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NATO Chiefs Latest Announcement Sends Shivers... · Neil McCoy-Ward Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: NATO Chief's latest announcement sends shivers down the spine.
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  SPEAKER_00: The NATO Chiefs had a meeting,
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  SPEAKER_00: let me throw on straight away the shared screen here because we've got so much
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  SPEAKER_00: to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the NATO Chiefs then had their meeting,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's all wrapped up now,
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  SPEAKER_00: it has all finished and they had a huge amount to say and There was so much actually
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  SPEAKER_00: that came out that I want to summarise their warnings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then I want to give you an update on what has happened in the last three days
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  SPEAKER_00: because it's been somewhat staggering,
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  SPEAKER_00: all of the developments just in the last three days that have actually taken place.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's start with what they said then.
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  SPEAKER_00: NATO's highest military authority,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Committee, met for the annual Military Committee Conference.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said NATO remains vigilant,
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  SPEAKER_00: it remains ready and NATO will do what is necessary to defend every inch
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  SPEAKER_00: of allied territory.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what did they announce then?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well they announced for the first time the requirements for civil preparedness
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  SPEAKER_00: and this has gone out to all NATO nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Point number one, this was to evacuate civilian populations out of crisis or conflict zones.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two,
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  SPEAKER_00: to manage a large number of casualties and maintain stocks of medicines,
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  SPEAKER_00: medical equipment and blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, ensure access to water, food and energy despite a prolonged crisis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Point number four, maintain communications and essential services as best as possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number five,
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  SPEAKER_00: simultaneously move civilian populations and military forces
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  SPEAKER_00: on constrained transportation networks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And point number six,
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  SPEAKER_00: ensure government continuity with chain of command succession plans
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  SPEAKER_00: and protected crisis centres.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's pretty clear what they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Getting everybody ready for at the moment then.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they talk about these succession plans,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think they're referring to what happens when certain leaders and generals,
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  SPEAKER_00: even leaders of countries, could even get taken out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which is absolutely crazy, but this is what they are preparing for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you didn't see,
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  SPEAKER_00: because I wasn't streaming all of last week,
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  SPEAKER_00: You can probably see I'm super jet-lagged,
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  SPEAKER_00: three flights,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I needed to get this stream out to give you all of this information.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you didn't see this just a few days ago,
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  SPEAKER_00: this was German hospitals are preparing for an influx of patients
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  SPEAKER_00: and will be treating thousands of wounded.
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  SPEAKER_00: This came out of Bloomberg.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it was reported that medical facilities in Germany are preparing for
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  SPEAKER_00: a Possible large-scale conflict within NATO,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Bundeswehr anticipates up to a thousand wounded per day,
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  SPEAKER_00: so hospitals are setting up shelters,
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  SPEAKER_00: stockpiling supplies, and lengthening defenses against drones.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all of this is happening right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all the people that tell you all the time,
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  SPEAKER_00: oh this is scaremongering,
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  SPEAKER_00: this isn't happening, There's not going to be any conflict.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not getting involved.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to tell them and share these videos about what is actually happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: But some of them are absurd.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of the things that are coming out in the announcements and
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  SPEAKER_00: the newspaper articles are absurd.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of them genuinely are trying to scare you.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's an example of one I saw that was genuinely just trying to scare people.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says,
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  SPEAKER_00: all the action you must take within 45 minutes of nuclear strike to
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's telling you all about a nuclear strike that is coming and how you're going
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  SPEAKER_00: to survive it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But another question that was coming in to me all of
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  SPEAKER_00: the last few days really was Neil, why are there jets all over the sky?
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  SPEAKER_00: So why is the UK Covered in military jets from every country right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of people were thinking,
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw it all over socials,
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  SPEAKER_00: that this big war has started and that all the jets were flying to bomb Russia
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  SPEAKER_00: and all the other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is actually not what is happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's actually taking place is a precursor to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's a NATO military exercise and it involves a lot of nations bringing their fighter jets.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought it was interesting how they Call it a major defensive exercise to defend the nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you look at the,
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  SPEAKER_00: and we'll bring it up in a second,
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  SPEAKER_00: or the aircraft,
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  SPEAKER_00: they're not defensive aircraft,
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  SPEAKER_00: they're bombers and fighter jets and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So exactly how they're going to defend is not quite clear, but this is the largest
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called Cobra Warrior 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's based at RAF Wellington near Lincoln and it's from now right through to the 2nd October.
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  SPEAKER_00: It involves aircraft from all sorts of countries,
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  SPEAKER_00: the UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and the US.
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  SPEAKER_00: Air Chief Marshal Sahave Smythe said Cobra Warrior gives us the opportunity
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  SPEAKER_00: to practice our response to aggression.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now here's the thing I find really bizarre about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's saying it gives us an opportunity to practice our response to aggression.
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  SPEAKER_00: You look at all the runs and they're talking about these bombing runs and these strikes.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're all long-range, not all, but a lot of them are long-range bombing runs.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if they're long-range bombing runs, it doesn't sound very defensive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, they'll say it's to defend by bombing, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is what is actually taking place.
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  SPEAKER_00: They say that they're using aggression to fight aggression,
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  SPEAKER_00: testing their defenses and ability to operate during the next real conflict.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you look at what's taking,
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  SPEAKER_00: in fact we've got a whole list,
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  SPEAKER_00: let me show you the list and you can see for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aircraft taking part,
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  SPEAKER_00: we've got a Typhoon,
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  SPEAKER_00: fighter jets basically,
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  SPEAKER_00: an F-35,
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  SPEAKER_00: an F-15E Strike Eagle,
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  SPEAKER_00: We got a P-8A Poseidon,
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  SPEAKER_00: Voyager Tanker Air Transport,
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  SPEAKER_00: we got the Airbus A-400,
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  SPEAKER_00: now some of these are transport like a C-17,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is a heavy transport,
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  SPEAKER_00: Lockheed MC-130, you got Chinook, Chinook Transport, Pretty heavy goods as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you've got all of these going on right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing that was announced,
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  SPEAKER_00: by the way,
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  SPEAKER_00: was the Swiss government has just signed off measures to tighten their security.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a big post on this if you're interested as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, Switzerland have also now jumped in amongst all of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, a couple of other stories...
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  SPEAKER_00: That I think you'll want to know about.
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  SPEAKER_00: European leaders prepare public for intensified threat.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what they are now saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: Germany is preparing hospitals.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know about that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: We talked about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lithuania has updated its evacuation plans.
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  SPEAKER_00: And NATO troops are now exercising in the Baltic region.
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  SPEAKER_00: We covered on the last video as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Belarusian forces are practicing their maneuvers.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've got tank divisions and all sorts near Lithuania.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also talked previously and if you haven't watched some of
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  SPEAKER_00: the previous videos they are really important that you watch them because it's not
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  SPEAKER_00: as if I cover as we're going along in each video so it's worth you going back
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  SPEAKER_00: and actually watching those videos to see how this is progressing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Polish Prime Minister gave a warning as well he said he expects this to start in
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  SPEAKER_00: the next few months Although,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure if you saw Emmanuel Macron,
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  SPEAKER_00: the French president, what he said just the other day over the weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: He actually summoned party leaders and even presidential candidates for 2027 for
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  SPEAKER_00: an emergency meeting on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was not just about the war with Russia-Ukraine
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  SPEAKER_00: and how he thinks they're going to get involved.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this was also about Iran and the energy crisis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now France is having a huge, huge problem at the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: A massive, massive energy crisis.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not really all over the media yet because
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  SPEAKER_00: within Europe they don't want everyone to know what is coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is going to be really, really severe.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's all around what I talked about previously with the refined fuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this isn't your Brent or Crude, it's actually the refined product.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your diesel,
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  SPEAKER_00: your jet fuel,
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  SPEAKER_00: even petrol to some regards,
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  SPEAKER_00: but you're going to see a big hit on diesel and jet fuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some places have already run out of diesel and I'm not saying that everyone's going
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  SPEAKER_00: to run out and it's going to be this massive issue but eventually
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  SPEAKER_00: if things don't correct then you could see a major major crisis,
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  SPEAKER_00: a major issue with diesel and diesel feeds into the whole supply chain as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quite interestingly all this talk about the jet fuel shortages and you know
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  SPEAKER_00: the conflicts and everything else I was just in Doha,
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  SPEAKER_00: Qatar over the weekend and so I flew from the Isle of Man to Ireland to Dublin and
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  SPEAKER_00: then from Dublin to Doha and then Doha to Bangkok and it was quite interesting
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  SPEAKER_00: in Doha because I checked the warnings
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  SPEAKER_00: and everything else beforehand funny enough it was my wife that wanted to go
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  SPEAKER_00: to Doha I said Are you sure?
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  SPEAKER_00: In Qatar, you seen what's going on?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, yeah, it's fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, we'll go.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it was quite interesting that the plane was pretty full going to Doha,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I didn't expect that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But going from Doha into Southeast Asia was almost empty.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's quite interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: The hotels as well were completely empty.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were so many options.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you...
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've ever seen when you book a flight.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as we were booking the flights,
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  SPEAKER_00: a pop-up came up and said,
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  SPEAKER_00: hey, would you like to stay in a five-star hotel for $40, $50 a night?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we were like, yeah, okay, why not?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's stay there for a night or two.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it was interesting being there because it was nothing like we've seen on the media.
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, BBC and some of the others, they don't tell you the truth anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it was nothing like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We went around for a weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Didn't see any issues, didn't see any fireworks in the sky as it were.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it was quite interesting to actually be on the ground and see what's happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Although they're not really majorly part of the conflict with Iran.
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  SPEAKER_00: It seems to have shifted now to Saudi and Saudi is getting hammered at the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I just thought I'd share that with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought you might find that interesting,
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  SPEAKER_00: what we're actually seeing with these different conflicts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know that Mark Rutte,
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  SPEAKER_00: the NATO head,
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  SPEAKER_00: is saying that what he's expecting to happen now is that As
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  SPEAKER_00: the conflict intensifies,
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  SPEAKER_00: he thinks that Russia's going to do a test,
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  SPEAKER_00: basically,
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  SPEAKER_00: Article 5 because he's saying Putin doesn't believe it's real and
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  SPEAKER_00: that people won't come to the rescue and everyone won't come together, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he thinks what's going to happen is China is going to take Taiwan at
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  SPEAKER_00: the same time and then Iran and the proxies are going to do some strikes and all
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  SPEAKER_00: the other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's quite interesting what he was talking about because it's definitely...
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  SPEAKER_00: And that would cause a real problem for the West if all of that did happen at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_00: It would be very interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the main thing that NATO are saying at the moment, the heads, is that this isn't years.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see how the timeline just keeps coming down.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't years now.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're saying it's months.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's why I wanted to get onto some of the...
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  SPEAKER_00: More propaganda sort of material that we're seeing.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, before we get on to that, I'll just finish off what Macron said.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said in recent weeks the threat has intensified and it's only a matter of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Finnish president told his country it was worth mentally preparing for something to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: German and Swedish forces just carried out exercises near Gotland.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was after NATO just carried out other exercises near Kaliningrad.
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  SPEAKER_00: And US intelligence reports said that Moscow is planning a limited assault on
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  SPEAKER_00: a NATO country very shortly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're saying this is why the CIA director flew to Russia to warn them against it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there was another thing that I think is worth you seeing at the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was, remember we keep talking about this event that's going to take place.
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  SPEAKER_00: This actually just happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was in the news.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is in the media.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not hidden away.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is in Russia.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is actually Moscow.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see what happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was a huge barrage of, and I'll show you exactly where this was, from the border here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is the Ukraine and the Belarusian border.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is how far those drones had to fly and missiles to hit the refinery.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was a staggering distance for them to get this far.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to talk about that for a moment as well because we kept hearing
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  SPEAKER_00: that I think it's kind of a bit like chess at the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is military strategy going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you saw all of these announcements,
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  SPEAKER_00: really heavy announcements, saying that Russia was about to cross the line.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we saw this last week.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said Russia's about to cross the line with a huge strike on Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it could even send drones into other European nations, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So we were hearing that all of last week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then yesterday, this was overnight, Ukraine actually sent the largest...
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever strike on Moscow,
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  SPEAKER_00: it was 160 drones and missiles,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it was absolutely,
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  SPEAKER_00: from what the reports say,
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  SPEAKER_00: a lot of them were intercepted,
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  SPEAKER_00: but a huge number of them actually took out this major refinery in Moscow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I thought to myself, is this going to be it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is this going to be Putin saying, right, absolutely, Give Ukraine a massive barrage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And is this what NATO were waiting for?
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  SPEAKER_00: So was it kind of a bait?
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  SPEAKER_00: Was it like, okay, let's do this massive strike and then Russia will do a massive strike back.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we can say, see, look what actually took place here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then this, is this the precursor for the next wave?
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  SPEAKER_00: That seems to be,
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  SPEAKER_00: it seems to be like this really big game of chess at the moment between how
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  SPEAKER_00: the axes are playing this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Again, we saw all of this coming out over.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: European spy chiefs warned that Moscow is planning more decisive action against NATO.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they raised the possibility of an imminent Russian test on NATO.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this was yesterday, just as Ukraine launched that huge missile strike.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will say,
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  SPEAKER_00: because One thing that you don't often see in the media is that some of
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  SPEAKER_00: the strikes are actually on apartment blocks and civilian infrastructure
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  SPEAKER_00: and civilian places as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's not just what you're seeing that Russia's doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's actually both ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to give you the unbiased facts here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's actually both ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't actually tell you that some of these strikes are on apartment buildings
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  SPEAKER_00: and residential areas where they're targeting Russian senior leadership and military
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  SPEAKER_00: and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I was reading some of these reports.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was children and all sorts caught in the last strike.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, you don't really see any of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's important that you know from both sides.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this was Robert Fico.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people always tell me that I pronounced his name wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is what he tweeted.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've just blown it up for you here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am not and never will be among those looking for a pretext for war between NATO and Russia.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said he respects the Czech president as a former NATO general and
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  SPEAKER_00: that he would like to fight.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would therefore appreciate it if he respects the fact that I prefer peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said he's always treated him with respect and due regard as the head of
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  SPEAKER_00: the Czech Republic and he often tends to comment on his work.
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  SPEAKER_00: This time he took issue with my position on attempts to provoke a military conflict
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  SPEAKER_00: between NATO and Russia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, it doesn't exactly talk about what was said or why,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I wonder if this is what I was just referring to.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what I'm kind of leading with here.
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  SPEAKER_00: He then talks about, as a general, he wants to fight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think he's correct in that, because that is what a general is trained for, is warfare.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he says, I hope he respects my commitment to peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he also sort of reiterated that there are other options around Article 5.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of other options.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said that...
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  SPEAKER_00: Several options for demonstrating solidarity.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's other things that can happen rather than just warfare.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now this is the sort of propaganda that I'm talking about with
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  SPEAKER_00: the BBC has started it very heavily now.
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  SPEAKER_00: A war may be coming, are we psychologically ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now this is a huge,
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  SPEAKER_00: look at the image as well,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is a huge article so I'm not going to read it all out or we'll be here for half
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  SPEAKER_00: an hour.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I did pull out a couple of key things and then I'll show you a couple of images
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  SPEAKER_00: that are interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a couple of the key points then.
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  SPEAKER_00: An army of 70,000 is simply not going to cut the mustard in the sort
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  SPEAKER_00: of war we're going to have to face.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was General Sir Richard Sherriff.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: He said,
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't see how we could generate the military capability needed without some form
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  SPEAKER_00: of a call-up.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: So, that's the first thing I want you to understand there,
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  SPEAKER_00: is that they are talking about a military call-up.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've talked a lot now,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've got email,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've got letter from the British Army,
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  SPEAKER_00: they've changed, they've completely changed the social contract that existed.
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  SPEAKER_00: How, you might ask.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wrote about this in my Friday newsletter.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not getting that, you can get the link below to get that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I wrote about how the contract has been betrayed by
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  SPEAKER_00: the British military ex-serving personnel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we signed a contract.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: I signed mine when I was 17 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's when I first signed that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you sign it to do your time and then you go on to the reserve.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what they've done now is they've said,
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  SPEAKER_00: well, we're going to recall soldiers up to 65 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's not what people signed up for.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: And you start to look into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, how can they do that when the law said this?
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well, they are the law.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: The government is the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: They change the law and therefore it becomes law.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's...
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely scandalous that they can do things like this.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Let me continue on.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said in terms of the call-up,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Norwegian model is the one that he thinks that we will adopt.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: So this is every school leaver, 16 years old, is registered for conscription.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: I've got to show you this.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: I've got to get it on screen or you're not going to believe it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every school...
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's registered for conscription.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says it there.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: And they go and do a year's training, after which they go on to university, etc, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what he is saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just can't believe this.
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  SPEAKER_00: The case has to be made honestly by political leaders who must really look
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  SPEAKER_00: the population in the eye and say this has got to be done for us to be secure.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's all a lie.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: They're just making this stuff up.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you need to be secure?
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: You mind your own business.
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  SPEAKER_00: You strengthen your own defenses.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: You strengthen your own economy.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: You don't weaken it.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: The economy is getting weaker and weaker and weaker by the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The military is weak.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've done this to themselves, in effect.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: And they're saying the way to strengthen this is to get all the school leavers and
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: to get the old...
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, ah, what are you doing there?
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: So you're taking the young men And you're taking the older men.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: So all the men with the military experience, you're going to take them, okay.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: And then all the young, fit fighting men out of school, you're going to take them.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: This is a very interesting strategy.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: I wonder what the idea of this is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then everyone else is going to be conscripted and have training and all the rest of it.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Seems very unusual.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Now the other thing I wanted to show you
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: So this is the professor who's in the article.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: He said, the belief that we are under threat is key, says the psychologist Jim Orford.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: He's the professor of clinical and community psychology at the University of Birmingham.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is what I call simplistic thinking.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: In order to contemplate the possibility of going to war, we've got to think in simplistic terms.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: In terms of enemies and heroes, we've got to think of Russia as an enemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: The narratives are all simplified.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: Where did he get this from?
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: Huh, I wonder.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is the Influence Wargaming Handbook.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the Ministry of Defence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is big, let me just tell you.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't even read the whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so large.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is what it's all about.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's war gaming and how to prepare everyone.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I thought it was interesting that you never see white men like this on the BBC.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, wow, they've started putting white men in all of these military...
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Articles and posts and all the other things.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: Fascinating.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: But I thought, that's not very diverse, is it?
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: So what I did for you all is I just updated this slightly so that you can, there we go.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: We're getting this a bit more diverse.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: We've got some more diversity coming in here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go, a little bit more.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then of course,
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: we cannot forget We've got to get this chap in with his makeup and lipstick.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we've updated that for the BBC just so that,
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: you know, they make sure they hit their diversity quota there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so how do you actually prepare people to accept a war then?
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: How do you get them to accept a war?
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: Well, this is all textbook really.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: You designate an enemy, you know, Invasion is going to be an invasion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be a direct threat.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's not years anymore.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's months.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: You transform the conflict now into a moral battleground.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's all about good versus evil.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: And this goes on and on and on.
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  SPEAKER_00: You get the budgets ready.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: You prepare the civilians.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: You tell them to prepare for 72 hours of a crisis.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: You prepare the youth.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: You have a target of youth that are going to be trained.
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  SPEAKER_00: You start to get into the schools.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: You talk of sacrifice and sacrifice for one's country to protect the children.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all about safeguarding the children.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you show your strength by showing that you're willing to fight.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: Ah boy.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: Now this isn't really a shock because if we look at Do you recall the global risk landscape?
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  SPEAKER_00: This was from the Global Risk Report 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we talked about the two highest risks here.
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  SPEAKER_00: One was a geoeconomic confrontation and the other was armed conflict.
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  SPEAKER_00: So combining these together, you've got 32% risk, which is pretty much where we are now.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: We're at this 32% risk scale.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: And what have we seen?
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_00: So we've got Germany preparing 1,000 wounded soldiers a day.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: We've got Poland and Lithuania working on mass evacuation, possible conflict now.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: Sweden and Germany are rehearsing the deployment of 1,500 troops to Gotland.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finland is getting its population ready.
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  SPEAKER_00: Latvia is getting ready.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: Switzerland just did their new response strategy.
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  SPEAKER_00: The UK is preparing the population.
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  SPEAKER_00: Luxembourg is preparing
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  SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: And the Liberal Democrats in the UK,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you're not from the UK,
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  SPEAKER_00: that's one of the political parties,
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  SPEAKER_00: they have called for an emergency register right now.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: So they want all civilians to sign up to this emergency register to show
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  SPEAKER_00: that they are willing to fight and lay down their life for the country.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that interesting from that political party?
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, very, very good.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, wow, wow, what a crazy one.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: All the way from NATO's latest announcements, getting everybody ready.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's just bizarre.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: They said they're going to do whatever is possible,
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  SPEAKER_00: but right now they're focused on the evacuation of,
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: this is their current focus,
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  SPEAKER_00: evacuation of civilian populations out of crisis or conflict zones.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's what they're working on now.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gents, we have, how have we got to this point, hey?
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's only a matter of time now.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: They're saying it was years.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: Now they're saying it's months.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: So you've got months to prepare for this.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's what they're telling you.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: My goodness.
• 27:32
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