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UK PM Keir Starmer addresses Ukraine, Russia and relationship with the US https://youtu.be/9RdkBRColI0?si=nHDYAI99piVpm5N2

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a press conference at a summit in London after meetings w

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mar. 5

MARIA ZAKHAROVA:

“Imagine what will happen when everyone finally realizes what has long been clear to us—that Bucha was a horrific staged event, orchestrated by Zelensky at the instigation of the West?

The Kiev regime scattered bodies in the streets and then arranged a USAID-financed press tour featuring American celebrities and public figures.

All these Angelinas and Seans took millions to pose at the site of a cynical fabrication.

These NATO rats have repeatedly played their parts as extras in Zelensky’s bloody circus.”

mar. 5

Key to understanding what is happening is realising that people like von der Leyen and Kallas are, in fact, representatives of the US deep state. So this is not really a clash between Europe and the US but between different factions of the US and transatlantic elites.

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mar. 5

Maria Zakharova:

“Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said he knows nothing about the glorification of Bandera in Ukraine.

What do you mean? What is the Israeli embassy in Kyiv doing then? And in Moscow too.

It turns out they have never reported the facts to the capital?

mar. 5

“A culture that grants immunity to soldiers who harm Palestinians.” This is in the West Bank, not Gaza.

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Macron accused Russia of violating the Minsk agreements in 2014. He said that agreements with Moscow cannot be trusted.

They are shameless.

Former French President Hollande and former German Chancellor Merkel admitted that the Minsk agreements were needed so that Kiev could receive as many weapons and funds from the West as possible.

Alon Mizrahi@alon_mizrahi

mar. 5

Forget Trump’s speech. This was today’s biggest news story. The Arab world is unanimously and openly against the Trump-Netanyahu plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

And this is a big deal, and a big headache for Zio-fascists, so much so that Trump didn’t even mention his infamous ‘plan’ in his speech.

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mar. 4

JUST IN: Italian Prime Minister Meloni rejects offers from France and UK to send troops to Ukraine.

“You can go—not with my soldiers.”

Jeremy Corbyn@jeremycorbyn

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Why is it that “tough choices” are always about harming the poor and disabled, and never about making the very wealthiest pay their fair share?

My piece for @MetroUK

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European leaders are retarded.

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen: “Peace in Ukraine is more dangerous than the ongoing war.”

She won’t end the war because Putin might attack someone else in the future.

Under that logic, there is no end to the war ever.

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mar. 3

Palestine is a “trans-country”. Yep, completely made up and pretending to be something it’s not.

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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

mar. 5

Labour could tax the super-rich to end poverty, build social housing and fix our NHS.

They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead. For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for.

They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt@FranceskAlbs

mar. 4

I am calling for a full, public, independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Gaza.

We deserve to know the full scale of our government’s complicity in genocide.

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Historian David Starkey joins Steven Edginton to discuss whether Keir Starmer’s government is doomed to collapse, the war in Ukraine, and if Donald Trump is really “appeasing” Putin. Starkey also covers the rise of the AfD and the German elections, Trump’s America First policy, and why Europe has failed to build up its defence industry and armies. Starkey doesn’t hold back, calling it woeful that David Lammy represents Britain on the world stage.

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the effect of this is that it will blow apart the whole rotten structure that

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I’ve been talking about this is not government of the People by the people for the people starma represents

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government of The Blob by The Blob for the blob and when it fails it will be

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the blob that failed not Britain it has been three years since the start of the

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war in Ukraine is Donald Trump appeasing Vladimir Putin yes in the conventional

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of the term of course he is but that is that’s a term actually Steven which

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belongs to the old world it belongs to the notion that we are replaying the

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1930s that um we are invoking Churchill that we have Boris Johnson striking sub

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churchillian postures on all of this um and what we’ve got to understand is that

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the rules of the game have changed they’ve changed utterly the World in

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which we thought we lived um in which for most of my lifetime we’ve lived uh

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which is a world of the so-called rules-based International system rubis

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has shattered interestingly enough and I’m now going to Dawn the mantle of profit exactly three years ago uh on the

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day that Putin invaded I predicted the end of rubis I predicted the fact that

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we are going to move into a world which looks very much like the terrible world World outlined by George Orwell in

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1984 in which there are great permanent blocks of the world he outlined oenia

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which is ourselves and America against Eurasia um which is um essentially an

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enlarged Soviet Union and with an uneasy Southern Hemisphere and it’s something

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like that we now have the combined power of Russia and China we have the

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so-called bricks with India uh with South Africa uh with Brazil and we have

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the anglosphere all now in extraordinary competition with each other because you

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know what we’ve done we’ve ruled back we’ve moved back from that world of the United Nations into something like 19th

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century great power politics what we need to understand is if you look back

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into the 19th century we didn’t talk about a United Nations or whatever what we did we talked simply about the con of

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Europe because that’s what dominated then in which the great Powers rule um

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negotiated directly with each other we’re back in the world Steven of paliston the idea that countries do not

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have permanent friends do not have permanent allies but have permanent interests and do you know what America

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actually has always pursued that policy of America first we think there’s

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something unusual about Donald Trump everybody has expressed horror that Trump is negotiating with the Ukraine on

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the basis of effectively and again can I explain what is going to result from this I think we’re going to see a

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partition of the Ukraine between the Soviet where Russian spere of influence and American sphere of influence the

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West will go uh become a kind of um industrial colony of America uh the

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because of the uh extraordinary mineral resources and the East will revert to being a dependency of of Moscow um that

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is exactly the sort of thing that happened in the 18th and 19th centuries when for example Poland was partitioned

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between Germany on the one hand in those days it was called Prussia and Austria

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and Russia and we’re going to see that world again the trouble is the world it was a world in which Britain in those

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days was a dominant power it was also a world in which we were not a victim

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power let’s again look at that idea of partition and how shocking everybody says it is that America will strip the

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Ukraine of its assets let’s look back at the most heroic moment of cooperation

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between Britain and the United States that’s to say when Roosevelt assists Britain in the second world war do you

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know what terms he did it on Steven stripping Britain of its entire

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foreign reserves the entire wealth of Victorian Britain that ordian Britain

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that extraordinary accumulation of the world’s most successful trading power was transferred directly to

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America to pay for wartime um wartime help the so-called lend lease system now

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it’s really important we understand this America did not give it to Britain free

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we were stripped we were Stripped by our closest Ally right um again it is even

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more striking look at the aftermath of the second world war what is it that

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ends the British Empire what ends the British Empire is America it’s Dwight

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Eisenhower the president who’ actually LED when he was the Allied General had commanded the Allied Forces led the

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D-Day Landings and whatever what does he do he effectively by refusing to support

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Britain and France in sewers ushers in directly the end of the British Empire

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so when you look at those Maps which show Britain before 1939 ruling the

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quarter of the globe to Britain at the end of the 1960s shrunken more or less

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to this island it is our American Allies who are directly responsible this is the

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reality of great power politics we’ve been lying to ourselves we’ve been

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pretending we’ve got confused motives and of course the Exemplar of all of

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this is this appalling government that we have at present which is riddled from whose policies are riddled from top to

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bottom by contradiction by misunderstanding by Wishful Thinking by

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appalling ministers can you imagine sitting in the seat of paliston trying to protect Britain’s interests at the

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moment you have David Lamy David lamic who thinks that Henry viith succeeded

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Henry VII who when he watches the Smoke Rise From the next papal conclave he is

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on record the last one is saying isn’t it shockingly racist that there will be

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black or white smoke depending on the skin color of the Pope you have somebody

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as invincibly stupid as that in theory defending British

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interests now the British Elites they view this war through their own historical comparison as I said at the

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beginning they view this as Vladimir Putin is Hitler and zalinski is Winston

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Churchill and this is the this is the only World in which they live in the only

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historical comparison that these British Elites and some in America um you know view foreign policy through is the 1930s

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Neville Chamberlain and appeasement and so on and it’s just interesting isn’t it that they view this very much as a moral

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decision not as a pragmatic decision they view they have the good guys and you have the bad guys and we can’t let

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the the bad guys win so how do you respond to this this this idea that this is all you know another 1930s Putin as

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Hitler I think again sorry you’re you’re asking a question which is really in parallel with your previous question and

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much of my previous answer uh answers answers this question and but you’ve also left something out all the European

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Elites are basically pursuing the same model the same model of a moralistic

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foreign policy uh it is of course exactly the let’s again be quite clear now it is precisely the foreign policy

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that americ America itself led the whale from uh the moment at which America

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becomes what’s known as the unchallenged hegemon in other words the Supreme world

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power and remember Stephen this is a very late moment from my lightning in the early course of my lifetime I’m born

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in 1945 from 1945 to 1989 America was

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not the sole hegemon it was a world in which America we can now use a religious

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analogy America acted as God but there was a very powerful devil in the form of

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the Soviet Union and all International policy the United Nations and so on was

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split in this thing that we called the Cold War right what then happens with

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the fall of the Soviet Union the fall of the of the Berlin war and so on and in

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1989 is that there’s the apparent absolute victory for the West that’s to

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say for America God has won the devil Comm ism is defeated and the whole thing

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of course is expressed in that single most destructive article that has ever

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been written on foreign policy fukuyama’s the end of History the idea

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that liberal democracy had not only triumphed everywhere but it was destined to Triumph everywhere and what we get

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after that point Stephen is a series of moralistic Wars remember we are talking

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now we’re leaping straight over from 1937 39 whatever uh to now what we

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should be looking at are all the wars of alleged liberation of the uh getting rid

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of the Tyrant of introducing democracy that were fought with American leadership from 1989 and they’re

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everywhere it’s Kosovo it’s the bombing it’s the bombing of Belgrade it’s the

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intervention in Iraq um it’s the intervention in Afghanistan it’s the intervention in Libya do you remember

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they were all fought in the name of getting rid of the bti of getting rid of Saddam Hussein of getting rid of Gaddafi

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of getting rid of the Taliban we had the enemy in each one of them we were going to impose weren’t we do you remember we

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fought that war in Afghanistan for Liberal human rights we imagine that the

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women of Afghanistan well indeed they may very much want to wear the miniskirt we fought a war to enable women to wear

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mincers and then of course led by America we abandon them and in other

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words this war is another version of that war and and but unfortunately at

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exactly the moment that the war is entering this crucial stage America Has Changed policy the Biden administration

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were the last Believers in this Triumph of universal um Universal capitalism of

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universal liberal democracy they were the last be Believers Trump and his allies

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passionately disagree with this and see a very different world and we’ve got to adapt to it and there’s another thing

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Stephen the ludicrous mess that we’ve got ourselves

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into what is the war we we’ve talked now about how the war in the Ukraine is being viewed right we’ve talked about it

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as you know a subject of foreign policy to be analyzed can we now actually look at what is going on actually in the

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Ukraine we’ve got to remember of course that the Ukraine has never really been

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an independent state it is the closest remaining fragment of the old Soviet

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Empire it only the old Russian Empire because it goes right back to the Zars of course and it only first appears as a

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quazi independent power in 1945 when Stalin gives it a seat on the

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United Nations of course he controls it absolutely to give Russia an extra vote

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there is then the addition of various bits to the Ukraine as lat as as kof in

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the 1950s who adds on the Crimea to do what to increase the number of Russian

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speakers so what you’re what you’re doing now is um it’s not as that people

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again made ridiculous comparisons what would it be like if you know Britain was stripped of of of Kent and Sussex and

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whatever the borders of Kent and Sussex have been incorporated into England for

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1,500 years the Ukraine is a featurist plane and uh in which Frontiers have

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come and gone it’s been under the Dominion of Poland of the grand duy of Lithuania large chunks of it under

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Prussia under Hitler under Stalin and what’s going on Stephen is something

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that is Unthinkable in the world of modern Britain it is an attempt at the

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creation of a nation state in Blood and and struggle what zalinsky represents

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isn’t sweet International reasonable order and here I’m not criticizing

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zalinski at all I’m just saying let us recognize the truth he represents an attempt and under his leadership to

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forge a new nation which is based on passionate blood and soil nationalism in

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which there is a determination to assert the inviability of Frontiers in which

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there is a war of linguistic Conquest in which Russian has been suppressed and the Ukrainian language is being imposed

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on people whether they want it or not now Stephen what do we do at home here

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we are saying we’re going to support the right of the Ukraine to do all of this back at home do we defend our Frontier

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no it is challenged every day by illegal immigrants do we defend our language no

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we have a multiplicity of interpreters at vast cost in all areas of the public

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service and and again there’s something very extraordinary until very recently

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to talk of patriotism to use the Union Jack was effectively if not quite

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illegal bad manner do you remember Emily Thornbury and the famous moment with

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white van white van man and the St George’s cross have you noticed suddenly

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the strangest of things people on the far left of suddenly discovered

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patriotism there’s that wonderful word in that wonderful phrase in Dr Johnson

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patriotism is the last Refuge of the scoundrel I’m hearing patriotism out of

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the mouths of so many Scoundrels beginning with people like Steven fry and K starma the kind of men who devoted

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their entire lives to internationalism so at the one point we’re now saying in

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Britain we are going to defend a wildly assertive violent masculinized look at

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zalinski always parading around in ftig violent masculinized um Warrior culture

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of of national self- assertion whilst back home in Britain we are Run by One

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International lawyer um K well one human rights lawyer K starma and another

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Richard hermer the attorney general and we’re busy giving away every asset that we can in the name of international law

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that people are as you all know GB news features this regularly people are

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arrested intimidated charged with hate crime not this wonderful thing um

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non-crime hate incidents for asserting traditional patriotic values and yet we

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are supposedly all going to line up and fight for patriotic values in another

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country when we’re suppressing them in our own do you see the gross confusion

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of motive and Analysis you mentioned the great game earlier in the 19th century

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and there was an interesting debate at that time between Gladstone Disraeli and Solsbury about whether they should

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pursue a moral foreign policy or a pragmatic one and you know the thing

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that relaunched uh Gladstone’s career into politics he thought he’d retired

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was the fact that Israeli wasn’t taking seriously enough a massacre of Christians in Bosnia andad BL Stone

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distribut dist distributed thousands of leaflets you know criticizing the isra

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young man it’s called the Misan campaign and it’s done of course with marvelous

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rhetoric gladston you know makes our current lot look feeble Drive the Turks out bag and bar baggage from the land

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that they have polluted with blood and all the rest of and you know what he’s called he’s a liberal it’s called

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liberal interventionism and it is this notion that you fight a war on behalf of values

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now at least let’s get this right gladston believed in those values gladston was a patriot um the people who

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um succeeded him in the Liberal Party were patriots they were prepared to fight and fight in the name of those

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values in the first world war it was a liberal government that took us into the first world war what we’re dealing now

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of course is this Gru contradiction we’ve abandoned the values of gladston

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at home and we’re defending them abroad you see what I mean the complete Insanity gladston is also famous for

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something else uh Steph he is famous for financial probity for building up the

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economic strength of Britain whereas of course starma and his lot as we’ve seen

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in the the few months that this government has been in office are completely crashing the economy with

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gresly extravagant State expenditure which which leaves absolutely no room

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for proper military expenditure you can only again can let me reminisce because

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it’s it’s very important we as I said I think I was right right at the beginning

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three years ago I then had a confrontation with this vaguely Lefty Economist and I asserted right at the

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beginning because I know more like Putin’s inversion uh of uh of the Ukraine than you do but I just think

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we’ve got to understand it properly I said on TV what we’ve got to understand

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is that right that’s to say what we are allegedly defending uh Liberty Freedom

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equality all of these things that matter so profoundly to us in the west needs

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might uh because what I was doing was I was saying there’s no point in Striking postures on these things unless you’ve

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got an army to defend it do you know what three years ago Paul said to me

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when I insisted that right needs might he said you’re a fascist he immediately said right you

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know you’re saying the sort of things that was being said by German ideologues in the 1930s and now have you suddenly noticed

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this gigantic Reverse fet by every Lefty on Twitter they’re suddenly draping

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themselves in Union Jacks they are clamoring for armies to March they’re saying we’ve got to have European armies

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we must stand shoulder Tosh shoulder these are the and again look at the person leading Europe o vanan do you

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remember what she was before she had that job she was a defense minister in Germany yeah and what happened to the

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German Armed Forces it was you know there was lots of corruption scandals but she didn’t uh

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she didn’t boost the arm you really it’s always better stepen may I offer you a little advice to you

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concrete example rather than abstract nouns under van Dean’s management of the

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German armed forces the German armed forces were reduced taking part in a

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NATO exercise using broomsticks instead of guns that is the level of leadership

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we’ve seen we have you see again let me explain what’s happened what was Britain’s role in this period from 1989

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to LA to you know five minutes ago when Trump succeeded we were Jackal to

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Americans lion we had a we had two functions although we could contribute

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any serious troops and what we did we made it look because the union track was

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alongside the Stars and Stripes it made it look as though it wasn’t just a National Force an American Force

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imposing Western values in Kosovo Western values in the Ukraine sorry

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Western values um in Afghanistan Western values in Iraq Western values in Libya

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it made it look as it was an international Force the International Community doing

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all the time we were steadily reducing our capacity actually to do anything and

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you look at the shameful again let’s call Things by their proper names the shameful record of overreach of the

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British Army and Navy throughout those campaigns look at bazra look at the

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shame of the Helmand Province in which we thought we could match the American

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forces in you know peacekeeping or whatever it is and we utterly and complet completely failed and that was

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the vanity of the position we held that we could act somehow as a joint um world

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peacekeeping Force alongside America by spending a fraction of what America does

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on defense proportionately and there’s another thing that we did we acted bizarrely as the principal mouthpiece of

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this stuff in other words the importance of international law the importance of

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foreign aid the importance of Net Zero our politics are a politics of

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complete fiction instead of spending money on the armed forces and by the way

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the conservatives are at least as complicit and involved in all of this as

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the labor party what does Cameron say we’re going to be he says we’re going to be an international Aid

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superpower instead of spending money on the Armed Forces you fling it at every

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organization you know a huge huge sums and so much so they’re so big that they

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have to be because of of Treasury rules you’ve got to fling hundreds of hundreds and thousands of millions away at the

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end of the budget every year because you haven’t actually spent it and you give it to any kind of organization you can

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think of and then what’s the other thing so that in a sense is continuing um

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under under the labor party and by the way there’s that wonderful phrase of my

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old colleague at lsse Peter Bower on the subject of foreign aid what is foreign

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aid it is taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich

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people in poor countries that’s what it does it also does something else humanitarian Aid is catastrophic it’s

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catastrophic in Africa because we’ve given them modern medicine without modern economies the fact that the

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population of Africa is booming is because humanitarian Aid it normally uh

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if you don’t have a modern economy disease carries off children because we are actually stopping that happening you

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have this booming population which is entirely incapable of being employed at home let’s take another instance um the

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the other thing that we’ve done of course is sign ourselves up to Net Zero which again was a major part of the

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policies of the last Biden Administration it is now perfectly clear we are completely destroying our own

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economy and what’s most interest and at the same time we boost the economy of China and what’s most interesting our

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extraordinary pursuit of Net Zero which remember is legislated in its present

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form by Teresa may not by labor but La labor enthusiastically pursuing it what

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it does in particular Steph is make it entirely impossible to build a serious

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Munitions industry at exactly the moment when we need to be increasing the actual

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Weaponry of our Armed Forces we have electricity prices which energy prices

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four times higher than any of our industrial competitors so again this

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notion you see we’re going to be an international Aid superpower we’re going to be a net zero superpower this is the

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notion that the world is as it were is looking on in Wonder applauding saying

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oh Britain is at The Cutting Edge of our values again it’s this myth of Britain

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and as the Athens to America’s room you know the Americans being a bit thick and stupid they Supply the muscle for this

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wonderful Advanced view of of human and international relations but Britain supplies the intelligence IT Supplies

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the themes IT Supplies the rhetoric it you know our new flagship the the as it

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were the prow of the of the of of the of the flagship of noble internationalist

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um uh uh um Aid superpower um

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um Lo losing my voice in my in my enthusiasm um n zero super power is a

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kind of gilded and naked Steven Fry on the warship of British the whole thing

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is silly and the NHS is the Envy of the world that’s the NH all of this stuff I

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mean we we’ve sorry do you understand what I’m trying to say we have had we have had a complete policy at have had

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are having a policy at home and abroad of entire rhetorical fiction in the same

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way this government thinks it can bring about growth by talking about growth this is the rain dance you

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know for all government policies are operating the entire way government policies operating is to suppress growth

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if you increase regulation if you increase wages to people who don’t deserve them because they’re

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productivity is low as it is throughout most of the public sector if you increase taxation you are guaranteed not

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to have growth and yet at the same time they say oh growth is our first commitment in other words it’s we have

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here and it will not shouldn’t surprise anybody because we’ve got a government dominated by lawyers and University

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lecturers and people in the public sector they somehow believe that incanta

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the right words will actually bring about policy and change what Trump is

26:54

doing and it’s magnificent he’s crude he’s brutal he’s um in many ways

27:01

Preposterous you this orange figure but he’s confronting people with the things that that are BR with the fact that

27:08

there are brutal facts that the the the world is real you cannot magic you can’t

27:15

magic growth you can’t magic military strength you can’t even especially you

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can’t even magic what I would call proper political virtue a state that

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actually runs itself well and can help others to run themselves well is an Enterprise that demands courage it

27:32

demands self-sacrifice it demands genuine patriotism it it Demands a

27:38

genuine understanding of the world as it is not the world as you would like it to

27:44

be so perhaps Donald Trump and I do want to stick on the theme of America I think this is fascinating the shift in

27:50

America’s foreign policy under Donald Trump and I want you to sort of outline the significance of that perhaps Donald

27:56

Trump is a kind of Lord Souls free figure because you have to remember you had this fantastic Diplomat who became

28:02

prime minister at the end of the 19th century who was extremely pragmatic who saw the world as it is and not how he

28:08

wanted it to be unlike frankly Gladstone is Donald Trump a kind of SSB esque

28:14

figure is he becoming a more kind of pragmatic foreign from a foreign policy perspective a more kind of pragmatic

28:20

politician and how what does his election mean for the American Empire what do what’s the significance of this

28:27

well I think it above all what it means quite simply is an open recognition that

28:33

the the American government will put American interests first that’s what Maga means it’s America first but what

28:41

I’m arguing actually Stephen is in reality it’s less of a change than you might think uh I think America has

28:48

always put America First Look for example at Black Rock look at Larry Frink uh when America was

28:56

pursuing the policy of uh um allegedly spreading uh Global Peace and light

29:03

trying to uh impose freedom and democracy at the point of a gun of course Black Rock

29:10

went along with that and made an absolute fortune on it now it’s the the enormous reverse ferit has happened I’m

29:17

sure black lock Black Rock will Le the Investments um in the Ukraine will and

29:22

the direct exploitation of resources there and what our problem has been

29:28

that we’ve dealt in words where they deal in power and money we used to do

29:35

the same in the 19th century there was that absolute hard noosed can I tell you

29:41

a little story again about America you’re talking about American power do you know where in in in in as it were

29:49

theoretical terms the final um reserves in the sense of of the the the last

29:55

legal instruments of the American Federal Reserve are held it’s a bank account number in the

30:02

Bank of England CU that of course was the dominant Force um of the 19th century

30:08

when we managed our currency properly when we made sure that our Industries

30:14

worked that our exports flourished that we had an appropriate Navy and an appropriate Army to defend them of

30:20

course and we didn’t always get it right I mean the you know that you’re talking of the period of the end of the 19th

30:26

century the beginning of the 20th there was a catastrophic lapse in the quality of the British Army and the British army

30:32

was nearly defeated in the B war in Africa um but what we did

30:38

then in in from 1905 onwards you set up this extraordinary Committee of Imperial

30:44

defense uh under the direct influence of the king under the direct influence of Edward iith um it’s chaired uh by a

30:52

remarkable man called Reginal Brett vicount Isa and it brings about a

30:58

complete reform of the British army which actually makes it capable of fighting the first world war but that

31:03

was because we were still realistic we dealt in real terms and real power we’

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retreated into this world of complete fiction America came very close to doing

31:16

it and the remember all the diseases that we have here um of of Dei of

31:23

critical race Theory and of uh of transsexualism and all the rest estimate they all begin in America and they’re

31:31

represented in the Democrat Party and they were embodied in the trump in in

31:37

the Biden Administration but America again um took the right decision in the

31:43

last election I understand everybody who is repelled by Trump on the other hand

31:49

politics isn’t about being nice is about being right one of our

31:55

terrible problems in Britain is we value niceness we value the sort of person you

32:03

know that you really like a nice neighbor yes well we all like nice neighbors um but unfortunately that

32:11

really isn’t the Criterion uh of public policy or foreign policy I

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mean the whole of Europe is devoted to this concept of niess we’ve decided we

32:24

don’t want vigorous nationalisms but then who’s going to fight I mean who I

32:29

mean what young man is actually going to fight for ursulaa but it’s not really niess is it

32:36

because you know they allow native people to be murdered frankly by

32:41

islamists terrorists terrible crimes to occur but but step all in the name of

32:47

being nice I mean are are are letting in immigrants is because we mustn’t be

32:52

nasty to to uh to to Islam to Asylum Seekers It’s all in the N of you the ENT

32:58

our entire policy of suppressing comment on the problems of a Multicultural Society and race relations is because we

33:05

mustn’t hurt people’s feelings I mean going going going back going what what

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is a a non a non-crime haate incident but a determination to Lo use the law to

33:18

protect people’s feelings the IDE the idea that um the idea that being

33:24

offensive becomes a crime is is an all it’s the final conclusion of British

33:29

politeness and there’s a name for it it’s when as it were your sensibilities

33:34

um which in some ways facilitate good human relations and you know again that

33:40

world that um George Orwell talks about so magnificently in this at the end of

33:45

the second world war at the beginning of the pur War period when he comments on England as being the kindest and

33:52

gentless Society that’s ever existed but that was the homogeneous England of the

33:57

time when you try and uh practice policing by consent or whatever in a

34:03

society Riven by intercommunal difference I’m afraid you land you hand

34:08

power to the bad guy if you try to be excessively nice you commit a kind of suicide what Europe has done what we in

34:16

Britain have done in particular we’ve committed the suicide of niceness and

34:22

the same I think can apply to a country like Sweden which was an incredibly civilized society and has now been you

34:28

know sort of turned into a complete hell hole with with bombings and everything else it’s suicide yeah I want to ask

34:35

about the European reaction to Trump though I think this has been fascinating in the uh Munich security conference JD

34:42

Vance made this now famous speech criticizing European leaders for their policies on everything from Mass

34:47

migration to freedom of speech the chairman of that conference broke down

34:52

in tears he was so upset about JD Vance’s you see what I mean about the sorry just quickly do you see what I

34:58

mean about niceness that man was spend his entire life thinking was being nice

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he lived entirely in a world of words and suddenly somebody it’s you know it’s

35:11

it’s like somebody farting in church I mean Vance’s speech was farting in church here was somebody who denied the

35:18

faith who pointed out that again other phrases the emperor had no clothes

35:23

Europe Europe has been parading naked literally naked in the world we’ve been

35:29

spending nothing on defense and we’ve been assuming that America would protect us we’ve been advancing all these claims

35:35

to wonderful values and all we’ve ever done is talk talk talk and we actually destroy as you pointed out as I pointed

35:42

out this generalized suicidal niceness is destroying as than said the very

35:49

values it’s supposed to be protecting in other words I go back to my exchange

35:54

right needs might at home and abroad it needs courage it needs all the

36:00

unfashionable masculine virtues uh because again much of this I will no

36:06

doubt be shut down even more is the result of the feminization of politics um it is the result of the giving

36:13

priority to caring to looking after to protecting against risk okay let’s talk

36:20

about um the European reaction again like I mentioned to to Trump the afd did

36:25

very well in the German elections not quite well enough to form a government but it looks like there’s going to be a new German Chancellor from the CDU and

36:33

he’s been talking about how Donald Trump doesn’t seem to care about the um the

36:38

future of Europe and he’s talking about European Independence ever since the end of the second world war the US has had a

36:45

massive amount of you know pres military presence on the continent and that has led to complaints from many on the left

36:52

and the right from nationalists who say we shouldn’t be America’s lap dog Enoch pow was a famous you know famous example

36:58

of this who was Furious that Britain had basically become a kind of um a sort of

37:04

subservient state to the United States do you think that with Donald Trump’s election with his actions in Ukraine

37:11

with his kind of intimidation over NATO and so on will this finally Force Europe

37:16

to become independent of the United States for the first time since 1945 you should rephrase that question will it

37:23

forced us to spend a serious amount of money on defense I see absolutely no

37:28

sign that it will I mean what is allegedly well not allegedly at the very moment that he’s going to go across to

37:35

present his backside to be uh caned uh in in in DC what is starma doing he’s

37:41

arguing about whether we should increase perhaps over five years defense expenditure from 2.3% to 2.5% when the

37:50

minimum we should be looking that is 5% again look at the likely Chan new

37:56

chancellor of Germany melts and he has said he has explicitly ruled out going

38:01

into a coalition with the afd that means he will have to go into Coalition once

38:06

again bizarrely with Schultz’s party with with the sdp they are absolutely

38:12

opposed to any serious increase uh as far as I can see um in military

38:18

expenditure they’re absolutely opposed to any serious control of immigration they’re absolutely opposed to anything

38:25

that actually needs to be done and France is bankrupt um the rumors are that it will actually require um the

38:31

equivalent of of a bailout uh from from from the European Bank what are we going

38:37

to do the only countries again let’s be quite serious about this Europe does not

38:43

exist can we stop talking about it to go back to that th those wonderful realists

38:48

of the 19th century count metonic the transer of the of the austr well he wasn’t it was then the hapsburg Empire

38:56

the transfer of the hapsburg empire says Italy is a geographical expression it’s not a country Europe is simply a

39:03

geographical expression even those bits of it that belong to the EU the only

39:09

countries that are taking this seriously are the countries that need to take it seriously Finland is taking it seriously

39:16

because it’s got a border with Russia and it’s only just recovered its full independence from the monstrosities of a

39:22

Russian invasion lvia Estonia Lithuania Poland above all now the most successful

39:29

economy in Europe that is genuinely rearming because they see the necessity

39:34

do I think Germany is going to free itself from this extraordinary you know politics of the naked Emperor no I don’t

39:42

do I think Italy will do I think Spain will no I don’t do I think Britain will

39:48

it is impossible under this government um and we’ve got to recognize this it is

39:53

a genuine Stephen genuinely terrifying position we have on the one hand the

39:59

government and and and again the opposition the opposition in many ways were even worse talking we’ve got to

40:06

what do we have to do we’ve actually got to put Putin on trial before the international criminal court uttering

40:12

these blood curdling threats when we couldn’t resist I would reckon we could

40:19

resist a Russian attack for about two days if we were lucky in other words

40:25

we’ve got this politics of absolute fantasy of confusion of purpose of

40:32

ignorance and unbelievable ignorance it’s terrifying and I see no evidence of

40:39

anybody seriously in power in other words anybody in the cabinet I don’t see any evidence of anybody in the Civil

40:45

Service in a funny way mandelson at least has some understanding of

40:52

reality the one thing nobody could ever accuse Peter of doing is not having very

40:57

shrewd sense of reality and that may be putting it rather politely but nevertheless I much confidence but he’s

41:05

AO he’s a holy exceptional figure sticking with the theme of Germany and the German elections some people may be

41:11

surprised that the afd only got 20% this is one in five voters because the issues

41:17

facing Germany today seem staggeringly you know difficult for them from a migration perspective an economic

41:23

perspective cultural perspective there seems to be endless terror attack you know horrible things have been going

41:29

on and yet only 20% of the population voted for the afd the other way of looking at it is the afd vote did double

41:35

in the last four years and uh you the SPD I think went down to 16% the lowest

41:41

number it’s it’s gotten an election since 1887 obviously CDU below 30% so maybe

41:47

you can analyze that election and just more broadly why do you think the right across Europe the populist right you

41:54

know is not winning elections well I think I mean let’s look at Germany let’s begin there because there’s a very

42:00

there’s a very good reason again why the I broadly support what the afd is doing

42:06

but equally you know there’s a very good reason why people in Germany are frightened of it um because of course

42:12

much of the rhetoric um is indeed some of the rhetoric that was associated with

42:18

Nazi Germany remember Germany reconstructed itself out of the horror

42:23

of Nazi Germany by a policy in which there was a Frank confrontation with the

42:29

past um there was no no disguise uh it was a school curriculum which confronted

42:35

Hitler frankly which everybody was encouraged to look at the horrors of the concentration camps to look at the

42:41

wickedness of of the persecution of the Jews of the Holocaust in indeed to the extent Stephen in which denying the

42:48

Holocaust in Germany in Austrian and so on is actually a crime it is actually a crime so in other

42:56

words it was a world in which the Embrace of anti-nationalism the Embrace

43:02

of something else that we haven’t talked about a very peculiar view of democracy

43:07

you see one of the things that’s the Clash that’s going on at the moment is a clash of two very very different views

43:13

of democracy trumpian democracy is what we normally think of meaning by democracy it’s unashamed majority rule

43:22

government of the People by the people for the people government of a majority of the the People by a majority of the

43:28

people for a majority of the people what Germany represented is a very different

43:34

and we imposed it America and Britain as the dominant Powers when West Germany

43:40

was actually turned in from an occupied Zone into a state we imposed a very

43:45

different view of democracy we imposed and this is why you see Ms talks all the

43:51

time of um America not sharing European values it’s a different view of

43:57

democracy he talks about liberal democracy what is liberal democracy

44:03

Steph well what is it I don’t really know that right let me tell you you see

44:08

it’s fascinating you as well as informed as you are can’t produce an instant answer to that question it is the idea

44:16

that democracy is not the rule of the majority as we all think it is it is the

44:22

protection of minorities through the restraining of the majority by every

44:29

source of Law and Germany begins this policy for

44:35

obvious reasons in other words what we’ve got to understand is that the entire EU Germany everywhere in Europe

44:43

is fundamentally anti-democratic in the ordinary meaning of the word it is determined to use the

44:53

forces of law of human rights of the police and of censorship to protect

44:59

minorities against supposedly aggressive majorities right and every German has

45:05

been brought up on that or rather every German in the Old West Germany has did

45:10

you look at the electoral map of the last election where is the afd strongest

45:17

it’s strongest in the old East where that sort of denazification did not happen and there

45:23

was a very very different rhetoric used the way again shared in common the attack on the notion of fascism now

45:31

Germany it is perfectly understandable why you adopted that policy what is much

45:36

more interesting again it’s quite clear why that policy was adopted for the

45:41

European Union the European Union from its very beginning in the coal and steel

45:46

Federation the alliance between uh the productive alliance between Germany and

45:52

and and France way back in the 1950s was again Prof profoundly

45:58

anti-democratic it’s the determination that the that that the mass electorate

46:03

doesn’t actually set policy uh when the first meetings of the col and steel

46:09

Federation took place when the signatures led by when the thing was put together with in France it was Schuman

46:16

at the foreign minister but do you know what the process was so secret that the foreign minister didn’t even tell the

46:22

French prime minister when they hold their first press conference it’s so Secret none of the press turn up and so

46:28

you’ve got to have a second stage press conference in which the Press having been carefully told what’s going to

46:34

happen all sit there and pretend to write away on their notep pass when of course the whole thing has already taken

46:40

place and and it’s why if you actually look at the structures of the uh of the

46:46

uh uh EUR of the European Union they are deliberately and explicitly anti-democratic the the commission is

46:53

not a civil service the commission is a bureaucrat y it is actually experts

46:59

running or pseudo experts running the thing the European Parliament is largely a talking shop now the bizarre thing is

47:07

that in Britain Although our patriotism although the strength of our economy

47:12

although the support of the empire was the only things that enabled us to defeat Nazi Germany we have borrowed

47:20

this antidemocratic politics too it’s the politics of the left and the the way

47:26

that the PO ICS of the left have been introduced into Britain is we’ve decided that our record in the Empire and

47:33

particularly our record on slavy was the equivalent of Germany’s record in the

47:38

Holocaust this is why there was that desperate attempt which I was canell for arguing against clumsily to present to

47:46

pretend that slavery is the is the new Holocaust is a new genocide it’s to

47:52

undercut the legitimacy of British politics and American politics ICS it’s why you’ve tried to replace in America

47:59

1776 with 1616 because you’re trying again to undercut the legitimacy of

48:06

democratic politics and this again is why we now have this funny new word why

48:11

do we have the word populism because populism means exactly what democracy

48:17

used to mean it means government that pays respect to what the majority wants

48:22

but we’ve redefined it into something else and in Britain it’s all embodied in

48:27

this strange thing called the rule of law the rule of law is the it’s complete

48:34

invention I’ve a major article of mine on this is just coming out at the moment it’s a complete fiction coined in 2006

48:42

which effectively says that politicians who answer to the electorate can’t be

48:48

trusted this is why we see judges intervene at every single stage in the

48:54

political in the administrative uh and in the economic process and the most

48:59

interesting thing I found Stephen when I actually researched this I looked at the

49:04

writings of the man who is responsible for this uh Tom Bingham the former principal law Lord the author of of the

49:11

the classic book on the rule of law uh a great advocate of Human Rights and I want to quote now from the main lecture

49:19

that he gave on the subject of Human Rights because it puts into a nutshell

49:24

everything that I’ve been talking about what Bingham says and I am quoting is human rights are

49:33

anti-democratic they are counter majoritarian they are designed to

49:38

protect unpopular minorities against the majority that the majority will not

49:44

protect politically and you know what he goes on he lists think people like the

49:49

mentally ill are you wondering why we’ve had these cases with people like Ruda kabana and kokan

49:57

because they are now bizarrely protected by the law how do you wonder why we

50:03

protect you know as antisocial group as the Roma well because they’re actually

50:08

in his list they’re in bingham’s list because of course Hitler persecuted the Roma so the Roma must be protected

50:16

although they’re the most antisocial group on God’s Earth you see what I mean and so Britain and America have ex

50:23

experienced a process that tried to germanize their politics um in Britain

50:29

it’s the left though with the aid of much of the liberal conservative

50:34

socalled right in America it was passionately the Democrat Party and in America that’s been rejected with Trump

50:42

we unfortunately got completely out of sync and we’ve introduced this politics

50:47

in dramatically reinforced form with the starma government which is a government of international lawyers human rights

50:54

lawyers fundamental L anti-democratic which is why we’re seeing all of these

51:00

things that GB news rightly agitates about that the freedom of speech Union agitates about which is the attempt to

51:06

silence public debate and just finally on starma one last question how long can

51:11

his government survive I know that obviously he’s got this huge majority in Parliament so you know realistically it

51:17

looks like he’ll survive the entire four years but he’s so unpopular you know

51:23

unprecedented levels of unpopularity in the hes in such a short period of Time

51:29

how long can he truly survive politically if labor think this is a dud when he’s not going to be able to be

51:34

reelected I think there are so many issues here I mean I agree with you the the unpopularity deservedly but remember

51:42

this is a government that bizarrely is elected not to be

51:47

popular forgive the Paradox um the we have a democratic politics in which

51:53

Democratic politics is supposed to be rather disgraceful this is why starma constantly attacks populism you know the

52:00

last speech it’s an when you think about it it’s an extraordinary thing for an elected leader to attack half his people

52:07

and we we are seeing you see what I mean it’s a body divided against itself but

52:13

also it’s the internal contradictions of this government which I think are most important it recognizes it can only

52:20

Survive by growth but equally it is committed to doing everything it can to

52:26

stop to growth there’s also another thing which we haven’t talked about the extraordinary business of Rachel Reeves

52:32

um I’ve been astonished political commentators haven’t looked at her more carefully why is there that business of

52:38

faking her career up why the constant insistence that she is you know an

52:44

economist and a serious thinker it is because labor thought through Rachel

52:49

Reeves that they’d come up with a means of reconciling the contradictions right

52:54

they want on the one hand growth on the other hand because of the fact that they are the representatives of the public

53:01

sector they want to increase public sector wages they want to increase regulation because they’re a load of

53:06

lawyers they want to uh in in in in increase uh burdens on the employer by

53:12

uh improving so-call workers rights and whatever what they wanted huge Net Zero

53:19

what Rachel Reeves claimed to have done was to invent a new economic model it

53:25

was in the m lecture which she gave last year in 2023 and it supposedly was a new

53:32

method of managing the economy which was called modern supply side economics it

53:38

turned out like everything else Stephen it will not surprise you to be here to hear to be stolen like everything else

53:44

that she’s ever done it was plagiarized it was plagiarized from Janet yelen who had the same job um as Secretary of the

53:51

Treasury in America and in fact it was simply the policies that the Biden

53:56

government had pursued its oldfashioned Keynesian reflation in which you throw a

54:01

lot of money at um at National infrastructure you throw a lot of money at the wages uh of of civil servants and

54:09

so on you throw a lot of money um at Net Zero and America of course could do that

54:15

because it could borrow large amounts of money that’s also by the way why there is the acute inflation under the Biden

54:22

government but of course the moment you’re elected in Britain you come up with one brutal fact you can’t borrow

54:30

any more money because we’re bust um there was a brilliant analysis by Jason

54:36

Cy uh um a journalist on the left of ma of um Reeves’s mace lecture in which he

54:43

said it was Bon omics without the Bucks and the trouble is it was sold to the

54:50

city our city is now so underqualified so unintelligent that it bought this

54:56

rubbish if you remember the CBI and whatever all lined up like good little

55:02

boys with their begging bills out for the subsidy awaiting them from the from from from this new government thinking

55:08

there was going to be an economic Miracle it was elected on a lie and the problem is that this is what will wreck

55:15

it Stephen it its policies are mutually contradictory um they’re contradictory

55:21

politically they’re deeply unpopular at the time that obviously it requires re-election they are contradictory

55:27

between domestic and foreign policy you’ve got to have a growing economy to maintain a serious military they are

55:35

they are contradictory because they’re they are supporting patri aggressive militarized and masculinized patriotism

55:43

in the Ukraine and they’re suppressing it in Britain and and they are contradictory because they’re

55:48

economically contradictory it cannot grow the economy with the existing policies that it’s pursuing on the other

55:55

hand it’s bound Bound by the leftish electorate it’s bound in fact to a large extent by the number of MPS that it’s

56:02

got because the fact that it had a landslide this very odd unloved Landslide um it it now has an awful lot

56:10

of leftish MPS in Parliament it will be very very difficult to persuade them to

56:15

go along with the cuts in welfare with the uh with the um aggressive limitation

56:21

of immigration uh uh with a genuine advancement of patriotism with cutting

56:27

back on the importance of international law all of these things which have to be done it will find un uniquely difficult

56:34

to do I’m just hoping that the effect of this is that it will blow apart the

56:39

whole rotten structure that I’ve been talking about this is not government of the People by the people for the people

56:47

starma represents government of The Blob by The Blob for the blob and when it

56:53

fails it will be the blob that failed not Britain but the thing that I fail

56:58

fear is it might actually bring down Britain with The Blob

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