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UK Column News - 29th August 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon, it's Friday the 29th of August 2025, just after
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1:00. Welcome to UK Column News.
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I'm your host Mike Rumson and my Co host this week in the studio
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is Patrick Hennigsen. Welcome to the programme,
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Patrick. To be with you, Mike.
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Now, later in the programme, I'm going to be reporting on TV in
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Washington. More on censorship and the
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announcement of a chicken pox vaccine.
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Patrick who's going to be covering the Iran nuclear issue
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and Trumps attempts to make burning the US flag illegal?
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But we're going to begin today with Russias attacks on Kiev.
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Patrick. Well, the last 24 hours of
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Russia has hit Ukraine incredibly hard.
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We'll take a look at this story and this is really going to
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shape really how things are playing out with the
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negotiations with Russia, with Europe, with Trump as well.
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So Russia's pounding targets in Kiev, and we're going to take a
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look at this. This is the second biggest
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aerial attack since the start of the conflict.
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This is what they're saying here.
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Let's look at what the Ukrainian reaction is to this missile and
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drone attack. Ukraine claims Russia's
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unleashed 629 strikes comprising of 598 drones and 31 missiles.
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Russia MOD saying it's struck military industrial complex
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enterprises and military air bases in Ukraine using high
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precision weapons. And here is the thing that I
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find much interesting here, Mike, is that Russia's now
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flying is, according to allies of NATO, Russia's flying
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surveillance drones over routes the US and the Europeans are
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using to ship military supplies via Germany and probably via
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Poland as well, and the other countries on the other side of
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this new Iron Curtain. So that's pretty interesting.
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Absolutely. Now that very much the narrative
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is that Russia was attacking civilian targets.
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I mean, what's your thoughts on that claimed by the Europeans
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and the United States? Well, it's coming first from
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Zelensky himself. Let's let's look at Zelensky's
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reaction actually on that, on that note, Mike, here he is
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obviously he is moved quickly to change costumes from Washington.
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He's in his war green here, his best war greens.
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This is the acting president. We're going to call him the
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acting president because he is acting like a president or
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trying to anyway. But he's not the elected
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president. He's been out of mandate over a
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year. So not the democratically
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elected Zelensky. He's saying Russia chooses
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Ballistics instead of negotiate the negotiation table.
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It chooses to continue killing instead of ending the war.
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And this means that Russia still does not fear the consequences.
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So he uses the alliteration. This Netanyahu style
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alliteration. You can see the 1st 2 lines of
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that Great public relations speech by Zelensky as usual.
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And here Zelensky has sent his chief of staff and head of the
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country's Security Council to meet with Trump's team in New
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York. This is just today, I believe,
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to discuss security guarantees to be included any future peace
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agreement. Well, I got news, bad news for
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Zelensky, Mike. There's going to be no security
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guarantees at all. Certainly, that's not going to
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be front loading. But that's what the Europeans
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want to front load negotiations with.
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It's what Zelensky keeps doing and it's what the mainstream
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Western press keeps saying. But that's not what was agreed
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in Alaska. So I don't think this is going
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anywhere well. What?
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What was agreed in Alaska was anything agreed?
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Well, the at least it was established that there would be
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a, a negotiated settlement 1st and then a ceasefire would come
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after that and that security guarantees would follow long
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after that. That would be at the treaty
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signing point of any agreement. And like we're a long way away
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from that. So they, they don't want to deal
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with the interim steps, which are the essential steps here.
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And, and so this is how the Western mainstream press, of
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course, is, is portraying these this Russian attack Putin's
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accused of sabotaging peace efforts after diplomatic
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building hit in massive assault on Ukraine.
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More on that in a moment. EU facility hit.
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We'll, we'll talk more about that in a moment here.
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But in terms of like sabotaging any peace agreement, here's
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seven days ago, Ukraine hit a oil pipeline that supplies
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energy from Russia to Hungary and Slovakia.
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But it's a transit pipeline goes via Ukraine.
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And I'll bet you that the Ukrainians are getting transit
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fees from that Russian oil and they're getting paid by Russia
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for those transit fees because that's pretty standard even in
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the midst of the war. So this was done for two
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reasons. Hitting this pipeline was done
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to basically sabotage what was agreed at Alaska between Trump
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and and Russia, and also to, I think, divide Hungary to divide
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Europe. So it's kind of a divide and
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rule tactic by the handlers of Ukraine and Ukraine themselves.
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Who are the handlers? Well, you've got the British,
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you've got the Germans and you've got that other sort of
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European actors behind the scenes that are sort of egging
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the Ukrainians on probably are CIA and the British MI 6 deeply
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involved in all of that. But again, dividing the
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Europeans, creating the Central Central European bloc.
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It seems to not be with the programme and seems to be pro
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Russian. This is setting the stage for
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something that will show briefly, but Hungary's foreign
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minister is saying that this missile strike on the Drusepa
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pipeline, this infrastructure, is another attempt to drag
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Hungary into the war. So this is the way the
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Hungarians are looking at this right now.
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So not only that Mike, but there's the Transcarpathian
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Hungarians in Ukraine. As we know, after World War One,
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Hungary lost most of its territory.
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But there's there's Hungarians, ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine and
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they're not being treated very well.
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Plus this conscription, there's accusations that they're being
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conscripted at higher rates than, you know, Western
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Ukrainians, for instance. So they look at this as
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basically Hungarian issue or a Hungarian world issue.
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So this is a real emotional issue within the government in
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Budapest and the people more broadly.
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And I know having been to Budapest last November, and that
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was a very important issue that the deputy foreign minister
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brought up to some of the members of the press who I was
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with at that time. So this is a serious issue.
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They really think that Ukraine is really doing provocations
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here to try to create another front or more tension to take
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the focus off of what they should be focusing on, which is
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winding this conflict down here. But look at the war of words
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here. This is the this is the
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Hungarian foreign minister here, Peter Sir Harto, and he's
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basically saying that Zelensky has used Ukraine's national
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holiday to threaten Hungary. We firmly reject his
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intimidation. We regard sovereignty,
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territorial integrity, including energy infrastructure here as
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fundamental values of international politics.
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So, and here is the Ukrainian foreign minister's response to
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this. I will reply in a Hungarian
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manner. So totally condescending,
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slightly racist. And he's saying you don't need
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to tell the Ukrainian president what to do, say or when he is
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the president of Ukraine, not Hungary.
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Hunger, Hungary's energy security is in your own hands.
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Diversify and become independent from Russia like the rest of
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Europe. Wow.
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So the, the, they're, they're really talking almost like
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adversaries here. And you have to remember that
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what we'll talk about the European Union and and Ukraine's
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membership later, Mike. But this is war talk between
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Kiev and and Hungary and I so. Am I reading this right?
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You're suggesting that that that they're splitting Slovakia and
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Hungary away in this way because of course they have been sort of
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naysayers to to quite a lot of this over the past couple of
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years. And so the effort is to create
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this much stronger British, French, German access within
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around which the the coalition of the willing gather in the EU.
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Is that what's going on? Yes, and the Orban government
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and Robert Fizzo in, in Slovakia, they're, they're at
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odds with Brussels. So Brussels is already sort of
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declaring them persona non grata, threatening to take their
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voting rights away because they're not on board with the
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Ukraine programme and so forth. So there's already that split
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happening. So it looks like the
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intelligence services and Ukraine, the Western
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intelligence services in Ukraine are trying to drive a wedge
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through these sort of dissident governments in Central Europe.
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So and perhaps open up a new front.
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I, I don't think that's out of the realms of possibility at
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this point. You have to remember Zelensky
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and Kiev and Europe are desperate if if Russia's seem to
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win this or come to a peace deal, it's devastating for not
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just NATO, Mike, but the EU itself.
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Right. So as Patrick says, with this
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attack on Kiev, we've seen the typical response in the British
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in the Western legacy media. But just to highlight one
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example of this, this is the Sun, the the horror moment, a
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Russian missile hit and damaged the British Council building in
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Kiev during this the the attacks that were going on.
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So that's how British legacy media reporting it.
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They're reporting that the attacks killed at least 21
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people and that and of course that it hit the British Council
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building, but also the an EU building.
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In fact, it was a third building that was actually struck.
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And the damage to the British Council and the EU buildings was
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pretty limited, as we'll see in a second.
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But as I say, that didn't stop The Sun from producing this
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video. And as you can see on screen,
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the implication of this was that this was a direct attack on
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Britain and the EU, and of course this supports the
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narrative of security guarantees being required.
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It does and but you know, the British Council building it
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might be an integral part of British soft power, but it's not
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sovereign territory. In other words, it's not an
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embassy or a consulate. So, I mean, it doesn't really
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fall under that. And you know, a lot of countries
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would have evacuated some of these facilities already.
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I mean, why wouldn't you if it's at risk of being hit or
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something like that? Unless, of course, there's
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activities going on there that you absolutely need to keep
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going because it's part of, well, what the ACT many
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accusations made against some of these NGOs and soft power
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institutions. Well, let's just look at some of
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the allegations that are made. So here is the FS BS flag here,
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but this is the Russian intelligence agency.
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And back in June, they made a comment on Britain and the
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British Council, which I thought it was worth bringing in at this
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point, Patrick. So let's just have a look at it.
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They said in their statement that Britain is the main source
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of global crises, A provocateur and instigator of wars.
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London organises coups, weakens not only its geopolitical
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enemies but also its closest allies, it's nations against
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each other, and prevents the resolution of bloody conflicts
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that it unleashed. I'm finding it very hard to
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disagree with anything in that comment.
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We've certainly reported on quite a bit of this, so you know
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there is meat on the bones of these accusations.
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Indeed. So let's have a look and see
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what they said about the British Council themselves.
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They said the British Council is a hostile organisation that
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actively participates in the operations of the British
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special services aimed at undermining the sovereignty and
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security of the Russian Federation, as well as those of
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other sovereign states. And again, I'm struggling to
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disagree with that. And then they go on to say that
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various projects are being implemented by the British
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Council to systematically discredit the domestic and
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foreign policies of the Russian Federation.
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Well, OK, I wanted to remind myself exactly what the
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situation is with the British Council.
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How much money does it get from, for example, the Foreign,
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Commonwealth and Development Office?
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So let's have a look at that. So here is the FCDO spending
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website that the UK column has produced.
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And as just as a reminder, this is an effort to make the data
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which the Foreign Office produces more accessible and
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more obvious to people. So let's see what this website
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has to say. Well, if we look at the top 20
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recipients of FCDO money, which is on that front page, the
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British Council is third on the list to the tune of £1.6 billion
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over the course of the the time frame that we're talking about
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with this website. So about the last seven years.
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Well, let's just have a look at this in a little bit more
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detail. So there's the graph.
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So it begins in December 2017. And what we can see there is
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that they receive around £20 million per month from FCDO,
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with some spikes of up to £100 million per month.
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And right there, Patrick, if we put a ring round, it is a spike
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of just under £100 million in February, March 2022.
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What else happened around that time?
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That was the outbreak of the Ukraine Russia conflict.
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Right. Yeah, February 24th, so 2022.
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Isn't that a coincidence? One would say yes.
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One would say that's an anomaly on the graph.
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I can't imagine that those two things have anything to do with
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each other though. Anyway, those are the
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allegations of the Russian Federation and you can take
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those as you see fit. I, as I say, struggle to find
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any anything incorrect about what the FSB said there.
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If that makes me a mouthpiece for the Putin regime, well,
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that's that's well and good. But that that's how it looks to
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me. Well, everything that they have
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said about the British Council is exactly what everything
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including scholars and journalists have been saying
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about USAID. This institution of this
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instrument of sub quote soft power and smart power by the
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United States as ACIA cut out organisation.
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So one could look at the British Council in roughly the same way
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a soft power or smart power outlet NGO and an extension of
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British intelligence like the USAID constellation is an
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extension of American intelligence.
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I mean, I I can't, I don't see the problem in looking at these
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things that way. And and what about the
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allegation that I've seen that the British Council was somehow
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performing some kind of coordination role in Ukraine?
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I, I have not looked close enough at the exact, you know,
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allegations there, but certainly it would, it would be
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interesting and it wouldn't be unusual.
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And like I said, USCID have played the exact same role.
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There's also been accusations about the OECD and other
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international organisation as well involved in giving
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targeting information out during from the front lines and during
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breaking the MINX peace process basically.
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And Dombass another another discussion, but you know, not
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not unusual. But so anyway, an EU building
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was damaged as well, and Ursula was outraged.
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Absolutely outraged. So let's just have a listen what
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she had to say. I'm outraged by the attack on
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Keaf also hitting our EU offices.
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This was the deadliest drone and missile attack on the capital
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since July. And as you can see behind me on
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the screen, it was an attack also on our delegation.
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I just spoke with our deputy ambassador and I'm relieved that
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none of our staff were harmed. Last night's attack struck in
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close proximity of the diplomatic mission.
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The representation of our Union 2 missiles hit in a distance of
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50 metres of the delegation within 20 seconds.
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And this is another grim reminder of what is at stake.
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This is why we are keeping maximum pressure on Russia.
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That means tightening our sanctions regime.
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We will come forward soon with our 19th package of hard biting
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sanctions and in parallel we are advancing the work on the
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Russian frozen assets to contribute to Ukraine's defence
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and reconstruction. So hard biting sanctions and
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stealing Russian frozen assets. That's the response.
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Stealing. Yeah.
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That's, that's the Ursula. Yeah.
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I mean, where is this righteous indignation for what Israel's
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doing in Gaza? I mean, seriously, by the way,
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they, they keep saying that Ukraine is at war and that the
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Ukrainians are at risk. Why do they have a mission in
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Kiev? Why don't they move it to Livov,
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which is completely out of range of pretty much any of the
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hostilities? Why?
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I don't understand, if you care about your staff and you claim
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that this is a war zone, why are you, you know, still keeping
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your building staffed in right next to a target that could be a
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military target? Because she wasn't hit directly.
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She's claiming it was attack on the EU mission.
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It wasn't. It was ancillary damage, wasn't
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it? Maybe you want justification for
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security guarantees. Well, yeah, of course that she's
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advancing that that argument. Absolutely, absolutely.
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So So yeah, that's interesting, Mike.
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So where where is Europe on, on Ukraine?
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Well, let's just take a look at this.
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So, and this is Politico here grasping at straws.
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Europe floats Ukraine, Russia buffer zone in a push for peace.
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So they're still at it basically pushing these ideas here.
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They're grasping at straws as Jim Towns and former Pentagon
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official who oversaw Europe and NATO's policy under the Obama
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administration here. Totally unrealistic, this idea
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of flooding the zone with European troops, a coalition of
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the willing doing this outside of NATO, technically.
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So there's no Article 5 tripwire.
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I mean, it's just, it's just another workaround that's just
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not practical, not not going to happen.
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Actually, if they push on this, it's going to probably create a
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huge crisis, security crisis for Europe because Russia is
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obviously not going to respect what what Europe's doing there.
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And so here's here's the number. The issue, however, Mike, the
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Russians are not afraid of the Europeans, says Jim Townsend,
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former Obama administration official.
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And if they think that a couple of British and French observers
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are going to deter them from marching into Ukraine, then
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they're wrong. So that's from the Democratic
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appointee side that are normally pretty hawkish on these matters
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here. But on the issue of Europe, so
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here, here's where you're upset right now.
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They they're still dangling this Ukrainian membership into the
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EU. And here's the Hungarian foreign
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minister here. And obviously you're not allowed
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to see this if you're in Britain or France because it's RT.
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So what we're showing you here is statements from the Hungarian
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foreign minister, which you're not allowed to read in in
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Western Europe because it's too dangerous and your governments
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are concerned about you falling under the the spell of the
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sorcery spell of Russian disinformation.
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OK, so here's what he says. Now, this is important because
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Europe needs to understand this. If someone realistically and
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rationally observes Ukrainian accession to the EU, what impact
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it would have. And you can see that this would
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be the coup de gras to the European Union.
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In other words, this would be the death knell for the EU.
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So there's a lot of people that are cheering this on.
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Actually. I think rightly maybe Hungary
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would like to see this happen because they would like to see
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the European Union possibly disintegrate the political union
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anyway. Not the Common Market, of
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course, but Brussels would have to redirect practically all EU
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financial resources towards supporting.
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Kiev the ultimate welfare state here, while quote much of lower
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quality agriculture products would destroy European
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agriculture. Big complaint, especially in
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Poland and the quote Ukrainian mafia would roam freely in
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Europe as well as the Nazis of the hundreds of thousands of
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radicalised Ukrainian nationalists and Nazis that
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would probably be homeless at that point.
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I don't know what would happen. But so this this is from the
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Hungarian side here. So it's a non starter.
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You know, you by the way, NATO membership for, for they don't
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have to give Russia guarantees because hung Hungarian Slovakia
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would never vote. They need unanimous vote, right
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for NATO membership, right? They're not going to get it.
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There's probably 3 or 4 NATO members that will not vote for
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Ukraine full stop. So it's not going to happen.
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And by the looks of this, EU membership is hugely
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problematic. What a financial drain this
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would end up being on Europe. They require complete
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entitlement and welfare support on every aspect of their
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political economy. I mean, forget it, it's it's not
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going to happen. But they're going to keep
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dangling this because that's the dream isn't it?
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Euro Maidan. And what suggests to finish this
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segment off, Patrick? What does does Russia have to do
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before the West admits defeat? Probably wins so decisively on
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the battlefield that they'll have to scramble to freeze the
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lines. Are they not doing that already?
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That's what Alaska was all about.
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I, I, I personally, I think the Ukrainian front lines collapsing
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in so many key areas that I think that's what pushed Trump.
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And the Europeans were totally behind Trump.
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Did you notice that? Oh, just completely.
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They were like school kids there in the Oval Office just waiting
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to see what daddy is going to say.
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But because they know that the US is the only chance they have
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to potentially freeze the front lines, because if they don't,
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Russia's just going to keep rolling on.
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And quite frankly, they're going to keep rolling on now in lieu
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of any sort of serious political negotiations.
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It's just going to, it's just going to carry on.
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That's probably where it's going to end up.
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I hope it doesn't trigger an irrational reaction from some of
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the Hawks in Europe. That would be unfortunate.
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But yet we we wait. End date OK, let's move on.
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OK, that brings us then to TB in Washington.
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Now, am I talking about tuberculosis?
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An outbreak of TB in Washington? I think that's what you're
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talking about. It is indeed, so let's just have
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a look at it here, because it is quite horrible to watch.
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There's the virus right there. Right there.
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So Tony Blair and Jared Kushner attended the meeting with Trump
24:06
at the White House to discuss plans for post war Gaza.
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That's what they said. They missing from the meeting,
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of course, was anyone representing the people of Gaza.
24:17
Of course they're not invited. They're not invited.
24:20
Blair and Kushner were apparently there to discuss
24:24
ideas for how Gaza can be governed without Hamas in power.
24:29
And to take a quote from some of the coverage on this, President
24:32
Trump has been clear that he wants the war to end and he
24:35
wants peace and prosperity for everyone in the region.
24:38
The White House has nothing additional to share on the
24:41
meeting at this time. So this was what a White House
24:43
spokesperson said. An anonymous White House House
24:47
official said that to the mainstream.
24:49
So Trump wants it to end by any means necessary, including
24:52
ethnic cleansing and. Moving everybody out of.
24:55
The OR or killing whoever doesn't want to leave.
24:57
OK, we get that. OK.
24:59
So why was Blair there? Well of course after remind you
25:02
that after stepping down as Prime Minister of the UK in
25:04
2007, he took on the role of Middle East envoy for the
25:07
Quartet, so called Quartet. Just remind everybody what that
25:10
is that was. That was a sort of confab of
25:14
countries and formally they were trying to, you know, midwife
25:16
some kind of a peace process in the Middle East and of course
25:20
that include the Western powers. I even think Russia was involved
25:23
somewhat in the Quartet as well. Complete abysmal failure, as we
25:28
can see. Absolutely.
25:29
And he held that role until 2015.
25:32
But also he was also there because of course, as we
25:35
reported a couple of weeks ago, Tony Blair Institute was also
25:39
involved in creating the whole Trump Gaza Riviera plan
25:43
alongside Boston Consulting Group.
25:46
And if you remember this, this plan was announced back in June.
25:49
It was a post war Gaza plan that envisaged kick starting Gaza's
25:53
economy with a quotes Trump Riviera and an Elon Musk smart
25:58
manufacturing zone. Now the FT as we can see on
26:01
screen reported that one lengthy documents.
26:06
So what they said was 1 lengthy document on post war Gaza
26:09
written by TBI staff member was shared within the group for
26:13
consideration. This included the idea of a Gaza
26:15
Riviera with artificial islands off the coast akin to those in
26:19
Dubai, blockchain based trade initiatives, a deep water port
26:23
to tie Gaza into the Middle East Europe economic corridor and a
26:27
low tax special economic zone. And, and my first question then
26:32
was, are these akin to these, this Freeport idea that we're,
26:35
we're getting in the West where we're supposed to have these low
26:37
tax zones? I I'm not sure but but I guess
26:40
it's the same, it's the same kind of policy.
26:42
So so glitzy glitzy high rise Dubai style apartments that are
26:48
basic and and and rivers of blood.
26:51
Rivers of blood, yes. Around them.
26:54
I mean, who, who, who? Who wouldn't want that, really.
26:57
Tony Blair is midwifing that project.
26:59
I'm so shocked. Well, indeed.
27:02
Now, it was the news website Axios which broke the story of
27:06
this latest meeting. And they quote unnamed sources,
27:10
as I believe they tend to do. Patrick is that that they?
27:13
They tend to quote unnamed sources.
27:15
Yeah, that's standard practise from mainstream media.
27:17
So that's how you know Axios is mainstream, yeah.
27:20
OK, well these unnamed sources said that Steve Witkoff has been
27:24
discussing a post war plan for Gaza with Kushner and Blair for
27:27
several months. And the sources said that Blair
27:30
met Witkoff at the White House in July on the same day that
27:34
Netanyahu met Trump. Now there's a coincidence, isn't
27:37
it? Now, according to U.S.
27:39
officials, Trumps Gaza meeting on Wednesday this week, it was
27:43
also to focus on AUS plan for humanitarian aid for Gaza.
27:47
So the quote from this is it's expanding the food plan, the
27:51
quantity and distribution method, the number of people
27:53
that could be served. And this again was said by an
27:57
unnamed US official. The same US official said that
28:01
Trump's instructions are get this fixed.
28:04
And this is very similar Patrick narrative to the to, to, to
28:10
Britain and, and France in particular, saying that if
28:12
things aren't fixed by September, they're going to
28:15
recognise the Palestinian state. That some people thought this
28:19
was a great thing. But what that that message to me
28:21
was telling Israel, get this, get this sorted out.
28:25
In other words, ramp up what you're doing and get the things
28:27
finished. Yeah, we're expanding food
28:29
distribution, but at the same time Israel's expanding bombing
28:32
and mounting a full scale invasion of Gaza.
28:35
I mean, you can't make this up. How Orwellian is this whole
28:39
thing? I mean, this is just beyond the
28:42
pale at this point. Well, later on in the day then,
28:46
a senior White House official told Reuters that Trump and
28:50
along with top White House officials Larry and Kushner were
28:53
discussing all aspects of the Gaza issue, including food, as
28:57
we just mentioned, the hostage crisis, post war plans and more.
29:01
The official described the session as simply a policy
29:04
meeting of the type frequently held by Trump and his team.
29:08
I don't think so. And then we have the Times of
29:10
Israel here confirming that. Sorry, we'll go back here.
29:15
There we go. Confirming that Netanyahu
29:18
advisor Rob Dermer had also arrived in Washington on
29:21
Wednesday that they did not confirm that he was involved in
29:24
the meeting. Dermers presence in Washington,
29:27
they said, is a reflection of the Trump administrations close
29:29
coordination with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu counts who
29:33
counts the strategic affairs minister as a close confidant,
29:36
according to the Times of Israel.
29:38
And according to his spokesman, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon
29:42
Saar was also in Washington to meet US Secretary of State Marco
29:46
Rubio at the State Department. He apparently did not take part
29:49
in the White House meeting. And again, I ask, isn't that all
29:54
a coincidence? And so the question is, what is
29:57
being cooked up here that it could be no more than just
30:00
keeping the pressure on Israel and making sure that it's all
30:03
done by September as they're wanting it to be.
30:05
I wonder is there anything else in this?
30:07
No, this is a big property deal. That's what this is, I'm sure.
30:10
I wonder what Tony Blair's kickback is on this.
30:13
What is it going to be? A penthouse at the top of one of
30:15
those big, you know, shiny skyscrapers or you know, what's
30:21
his, what's his, his action going to be on the back end of
30:24
this because Tony doesn't do this stuff out of the goodness
30:26
of his heart. There's got to be some kind of
30:29
kickback. But this is just disgusting on
30:32
on so many levels, Mike, Not least of all because there's no
30:36
talk about the welfare at all of the Palestinians.
30:38
It's just Trump wants to get it done.
30:40
Netanyahu wants to get it done. And they again, as you said,
30:45
they they're not allowed to invite.
30:46
There's no Palestinians at the table and there hasn't been
30:49
through the whole quote, Abraham Accords peace process right till
30:52
now. And now they're really talking
30:54
about the final solution in Gaza, the final solution that
30:58
Israel is proposing. the US are on board with it.
31:01
Tony Blair's on board with it, and so are all the other
31:04
grifters and glad handers that are circling like vultures right
31:07
now around Gaza. It's just disgusting.
31:10
So what about Israeli reservists then?
31:13
What are they up to? Well, slight problem, slight
31:16
problem with the reservists, some of them are failing to show
31:20
up. This is the New York Times here.
31:22
I mean, the fact that this is running in the New York Times
31:24
and nominally pro Israeli outlet traditionally is something on
31:28
its own, but let's just let's take a look at this.
31:30
So thousands are basically either not showing up or coming
31:35
in with deferments and things like that.
31:37
So over the last few months, the IDF have noticed increased
31:40
numbers of reservist soldiers just basically haven't showed up
31:44
to their posts for military service.
31:46
They're disillusioned. They left the country.
31:49
They're exhausted, many of them. There's more conscientious
31:52
objectors now in the IDF. So this is bringing up a lot of
31:57
question marks about whether they can mount the type of full
32:01
scale invasion of Gaza, which it's not an invasion of Gaza,
32:04
it's ethnic cleansing of Gaza and killing whoever doesn't want
32:07
to leave. I mean that the way the press is
32:10
characterising what's going on right now is, is pretty
32:12
incredible. So I, I hope that, you know,
32:14
there's some journalists and some editors of some of these
32:17
major organisations like the BBC for instance, that might have a
32:21
conscience and might start acting and like real reporters,
32:24
voters and real journalists at this point because we're looking
32:26
at history unfolding in the worst possible way.
32:30
OK. Let's move on to the topic of
32:32
Iran, Patrick and the question of the nuclear deal then.
32:36
Yeah, Let's take a look at this here.
32:38
So this is what's dominating the headlines right now of the last
32:41
24 hours is the Iran nuclear issue here.
32:45
And when we say Iran nuclear issue, what are we really
32:47
talking about? Well, we're talking about this.
32:50
It is really an Israeli nuclear issue.
32:53
It really has more to do with what Israel wants out of
32:56
Washington and with Iran because Iran's one of the last countries
33:00
in the in the area, in the Middle East, in West Asia that's
33:03
standing up for the native Palestinian population and the
33:07
people of the Levant. So let's take a look at the
33:10
particulars here. So, so what's going on?
33:13
Iran faces, quote, snapback sanctions over its nuclear
33:17
programme. So here's what that means.
33:18
So remember the JCPOA Iran nuclear deal that Trump
33:22
basically destroyed in his first term?
33:25
It it the, the deal was that there would be snapback
33:27
sanctions. So sanctions, UN sanctions were
33:29
lifted against Iran if they did the JCPOA.
33:33
They did the JCPOA and now they're threatening to put the
33:37
sanctions back because they're saying that Iran is derelict of
33:40
its obligations and responsibilities for the JCPOA.
33:43
I mean, it's pretty incredible. Let's look at the particular
33:46
here for France, Britain and Germany.
33:48
That's the E3, the E3. They've initiated a process of
33:52
triggering SNAP, a snapback mechanism that automatically
33:55
reimposes all of the UN sanctions on Iran over its
33:58
nuclear programme or its alleged its alleged nuclear weapons
34:02
programme, saying that Iran has willfully departed from their
34:06
2015 deal. That's pretty incredible,
34:09
bearing in mind what the US and Israel just done to Iran.
34:13
But we'll leave that aside for the moment the sanctions were
34:16
put in effect. In fact, there's basically
34:17
conventional arms embargo, restrictions on ballistic
34:21
missile development, asset freezes, travel bans and a ban
34:25
on producing nuclear related technology here.
34:28
And then finally, the E3 offered Iran delay in the snapback talks
34:34
back in July if Iran met three conditions, resume negotiations
34:38
with the US over its nuclear programme, allowing the UN
34:42
nuclear inspectors access IAEA inspectors access to the nuclear
34:47
sites and accounting for over 400 kilogrammes of highly
34:52
enriched uranium. So apparently went missing that
34:54
Trump said he destroyed, but it turns out he didn't or it
34:57
doesn't. They don't believe he didn't
34:59
here. Here's Iran's response, Mike,
35:02
this is Iran's. Tehran, which now enriches
35:05
uranium at near nuclear weapons grade levels, has rejected the
35:09
proposal. So that's the, that's the thing,
35:13
the, the while they're negotiating Israel, it mounted a
35:16
sneak attack on Tehran. I mean, we all saw what
35:19
happened. Of course, Iran retaliates.
35:21
Then the US strikes Iran, an unprovoked attack by the US.
35:27
So and so the US left the JCPOA unilaterally in Trump's in 2018
35:33
May. And then so they're out.
35:36
So Iran kept playing ball with the JCPOA and then Israel and
35:40
the US attack Iran and its civilian nuclear programme.
35:43
And now they're saying that Iran is somehow breach and breach of
35:47
the agreement. It's a joke.
35:48
The EU didn't even fulfil its obligations, its financial
35:51
obligations. They didn't.
35:53
Iran's been complaining about that for years.
35:55
Nothing. So this, this is just so
35:58
disingenuous on the part of Europe.
36:00
But this is where I think this is where Israel wants Europe to
36:03
go on this. And they're quite happy to abide
36:05
by whatever Israel wants. So this is a total sham, as as
36:08
we can see. But here's another problem.
36:10
Take a look at this. So Iran, IAEA inspectors to
36:15
return after Supreme National Security Council gives their
36:19
approval. This is a strategic move by
36:21
Iran, Mike. But the hardliners in Iran are
36:24
basically going crazy right now saying how can you let them back
36:28
into the country after what happened?
36:30
And here are the accusations. This is Trita Parsi.
36:33
He's with the Quincy Institute, responsible statecraft in the
36:37
United States to say. On the surface, these demands
36:40
seem reasonable, but Tehran has legitimate reservations.
36:43
Iranian officials suspected that the IAEA of leaking sensitive
36:47
information that enabled Mossad's assassination campaign
36:50
against Iranian nuclear scientists.
36:52
And they fear that revealing the stockpile's location would
36:55
simply invite another round of US air strikes.
36:58
Iran was at the negotiation table when Israel and the US
37:01
began bombing it. The E3 now insists Tehran
37:05
returned to talks, yet make no parallel demand that Washington
37:09
refrain from bombing again. And Israel refrains, quite
37:13
frankly, because that was an unprovoked attack by Israel.
37:16
So Trita Parsi, of course, very astute, a political commentator,
37:20
of course he's, I think he's absolutely correct on this.
37:23
But this is, this is a problem now in Iran because the
37:26
hardliners are like, why are we, why are we playing ball?
37:29
I think Iran's playing a long game and I think Russia might be
37:33
advising them that this is the way to go in order to build
37:37
consensus more broadly in the international community.
37:40
Even though it's a risk, they think it's a calculated risk
37:43
that they're willing to take, that somehow they'll be an exit
37:46
out of this. I don't think so.
37:48
I think Iran and the US are planning for another war.
37:50
They're going to attack them again, probably in the next
37:53
couple of Israel and the US are going to attack Iran again.
37:57
They're because the US are moving long range like the the
38:02
Aegis and the THAAD missile systems.
38:05
They're moving more of these into Israel right now.
38:07
So that's clearly to defend Israeli installations and cities
38:12
from Iranian missile strikes. Because one of the things that
38:14
came out of the previous attack was that they got to see where
38:17
their weaknesses were in their own defence.
38:19
That's right, that's right. So, so right now where it is
38:22
where the potential stalemate here if Iran leaves the non
38:25
proliferation treaty and they're exactly in the same status as
38:29
Israel, they could have an undeclared nuclear weapon of
38:32
they're not part of the MPT like Israel.
38:35
And that is a sort of unofficial stalemate in the region.
38:38
But it's I don't think it's going to work because the United
38:41
States has overwhelming force. Well, it's not going to work
38:44
because there are no honest brokers in the West.
38:46
That true? That too.
38:47
It's not a level playing field, and that's the source of the
38:50
whole problem. Yeah, no honest brokers in the
38:54
West and yeah, I'm not not really sure what else we can say
38:58
about that. It's, it's right.
39:00
The other thing I was going to mention there was the E3 and
39:04
this this isn't, we've mentioned this many times in this
39:06
programme, but it's one of these sort of descriptions that tends
39:09
to go under the radar. But the E3 is is kind of an
39:12
informal block between the UK, France and Germany.
39:14
And we were talking about the fact that Slovakia and Hungary
39:18
are sort of being paired off from, from the coalition, the
39:22
willing and inverted commas. But right at the core of that is
39:24
this E3 structure. And although that was originally
39:28
set up to deal with the Iran nuclear issue, it's it's become
39:32
something much more at the heart of this whole European Defence
39:37
Initiative. It's like the concert of Europe.
39:40
This is where we're going, you know.
39:41
By the way, Mike, you mentioned Hungary and Slovakia as peeling
39:46
off and becoming dissidents within NATO and the EU.
39:49
I'll tell you if the United States did not meddle in the
39:51
Romanian elections, Romania will be right there shoulder to
39:55
shoulder with Hungary and Slovakia.
39:57
But there was meddling and they took the they took the front
40:00
runner out of the race who was clearly against this war in
40:04
Ukraine. Like Orban and Fiso said, it's
40:07
unwinnable. We need to de escalate.
40:09
And so they had him removed. I think the United States were
40:12
deeply involved in that coup. And so they didn't get honest
40:15
elections in, in Romania and who knows with three major countries
40:19
ordering Ukraine, where, where that where does that leave the
40:23
the other countries? Where does that leave Poland?
40:25
I mean, that would certainly put pressure in Poland as well.
40:29
Well, I mean, Poland's inviting the pressure, you know, because
40:32
Poland is absolutely 100% on board with the whole Ukraine,
40:36
Russia. Well, the political class is.
40:38
Yes, yes, for sure. Yeah, probably not the voters.
40:41
No, that for sure that is the case.
40:42
So and and same with Moldova as well.
40:45
A lot of effort to install the current, you know, leader in
40:50
Moldova. They're afraid that somehow
40:53
they're going to fall into the Russians fear of influence.
40:55
Yeah. So this is this is the new
40:57
battle lines. Oh, OK, let's let's move on then
41:00
and we'll move on to the issue of censorship.
41:02
Now over the last few weeks, we've been highlighting this
41:05
issue of so called age assurance under the Online Safety Act
41:09
regime. And as we've made the point,
41:11
this is effectively one of the paths towards the digital ID
41:14
rollout. But it's not just a British
41:16
thing. Britain is leading the way as
41:18
usual, but others are catching up.
41:21
So I just wanted to very briefly have a look at the situation in
41:24
the USA because it's tricky because of constitutional
41:27
protections. And so these policies seem to be
41:31
being rolled out at the state level instead.
41:33
So let me introduce you to an organisation called Dream with
41:38
Dream with Studios. This is what just explain what
41:41
they describe themselves as a home for creative artists of all
41:44
types. Share your writing, your artwork
41:46
or your innermost thoughts. Find others who create the sort
41:49
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41:51
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42:03
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42:07
Well, that's what they said about themselves, but they have
42:09
just issued or made an announcement that they're also
42:13
introducing Geo blocking, but not for the UK or for UK users
42:20
as other websites have been doing, as we've been describing
42:23
over the last few weeks, but for users in the state of
42:25
Mississippi. And the reason is that
42:29
Mississippi residents, I'll just quote a little bit from the
42:32
website, they say Mississippi residents, we are so, so sorry.
42:36
We really don't want to do this, but the legal fight we and Net
42:40
choice have been fighting for, you had a temporary set back
42:43
last week. You genuinely and honestly
42:44
believe we're going to win it in the end.
42:47
But the 5th Circuit appellate court said that the District
42:50
Judge was wrong to issue a preliminary injunction back in
42:53
June that would have maintained the status quo and prevented the
42:56
state from enforcing the law. Requiring any social media
42:59
website, which is very very broadly defined in which we
43:02
definitely qualify as the DE anonymize and age verify all
43:06
users and obtain parental permission from the parent of
43:09
anyone under 18 who wants to open an account.
43:12
The Mississippi the Mississippi law they say is a breath
43:15
breathtaking state overreach. It forces us to verify the
43:18
identity and age of every person who accesses dream with from the
43:22
state of Mississippi and determine who's under the age of
43:24
18 by collecting identity documents to save that highly
43:28
personal and sensitive information and then obtain a
43:32
permission slip from those parents users parents who allow
43:35
to allow them to finish creating an attack an account.
43:38
Sorry. And of course, this is, I
43:40
understand the concerns, aside from the privacy concerns, This
43:44
puts a massive obligation on them to maintain, to maintain
43:48
certain levels of security standards because more and more
43:50
personal information is required to be held by them.
43:53
The UK column doesn't hold anybody's personal information.
43:57
In fact, the only thing that you're theoretically obliged to
44:00
provide to us is your first name.
44:02
But most people don't provide a genuine first name there.
44:04
And an email. Yes, an email, but and for that,
44:09
yes, people are setting up sometimes specific emails for
44:12
our website as anybody with any sense would do for.
44:15
Other websites. The same for other websites, the
44:18
same. So look, I need some help here,
44:21
Patrick. This is clearly
44:22
unconstitutional. But it looks to me like by
44:26
rolling out legislation like this at the state level, global
44:29
influencers can impose policy that in the hope that no one has
44:34
the financial resources to take this all the way to the Supreme
44:37
Court to challenge it. And, you know, the Constitution
44:40
of the United States has effectively undermined, it's
44:44
possibly even made irrelevant through this strategy.
44:47
Or am I reading that wrong? No, you're not reading it wrong.
44:50
I mean, how how it's going to work is that, you know, the
44:52
state, states have certain rights.
44:54
If it's not, if the, if the rights are in question are not
44:57
specifically, specifically mentioned in the US
45:00
Constitution, then under the 10th Amendment, they're kicked
45:04
back to the states. Basically, that's what the
45:06
overturning of Roe V Wade, the abortion federal ruling was
45:11
about right in the end. So what will happen here is that
45:14
if a number of states go this route, then it will be up to
45:18
people within that state or websites or business owners then
45:21
to to do a legal action. And if it raises to the level
45:26
if, if they're able to, as you say, Mike, afford the appeals
45:29
process and they have the funding to do that and they have
45:32
the legal muscle to do that, then they could make it up to a
45:35
high enough federal ruling whereby it would be overturned.
45:39
And then that would be a federal precedent.
45:41
Then it becomes a constitutional precedent at that point.
45:44
But like even in in Britain as well, you have to muddle through
45:47
the legal system before everything is confirmed that
45:51
that was an overreach or that wasn't an overreach.
45:54
So unfortunately, I think what you're saying is right is this
45:57
policy can be enacted, policy could be enacted around the law.
46:01
And if you get enough buy in, maybe at the corporate level and
46:06
it becomes a political issue, then who knows it there.
46:10
There might be a way to subvert the constitutional rights issue
46:14
more broadly, and it could be just done by Fiat somehow, like
46:18
so many other things have online as well.
46:21
Yeah, indeed. Well, look, in the meantime, The
46:23
Hill here is reporting that a bunch of Republicans through the
46:28
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are launching A
46:31
congressional inquiry into Wikipedia for bias.
46:34
Now hold on to your hats here, because what's the driver for
46:38
this? Well, you got it.
46:39
It's anti Semitism. So multi multiple studies and
46:43
reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the
46:46
Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at western
46:49
audiences. They say one recent report
46:52
raised troubling questions about the potential systematic efforts
46:54
to advance anti Semitic and anti Israel information on Wikipedia.
46:59
See how they conflate those two things there in Wikipedia
47:03
articles related to conflicts with the state of Israel and
47:06
they're particularly concerned that this bias will end up being
47:09
used to trade AI chat box the chat box, sorry.
47:13
So the bias will become endemic. So that's that's that is their
47:18
one of their of their main concerns.
47:20
Why would anybody want to be anti Israeli, Mike?
47:22
I just can't imagine why anybody would want to hold such views.
47:27
I mean, what's Israel doing that's negative or bad?
47:30
I just, I can't, I don't, I don't know.
47:33
I'm shocked, you know? I'm shocked as well.
47:35
How people would be engaged in such behaviour but.
47:38
Well, indeed. Clearly, it's clearly
47:40
antiseptic. What indeed?
47:43
Shush. Now look also a freedom of
47:47
speech issue and something which has traditionally been viewed as
47:50
a freedom of speech issue and an act of protest in the United
47:53
States has been burning the flag.
47:56
Right here we go, flag burning. So a lot of people will look at
48:00
this and say, well, why would you want to burn the American
48:03
flag? Well, for one reason it's
48:05
because it's constitutionally protected speech here.
48:08
So Trump. Trump's flag burning order test,
48:11
Supreme Court ruling and talking about Texas versus Johnson in
48:15
1989. President Donald Trump signed
48:17
executive order I highlight executive order on Monday
48:21
directing federal agencies to vigorously prosecute as if
48:26
there's not other crimes, to prosecute anyone who desecrates
48:30
the US flag because it defends the president and to detain and
48:34
revoke visas at such non citizens who've been accused of
48:38
such behaviour here. And this.
48:40
So this is Trump and the attorney general, Pam Bondi, as
48:43
you can see, flanked with the assistant attorney general
48:46
Jeffrey Epstein really controls that office at the end of the
48:49
day. So what are we looking at here?
48:52
This is just a big distraction. What's the distraction?
48:55
2 things one is, is the fact that they've duffed up the
48:58
Epstein thing, claimed that it didn't happen.
49:00
They're not going to be releasing the files and the
49:04
whole Israel, Gaza and genocide issue clamping down on free
49:09
speech. Clearly UN American to cut down
49:12
free speech to cut down the 1st amendment, which is what the
49:15
Trump administration have been doing systematically and why
49:18
have they been doing it for the defence of Israel and Israeli
49:22
interests. So and I'll show you just how
49:24
bad things are getting. So, so they're dragging us back
49:27
in time to defend Israel ultimately.
49:30
But on the flag burning issue, I think this is a complete
49:33
distraction. It's, there's no way it's, it's,
49:36
it's constitutionally protected speech.
49:38
But there's some conservative judges, there's more
49:41
conservative judges. Trump believes that if we can
49:43
get this issue back up to the Supreme Court that there'll be
49:47
instances where they could say there was motivation against US
49:50
National Security or something that they'll be able to rule
49:53
that some of these flag burning cases will be they'll be able to
49:58
enforce, you know, criminal prosecutions on that.
50:01
So that's that's what I think Trump is betting on his Supreme
50:04
Court, you know, majority on that because the previous ruling
50:08
was different. But here here's here's what's
50:10
actually going on. And this is what this is where
50:13
the Trump administration's getting hammered.
50:15
And this is where they're losing student newspapers, suing
50:18
Secretary of State Marco Rubio over targeted deportations of
50:22
student journalists who are not U.S. citizens but are here on
50:26
student visas and so forth here. What's at stake in this case is
50:30
whether when you're in the United States, you're free to
50:34
voice your opinion critical of the government without fear of
50:37
retaliation, says Connor Fitzpatrick.
50:39
He's an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights
50:42
and Expression Civil Civil Liberties group, representing
50:45
the plaintiffs in this case. The plaintiffs is the Stanford
50:48
student newspaper, the Stanford Daily here.
50:51
And this is the, this is the bottom line.
50:53
It does not matter if you are a citizen here on a green card or
50:57
visiting Las Vegas for the weekend.
50:59
You shouldn't have to fear retaliation because the
51:01
government doesn't like what you have to say.
51:04
That's, that's the, this is the point that knuckle dragging MAGA
51:08
conservatives and arch Zionists and people like that, people
51:13
that are demanding that students be deported or locked up for
51:16
student protests. They don't get this.
51:18
It doesn't matter if you're AUS citizen, it's with if you're in
51:22
the US jurisdiction, you are protected under the US
51:26
Constitution, your First Amendment free, no speech
51:28
assembly as well as protected as long as you're not breaking the
51:32
law and the law protects that speech according to the US
51:36
Constitution. Anybody attacking and
51:38
undermining the US Constitution is an enemy of the US
51:42
Constitution, including the current U.S. government
51:44
technically. And that's why they're being
51:47
sued and hammered in the courts. And Rubio will lose, most likely
51:51
is going to lose on this case as they have done on the previous
51:53
ones. Yeah, OK.
51:54
But in the meantime, the ICE officers are going around
51:58
lifting people off the streets, treating them extremely.
52:01
I mean it's real 1930s Germany style stuff from some of the
52:06
video clips that I've seen exporting them to other
52:08
countries, not just to where was it this sorry the South American
52:14
country? Is El Salvador.
52:15
Thank you. Not just El Salvador, but also
52:17
to some African countries is. Rwanda.
52:20
They're doing their Rwanda. The Rwanda thing, right?
52:22
And, and, but, and they're sending people to those
52:25
countries where those people have no ties to those countries
52:28
whatsoever, basically leaving them destitute in those
52:32
countries were in a prison or whatever it happens to be.
52:34
With no due process. No due process and with no
52:37
support in those countries. I mean it is despicable and and
52:41
actually pretty by the sort of what most people would
52:44
understand by the definition of fascistic, it is pretty
52:47
fascistic. It's very fascistic and Trump,
52:50
Trump doing the flag burning thing through an executive order
52:54
is a very, very bad precedent. It's also gonna, I don't think
52:57
it's good for Trump and his legacy because this is like
52:59
something that a desperate authoritarian would do.
53:02
And why? Just to make some kind of a
53:04
statement in order to somehow virtue signal to his hardcore
53:09
base on this. But as we pointed out, Mike,
53:12
it's absolutely tied to these other issues.
53:14
I mean, they deported a student from Tufts University, which is
53:18
also what this Stanford case against Rubio is for writing an
53:23
op Ed. She was Turkish, I believe, and
53:25
she wrote an op Ed critical of Israel, Israel's doing in Gaza.
53:29
And they black sacked her practically.
53:32
I mean, they sent A-Team and just kidnapped her basically and
53:35
sent her off Mahmoud Khalil, who reported on the Columbia student
53:39
protest leader who's a Palestinian legal resident in
53:43
the United States, married to I think AUS citizen or legal
53:47
resident. And they, they tried to deport
53:49
him and they lost. He won an appeals and now he's
53:52
out advocating against the Trump administration in Washington,
53:55
DC. It's usually embarrassing.
53:57
And all Marco Rubio can do is cry and scream and, and, and
54:00
pout on Twitter. That's the, and, and that
54:03
they're making the State Department pout with these
54:06
childish tweets coming off the official State Department
54:09
Twitter account. I mean, there's no dignity left
54:14
with these U.S. officials. I mean, they, they clearly don't
54:19
give a, you know, what about the US Constitution.
54:22
To them, it's an impediment to whatever the Israeli lobby wants
54:25
or whatever they, their donors want.
54:27
And they just want to remove it, get around it, subvert it or
54:30
just basically, you know, destroy it.
54:33
I mean, that's kind of where this administration's at.
54:35
I don't think this is very good for the Trump administration and
54:39
certainly not good for America. Yeah, absolutely.
54:41
Couldn't agree more. OK, back to the UK then And
54:45
well, everybody will be glad to know that a free chicken pox
54:49
vaccination is going to be offered for the first time to
54:52
children across England. That's via the NHS.
54:56
That's going to happen from January and their government is
54:59
saying that thousands of children are going to be
55:01
protected against chicken pox because of this new programme.
55:05
Now they're going to offer a combined vaccine for measles,
55:10
mumps, rubella and varicella. So this is MMRV now.
55:15
So it's going to be not a triple vaccine, but a quad vaccine all
55:19
in one dose. And so that's as part of the
55:23
routine infant vaccination schedule.
55:26
And this apparently is going to mean that children are going to
55:29
miss fewer days in nursery and school, while parents won't need
55:33
to take time off work to care for them.
55:35
And they're saying that research shows the chicken pox in
55:38
childhood results in an estimated 24,000,000 lbs in lost
55:41
income and productivity every year in the UK.
55:44
That's going to save the NHS £15,000,000 a year in cost.
55:48
Is it? How much is the vaccine going to
55:50
cost? Anyway, So what?
55:53
They're leaving out one stat, Mike.
55:54
How much is the Pharmaceutical industry going to profit off
55:57
this? Precisely, right.
55:59
So that's the point. But we don't need to worry
56:01
because the chicken pox vaccine's been safely used for
56:03
decades. It hasn't been safely used for
56:06
decades as part of MMR, right? So, So what we're doing here is,
56:10
is trying to suggest that there's a set a safety track
56:14
record for for something that's didn't previously exist.
56:17
Right. And and is this a new outbreak?
56:19
Is this a new virus, the chicken pox virus?
56:22
Is it brand new? Must be brand new.
56:23
I mean, I don't remember chicken pox parties when I was a child.
56:26
Don't remember those at all. And how many?
56:28
How many they must They must be rolling this out because it's a
56:31
deadly virus, right? How many children have died from
56:34
chicken pox over the last 100 years?
56:38
Well, I don't understand your cynicism here, Patrick, because
56:40
the government says this is going to result in the
56:42
healthiest generation of children ever.
56:44
Is the number of children that have died of chicken pox?
56:46
Is it 0 or is it under 100 in the last 100 years?
56:50
Globally it's pretty low whatever the number is, I would
56:54
think so. Why do you need to be vaccinated
56:56
against something as an incubation period of a couple of
56:59
days? Because apparently, according to
57:02
the press release, this is going to protect children from serious
57:05
complications that can cause hospitalisation, such as
57:08
bacterial infections like strep a, brain and lung inflammation
57:12
and stroke. Children having strokes.
57:15
This is also new news. I haven't heard about this
57:18
before. How often does that happen?
57:20
Is it a number between zero and zero and and one or maybe range
57:26
of probability children's having strokes from chicken pox?
57:30
I mean, this is new. This is a great scientific
57:33
discovery. This is right up there with, you
57:36
know, alien life on another planet.
57:40
I mean, this is just, I'm so in awe of the Pharmaceutical
57:44
industry. Well, what they've done to the
57:46
government for sure. Is incredible.
57:48
Acting as propagandists. But I believe we do have a good
57:52
news story and. And the reason is, Mike, is
57:55
we're so tired of the complaints and the whining in the chat
57:59
rooms that UK call them so negative.
58:02
You guys never have anything positive.
58:04
It's just all scrolling at the UK com.
58:08
It's war, it's viruses, it's scandals, it's corruption.
58:12
And when are you going to do a feel good story?
58:14
Well, I'm going to change that today.
58:16
We have got a feel good story and in fact this could be the
58:19
beginning of something special, a feel good story.
58:22
This will be the feel good story of the day or you can say of the
58:26
week or whatever. So we're going to leave you
58:28
something for the weekend that's going to make you feel
58:30
definitely feel good. It's going to put a smile on
58:32
your face and a spring in your step.
58:35
Here it is right here. And this is from the Blaze.
58:38
This is John Bolton as you can see coming out emerging from the
58:42
bushes there. The Blaze media.
58:44
That's that is not an LGBT website.
58:47
That's Glenn Beck's website, if you're confused by the name.
58:50
But we finally have an idea of why John Bolton is in hot water
58:54
and the factor that could bring things to boil.
58:57
What's going on there He is. That's the pensive profile shot
59:02
John Bolton. Trump's former advisor Arch Neo
59:05
Con, is reportedly under investigation for allegedly
59:08
mishandling classified information.
59:10
If held to his own standard, then his days as a free man
59:13
might be numbered. So yes, you've read that right,
59:16
folks. John Bolton going.
59:18
To prison. He could end up in the clink for
59:21
the very thing. And so obviously this is a
59:23
retribution by Trump because during the Mar a Lago raid, John
59:27
Bolton was all over MSNBC and Jen Pasaki show saying that
59:31
Trump is harbouring and, you know, stealing classified
59:34
information, hiding it at Mar a Lago.
59:37
So I mean, Trump's getting revenge here on John Bolton.
59:40
And but but let's be honest, is anybody upset to see John
59:45
Bolton, his home getting raided and his office is getting raided
59:49
this week? I can't see many people that
59:52
would sort of, I think a lot of people be smiling at that.
59:55
Hence that's why that's the feel good story of the day.
59:58
Thank you very much. Hopefully that makes the weekend
1:00:01
a lot better for a lot of people.
1:00:02
Thank you, Patrick, thanks to everybody that's joined us
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