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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: This is happening right now.
- 0:03SPEAKER_00: The UK, Finland, Norway and Germany all in the same week made crazy announcements.
- 0:11SPEAKER_00: This is this week,
- 0:12SPEAKER_00: by the way,
- 0:13SPEAKER_00: that tells us that the Russia-Ukraine conflict has just gone to a whole new level.
- 0:19SPEAKER_00: Now,
- 0:19SPEAKER_00: I think it's probably a good point to begin on in that Last month I broke the news
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: to you,
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: which I was amazed even the mainstream media didn't pick up on,
- 0:30SPEAKER_00: of the secret UK plan of preparedness to mobilise the civilians.
- 0:35SPEAKER_00: It's going to be the biggest mobilisation.
- 0:38SPEAKER_00: The biggest mobilization since World War II,
- 0:40SPEAKER_00: since the Blitz, and this is going to take place in 2027.
- 0:53SPEAKER_00: Let's begin with the first point on today's walk of numerous points and that is
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: that Finland just held this exact same exercise but on a very small scale this week
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: on Wednesday.
- 1:10SPEAKER_00: The UK is going to do it with a lot more than that and they had observers
- 1:14SPEAKER_00: from all around the world.
- 1:17SPEAKER_00: They had an observer from so many of the Western countries there.
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: And the results might just surprise you because they surprised me.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: Or should I say,
- 1:28SPEAKER_00: they didn't surprise me because I think it was pretty obvious what was going
- 1:31SPEAKER_00: to happen.
- 1:33SPEAKER_00: We'll give you a nice view in the background as we talk about a couple of these points.
- 1:37SPEAKER_00: So what actually happened then in Finland?
- 1:40SPEAKER_00: Well, they deliberately,
- 1:42SPEAKER_00: and this is not my word,
- 1:43SPEAKER_00: this is their word,
- 1:44SPEAKER_00: they deliberately held it right next to the Russian border in Finland
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: where they ordered,
- 1:50SPEAKER_00: and I'll give you the details,
- 1:52SPEAKER_00: 2,000 people,
- 1:55SPEAKER_00: students, staff,
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: ordinary citizens ordered underground into the Luola Sports and Event Centre
- 2:02SPEAKER_00: where they had to remain for the period of the exercise.
- 2:06SPEAKER_00: Well, have a guess what happened.
- 2:07SPEAKER_00: Do you think they all did?
- 2:09SPEAKER_00: Because it was a 72 preparedness exercise.
- 2:12SPEAKER_00: You're supposed to be able to sustain yourself for 72 hours.
- 2:16SPEAKER_00: Have a guess how many of the people actually made it past the first night.
- 2:22SPEAKER_00: Just the first night.
- 2:24SPEAKER_00: 100 people.
- 2:26SPEAKER_00: That's it.
- 2:27SPEAKER_00: Only 100 people actually slept in the underground emergency shelter.
- 2:34SPEAKER_00: They said it wasn't, there's a lot of reasons for that.
- 2:36SPEAKER_00: They said it wasn't well kitted out,
- 2:37SPEAKER_00: there wasn't enough beds, the facilities weren't great, etc.
- 2:41SPEAKER_00: But the thing that made me laugh about it was the young people.
- 2:45SPEAKER_00: The findings were that the young people were just messing around,
- 2:49SPEAKER_00: they had no resilience, they just couldn't handle being underground, etc, etc.
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: Well, I think we all knew that.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: I don't blame the young people.
- 3:00SPEAKER_00: It's the society now that's created young people to be like this.
- 3:05SPEAKER_00: They actually said that the young people had gone soft.
- 3:08SPEAKER_00: That's the words that they used.
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: Now,
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: the scenario that they were playing was cyber attacks knocking out the power and
- 3:16SPEAKER_00: the water supply,
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: which they say would have resulted in tens of thousands of people actually dying.
- 3:23SPEAKER_00: So that's what they had to prepare the people for.
- 3:26SPEAKER_00: They said people didn't have enough water.
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: The facilities didn't have enough water.
- 3:30SPEAKER_00: The filtration system wasn't up to speed.
- 3:34SPEAKER_00: There was all these issues.
- 3:35SPEAKER_00: A lot of people didn't know about water.
- 3:38SPEAKER_00: They didn't know that they needed electricity to get water.
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: They said that people at home didn't have enough water stocked up.
- 3:46SPEAKER_00: And this gets me all the time.
- 3:48SPEAKER_00: I still don't understand why the governments around
- 3:51SPEAKER_00: the world don't issue Pure water straws to people.
- 3:56SPEAKER_00: You know,
- 3:56SPEAKER_00: I've talked about these straws a lot on the channel when we've talked
- 3:59SPEAKER_00: about preparedness.
- 4:00SPEAKER_00: Talked about all sorts of different pieces of kit that you can get.
- 4:03SPEAKER_00: They're really cheap, but it'll save your life.
- 4:06SPEAKER_00: Because you think about it, what do you need?
- 4:08SPEAKER_00: Number one is oxygen, of course.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: You've got to be able to breathe air.
- 4:12SPEAKER_00: But second to that is water.
- 4:14SPEAKER_00: You know, you've got to have water.
- 4:17SPEAKER_00: And most people don't have water stored, which I completely get.
- 4:21SPEAKER_00: I mean, I recommend you do have some stored,
- 4:23SPEAKER_00: but I get that if you live in a studio apartment, you can't store a lot of water.
- 4:27SPEAKER_00: But a lot of people don't even know about pure water straws,
- 4:31SPEAKER_00: where this one straw you can drink out of a puddle, you can...
- 4:36SPEAKER_00: You'll never die of dehydration because you've got a straw.
- 4:40SPEAKER_00: In fact,
- 4:40SPEAKER_00: I'll leave a link to the one that I recommend in the description below here
- 4:45SPEAKER_00: while we're taking this beautiful walk.
- 4:48SPEAKER_00: But the emergency alert then went out at 11.30am.
- 4:53SPEAKER_00: They had until 12pm to get to the bunker.
- 4:56SPEAKER_00: A load of them still couldn't do it.
- 4:58SPEAKER_00: Even though they had 30 minutes, they still couldn't get to the...
- 5:01SPEAKER_00: The bunker in 30 minutes.
- 5:03SPEAKER_00: And then I want to read out the findings to you because I think these are quite telling.
- 5:07SPEAKER_00: Number one, the shelter could only hold 7,000 people in an emergency.
- 5:11SPEAKER_00: They thought it could hold more.
- 5:13SPEAKER_00: Number two, the young people didn't take it seriously.
- 5:15SPEAKER_00: They weren't willing to work as a team and they wanted to play on their devices.
- 5:20SPEAKER_00: Number three, of the 7,000 people, only 100 of them willingly decided to stay the night.
- 5:27SPEAKER_00: The aim was to teach people,
- 5:28SPEAKER_00: including children,
- 5:29SPEAKER_00: how to stay safe and cope independently For at least 72 hours,
- 5:33SPEAKER_00: the people just couldn't do it.
- 5:35SPEAKER_00: And it was even covered by journalists flown in from Denmark,
- 5:37SPEAKER_00: Germany, Poland,
- 5:38SPEAKER_00: the United States to learn lessons on the psychology of how
- 5:43SPEAKER_00: the people actually dealt with the stressful scenario.
- 5:48SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to read out what the EU observer said.
- 5:51SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm going to quote what they said here.
- 5:54SPEAKER_00: It set a disturbing precedent for when we have to deal with the real thing.
- 6:00SPEAKER_00: And I think that's the key line a lot of people missed in that report.
- 6:03SPEAKER_00: That observer said when we have to deal with the real thing.
- 6:08SPEAKER_00: He didn't say if we ever have to.
- 6:11SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's concerning in case we ever have to deal with something like that.
- 6:15SPEAKER_00: No, he said when we have to deal.
- 6:18SPEAKER_00: Okay, so remember that what they're saying then,
- 6:21SPEAKER_00: 72 hours,
- 6:22SPEAKER_00: that's how long you will need to survive without any government assistance,
- 6:27SPEAKER_00: that's what they are saying.
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- 6:38SPEAKER_00: I cover all sorts on the channel,
- 6:39SPEAKER_00: but it's mainly geopolitics,
- 6:41SPEAKER_00: it's mainly geopolitical in nature, talk about finance, economics.
- 6:46SPEAKER_00: That's really what I'm doing here,
- 6:47SPEAKER_00: is preparing you for what I've seen coming for a long time,
- 6:51SPEAKER_00: and I'm just trying to get people ready for this.
- 6:54SPEAKER_00: I know people call me all sorts of things.
- 6:58SPEAKER_00: Doom mongerer or whatever.
- 6:59SPEAKER_00: But okay, we'll come on to the next big story of the week then.
- 7:02SPEAKER_00: This is a huge one.
- 7:04SPEAKER_00: And that is the British Army.
- 7:07SPEAKER_00: Yes, the British Army has stopped their training exercises as of right now.
- 7:14SPEAKER_00: To save money.
- 7:15SPEAKER_00: Now, I was looking into this in detail and what really,
- 7:20SPEAKER_00: really surprised me that I amazed a lot of people haven't covered is that
- 7:25SPEAKER_00: the savings are so small compared to the money that has now been announced
- 7:31SPEAKER_00: on foreign aid.
- 7:33SPEAKER_00: So we're giving money to all sorts of different countries or the UK is giving money
- 7:37SPEAKER_00: to all these different countries.
- 7:40SPEAKER_00: When they can't even afford to run training exercise for the British military.
- 7:46SPEAKER_00: It makes no sense.
- 7:47SPEAKER_00: I mean, when I heard this, I had to put my cup of tea down.
- 7:50SPEAKER_00: I was so surprised by what they were saying.
- 7:54SPEAKER_00: This happened the very same day that the Finns were going into
- 7:58SPEAKER_00: that preparedness doomsday shelter.
- 8:03SPEAKER_00: I mean, the juxtaposition of those two things is somewhat unbelievable, really.
- 8:09SPEAKER_00: You've got one country preparing for what they know is coming,
- 8:13SPEAKER_00: and you've got the other saying we're going to save money by not letting
- 8:16SPEAKER_00: the military train.
- 8:18SPEAKER_00: It defies belief, it really does.
- 8:22SPEAKER_00: Why?
- 8:22SPEAKER_00: Because they said...
- 8:24SPEAKER_00: Apache helicopters use too much jet fuel.
- 8:27SPEAKER_00: The tanks use too much diesel as well as the munitions.
- 8:31SPEAKER_00: And this thing doesn't make sense.
- 8:32SPEAKER_00: The British Army use a 5.56 caliber munition.
- 8:36SPEAKER_00: That's the rounds that they use.
- 8:39SPEAKER_00: And these things are not expensive.
- 8:41SPEAKER_00: You compare that to a missile from a You know, an Apache or something else.
- 8:47SPEAKER_00: Now that's where you're going to rack up big amounts of money,
- 8:49SPEAKER_00: but troops doing live firing exercises on Salisbury Plain and some of
- 8:54SPEAKER_00: the other places, cancelling these things is just madness.
- 8:59SPEAKER_00: Because the whole point is these soldiers need to train.
- 9:03SPEAKER_00: I can tell you when I was a soldier,
- 9:05SPEAKER_00: if I didn't train regularly,
- 9:08SPEAKER_00: and not just my body and other things,
- 9:10SPEAKER_00: and my mind,
- 9:10SPEAKER_00: but if I wasn't firing my rifle and shooting all the time on the range,
- 9:15SPEAKER_00: I definitely wasn't as accurate.
- 9:18SPEAKER_00: Definitely.
- 9:18SPEAKER_00: Most people will tell you,
- 9:20SPEAKER_00: you've got to practice,
- 9:21SPEAKER_00: you've got to practice, you've got to run drills until these things become accurate.
- 9:25SPEAKER_00: So by not letting people train is just bizarre.
- 9:32SPEAKER_00: So I think if we haven't told Russia just how unprepared we are right now,
- 9:37SPEAKER_00: then I think we have today after this announcement.
- 9:40SPEAKER_00: To save money on munitions.
- 9:42SPEAKER_00: It is crazy.
- 9:43SPEAKER_00: So actually the defense source talked about how this didn't come down from the MOD.
- 9:49SPEAKER_00: Didn't come from defense.
- 9:51SPEAKER_00: It actually came from Whitehall.
- 9:53SPEAKER_00: It came from number 10.
- 9:55SPEAKER_00: It came from the British government.
- 9:57SPEAKER_00: They even mentioned it came down from the prime minister himself.
- 10:00SPEAKER_00: Although I think that's a stretch,
- 10:02SPEAKER_00: but it definitely came from the government said we needed to find savings in
- 10:07SPEAKER_00: the military.
- 10:08SPEAKER_00: When actually it's quite the opposite.
- 10:10SPEAKER_00: You need to be funding the British military right now.
- 10:14SPEAKER_00: That's what you need to be doing.
- 10:15SPEAKER_00: Not cutting spending on the military.
- 10:18SPEAKER_00: You've got to be funding it.
- 10:20SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, you know, we're going to be a sitting duck.
- 10:23SPEAKER_00: The UK will Okay, so we've covered Finland, what happened there.
- 10:28SPEAKER_00: We've covered the UK stopping their military from training.
- 10:32SPEAKER_00: We've still got Norway to cover, Germany, and then the EU.
- 10:37SPEAKER_00: But just quickly before that, I know that on my last video, that video is absolutely blown up.
- 10:44SPEAKER_00: It really, really has.
- 10:46SPEAKER_00: I wasn't expecting over 330,000 views or whatever it's got right now.
- 10:50SPEAKER_00: I said on there,
- 10:51SPEAKER_00: if you want me to do any kind of Preparedness material,
- 10:55SPEAKER_00: let me know,
- 10:56SPEAKER_00: and loads of you said yes,
- 10:57SPEAKER_00: you want that,
- 10:59SPEAKER_00: and it was also at the end of a 25 minute video,
- 11:01SPEAKER_00: so it shows how many people watch all the way to the end.
- 11:04SPEAKER_00: So just a couple of things,
- 11:06SPEAKER_00: and I mentioned the pure water straw,
- 11:08SPEAKER_00: I definitely think you should have one of those.
- 11:11SPEAKER_00: You can get it from wherever you want,
- 11:12SPEAKER_00: but I'll leave a link to the ones that I use in the description below,
- 11:17SPEAKER_00: because they give me a discount on them anyway.
- 11:20SPEAKER_00: The other thing is an emergency sleeping bag that I've mentioned before.
- 11:24SPEAKER_00: I've got about five or six of these.
- 11:25SPEAKER_00: I keep some in my car.
- 11:27SPEAKER_00: I've got some in my van.
- 11:28SPEAKER_00: I keep some in my bug out bag.
- 11:31SPEAKER_00: I keep some in storage as well.
- 11:33SPEAKER_00: Definitely you need some emergency sleeping bags because they're so tiny.
- 11:37SPEAKER_00: They were developed for extreme circumstances to keep people alive.
- 11:43SPEAKER_00: In extreme temperatures and of course we're being told
- 11:45SPEAKER_00: about you know all these blackouts and everything else that's going
- 11:48SPEAKER_00: to be you know taking place very shortly so definitely have some
- 11:53SPEAKER_00: of these emergency sleeping bags and then the other one is I read a lot of books
- 11:58SPEAKER_00: as you know and I was reading I bought a book it's about a week
- 12:03SPEAKER_00: or two probably two weeks ago now and I'll put it on screen because
- 12:07SPEAKER_00: the name escapes me but this is a really good book and it came
- 12:11SPEAKER_00: with all this training Materials as well,
- 12:15SPEAKER_00: teaches you how to create emergency medical supplies,
- 12:18SPEAKER_00: grid down situations,
- 12:20SPEAKER_00: and it just teaches you basically how to survive Where you might not have all of
- 12:25SPEAKER_00: the equipment that you might need.
- 12:27SPEAKER_00: It teaches you how to build all of your own equipment.
- 12:29SPEAKER_00: So I really like this book that I've been reading this week.
- 12:33SPEAKER_00: And again, that's from the same company as the Water Straw and the Emergency Sleeping Bags.
- 12:41SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I'll leave a link in the description below to those three things.
- 12:45SPEAKER_00: I think you'll get a lot of benefit from all of them.
- 12:48SPEAKER_00: Definitely give you a bit more peace of mind,
- 12:50SPEAKER_00: help you to sleep at night,
- 12:51SPEAKER_00: just to start getting prepared for all of this,
- 12:54SPEAKER_00: because I think we know where this is going.
- 12:57SPEAKER_00: And I'm also just thinking about what sort of content I'm going to create for you
- 13:01SPEAKER_00: to help you to prepare a little bit better for all of this.
- 13:04SPEAKER_00: Okay, so what happened on Wednesday then?
- 13:07SPEAKER_00: Again, all these things took place on the exact same day, which is bizarre.
- 13:12SPEAKER_00: Well, over in Norway, they decided to seize a Russian cargo ship.
- 13:19SPEAKER_00: Norway said they did this to enforce a $4.2 billion legal claim on behalf of Ukraine.
- 13:27SPEAKER_00: Russia's foreign ministry responded to the seizure and called it piracy and
- 13:32SPEAKER_00: that Norway needs to release the vessel immediately
- 13:36SPEAKER_00: or Russia will take appropriate measures.
- 13:39SPEAKER_00: I know you can't feel or hear the wind here but it's absolutely howling so I'm going
- 13:44SPEAKER_00: to walk back this way a little bit where we've got more shelter.
- 13:48SPEAKER_00: But I hope you're enjoying the views today.
- 13:49SPEAKER_00: We've got some beautiful views here despite the intense wind.
- 13:55SPEAKER_00: Now the other part of the Russian threat that they gave Norway was they said
- 13:59SPEAKER_00: that they had to release the container ship immediately
- 14:03SPEAKER_00: or there will be consequences for those actions.
- 14:07SPEAKER_00: So we'll see what those consequences are next.
- 14:11SPEAKER_00: But closer to home the British,
- 14:14SPEAKER_00: the Royal Navy,
- 14:15SPEAKER_00: just spent three days this week Tracking some Russian warships going through
- 14:20SPEAKER_00: the English Channel.
- 14:22SPEAKER_00: Now when you read the headline, it reads a little bit different to what actually took place.
- 14:27SPEAKER_00: So what actually took place was there were two cargo ships going through,
- 14:32SPEAKER_00: Russian cargo ships transporting oil.
- 14:35SPEAKER_00: And the reason that Russia is now putting warships with the cargo ships is because
- 14:41SPEAKER_00: the UK actually seized one of these warships.
- 14:44SPEAKER_00: Russian Shadow Fleet vessels.
- 14:46SPEAKER_00: In fact it was June that this took place and again Russia says that the reason
- 14:51SPEAKER_00: the UK targeted that ship was because it was full of oil and they claimed that
- 14:56SPEAKER_00: the UK stole all of that oil without any compensation.
- 15:01SPEAKER_00: Okay, on to Germany now then, where things are really, really heating up in Germany.
- 15:08SPEAKER_00: Russia has just issued a threat of a direct strike on Germany and they've branded
- 15:14SPEAKER_00: the European Union or European countries as state actors of terrorism.
- 15:20SPEAKER_00: The UK, Germany,
- 15:22SPEAKER_00: a number of other countries Now I think the timing on this is very interesting
- 15:27SPEAKER_00: because when Russia issued that statement it was only a day or two later
- 15:40SPEAKER_00: That's the whole drone attack on the German airport actually took place.
- 15:47SPEAKER_00: Well, I think the timing is unusual because they're announcing it now.
- 15:51SPEAKER_00: We're on the 4th of September as I record this.
- 15:54SPEAKER_00: But that drone incident, let's call it, actually took place on the 4th of August.
- 16:00SPEAKER_00: So it's exactly a month ago today.
- 16:02SPEAKER_00: And it's kind of Interesting when you look into all of the details behind that
- 16:08SPEAKER_00: or they're calling it Russian paramilitary but if you look into a lot of the details
- 16:14SPEAKER_00: of that the two people that they've they haven't apprehended them
- 16:18SPEAKER_00: but they've accused them one is a Belarusian citizen and the other is
- 16:24SPEAKER_00: a Latvian citizen.
- 16:26SPEAKER_00: So I think this comes back to what we talked about with hybrid warfare before.
- 16:30SPEAKER_00: Well, I think that's what we're going to see a lot more of is hybrid warfare.
- 16:34SPEAKER_00: You look at a lot of the attacks on the drone making factories at the moment.
- 16:39SPEAKER_00: Well, what sort of attacks are they?
- 16:41SPEAKER_00: They're arson attacks.
- 16:43SPEAKER_00: So these factories are being set on fire and that's exactly what I forecast
- 16:47SPEAKER_00: and predicted would happen as opposed to these conventional strikes.
- 16:51SPEAKER_00: And what I found really,
- 16:53SPEAKER_00: really interesting was this massive It was an emergency meeting
- 16:58SPEAKER_00: that took place this week.
- 17:00SPEAKER_00: It was Ursula von der Leyen,
- 17:02SPEAKER_00: who we talked about on Wednesday,
- 17:05SPEAKER_00: stealing everyone's money,
- 17:07SPEAKER_00: And calling it for the greater harmony and equitable and whatever else for everyone.
- 17:12SPEAKER_00: Anyway, so she met with Mark Rutte, who's the NATO head, of course.
- 17:17SPEAKER_00: And, you know,
- 17:20SPEAKER_00: I've seen her angry before,
- 17:21SPEAKER_00: but she was so angry that she was spitting,
- 17:25SPEAKER_00: you know,
- 17:25SPEAKER_00: saying this is completely unacceptable,
- 17:28SPEAKER_00: that Russia has done this, tried to, you know, put this explosive drone on EU soil.
- 17:35SPEAKER_00: I mean, she was absolutely furious when I think she's kind of missing the obvious here.
- 17:40SPEAKER_00: So what does she say needs to happen then?
- 17:42SPEAKER_00: She said as a result of this,
- 17:44SPEAKER_00: which will not be tolerated,
- 17:46SPEAKER_00: she said now that we need to step up and be more aggressive,
- 17:51SPEAKER_00: be faster and more efficient against Russia.
- 17:55SPEAKER_00: Rutt agreed with this and he said NATO stands in full solidarity with Russia.
- 18:00SPEAKER_00: The EU and with Germany.
- 18:02SPEAKER_00: But I thought one of the interesting statements was from Poland's Tusk,
- 18:06SPEAKER_00: the Prime Minister of Poland.
- 18:08SPEAKER_00: And he said that it's now obvious we're no longer in peacetime.
- 18:12SPEAKER_00: And I think that's the main message I want to get across,
- 18:15SPEAKER_00: among other things today, is that we're not in peacetime anymore.
- 18:20SPEAKER_00: The amount of people that think videos like this are scaremongering
- 18:25SPEAKER_00: or whatever else they say, it does surprise me.
- 18:30SPEAKER_00: That people think that this is all going to go back to normal,
- 18:33SPEAKER_00: that soon Ukraine's going to win the war against Russia,
- 18:37SPEAKER_00: and that that's it,
- 18:38SPEAKER_00: Russia's going to be tamed, and that it'll be an end to all of this.
- 18:43SPEAKER_00: I just don't see that outcome.
- 18:45SPEAKER_00: I actually see the opposite.
- 18:47SPEAKER_00: I see this getting even more severe.
- 18:50SPEAKER_00: I see, look, why is Europe spending an absolute fortune on all of this military equipment?
- 18:58SPEAKER_00: Why are they doing all of this?
- 19:00SPEAKER_00: Why are they preparing the citizens?
- 19:03SPEAKER_00: It's because they know what is going to be coming.
- 19:05SPEAKER_00: This is going to be a hot war.
- 19:08SPEAKER_00: And if I had to guess where this is going to hit next,
- 19:12SPEAKER_00: I'd say it's probably going to be either Poland or the Baltic states.
- 19:16SPEAKER_00: That would be my guess.
- 19:18SPEAKER_00: Poland has spent the most amount in terms of their GDP percentage on their military.
- 19:23SPEAKER_00: They've sent so much hardware to their border.
- 19:27SPEAKER_00: They are really training up a lot of soldiers.
- 19:31SPEAKER_00: You've got Germany second to that.
- 19:34SPEAKER_00: If we're not going to include the Baltic States here,
- 19:36SPEAKER_00: Germany using a huge amount of their Borrowing capabilities.
- 19:42SPEAKER_00: That's what it all is.
- 19:43SPEAKER_00: They haven't got any of this money, by the way.
- 19:45SPEAKER_00: They are borrowing all of it.
- 19:47SPEAKER_00: And did you know that Germany is now stationed its 45th Armour Brigade in Lithuania?
- 19:54SPEAKER_00: Did you know that?
- 19:55SPEAKER_00: That is a serious amount of troops.
- 19:58SPEAKER_00: Thousands of troops.
- 20:00SPEAKER_00: A huge amount of hardware.
- 20:02SPEAKER_00: In Lithuania,
- 20:04SPEAKER_00: because Lithuania hasn't got a strong enough military itself to defend the border.
- 20:09SPEAKER_00: That's what Germany says.
- 20:11SPEAKER_00: In fact, 3,000 German soldiers just did a live firing exercise right on the Russian border.
- 20:19SPEAKER_00: I mean, talk about poking the bear.
- 20:22SPEAKER_00: You could do that exercise elsewhere.
- 20:24SPEAKER_00: You don't need to do it right on the border there, but that's what happened.
- 20:28SPEAKER_00: Gosh, the wind is howling.
- 20:31SPEAKER_00: Absolutely howling right now and you'd have thought with all of that going
- 20:36SPEAKER_00: on maybe some of these countries would sort of reassess their situation.
- 20:41SPEAKER_00: That isn't what's happened.
- 20:42SPEAKER_00: In fact Germany just this week has made an announcement
- 20:46SPEAKER_00: that their new production facility which can create more
- 20:49SPEAKER_00: than 5,000 powerful Long range strike drones for Ukraine is operational.
- 20:56SPEAKER_00: They've got a range of 1500 kilometers and they will be fitted
- 20:59SPEAKER_00: with advanced AI capability,
- 21:02SPEAKER_00: including being able to avoid being shot down
- 21:06SPEAKER_00: and they can reach targets deep inside Russia.
- 21:10SPEAKER_00: I think we know what MERS of Germany is looking for.
- 21:13SPEAKER_00: I think we know the outcome that he wants here.
- 21:17SPEAKER_00: Now there's another really interesting report that I just read and it was from
- 21:22SPEAKER_00: the European Court of Auditors.
- 21:26SPEAKER_00: And this one was quite fascinating because it completely went against what
- 21:31SPEAKER_00: the EU is saying about their preparedness and NATO,
- 21:34SPEAKER_00: their preparedness for Russian conflict.
- 21:37SPEAKER_00: So let me read this to you then.
- 21:39SPEAKER_00: Can Europe actually fight and win this war if it comes down to it?
- 21:43SPEAKER_00: This is part of the executive summary.
- 21:45SPEAKER_00: Well, the answer is, if you want the answer, it's no, they said.
- 21:49SPEAKER_00: They said it's on track for defense readiness by 2030,
- 21:53SPEAKER_00: but they would not be able to withstand a Russian assault if it came before then.
- 21:58SPEAKER_00: So that is their assessment.
- 22:00SPEAKER_00: Of course,
- 22:01SPEAKER_00: the usual people disagreed with that and said, oh, well,
- 22:05SPEAKER_00: you know,
- 22:05SPEAKER_00: these mathematicians, etc.,
- 22:07SPEAKER_00: I think I'd rather believe the mathematicians than the people
- 22:11SPEAKER_00: who have got criminal convictions and happen to be MPs or members of
- 22:17SPEAKER_00: the European Parliament and other things.
- 22:19SPEAKER_00: The amount of corruption charges now, I've lost count.
- 22:24SPEAKER_00: I mean, even Dirty Sanchez's wife has got a...
- 22:28SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that has... Has she been convicted yet?
- 22:31SPEAKER_00: I know that it was going to be going to trial...
- 22:34SPEAKER_00: But the other thing the auditor said about the money is
- 22:36SPEAKER_00: that it's not being used efficiently and they didn't want to expand upon that.
- 22:42SPEAKER_00: Hmm, I wonder why.
- 22:43SPEAKER_00: I think we all know Why they didn't want to expand upon that,
- 22:48SPEAKER_00: because we know what's been happening with a lot of this money.
- 22:52SPEAKER_00: But another thing they said that concerned them was that 63% of the weapons
- 22:57SPEAKER_00: that are manufactured in Europe don't actually stay in Europe.
- 23:00SPEAKER_00: They're being sold to the United States,
- 23:03SPEAKER_00: which they,
- 23:05SPEAKER_00: I mean, I agree that they were baffled by that once they found out that statistic.
- 23:10SPEAKER_00: Why on earth would you Sell 63% of your weapons to the US if you're worried
- 23:16SPEAKER_00: that you're going to be in a big fight with Russia.
- 23:19SPEAKER_00: So yeah, overall their assessment was not great to put it lightly.
- 23:24SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
- 23:26SPEAKER_00: So that's you up to date then.
- 23:27SPEAKER_00: I think for now I'll give you another video this week.
- 23:31SPEAKER_00: Remember to check out the straw, the sleeping bag.
- 23:33SPEAKER_00: Look at that book I mentioned.
- 23:35SPEAKER_00: That's one thing I'm really enjoying at the moment is going through that book.
- 23:39SPEAKER_00: Dog Earring, a lot of those pages.
- 23:41SPEAKER_00: Because I think they'll be very, very useful.
- 23:44SPEAKER_00: So yeah, thanks for being a subscriber here.
- 23:46SPEAKER_00: Really appreciate you.
- 23:47SPEAKER_00: Take care.
- 23:48SPEAKER_00: God bless.
- 23:49SPEAKER_00: God bless your family.
- 23:50SPEAKER_00: And I will see you on the next video.
- 23:52SPEAKER_00: Bye for now.