The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1532

00:00:00.000 hello everyone welcome to the podcast of the lotus seaters this is episode 1532 and it's

00:00:07.760 wednesday the 21st of october 2026 i'm pleased to be joined by brother beau hello and brother

00:00:13.840 thomas nice to be here brother nice to have you back nice to be back we are going to discuss why

00:00:20.080 france is being sacked whether argentina is going to invade the falklands and the riots in italy

00:00:27.360 because yes they are kicking off in italy as well do we have any announcements samson

00:00:34.640 no no we don't other to mention the beau show breakfast with beau wake up right

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00:00:46.480 breakfast show out there national prerogative i would say and it's also doing really well

00:00:52.480 oh thank you it isn't just you saying it because it's yours it's also doing objectively well

00:00:59.040 i think for some people it's just like their coffee i can't wake up without coffee yeah

00:01:05.680 wake up with bo bo breakfast with both right bo's breakfast club don't you forget about me

00:01:14.000 don't you forget about me that's a nice song shouldn't i yes the breakfast club okay

00:01:21.360 right so we are going to talk about why france is being sacked you may think it's hyperbolic

00:01:28.320 but it's not let's look at the blame game here bbc news has an article it says katie adler

00:01:36.080 france divided over who to blame for riots and what to learn from them that's a car that isn't

00:01:42.000 in particularly good condition i don't think it's going to pass its mot probably a rights-off

00:01:46.960 I was going to say, that probably won't just detail out.

00:01:50.400 You probably can't just...

00:01:51.360 You couldn't even sell that for parts.

00:01:54.360 But there may be some people who are interested in taking parts of it

00:01:58.500 and selling them in the block market.

00:02:00.680 Maybe.

00:02:01.140 Right, so there are several questions that are being posed in France

00:02:04.700 and also in the entire world, because the world is watching

00:02:07.880 and this is an interrelated issue.

00:02:10.260 It isn't just France.

00:02:12.380 What happened exactly?

00:02:13.560 Who was behind the riots?

00:02:14.800 while much of the looting seemed opportunistic, the violence looked pre-planned. Why orchestrate

00:02:21.880 it now, after weeks of students' protests? And who most stands to gain from the destruction

00:02:27.160 this weekend? These are some of the questions that are being asked, and there is a war

00:02:32.240 of narratives that is ongoing. I'm going to share three narratives with you, because they are the

00:02:37.660 three narratives that are the most popular in public discourse the first is the european

00:02:44.680 commission's narrative so they did the meme or as we say there is always a post this is a post

00:02:53.880 they made in early may they made this yeah early may may 7th may the 7th 2026 oh no and it's

00:03:02.700 absolutely amazing that they haven't deleted it out of shame because the the more they keep it up

00:03:11.340 online for people to see they show they demonstrate and they reveal how out of touch they completely

00:03:18.540 are when it comes to these issues so here is the meme you have peter parker watching without

00:03:25.900 conspiracy glasses looking at france being perfect or le perfection and here he's wearing

00:03:33.240 these sort of conspiracy glasses and the tin hat that sort of prevents the signal from the alien

00:03:42.500 to reach his brain and he's watching the france that we all are watching right now

00:03:47.620 yeah that isn't that isn't reading the room very well it doesn't that doesn't age well does it no

00:03:53.400 it doesn't help that they've used ai to generate that image as well like it look it just looks

00:03:57.560 shocking yes um so they're saying that you'd have to be a crazy conspiracy theorist tinfoil hat

00:04:04.480 wearer to think that paris might burn yeah but then lo and behold that might be in a slightly

00:04:11.960 dilapidated state it actually has but also let's bear in mind history france has a sort of tradition

00:04:18.700 of rambunctious turbulence let me put it this way right the this is the image that we

00:04:26.540 one of the major images that disproves the eu narrative this is the limoges city hall

00:04:34.440 that is burning just look at this this was a beautiful old building and they're just

00:04:40.300 destroying it let me just replay the video just look at the destruction the video isn't playing

00:04:46.700 for some reason, they arrested the arsonist, far-left extremist, Hodei Chiara, has been

00:04:53.060 identified as the man who burned down the historic town hall in Limoges. And you can

00:04:58.440 see him here doing the BLM sign.

00:05:02.780 That's, in yesteryear, in the pre-modern era, that's certainly a capital offence to do something

00:05:10.000 like that.

00:05:10.380 Yes, it is.

00:05:10.960 Certainly.

00:05:11.980 Yeah.

00:05:12.160 I wonder what the French authorities will slap on him in terms of a punishment.

00:05:19.620 Well, there is the issue of judges.

00:05:22.160 I think the judges, the activist judges, are the bane of Europe and the West.

00:05:28.960 The second narrative is Trump's narrative.

00:05:31.420 He says, just look at what is happening in France. 0.99

00:05:33.780 Once a great nation that is being conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, 0.99

00:05:38.440 jihadists, and communists who hate Christianity. 1.00

00:05:41.400 Unconstitutional. 0.99

00:05:41.880 the lie yeah where's the lie in any of that people say that's crazy that's a crazy trump racism 0.90

00:05:47.540 it's a racist yeah no where's the lie at all so that's perfectly correct state it's actually one

00:05:53.220 of the most measured things he's said in recent times there is nothing about that that isn't

00:05:57.360 factual i think this is the correct narrative but because it's trump who says this and the eu is

00:06:05.340 linking trump with putin when he's trying to mediate in order to end the war the eu has

00:06:10.980 agreed to has agreed among its unelected bureaucrats and some of the elected

00:06:18.940 rulers that they're gonna be anti-Trump now Trump Trump's whole approach

00:06:24.480 towards Greenland early this year didn't help but let's just be honest it's

00:06:28.920 Europe Europe's problem is European weakness the first the first step right

00:06:35.100 Trump's going to look after U.S. interests. If Europeans don't look for

00:06:40.800 European interests, yeah, we can't blame Trump, right? And the second, the third

00:06:46.140 narrative is Macron's narrative, who is blaming the protests in France on high

00:06:51.160 fuel prices caused by the U.S.-Iran war. So Macron says basically it's Trump's

00:06:56.760 fault. Trump started a war in Iran. He told us to enter it. We didn't, we

00:07:03.640 weren't asked we didn't want to enter it and to that to that point he he has a point no the

00:07:12.420 Europeans didn't agree to enter the US Iran war right now but you can't just say this is not about

00:07:19.980 the sort of Islamo-leftist alliance against the West it's very obvious right he's a bit all over

00:07:27.700 the place isn't he yeah Macron I've seen him saying the other day it was he did say he mentioned the

00:07:32.200 extreme left or the far left but whatever it is he's in denial well very very deliberate pointed

00:07:38.520 denial of what the reality is or now it's to do with the iran war is it to do with fuel prices

00:07:47.180 okay oh grant maybe there's a small element of that okay but that's not the whole story is it

00:07:51.820 evanuel i think he's trying to be a voice of reason for a world that no longer exists

00:07:56.620 to be perfectly honest that's that's my i'd say a voice of apparent reason though

00:08:00.840 apparent reason yes but no but that's how he sees it yes yeah no you're absolutely correct

00:08:05.660 marine le pen here says that the country is caught in vice or even taken hostage between

00:08:13.400 violence and powerlessness because fundamentally i'd say it's it's the number one issue is an

00:08:18.580 issue of weakness in governments because they are giving in to one of the major um destructive

00:08:26.660 and corrosive weapons of the radical left they accept the politicization of an issue that is

00:08:35.260 simply an issue of law enforcement vandalism is vandalism the only proper response to vandalism

00:08:41.240 is incarceration right at least when the left tries and make turns this vandalism into a sort

00:08:50.300 and is romanticizing this act of vandalism and these acts of vandalism and they're presenting

00:08:56.640 them as romantic fights for social justice and the other parties are

00:09:02.940 entering into public discourse where they are trying to say well no it isn't

00:09:09.300 and they are entering that conversation, the game's already lost. They have first

00:09:14.460 movers advantage in discourse and there is a Martin Bailey because what the

00:09:19.620 police should do is completely crack down on violence instead of having the

00:09:25.880 entire political system debating whether them cracking down on violence and doing their job

00:09:30.920 is the sort of tyrannical overreach no it's it's the sine qua non it's a government it's a malicious

00:09:38.660 way of trying to frame the police as antithetical to the interests of france which is a lie exactly

00:09:45.820 and here we have jean-lique melanchon who i believe is up front about he is owning this

00:09:54.180 in a rare situation where he's trying to disown it.

00:09:58.160 He says, I don't know who will hear my voice

00:10:00.220 in such circumstances, but my message is clear.

00:10:03.220 Those who share our fight have no place in looting,

00:10:05.960 in pillaging, and says the aberrant command in Paris

00:10:09.300 has opened the door to chaos.

00:10:11.160 The leaders no longer know what to do.

00:10:13.620 The troops are afraid and unleashing themselves.

00:10:17.500 Right, here he says that the French intelligence

00:10:20.620 that is implicating la French insurmise, his party in it, is lying.

00:10:28.040 But no, come on, they're not lying.

00:10:30.300 That's interesting. I didn't know that. That was news to me.

00:10:32.380 The French intelligence services are formally saying that it's Mélenchon's party.

00:10:38.220 I have it here from the BBC article.

00:10:42.680 Again, not exactly a right-wing media outlet.

00:10:46.020 French intelligence had briefed government circles earlier this month

00:10:49.440 that far-left anarchist groups were involved in the scene protests.

00:10:53.840 The signature, a capital A, circled in black,

00:10:57.160 was spray-painted on many buildings across France this weekend.

00:11:00.700 The media have played and replayed a video shot on Saturday

00:11:03.700 showing groups of young men dressed in black

00:11:05.560 with a black folded kerchief around their face to hide their identity,

00:11:09.700 apparently attacking a number of police fans.

00:11:12.120 Da-da-da, they're saying essentially it suggests

00:11:14.940 the far-left political movement, La France Insoumise,

00:11:19.440 was relying on violence as an electoral strategy ahead of 2027 presidential election.

00:11:26.200 LFI denies this.

00:11:28.580 One thing I'll say, that's a bold strategy, Cotton.

00:11:33.440 Let's see if it works out for them.

00:11:34.900 Does that really work?

00:11:35.820 Does the average French person, certainly the average French floating voter,

00:11:40.040 are they going to see this and be like,

00:11:42.620 oh yeah, I'm more inclined to vote for the left now?

00:11:45.800 No.

00:11:46.300 Surely not.

00:11:47.080 Surely not.

00:11:47.920 It's a gift to Le Pen, if anything.

00:11:49.440 right according to every poll and again we have to take that with a pinch of salt according to

00:11:55.540 every poll if he is the second candidate against le pen and the second presidential round yeah

00:12:01.760 he's going to get crushed yeah she easily wins easily if i may say i think the most malicious

00:12:06.200 part or disingenuous part of of melincon's quote is the use of the word chaos because he's claiming

00:12:12.620 that almost as if this is somehow incidental it is most definitely not incidental but there is a

00:12:18.500 political reason of course to think that it is chaos is a very useful tool for these people i'm

00:12:23.900 afraid yeah that it's just some sort of general purpose unrest yeah it's just materialized out

00:12:28.940 of the ether who knows why or how yeah and looks rafael friend of the show has a good point here

00:12:36.380 he says manuel bompard claims that lfi is being politically targeted because he has access to

00:12:42.280 quotes that only media part relays well in the meantime we are accusing lfi based on

00:12:47.580 their public quotes that anyone can find and he says left that speaks mount that lies right so

00:12:55.580 when it comes to disowning because malenchon tried to disown the violence when you have an entire

00:13:04.180 career where you're telling people bring down the citadel bring down the system and i'll play this

00:13:09.420 newt just look at his look at his manner just what a hateful hateful man when your entire career is

00:13:20.620 telling people destroy the system destroy everything you when the violence begins you

00:13:25.980 can't just say no i disowned the violence you have had an entire career you ever had decades

00:13:32.620 telling people to go and bring down the system and burn the system down because it's the mandate of

00:13:38.780 social justice inciting violence against the democratic republic that is france we used we

00:13:44.940 used to have rules laws against such things is there a word for it like sedition or treason

00:13:50.820 treason yeah like how is that not treasonous stroke seditious to be publicly saying even

00:13:57.960 before the fact burn down the republic destroy the republic i know how the jacobins would have

00:14:02.940 reacted to that sort of sentiment ironically well i mean i guess he would have been part of them

00:14:09.660 or maybe the montagnards yes yes but if he was speaking against them then he well he wouldn't

00:14:14.420 have a head would he that's the point yeah they would say you're against the general will so off

00:14:18.860 you go you've basically consented to not be a part of our of our socialist republic whatever

00:14:23.540 you want to call it so bye they went head we had against each other i feel like he would have been

00:14:28.300 one of those people if it was talking about 1789 he would have been one of their leaders and then

00:14:32.320 some point when they collapsed started beheading each other he would he would lose his head at

00:14:36.560 that point one of those one of those like like a robespierre figure yes no he's the leader up to

00:14:40.880 a certain point and then it's like ah you're the problem now yes right and he's open about what

00:14:47.840 he's doing and that's why i will i will say that i despise him but i do respect this he's not like

00:14:54.720 a sanchez that is going to hide behind you know the whole uh it's a good thing let's bring let's

00:15:01.680 allow saouda to be invaded because it's good for humanity he hates france he hates western 0.87

00:15:07.440 civilization and he says it down in the open and he says if you're counting on white christian 0.68

00:15:13.360 workers to bring about socialism in france it won't happen but our muslim brothers and sisters

00:15:19.440 will so he's open about it it isn't a secret but the the islamo-communist axis yes it's not a

00:15:29.520 secret. And in fact this is something that even the EU Parliament has woken up to. The

00:15:36.520 need for an EU strategy to counter Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim

00:15:41.540 Brotherhood network, that was the motion, in the EU Parliament. The Parliament voted

00:15:47.860 against the Muslim Brotherhood and against Islamist entryism. 68% of the voters voted

00:15:55.140 against it 30 percent voted in favor it now let's it's concerning even 30 percent yeah that's quite

00:16:02.420 a lot isn't it i mean there is a lot it's like there's still and 30 percent but who voted for

00:16:07.940 them overwhelmingly i'll show you now by political groups thomas who you think voted for them uh

00:16:14.260 the leftist consortium look at those that are actually just probably second or third generation

00:16:23.380 foreigners yeah just have a look here how they voted right european people's party overwhelmingly

00:16:30.180 against islamic entryism patriots for europe against islamic entryism european conservatives

00:16:35.700 and reformists against the muslim brotherhood renew europe against islamist entering non-attached

00:16:42.180 members that was yeah most those of them who did vote they voted against europe of sovereign nations

00:16:50.020 vote against who voted in favor the left in the european parliament greens european free alliance

00:16:57.700 and progressive alliance of socialists and democrats so it's not even a secret right

00:17:02.420 that's quite black and white isn't it it's almost as black and white as you could get

00:17:07.780 that the left and greens probably co-opted greens but the left and greens are just in

00:17:13.940 favor of anything that destroys the fabric of european society yeah and let's be let's also

00:17:20.420 bear in mind that maybe a you know a detail some people are missing this isn't about arab nationalism

00:17:27.380 this isn't about having a sort of some arab states that want to be nationalistic this is something

00:17:34.000 different right when which suggests what the left or at least the radical left of melanchon

00:17:41.640 wants to do because what they want to do is to have a second Arab Spring in Europe, in European

00:17:47.340 soil. That's what they want to do. They say, well, the Arab Spring in 2010, 2011 was a sort of 0.92

00:17:54.840 social media infused reaction against the tyrannical regimes of the Arab world

00:18:02.440 and that led to mass protests that led to these regimes falling down. They completely don't care 0.55

00:18:11.420 about the fact that this led to prolonged civil wars in some of these arab states uh so they say

00:18:17.680 yeah let's let's have that here that's what melanchon i think there are some there are some

00:18:22.660 factions who would very much like an islamist nationalism in france there are quite a few 0.87

00:18:26.900 people in paris i believe who would they must be mad literally mad so like the muslim brotherhood

00:18:33.560 specifically though well like was it mubarak in egypt i think he was overthrown he was overthrown

00:18:40.280 the muslim brotherhood became the government of egypt if i recall this all correctly and they

00:18:45.160 were too extreme for the egyptian military yeah right who did a coup d'etat against them yes so

00:18:51.160 the muslim brotherhood is too much for egypt also for the eu which is notoriously 0.97

00:18:56.920 slow in but the european greens and socialists are all for them yes the thing is men and cons 0.97

00:19:02.600 coming from this ballpark that when they actually see the true contradictions of capitalism in

00:19:07.560 in plain sight they'll then realize that their own religious dogmas nonsense and join and join

00:19:11.700 them with their in administering their secularist utopia it won't happen but i will say this there

00:19:17.160 are political nationalistic opportunists in there of arab descent who want a very very different

00:19:22.880 structure of um of government in france and it wouldn't look anything like democracy by the way 1.00

00:19:28.680 yeah no no and they are take a caliphate and they are taking advantage of idiots like him 0.99

00:19:34.360 even though i'm sure that he is on some level aware of the risk he's just overly confident 0.99

00:19:39.640 in his ability to mitigate it but also let me just add this that this shows how essentially

00:19:46.440 i mean this is about you know the euro communism of 50s and 60s where they decided to essentially

00:19:53.320 turn their backs against the proletariat and marx and say now we need to go and placate the

00:19:59.160 third world because that's what has revolutionary potential and he says it out in the open he says 0.83

00:20:04.600 it you can't rely on white christian workers so that's a complete uh turning back u-turn

00:20:12.040 of the traditional left that would try to get the support of the sort of native western

00:20:19.160 proletariat no this is pure anti-westernism i find it interesting something to build on what

00:20:24.520 what you said thomas um that he must know or someone like men's shop all these people that

00:20:29.860 are of the left the european are of the if they're not they're not muslims and yet they advocate for

00:20:36.320 or encourage some sort of islamo-communist axis whatever you want to call it they must know they 0.97

00:20:42.120 must know they must do they can't be that stupid in the final reckoning should their side of the 0.99

00:20:48.360 aisle win whatever that means whatever that looks like then there would be some sort of internal 0.99

00:20:52.240 conflict between the leftist the communists and the and the and islam yeah and that that doesn't

00:20:58.080 end well for them they must know no and what confirms that for me is that he uses the term 0.85

00:21:03.340 white christians in addressing these people so he's basically saying we're all on the same side

00:21:09.060 here because we identify these people who are by the way should be his people in front as the enemy

00:21:14.060 he knows they're all going to get behind this and without stating obviously what his utopia is

00:21:20.080 and well it is an it is an explicit um declaration that lets unite behind this enemy that he's just

00:21:28.780 defined so let's be more transparent let's ask why we constantly hear about the far right

00:21:33.520 we constantly hear about the far right for one reason first it's for two reasons first it's a

00:21:39.760 nonsense term that is meant to be a conversation stopper but the left is residing over a tactical

00:21:47.000 alliance between groups that are completely incompatible like you can see the the absurdity

00:21:53.320 of it of that tactical alliance with the gays for gaza thing and the careers for palestine thing

00:21:58.360 it's it's nonsense the only way to momentarily unite a completely incompatible front is by

00:22:05.000 inventing a common enemy that's why we constantly hear about the far right and here we have

00:22:10.840 another politician Raquel Garrido accusing the far-right, the survivalists and accelerationists

00:22:18.600 for the riots and the looting. Right, do you know who this woman is? I don't. Right, she was with

00:22:27.880 the protesters and she was a young French left-winger who was horrified by the looting

00:22:35.800 and she started telling them this isn't the cause i regret to tell you just wake up this

00:22:44.440 this isn't their cause you may be a very naive leftist woman and melanchon is and and the people 1.00

00:22:52.440 who are taking advantage of you are deliberately using you as a useful idiot they're putting you 0.99

00:22:58.360 in harm's way because they're manipulating your emotion and your sentimentality they're trying 0.99

00:23:04.280 to tell you that this is about social justice and fairness and and and you know the utopia it's not

00:23:10.760 it's about looting and vandalism these people couldn't care less about about social justice

00:23:14.360 when it comes i think that's interesting that image so that classic image of um if you find

00:23:20.280 yourself try you're at the point where you're trying to reason with a mob on the street it's

00:23:25.960 too late love yeah it's a bit late for that yes and it's not the evil conservatives who were trying

00:23:32.360 to warn you that you shouldn't get involved into a mob because it is a mob it's not an a group

00:23:39.880 that is fighting for for hefty ideals it's not that it's the mob these people only get it when

00:23:46.200 it affects them just just look at the manner of me i'll let that playing without without image just

00:23:52.040 this is a spanish reporter uh she is reporting live for her channel from paris and you have some

00:24:00.760 people behind her um trying to intimidate her and communicate and this uh dude here is gonna

00:24:08.040 make this matter he isn't even hiding his face he's imitating a slit being throat

00:24:16.120 some people just some people um don't notice don't notice their ethnicity yeah or their race

00:24:22.760 don't notice or their their try their obvious tribal alliances not one of them looks ethnically

00:24:27.320 French to me. But it is a bit weird to see that even though more than 3,000 businesses were looted

00:24:35.180 and harmed, some of those weren't. We have this post here from Yuri Bizmenov's ghost, friend of

00:24:43.740 mine. Don't smash it up, she's a sister. As the West imports populations with strong

00:24:50.280 ethno-collectivist loyalties, the primary axis of political competition will increasingly shift

00:24:56.060 from the left right distinction to ethnic ethnic block politics yeah yeah no ham was looted

00:25:03.820 why it's not funny i don't know i'm laughing it's a nervous laugh is that really true yeah

00:25:11.220 and look at this French journalist here Paul Amor he he said they came prepared they had the 0.61

00:25:17.520 addresses of town halls they had addresses of Jewish shop owners in a street in Marseille

00:25:23.860 all businesses owned by jews were set on fires businesses run by muslims weren't that says a lot

00:25:30.980 doesn't it there's a parallel of all for that isn't there in history it has to do with crystals 0.64

00:25:36.660 crystal nacht and and yeah yeah yeah so it's a french crystal nacht yeah this goes some way

00:25:43.940 beyond the culture camp doesn't it it's literally burning down enterprises but instead of uh 0.99

00:25:49.220 German workers national socialist types it's just browns and Muslims doing it 1.00

00:25:55.740 now I'll say that I don't think it's going to think that that's less bad right 1.00

00:26:02.140 here we just have just to illustrate the absurdity of it Palestine puppy creator 0.99

00:26:07.180 is unmasked as NHS doctor who wrote book introducing children to stoning just 0.70

00:26:12.820 that's new I saw I saw that story it was just simply that he was a Pakistani

00:26:18.120 yeah behind it I didn't know he wrote he wrote something about introducing

00:26:21.240 children to the concept of stoning yes nice nice guy he just wants a better

00:26:30.840 life these are filthy now when it comes to the when it comes to the mainstream

00:26:36.160 media who is trying to portray these riots as being about education about

00:26:41.160 the cost of living crisis about all this I ask one question are the means that

00:26:47.680 these people are taking conducive to the end that they are claiming is their end.

00:26:55.360 I don't see how looting a jewelry store somehow mitigates the issue of poor classroom conditions.

00:27:04.160 Yeah, right. Yeah, it's perhaps, as I said here, it has to do with

00:27:11.280 them gaining access to instruments of precision for measuring and time keeping, because doctors

00:27:17.440 and engineers need many of them actually look remarkably well dressed as well i'd say that as

00:27:22.640 well how footage like that translates into a win at the ballot box in france of course not um if

00:27:31.200 they hand citizenship liberally then yeah unless they can blame the far right for it somehow

00:27:38.320 so here just look at the the fruits of uh this is how they're improving classroom conditions

00:27:45.280 they're selling the loot out in the street so just this just just pillaging and they're doing

00:27:51.920 it out there in the open and why isn't the police doing something right so they know who these people

00:27:59.440 are again not to uh over gild the lily but we're just simply not supposed to notice yeah who the

00:28:08.320 people are doing it yep it's pretty clear isn't it it's always we're supposed to think that there's

00:28:14.080 always another reason other than the one that's kind of you could say self-evidence at this point

00:28:19.400 and uh i'll end with this post this you know it shows the sacking of rome in 410 a.d

00:28:26.640 and something that that resembles it and yes it is hyperbolic um but uh at the end of the day if

00:28:34.500 this weakness persists in front of obvious threats then this is going to be the fate of

00:28:42.160 the entire european continent and it's good to see europe waking up to it the european parliament but

00:28:50.400 they have to completely stop trying to enter in public discussion in which center-right parties

00:29:00.400 allegedly center-right parties are trying to convince left-wing parties that they're more

00:29:06.240 so-called progressive than the left that's what is destroying them so it's okay chaos has to be

00:29:13.920 addressed and chaos is a simple issue of law enforcement it's not something that should be

00:29:21.120 politicized and every person every left winger every every politician no matter who they are

00:29:28.400 who is trying to turn a simple issue of law enforcement simple issue of vandalism into a

00:29:34.400 political issue should be should be ashamed of themselves and yeah there

00:29:40.080 there should be background checks right let's go to the to the next segment

00:29:48.140 yeah of course right so that's a random name says socio-economic factors somehow

00:29:54.920 made their ancestors never invent the wheel trust me bro

00:30:00.160 And Tashmin is now a monthly supporter, thanks Tashmin, Scott Saigai, the left, we hate slavery.

00:30:09.120 Also the left, we want the productive to work as slaves for the unproductive.

00:30:12.600 I want to comment something about this because we constantly hear about slavery, reparations

00:30:17.740 and all this decolonial and anti-colonial narrative, but just one question.

00:30:23.720 How many times do you hear the left talking about the Arab slave trade and asking for

00:30:29.880 reparations from that side of the colonialism of yesteryear?

00:30:36.960 I just don't hear about them.

00:30:40.800 Which suggests that it isn't about backward looking, it's forward looking.

00:30:45.060 They don't care about the past, they don't care to right the wrongs or address as they

00:30:50.600 so often say historical injustices.

00:30:53.280 just about their future goals now their allies are these people they are going to completely bypass

00:31:01.120 it or they just want distributive distributivism for its own sake yeah sigil stone 17 funny that

00:31:07.760 trump is calling out the migrants as being anti-christian while his administration just

00:31:12.080 settled with the university of north carolina forcing the university to provide anti-semitism

00:31:17.440 training um really i don't know what happened there uh okay let's about that one yep let's go

00:31:26.160 and again when it comes to antisemitism again it depends what it is so yeah i mean i disagree with

00:31:33.840 any kind of criticism of the jews being portrayed as antisemitism and just a step before genocide

00:31:40.720 But, you know, maybe just them having an anti-Semitism course doesn't mean they're anti-Christian.

00:31:48.280 We still have to see what the course says.

00:31:51.100 Right. Let's go down. Let's scroll down.

00:31:55.140 Yep. Okay, that's it. We read that.

00:31:58.220 So let's move forward to the riots in Italy.

00:32:01.960 So it's kicking off across Europe because the people who are behind the riots are internationally

00:32:09.720 minded and internationally organized.

00:32:13.320 They are presiding over an unholy alliance that has global goals.

00:32:19.280 Here we have the Italian city of Bologna descending into chaos overnight by wall looters and 0.97

00:32:26.860 radical leftists with Palestinian flags. 0.71

00:32:28.860 Let's have a look at what was happening here in Bologna.

00:32:31.960 these are images from Bologna that's not the Bologna I know and love by the way never had

00:32:44.400 the pleasure of going but I've heard good things can I give a little bit of anecdotal evidence

00:32:49.180 yep because I was in Italy recently just a few days ago I was still in Italy in Rome Rome is

00:32:56.120 famously graffitied everywhere always has been I've been going to Rome on and off for over 20 years

00:33:00.360 it's always had tons and tons of graffiti

00:33:03.220 I did see a lot of the anarchist

00:33:05.380 signs, a lot of

00:33:07.220 socialist

00:33:08.280 specifically, explicitly socialist

00:33:10.740 graffiti

00:33:12.380 and when I was in Florence, on the day I was

00:33:15.060 leaving Florence

00:33:16.080 there was a relatively small

00:33:18.920 protest parade

00:33:21.240 of leftists

00:33:22.600 say relatively small, there was probably a hundred or two

00:33:25.180 and they were being flanked

00:33:27.200 by the police

00:33:27.780 and the thing there that i noticed is just one little bit of anecdotal evidence just from

00:33:32.380 florence so not a big deal yet um but they were they were all young nearly all of them young

00:33:39.580 nearly all of them white in this instance and nearly all of them female at one point they

00:33:47.860 were chanting or trying to chant as one and it was an overwhelming impression of a female voice

00:33:54.400 and that's only one example and they weren't going mad and writing and ruining burning things down

00:34:00.040 they did have sort of like pink flares and stuff and palestine flags but it's it was mad and loads

00:34:08.320 of them and one point i went in mcdonald's they were going in mcdonald's weird anti-capitalist

00:34:12.600 thing but having a mcdonald's and they were like they were they were young very very young women

00:34:17.460 sort of i don't know 17 18 19 20 year old women and they they'd drawn on their face antifa they'd

00:34:22.800 written on their face antifa it was all a big larp yeah yeah they're just useful they did yeah

00:34:27.580 big time i mean comically so underage children will uh be uh will be reported i guess it's this

00:34:37.600 era's counterculture yeah if their parents and grandparents were sort of conservative with a

00:34:43.040 small c probably christian the counterculture to that is to be extreme left and antifa yeah

00:34:50.420 yeah it's a socialized it's a socialized habit of just the liberal middle classes who've basically

00:34:55.300 had it so comfortable they don't actually know the problems that the people they're advocating

00:34:58.900 or trying to defend are creating that is until they're affected by it directly as that poor

00:35:03.860 woman was earlier we are going to talk about uh you know underage children in the protests

00:35:08.820 but just look at these sign these good lord uh images here it's just chaos it's lawlessness

00:35:16.060 there's no order there

00:35:17.160 the rule of law

00:35:18.160 was broken down

00:35:19.140 is this Milan

00:35:20.020 yeah

00:35:20.880 yeah

00:35:21.880 it isn't just in Milan

00:35:23.260 it's in Bergamo

00:35:24.080 it's in Turin

00:35:25.400 it's in Milan

00:35:26.640 and some other places

00:35:27.940 I hope

00:35:29.020 check that again

00:35:30.260 but I hope I didn't

00:35:31.500 again pains me to say it

00:35:32.620 but the demographics

00:35:33.360 of the people doing it

00:35:34.520 but as

00:35:36.260 as Bo was saying

00:35:38.000 it's also

00:35:38.680 young Italians

00:35:40.080 entering

00:35:40.620 as well

00:35:41.040 what do they hope

00:35:42.620 to achieve

00:35:43.600 I know it's

00:35:44.480 I mean chaos

00:35:45.060 in and of itself

00:35:45.880 suppose well that's the thing i suppose if you have if you have young children thinking that

00:35:51.820 what they're doing is going to bring the utopia forth and the others who are using this sort of

00:35:58.280 blackmail blackmail blackmail and sentimental thinking just to loot yeah and it's the best way

00:36:05.960 to loot and get away with it it's just yeah the police's eye isn't focused on you it's focused 0.86

00:36:12.420 on the protest and you can go and destroy things and uh and vandalize and steal see like that white

00:36:19.240 guy there was throwing a bin around and the the young white ladies in florence i saw um

00:36:24.980 i i severely doubt they're steeped in any sort of marxist reading i doubt it i highly doubt it

00:36:34.100 yeah they've got and or even the history or the backstory of of anti-fascist movements or anything

00:36:39.540 at all yeah i don't think they know what they're doing at all no no in their mind absolutely we

00:36:46.220 want to liberate you they want to enslave you that's it and i've had these conversations also

00:36:51.000 in greece because in greece the universities are very politicized and i remember talking to a young

00:36:56.460 communist lass uh who was in some respect sensible i thought that you know the there could be a way

00:37:04.020 of talking to her, right?

00:37:05.880 There was merit in trying to convince her.

00:37:08.480 She was, I confronted her with, you know,

00:37:11.700 have you read Marx?

00:37:13.100 And she said, no, I first have to read Adam Smith

00:37:15.180 and then I have to go to Ricardo.

00:37:16.920 And then it was all an issue of, right,

00:37:19.620 for the time being, I'm with them.

00:37:22.100 But I know that before I start doing my due diligence,

00:37:25.180 there's so much I have to read

00:37:26.660 that I'm going to postpone it indefinitely.

00:37:28.940 It's a classic thing.

00:37:30.580 Thankfully, you guys, both you guys are very, very well read.

00:37:33.100 and I've done a fair bit of reading in my time

00:37:35.280 but most people, the vast majority

00:37:37.520 of people, they won't have

00:37:39.460 read Das Kapital, they will

00:37:41.580 not have done, even though

00:37:42.700 many will claim they have, you almost certainly

00:37:45.440 haven't, you have read

00:37:47.260 The Wealth of Nations, have you bro?

00:37:49.080 I doubt you have, you almost certainly haven't

00:37:51.260 a tiny majority, yeah if these people read Adam Smith

00:37:53.560 have they?

00:37:55.160 With contempt possibly

00:37:57.160 based on how they're acting but chances are

00:37:59.460 no. Isn't this a sort

00:38:01.540 of protest against

00:38:03.780 French education conditions

00:38:05.620 and against the cost of living. 1.00

00:38:07.340 This is just a love of lawlessness. That's what we're

00:38:09.460 seeing here. They're just so angry. They're doing it for the fun

00:38:11.480 of it. There wasn't enough supply

00:38:13.640 teachers. Yeah.

00:38:15.260 The books were mouldy.

00:38:18.500 Yeah, they

00:38:19.100 were likely to cause

00:38:21.200 respiratory problems, so they

00:38:23.380 have to go down and burn and steal

00:38:25.440 watches. It's that classic thrill, I think, in a lot of

00:38:27.360 cases of just sticking it to the man

00:38:29.540 without defining what the man is.

00:38:31.140 yeah look at this from as mindless as that yeah look at this from milan

00:38:35.700 yeah the best way to protest against the cost of living and the and the poor education conditions

00:38:48.180 and wages is to just give more yeah more um more of an argument to your opponents and say

00:38:54.380 they're vandals so they shouldn't be taken seriously yeah that's that's the way to go

00:38:59.420 forward like enforce violence against those who would otherwise protect your

00:39:02.660 freedoms and your right to welfare and everything else yeah this is a really

00:39:06.800 interesting clip here I really want you to watch it and see what's going on it's

00:39:11.740 about a young Italian woman who is scolding the police for using force on

00:39:15.500 migrant rioters saying officers should treat them like everyone else and just

00:39:19.940 ask for ID just she says ask them for ID their citizens and they're asking where

00:39:30.240 they citizens yesterday and seconds later what she someone is gonna throw 0.99

00:39:38.300 an explosive now toward her and the police Jesus and she's just going to go

00:39:46.640 and hide behind them I caught me off guard yeah but you see there's something here to be said here 0.99

00:39:53.600 right isn't just a fun video it's the idea that useful idiots in these protests have one function 0.99

00:40:01.040 for the vandals they are postponing law enforcement why because they're returning vandalism that is a 0.98

00:40:08.520 simple issue of law enforcement into a political issue so there has to be an extra obstacle in it

00:40:14.820 introduced because instead of the police going hardcore against the vandals, which is what

00:40:20.740 any state should be doing, this is 101 of governance, do not allow barbarians crush

00:40:26.980 civilization, we suddenly have an extra political discourse and debate that is going on that

00:40:34.060 is postponing law enforcement because it's the Mott and Bailey, right? It's about the

00:40:40.520 vandalism, but the public face that is being presented is that this is about social justice.

00:40:49.240 Right and here we have something that we are going to get a lot of in the coming years

00:40:54.840 in Europe if Europe doesn't change a stance. We have Italian right-wing men taking to the

00:41:02.280 streets of... I was just about to say actually, I didn't know that was where he was going

00:41:06.000 this but i was just about to make a point about the forces of reaction yeah that the completely

00:41:12.960 unchecked anti-fascist leftist mobs and or um migrant mobs that won't be a that won't go

00:41:22.240 completely unchecked forever it just cannot it will not throughout history that has never been

00:41:27.680 the case there will be the forces of reaction to it and so what was already starting is it

00:41:33.680 well i don't know the extent to which it is starting but i think that this is something

00:41:38.480 that is worth avoiding and i'm i'm putting the blame primarily to eu leadership and the

00:41:44.720 politicians of the eu because i think that on the front of security they they aren't doing their job

00:41:51.920 or at least as they aren't doing their job as well as they should be doing it

00:41:56.880 security is the number one issue right and this wouldn't happen if the police showed that they

00:42:06.320 are taking the issue seriously now that said because i don't want to be miserable i think

00:42:12.000 that in this case maloney has reacted i don't want to be just uh overly critical not recognizing

00:42:19.280 you know good uh moves but maloney has reacted rhetorically she's reacted yeah no no she has

00:42:26.560 also deployed the army in milan it's also action it isn't just it isn't just uh announcements she

00:42:33.680 said here that 100 about 140 there are reports of about 141 italian police officers wounded in the

00:42:41.360 riots and looting in milan over the past two days um it's you know it's worth taking this number

00:42:47.680 with a pinch of salt but the important thing is that there are injuries right and these injuries

00:42:53.680 wouldn't exist if there was no vandalism right here what are they going to do to the italian flag here

00:43:04.560 they're setting it on fire and brought daylight they're crystal clear about what they're doing

00:43:12.720 there is immense symbolism into what they're doing it isn't just nothing it's anti-italian

00:43:20.480 and anti-western and anti-european seditious treason they're enemies of the state yeah

00:43:27.820 surely what else how else would you describe it yeah and i was saying before that the judges are

00:43:34.640 the problem especially those who are uh entrusted with adjudicating based on the echr because the

00:43:41.720 echr on its own as a document doesn't say anything about there being an unconditional

00:43:47.600 right to remain not get that's right it's particular it's very much conditional it's the

00:43:53.620 judges who are as the activist judges the ECHR recognizes the right for a country to uphold

00:43:59.120 security and a common culture as well it's just not enforced exactly and the laws you were talking

00:44:04.300 about sedition before they aren't just the laws of sedition against human rights laws of sedition

00:44:11.460 also are also protecting people it isn't the black and white this side protects human rights

00:44:17.260 the other side doesn't and wants to tyrannize everyone it's precisely because you don't you

00:44:22.700 want to avoid you know conflict from escalating left is just more legally and financially well

00:44:27.200 resourced right right so melanie is announcing a new decree and four new measures to combat

00:44:32.200 violent rioters and looting she says that people of foreign background constitute half of the 330

00:44:37.540 people arrested and detained so far the new measures include prison sentences of up to five

00:44:43.220 years and fines of 20,000 euros for participating in violent protests and she has new decrees

00:44:51.920 that are toughening up her stance. That's again, that remains to be seen. But she has 0.89

00:44:59.320 deployed the army. Let me just show this to you so you, where is it? I want to show this

00:45:07.320 to you. Yeah, Italy deploys 500 troops to Milan after days of protests and looting.

00:45:12.560 Now, let's go back to the battle of narratives.

00:45:15.460 According to the Deutsche Welle, here Richard Conner, a few days ago, anger over living

00:45:23.220 costs and low wages has brought Italians onto the street.

00:45:26.960 A major union has called a general strike for November 20.

00:45:33.400 And if you check out this entry, it's going to have three pictures.

00:45:38.840 image number one that's image number two what was that image what was that no that's not

00:45:47.960 actually these are two images and what are they they're so weird freakish they're freaks aren't

00:45:54.120 they what's that supposed to be it's just such freaks well what's the message that they're lying

00:46:01.640 about half of them minors 50 young people were arrested about 25 of them were minors it's what

00:46:09.000 you were saying before here children you mean yeah i thought you meant miners down a coal mine

00:46:14.360 oh children okay miners okay clashes also broke out in turing bologna and bergamo police in

00:46:21.720 bologna used water cannons and made four arrests all miners with seven people reported to prosecutors

00:46:28.840 So, yeah, they are trying to sentimentally blackmail children, among other things.

00:46:36.840 That's part and parcel of the political machine of the extremist left.

00:46:44.300 But if you just look at these pictures, all of them are showing the police hitting the protesters and enforcing the law.

00:46:52.840 But they aren't showing any pictures of the vandalism.

00:46:56.620 Here we have Italy facing parallel protests in north and south.

00:47:00.740 Now, let me just say, not all protests in Italy are necessarily about this,

00:47:07.720 but the very fact that some sides are trying to co-opt them speaks loads.

00:47:14.340 So here we have youth protests in the north, and we have farmers and trackers in the south,

00:47:21.480 and the media is trying to say that this is about high gas prices and the cost of living.

00:47:28.880 Right. So this is again on the Macron narrative that we were talking before,

00:47:34.100 that this is somehow caused by anger directed against the high prices of energy due to the U.S. around war.

00:47:48.140 But it's missing the entire picture.

00:47:50.320 And here I want to say that some of them are saying that the Kremlin is spreading disinformation around the French riots and that they're trying to say that this is also about the riots.

00:48:03.820 How can you spread disinformation about burning buildings?

00:48:06.440 well if you if you want if you want to um they are generated images actually if they want to

00:48:12.720 say that they are going to persecute and sort of close every avenue of information

00:48:19.320 that is against this narrative here because it's going to be hate speech then yeah several people

00:48:29.140 won't know what's going on and they'll perhaps find out what is happening when it's just placing

00:48:35.060 a but against whatever's presented yes okay here's a burning building but burned down by communists

00:48:40.020 or whatever but the kremlins draw attention to this so we can't believe it yeah so towards the

00:48:46.340 end of the segment i want to speak a bit about hybrid war writing in milan is caused by hybrid

00:48:52.180 warfare against the west says italian defense minister this is an article by alex croft and

00:48:57.460 james c reynolds from the independent and i want to show you something they're talking about hybrid

00:49:04.260 warfare it's half true i would say um that's supposed to be a form of conflict being waged

00:49:10.260 against our nations through unconventional tools like tick tock social media and youtube and

00:49:16.020 they're saying that the west has been slow to respond to the threats saying young people may

00:49:20.100 be receiving a counter-education outside of school in the family well they are receiving this and to

00:49:27.220 an extent they are receiving this because throughout the west we have ecophobic narratives

00:49:32.580 trying to demonize both europe and european nations individually because the adversary

00:49:40.980 right now is the islamo radical leftist alliance right italy was due to approve and they're saying

00:49:48.100 that italy was due to approve new security measures on tuesday targeting miners according

00:49:53.220 to politicians in response to two days of unrest that saw hooded protests that said bins ablaze

00:49:59.700 and shops looted and they're saying essentially that it is an issue of hybrid warfare i want to

00:50:06.820 say one thing about hybrid warfare because the eu is completely split-brained about it

00:50:12.820 so if you check out eu rhetoric they literally think that the only borders that exist in europe

00:50:20.900 are the borders between poland and belarus because according to the eu the only problem

00:50:27.700 of the eu is putin's russia now if you ask me i think putin's russia is a problem of the eu

00:50:35.780 but it's not the only problem of the eu right so we have again this article from the independent

00:50:42.020 how putin is sowing chaos in poland as ukraine war spreads across europe and i want to show you

00:50:48.660 a part of this article where they're talking about the borders um the borders of poland and belarus

00:50:58.980 and hybrid warfare let me just find it here they're saying several european intelligence

00:51:06.020 agencies have issued similar warnings in recent weeks and months denmark's defense intelligence

00:51:12.500 service caused a stir with a new threat assessment that concluded russia is likely

00:51:17.380 to intensify its hybrid war against the west in the near future hybrid attacks cover a broad sweep

00:51:24.500 of activities from cyber attacks to stirring up an internal unrest the eu has since 2021 accused

00:51:32.740 russia-aligned belarus of weaponizing migration by luring people to his country to find an easier

00:51:39.940 way into the bloc via poland or the baltic states than via the mediterraneans belarus denied

00:51:46.980 involvement. So in this lies the key for solving Europe's problems. I'm an

00:51:57.340 optimistic person. I like looking at solutions. So the first step is for the

00:52:04.980 European leadership to accept that Europe has more borders than the Poland

00:52:11.480 Belarus, right? So the borders that separate Poland and Belarus aren't the only borders.

00:52:19.200 So if they think that the major problem of Europe is Putin's Russia, and Putin's Russia

00:52:25.380 can weaponize and does weaponize irregular or illegal migration flows into Europe via 0.53

00:52:33.480 the poland belarus border ask yourselves this can putin's russia weaponize migration floor

00:52:42.860 flows from other borders of the eu yes and entities other than putin as well namely iran

00:52:50.240 like what incentives could iran have i don't know to maybe yeah but also you could also say that

00:52:57.560 UK border. You could also say that there are ties between Iran and Russia. We had

00:53:02.720 Sergei Lavrov saying a few days ago that Iran's cause is justified, right? All that Europe needs 1.00

00:53:11.960 to do in order to solve its major problems is accept that the borders that separate Poland

00:53:19.580 and Belarus aren't the only borders and apply this sort of rhetoric that they apply for the

00:53:25.600 borders separating poland and belarus to the entire borders they should apply to sauta as well

00:53:31.820 they are saying putin's misinformation bots are trying to give a mistaken image of what happened

00:53:40.440 in sauta in the western mind but what if putin's russia is doing this to the borders separating

00:53:48.740 poland and belarus why wouldn't he try and just make this a general rule for everywhere else

00:53:53.620 there are too many political entities especially outside of that we know hate the west hate the

00:54:00.180 uk is it at least conceivable that that's what we're seeing with uncontrolled immigration at

00:54:05.320 the moment but perhaps even going back decades might be the result of some proxy involvement

00:54:10.300 in hurting the moral fiber of these countries if the answer is yes then that's a reason to adopt

00:54:16.580 that policy in every country that composes the european union nothing controversial about that

00:54:22.320 it's crazy hypocrisy really isn't it sort of yes it's really orwellian double think double speak

00:54:28.900 the the so that's a concern the polish bela russian border that matters that's a concern

00:54:35.060 because evil man putin but all the other borders from any other any other external origin none of

00:54:43.780 those matter at all oh no they matter it's cultural enrichment it's diversity all right 0.88

00:54:48.720 yeah it's just complete and utter nonsense isn't it so let's go back to the let's go back to the

00:54:55.020 you are dramatizing it narrative so is part of these protests fueled by anger against the cost

00:55:03.000 of living the energy prices the purchasing power real wages etc well vandalism isn't vandalism is

00:55:10.080 just for looting but let's say that these are problems and they are in fact problems one of 0.91

00:55:15.380 solutions against them would be to stop the disastrous mix that europeans especially members 0.76

00:55:22.180 of the eu and italy is one of them are called to to pay for which is the mix between open borders

00:55:29.460 and extreme willfarism the european taxpayer and in this case also the italian taxpayer is called

00:55:37.860 to pay more and more and more taxes is taxed to oblivion in order to fund more and more and more

00:55:47.220 benefits for the entire world and if we have a huge migration flow into italy from the mina

00:55:56.020 countries that is the middle east and north africa zone then yes the italian taxpayer is taxed into 0.96

00:56:03.700 to oblivion in order to fund benefits for non-Italians. No wonder there is a problem 1.00

00:56:11.240 with cost of living, energy prices, real wages, etc. Right, so that's a way of solving

00:56:18.580 it. Right, let's go to Logan, 17 Pine. I'm sorry. Influencers, what about the CCP and

00:56:26.340 how they've been funding? The leftist since the 90s was enough money to make sure a sword

00:56:32.100 look like a tiny fly compared to them well i mean they obviously they're obviously into into things

00:56:39.380 and i want to say that this is another thing that the left could be thinking is that in their minds

00:56:45.140 if thing goes south i'm talking about those with foresight they may say well no we can prevent

00:56:51.060 another iran fiasco by doing what you know the the far east is doing to the uggers 0.99

00:56:57.380 Uyghurs 1.00

00:56:59.440 Scott Saigai 1.00

00:57:03.880 we have to be careful about Russia 1.00

00:57:05.780 otherwise we'd end up with a foreigner 1.00

00:57:07.360 as a home security and 1.00

00:57:09.320 foreign rapists 1.00

00:57:11.540 doing things to children 1.00

00:57:13.900 oh wait

00:57:14.520 Scott Saigai again says

00:57:17.600 all you need to know is that Orania is a thing

00:57:19.760 I'll say no more 0.99

00:57:20.600 Johnny Logo

00:57:21.960 yes he's talking about a tweet

00:57:25.320 that was on X

00:57:29.160 that's I think by a Portuguese guy 1.00

00:57:32.040 it says Europe will be destroyed 1.00

00:57:33.440 by women who project 1.00

00:57:34.560 onto these people 0.96

00:57:36.700 the motherhood 0.95

00:57:37.560 that belong to the children 0.97

00:57:38.660 they aborted

00:57:39.280 oof

00:57:39.800 oof

00:57:41.080 yeah that's a viral poster

00:57:43.000 some strong image

00:57:44.320 yeah

00:57:44.640 Pocicdor says

00:57:47.200 I think the 15 second

00:57:48.480 thought rule is showing itself

00:57:50.360 Bay Stapes

00:57:51.840 says Bo is right

00:57:52.660 I noticed this 0.99

00:57:53.760 during the BLM riots

00:57:55.060 wherever you see riots you will find a girl with a megaphone standing at the front calling on the

00:58:00.900 violence once you notice it you can't unsee it and scots are a guy again only wrong graffiti

00:58:06.960 should be bigus dickus that's from life brian and without further ado should we go to the third

00:58:14.360 segment yes are you okay controlling the mouse yes excellent right so is argentina going to

00:58:21.040 reinvade the Falkland Islands? I asked this question because we recently heard about this

00:58:26.600 in the news last week. If we start scrolling down, British soldiers are training in the Falklands

00:58:32.540 to recapture the islands amid mounting intimidation from Argentina. Around 150 British

00:58:39.200 paratroopers joined locally trained reservists to war game an amphibious assault followed by

00:58:46.400 close-quarters combat missions across the territory, according to the Times. The six-day

00:58:51.240 training exercise sought to emulate the Operation Sutton landings that repelled the Argentine

00:58:56.320 invasion in May 1982. Javier Millet, the president of Argentina, warned last month that his country

00:59:04.080 could act swiftly to recover the South Atlantic archipelago, which he has long claimed is under

00:59:10.180 illegal foreign occupation moving on slightly he threatened at the united nations general assembly

00:59:16.820 in new york to take matters into our own hands and assert argentine sovereignty he said the

00:59:23.460 islanders self-determination does not apply in this case since the population was implanted by

00:59:29.700 the occupying power on a territory whose sovereignty is in dispute that's the classic

00:59:34.660 that would speak of the with a sovereignty thing so in short i simply want to use this segment to

00:59:40.420 put all of this in context which should then explain why a rerun of the falklands war is

00:59:45.700 ultimately very unlikely at least for as long as mille is in charge so if we move on to um to the

00:59:52.580 next one but the history of the the falklands slash malvinas territory disputes is extremely

00:59:58.580 messy as our imperial expeditions themselves so obviously i'm not going to be able to cover

01:00:03.140 everything here but this article written by professor mark weller published on the chatham

01:00:07.720 house website does a relatively good job of concisely presenting the historical and legal

01:00:12.520 merits of both claims that said i'm going to try to offer a crash course now bo please interject if

01:00:18.780 i get any of this catastrophically wrong um what we now recognize as the falkland islands

01:00:25.580 was an uninhabited region there were no indigenous people there to colonize argentina wasn't in the

01:00:32.000 picture because before 1816, because before declaring independence, it was an overseas

01:00:37.380 territory occupied by the Spanish who originally enforced those borders. The origins of the

01:00:43.620 disputes were thus between the British, the Spanish, and briefly, the French. The Spanish

01:00:49.500 believed that the islands were theirs by divine right because the Pope said so through a papal

01:00:54.800 decree made in 1493, around the time that Christopher Columbus had discovered the Americas,

01:01:00.120 And also because of the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which included the division of Portugal.

01:01:07.440 But Spain never established a colony.

01:01:09.920 I think the Treaty of Tordesillas was dividing colonies between Spain and Portugal.

01:01:16.720 I think that's when Brazil went to Portugal.

01:01:19.680 I happen to know that. The Treaty of Tordesillas, I probably pronounced that incorrectly.

01:01:23.720 yes the pope uh put a line down the earth yeah and saying everything to the east and to the rest

01:01:29.760 of that this is portuguese this is spanish and they didn't know yeah they didn't know that the

01:01:34.740 big chunk of brazil poked out beyond that that arbitrary line yeah this is precisely why i said

01:01:40.840 it was a mess and so the the portuguese said ah when they discovered that they're like ah well

01:01:46.200 that technically the pope has said technically that doesn't belong to spain we'll have that now

01:01:50.620 that's why you've got such a strong portuguese element of brazil but yeah so anyway the falklands

01:01:55.660 would have been on the spanish side of that line yes and the sp and the spanish ever since the late

01:02:00.620 15th century just said yeah everything there is ours yes the pope has said so yeah so that was

01:02:06.500 that that was their position good claim really sorry for mispronunciation to our latin american

01:02:11.060 viewers of course um so the french um spain never established a colony from that decree

01:02:17.500 the French however did in 1764 establishing Port Louis on the east side of the island

01:02:23.040 and which was one year before the British who established Port I hope I'm not mispronouncing

01:02:29.100 this Edgemont on the west side it wasn't until one year after the British settled that the French

01:02:35.600 and the British actually knew of each other's ports that's remarkable isn't it yes is that a

01:02:40.320 remarkable fact yeah yes but certainly the Spanish never colonized it never put boots on it

01:02:47.020 and the country of argentina didn't exist no it wasn't and so how is how can they have any claim

01:02:54.960 over in sort of the original instant because original spain bought the french one they bought

01:03:00.420 the french settlement in virtue of the papal decree saying that this was ours by a divine

01:03:04.600 right so here's a compromise we'll buy it from the french and the french said fine have it

01:03:07.780 and that's still long before argentina existed yeah and three years after that again in virtue

01:03:14.060 of that papal decree they forcibly expelled the british from the islands in 1770 before a diplomatic

01:03:20.660 settlement enabled their return a year after in 1774 the british withdrew for economic reasons

01:03:27.100 but left a plaque behind to assert their right of return the spanish withdrew in 1811 leaving a plaque

01:03:32.980 like the british only to never return again all of that's obviously very convoluted but this is

01:03:38.700 the important part. Argentina declared independence from Spain in 1816. Britain recognised Argentina's

01:03:46.360 independent status in 1825, but did not see the Falkland Islands as part of that independent

01:03:51.460 region. Argentina attempted to assert its right over those islands, only to create chaos to the

01:03:56.960 extent that the USS Lexington intervened in 1831 to push Argentina back, by which point Britain

01:04:03.880 returned in 1833 to assert a full administration across the whole island which the u.s has

01:04:10.840 recognized to this day give or take argentina's grievance is that this was an opportunistic act

01:04:17.620 of forced dispossession by the british and britain's claim is that argentina had no such

01:04:22.780 claim in the first place no claim there's no claim there's no claim did this happen during

01:04:30.180 bolivar and his revolutions i do not know it's around that time that's a gap in my historical

01:04:36.240 knowledge why do you ask that i think no just yeah to see how things connect okay fair enough

01:04:42.020 i would say historical curiosity i would say there is blame me for this there was a very very

01:04:47.360 weak argument that you could make that they may have had a right to the side of the island that

01:04:51.920 was previously the spanish but they have never to my knowledge they haven't claimed oh no we just

01:04:56.760 want that side let's compromise here it's basically just been all of it's ours by right

01:05:02.000 so there's never there's never really been a pragmatic line well when argentina declared

01:05:07.400 its independence from spain it wasn't like and any other spanish possession we might fancy no

01:05:13.460 that wasn't part of it no that's not what happened yeah oh and these islands and these various rocks

01:05:18.280 in the south atlantic and south georgia and whatever on and on and on no no the british

01:05:23.500 had emits that chaos had the resources to establish law and order on the region for the

01:05:29.360 benefits of the people they were there and they did it it's as simple as that as far as i can see

01:05:33.720 it um but anyway argentina to this day sees the islands as part of its history since its inception

01:05:40.740 as an independent country which was unjustly taken from it that's the that's the argentilian

01:05:45.300 argentinian line in contrast bristan views its structure of governance as the only legitimate

01:05:50.020 administration to have been established on the island more importantly than that however if we

01:05:55.100 move on to the next um clip here is the will of the people which uncompromisingly wants the

01:06:00.920 continuation of british rule a sovereignty referendum was held in 2013 with a 92 percent

01:06:07.520 turnout and the vote used was unanimous in favor of the falkland islands remain remaining a british

01:06:13.260 overseas territory except for free people free people there's nothing to suggest that opinion

01:06:19.340 on the island about British rule

01:06:20.600 has changed either,

01:06:21.860 hence this statement made

01:06:22.840 on the 10th of March, 2023.

01:06:25.500 Now, of more recent relevance...

01:06:27.380 Sorry, I was just going to say,

01:06:28.080 there's been more than one

01:06:28.840 of these plebiscites of votes.

01:06:30.360 It always turns out 99% plus

01:06:33.000 they want to stay part

01:06:34.240 of the United Kingdom

01:06:34.820 every single time.

01:06:35.920 Dan Tubb made an interesting point

01:06:37.420 quite a while ago. 0.96

01:06:38.520 If the Argentinians

01:06:39.720 really wanted those islands, 0.99

01:06:41.960 they'd boxed a bit clever

01:06:43.100 back in the 70s or the 80s

01:06:44.860 or even starting now.

01:06:46.420 Send loads of super-hot 1.00

01:06:48.280 argentinian women there there are many of them as well to basically to basically interbreed with 1.00

01:06:55.920 the people there and lo and behold one two three generations later you might have loads of people

01:07:01.260 on that island that would vote in favor of leaving great britain but they've never they've never done

01:07:06.080 that no they don't do that no they haven't they just keep looking at sort of military options

01:07:10.840 yeah a good one so of more recent relevance however are the island's recently discovered

01:07:17.140 resources and in addition to its notorious abundance of of fish of course it has an extremely

01:07:22.720 rich supply of oil which was discovered by rock copper exploration in 2010 today it's offshore

01:07:30.280 though out of interest isn't it i believe so yeah it's actually on the island no it's offshore i

01:07:34.240 think to the north i think yeah today it is operated by israel's nevitas petroleum which

01:07:38.660 has a majority stake in the operation 65 with britain's rock copper exploration being a minority

01:07:44.760 partner at 35 percent at the current rate the reserves would be worth about four billion us

01:07:50.980 dollars argentina has enough oil on its own recognized territory to meet its own domestic

01:07:56.180 needs but as far as it's concerned this oil is not for the british to use or sell leading

01:08:02.160 argentina ultimately to subject britain to economic sanctions ever since this oil project was underway

01:08:08.420 underway oh no we're going to be sanctioned by argentina oh no yeah it's not actually you say

01:08:14.020 four billion dollars that's not a great deal in the scheme of things not really no but what a cheek

01:08:18.760 again from the argentinians saying no that's not your oil what are you talking about i don't think

01:08:24.140 they're predominantly it's in the middle of the atlantic yeah what are you talking about see i

01:08:28.320 don't think they're predominantly concerned about the money is again the symbolic significance of

01:08:32.820 that region being under british they had their nose bludgeoned by both the u.s and the british

01:08:38.080 and they hate us for it and they will always hate us for it yeah but anyway um so with all this

01:08:43.540 consider, let's bring the discussion to the changing positions of Javier Millet. So Millet's

01:08:49.860 position before the election, out of all the other candidates, I'm not sure how much you remember

01:08:54.520 from the 2023 election campaign in Argentina, but Millet was by far the most pragmatic and the most

01:09:00.740 willing to acknowledge the practical implications of reopening the Falklands dispute with the UK.

01:09:06.500 He was quite explicit about it.

01:09:09.360 Yeah, he was. Admire of Margaret Thatcher, for a start, which is a brave position to have as an Argentinian, of course.

01:09:16.240 Sergio Massa, his most formidable opponent, was an arch-nationalist.

01:09:20.980 Patricia Bullrich affirmed the Argentinian claim, but preferred to assert this claim through international pressural jurisdiction, the UN 24 and whatnot.

01:09:28.660 Wait, he's for opening up the discussion, the conversation on these islands, but also was a big fan of Thatcher. 0.71

01:09:37.180 Yes.

01:09:38.020 How does that make sense?

01:09:39.060 It doesn't, but I think he's mitigating internal pressure from the Nationalist Party.

01:09:44.500 I think he would say it's easy.

01:09:46.240 He'd say that I like Thatcher's economics.

01:09:50.360 His position, and I know this is a bit, this sounds like ridiculous acrobatics, and I agree, 0.92

01:09:55.820 but his position has always been to recognise the injustice of the forced dispossession of the Malvinas

01:10:01.300 without overriding the consent of the islanders themselves,

01:10:05.300 which is consistent with his position as a libertarian.

01:10:07.680 There's an issue here that, you know, it's really infuriating that he does this.

01:10:13.980 But I think ultimately you're right, and Beau, you're right as well, that the chances of something happening are really low.

01:10:21.120 And just put this into perspective, right?

01:10:24.340 He is presiding over a really, how should I say it, momentous presidency for Argentina.

01:10:34.960 He is reshaping Argentina.

01:10:36.620 he's taming their inflation he is uh he is trying to set argentina in order if he did anything that

01:10:44.920 would make the that would turn the international community more against him than it already is

01:10:51.080 it would be much worse for him yes he wants markets with him right why would he do something

01:10:58.820 like that in order to turn people against him yeah yeah i don't think anything that's going

01:11:03.840 to happen militarily it's just not going to um this is all just rhetoric for his his sort of

01:11:09.500 nationalist base or something yeah they're not going to do anything can we get the next one up

01:11:13.640 yeah yeah so with the next one we can see that so this was made in 2024 we can see that after he

01:11:18.880 got into power this wasn't a you could say a dose of false medicine that he was proposing

01:11:24.660 he genuinely meant what he said he got into power we can see he still recognizes the falkland as

01:11:30.140 british and he still recognizes facture is brilliant probably more than i recognize facture

01:11:34.440 is brilliant to be perfectly honest so how do you square that with or how would he square that with

01:11:38.740 um saying we're going to take matters into our own hands what do you mean then what's that because

01:11:42.640 he's talking to different people right he says that's just bluster it's bluster to take it into

01:11:47.080 our own no he knows he knows that it's ingrained in the argentinian consciousness that it was

01:11:51.700 forcibly dispossessed dispossessed of something that is that is it but he can't say give up on

01:11:57.680 the falklands because he'd probably lose enough votes to potentially constitute an insurrection

01:12:04.260 of some kind that's probably what he has in mind um but in two and a half years we've gone from that

01:12:09.600 from this to this if we move on to the next clip we should bring us into 2026 the winds of change

01:12:16.320 so president javier millier has said has said winds of change favorable to argentina's claim

01:12:21.840 to the falkland islands are blowing around the world this represents a paradigm shift in the

01:12:27.040 diplomatic relations between the UK and Argentina, of course. So why the change? In short, because

01:12:33.300 of something that Donald Trump might have said that could be perceived as emboldening the

01:12:38.540 Argentinian claim. The US has, before 1982, the US's position on the Falklands was mainly one

01:12:47.080 of neutrality. That changed during the Reagan years when Argentina invaded, like Milley, Reagan

01:12:53.720 was a huge admirer of Margaret Thatcher, as I've already said. The US played a proactive role in

01:12:57.980 negotiating a diplomatic solution, which Argentina rejected. And for that reason, the US subsequently

01:13:05.060 suspended economic and military aid to Argentina when they invaded the British, and backed the

01:13:09.880 British response as a right to reclaim that land. Since the conclusion of the war in June 1982,

01:13:16.660 the US has continued to firmly recognise the de facto administration. That, however, arguably

01:13:22.780 could be perceived as no longer being the case depending on how you interpret trump's words so

01:13:28.420 if we get the next one up here what words well trump's words namely that the status of the

01:13:33.260 falkland island is one of many positions up for review which suggests that his the u.s foreign

01:13:40.480 policy might have softened their persuasion somewhat i haven't those words do have big

01:13:45.660 implications given how much mille looks to the u.s for moral support on things and if the if the

01:13:53.040 relationship between the uk and the u.s fluctuates he's going to jump on that because it's going to

01:14:00.000 be an easy win for that nationalistic base he's trying to pander to they're going to probably say

01:14:05.560 the following is that we want the dunro doctrine and established control over north and south

01:14:12.440 america and they're gonna uh you know be very they're gonna say the uk is an islamic country 0.98

01:14:19.320 it isn't doing what we want to it to do so we don't want their influence there that's the

01:14:24.200 the rhetoric it was an intentional swipe from trump against the uk government wasn't it

01:14:28.920 the don row doctrine i think anyway anyway that's a silly pun but no an american position hasn't it

01:14:36.440 been for what over a century or longer or perhaps ever since its inception is about national

01:14:41.160 self-determination yes that the people that actually live on the falkland islands overwhelmingly

01:14:46.960 just want to stay part of the united and that's the part that billet loves about the u.s idea of

01:14:51.280 freedom so trump can say the odd sort of vague line here or there doesn't really it doesn't mean

01:14:56.960 anything really he got his nose bludgeoned over greenland and later on by iran yeah he was but

01:15:02.820 hurt that we didn't help him in iran so this is just this isn't really anything they're like

01:15:08.100 If you go back to 1982, it was the Gautieri government

01:15:10.860 A military junta, really

01:15:14.240 After Gautieri did that

01:15:16.160 He became an international pariah

01:15:19.380 An absolute international pariah 0.56

01:15:21.140 In fact, after we took the islands back

01:15:23.400 His government collapsed

01:15:24.520 And on and on and on 0.99

01:15:26.180 Millet's not going to do shit 0.99

01:15:27.620 It doesn't matter if Trump has 0.99

01:15:30.480 Or Rubio even has a line here or there

01:15:32.700 But it's an easy populist win for Millet

01:15:34.420 To go and come back and say

01:15:35.800 Well, now things have changed

01:15:36.960 and now we've got to reopen the nature of the agreement

01:15:40.380 or how the international order understands this territory.

01:15:43.620 But that's because Trump gave it to him.

01:15:45.720 The bad guy in this is Trump himself, of course, 1.00

01:15:48.040 because he acted like a blithering idiot, to be quite frank. 1.00

01:15:50.820 He didn't like the UK government's position, 1.00

01:15:53.500 which I'm sorry to have to say was actually perfectly right on Greenland

01:15:57.180 and was perfectly right on not getting involved in Israel's war.

01:16:00.180 And he didn't like the fact that he'd been cockblocked by us.

01:16:02.640 So he gave Millet and eat basically some easy food just to stick it to us.

01:16:07.320 That's all there is behind this, as far as I'm concerned.

01:16:10.120 I think your overarching take that he's not going to do anything is very, very unlikely is correct.

01:16:17.080 Even if he wanted to, militarily not capable of it.

01:16:22.740 The small amount of defence we've got on there, like four typhoons or whatever, fair few marines, they can't even match that.

01:16:29.740 And the UK government knows this as well.

01:16:32.640 Yeah, if we move on to the UK government's reaction, which is going to be perfectly expected.

01:16:41.600 Obviously, West Streeting has insisted that Britain's commitment to the Falkland Islands is absolute and unshakable

01:16:46.000 after the Argentinian president threatened sanctions on oil companies in the areas and a dramatic escalation of tensions.

01:16:52.280 No surprises there.

01:16:53.740 If we move on to the next, featuring Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

01:16:59.620 No, Stern and Burnham, king of the numbers.

01:17:01.200 Yes, indeed.

01:17:01.840 bam bam ham that's the one yep so andy burnham affirms that he will do whatever it takes to keep

01:17:07.980 the falkland islands of british territory following claims of saviour wrestling by argentina obviously

01:17:12.360 there has been strong cross-party support for this shadow defense secretary james cartilage

01:17:17.500 described reports of argentinian harassment as saviour wrestling which is precisely what it is

01:17:21.560 and if we move on to the next now we can see that as far as the foreign office concerned which is

01:17:25.740 now run by ed milliband it is business as usual he's approved a massive new oil field development

01:17:31.140 in waters around the falkland islands in defiance of argentina he said the uk would support the

01:17:36.540 falklands plans to become a major oil exporter and introduce secondary legislation to protect

01:17:41.440 businesses investing there we don't obviously need to go into the business details of this

01:17:45.800 all that matters is that the uk isn't going to cave in to the saber rattling it just works i

01:17:51.320 think one of the reasons why he may be doing it i mean there are several reasons yeah but most of

01:17:56.660 is geopolitical but they may you know it would make sense if you have if Keir Starmer on the

01:18:03.540 one hand saying well perhaps i'm thinking of giving away the Chagas Islands then it's not

01:18:10.180 a wild stretch of the imagination to say well maybe they're going to have a next Starmer

01:18:15.540 at some point who will say well let's give them the Malvinas if i keep saying i want them

01:18:22.260 i mean who knows what the future might hold it's not a crazy crazy crazy stretch when you look at

01:18:27.700 the tragos uh example but but at least this government no sternum burnham has does seem to

01:18:33.980 have found a small amount of sternum when it comes to balklands the only way that i can see it changing

01:18:39.660 is if you get someone like i don't know from the u party or the green party um yeah they probably

01:18:44.600 would yeah yeah who would basically just surrender it because they're scared of of military force

01:18:49.940 or an arch-nationalist of the kind that you saw

01:18:54.240 when Millet's opponent gets elected. 0.88

01:18:56.300 I think they might be nuts enough to try us

01:18:58.500 and then be pushed back again.

01:19:00.460 But how are we doing for time, by the way?

01:19:03.440 It's 20 past two.

01:19:05.220 Okay, how much?

01:19:05.680 Another five minutes or more.

01:19:06.800 Samson, we have five extra minutes.

01:19:08.600 We could go a few minutes over, right, Samson?

01:19:11.940 Yeah, I'm basically...

01:19:13.580 I'm getting to the important stuff now anyway,

01:19:16.040 the conclusion.

01:19:17.120 does the uk's does this unwavering stance make a rematch of argentina over the falklands

01:19:23.860 inevitable my answer unlikely to avoid giving an in-depth military analysis argentina is not

01:19:30.420 war ready britain has the resources and more importantly the will to push argentina back

01:19:35.660 if it invades that's what the military exercise shown at the beginning of this segment was all

01:19:40.460 about it was saber rattling being met with saber rattling from us basically i'm not going to show

01:19:46.680 the next clip but it would have shown simon weston basically a falklands veteran explaining

01:19:51.720 exactly what i just did but better i totally understand why some people are concerned because

01:19:57.780 it does feel like we're in a state of pre-war caesarism with trump asserting his will over

01:20:02.760 venezuela greenland and iran putin over ukraine netanyahu over palestine mark carney and the

01:20:08.780 perspective confederation of middle powers and whatnot and of course china but i don't think

01:20:13.540 this is the case with javier mille at all i simply think he's come under serious internal pressure

01:20:19.040 due to this change of tact from the us on the uk's um obviously falklands um administration

01:20:26.700 if argentina was short of oil reserves the case may be different but it's self-sufficient in this

01:20:31.900 regard so i don't think it cares about the oil itself that much moreover committing to reclaiming

01:20:38.440 the Falklands by force would be contrary to Millet's strategy on foreign policy as it has been

01:20:44.280 from the beginning, which is to align with the Western powers predominantly. Invading would be

01:20:50.340 almost unanimously condemned by the countries that compose the Western hegemony or the global

01:20:55.820 north. So retaining positive relations with Israel was a part of that for Millet. And given

01:21:03.240 that an Israeli company maintains a majority stake in the operations, not to mention he of

01:21:08.140 course has some jewish ethnic heritage himself i don't think he's going to be remotely interested 0.94

01:21:13.280 in getting involved that's very interesting i'm surprised he summoned the balls to say anything 0.96

01:21:17.180 about that oil off the coast considering he's i know i'm surprised yeah he's got the trousers

01:21:23.880 found the trousers to say anything about that yeah he's not going to do anything he's not going to

01:21:28.340 do anything no so the falklands are british the falklands are likely to remain british and long

01:21:35.400 should they remain British.

01:21:37.540 Case closed. 1.00

01:21:38.900 One thing I'd quickly like to add,

01:21:40.580 there's a very good history channel,

01:21:43.240 Mark Felton,

01:21:44.940 who does history, military history,

01:21:47.000 very, very good,

01:21:48.040 and he did a video a few weeks ago,

01:21:50.340 a month or two ago,

01:21:51.340 about this,

01:21:51.980 the reality, the military reality,

01:21:54.160 and as weak and as poor

01:21:57.500 as our military is,

01:21:59.120 our Navy and Army,

01:22:00.260 and underfunded as it is,

01:22:01.740 it's still actually a long way ahead

01:22:04.480 of argentina argentina's military at the moment navy air force army is really in the doldrums

01:22:13.280 really so like on those islands now we've got i can't remember something like 1200 or 1500

01:22:17.760 permanent garrison of professional soldiers it's not that many but they're good

01:22:22.400 british soldiers are always quite good paratroopers and stuff we've got four typhoons

01:22:27.800 We've got at least one of the sort of cruiser-sized ships

01:22:32.780 that's permanently there, as well as air defences.

01:22:37.280 That's more than enough to stop Argentina's military, as it is.

01:22:41.100 If they've got someone with more trousers than Mille,

01:22:44.220 who spent a generation building up the Argentine forces,

01:22:47.480 then maybe we can talk about what may or may not actually happen.

01:22:50.280 But as of right now, we've got more.

01:22:52.960 Four typhoons is enough to stop anything Argentina could send against those islands.

01:22:57.040 it's pretty much that's pretty much the end of the story we don't need uh two aircraft carriers we

01:23:02.340 don't need a giant flotilla 1982 style a few handful of typhoons and 1500 guys is enough

01:23:09.360 they've got they haven't got anything really i will i will say say this though following on from

01:23:14.140 that if it were the case that for whatever reason members of the public were conscripted to fight in

01:23:19.480 the falklands out of all the potential wars that we could be involved in as british citizens that

01:23:24.540 is the one i would fight genuinely because they are our people yeah right oh yeah yeah they are

01:23:30.120 who identify with our administration and are proud to have our values i cannot say that i'm

01:23:34.700 afraid to say i mean and again look i'm not anti-nato but i can't say that of you could say

01:23:41.000 the entity that's backing for the pushing back of russia i can't say that's about russia itself

01:23:45.660 either and i absolutely cannot say that about what we would be fighting in the middle east

01:23:51.640 but the Falklands

01:23:53.480 yes

01:23:53.880 100%

01:23:55.180 they are Brits

01:23:56.860 to all intents and purposes

01:23:57.920 it's quite as simple as that

01:23:59.020 yeah

01:23:59.340 right

01:24:01.080 Logan17pine says

01:24:02.480 it would not surprise me

01:24:03.680 if Moulet offers

01:24:04.840 to buy it from Burnham

01:24:06.200 and the PM

01:24:07.620 accepts the offer

01:24:08.900 Sigilson17 says

01:24:11.920 good podcast today lads

01:24:13.440 I can't wait to download

01:24:14.740 all 11,000 gifts of it

01:24:16.800 that's random name

01:24:18.240 says 11,000

01:24:19.140 best I can do is 271

01:24:20.740 logan 17 pine the sauta islands reminder and muley didn't try anything till after starmer

01:24:27.200 did that or how starmer was giving it to a chinese ally and pat j reed says very few

01:24:37.000 argentines ever set foot on the falklands before 1982 do we have any um do we have any videos today

01:24:43.780 samson samson's just working on it samsonius see him working on it right now

01:24:52.040 there's two there's two let's play one from a good friend of ours let's that

01:24:57.220 you'll find out let's let's play that okay let's let's play that

01:25:02.000 samson

01:25:05.560 did you turn it up a little bit as well it's a shooter game called home front which is about

01:25:19.360 north korean empire invading united states which sounds ridiculous but the actual like

01:25:26.280 lore of the series is actually very interesting the western countries are basically something

01:25:31.180 out of camp of saints where essentially all the governments have lost the will to maintain their

01:25:35.540 own sovereignty and essentially there are no economies everything's been de-industrialized

01:25:40.660 everyone kind of hates the society they live in at this point and nobody really wants to fight for 1.00

01:25:46.100 it so when the koreans invade it's actually not really that surprising that they just roll over 1.00

01:25:50.340 people initially california red theory though interesting concept a really good concept is it

01:25:55.840 the is it the man in the high castle is that where it's alternative history yeah yeah where

01:26:01.880 the japanese and the germans won world war ii yes and the united states is sort of partitioned

01:26:07.820 between yeah nazis and japan yeah and those sorts of alternative histories are very interesting

01:26:13.440 i'm fascinated by that let's go to the next one yes which was which is interesting

01:26:17.760 it is no different to all the other

01:26:20.880 it's really beautiful

01:26:47.740 it's very picturesque can't really hear what you're saying tim knows

01:26:54.140 too windy but that's beautiful wherever that is yeah where do you think that is i'm sure he'll

01:26:58.860 tell us okay is he in the chat or something uh i'm not gonna make an embarrassing right okay so

01:27:04.780 let's read some of the comments right omar awad you can start conflict when you want but

01:27:10.220 not end it when you please social arsonists are too often surprised getting burned by the fire

01:27:14.780 they started just where's the announcement okay yeah that the website

01:27:25.820 will be down for maintenance from 2 45 today so that it's in 17 minutes due to

01:27:33.200 technical concerns the downtime should be between 15 minutes and half an hour

01:27:38.060 lots of love Pete right Justin B I'd say sedition for the people working against

01:27:47.000 the system treason tends to be working with an external enemy another country

01:27:52.760 sedition is working within the country to undermine it it's right bad

01:27:59.820 definitions suppose Annie Moss like Rome in the past France has been invaded by

01:28:05.180 by vandals history has repeated itself yeah literally yeah yeah yeah were they from north

01:28:11.200 africa as well well uh not originally but they went there yeah and then yeah it's complicated

01:28:16.640 there's something about the desert there yeah right um that's a random name french scholar

01:28:22.980 says melanchon's party means la france intermise which means roughly translate to rebellious

01:28:29.220 france i think i think i've been told it means to france unbound but yeah i wonder why the

01:28:34.760 intelligence services uh think he has something to do with this chaos and lancelot says if the

01:28:42.520 fuel prices are too high where did the rioters get all that accelerant that's a nice question

01:28:48.820 yep derek power lord and master of chippies that's it we need to graffiti rome with alieni

01:28:56.920 domut eater a hundred times well actually that's not that's not a bad idea in fact i would i would

01:29:02.280 recommend that we come up with some sort of reaction to the left's um natural what it sees

01:29:08.760 as its natural rights to graffiti all of our cities with progressive propaganda just because

01:29:14.160 that does serve to demoralize people that's that think the contrary if we at the very least i don't

01:29:20.340 know either cleaned it or sprayed it out then perhaps more people who have the sensible grounded

01:29:25.340 views that we have would speak up rather than feel intimidated this is by design this is absolutely

01:29:30.460 by design they're not just doing it spontaneously there needs to be an active attempt to cancel

01:29:35.480 this graffiti because it is a bigger problem than people realize arizona desert rat more states and

01:29:40.920 countries need halo laws what are halo laws let me read that before i say it out loud the public

01:29:47.120 and the back bystanders are required to stay at least 20 20 feet 25 feet away from police and law

01:29:54.020 enforcement officers while they're actively doing their jobs can i just quickly build on what yeah

01:29:59.180 Tonisha said, wouldn't it be nice if there was some sort of large-scale right-wing effort to systematically power-spray graffiti off?

01:30:11.240 A grassroots one.

01:30:12.340 That would be the most base policy that I ever had.

01:30:16.640 I'd quite like that idea.

01:30:17.920 Restore Britain, there's an idea for you.

01:30:19.760 And that's the only contribution I'm ever going to make to you.

01:30:22.000 Myrmidon2010, the worst part about Argentina invading the Falklands is that our current government is so weak, flaccid and desperate to destroy the UK that would thank the Argentinians, then offer them reparations for the first Falklands war, then proceed to persecute any soldiers who fought.

01:30:40.020 i'm a little bit surprised and and welcome that both starmer and burnham seem to be relatively

01:30:46.180 bellicose on the falklands it's a little bit surprising you might expect them to be all

01:30:50.340 wishy-washy like oh i don't know maybe we could do a deal but they're both to be fair i've been

01:30:55.140 like no no no they're ours and will remain so yeah some small amount of credit where it's due

01:31:00.900 i suppose fair play henry ashman says this is spanish because the pope said so well england

01:31:06.800 have been ignoring papal decrees over for over 900 years why change the habit of multiple lifetimes

01:31:13.840 right i'm sure some catholic bros wouldn't like that yeah probably not yeah for us and uh connor

01:31:20.160 not happy with that i was generalizing into online catholics you know baron von warhawk

01:31:29.280 why worry about the folklands with just some scraps of paper and a passport those argentinian

01:31:34.560 troops can become just as british as oh and thomas so why not just invite them all in

01:31:39.600 exactly just one thing to say about the catholics we mentioned before it is a bit it is a bit funny

01:31:45.680 that they can't stop criticizing the pope constantly that's the one thing they can't

01:31:50.560 stop doing criticizing the pope well i've said it before it's a classic thing it's as old it's a

01:31:54.800 long and glorious tradition of catholics criticizing the papacy much like englishmen

01:31:59.840 criticising the monarchy yeah it's sort of like your birthright as an Englishman to be very rude

01:32:07.040 and dismissive about your own monarchy if you want to be yeah similar with with Catholics if

01:32:12.720 if anyone's going to criticise the pope it's quite often them yeah and that's fair enough isn't it

01:32:18.720 yeah well fair enough all the pope could do is seat ex cathedra and speak sorry say again sorry

01:32:26.080 all the pope would have to do to dismiss them would be sit ex cathedra and speak i'm joking 0.72

01:32:32.920 i'm joking don't go don't lose your minds over this right arizona desert rat the u.s is a young

01:32:40.500 country but the other countries in the americas are younger since the european powers kept their 0.66

01:32:45.280 control over those countries longer than the british did over the u.s snee de chuck as a latin

01:32:51.540 american lotus eaters viewer i didn't mind your pronunciation thomas thank you that means a lot

01:32:58.060 still apologize to those i may have offended good but thank you excellent so we have come to the end

01:33:04.920 of this podcast of podcast number 1532 thank you brother thomas thank you brother bo and

01:33:14.660 see you soon I guess

01:33:17.580 tomorrow 1pm

01:33:18.560 bear in mind we will have

01:33:20.060 the website down for maintenance

01:33:22.780 2.45 for just a bit

01:33:25.400 then come back

01:33:26.480 and we'll see you tomorrow 1pm

01:33:28.440 goodbye

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 21, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1532

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