00:51:37.420 on Iran

00:51:38.400 are probably

00:51:39.640 going to be

00:51:40.120 the Turks

00:51:40.500 even though

00:51:42.340 it's the Israelis 0.98

00:51:43.300 who have the grudge

00:51:44.040 against the Iranians 1.00

00:51:45.460 and even though

00:51:46.900 if it wasn't

00:51:47.460 for Israeli influence

00:51:48.360 the Americans

00:51:48.860 wouldn't be thinking

00:51:49.620 about bombing Iran 0.51

00:51:50.340 right now.

00:51:52.020 And we know

00:51:52.900 that the revolution

00:51:53.560 has failed

00:51:54.120 and that the threat

00:51:55.460 from Iran

00:51:55.920 has been massively reduced.

00:51:59.160 So,

00:51:59.940 and we know

00:52:00.640 that all of Europe

00:52:01.320 is going to be roped

00:52:02.100 into this

00:52:02.500 one way or another.

00:52:04.620 And we know

00:52:05.480 that

00:52:05.760 and it sounds

00:52:06.780 such a silly

00:52:08.060 thing to say out loud

00:52:09.520 but we know

00:52:10.180 that for whatever reason

00:52:11.920 Trump

00:52:12.380 in his actual

00:52:13.140 you know

00:52:13.500 not

00:52:13.840 not the US administration

00:52:15.800 not its foreign policy plans

00:52:17.900 Trump

00:52:18.380 as a human being

00:52:19.720 and the things

00:52:20.240 that guide him

00:52:20.960 as a man

00:52:21.480 he was

00:52:23.000 really obsessed

00:52:24.240 with that

00:52:24.940 bloody Nobel Peace Prize.

00:52:27.280 Right.

00:52:27.660 Which sounds stupid

00:52:28.740 but like

00:52:29.220 he invoked it again

00:52:30.660 just last week

00:52:32.000 over the whole

00:52:32.560 Greenland thing

00:52:33.260 and the fact

00:52:33.600 that Norway

00:52:34.100 didn't give him

00:52:34.940 that Nobel Peace Prize

00:52:36.480 and he says

00:52:37.040 well maybe now

00:52:37.900 that you know

00:52:38.360 I've not had that

00:52:39.540 I'll change my own mind

00:52:41.860 about how

00:52:42.600 how involved I get

00:52:44.000 with certain

00:52:45.060 foreign disputes.

00:52:46.420 Yep.

00:52:47.160 Yep.

00:52:48.000 So

00:52:48.480 just looking

00:52:50.420 at this whole question

00:52:51.360 of bombing Iran 0.85

00:52:52.180 or not bombing Iran

00:52:53.140 all of it

00:52:54.880 is crazy.

00:52:56.420 And it's strategically

00:52:57.660 nonsensical.

00:52:58.160 You've convinced me

00:52:59.140 of that.

00:53:00.220 And it's strategically

00:53:01.240 nonsensical.

00:53:03.220 And it's just

00:53:04.220 being done

00:53:04.840 because of

00:53:05.320 Trump's donors.

00:53:06.720 And that should

00:53:07.520 be stated clearly.

00:53:09.520 And here we are

00:53:10.820 getting ready

00:53:11.960 to suffer

00:53:12.560 the consequences

00:53:13.400 of another war

00:53:14.260 in the Middle East.

00:53:15.540 Why?

00:53:16.060 Why?

00:53:19.380 Anyway

00:53:19.940 shall we

00:53:22.300 move on

00:53:23.100 to other fun topics?

00:53:24.200 Oh well

00:53:24.860 other geopolitical

00:53:26.380 situations

00:53:27.160 around the world.

00:53:28.800 Yeah it's alright

00:53:29.320 let's move on

00:53:29.980 to something more

00:53:30.580 light-hearted

00:53:31.200 shall we?

00:53:31.820 Yes why not?

00:53:32.740 I'll take

00:53:33.300 that too.

00:53:34.820 Yep go for it. 0.80

00:53:35.680 Does that work?

00:53:36.500 Yeah it's working.

00:53:37.440 There are a few

00:53:38.220 chats there.

00:53:39.820 Okay we'll go

00:53:40.700 through those.

00:53:41.660 So

00:53:41.820 Bernardo says

00:53:43.740 Firas

00:53:44.140 is the Christian

00:53:45.440 community in Lebanon

00:53:46.440 better off

00:53:47.280 or worse off

00:53:48.040 with Turks

00:53:48.620 on the rise

00:53:49.340 and the Iranians 0.89

00:53:50.460 influence waning?

00:53:51.660 They're not really

00:53:53.980 better off.

00:53:55.300 I mean the Syrian 0.83

00:53:56.040 lunatics

00:53:56.660 still want to

00:53:58.280 take over Lebanon 0.99

00:53:58.940 and they have

00:54:00.340 a huge grudge

00:54:01.280 against the Shia 1.00

00:54:02.040 Hezbollah's people

00:54:02.920 but they have

00:54:04.160 a pretty big grudge

00:54:05.260 against a bunch

00:54:05.880 of the Christians 0.95

00:54:06.380 and in general

00:54:07.320 against Christians 1.00

00:54:08.080 and so

00:54:09.960 Hezbollah

00:54:10.880 doesn't have

00:54:11.900 the same kind

00:54:13.020 of

00:54:13.380 well they do

00:54:15.180 but they don't

00:54:15.840 exercise on it.

00:54:17.060 They don't act

00:54:17.660 on their hatreds

00:54:18.660 in the same way

00:54:19.840 that the Sunnis do.

00:54:21.660 So I don't see it

00:54:22.700 as a

00:54:23.200 as a good thing

00:54:25.200 really.

00:54:26.900 The best thing

00:54:27.800 to happen to Lebanon 0.95

00:54:28.620 would be for the Druze 0.99

00:54:29.720 and the Christians

00:54:30.200 to sort of get along

00:54:31.220 and figure out

00:54:33.000 we have the mountain

00:54:33.800 let's sort of

00:54:34.460 keep that

00:54:34.960 Sunnisia a mess

00:54:37.300 but that tends

00:54:38.580 that requires

00:54:40.120 a level of

00:54:40.840 humility and honesty

00:54:42.380 that neither side

00:54:43.160 is showing right now.

00:54:44.160 I see.

00:54:45.260 Logan 17 says

00:54:46.640 why do I have

00:54:47.340 a suspicion

00:54:47.840 that the Greenland noise

00:54:49.080 was smoke

00:54:49.820 for something bigger

00:54:50.860 and

00:54:52.060 Ochidness

00:54:53.220 Ochigdor says

00:54:55.060 I'm hearing

00:54:56.200 Zoroastrianism 0.91

00:54:57.160 is becoming

00:54:58.060 more public

00:54:59.180 in Iran

00:54:59.880 bring back

00:55:00.640 the Persian Empire.

00:55:02.100 I mean

00:55:02.380 Zoroastrianism 0.91

00:55:03.600 at least has

00:55:04.320 some sort of

00:55:05.020 cool iconography

00:55:06.140 I know you're

00:55:07.880 going to tell me off

00:55:08.560 but

00:55:08.880 I'm holding back.

00:55:11.060 Hey

00:55:14.060 at least it's not

00:55:14.980 Islam

00:55:15.260 right

00:55:15.680 Fair enough

00:55:16.780 Alright then

00:55:18.160 ladies and gentlemen

00:55:18.920 so we've heard

00:55:20.420 since last year

00:55:22.160 that Britain

00:55:23.080 was handing over

00:55:24.760 sovereign territory

00:55:25.920 sovereign territory

00:55:26.960 of the Chagos Islands

00:55:28.240 in the Indian Ocean

00:55:29.360 to the other

00:55:31.520 island of

00:55:32.280 Mauritius

00:55:33.060 now this

00:55:34.400 on the face

00:55:35.140 of it

00:55:35.440 seemed

00:55:36.320 foolhardy

00:55:38.260 unnecessary

00:55:38.940 ridiculous

00:55:40.080 and we were

00:55:41.680 assured by

00:55:42.600 Starmer

00:55:43.340 and the Labour Party

00:55:44.400 well there's nothing

00:55:45.400 really to worry

00:55:46.340 about here

00:55:46.940 because actually

00:55:47.900 the military base

00:55:49.660 shared for

00:55:50.600 British American

00:55:51.600 operations

00:55:52.180 and Diego

00:55:53.340 Garcia

00:55:53.820 is going to be

00:55:55.640 maintained

00:55:56.040 so we're going to

00:55:57.140 keep the base

00:55:57.780 and yes we are

00:55:58.680 going to have to

00:55:59.160 start paying rent

00:55:59.980 for it

00:56:00.620 but we are going

00:56:02.240 to keep that base

00:56:03.080 so there's nothing

00:56:03.620 to worry about

00:56:04.460 and for a long

00:56:06.440 time we were

00:56:07.540 left really

00:56:08.860 they told us

00:56:10.140 that this was

00:56:10.640 going ahead

00:56:11.280 they said that

00:56:12.160 this was happening

00:56:12.900 and they said

00:56:13.620 that oh and

00:56:14.600 we'll get the

00:56:15.080 American approval

00:56:15.860 for it

00:56:16.420 but at any

00:56:18.100 point did

00:56:18.780 Keir Starmer

00:56:19.620 or anyone

00:56:20.520 from the Labour

00:56:21.140 front bench

00:56:21.780 for that matter

00:56:22.360 actually come

00:56:23.280 to the British

00:56:23.940 public and say

00:56:24.880 look here is

00:56:26.060 the situation

00:56:26.760 and here is

00:56:27.500 why we have

00:56:28.440 to do this

00:56:29.140 now

00:56:29.500 and how it

00:56:30.680 benefits Britain

00:56:31.380 and how it

00:56:32.320 benefits Britain

00:56:33.180 and perhaps

00:56:34.660 in that exact

00:56:36.080 point is the

00:56:36.820 reason why

00:56:37.380 such a speech

00:56:38.180 was never made

00:56:39.080 because there is

00:56:40.200 absolutely no way

00:56:41.420 to possibly

00:56:42.540 construe

00:56:43.420 such events

00:56:44.780 benefiting us

00:56:45.880 you know

00:56:46.600 at any point

00:56:47.840 but Starmer

00:56:49.620 as a consequence

00:56:50.460 went to Washington

00:56:51.480 back in May

00:56:52.240 of last year

00:56:52.880 and spoke to

00:56:54.260 Trump and Rubio

00:56:55.340 and the rest of them

00:56:56.220 and seemed

00:56:57.720 on the surface

00:56:58.720 of it

00:56:59.120 to actually get

00:57:00.180 American support

00:57:01.300 for this deal

00:57:02.800 and you can tell

00:57:03.640 here back from

00:57:04.400 May 22nd

00:57:05.880 of last year

00:57:07.180 it went on to say

00:57:08.220 today the United States

00:57:10.180 welcomes a historic

00:57:11.200 agreement between

00:57:11.940 the United Kingdom

00:57:12.880 and the Republic of

00:57:13.860 Mauritius

00:57:14.400 on the future

00:57:15.460 of the British

00:57:16.240 Indian Ocean

00:57:17.060 Territory

00:57:17.680 specifically

00:57:18.640 the Chagos

00:57:19.680 Archipelago

00:57:20.380 and this is important

00:57:21.820 following a

00:57:23.160 comprehensive

00:57:24.160 interrogancy review

00:57:26.140 the Trump administration

00:57:27.520 determined that

00:57:28.440 this agreement

00:57:29.060 secures the long-term

00:57:30.560 stable and effective

00:57:31.580 operations

00:57:32.280 of the joint

00:57:33.340 US-UK military

00:57:34.520 facility

00:57:35.160 at Diego Garcia

00:57:36.200 this is a critical

00:57:37.440 asset for regional

00:57:38.460 and global security

00:57:39.540 President Trump

00:57:40.640 expressed his support

00:57:42.000 for the monumental

00:57:43.200 achievement

00:57:44.020 during his meeting

00:57:45.520 with Prime Minister

00:57:46.280 Starmer

00:57:46.800 at the White House

00:57:48.240 so

00:57:48.740 in its rhetoric

00:57:50.320 entirely emphatic

00:57:51.740 it seems that

00:57:53.040 even though

00:57:53.900 Keir Starmer

00:57:54.640 had not been able

00:57:55.720 to convince

00:57:56.400 a single member

00:57:57.420 of the British public

00:57:58.400 that this was

00:57:59.680 a good idea

00:58:00.440 somehow

00:58:01.240 through his

00:58:02.240 miracle

00:58:02.680 and his

00:58:03.280 you know

00:58:03.700 miracle charisma

00:58:04.900 he's managed

00:58:05.980 to convince

00:58:06.580 Donald Trump

00:58:07.520 President of the

00:58:08.180 United States

00:58:08.980 that this was

00:58:10.060 actually

00:58:10.520 not at all

00:58:11.480 a suicidal act

00:58:12.780 I interpret this

00:58:14.440 as sort of

00:58:14.960 just them saying

00:58:15.840 yes yeah

00:58:16.460 okay whatever

00:58:17.100 you want

00:58:18.000 yeah okay

00:58:18.920 and then actually

00:58:19.580 reading the fine print

00:58:20.440 later on

00:58:20.960 just like

00:58:21.320 they're doing what

00:58:22.080 well how's this

00:58:23.140 for fine print then

00:58:24.040 because

00:58:24.660 sorry that was

00:58:26.060 supposed to be

00:58:26.720 a dramatic reveal

00:58:27.900 and it's

00:58:28.460 it's all gone wrong

00:58:29.380 but anyway

00:58:30.120 you got the point

00:58:30.840 you've seen this tweet

00:58:31.600 going about by now

00:58:32.620 from Trump

00:58:33.200 where he says

00:58:33.580 shockingly

00:58:34.320 our brilliant

00:58:35.020 NATO ally

00:58:35.820 the United Kingdom

00:58:36.780 is currently

00:58:37.440 planning to give away

00:58:38.540 the island of

00:58:39.300 Diego Garcia

00:58:40.120 the site of the

00:58:41.360 vital US military

00:58:42.360 base to Mauritius

00:58:43.300 and to do so

00:58:44.400 for no reason

00:58:45.700 whatsoever

00:58:46.380 there is no doubt

00:58:48.080 that China and Russia

00:58:49.700 have noticed

00:58:50.480 this act

00:58:51.060 of total weakness

00:58:52.020 these are

00:58:53.180 international powers

00:58:54.380 who only recognise

00:58:55.580 strength

00:58:56.400 which is why

00:58:57.300 the United States

00:58:58.220 of America

00:58:58.760 under my leadership

00:58:59.820 is now

00:59:00.460 after only one year

00:59:01.600 respected like

00:59:03.280 well we'll leave

00:59:04.340 the bluster

00:59:04.860 the UK giving away

00:59:06.640 extremely important

00:59:07.820 land is an act

00:59:08.900 of great stupidity

00:59:10.160 and is another

00:59:11.180 in a very long line

00:59:12.200 of national

00:59:12.640 securitarisms

00:59:13.480 where it goes in

00:59:14.280 to invoke

00:59:14.860 Greenland

00:59:15.400 and so

00:59:16.540 a part of me

00:59:17.760 did wonder

00:59:18.380 to begin with

00:59:19.300 is this

00:59:20.180 turning now

00:59:21.780 this total

00:59:22.420 180 of rhetoric

00:59:23.600 from Trump's

00:59:24.240 point of view

00:59:24.780 is it

00:59:25.860 to point

00:59:27.760 to

00:59:28.360 what seems

00:59:30.620 to be a case

00:59:31.240 study of

00:59:31.760 European

00:59:32.360 geopolitical

00:59:33.720 incompetence

00:59:34.740 to say

00:59:35.640 look here

00:59:36.280 here is an

00:59:37.460 example of a

00:59:38.080 European country

00:59:39.040 that cannot be

00:59:39.740 trusted

00:59:40.100 with geopolitical

00:59:41.800 assets

00:59:42.320 and so

00:59:42.820 therefore

00:59:43.380 like

00:59:43.860 i.e.

00:59:44.740 give us

00:59:45.180 Greenland

00:59:45.740 and you know

00:59:46.820 because you guys

00:59:47.680 clearly can't be

00:59:48.400 trusted with any

00:59:49.060 of your sovereign

00:59:49.760 territories

00:59:50.300 look at what

00:59:51.180 the United Kingdom

00:59:52.020 is doing

00:59:52.580 there's certainly

00:59:53.220 a strong aspect

00:59:54.460 of that

00:59:54.800 by the fact

00:59:55.240 he mentions

00:59:56.160 Greenland

00:59:57.240 at the end

00:59:58.040 so that's the

00:59:58.780 thing you're

00:59:59.120 thinking about

00:59:59.720 at the end

01:00:00.200 and Trump

01:00:00.680 will know

01:00:01.100 that you know

01:00:02.140 you can start

01:00:02.680 something off

01:00:03.560 talking about

01:00:04.100 something else

01:00:04.620 but the thing

01:00:05.280 that you end

01:00:05.820 on is the thing

01:00:06.460 that lingers

01:00:07.220 with people

01:00:07.740 absolutely

01:00:08.280 so the real

01:00:09.080 intention is

01:00:09.680 often

01:00:10.000 towards the

01:00:10.800 end of a

01:00:11.240 statement

01:00:11.600 indeed

01:00:12.060 the Dutch

01:00:12.760 and the French

01:00:13.320 must be

01:00:13.820 really

01:00:14.520 praying

01:00:15.420 that Trump

01:00:16.120 doesn't notice

01:00:17.040 that they have

01:00:17.620 territories in the

01:00:18.260 Caribbean

01:00:18.620 like there's the

01:00:21.800 French Guadeloupe

01:00:22.540 right

01:00:22.840 and then there's

01:00:23.480 the Dutch

01:00:24.140 couple of

01:00:24.980 islands that

01:00:25.440 they have

01:00:25.780 still

01:00:26.160 and you know

01:00:28.500 please don't

01:00:29.060 tell Trump

01:00:29.440 please don't

01:00:29.780 tell Trump

01:00:30.260 well you saw

01:00:30.980 Macron trying

01:00:31.620 to keep a

01:00:32.060 low profile

01:00:32.800 those shades

01:00:33.560 didn't you

01:00:33.920 recently

01:00:34.320 so maybe

01:00:36.020 that really

01:00:36.480 was part

01:00:37.100 of the plan

01:00:37.940 but Daniel

01:00:40.780 Hannon

01:00:41.100 raises many

01:00:42.160 many wonderful

01:00:43.220 points here

01:00:43.800 and I just

01:00:44.200 wanted to read

01:00:44.780 a few of them

01:00:45.440 which is that

01:00:46.380 Mauritius is

01:00:46.940 indeed

01:00:47.320 1,337 miles

01:00:50.060 from the

01:00:50.560 island

01:00:50.860 and began to

01:00:52.140 press its claim

01:00:53.000 again only when

01:00:53.940 it grew closer

01:00:54.660 to China

01:00:55.300 in the early

01:00:56.040 2000s

01:00:56.940 the barrister

01:00:58.220 it hired

01:00:59.100 is Philippe

01:01:00.540 Sands

01:01:00.920 a co-founder

01:01:02.160 of Matrix

01:01:02.840 Chambers

01:01:03.440 and a close

01:01:04.080 friend of

01:01:04.560 Kia Starmer's

01:01:05.360 who has always

01:01:06.280 been cagey

01:01:07.120 about what

01:01:07.760 conversations

01:01:08.960 they had

01:01:09.700 about Chagos

01:01:10.800 he raises

01:01:12.220 point seven

01:01:13.000 far from

01:01:13.780 providing a

01:01:14.440 mandate for

01:01:15.000 the deal

01:01:15.300 the Labour

01:01:15.660 manifesto

01:01:16.560 as seen

01:01:17.300 in the

01:01:17.660 photo down

01:01:18.320 below

01:01:18.600 basically said

01:01:19.560 we will

01:01:20.000 not do

01:01:20.600 commit to

01:01:21.680 such an

01:01:22.100 act

01:01:22.360 and it

01:01:23.040 also says

01:01:23.580 as part

01:01:24.560 of eight

01:01:24.880 Stammer justifies

01:01:26.160 the surrender

01:01:26.700 by pointing

01:01:27.400 to a

01:01:27.820 non-binding

01:01:28.600 resolution

01:01:29.280 by a

01:01:29.920 UN court

01:01:30.760 which included

01:01:32.340 a Russian

01:01:33.260 and a Chinese

01:01:34.200 judge

01:01:34.820 and whose

01:01:35.760 jurisdiction

01:01:36.380 has been

01:01:36.940 expressly

01:01:37.660 denied

01:01:38.220 in disputes

01:01:38.820 between

01:01:39.180 Commonwealth

01:01:39.700 or former

01:01:40.460 Commonwealth

01:01:40.980 states

01:01:41.600 and so

01:01:42.880 we end up

01:01:44.180 in the

01:01:44.420 situation

01:01:44.940 here where

01:01:45.700 and this

01:01:46.480 tweet by

01:01:47.280 Egrol

01:01:47.660 puts out

01:01:49.440 a good

01:01:49.820 point

01:01:50.100 which is

01:01:50.580 that

01:01:50.840 according to

01:01:51.760 one diplomatic

01:01:52.400 source

01:01:52.920 the foreign 0.60

01:01:53.480 office

01:01:53.900 MI6

01:01:54.600 and the

01:01:54.840 British

01:01:55.020 embassy

01:01:55.360 in DC

01:01:56.540 had been

01:01:58.120 of one

01:01:58.460 mind

01:01:58.740 for several

01:01:59.260 years

01:01:59.620 the best

01:02:00.060 way to

01:02:00.420 maintain

01:02:00.820 the US

01:02:01.300 base

01:02:01.640 at Diego

01:02:02.080 Garcia

01:02:02.480 was to

01:02:03.000 cut a

01:02:03.340 deal

01:02:03.600 Mauritius

01:02:04.420 would gain

01:02:04.960 ownership

01:02:05.340 over the

01:02:05.820 islands

01:02:06.200 but immediately

01:02:07.300 leased Diego

01:02:08.180 Garcia back

01:02:08.980 to Britain

01:02:09.440 for a

01:02:09.820 century

01:02:10.200 but one

01:02:11.360 civil servant

01:02:11.920 described it

01:02:12.680 as Mauritian

01:02:13.720 sovereignty

01:02:14.260 in name

01:02:14.920 only

01:02:15.260 and some

01:02:16.380 planned to

01:02:17.100 make

01:02:17.440 Mauritius

01:02:18.280 somehow

01:02:18.940 dependent

01:02:19.760 on British

01:02:21.120 money

01:02:21.540 but none

01:02:22.600 of this

01:02:22.960 holds

01:02:24.100 way

01:02:24.280 exactly

01:02:24.720 and also

01:02:25.540 why

01:02:26.400 because the

01:02:27.140 other point

01:02:27.680 is that

01:02:28.280 the alternative

01:02:29.580 was simply

01:02:30.560 toughing it

01:02:31.320 out

01:02:31.740 that is

01:02:32.560 unilaterally

01:02:33.560 laying claim

01:02:34.780 to the

01:02:35.120 islands

01:02:35.500 regardless of

01:02:37.160 future legal

01:02:38.040 rulings by

01:02:38.720 United Nations

01:02:39.520 courts

01:02:39.940 or hardening

01:02:41.180 opinion amongst

01:02:42.220 developing countries

01:02:43.260 including most of

01:02:44.200 the Commonwealth

01:02:44.600 so just

01:02:45.100 recognising the

01:02:46.380 fact that we

01:02:47.000 had the power

01:02:47.760 over the

01:02:48.340 islands

01:02:48.900 and trying to

01:02:50.200 actually just

01:02:50.880 assert the

01:02:51.440 claim

01:02:51.780 but the

01:02:52.240 problem

01:02:52.540 is

01:02:52.860 I have

01:02:53.640 a third

01:02:53.980 option

01:02:54.380 grab the

01:02:56.480 Mauritius

01:02:57.860 prime minister

01:02:58.500 and Maduro

01:02:59.540 him

01:02:59.860 it's not

01:03:01.320 like Mauritius

01:03:03.040 can do

01:03:03.520 anything other

01:03:04.160 than talk

01:03:04.640 about it

01:03:04.740 this is

01:03:05.160 a very

01:03:06.020 frustrating

01:03:06.540 aspect of

01:03:07.200 this thing

01:03:07.620 because

01:03:08.180 Samson

01:03:09.040 would you

01:03:09.320 be able

01:03:09.540 to pull

01:03:09.880 up

01:03:10.040 Mauritius

01:03:10.580 just on

01:03:11.260 a map

01:03:12.000 because

01:03:14.040 Mauritius

01:03:15.120 is a

01:03:16.100 small

01:03:16.660 island

01:03:17.220 that

01:03:18.300 you know

01:03:19.140 our

01:03:20.140 brand new

01:03:21.680 Royal Navy

01:03:22.420 recruits could

01:03:23.080 take over

01:03:23.640 in an

01:03:23.920 afternoon

01:03:24.300 blindfolded

01:03:25.140 right

01:03:25.380 like

01:03:25.900 are you

01:03:27.780 there

01:03:27.980 Samson

01:03:28.400 oh

01:03:29.600 hello

01:03:30.980 yes

01:03:31.340 would you

01:03:31.740 be able

01:03:31.920 to pull

01:03:32.160 up

01:03:32.260 Mauritius

01:03:32.620 on a

01:03:32.920 map

01:03:33.340 please

01:03:33.740 sorry

01:03:35.560 so

01:03:37.260 it's

01:03:38.500 so tiny

01:03:39.140 there's no

01:03:39.660 reason that

01:03:40.480 we shouldn't

01:03:41.140 just be

01:03:41.740 browbeating

01:03:42.860 them and

01:03:43.240 saying listen

01:03:43.680 we do what

01:03:44.160 we want

01:03:44.540 because you

01:03:45.000 can't do

01:03:45.320 anything

01:03:45.640 and reacting

01:03:46.720 with the

01:03:47.520 reality of

01:03:48.320 hard power

01:03:49.180 because

01:03:49.660 you know

01:03:51.420 well done

01:03:53.600 for zooming

01:03:54.680 in roughly

01:03:55.140 in the right

01:03:55.780 place

01:03:56.260 yeah I think

01:03:57.760 it's down

01:03:58.220 there where

01:03:58.580 your mouse

01:03:58.940 is

01:03:59.760 is that

01:04:02.680 it

01:04:02.920 no

01:04:03.780 no

01:04:04.060 that's not

01:04:04.460 it's

01:04:04.920 just type

01:04:05.500 it Samson

01:04:06.000 sorry

01:04:06.360 what was

01:04:06.900 your

01:04:07.040 so

01:04:07.300 the point

01:04:08.600 being

01:04:08.780 they're a

01:04:09.060 tiny little

01:04:09.500 island

01:04:09.840 there's no

01:04:10.600 point in

01:04:11.540 dealing with

01:04:12.380 them as if

01:04:12.860 they're a

01:04:13.840 major player

01:04:14.400 in politics

01:04:14.980 whatsoever

01:04:15.600 that's the

01:04:16.700 size of the

01:04:17.220 island there

01:04:17.840 you can see

01:04:18.820 the entire

01:04:19.420 country

01:04:20.280 from you

01:04:22.180 know all

01:04:22.600 of its

01:04:22.800 borders from

01:04:23.620 an aeroplane

01:04:24.360 above it

01:04:25.080 or a

01:04:25.720 helicopter

01:04:26.160 we shouldn't

01:04:27.660 be negotiating

01:04:28.600 with something

01:04:29.200 that is

01:04:29.660 right there

01:04:30.720 is a

01:04:31.040 French

01:04:31.400 possession

01:04:31.940 still

01:04:32.480 and they

01:04:33.660 absolutely

01:04:34.040 don't want

01:04:34.840 to stop

01:04:35.220 being French

01:04:35.880 and then the

01:04:38.460 Chagos 1.00

01:04:38.800 islands are

01:04:39.620 miles away

01:04:40.940 there it is

01:04:41.560 British Indian

01:04:42.020 Ocean

01:04:42.260 Territory

01:04:42.740 it's a

01:04:44.140 ridiculously

01:04:44.760 far away

01:04:45.400 distance

01:04:45.660 it's closer

01:04:46.360 to the

01:04:46.700 Seychelles

01:04:47.020 than it

01:04:47.280 is to

01:04:47.520 Mauritius

01:04:47.880 and there

01:04:50.660 is no

01:04:51.020 evidence that

01:04:51.560 anybody involved

01:04:52.320 in Mauritius

01:04:52.720 was ever

01:04:53.440 there

01:04:54.520 in the

01:04:55.860 Chagos 1.00

01:04:56.120 archipelago

01:04:57.100 they've got

01:04:57.900 no legitimate

01:04:58.460 claim

01:04:59.000 none

01:04:59.440 it shouldn't

01:04:59.760 be taken

01:05:00.140 seriously

01:05:00.560 and even

01:05:01.060 if they

01:05:01.400 did

01:05:01.800 there is

01:05:02.220 no reason

01:05:02.600 to pay

01:05:03.180 them

01:05:03.400 to give

01:05:03.780 it to

01:05:04.060 them

01:05:04.260 no

01:05:04.460 this

01:05:06.020 entire

01:05:06.380 thing

01:05:06.740 is just

01:05:07.440 one great

01:05:09.480 humiliation

01:05:10.200 ritual

01:05:10.840 against us

01:05:12.300 and why

01:05:13.040 is it

01:05:13.380 being done

01:05:13.860 well it's

01:05:14.480 being done

01:05:15.020 because it

01:05:15.720 seems that

01:05:16.720 the people

01:05:18.000 currently in

01:05:18.720 charge of the

01:05:19.300 British state

01:05:20.060 are obviously

01:05:20.800 and it's not

01:05:21.500 going to surprise

01:05:22.060 you to hear

01:05:22.520 this

01:05:22.800 they're not

01:05:23.520 governed as

01:05:24.260 you said

01:05:24.620 by any

01:05:25.120 sense of

01:05:26.080 the national

01:05:26.800 good

01:05:27.200 right

01:05:27.460 what they're

01:05:27.840 governed by

01:05:28.480 are a set

01:05:29.080 of progressive

01:05:29.800 morals

01:05:30.420 that are

01:05:31.200 interlinked

01:05:31.920 into an

01:05:32.360 international

01:05:33.000 network

01:05:34.540 framework

01:05:35.100 of

01:05:35.700 you know

01:05:36.340 international

01:05:36.900 law

01:05:37.360 and human

01:05:38.120 rights

01:05:38.540 lawyers

01:05:38.880 and all

01:05:39.340 of these

01:05:39.680 activist

01:05:40.080 classes

01:05:41.360 and the

01:05:41.880 clientele

01:05:42.420 groups

01:05:42.840 and so

01:05:43.700 it seems

01:05:44.300 that Britain

01:05:45.120 is just

01:05:45.540 going to

01:05:45.860 have to

01:05:46.400 bear

01:05:47.120 this problem

01:05:47.880 or at least

01:05:48.500 it did seem

01:05:49.380 to be the

01:05:50.080 case before

01:05:51.000 Trump's

01:05:51.460 intervention

01:05:51.960 now things

01:05:52.840 seem a

01:05:53.700 little bit

01:05:54.140 more ambiguous

01:05:54.840 and we'll

01:05:55.400 see where

01:05:55.800 we get to

01:05:56.300 because the

01:05:56.800 problem that

01:05:57.300 we have

01:05:57.760 is that

01:05:58.540 because of

01:05:59.340 the American

01:06:00.460 agreement

01:06:01.240 that was

01:06:01.620 signed

01:06:01.980 with

01:06:02.820 Britain

01:06:03.160 back in

01:06:03.700 66

01:06:04.280 of the

01:06:06.240 last century

01:06:06.760 we're talking

01:06:07.340 about the

01:06:07.740 fact that

01:06:08.380 about joint

01:06:09.540 cooperation

01:06:10.160 on the

01:06:10.700 military base

01:06:11.240 and basically

01:06:12.000 it means

01:06:13.060 that if we

01:06:13.560 sign this

01:06:14.660 new treaty

01:06:15.980 with Mauritius

01:06:16.960 ceding the

01:06:17.940 territory

01:06:18.340 that one

01:06:19.160 treaty is

01:06:19.780 going to

01:06:20.440 contradict

01:06:21.020 the other

01:06:21.800 and so

01:06:22.680 actually

01:06:23.220 if in

01:06:25.160 a strange

01:06:25.960 roundabout

01:06:26.760 way

01:06:27.300 signing this

01:06:29.160 bill and

01:06:30.020 putting it

01:06:30.540 through

01:06:30.780 parliament

01:06:31.340 from

01:06:32.160 Labour

01:06:32.560 would break

01:06:33.720 the very

01:06:34.240 international

01:06:34.920 law

01:06:35.500 that they

01:06:36.500 are doing

01:06:36.960 all of

01:06:37.380 this for

01:06:37.860 in the

01:06:38.120 first place

01:06:38.820 but they're

01:06:39.220 not doing

01:06:39.560 it for

01:06:39.760 international

01:06:40.120 law

01:06:40.460 I mean

01:06:41.500 the fact

01:06:42.460 that

01:06:43.000 Hermer

01:06:43.560 Sands

01:06:44.700 and Starmer

01:06:45.580 are in

01:06:46.440 this weird

01:06:47.000 clique

01:06:47.340 together

01:06:47.820 well I

01:06:49.180 was just

01:06:49.700 about to

01:06:50.100 get to

01:06:50.440 Mr.

01:06:51.000 Sands

01:06:51.240 actually

01:06:51.700 shall we

01:06:52.080 talk about

01:06:52.620 him

01:06:52.800 so

01:06:53.680 Mr.

01:06:54.960 Sands

01:06:55.260 who is

01:06:56.080 65

01:06:56.840 is among

01:06:57.860 the

01:06:58.340 preeminent

01:06:59.020 figures in

01:06:59.820 his field

01:07:00.440 and has

01:07:01.040 taken

01:07:01.400 part in

01:07:02.280 a number

01:07:02.640 of landmark

01:07:03.300 cases

01:07:03.860 and I've

01:07:04.240 reduced some

01:07:04.720 of them

01:07:04.960 but it

01:07:05.180 says

01:07:05.340 recently

01:07:06.080 he was

01:07:06.640 the lead

01:07:07.020 outside

01:07:07.640 council

01:07:08.140 in the

01:07:09.820 successful

01:07:10.400 campaign

01:07:11.020 to get

01:07:11.460 Britain

01:07:11.760 to return

01:07:12.340 the

01:07:12.540 Chagos 1.00

01:07:12.940 Islands

01:07:13.300 to

01:07:13.540 Mauritius

01:07:13.980 return

01:07:15.160 is a

01:07:16.380 very

01:07:16.540 stretched

01:07:16.980 word

01:07:17.900 in this

01:07:18.900 article

01:07:19.280 but it

01:07:19.900 is

01:07:20.280 from the

01:07:21.220 New York

01:07:21.540 Times

01:07:21.900 so

01:07:22.260 it goes

01:07:23.380 on to

01:07:23.660 say

01:07:23.920 and he's

01:07:24.720 also argued

01:07:25.300 for

01:07:25.500 Palestinian

01:07:26.040 self-determination

01:07:27.160 in the case

01:07:27.660 before the

01:07:28.100 International

01:07:28.500 Court of

01:07:29.060 Justice

01:07:29.400 he also

01:07:30.260 played a

01:07:30.660 key role

01:07:31.120 in the

01:07:31.380 establishment

01:07:31.940 of a

01:07:32.360 tribunal

01:07:32.920 to investigate

01:07:33.700 Russia

01:07:34.120 for crimes

01:07:34.700 of aggression

01:07:35.260 against Ukraine

01:07:36.700 over the last

01:07:37.660 three decades

01:07:38.560 few people

01:07:39.540 have done

01:07:39.900 more to

01:07:40.480 shape the

01:07:40.980 direction

01:07:41.420 of

01:07:41.680 international

01:07:42.360 criminal

01:07:42.900 law

01:07:43.460 than

01:07:44.040 sans

01:07:44.520 says

01:07:45.300 this

01:07:45.560 puff

01:07:45.800 piece

01:07:46.180 and it

01:07:47.140 also

01:07:47.440 points out

01:07:48.100 as well

01:07:48.480 it says

01:07:48.840 but the

01:07:49.220 London-based

01:07:49.840 barrister's

01:07:50.500 reach

01:07:50.780 extends

01:07:51.280 beyond

01:07:51.760 legal

01:07:52.260 circles

01:07:52.840 he is

01:07:53.980 also

01:07:54.420 an

01:07:54.660 acclaimed

01:07:55.080 non-fiction

01:07:55.860 author

01:07:56.320 his best

01:07:57.200 known

01:07:57.420 work

01:07:57.820 East

01:07:58.240 West

01:07:58.560 Street

01:07:58.960 published

01:07:59.420 in

01:07:59.660 2016

01:08:00.300 is a

01:08:01.260 deeply

01:08:01.640 affecting

01:08:02.180 account

01:08:02.680 of his

01:08:03.060 family's

01:08:03.580 experience

01:08:04.200 during the

01:08:04.820 Holocaust 0.95

01:08:05.160 and so

01:08:06.680 this is

01:08:07.160 someone where

01:08:07.740 you look at

01:08:08.280 his background

01:08:08.880 roots

01:08:09.560 and

01:08:10.140 majoritively

01:08:11.540 they're not

01:08:12.040 from

01:08:12.500 Britain

01:08:13.020 he has a

01:08:13.880 dual

01:08:14.100 citizenship

01:08:14.660 most of

01:08:15.540 his heritage

01:08:16.020 is from

01:08:16.800 outside of

01:08:17.480 Europe

01:08:17.760 and he

01:08:18.360 is most

01:08:19.220 obviously

01:08:20.080 a nomad

01:08:21.500 we are

01:08:21.920 citizens of

01:08:22.720 the world

01:08:23.280 we need

01:08:23.900 a global

01:08:24.540 passport

01:08:25.100 and so

01:08:26.420 any claim

01:08:27.680 to this

01:08:28.680 being in

01:08:29.120 Britain's 0.60

01:08:29.640 interest

01:08:30.140 could not

01:08:31.060 hold up

01:08:31.640 to the

01:08:31.980 slightest

01:08:32.400 bit of

01:08:32.940 scrutiny

01:08:33.340 and this

01:08:34.640 is of

01:08:34.940 course

01:08:35.200 also

01:08:35.540 true

01:08:35.880 for

01:08:36.180 Lord

01:08:36.580 Hermit 0.98

01:08:37.020 as well

01:08:37.560 let me

01:08:39.960 pause you

01:08:40.300 there for

01:08:40.580 a second

01:08:40.920 firstly

01:08:41.380 the fact

01:08:41.780 that he's

01:08:42.180 commenting

01:08:42.720 on the

01:08:43.060 500th

01:08:43.540 anniversary

01:08:43.900 of the

01:08:44.200 reformation

01:08:44.820 is funny

01:08:45.500 because it's

01:08:46.540 got nothing

01:08:46.840 to do

01:08:47.120 with him

01:08:47.480 secondly

01:08:49.380 the idea

01:08:51.020 expressed

01:08:52.380 here that

01:08:52.920 we are

01:08:53.220 citizens

01:08:53.600 and we

01:08:53.860 need a

01:08:54.080 global

01:08:54.340 passport

01:08:54.780 would suggest

01:08:56.120 to the

01:08:56.760 untrained

01:08:57.240 eye

01:08:57.700 that there

01:08:58.720 should be

01:08:59.100 some kind

01:08:59.700 of

01:09:00.080 international

01:09:01.520 body

01:09:02.100 responsible

01:09:03.100 for issuing

01:09:03.920 passports

01:09:04.540 to every

01:09:04.980 single resident

01:09:05.660 of the

01:09:05.980 planet

01:09:06.260 and that

01:09:07.720 everybody

01:09:08.680 across the

01:09:09.420 planet

01:09:09.680 should be

01:09:10.180 free to

01:09:10.600 move

01:09:10.800 anywhere

01:09:11.180 that they

01:09:11.580 want to

01:09:12.140 carrying

01:09:13.040 this passport

01:09:15.600 making

01:09:15.880 passports

01:09:16.240 redundant

01:09:16.680 so it's

01:09:18.500 sort of

01:09:18.940 like on

01:09:19.960 the one

01:09:20.320 side

01:09:20.620 everybody

01:09:21.000 needs to

01:09:21.380 be

01:09:21.500 identified

01:09:22.000 under

01:09:22.560 the

01:09:22.900 global

01:09:23.200 digital

01:09:23.580 panopticon

01:09:24.200 on the

01:09:25.140 other

01:09:25.280 side

01:09:25.560 everybody

01:09:25.900 can go

01:09:26.300 wherever

01:09:26.520 they

01:09:26.700 want

01:09:26.960 to

01:09:27.220 because

01:09:27.700 I

01:09:28.140 said

01:09:28.380 so

01:09:28.700 these

01:09:30.140 two

01:09:30.500 views

01:09:31.280 are

01:09:31.860 firstly

01:09:32.400 not in

01:09:33.420 any way

01:09:33.960 British

01:09:34.700 European

01:09:35.220 or even

01:09:35.680 Lebanese

01:09:36.120 like when

01:09:36.640 strangers

01:09:36.980 move into

01:09:37.340 my village

01:09:38.120 I get

01:09:38.360 angry

01:09:38.800 and

01:09:41.200 secondly

01:09:42.840 what the

01:09:44.000 hell has

01:09:44.220 this got

01:09:44.460 to do

01:09:44.680 with you

01:09:45.080 well it's

01:09:46.760 a good

01:09:46.980 question

01:09:47.300 I find

01:09:48.100 that quite

01:09:48.580 interesting

01:09:49.020 as well

01:09:49.380 there

01:09:49.600 it calls

01:09:50.000 for an

01:09:50.260 end

01:09:50.600 to the

01:09:51.300 absurd

01:09:51.880 monopoly

01:09:52.420 power

01:09:52.940 of the

01:09:53.620 national

01:09:53.980 passport

01:09:54.460 yes as

01:09:55.020 opposed to

01:09:55.560 the absurd

01:09:56.180 monopoly

01:09:56.640 power

01:09:57.080 of an

01:09:57.460 international

01:09:58.160 passport

01:09:59.880 system

01:10:00.600 and a

01:10:00.980 more global

01:10:01.880 state

01:10:02.420 absolutely

01:10:03.300 but it

01:10:04.180 doesn't just

01:10:04.680 end with

01:10:05.060 these names

01:10:05.640 that we've

01:10:06.140 called out

01:10:06.640 here and

01:10:07.060 you can see

01:10:07.520 it's from

01:10:07.840 Daniel

01:10:08.200 Hannan

01:10:08.660 who again

01:10:09.720 was saying

01:10:10.240 every

01:10:10.780 former

01:10:11.100 minister

01:10:11.480 I've

01:10:11.740 spoken

01:10:12.060 to

01:10:12.320 blames

01:10:12.680 the

01:10:12.840 Chagos 1.00

01:10:13.220 fiasco

01:10:13.760 on

01:10:14.020 Vijay

01:10:14.860 Rangarajan

01:10:17.080 I shouldn't

01:10:17.960 have to

01:10:18.520 know how

01:10:19.140 to pronounce

01:10:19.620 that

01:10:19.880 the relevant

01:10:20.860 FCDO

01:10:22.040 official

01:10:22.480 but in

01:10:23.220 Britain

01:10:23.460 civil servants

01:10:24.300 are never

01:10:24.660 blamed for

01:10:25.280 anything

01:10:25.720 and indeed

01:10:26.800 he is now

01:10:27.820 running the

01:10:28.560 electoral commission

01:10:29.620 as well

01:10:30.180 which makes

01:10:31.120 MPs reluctant

01:10:32.040 to criticise him

01:10:33.460 why is

01:10:34.560 Mr Rangarajan

01:10:35.620 running the

01:10:36.480 electoral commission

01:10:37.260 because of

01:10:38.560 course the

01:10:39.040 conservative

01:10:39.660 party put him

01:10:40.660 there

01:10:40.940 Firas of

01:10:41.800 course

01:10:42.180 like the

01:10:43.320 conservatives

01:10:43.840 that they

01:10:44.220 are

01:10:44.500 the party

01:10:45.380 for

01:10:45.820 subcontinental

01:10:47.280 dominion

01:10:48.300 and so

01:10:51.200 the Mercium

01:10:51.700 makes a

01:10:52.300 point here

01:10:52.820 that Vijay

01:10:54.140 was literally

01:10:54.880 not even

01:10:55.340 born in

01:10:56.160 Britain

01:10:56.440 he was

01:10:56.780 born in

01:10:57.280 New Delhi

01:10:57.740 and isn't

01:10:58.960 it curious

01:10:59.460 that he's

01:11:00.060 wanting to

01:11:00.600 cede

01:11:01.120 Chagos 1.00

01:11:02.720 islands

01:11:03.040 to Mauritius

01:11:03.740 which just

01:11:04.620 so happens

01:11:05.140 to have a

01:11:05.560 70%

01:11:06.500 ish

01:11:07.260 Indian

01:11:08.300 population

01:11:09.060 to it

01:11:10.520 so

01:11:11.260 all the

01:11:12.700 little pieces

01:11:13.300 from

01:11:13.760 and it's

01:11:14.500 the thing

01:11:14.800 isn't it

01:11:15.260 it's not

01:11:15.720 one guiding

01:11:16.440 principle

01:11:16.960 it's not

01:11:17.500 one great

01:11:18.200 stated aim

01:11:19.020 what we

01:11:19.680 actually have

01:11:20.360 here with

01:11:20.760 the Chagos

01:11:21.320 fiasco

01:11:21.900 are all

01:11:22.720 number of

01:11:23.480 foreign

01:11:23.980 subversive

01:11:24.740 activists

01:11:25.140 working for

01:11:26.020 their own

01:11:26.420 means

01:11:26.760 for their

01:11:27.080 own

01:11:27.280 pursuits

01:11:27.680 for their

01:11:27.980 own

01:11:28.160 ethnic

01:11:28.480 interests

01:11:29.160 or for

01:11:30.000 their own

01:11:30.280 ideological

01:11:30.820 interest

01:11:31.480 to

01:11:31.840 basically

01:11:32.620 screw us

01:11:34.060 over

01:11:34.440 yes

01:11:35.000 that seems

01:11:36.180 to be the

01:11:36.560 one ideal

01:11:37.060 yes

01:11:37.460 if there is

01:11:39.020 one uniting

01:11:40.000 principle

01:11:40.640 that's the

01:11:41.300 one

01:11:41.520 they're all

01:11:42.140 vultures

01:11:42.780 flying around

01:11:43.980 and picking

01:11:44.740 the bones

01:11:45.860 clean of the

01:11:46.720 British Empire

01:11:47.460 is what they

01:11:47.940 are

01:11:48.200 and so

01:11:49.800 what we

01:11:50.120 have

01:11:50.420 so basically

01:11:51.160 this bill

01:11:51.760 got passed

01:11:52.540 through parliament

01:11:53.200 that would

01:11:53.580 allow this

01:11:54.240 treaty to

01:11:54.740 be ratified

01:11:55.440 but then

01:11:56.060 it's not

01:11:57.360 often that I

01:11:57.900 would say

01:11:58.300 this but

01:11:58.740 thanks to

01:11:59.640 a Tory

01:12:00.340 peer

01:12:00.720 it seems

01:12:02.020 that it

01:12:02.380 was

01:12:02.520 basically

01:12:03.080 amendments

01:12:03.960 were added

01:12:04.380 in the

01:12:04.700 House of

01:12:05.100 Lords

01:12:05.360 and it

01:12:05.640 got kicked

01:12:06.060 back down

01:12:06.500 to the

01:12:06.800 Commons 0.69

01:12:07.120 and now

01:12:08.100 Starmer

01:12:08.660 has decided

01:12:09.380 perhaps

01:12:10.280 off of

01:12:10.900 the back

01:12:11.500 of the

01:12:11.940 Trump tweet

01:12:13.580 just calling

01:12:14.280 out the

01:12:14.660 lunacy of

01:12:15.300 it

01:12:15.500 they've

01:12:16.600 maybe

01:12:17.160 put a pin

01:12:17.700 in it

01:12:17.980 they're waiting

01:12:18.400 for public

01:12:18.980 attention

01:12:19.420 for it

01:12:20.520 to die

01:12:21.080 down

01:12:21.360 again

01:12:21.600 but ultimately

01:12:22.200 I don't

01:12:22.640 think it

01:12:23.040 is

01:12:23.340 because

01:12:23.680 it's

01:12:24.800 such

01:12:25.120 an act

01:12:26.480 of

01:12:26.640 national

01:12:27.000 embarrassment

01:12:27.620 and

01:12:28.660 ultimately

01:12:29.100 as well

01:12:29.680 we are

01:12:30.860 you know

01:12:32.580 every year

01:12:33.420 we're just

01:12:33.840 as a nation

01:12:34.780 degraded

01:12:35.540 more and

01:12:36.020 more

01:12:36.300 we're left

01:12:36.740 you know

01:12:37.100 put through

01:12:37.520 these

01:12:37.780 humiliation

01:12:38.360 rituals

01:12:39.000 and I

01:12:39.760 think

01:12:40.080 yeah

01:12:40.700 go on

01:12:41.360 as time

01:12:42.120 goes by

01:12:42.900 well it

01:12:44.540 just means

01:12:45.180 that Starmer

01:12:45.900 is on more

01:12:46.480 borrowed time

01:12:47.320 and ultimately

01:12:48.040 we have to

01:12:49.420 question the

01:12:50.080 fact that

01:12:50.700 as you say

01:12:52.280 even if

01:12:52.960 hypothetically

01:12:53.580 this deal

01:12:54.100 does go

01:12:54.580 through

01:12:54.860 for whatever

01:12:55.500 reason

01:12:55.900 by some

01:12:56.400 miracle

01:12:56.880 Starmer

01:12:57.760 refuses

01:12:58.380 Trump's

01:12:59.500 very very

01:13:00.580 strong hints

01:13:01.560 about his

01:13:03.000 his IQ

01:13:03.780 and decides

01:13:04.740 to go

01:13:05.100 through

01:13:05.500 with this

01:13:06.460 deal

01:13:06.820 okay but

01:13:07.780 what about

01:13:08.440 when Nigel

01:13:09.500 Farage

01:13:09.920 becomes

01:13:10.400 Prime Minister

01:13:11.440 and actually

01:13:12.380 just says

01:13:12.980 you know

01:13:13.400 Mr President

01:13:14.360 Vance or

01:13:15.120 Trump

01:13:15.380 whoever it

01:13:15.880 is at that

01:13:16.300 time

01:13:16.620 can you

01:13:17.180 just give

01:13:17.540 us a bit

01:13:17.860 of military

01:13:18.260 support

01:13:18.720 whilst we

01:13:19.140 just take

01:13:19.540 back the

01:13:19.940 entire

01:13:20.380 island

01:13:20.880 well it

01:13:22.880 wouldn't

01:13:23.160 take one

01:13:23.560 guy

01:13:23.960 I mean

01:13:24.280 we could do

01:13:24.680 it on our

01:13:25.140 own

01:13:25.380 but the

01:13:25.720 point is

01:13:26.360 and let's

01:13:27.220 face it

01:13:27.660 given America's

01:13:28.760 relationship

01:13:29.300 with Israel

01:13:29.980 it's not

01:13:31.040 like America 0.94

01:13:32.320 won't back

01:13:33.220 up allies

01:13:33.980 in order

01:13:35.000 to achieve

01:13:36.020 further aims

01:13:37.200 that benefit

01:13:37.720 the entire

01:13:38.460 network

01:13:38.960 at the end

01:13:40.040 of the day

01:13:40.460 the point

01:13:41.020 is that

01:13:42.100 this whole

01:13:42.940 thing is

01:13:43.640 an embarrassment

01:13:44.200 and we

01:13:45.280 can only

01:13:45.720 hope that

01:13:46.900 it ends

01:13:47.940 up being

01:13:48.340 dead on

01:13:48.760 arrival

01:13:49.180 because this

01:13:49.780 entire thing

01:13:50.320 is a scam

01:13:51.020 so three

01:13:52.340 things

01:13:52.720 first

01:13:53.760 I am

01:13:56.360 very much

01:13:58.500 of the

01:13:58.740 view that

01:13:59.180 somebody should

01:13:59.740 look into

01:14:00.160 the possibility

01:14:00.720 of massive

01:14:01.380 corruption

01:14:01.820 involved in

01:14:02.340 here

01:14:02.540 the sums

01:14:03.820 of money

01:14:04.400 involved

01:14:04.860 like that

01:14:06.580 Mauritius

01:14:08.120 would get

01:14:08.440 paid 30

01:14:09.100 billion dollars

01:14:09.900 and not

01:14:11.100 give some

01:14:11.580 kickbacks

01:14:12.100 come on

01:14:12.680 that's just

01:14:13.240 not how you

01:14:13.660 do

01:14:13.740 the only

01:14:14.900 government

01:14:15.600 that seems

01:14:16.180 to be

01:14:16.600 fully on

01:14:17.460 board

01:14:17.740 with this

01:14:18.220 that is

01:14:18.500 getting no

01:14:19.040 contradiction

01:14:19.620 on the

01:14:20.000 matter

01:14:20.260 is the

01:14:20.960 Mauritian

01:14:21.360 government

01:14:21.780 they were

01:14:22.380 talking about

01:14:22.900 lowering their

01:14:23.540 taxes once

01:14:24.260 this goes

01:14:24.720 through

01:14:24.960 yes they

01:14:25.360 were

01:14:25.660 cheeky

01:14:27.280 bastards 0.53

01:14:27.820 which is

01:14:28.420 crazy

01:14:28.820 they have

01:14:29.400 lower tax

01:14:30.080 rate than

01:14:30.460 in Britain

01:14:30.980 the second

01:14:31.920 issue is

01:14:32.500 that

01:14:32.800 this is the

01:14:35.500 second conflict

01:14:36.240 with the

01:14:36.540 lords

01:14:36.820 because the

01:14:38.540 medical

01:14:39.980 murder bill

01:14:40.780 that they're

01:14:41.360 trying to

01:14:41.760 force through

01:14:42.300 is also

01:14:43.360 getting stuck

01:14:43.900 with the

01:14:44.160 lords

01:14:44.380 so there

01:14:45.360 is a bit

01:14:45.800 of a

01:14:46.280 rubicon

01:14:47.220 moment here

01:14:47.940 of Starmer

01:14:49.260 deciding that

01:14:50.040 actually I'm

01:14:51.060 going to

01:14:51.480 change the

01:14:52.360 constitutional

01:14:52.780 settlement

01:14:53.260 in Britain

01:14:54.600 and make

01:14:55.800 it so

01:14:56.380 that

01:14:56.960 even

01:14:58.600 bills that

01:14:59.540 are not

01:15:00.200 on the

01:15:01.080 government's

01:15:01.540 manifesto

01:15:02.220 can be

01:15:03.300 forced through

01:15:03.960 despite

01:15:04.440 lords

01:15:04.780 opposition

01:15:05.240 and that's

01:15:06.940 a big

01:15:07.320 deal

01:15:07.680 because

01:15:08.460 these

01:15:08.860 guys

01:15:09.180 the whole

01:15:09.380 chamber

01:15:09.700 redundant

01:15:10.220 doesn't

01:15:10.560 it

01:15:10.820 exactly

01:15:11.220 exactly

01:15:12.400 but these

01:15:13.680 guys have

01:15:14.180 it in

01:15:14.520 for the

01:15:14.840 lords

01:15:15.120 I mean

01:15:15.620 one policy

01:15:16.560 that they're

01:15:16.900 pursuing

01:15:17.160 is to

01:15:17.540 stack

01:15:17.860 the

01:15:18.060 lords

01:15:18.340 and so

01:15:19.640 they're

01:15:19.820 giving away

01:15:20.300 peerages

01:15:20.720 like they're

01:15:21.100 candy

01:15:21.500 I'm

01:15:22.840 you know

01:15:23.880 Lord

01:15:24.140 Hermer

01:15:25.020 is a

01:15:25.300 peer

01:15:25.480 but secondly

01:15:28.380 this is

01:15:28.800 becoming a

01:15:29.240 big issue

01:15:29.740 third

01:15:30.540 this is a

01:15:31.080 zombie

01:15:31.320 parliament

01:15:31.760 yeah

01:15:32.980 neither

01:15:33.740 Labour

01:15:34.280 nor the

01:15:35.420 official

01:15:35.960 opposition

01:15:36.460 the

01:15:36.720 conservatives

01:15:37.140 are expected

01:15:38.440 to retain

01:15:39.180 a significant

01:15:39.900 majority of

01:15:41.260 their seats

01:15:41.640 they're both

01:15:42.220 going to

01:15:42.580 lose

01:15:42.780 massive

01:15:43.680 numbers of

01:15:44.240 seats in

01:15:44.560 the next

01:15:44.840 election

01:15:45.220 on current

01:15:45.840 polling

01:15:46.160 so the

01:15:47.460 idea that

01:15:47.960 they get

01:15:48.420 to decide

01:15:49.320 these kinds

01:15:50.660 of things

01:15:51.300 at a moment

01:15:52.060 where all

01:15:53.240 of the public

01:15:53.880 hates their

01:15:54.520 guts

01:15:54.940 is insane

01:15:56.820 it's absolutely

01:15:58.640 crazy

01:15:59.240 jury trials

01:16:00.380 increasing

01:16:01.320 votes to

01:16:02.020 16 year olds

01:16:03.060 the abortion

01:16:03.560 stuff all

01:16:04.180 of it

01:16:04.500 just all

01:16:05.180 of it

01:16:05.440 all of it

01:16:06.120 it's

01:16:06.560 overreach

01:16:07.800 so they

01:16:09.180 are in

01:16:10.300 an impossible

01:16:10.880 popular

01:16:11.380 position

01:16:11.880 and yet

01:16:12.540 they're doubling

01:16:13.080 down on

01:16:13.500 everything

01:16:13.820 and I just

01:16:14.800 wish the

01:16:15.320 right would

01:16:15.840 learn how to

01:16:16.640 wield power

01:16:17.220 in the same

01:16:17.660 way

01:16:18.100 to read my

01:16:19.820 Aragorn article

01:16:20.660 on Islander

01:16:21.320 to know about

01:16:21.920 that you know

01:16:22.320 yes actually

01:16:23.560 yes that's a

01:16:24.720 great point

01:16:25.220 so this is

01:16:26.520 just not

01:16:27.520 just a

01:16:27.860 humiliation

01:16:28.280 ritual

01:16:28.660 it's an

01:16:29.280 act of

01:16:29.760 deliberate

01:16:30.720 sabotage

01:16:31.420 I just

01:16:32.240 actually

01:16:32.620 because I

01:16:33.140 think I

01:16:33.500 worded it

01:16:33.900 quite clumsily

01:16:34.760 just before

01:16:35.700 so I'll just

01:16:36.180 clarify

01:16:36.600 when I was

01:16:37.480 referring to

01:16:38.200 the American

01:16:38.640 relationship

01:16:39.280 with Israel

01:16:39.920 as well

01:16:40.400 what I was

01:16:41.220 more driving

01:16:41.840 at was the

01:16:42.400 fact that

01:16:43.180 America was

01:16:44.820 willing to

01:16:45.320 put its

01:16:45.800 name to

01:16:46.720 Israeli

01:16:47.240 actions in

01:16:47.940 Gaza

01:16:48.240 despite them

01:16:49.100 you know

01:16:49.840 attracting

01:16:50.420 global animosity

01:16:52.020 and hatred

01:16:52.600 and dissatisfaction

01:16:53.720 and obviously

01:16:55.120 a sense of

01:16:56.000 humanitarian

01:16:56.480 evil

01:16:57.300 you know

01:16:57.600 that seems

01:16:58.120 to have been

01:16:58.620 the large

01:16:59.460 reaction to

01:17:00.100 it

01:17:00.220 so all I'm

01:17:00.780 saying is

01:17:01.260 if America

01:17:02.040 is willing

01:17:02.560 to back

01:17:03.260 a foreign 0.60

01:17:04.260 partner

01:17:04.840 against

01:17:06.240 such

01:17:07.000 things as

01:17:07.600 that

01:17:07.920 then I

01:17:08.620 don't see

01:17:09.100 why they

01:17:09.500 wouldn't

01:17:09.900 be able

01:17:10.420 prepared to

01:17:11.180 help us

01:17:11.620 over something

01:17:12.140 which is

01:17:12.920 such an

01:17:13.400 obvious scam

01:17:14.120 that is

01:17:14.580 really

01:17:15.000 what I was

01:17:15.700 trying to

01:17:16.160 just communicate

01:17:16.680 especially

01:17:16.940 because there's

01:17:17.380 no prospect

01:17:17.800 of civilian

01:17:18.240 casualties

01:17:18.680 there

01:17:18.980 yeah

01:17:19.280 like there's

01:17:20.160 nobody

01:17:20.400 it's just a

01:17:21.320 military base

01:17:21.840 and a bunch

01:17:22.220 of empty

01:17:22.540 islands

01:17:22.920 and some

01:17:23.300 fishermen

01:17:23.720 also

01:17:24.140 Mauritius

01:17:24.720 you know

01:17:25.180 you can do

01:17:25.680 any number

01:17:26.220 of things

01:17:26.700 to if they

01:17:27.580 are hostile

01:17:28.340 to the idea

01:17:29.080 I mean you

01:17:29.780 could even

01:17:30.080 put a Simpsons

01:17:30.800 style dome

01:17:31.600 over the

01:17:32.040 island

01:17:32.780 just be done

01:17:33.900 with it

01:17:34.220 and say

01:17:34.580 you're trapped

01:17:35.060 in there

01:17:35.500 we'll let you

01:17:36.220 out once you

01:17:36.720 agree that

01:17:37.320 we can keep

01:17:37.740 the island

01:17:38.140 obviously that's

01:17:39.900 not serious

01:17:40.300 but there are

01:17:40.900 any number

01:17:41.280 of things

01:17:41.600 you can do

01:17:42.280 to just say

01:17:43.240 you're Mauritius

01:17:43.880 I'm sorry

01:17:44.320 you don't get

01:17:44.800 to take terms

01:17:45.880 you can take

01:17:46.320 it to the UN

01:17:46.820 that you won't

01:17:47.520 care

01:17:47.800 because actually

01:17:48.820 the reality

01:17:49.260 is hard power

01:17:50.160 and it always

01:17:50.820 has been

01:17:51.300 and always

01:17:51.720 will be

01:17:52.480 and that's

01:17:53.060 exactly what

01:17:53.520 I'm talking

01:17:53.760 about in

01:17:54.200 real politic

01:17:54.920 in half an

01:17:55.340 hour

01:17:55.520 yeah

01:17:55.900 there we go

01:17:56.540 be there for

01:17:57.020 that ladies 1.00

01:17:57.400 and gentlemen

01:17:57.920 all right

01:17:58.560 let's go to

01:17:59.180 the comments

01:17:59.860 shall we

01:18:00.260 just have one

01:18:00.860 there is a

01:18:01.320 one rumble

01:18:03.260 chat here

01:18:03.900 the engaged

01:18:04.640 few says

01:18:05.120 Josh is now

01:18:05.680 using his

01:18:06.200 voice's powers

01:18:06.980 of persuasion

01:18:07.720 for evil

01:18:08.320 and I'm here

01:18:08.880 for it

01:18:09.280 who says

01:18:09.900 I wasn't

01:18:10.260 before

01:18:10.660 I have no

01:18:11.980 idea what

01:18:12.440 the context

01:18:13.040 of this is

01:18:13.760 oh just

01:18:14.220 everything

01:18:14.780 you've said

01:18:15.300 today

01:18:15.600 but I'm

01:18:15.980 flattered

01:18:16.380 that you

01:18:16.840 recognised

01:18:17.280 it

01:18:17.660 thank you

01:18:18.200 thanks for

01:18:18.740 that

01:18:18.940 video

01:18:20.140 comment

01:18:20.600 Samson

01:18:21.060 do we

01:18:21.320 have any

01:18:21.600 today

01:18:21.900 yeah

01:18:24.100 we do

01:18:24.420 cool

01:18:24.820 first video

01:18:31.880 comment of

01:18:32.500 the year

01:18:32.900 I know

01:18:33.300 I'm almost

01:18:33.800 a month

01:18:34.220 late

01:18:34.600 Luca

01:18:35.380 I just

01:18:35.800 watched

01:18:36.120 your

01:18:36.520 comment

01:18:36.920 your

01:18:37.160 section

01:18:37.560 on

01:18:38.260 writing

01:18:39.400 and

01:18:39.700 culture

01:18:40.120 in

01:18:40.440 England

01:18:40.720 I'm way

01:18:42.000 ahead of

01:18:42.380 you man

01:18:42.840 I've been

01:18:43.420 writing

01:18:43.760 for ages

01:18:44.300 been publishing

01:18:44.980 for ages

01:18:45.460 advertising

01:18:46.080 on lotus

01:18:46.580 eaters

01:18:46.880 for ages

01:18:47.420 and

01:18:48.000 you can

01:18:48.620 check out

01:18:49.000 my books

01:18:49.580 say the

01:18:50.160 website

01:18:50.560 guys

01:18:51.040 cscooper.com.au

01:18:52.520 and we're

01:18:53.740 also working

01:18:54.360 on video

01:18:54.800 games

01:18:55.200 mennings

01:18:55.620 games.com

01:18:56.500 and I'm

01:18:57.060 happy to

01:18:57.520 help other

01:18:58.100 lotus

01:18:58.400 eaters

01:18:58.700 publish

01:18:59.060 their

01:18:59.360 books

01:18:59.700 reach

01:19:00.220 out

01:19:00.560 well

01:19:02.240 so go

01:19:02.680 and check

01:19:03.000 out his

01:19:03.340 channel

01:19:03.620 ladies and 0.98

01:19:04.100 gentlemen

01:19:04.860 and also

01:19:05.380 yeah

01:19:05.680 a belated

01:19:06.440 happy new

01:19:06.940 year

01:19:07.160 Cooper

01:19:07.460 I'm pretty

01:19:08.260 sure

01:19:08.660 you know

01:19:09.280 you could

01:19:09.660 put me

01:19:09.900 into a

01:19:10.240 coma

01:19:10.540 and I'd

01:19:11.040 still be

01:19:11.320 able to

01:19:11.600 say

01:19:11.820 cscooper.com.au

01:19:14.260 in my

01:19:15.180 sleep

01:19:15.560 and so

01:19:18.200 should all

01:19:18.700 of you

01:19:18.900 excoriating

01:19:19.600 about

01:19:19.940 Keynesian

01:19:20.400 economics

01:19:21.040 in analysing

01:19:22.020 what happened

01:19:22.520 in the

01:19:22.760 roaring

01:19:22.960 twenties

01:19:23.380 and through

01:19:23.700 the great

01:19:24.020 depression

01:19:24.360 of the

01:19:24.660 thirties

01:19:25.120 Rothbard

01:19:25.600 examines

01:19:26.080 monetary

01:19:26.460 supply

01:19:26.840 and

01:19:27.060 government

01:19:27.400 interference

01:19:28.020 entirely

01:19:28.580 from the

01:19:28.960 perspective

01:19:29.360 of the

01:19:29.680 Austrian

01:19:30.060 school

01:19:30.460 the

01:19:31.060 relevancy

01:19:31.500 of this

01:19:31.800 book

01:19:32.020 is

01:19:32.160 emphasised

01:19:32.700 by the

01:19:33.000 numerous

01:19:33.320 forewords

01:19:33.860 from each

01:19:34.340 edition

01:19:34.780 as the

01:19:35.720 economy

01:19:36.080 grows

01:19:36.480 increasingly

01:19:37.120 it

01:19:37.380 encourages

01:19:37.820 bad

01:19:38.120 investments

01:19:38.720 which hurt

01:19:39.360 people

01:19:39.660 upon

01:19:39.920 failure

01:19:40.420 government

01:19:41.260 enacts

01:19:41.640 legislation

01:19:42.200 to prevent

01:19:42.700 that hurt

01:19:43.180 through

01:19:43.380 bailouts

01:19:44.040 malinvestment

01:19:45.100 continues

01:19:45.680 and the

01:19:46.000 market

01:19:46.280 is so

01:19:46.660 distorted

01:19:47.120 that it

01:19:47.440 must

01:19:47.660 collapse

01:19:48.180 depression

01:19:49.140 is what

01:19:49.520 happens

01:19:49.860 when government

01:19:50.460 continues

01:19:51.060 to interfere

01:19:51.800 it's very

01:19:53.900 true

01:19:54.220 and I've

01:19:55.260 read a fair

01:19:55.700 share of

01:19:56.180 Rothbard

01:19:56.660 I find

01:19:58.280 that he's

01:19:58.920 one of the

01:19:59.280 Austrian

01:19:59.700 writers

01:20:00.160 that his

01:20:01.600 writing is

01:20:02.120 the most

01:20:02.420 accessible

01:20:02.940 in terms

01:20:03.780 of economics

01:20:04.420 and a

01:20:05.800 very compelling

01:20:06.280 writer as

01:20:06.920 well

01:20:07.860 in these

01:20:09.680 hard

01:20:10.200 and trying

01:20:10.900 times

01:20:11.600 may I

01:20:12.720 make a

01:20:13.120 suggestion

01:20:13.720 for

01:20:14.160 Lads

01:20:14.560 Hour

01:20:14.900 robot

01:20:16.400 fights

01:20:17.560 that's

01:20:18.360 right

01:20:18.700 you can

01:20:19.080 watch

01:20:19.420 these

01:20:19.760 robot

01:20:20.280 fights

01:20:20.700 on

01:20:20.960 YouTube

01:20:21.360 for

01:20:21.820 Lads

01:20:22.280 Hour

01:20:22.640 in

01:20:23.380 particular

01:20:24.060 I like

01:20:24.860 the ones

01:20:25.420 with

01:20:25.840 fire

01:20:26.380 I remember

01:20:34.000 watching

01:20:34.500 Robot Wars

01:20:35.520 I was just

01:20:36.120 about to

01:20:36.560 say that

01:20:36.940 it was

01:20:37.200 Craig Charles

01:20:38.180 narrating

01:20:38.980 wasn't it

01:20:39.500 oh I don't

01:20:40.260 know about

01:20:40.620 that

01:20:40.940 I just

01:20:42.080 remember

01:20:42.360 the robots

01:20:42.900 going smash

01:20:43.600 smash

01:20:43.980 I don't

01:20:44.440 remember

01:20:44.740 I think

01:20:45.520 it was him

01:20:46.060 anyway

01:20:46.380 because he

01:20:47.260 also did

01:20:47.660 Takeshi's

01:20:48.160 Castle

01:20:48.480 didn't he

01:20:49.020 that was

01:20:50.080 such a

01:20:50.520 banger of a

01:20:51.100 show

01:20:51.660 it's all

01:20:52.900 on YouTube

01:20:53.420 that was

01:20:54.020 good

01:20:55.020 pretend

01:20:56.980 we're all

01:20:57.320 in jail

01:20:57.580 together

01:20:57.900 and riot

01:20:58.320 just started

01:20:58.880 oh no

01:21:03.140 I got

01:21:03.840 the soap

01:21:04.280 again

01:21:04.820 oh

01:21:05.140 my god

01:21:11.400 I got

01:21:15.640 me

01:21:15.760 oiled up

01:21:22.280 waiting

01:21:22.560 for

01:21:22.780 Big

01:21:23.000 Terry

01:21:23.360 I get

01:21:28.060 feeling

01:21:28.460 it's

01:21:28.700 going

01:21:28.860 to be

01:21:29.140 a very

01:21:29.500 busy

01:21:29.980 year

01:21:30.460 yeah

01:21:31.980 that was

01:21:33.080 a good

01:21:33.280 summary

01:21:33.660 of

01:21:34.000 yeah

01:21:34.260 that was

01:21:34.620 great

01:21:34.920 yeah

01:21:35.320 I find

01:21:37.140 Euromaxing

01:21:37.820 a confusing

01:21:38.340 concept

01:21:38.880 because I

01:21:39.440 simply

01:21:39.760 cannot

01:21:40.080 imagine

01:21:40.520 taking

01:21:40.880 time

01:21:41.240 off

01:21:41.500 from

01:21:41.680 my

01:21:41.840 mech

01:21:42.040 work

01:21:42.300 this is

01:21:42.940 of course

01:21:43.360 because

01:21:43.700 I

01:21:43.980 find

01:21:44.240 fulfillment

01:21:44.660 in it

01:21:45.120 if

01:21:45.500 your hustle

01:21:45.900 is

01:21:46.160 where

01:21:46.320 you

01:21:46.440 find

01:21:46.660 fulfillment

01:21:47.120 fulfillment

01:21:48.000 beyond

01:21:48.540 mere

01:21:48.860 numbers

01:21:49.340 on a

01:21:49.700 screen

01:21:50.100 but

01:21:50.440 true

01:21:50.980 spiritual

01:21:51.580 fulfillment

01:21:52.160 you will

01:21:53.040 not want

01:21:53.480 to take

01:21:53.760 breaks

01:21:54.160 you will

01:21:54.800 not want

01:21:55.240 to stop

01:21:55.660 and as

01:21:56.480 they say

01:21:56.960 the proof

01:21:57.760 of the

01:21:58.040 pudding

01:21:58.300 is in

01:21:58.840 the eating

01:21:59.200 so he

01:22:01.060 broke down

01:22:01.780 the earlier

01:22:02.340 one

01:22:02.600 and this

01:22:02.820 is the

01:22:03.000 new

01:22:03.160 one

01:22:03.960 I'm

01:22:05.540 not too

01:22:06.040 sure

01:22:06.280 I would

01:22:06.540 like to

01:22:06.920 think

01:22:07.200 that he

01:22:07.660 just

01:22:07.940 owns

01:22:08.500 a

01:22:08.920 secret

01:22:09.400 facility

01:22:11.040 filled

01:22:12.040 with

01:22:12.580 mechs

01:22:13.220 and when

01:22:13.780 the collapse

01:22:14.680 happens

01:22:15.080 he is

01:22:15.500 going to

01:22:15.740 be

01:22:15.980 the

01:22:16.620 most

01:22:16.980 set up

01:22:17.560 person

01:22:17.920 in the

01:22:18.320 world

01:22:18.580 remember

01:22:21.040 remember

01:22:21.080 when I

01:22:21.500 mentioned

01:22:21.820 those

01:22:22.040 hate

01:22:22.280 speech

01:22:22.560 laws

01:22:22.880 and

01:22:23.320 gun

01:22:23.540 reform

01:22:23.860 bills

01:22:24.120 the

01:22:24.300 government

01:22:24.520 was

01:22:24.740 pushing

01:22:25.000 last

01:22:25.260 year

01:22:25.460 well

01:22:26.020 sadly

01:22:26.660 they

01:22:27.060 actually

01:22:27.400 passed

01:22:27.760 the

01:22:28.100 liberals

01:22:28.380 are

01:22:28.920 urban

01:22:29.240 conservatives

01:22:29.800 and the

01:22:30.220 main

01:22:30.400 opposition

01:22:30.840 back them

01:22:31.540 which

01:22:31.840 caused

01:22:32.160 the

01:22:32.320 nationals

01:22:32.680 the

01:22:33.000 rural

01:22:33.300 conservatives

01:22:33.900 to

01:22:34.440 finally

01:22:34.760 break

01:22:35.040 away

01:22:35.300 and

01:22:35.640 end

01:22:35.960 the

01:22:36.160 coalition

01:22:36.540 the

01:22:37.200 bills

01:22:37.440 were

01:22:37.620 rushed

01:22:37.840 through

01:22:38.040 parliament

01:22:38.300 with

01:22:38.500 almost

01:22:38.800 no

01:22:39.080 real

01:22:39.360 debate

01:22:39.720 nationals

01:22:40.460 leader

01:22:40.700 David

01:22:41.040 Littleproud

01:22:41.540 slammed

01:22:41.980 them

01:22:42.180 for

01:22:42.300 attacking

01:22:42.580 free

01:22:42.860 speech

01:22:43.160 taking

01:22:43.660 guns

01:22:43.980 from

01:22:44.160 law

01:22:44.360 abiding

01:22:44.660 owners

01:22:44.900 and

01:22:45.000 ignoring

01:22:45.320 the

01:22:45.500 real

01:22:45.700 issue

01:22:45.980 radical

01:22:46.500 Islam

01:22:46.960 he

01:22:47.280 called

01:22:47.520 the

01:22:47.640 whole

01:22:47.820 thing

01:22:48.020 poorly

01:22:48.300 drafted

01:22:48.640 and

01:22:48.800 just

01:22:48.960 petty

01:22:49.180 childish

01:22:49.600 politics

01:22:50.020 they

01:22:50.320 passed

01:22:50.540 38

01:22:50.980 to

01:22:51.120 22

01:22:51.540 crazy

01:22:52.040 times

01:22:52.380 yeah

01:22:54.860 I

01:22:55.140 feel

01:22:55.780 sorry

01:22:56.280 for

01:22:56.700 many

01:22:57.300 of my

01:22:57.660 friends

01:22:58.100 in

01:22:58.280 Australia

01:22:58.680 because

01:22:59.300 you know

01:23:00.520 you guys

01:23:01.080 have such

01:23:01.600 a nice

01:23:01.960 thing

01:23:02.140 going on

01:23:02.580 there

01:23:02.760 except

01:23:03.200 for your

01:23:03.700 government

01:23:04.000 and

01:23:04.700 the

01:23:05.180 wildlife

01:23:05.480 but

01:23:06.020 you know

01:23:07.180 you can

01:23:07.500 change

01:23:07.840 the

01:23:08.020 government

01:23:08.340 and

01:23:09.320 I

01:23:09.560 think

01:23:09.720 you

01:23:09.840 probably

01:23:10.120 should

01:23:10.480 obviously

01:23:11.660 the

01:23:11.880 easier

01:23:12.100 said

01:23:12.320 than

01:23:12.460 done

01:23:12.660 but

01:23:13.220 it

01:23:14.060 is

01:23:14.280 one

01:23:14.680 of

01:23:14.820 the

01:23:14.900 most

01:23:15.080 dystopian

01:23:15.760 places

01:23:16.140 in

01:23:16.400 the

01:23:16.560 entire

01:23:16.860 Western

01:23:17.140 world

01:23:17.500 Australia

01:23:18.020 and

01:23:18.680 I

01:23:19.140 hope

01:23:19.400 it

01:23:19.540 changes

01:23:19.880 because

01:23:20.140 you

01:23:20.340 guys

01:23:20.520 don't

01:23:20.720 deserve

01:23:21.000 it

01:23:21.680 yep

01:23:21.940 definitely

01:23:23.240 really worried

01:23:24.080 about the

01:23:24.400 Anglos here 0.96

01:23:25.040 do you want to go through

01:23:27.100 your comments

01:23:28.240 of course

01:23:29.140 I'm not going to read that name

01:23:33.600 but Dudley says

01:23:34.780 some notes

01:23:36.320 the man who was shot

01:23:37.220 was carrying what looks like a

01:23:38.440 Sig 0.94

01:23:38.700 P320

01:23:39.960 a pistol

01:23:40.440 which has concerns about

01:23:41.480 accidental discharge

01:23:42.440 it's like you watch my segment

01:23:43.840 Minnesota

01:23:44.820 you probably put this before

01:23:46.600 I actually got to that

01:23:47.480 Minnesota is a duty to retreat state for self-defense 0.95

01:23:50.380 in short

01:23:50.860 one can only act in self-defense if there is no other recourse

01:23:54.720 and Minnesota

01:23:56.100 is a

01:23:58.700 is a shall issue concealed carry

01:24:01.900 with limited open carry

01:24:03.400 the state law

01:24:04.340 stupidly limits the second amendment

01:24:06.860 yes that that is very true

01:24:09.280 and

01:24:10.360 Alex says

01:24:12.280 during their Sunday night live stream

01:24:14.060 Robert Barnes had some particularly hot-headed takes on the shooting

01:24:17.020 so I thank you Josh for this careful analysis

01:24:19.660 the shooting is a tragedy

01:24:21.300 and I accept Barnes' conclusion that the ICE officers were not competent for crowd control

01:24:26.720 but that's the core issue

01:24:28.400 ICE should be taking care of the deportations

01:24:31.100 Waltz and his ilk should be providing police control

01:24:34.200 so ICE can get on with their work

01:24:36.240 Waltz's talk of National Guard

01:24:37.980 is evidence of him withholding necessary services at the police level

01:24:41.580 to push the problem up higher to make it more dangerous

01:24:44.100 that is exactly what I was saying

01:24:45.680 and exactly what is going on in my opinion

01:24:48.120 right from yours for us

01:24:51.780 yeah but you need to

01:24:53.480 okay great

01:24:54.520 can is familiar

01:24:57.080 it says best future

01:24:58.580 Iran regime falls

01:25:00.140 US focuses on China

01:25:01.900 Europe teams up with Russia 0.91

01:25:02.960 to take back Constantinople from the Turks 0.99

01:25:04.780 actual future

01:25:06.540 Iran regime falls

01:25:08.000 European leaders complain

01:25:09.280 US focuses on China

01:25:10.460 European leaders complain

01:25:12.160 Turkey and Russia team up on Europe

01:25:14.120 European leaders complain

01:25:15.280 the Balkans fall under the Turks again 0.98

01:25:17.340 European leaders complain

01:25:18.620 all of Europe is partitioned between US, Russia and Turkey

01:25:21.260 European leaders complain

01:25:23.320 yeah

01:25:26.120 I would be very surprised

01:25:27.920 thanks for summarizing the next real politic by the way

01:25:30.360 that's exactly what I was talking about

01:25:33.180 the dying man of Europe is not going to take over Europe

01:25:36.480 that's for sure

01:25:37.180 it's

01:25:37.460 Michael Dribelbit says

01:25:41.060 on Firaz's segment

01:25:42.240 this appears to be another disruption operation

01:25:44.280 yes

01:25:44.640 to essentially disrupt the brakes

01:25:46.880 Iran's oil like Venezuela 0.57

01:25:48.140 is China's lifeline

01:25:49.120 it isn't

01:25:50.280 they get the oil

01:25:51.880 at a 30% discount

01:25:53.460 because it's sanctioned

01:25:54.920 just like they do with Venezuela 0.92

01:25:56.680 so they can keep getting the oil

01:25:58.620 it just becomes a little more expensive

01:26:00.760 for Venezuela

01:26:01.480 for Chinese industry

01:26:02.900 now Iran and Venezuela together

01:26:05.400 I think account for maybe 20-25% of Chinese oil

01:26:08.900 so having that oil discounted

01:26:11.180 is a big boost to the economy

01:26:13.860 but you can remove that boost

01:26:16.520 just by letting the Iranians export at market prices

01:26:19.080 and given the new geopolitical realities

01:26:22.060 they're going to be focusing on holding Iraq 0.98

01:26:24.580 and keeping the Turks out 1.00

01:26:26.080 so this is entirely unnecessary

01:26:29.180 all of it

01:26:29.960 it's completely unnecessary

01:26:31.440 I hope

01:26:34.540 well thanks for that Michael

01:26:35.600 Israeli's intelligence knows more than US intelligence does 0.84

01:26:39.620 but only because Mossad is competent

01:26:41.620 and the CIS, NSA, DIA aren't

01:26:43.640 yeah maybe

01:26:45.180 Carl's evil twin Vosch

01:26:48.280 from what I can see

01:26:49.520 knocking out Iran 1.00

01:26:50.940 would help America

01:26:51.780 by stopping drones being sold to Russia

01:26:53.500 no they're manufacturing their own drones

01:26:55.140 the Russians are making their own drones 0.99

01:26:57.200 it's not like they rely on Iranian industry

01:26:59.780 they're also quite easy to make

01:27:01.260 they're also incredibly cheap to make

01:27:03.420 and easy to make

01:27:03.980 that's just not true

01:27:05.020 George Happ didn't know

01:27:08.140 that not to bomb was even an option for the US

01:27:10.220 yeah

01:27:10.480 to bomb or not to bomb

01:27:12.860 bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb

01:27:15.120 you remember when John McCain sang that

01:27:16.880 like he was asked

01:27:18.440 what are we going to do about Iran 0.96

01:27:20.100 and his answer was

01:27:20.800 bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran 0.97

01:27:22.460 like okay

01:27:23.960 like the baby bat outfit 0.96

01:27:25.320 yes

01:27:25.700 yeah

01:27:26.280 sorry

01:27:27.620 how was John McCain's reaction

01:27:29.480 just

01:27:30.600 making a song of bombing

01:27:32.960 is like the most

01:27:34.020 neocon thing I could ever think of 0.95

01:27:36.260 yeah

01:27:36.500 no

01:27:37.260 other than maybe

01:27:38.040 John McCain was a staunched

01:27:39.480 real conservative

01:27:40.360 what do you mean calling him a neocon

01:27:41.880 he may as well have been

01:27:43.700 drinking the blood of a newborn

01:27:44.980 that's the only way

01:27:45.880 it could have been worse

01:27:46.760 from my segment

01:27:50.200 Sophie Lippe says

01:27:51.080 imagine if England was just

01:27:52.700 half as defensive

01:27:53.700 over the Chagos Islands

01:27:54.940 as we were over Greenland

01:27:56.500 and you have way better reasons

01:27:58.540 for wanting to keep it

01:27:59.800 yeah Sophie

01:28:00.700 I know it's madness

01:28:01.960 Michael de Belba says

01:28:03.440 Trump has actually earned

01:28:04.800 a Nobel Peace Prize

01:28:05.840 a thousand times over

01:28:07.200 compare this to Al Gore

01:28:08.880 and Obama

01:28:09.500 who were awarded

01:28:10.780 the prize for nothing

01:28:11.740 the prize is truly cheapened

01:28:13.380 at this point

01:28:14.040 to being simply

01:28:15.980 a political award

01:28:16.920 well this is why

01:28:17.860 but this is why

01:28:19.560 I covered it as well

01:28:20.720 when I did a segment

01:28:22.280 about it last year

01:28:23.200 and how much Trump

01:28:24.140 seems to care about it

01:28:25.620 there's this sort of like

01:28:27.040 boomer fixation

01:28:28.320 on recognition

01:28:29.500 from the institution

01:28:30.760 regardless of the fact

01:28:31.840 that so many of the

01:28:33.280 winners of the award

01:28:34.360 previously

01:28:35.020 have all been

01:28:36.340 people who have championed

01:28:38.280 you know

01:28:38.560 democracy

01:28:39.240 and liberalism

01:28:40.760 and all of like

01:28:41.760 just progressive causes

01:28:43.340 but you keep wanting it

01:28:45.600 my favourite

01:28:46.140 Nobel Prize winner

01:28:47.000 is Simón Pérez

01:28:48.080 the former

01:28:50.300 Prime Minister

01:28:51.020 and Deputy Prime Minister

01:28:52.080 of Israel

01:28:52.640 who after winning

01:28:54.600 the award

01:28:55.160 actually admitted

01:28:56.080 that he launched

01:28:57.400 a war on Lebanon

01:28:58.180 in 1996

01:28:58.940 where the explicit

01:29:00.240 objective

01:29:00.940 was to depopulate

01:29:02.900 South Lebanon

01:29:03.500 that was the explicit

01:29:04.500 stated objective

01:29:05.360 and up until last year

01:29:07.020 that was still the objective

01:29:08.180 on the IDF website

01:29:09.600 but he's a Nobel Peace Prize winner

01:29:12.680 right

01:29:13.320 doesn't mean anything

01:29:14.900 Donald

01:29:15.240 get over it

01:29:16.120 I mean people shouldn't care

01:29:17.420 about awards full stop

01:29:18.580 like I don't think

01:29:19.840 I've ever been proud

01:29:20.580 of anything I've achieved

01:29:21.460 ever because pride

01:29:22.580 is stupid and pointless

01:29:23.940 like

01:29:24.960 in every meaning of it

01:29:27.400 in the modern sense

01:29:28.280 and

01:29:28.600 my Christian ears

01:29:29.740 are dancing to this music

01:29:31.440 yeah

01:29:33.140 you shouldn't be proud

01:29:34.020 of your own achievements

01:29:34.700 because you know

01:29:35.340 what went into

01:29:36.880 achieving them

01:29:37.440 in the first place

01:29:38.300 so you don't understand

01:29:39.620 the cause and effect

01:29:40.380 of your own life

01:29:41.100 this is one of my own

01:29:41.920 pet hates

01:29:42.400 as you can tell

01:29:43.900 Annie Moss says

01:29:45.880 the US never agreed

01:29:47.040 to change the terms

01:29:47.940 of the 1966 treaty

01:29:49.620 between the UK

01:29:50.460 and the US

01:29:51.260 which established

01:29:52.260 the framework

01:29:52.940 for the use of

01:29:53.740 the Chagos Archipelago

01:29:54.880 for defensive purposes

01:29:56.000 low tier IK

01:29:57.360 KIA 0.97

01:29:57.800 never knew it existed

01:29:59.780 and Ed Miliband

01:30:02.220 harnessing Enoch

01:30:04.080 spinning grave

01:30:04.780 still one of the best

01:30:05.520 usernames

01:30:06.060 Mauritius has 0.89

01:30:07.700 as much of a claim

01:30:08.520 to Chagos

01:30:09.140 as the Falklands

01:30:10.620 or Gibraltar

01:30:11.680 yeah

01:30:12.200 very good point

01:30:13.020 anyway right

01:30:13.980 well that's all

01:30:14.620 we've got time for

01:30:15.420 ladies and gentlemen

01:30:16.100 you can come back

01:30:17.020 in half an hour

01:30:17.780 and join for us

01:30:18.660 for RealPolitik

01:30:20.300 and we look forward

01:30:21.720 to seeing you

01:30:22.200 on the podcast

01:30:23.000 at 1pm tomorrow

01:30:24.140 take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 26, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1340

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