The Duran Podcast - Let's talk about some news (Live)

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

Let's talk about some news (Live)

All right. We are live. Yes, we are live with Alexander Mercuris in London. Alexander, how are you doing today? I'm doing very well in these extraordinary times. I mean, certainly, certainly events are moving so quickly and in such incredible ways that it keeps us all very busy. Let me put it that way. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. Let me just check to make sure we are indeed. live, Alexander. As I check to make sure that we're live, what is going on in the world? Is there anything happening in the world, Alexander? Well, I think what we're now seeing is a moment. It's an extraordinary moment because suddenly the people, the good people of Europe, what is it the good people, you understand, I'm talking ironically, the leaders of Europe have begun, I think, to wake up to the extent of their own.

own folly. They're not prepared to draw any lessons from it, but they suddenly realize that they're now utterly dependent, dependent in ways that would have been astonishing once upon a time, upon the United States. They have no armies to speak of. Their economies are falling apart. They're nowhere in the technological race. And they're finding that all sorts of things are happening around the world. And they are beginning, I think, to realize that. Because now they're confronting the United States. They have no cards to play, as we discussed in the program that we did yesterday, which

appeared yesterday. And beyond that, not only do they have no cards to play, but they have no way back. And I'm going to say something. I was thinking about this whole business agreement. And it's very strange how in the United States there's been no pushback really against it. There's all sorts of people who are talking about how wrong it is and you still get articles and like that. But where are the protests say outside the White House? Where are the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people pouring out onto the streets in Washington to protest this latest wickedness by Donald Trump?

It isn't there. And I wonder whether one of the reasons is that deep down, many people in the US, including in the deep state, have come to the same conclusions that we came to long ago, which is that Europe is a ball and chain on the United States, that the time has come to start to cut this link. And the whole Greenland business is about that. Not so much as a pretext to cut the link, but if you are going to start a pullback from Europe and you're going to start to concentrate on your own hemisphere, you need to control in order to make your own borders secure. You need if you're the United States to control the North Atlantic. And how do you do that by controlling Greenland? That Greenland is essential for US security.

in that it denies access to the Russians, ultimately, it denies them access to the North Atlantic, at least to their surface fleet. So I wonder whether this is what this is all about, not perhaps on Trump's side, but why the response in the US itself is so muted. And coming back to Europe, I mean, I had a very interesting email from someone

who made the point, yes, you know, we're behind it practically every single. area of technology, but that he said lithography. Europeans are still very good at lithography. ASML machines are made in the Netherlands. But just think, just think that through. If ASML machines are made in the Netherlands, why is the production of high-end chips

taking place in South Korea and Taiwan? Why did we not use that technology and all the information we have. Why did we not set up production of high-end chips in Europe? Why didn't Germany, which is close to the Netherlands, work with the Netherlands, to center high-end chip production in Germany? Back in the 60s, the Germany, I remember, would have done it.

Today's Germany never thought of doing it, because they were entirely focused on making the same old machines and tools and consumer goods, the Niver creams and the Volkswagens and the Porsches that they've always made, and they just go on reproducing the same products. Year after year, they had no real interest in developing the kind of high-end, high-chip industry that Taiwan had. Just imagine if they take a... in a different course if in the 1990s

and the 2000s, they'd done the kind of thing that Taiwan did. How much stronger Europe's position would be? Just imagine if they'd kept the energy flows from Russia and had been quarreled with the Russians.

We would be in a completely different geopolitical universe as between Europe and the United States. Well, we are where we are. brought this on ourselves. Yeah, well, they did none of that. They used to have social networks in

Europe as well. I remember when all the social networks were coming up like MySpace and all of that stuff was starting up. Europe had social networks. Yes, yes. But they all shut down as well. They were all left to wither away.

The EU regulated the amount of existence. Yeah, or yeah, I was going to say that. Exactly. They would go to the US, eventually, as they hit as they hit a critical mass they would then go to silicon valley they would get the bc funding and then they were either bought out by by other uh tech companies or or they uh wowed down but they always would make the move to silicon valley because there was no uh no investment money in in europe it was it was overregulated and there was no investment capital exactly

in europe exactly and as far as a sml goes um china and and russia and other countries will will eventually get there. Well, absolutely. The Chinese have built their first machine, their first big high-end lithography machine. It's about the size of a factory, apparently. It's far less efficient than the ones that ASML built. But it's the first, and they will perfect the technology,

and they will sort out the lithography aspects. They will get the mirrors and all of these things. They will reproduce. And the Russians, too, by the way. And anybody who thinks otherwise simply does not know these countries or the extent of their science and technology and industrial base. Yeah. So Europe's plan over the past five, five years was to plunder and pillage Russia.

Yeah. That's all. That was how they were going to stay afloat. They fell behind just about everything. And the plan was. Yes. And Biden strung them along. and pitch the plan to them.

Don't worry. Sanctions on Russia. Three months collapse. Putin's gone. Then all of us can move in and plunder Russia. That was what they went with. And now the Trump administration is walking all of that back. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, it's got the Europeans where the U.S. has the Europeans where it wants. And it's now coming after them.

Now they're on the menu. They're not at the table. on the menu. Yeah. And I was thinking about this morning. The acceleration for Greenland from the Trump administration, a lot of it is coming from Trump's failure with Project Ukraine. I think we mentioned this in a video that we recorded.

The fact that Trump did not defeat Russia and defeat Putin, and he tried, his entire first year was dedicated to delivering either a strategic defeat to, to Russia or to get Russia into agreeing to a Minsk 3. That was his entire first year. Exactly. He couldn't do it. And I actually believe that his Hail Mary pass, the Deep State, the CIA, the Trump administration, whether he knew or he didn't know, that doesn't matter.

I think the Hail Mary pass that they tried to make in order to deliver a defeat to Russia and to Putin was the Novgorod drones. Excellent. Absolutely. And when that failed, when that Hail Mary failed, we saw a big acceleration on the whole Greenland thing. And it's the Trump administration. It's the Trump White House saying, you know what? Keith Kellogg couldn't deliver. The Europeans couldn't deliver. Yes. So instead of having a huge Afghanistan times 100 debacle.

Yes. Let's focus on Greenland. we did this Maduro kidnapping thing. We're emboldened by that. Now let's focus on Greenland. Whatever's going to happen in Ukraine is going to happen. Europe can take the defeat and we can walk away with this with a big chunk of territory.

I completely agree. I think it was the last big throw. It was take Putin out. If that doesn't work, we've got to start thinking about other things. I would just add to that, by the way, and this is absolutely complimentary to the point you've made, which is that I think the other thing that has affected American policy over the last year, and especially of the last few months, is the realization of how weak their allies in Europe actually are, that the United States cannot delegate Project Ukraine to Europe, that the Europeans

aren't able to conduct Project Ukraine by themselves. They don't. have the means to financially, militarily, technologically, industrially, that all the talk about build-ups and increases in defense spending and ramping up a production has no reality behind it. I think this is something that even people in the Pentagon, even hardliners in the Pentagon, have understood, and rather than have to take on the Russians, the United States, by itself, which is effectively, what it would have to do if things were prolonged in Europe. And at the same time as they're worried about China and Middle East

and all of these places, what they're saying to themselves is, well, we're going to get Greenland. We're going to stick into the Europeans. But we now have this shield. Because we've seen that our European so-called allies are completely useless and they're unable to do anything, anything at all without us.

Yeah. And even with the United States, they were not able to do it. No, no. They tried everything. And in Trump's first year, he tried it all. He tried the weapons escalation. He flirted with the tomahawks thing. He tried all the sanctions that he could in secondary sanctions.

Yes, yes. And attacking energy infrastructure. And they eventually even went for the big one, which is to go into Valdei with the drones. And it all failed. It all failed. And I think now it's plan B or plan C or whatever you want to call it. Let's pick up Greenland and at least where we're walking away with something.

Exactly. That's exactly right. I think that's exactly where we are. Yeah. So, well, first let me say hello to everyone that is watching us. So hello to everyone that is watching us on all the platforms. A big shout out to the Durand.com. A big shout out to our moderators.

in the YouTube chat. Hello to everyone that's watching us on Rumble and Odyssey and Rafid and of course YouTube. Hello, Zarael, who I can see is moderating today. And Alexander, before we get to the questions from the chat, what do you think is going to happen in Davos? Ursula is going to be speaking today. Trump is slated to speak tomorrow. Thursday, Trump would like a signing of the Board of Peace.

A lot of countries have been invited to the board of peace, Russia, China, Belarus, from what I understand. Macron has turned it down. Yes. All emotion. All emotion. Macron turns it down. Obviously, the Board of Peace is being positioned as a replacement to the UN. I don't think that's anything secret or anything like that. So that's pretty much the big itinerary, the big schedule for Davos.

It was going to be about Project Ukraine, Davos, but now it's going to take. be all about Greenland. What are your thoughts? Is Trump going to fold? Is he going to flip-flop? Because that is the short-term strategy of the Europeans. They're talking about retaliation. The trade bazooka and the $93 billion retaliatory tariffs and all of these things.

They're even talking about ditching U.S. treasuries. They're even talking about stuff like that. But they have said, let's first. try to discuss things with Trump, try to talk to Trump. Stamer is making statements about discussing things with Trump. You have Mark Ruta saying that he's going to be speaking with Trump. You even have Macron, a leaked message from Trump, from Macron, where Macron is saying, let's get a meeting together.

I'll even invite Zelensky and I'll invite Russia and we'll have a dinner in Switzerland or something like that. And Trump leaked that message. There is a possibility that Trump could post something on. truth social and say we're all good and I love the Europeans. Then again, you always run into the problem that the next day, Trump may wake up when he's back in D.C. and say, you know what, I changed my mind. I do want to go after Greenland again. I mean, with Trump, you never know, but how do you see this unfolding over the next? Well, I think that any idea that Davos is going to be some great

high noon event when it's going to be decided make or break between, you know, Trump, Trump, either going one way or Trump going the other way is wrong because you're absolutely right. Trump might agree with Macron, Stama Mautz, Ursula and all of the others. He's done this many times and we might have a few weeks of

relative stability which will full many Europeans and you'll get the usual articles and commentaries that Trump has finally seen the light about Putin and all of that. But the iron rule is that Trump will eventually

revert back to the policies that he's followed over the last week. Now, I personally don't think that that is what is going to happen. I think Trump has taken the measure of the Europeans. I think he's absolutely committed to his Greenland policy. I think if the Europeans try and talk him out of it, all it's going to do is going to make him even more angry and even more angry with them. I think that more likely than not, he's going to stick to what he's proposing over Greenland. And I think it'll be the Europeans who will move. I think when they realise that Trump is immovable on this and is determined to get Greenland, they will move heaven and earth to try and satisfy him.

They will start putting pressure on Fredrickson. They will tell her the future of project Ukraine. NATO are too sacred to be sacrificed on the author of 57,000 people in Greenland who are basically all about fish. We've got to think about more important things. They will put pressure on her. They'll tell her, find some we mean some way of legally and gracefully giving it to Trump, 800, whatever, billion, whatever it was.

Don't we forget about that. make it one or two or five or ten billion, whatever it is that Trump will agree to pay, but give him Greenland. If you were watching Kirstama's press conference in London, you could see that that is the ultimate direction of travel. I mean, he was, he obviously doesn't really care about Greenland. He wants to keep project, I mean, Project Ukraine is what you.

really cares about it's not greenland and he exactly he's not good he doesn't want to quarrel with trump in fact i could even go further and say they'll say to trump look you're going to have greenland but recommit to use lendsky recommit to ukraine uh give the ukrainians the security guarantees that's the kind of quid pro quo that i can see the ukrainians uh pushing for the europeans pushing for stama pushing for And if they get that, you see from Trump, they'll be really very, very happy. Of course, it solves nothing. The Russians will never accept the kind of proposals that these people are talking about.

And sooner or later, Trump will walk all that back. But that, I suspect, is what we're going to see them trying to do in Davos. Greenland is lost. I think some people understand that. And that's, I think, what they will do. Very quickly, very quickly say, by the way, that, Starmes press conference was a disaster in British political terms. One commentator who writes to the Guardian, John Crace,

said that it sounded like a barrister telling his client that they've just lost the appeal and appeal on the death sentence. So, I mean, that's what it sounded like. Very, very true. Very true. It was obvious that Stammer's ready to. to give greenland over i agree with you i think i think you nailed it i think the the stammer merts wing of things is and the route i think these guys are going to sit with trump and say look yeah greenland take

it but just give security guarantees to ukraine and trump might actually do it he might say okay i'll give them some security guarantees but then you're also right in a couple of weeks he'll walk all of that back exactly yeah yeah i think uh that that that could be a possible outcome for damas. All right, let's get to some questions. Haruko, thank you for that super chat. Nikos says, in your latest video, you said that Europe is allowed to escalate by Russia. The U.S. is backing them with intelligence and its military network. Recently, President Putin had successes by brokering a non-aggression pact between Israel and Iran and indirectly calling out Trump for his actions. Putin is in no mood.

to negotiate anymore, and he's tearing Ukraine apart. However, Trump knows that making leaders look weak destroys people's trust. He seized 12 ships, both Russian and Chinese. So I ask again, has Trump succeeded in destroying Putin and Xi's legacy and people's trust as leaders? My follow-up question, well, answer that, and I'll give you Nickas' follow-up question. Well, the straightforward answer is no. I mean, I mean, I can't speak about C.

And of course, opinion polls on the conventional sense don't exist in China, at least not that I'm aware of. But if you look about Russia, I mean, Putin's overall popularity remains extremely high. I mean, it's been completely undented by this. And the political class is still absolutely loyal and supportive of him. I don't think that the political class sees him as weak. they might disagree with aspects of his diplomatic

policy. I mean, they do. I mean, you can clearly see that there are some people like Medvedev, for example, who clearly are saying, well, you know, we wasted so much time with the Americans and what have we achieved as a result of it. But I don't

get the sense that there's any real serious questions in Russia about Putin. I've seen no sign of that at all. And if we're talking about C, he hasn't come across as weak over the last year relative to the United States. He's come across as strong. When there was the meeting, the recent meeting in South Korea, strange how quickly people forget about this. After, you know, the last big trade conflict with the Americans, when the Chinese started to interrupt exports of rare earths, it was the Americans who came to heal.

And the dynamics of that meeting clearly show that it was see who was in the ascendancy and Trump who was more submissive. So I don't think that in either country, the credibility or the legacy of the leaders there has been dented or affected in any significant way in any way, for that. Nico says my follow-up question, what can Russia and China do? They can't destroy the U.S. network without going into nuclear war. So how do they survive this? By getting stronger, which is what they're doing. I mean, we come back to a point which has been made now by several people. Gordon Hahn has done it recently, which is that Russia's military today

operates and functions on a completely different scale for what was the case five years ago. And not just it's military, but its entire industry, industrial complex, it's science and technology base. I mean, they have been transformed and massively strengthened by the war. The same is true in a different way of China. But for China, they're building up their navy. They're becoming more, they're extending their reach in the Pacific. And of course, they continue to build their own alliance.

and their own networks of friends. They've expanded bricks and all of that. That doesn't mean that there aren't going to be reverses or setbacks and even defeats from time to time. I mean, it happens because that's history. But the direction of travel for the moment, for these two countries, which to remember again are not seeking war with the United States.

I mean, that would make no sense for them. But in terms of securing their economic and political sovereignty and their economic interests is moving in their direction. Klimp I said, as a Dane, I have seen the Prime Minister standing and practically worshipping Zelensky instead of focusing on domestic problems, embarrassing. Yes, I agree. We've discussed this powerfully, I think, in our last program, the big program we did about this. And I mean, I've touched on this in my channel programs, and my channel, Alex on his. I absolutely agree. We are in the West, in Europe, not in the West, in Europe.

We are in the Great of an obsession. What are 20 sanctions packages, if not first and foremost, evidence of an obsession? Why is Europe allowing these, these, small Baltic countries or callous who represents this ideology of Estonia and of these countries. Why are we letting them take Europe into the abyss? I cannot understand that. This is one of the things that I find very, very difficult to explain,

how it has come about that the Baltic states and a certain community of people in Poland who are far from representative, because I know a bit about Poland, I know a lot about Poland, far from representative of the totality of Polish opinion, why these people have been allowed to exercise this disproportionate influence over European policy is a question that demands an answer. Well, I think part of the reason is that their obsessions chime with obsessions that you will find in other places, within the European Commission itself, within sections of German society, which I have to say shocked me.

And as we've spoken many times, within Britain as well. And Britain, even if it's left the European Union formally, still exercises great influence there. And is, of course, still in NATO. Fuzzy ball says, Macron talking about matching the originics, but one problem, China won't give them rare earths. How is France going to get their refined rare earths? Good question. I mean, excellent question.

I think you should ask Macron. Magic is up. You know, he's a man of infinite resource. He can probably find a solution conjured out of thin air. I mean, it's a fan. You're quite right, by the way. I mean, what you're describing, what Macron is talking about is a fantasy.

As Alex pointed out in the program that we did, France has no hypersonic missile. And they're going to go from a situation of no itasonic missiles all the way in one jump to producing a system like the irasional. We said it in a video about a week ago that Macron is leaving anyway. Who cares what Macron says? He's gone in a year and he's going to get an appointment to be the chair of whatever, I don't know, the IOC or the IMF or maybe even the European Commission. Who knows? Maybe they'll take Ursula and put her somewhere and give Macon.

under the EC. Who knows what's going to happen to Macron, but he is Audi 5,000 in the year. And you know what? Even Trump said it yesterday. Yes. Even Trump said it when they brought up the whole board of peace and how Macron snubbed him on the board of peace.

Trump said 200% tariffs on wine and champagne. And you know what? I couldn't care less because Macron is leaving in a year anyway. Quite. Even Trump said it. Yeah, exactly. Macron is saying whatever comes to his mind as his eye is just flaring up. And he's looking like Terminator.

He's saying whatever he needs to say. He's gone in a year. And he knows it. Desabal Vavo says, hi, Alex, greetings from Romania. When will you come to Bucharest for a walk and talk? If you need a guide, I'm happy to help. Thank you very much. And I do plan to be in Bucharest soon.

So you will see me in Bucharest very soon, hopefully. Great. Cheers. Beautiful city I've heard, by the way. Beautiful city. city that I know very well, actually, have been to book I'd asked many, many times, and I love it. Gio Stone says, what policy have you seen that best boost child birth rates from around the world? China and Western had the worst birth rates since the 1940s in 2025?

It is a massive problem everywhere, and nobody has yet come up with a solution. I think the best explanation for this is that people, are having children much older than they used to. I mean, I can remember when I was at school, a long time ago, the people used to have children in their early 20s. Now most are families, middle-class families, but not even middle-class families, throughout demographics, they usually postpone having children until their 30s.

And if you do that, then you don't have the time to have a second and third child beyond it, which is why I think the single biggest reason by birth rates have fallen. So unless somebody is able to address this, and it's both caused by economic pressures, and it may also be, and this is a difficult thing to discuss and to understand, a lifestyle choice for many people, but until and unless people find a way of addressing this question,

then, as I said, we're going to be stuck with very low birth rates. And it's going to start affecting everybody. And immigration is not a long term or a good solution. If that's a very problematic solution. And it perhaps also, to the extent that people think it's a solution, it diverts attention from addressing the problem. Elsa says what the Europeans should have learned so far, if they cry wolf, I mean Russia, China, peace deal Trump might come for their territory,

and he'll do that just for security reasons. Absolutely. I mean, people are talking about various places. I mean, I've even heard, I've even read half jocularly suggestions that he might come for Scotland. I don't think he'll come for Scotland. But Iceland potentially is an obvious next. step because Greenland, beyond Greenland, there is Iceland. Iceland as a big place, strategically located, lots of resources, very high living standards.

It's independent. It's got a very, very long history, but the population there is very small. Sparky says, when Danes show up to Greenland in long ships, blaring ride of the Valkyrie out of their loud speakers while wearing iron helmets with horns, surely the US military. were backed out from intimidation. Oh, of course. I mean, you know, they will turn down and flee all the way back to the United States. I mean, they can't take on the Vikings. That goes without saying.

Elsa says when Ursula is talking about international law, does she also refer to her own morality? That would explain a lot. Well, it would. West Wolf Esquire says Europe needs to go all in if it wants to save Greenland. They need to be prepared to fight American service. women and men, black-draped coffins coming home is the only thing that will make Americans care. I absolutely agree. But of course, if they do that, that will be the end effectively of NATO. And that's the one thing they don't want. And it'll also be the end of Ukraine.

And that's something they want even less. I don't think Europe can. Can Europe be here do that? I don't think they can't really. I mean, politically it's impossible, but militarily, for Europe to fight the United States. Again, Americans, people who live in the United States, I don't think understand how weak our militaries in Europe now are. I read an extraordinary statistic just before we started doing this program, which is that on any one year, the British military, the British army, which is all of 74,000 men, fires, sacks 1,000. of those 74,000 men because they're taking drugs. They're found taking drugs, just to say. So, I mean, it's a deeply demoralized, very unbalanced, very small military in Britain. And in Europe, the situation is worse still.

And there's no realistic way of changing or turning that round. We're still having Britain some very, very good special forces. But, I mean, that's about five, six thousand men altogether. Would they fight for Greenland? I mean, really? No. Would the British fight militarily fight for Greenland? No. Would the Germans militarily fight for Greenland?

No. The Greeks, the Romanians? No. No. No way. I mean, I'll speak for Britain. I think that there is absolutely no possibility that British soldiers would, and British society would support having British soldiers fight American soldiers in Greenland to defend Greenland. I mean, it is absolutely out of the country.

question. People might not like Donald Trump, which they don't, by the way, here, but they might disagree profoundly with what he's doing in Greenland. But there is absolutely no way the British society would support a fight of that kind with the United States. Yeah. Look, the one move that Greenland could have, that Denmark could have made for Greenland, which is probably too late now, it's definitely too late now. It was exactly what you said, Alexander. Fredrickson should have called a referendum back in January. back in February. Yes.

And given the people of Greenland, the ability to decide their future, whatever choice they made, once that decision was made in a referendum, internationally monitored, it would have made it extremely difficult. Yes. For the United States to make a move.

Yes, I agree. Yeah. Rockabilly, thank you for that super chat. Sol Goodman, welcome to the Drand community. Elliot TZP, given the recent testing earthquake in Dimona, can Iran and Russia at least sign a nuclear

only mutual defense pact to prevent Israel from doing the unthinkable? I mean, what I think you're suggesting is that Iran essentially accept the Russian nuclear umbrella, which in theory

might be possible. I'm not sure what the Russians would think about that, but I can imagine that, that in time they might agree. But again, that depends on Iran. Iran has been very, very unwilling to trusted security to third parties up to now, and certainly not to Russia, with which, as I've discussed in many places, many times,

it's had a complex and very difficult history. I did a program with Zarayel, which I think is either on locals or shortly on locals, in which I discussed this history. and how it goes all the way back to the 19th and 18th centuries and continue during the Iraq-Iran war when Russia, Soviet Union, armed Saddam Hussein. West Wolf Esquire, Zaryl, if you can place a link to that program in the chat, that would be cool. West Wolf Esquire says, American friends,

feel free to correct me, but unless there is a cost to the U.S., I simply can't see Americans caring much about Greenland one way or another. Yeah, I'm sure you. you're right? I've no doubt you're right. I mean, I think if Americans saw American soldiers coming back in body bags because there's a fight over Greenland, I agree that would be an extraordinary moment in the US and it would be a galvanising moment. It is quite likely that at that point, opposition to Trump would grow. But it's the other side of the picture. What Alex said, In Europe, they will never do this.

European society would never agree to fight the United States. Tristan 9519. IRE UK rely on Denmark for LNG. Is this why Stammer is with Denmark on Greenland? UK Ireland need USLNG, supplies Russia gas turned off. Is UK screwed? Well, absolutely. I mean, we've discussed this already.

We just do this in the program. It's extraordinary that there is no discussion in the British media about Europe's dependence on the United States for LNG. There has been an extraordinary silence about the whole energy issue altogether. The fact that we have the highest energy costs, Europe has the highest energy costs in any economic region on Earth, the fact that it's linked to the decisions that would made in February 2020 over. of stopping imports of Russian gas, which have been followed up with further and further sanctions packages, restricting imports of energy from Russia.

This is never a topic that is discussed, nor is it discussed today, the extent to which Europe has become dependent on imports of LNG from the United States. And it's something that there seems to be a actual policy. I mean, it's the only word I can think of what to describe it, not to talk about this. But it is, ultimately, the big card that Trump can play. And he has it. He knows it. There's other things they can do. There's many other things the Americans can do as well. They have all the

cards in this conflict. But that is the biggest and the most obvious one. Alan Elias, welcome to the Drand community. Pinto Raoul says, to maximize its global influence, a unified Europe must first secure its eastern flank by reconciling with Russia, which eventually will happen. Yeah, well, yeah, but when? And by whom? By Kayakales, by Macron, by these people, by Stama, none of these people are going to do it. I mean, that's the reality. I can imagine Maloney coming round to that view and making an effort, because to be, to be said, frankly, compared to all of the other European leaders, she is an

intellectual and political colossus, which isn't saying very much. I could just about imagine Maloney you know, trying to do this, but none of the others are going to. Impossible. Orban. Orban.

Don't never let it. Exactly. Exactly. But they can't do this by themselves. Yeah. Ben Lynn says Trump said Greenland, Panama, Canada would be U.S. Yeah. I mean, look, look, there's a good example because Kani, absurdly late in the day, is now trying to make up with China.

And he's obviously trying to do it because of these pressures from the U.S. Again, thanks to Justin Trudeau, if anything, the political leader of the last 20 years who I get most angry about, Canada is in a much weaker position than it should ever have been. But at least Kani has that understanding that no real leader in Europe has. He's trying to make up with China.

Of course, he won't do it with Russia, though. Yeah, Sparky says, I recall the UK getting into personal computers early on with an entrepreneur named Sinclair. As a result, the UK produced many computer programmers whom the US pilfered as if they were RADA actors. Yes, I remember it well. I remember Clive Sinclair very well.

The key thing to understand about Clive Sinclair is that to the extent that he got support from the British government, it was chaotic, disorganized and done without conviction. The United States does get support. He gets support from its financial system, from its enormous liquidity within its economy, from the fact that there's a willingness to take risks in the United States, but also there is support from the U.S. government, which simply does not exist to anything like the same extent in any European country. From Josie S. Good day, Alex and Alexander. Question one, we know what the EU-UK.

Leaders have been doing since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict? But have they done anything meaningful for Europe and the world before the conflict. More importantly, what do you think they will do after the conflict is hopefully resolved? Thank you. Well, they've not done anything before and they're not going to do very much after. Once the conflict is ended, and it has to be ended now on Russian terms, I think anybody who has any objective awareness of the facts can imagine any other way that this conflict ends. what the Europeans are still going to try and do is to keep up the undeclared war that they have against Russia. I say undeclared war, the chairman of the Latvian Central Bank,

another of the key decision makers in Europe nowadays, because we've discussed the disproportionate influence that the Baltic states have. He's actually said that we are in a state of undeclared war with Russia at this present time. Yeah, war with Russia, war with Russia, war with the war with the war. United States, war with China. Absolutely. Let me a break. Sangeva says...

Even India, even India, I was reading about a quarrel that's now taking place between Poland and India. Poland quarreling with India. And what is it all about? It's about Russia and Ukraine again. Sanjava says, Alex and Alexander, did you see the text that Emmanuel Macron has sent Trump? Macron agrees with the U.S. going on the rampage around the world, but just not in Europe,

apparently, but Trump published the text, which is humiliating. Yes, absolutely. Yes, we did. Yeah. Bruno, Bruno Raid, thank you for that super chat. Sean Hurl says, Shirley Greenland equals the final nail in international law, etc. International law. Who cares about that anymore? At least, when we talk about international law, I mean, it's important to understand

that the collective West, as it used to be called, turned against international law long ago. The key moment was the bombing of Yugoslavia. Of Yugos, exactly. And Tony Blair's incredible speech that he gave in Chicago. That was the moment when they turned their back on international law. Yeah, exactly. Sangeva Duran, you said all those years ago that Kurds will be betrayed by the USA

and advised them to rather put their lot in with the Russians. You are proven correct now. Yes, we did. We did. We did. Many, many years ago, Sanjali, we talked about the Kurds and that they will be betrayed. Yes.

And they have been betrayed. Absolutely. Yeah. Fuzzy Ball says EU leader surprised Trump hates them. Stammer sent labor members to America to campaign against them. Mirzalah Macron publicly spoke against him. and failed Mar-a-Lago attempt was connected to Ukraine. Yes.

I mean, you're completely correct. Why the Europeans think that they could delete the memory of all of that? I really don't know. I mean, Trump is a man who is well known for remembering such things. Josie says question two. Would you consider inviting a specialist to analyze a psychological health of EU-UK leaders? Their pathological lies about what's happening in Ukraine, as well as the distorted understanding of democracy and free speech have become normalized.

I'm sure they know they are being dishonest. Another symptom is their pathological obsession with Russia. Do you think their behavior is healthy? No, I don't think it's healthy. I don't think we need an expert to tell us that. I think their actions and their deeds and their words, by the way, make it already pretty clear. Just saying. From Kalin Kulinau, I think losing Greenland would be the ultimate slap in the face for Europe.

Will it wake up Europe and help to replace current crop of inept leaders? Well, it might achieve the second in time. I mean, the leaders of Europe are in looking utterly humiliated. They're looking weak. They're looking. It's going to be very difficult eventually to conceal from the European public's the extent to which they're trapped inside an obsession, which is their obsession with Russia. But it is not going to make this collection of leaders change their approach.

Any idea that he is, is, I'm sorry to say, completely mistaken. When the debate about whom to send to negotiate with Putin devolves to a discussion about whether it should be Alexander Stubb, Mario Drag. You know that you are not going to see any kind of. diplomacy from them at all. Mario Draghi. He's the solution to everything. Exactly. Exactly.

Yeah, I used to do videos like three years ago, Alexander, when there was news about Mario Draghi because they were going to place him in this position or that position. And I equated Mario Draghi to like the sixth man in basketball, or one of those people that comes off the bench in football, that you can put in any position, right? You just call them up off the bench and you can place them in any position. And he'll do it.

It's Mario Draghi. Just give him this, give him that, let him do this, let him do that. Exactly. But just to go back to Kallin's question, look at the EU's reaction to everything that's going on with Greenland. They're now talking about an alliance, a military alliance with Ukraine and without the United States. That's their solution to all of this. Let's do a military alliance without the U.S. and we'll substitute in Ukraine.

the country whose cities are currently without light that's the and whose president has appointed a person to head his major counterintelligence and internal security agency a person with a very interesting background and whose nickname in ukraine is apparently the strangler that's the person that you want to choose as you your honor. Pinto Raul says, is Europe's democratic crisis paving the way for a return to monarchy with Putin centralized leadership serving as a new standard? Now, first of all, Putin is not a monarch. I mean, Russia does have a centralized leadership, but it is a very structured one. Again, I'm not going to get into discussions about the institutions, but suffice to say that Putin does not act by himself. It's a

Western myth that he does. People in Russia know that he doesn't. Monarchy, well, if you mean by monarchy autocracies, are the kind of monarchical governments that used to exist in Europe

in the first half of the 19th century. I don't think there's any realistic way of reading that back. Democracy would be nice. We got some of that back. No, we're probably not going to. Yeah, but we're probably not going to. Sparky 6086, people talk about Greenland's mineral resources,

but how can people be so dense? Its obvious potential is in agriculture. It's right there in the name, Greenland. Possibly. I mean, I'm not going to pretend. I know anything very much about Greenland. All I know is that the Vikings went there and it's big and all the cold. Fuzzy Ball says,

why does no one remember stomber sent 100 labor party members to pennsylvania to campaign for kamala yeah his chief of staff i forgot the guy's name absolutely absolutely i feel like he runs like stomber's whole oh that's right yes uh morgan mcweeney absolutely we don't forget we haven't got me we've brought it up several times but no you're right again it's one of those topics that certainly in Britain, the media avoids talking about. Sanjava says there are rumors that India might invite North Korea for a Republic Day because the USA invited the Pakistan leader for some special ceremony. This rumor is only in social media present, but interesting, if it turns out to be true.

Very interesting. I mean, North Korea has come in from the cold, just to say. West Wolf Esquire says, if President Putin can prevent a U.S. attack on Iran and effectively sent Israel to their corner and tell them to behave. Is Trump humbled? I think that the Russians will move, will do an awful lot to prevent a situation where the United States feels humbled in the Middle East. They will try to do this collaboratively with the Americans.

And there's a very simple reason why, which is that I think the Russians calculate that if the Americans are not involved in an arrangement, then that arrangement is going to be inherent. unstable. And they look at the situation in Iran at the moment, and I suspect that they would want to see much more stability and consistency in policy there. And I think that if for that reason also, that will make them careful about being too publicly close to the Iranians and freezing out the Americans. Lawa Lovie says, was Padoliak the glue hold? holding Ukraine together.

Good question. You might have been. You might have been. Flight of Arrow says, all this is being done to drive the U.S. into isolationism. I disagree, actually. I don't get the sense of the... First of all, I'm very mistrustful this expression, isolationism, which was basically used to target certain people in the United States,

in the late 1930s and early 1940s who wanted to keep the U.S. wanted to keep the United States out of the Second World War. A decision, by the way, United States is not choose to become a direct participant in the Second World War. Germany and Japan made that decision for the United States. But I think that isolationism was, I'm not sure that it was even a good label then, but it describes a particular set of people at one particular time. the United States not being involved to the same extent in Europe, in European affairs, as it has been over the last 80 or so years, is not, to my mind, isolationism.

It is a return to the more standard US foreign policy that existed before, which by the way was open. to the world. Just saying. Sparky says, was joking about Greenland. Remember, supposedly it was purposely misnamed for marketing, Iceland. Okay. Okay. I mean, I'm not familiar with this kind of history. I must say. But Bo Omega says, my question,

will the U.S. have something to say about the UK destroying all production facilities in Odessa that are funded by the U.S. since they haven't acknowledged the pipeline to the P.U. via Ukraine. This is an excellent question. I mean, under the rug, you can see also that there's fights for influence between the Americans and all sorts of people, a Western backers of Ukraine going on as well. And there clearly has been between the Americans and the British, by the way.

I mean, it should not be overlooked that the British did a deal with Ukraine about mineral rights before Trump came on the scene. So there's an awful lot of that going on. But the fact is that in any such contest, the Americans are always going to win. Yeah. NCC says, yeah, go ahead. I mean, Ukraine needs America, the Americans far more than it needs the British. True.

NCC says, how do Europeans change leaders? UK, France and Germany seem determined not to hold elections and to block out by lawfare or other methods, any promising, opposition leaders. Well, I think that is an excellent question. And it is the one question which in Europe more than any other we need to ask. Some very, very wise person, I forget who it was, said something which I strongly believe to be true, which is that when change looks impossible, it becomes inevitable. So I think that there will be an inevitable change. But I I don't know how it's going to happen.

ISEX-H-E-C-Z says, I have the feeling that if it wasn't for nukes, we would already be in World War III. Do you feel they are always going to hold a deterrent being slowly rationalized as a legitimate option? I don't know, and I don't think so. If we're talking about use of nuclear weapons between the Russians and the Americans,

because that's who it would have to be, I think that the Russians and the Americans will never let themselves get drawn into a situation, a position where that happens. I think they both understand that the risks involved would be enormous and they will always step back. The possibility of nuclear weapons use in some other place by some third-party actor is becoming higher every day. NCC says the Viking settlements from 1,000 in Greenland had disappeared by 1450. Denmark established a new smaller settlement in Greenland. Much of the population of Greenland is Inuit, who probably arrived near the time of the Vikings, but survived and persisted when the early Danes disappeared.

Many of them share some Northern European DNA. Well, thank you very much. That is extremely interesting. I mean, I think one of the things I could have to do is get to grips with the history of Greenland. I don't know very much about it. Mitt P-2514 says the EU outsourced its sovereignty to Washington. If the U.S. can take Greenland without consequences, what's stopping the next demand?

Dependency is insecurity. Well, that's exactly what. I mean, I come back to what I've said previously. I mean, what the Europeans are being pushed into doing is appeasement. That is, this is actual real appeasement. Yes. Sparky 6086. Perhaps Denmark should get military advice from Yemen.

that along with their long ships, horned iron helmets and blaring Wormont-Wagner music might straight up defeat the U.S. military. Well, indeed. I mean, the Houthis would be an excellent thing. Kalin Kulinow says the USA and CIA encourages radicals to take control wherever the U.S. dominates. Current E-Leadership was groomed to be radical, easier to control.

Yes. I mean, one of the things about when you say radicals, I mean, you can use stronger words. But of course, one of the things about people like that is that they are so locked into their system that they're not able to really cut compromises or change their stance towards the other side, which is why the United States tends to drift

towards supporting people like this. But anyway, we must understand something, though, which is that the leaders of Europe are a product of European culture and a problem for Europe. We mustn't blame the Americans too much for this. We brought this on ourselves ultimately. I speak for myself too.

I mean, I used to be a huge supporter of the European Union. I really believed in it. I never imagined that it would evolve into what it has become. I should have done. There were plenty of warnings. Many, many people said so. I made a huge mistake. And I think we need to be honest with ourselves in Europe about what we have done to ourselves.

And that's the way we will find our way back. Festek-J says, would Russia join the Board of Peace without China? Well, that's a good question. We'll see what the Russians decide. They're in the process, apparently, of considering the proposal. I suspect there's phone calls between Russia and China at the moment. You know, Lukashenko has also been invited to join. I think the Russians will join in here.

I think it makes sense for them to do so. I think it establishes another communications channel between them and the Americans. And I think that plays to their advantage at this time. And I think the Chinese will go along with it. I mean, I've seen the list. It's a lot of countries that have been invited. Yes, exactly. Jonathan Ventura says, do you recommend people in Europe have food for six months to two years for emergency?

Well, I'm not going to give advice of that kind. People need to make their own decisions. I think the situation at the moment in Europe is very, very bad. I'm not sure it's reached quite those catastrophic levels yet. Black Tie 5023. Thank you for that super sticker. Matthew says, what happens when the UK seizes Russian ships? well they get themselves into massive problems with the Russians

okay if they do that it's not certain they will by the way because the Russians are now talking about providing naval escorts for their ships and can I just say I'm not going to revisit the Marinero incident I've discussed this many times but the Russians were prepared to protect the Marinera they just didn't get there on time but this time they probably will

What will happen if the British try to do this and they get into problems, which they inevitably will, is that they will become scampering to the Americans for help. Without the Americans, they can't do anything. And that's the thing to understand. West Wolf Esquire says, we all made fun of Justin Trudeau, but all the other chuckleheads are still working up to the Ukraine nightmare. Justin wakes up to Katie Perry. He's lived a charmed life that Justin Trudeau.

I have no doubt about it. Bill Janjanovich, thank you for that super sticker. Zareel says Danes may not use our Wagner. John D. says, regardless of who you support as we sit in our warm homes, there is a lot of suffering among the average person right now in Ukraine. Absolutely.

And I've made that point in my programs. I mean, the situation for the civilian population in the cities is absolutely terrible. It surprises me, by the way, that there is so little comment about this in the West. Nobody's talking about this. And you can guess why? Because we've given all these air defenses to the Ukrainians. And they failed. After all that effort of Patriot missiles and other types of missiles

and all of those promises to protect the cities, now talking about the realities and the situation in the cities would be an enormous confession of failure. And it would also call into question the entire narrative that Ukraine is holding its own and that the Russians are not winning the war. So they're very reluctant to talk about this. But on our programs we have done, by the way, I've talked about this.

Alex has talked about this, and we are obviously talking about it now. Well, that's the whole fight between Klitschko and Zelensky, isn't it? I mean, to his credit, Klichko, whatever you may think of Klichko, to his credit, he said, look, get out of Kiev if you don't have access to heat or electricity. Zelensky got furious because he didn't want Klichko to admit to the fact that the air defenses were not working. Exactly. That's what the whole fight was about.

So Zelensky doesn't want this to come out. Absolutely. So the media in the West doesn't really report it or talk about it in the way that they should do. Lana Zankova Garcia, thank you for that membership. Thank you. Jeff Bickford, thank you for that super sticker. Mark Hughes says Denmark needs Russia on its side. Go, Max, Denmark.

You know, once upon a time, this is a long time ago. and Russia had very close relations. The mother of Nicholas II was a Danish princess. Just say. Laurie Cook says, did NATO countries accept America has, does any NATO country except America have gun rights? Well, if you're talking about the right of Americans to carry to carry arms, I don't think anybody in Europe is going to come and dispute that or contest.

Do European countries have got? No Europeans that I know of to have the same kind of rights. I believe in Switzerland, gun ownership is very widespread, and there is, again, the militia concept there. But I don't think it's anything like in the same way that it is in the United States. Sean Hurl says until average household single income returns to levels of 1960s and 70s, population will continue to

plummet in the West. I think there's absolutely this economic pressures and nobody has really succeeded so far in addressing those. But bear in mind a country like some of the East Asian countries, South Korea for example,

which has seen huge increases in living standards, is also seeing demographic collapse. In South Korea, it is, we're absolutely talking about demographic collapse. It's worse than in Europe, worse than anywhere in Europe. So it can't just be a question of rising living, you know, the stagnant living standards. There are other reasons behind this. And this is why I said there may be sociological and lifestyle issues.

I am not an expert in this field. I know people are talking about this. Obviously, the economic issues have to be addressed, but perhaps we have to look at the other issues as well. Sticky Marks says, don't panic. I'm sure they're working hard at Davos. Disco-Caya, Gogolacallis, is on the gin, Vandacrazy, $93 billion to the goblin. There you go. Thank you for that.

Absolutely right. Ronnie, thank you for that super chat. Sir Mug's game says, 1940 Operation Fork, Royal Navy Marines invade. and occupy Iceland, a year later replaced by Canadian and American forces. Yeah. Well, there you go. Sir Muggeames says, Will Blair and the B-O-P-B-H-Q, the Board of Peace, be H-Qed in the new King David Hotel, because we all know what happened to the old King David Hotel. Oh, my goodness.

Well, we do. This is a major incident, a terrorist incident that took place in the 1940s during the struggle for Israel. independence against the British Empire. People don't know much about this and it's a complicated story. But I think it was Irgun, one of the Israeli groups, planted a bomb in the King David Hotel, which is still, I believe, the leading hotel in Jerusalem. And it exploded and killed a large number of British soldiers. And it has never been fully forgotten in Britain. This affair is still brought up from time to time. Well, I don't want to see anything like that happen again,

and I hope it never does, but who knows probably perhaps in time it will. Irish partisan says OTD in 1973, Amilkar-Kabral was murdered by Portuguese agents. It shows that forces of Western imperialism will never allow anyone to challenge them. Well, indeed. And Amilka-Cabral was, as I remember, I just used to get just on the tip of, by memory, an exceptional figure, personality, leading the resistance movement in Guinea-Bissau against the Portuguese. And I think it's fair to say that his loss basically made it impossible for Guinea-Bissau to develop successfully as an independent country. And I mean, he's had more,

more coups, apparently, I think, quite very recently. And today it is officially, or semi-officially, recognized as a narco state run by Colombian cartels, just the same. So, I mean, absolutely, we do this. It wasn't just Amilkar-Kabral. Before that, there was Patrice Lumumba in Congo. This is not so new. Sir Mousgame says, Alexander, is this a case of EU, slobs riding the US tiger only to eat inside it as the old adage goes.

Well, indeed, absolutely. It's exactly what it is. I mean, there's a British poem, which, well, folk poem, which you know, so there was a young lady from Riga who smiled as she rode on the tiger. They returned from the ride with the lady inside and the smile on the face of the tiger. Arcane Ecclectic says, good move by Canada to sign trade deals with China. Yes, absolutely. Very late. in the day, trying to repair a relationship, which used to be very good, and then went absolutely south. There's the highway affair and all of these other affairs. We'll see how successfully this goes. But at least here, I will admit this, Kearney seems to me, to be acting in Canada's

interests. Fallen Crow says, guys, do you ever feel like you are Harry Seldon Asimau's foundation, able to predict the fall of an empire that has too much a nervous? should to be stopped? Not really. I have to say, I mean, they are, they are brilliant novels, but the way that he does it scientifically in, you know, the foundation and all of those. I mean, I don't think we can do that. I mean, what we do is we bring our sense and feeling of history and of politics and

of personalities. And we just use all of that knowledge that we do have. And we look at what happens and we analyze each individual case. But we don't come up with the kind of science and predictive science that's able to look at things, 5, 10, 20, 50 years, 100 years in the future in the way that happens in those novels. I don't myself think that's possible, by the way, though I am a great admirer of those books.

Boa Omega says, trust the P.U. and globalists at their word about knowing what they are doing. P.U or P.U. Remember Pepe Lepeu from Lueu returns. Yeah. Yes. Oh no, they know what they're doing. It's just that what they're doing is may not maybe absolutely absolutely absolutely. What they know that they're doing, what they're trying to do may be absolutely fantastical and a sinister and terrible, but also ultimately unachievable, a utopian enterprise with all the problems that come with that. Sir Muggs game says, I hate to propose guests, but Michael Vlahos has done brilliant videos on failed proxy wars and the logistics of D-Day invasion.

He's brilliant. He is absolutely brilliant, and I completely agree. I mean, he's one of the greatest scholars of war that there are around. And yes, he might be somebody we would want to speak to. I agree. Ronnie D6U says, why don't the Danes and the Greenlanders negotiate to keep some of Greenland back, including nuke, instead of letting Trump take it all? Well, it's far too late now. This is the point that Alex was making.

I mean, Fredixon could have done all of these things before this current crisis arose. If she agreed with the people in Greenland, some kind of arrangement, and there was a referendum of some kind. A referendum for 50,000 people, Alexander. It's not that hard, is it? No, not hard, exactly. But to do it now, I mean, the Americans would not accept it.

I mean, you can't do something like this in the middle of a crisis of this kind. It looks like a maneuver. There's no good faith behind it. The Americans weren't recognized it. Buzzy Ball says, Alex Morkatz in the videos. I'll try. Kevin Hillick says, 1938, Irish government secured control of three ports from the UK for neutrality in 1939. Now they say sovereignty is a backwards idea and makes us enemies of Russia.

Well, I know, absolutely. I mean, Ireland, of all places, should understand independence and sovereignty and how essential and important those are. Again, the extent to which countries that fought for their independence, Greece being another, by the way, have been prepared to sacrifice that on the altar of this vision is incredible to me. Sparky says, was joking about Greenland. I already read that, Sparky. I already read the Greenland one.

Thank you for that. Sir Muzgame says 17th century British leaders pissed and moaned about the national security threat of dependence on French sea salt, the original rare earth mineral. Well, there you go. S. Padoval says you should invite fellow Greek John Kiyaku.

Yes, I know John very well, by the way. We're friends. It would be cool. He would be a cool guest. Sparky 6086. Most effective hazelnut message is several salvos sent to the new NATO basis. Wow.

Well, I don't think we're quite there yet. I mean, but, you know, give it on what Gaiacalas and Starmer and go are leading us to. wars, it's not impossible that it might even happen one day. Empire We Are says Nosferatu, a creature of pure appetite. It can't be reasoned with, can't be negotiated with, can't be trusted. The vampire is a metaphor for empire. U.S. Empire is the reality of that metaphor.

Yeah, I know what you're referring to, and there is some force to this. Some people have John Healy's nickname as Nospatatat. Is that true in the UK? that's what they call him. Yes. John Healy. Yes. The UK defense.

Absolutely. Yes. They do. It's absolutely correct. I wonder, is it because he looks like the old vampire, vampire movies? Yes, he does. Yes, he does. Remember, by the way, well, you know, the great vampire literature is all British, just to say.

Or Dracula is a, well, actually, Bram Stoker was Irish, but it was written in Britain. But Sheridan Lefano, who come to think of it, was also Irish. He was also a writer of vampire fiction in the 19th century. So, you know, we have quite a lot of this literature here. Gleb Perch says, have either of you watched Zelensky's TV show, servant of the people? It's pretty funny. My favorite scene is when the ghost of Che Guevada appeared to Zelensky

and told him to send all the current politicians to Siberia. You know something? I've never watched it, and I've been told by many people that it is actually very funny and very good, and that he was actually, in those days, a very good and witty comedian. Another Zelensky another time. Yeah. West Wolfes Skaar says, What does Stammer say when Trump wants the Falklands for a new golf course?

What does them? Please take them. Please, how much money do you want me to pay you for? That's probably what Stama was. Yeah. Elza says, I know it's a rhetorical question, but why do people assume that if there is a regime change and a monarch living in a foreign country

will be put in power that would make Iran a democratic country. Well, I don't, I mean, some people assume it. I can't imagine that there are many. I mean, if people, there are people in Israel and people in the United States who want to restore the Pachlavis, it's not because they want democracy in Iran. It's because they want a loyal puppet ruling Iran for them. That's what that's all about.

Dominda Munasiri says great live stream. Thank you, Duran. Thank you for that. Sparky says, annexing the Dutch Antilles from the oppressive Dutch could be a good way for President Trump to keep an eye on Venezuela because of their proximity. Yeah, well, let's not put ideas into his head.

I wouldn't surprise me, by the way. Elza says, even German media talks about appeasement. Yeah. Oh, good. Good for them. Sir Muggames says, Marco reopened the Caribbean corridor for Traficano spells doom for Mexican cartels and collapse for Mexico. Trump steps in in to run it.

Oh, right. Okay. Neil Meadows says Professor Mirandi would be a great guest on the Duran. Yes. Yes, you would. Again, I know I know him slightly. Not very well, but I know him slightly. I agree he would be a great guest.

John Ski says Trump using Muhammad Ali's. fight tactics, rope a dope, the shuffle, the unorthodox jab, feints, rhythm and timing, psychological tactics. Trump and Ali were good friends for many years. EU is on the ropes getting battered. I didn't know that, by the way. I had no idea that Trump and Muhammad Ali knew each other. And certainly the EU is absolutely on the ropes. They put themselves there. Puneage production says, what percent chance do you think the U.S. will take Greenland before 2027? Are there U.S. legal hurdles that will stop it?

I think it is overwhelmingly likely that they will get Greenland this year. And whatever legal hurdles there are, they will find ways around it to two. Laurie says thank you for stating your part in this mess. We should work together to fix it. Absolutely. Thank you for that. Laurie. Surrey Mug's game says, why is it Norway with its 1.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund

being made to pay for Ukraine's defense. Surely they'd be good sports about it. You know, you'd have thought so. And perhaps what's so strange about this is that Norway was another European country that until fairly recently actually had fairly good relations with Russia. I remember talking not so long ago

to a Norwegian ex-government, minister and she was telling me that the Norwegians couldn't really understand why other people in northern Europe in the Baltic had these big issues with the Russians because Norway had always managed to get on with the Russians fairly well. So I don't know what's happened to Norway and why they've been infected with the same madness as everybody else. I think part of it is that Norway sees itself as a rival to Russia now in terms of exports of oil and gas of hydrocarbons. And this has created a rivalry between them and the Norwegians have come to see this to some extent as a zero-sum game between themselves and the Russians. But it still surprises me that relations

between these countries have gone so badly wrong and that the Norwegians have committed themselves to Ukraine, to the extent that they have done. Jim Wood says, as Russia will go in Odessa eventually, do you think they will also go into Mikhailiev on the way there? Well, of course they will. I mean, there's no, I mean, they have to. But, I mean, there would be no sense in taking control of Odessa and leaving Nikolaiv or indeed other places on the Black Sea

under Ukrainian control or anyone else is, you know, or Ukrainian land under any anyone else's control. My own view is that Russians will take the law. Sparky says, seems to me most EU leaders are evacuous globalist puppets. This explains their simple mind-mindedness. President Trump is downright intellectual next to them. Past European leaders at least had brains.

True enough. I agree with every point you've just made, by the way. I mean, I've nothing to add. Mark Hughes says, fellow Danes brothers of Englishmen, Nelson. That's a quote. We have in England, Britain, has historically had an incredibly close relationship with Denmark. I mean, one of our kings, can you, was Danish.

And we had a bear wolf, one of our very first poems. Maybe the first real poem as part of English literature is about, is set in Denmark. just to say. So, I mean, we have a very long history of connections to Denmark. Hamlet was, you know, the prince of Denmark and all of that. And our royal families are very interconnected with each other, very good friends.

And we had very, at a personal level, we've always had very close relations with Denmark. I mean, one of the reasons why there's been this very negative reaction to Kirst Thomas' comments is the eagerness he seems to have to throw Denmark under a bus in order to keep Zelensky and go on the road. We have no connection to Ukraine at all. Well, he's thrown the British people under the bus

in order to keep Zelensky and go well funded and fed. Indy Ovid Films says, given that Orban's party is trailing several polls, do you think he could lose this year's election or will it be a repeat of last election? I still think in the end it will be a repeated last election. I think he will claw back and I think he will win. But I agree this is going to be a tighter battle than anyone that he's fought up to now.

I still think he dominates Hungarian politics. And I think in the end, faced with the choice, people will shift back to him. But we'll see. years for 4k e says this greenland business is manna from heaven for the EU elites they are already looking at a recession and a disaster in Ukraine now they get to blame Trump midterms are looming and Trump will taco I think that overstates things I think that for the Europeans this is also a disaster if nothing else it has exposed again to the people of Europe how weak they are how weak Europe has become.

And it is never a good look for a leader to appear weak. What we have in Europe today is a system which has become increasingly repressive on the inside and extremely weak on the outside. That kind of system is unsustainable. From Daggett 1-2-3-4, Trump is a deep state spoiler to discredit populism in the US. every part of his policy is a failure. He and Maga will be scapegoats for future globalists.

Well, quite possibly. But, you know, that's for the future. Talking about the situation today, in Davos, he holds the cards because the Europeans have none. Ron Jeremy 7255 says, what do you think about Trump's latest comments on the Chagos Islands deal? And how do you think Stama will handle this? I mean, this is a major humiliation. The Stam, I mean, the Chagos Islands, by the way, a series of small islands in the Pacific, which the British government removed the population from in the 1960s

and granted a long lease to the United States, which enabled the United States to build a massive military base on one of these islands, which is Diego Garcia. recently, within the last 15, I think, years, the British government apologized to the Chagosians allowed them to return, but not everywhere, and not in every respect, the US base is still there,

and then as soon as Stama became Prime Minister, in a very controversial move, he sold, well, he didn't sell, he gave, the islands, the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. And I believe he actually paid money to the Mauritius. So not only did he not sell the Chagosian islands to Mauritius, just gave them to Mauritius with a sweetener as well. Anyway, this has been controversial with some people in Britain,

people who don't like giving away the little remaining pieces of the empire, they've come up with all kinds of arguments that Mauritius is too close to China and all that kind of thing. It's been a sort of small controversy in Britain. I don't think it's ever really gained much public traction. But there's been criticism of Stama about it. And now Trump is weighing in. And that is really going to cause him a greatly personal discomfort and embarrassment. It's going to, I mean, he's already been criticized for it internally.

Now Trump is siding with his domestic critics against him. So it makes any appearance of a bromance between Stama and Trump. I mean, all that's been smashed to pieces as a result of this. Sir Mose game says, hey Trump, Heads up, phones down. A country is never as poor as when it seems filled with riches. Lousy quote again. Yeah, it's true enough.

Joanne Lanske says, will Alberta Canada become a U.S. territory? We'll see. It's up to them. Nikos says, hear me out. What if Russia stationed 15 Norwegianics to Cuba and Iran, the system is mobile and can be shipped off and it's non-nuclear, its protection? Well, it could be done, but I think the Russians will be very careful before they do that. I mean, the thing about sending a system to, like the Eurasianic, to a place like Cuba, is that it could provoke rather than deter. Just saying, I mean,

the United States would react very, very negatively to its presence. It's not a nuclear weapon system. So it can't defeat the U.S. military in the end. And the U.S. military might, the US might say, it's unacceptable for Russia to host a system like that in Cuba. And so, I mean, I think the Russians would be very careful before they did something like this. Russia remains fundamentally, first and foremost, a Eurasian power. In Eurasia, it is very, very strong. In Latin America, in the Caribbean, it is not. the last time the Russians tried to confront the United States head on in Cuba over Cuba was in

1962 and it almost ended in World War III. And I don't think the Russians want to do that. Bakigali says, I know we find elements of this funny, but how do we actually deal with this? We may not like the way the UK-EU ship is going, but we are on it and the long-term trajectory is bad. Well, it's very, very bad. And I said before, this is an unsustainable situation in the long term. But I don't know how we get out of it. Once upon a time, not so very long ago, after we started the Duran, I thought elections would be the way. I really did believe that we would have elections in countries like Germany, France, Italy, Britain, and that that would make a difference. I no longer believe that anymore. So that really does beg the question, how does this change? And I don't know the answer. All I know is it can't be continued indefinitely. I worry that events will bring it about some kind of an economic collapse, something like that.

And that, of course, is not something I look forward to. Emilio Guzzarup 116 says, what is more likely EU failing together? or its members existing one exiting one by one i i think failing together going together i don't it will ever be allowed to exit one by one exactly uh lisa says santa anna is remembered in mexico as a traitor who betrayed the nation and failed to defend its territory 55 percent of its land same might happen to denmark's p m i want to do you um nico says you'll disagree but russia can send these missiles to these nations and sink aircraft carriers if the US encircles them, just send the mobile launchers.

Well, doing this, as I said, talking about destroying US carriers close to the Caribbean, in that kind of way. I cannot imagine anything that it would be more calculated to provoke the United States. And the United States can send more against Cuba than just carriers. Remember, Miami and Cuba are not that far from each other. From Sparkia, political science professor decades ago,

pointed out, being mired in bureaucracy isn't always bad for a country because you need to fill out too many forms to overthrow it. Iran has this strength. I agree, by the way. I mean, I think that the multi-layered nature of Iranian governance in some ways does explain some of its resilience, but it also creates a whole host of other problems, which are holding Iran back. And I'll make the situation there much more difficult for the Iranian people than it ever should be. And Natalia Norskov says there is the election in Denmark this year in October. It will be horrible for Meda Frederiksen to lose Greenland before the election. Well, I think she so should start thinking about her retirement in that case.

Sir Mosegames says, please tell me that behind closed doors the Russians refer to Macron as Little Lord FCUK pets if they don't lie, lie to me. What I can tell you, I don't know what the Russians have, what were the Russians have for Macron, but what I can tell you is that they dislike him

intensely and Putin loaths him. Apparently Putin developed a dislike of Macron on the first occasion that they met when Putin came on a trip to Paris and as I remember, Macron patronized him and lectured Putin on Russian history in a way that Putin didn't like. As Ariel says, Alexander, our leaders are not only weak,

they're bought off and corrupt. That's probably the worst insight. Alex, I don't like it. Absolutely. AM 9-007 says British MSM argues that holding U.S. Treasuries is a Trump card that could be played. Your thoughts?

Great work. I have a disaster. I think a disaster. mistake. I mean, I think a country like China might be able to wield great strengths with treasuries. But Europe playing games like that with US treasuries, trying to threaten the collapse of the US financial system. What effects that could have on Europe? I mean, it's a classic example of choosing suicides to avoid death. not going to have it's it's not going to

regard on that let it happen not exactly not going to happen yeah yeah if it's if it's the treasuries or greenland it's greenland that's going to go exactly yeah regard's not going to let that happen nico says remember when a year ago i told you that syria will end up like sudan 2023 it's exactly like sudan with the kurds versus al-qaeda russia must enjoy this well i know that they're enjoying this i think they probably feel very about this but I mean in all other respects you're right obviously

Bill Yana Bilyana Mangevich says what is your opinion about the non-EU and no NATO small countries and their stability just asking B.R. from Belgrade Bilyana well I think that they are on they have been I'm presuming me the European countries they're under constant siege Serbia has been under constant siege for example. So it's very, very difficult because the EU wants every single country in Europe, except Russia, of course, to be in the EU. I mean, they are the most expansionist force within Europe at this time. And it was Europe, the EU and NATO go together. So they put enormous pressure. And there's very few non-EU countries left in Europe now.

All I can tell them is hold out and we'll see. I think that this system is now visibly failing. You've got no reason to want to go back in. Laurie says often Trump is hated for exposing faults and weaknesses in existing systems. Absolutely true. Empire, we are at a minimum, Kiev to Odessa and everything east of the Niper, the size of the western buffer will be the tricky part. Well, we'll see where it goes.

And I think we should not be very careful before drawing up lines on maps when the war is still underway. And when there is no sign of any agreement between the Russians and the West at all, just as that. Fuzzy Ball says if Russia reaches Hungary, they could station troops in Serbia, dashing EU-Albania dreams. Many people, well, many people are talking about this. it might even happen. Nico says, and last, I am sorry again for my long comments, Alexander. I tried to shorten them, but I have a lot to say.

I always appreciate reading, reading my thoughts. And I appreciate your questions, and so does, so do both of us. I mean, we were, I mean, we, I like your comments, by the way. I mean, I'll push back against them and disagree with them. But they're always interesting, and they're always honest, and that is very highly appreciate. on Opal. Sparky says India has a bureaucratic legacy from colonial times. It's a British Empire gift which keeps on giving. This is absolutely correct. I mean, many of the problems of governance

that India undoubtedly does have are absolutely a legacy of the British Empire, the Raj. I mean, people are not aware of this, but India's economy basically first collapsed and then stagnated under the British. There's a lot of talk about the fact that the British built lots of railways and ports, that kind of thing. But the regulatory burden that the British imposed on India was enormous.

And I'm going to say something which many Indians perhaps don't agree with, but is that I am not sure that certain features of the Indian education system and of the Indian civil service, which are, it seems to me, legacy is a British rule suit India that well. I think that if they were changed and brought closer to Indian models, then that might actually inject even more dynamism into Indian society and economy than we have seen up to now. Ladoshka has gifted 10 Duran memberships. Thank you for that.

Thank you. Elza says, Medda Frederikson should offer Trump a documentary about him made by her husband. This might change Trump's mind about Greenland, sarcasm. True enough. Er, Henry says today, Greenland, tomorrow, Canada, 60 states. Well, I know people are talking about that. I mean, I think that would not, for the moment, I think that is out of reach.

I mean, Canada has a population of tens of millions. It's not a place with 57,000 people in the way the Greenland is. Elaine Magson says, I'm confused by the phrase just saying it means. Oh, it's a good point. I say it too much. I'm afraid it's what people do who have to talk all the time on, does it? It's good. Boa Omega says inspired by the Duran comments from earlier in the stream,

Credit to Grock. I think I heard the dinner bell. It's a cool image from Grock. Thank you for that, Boa Omega. from do abscondia, why do Alex and Alexander think Congress will be able to pass a bill

to purchase or annex Greenland when there isn't widespread support and there is significant opposition including GOP leaders? Why do Alex and Alexander present the situation as a fate accompli? Because I think it will be. I think that soon or later

Congress will pass it. If the United States goes in and occupies and takes control of Greenland and I think soon or later one way or the other, Greenland will be incorporated into the United States, if not a state, at least as a territory in the way the Puerto Rico is. It is inevitable. There will be no great resistance in the United States to doing it.

Rating that sort of fait accompli is completely consistent with what has happened in previous American history. That is why Trump is positioning it. as a national security issue. Exactly. The EU structure is essentially autocratic, not non-democratic. Is the creation of the EU where the degradation of democracy in Europe begins? I think it is authoritarian as opposed to autocratic. And autocracy is one where one person rules.

And I think that however powerful, Osula is, she's not that powerful. The entire structure is deeply authoritarian. And how does it change? I don't know. It's hard to change something that you haven't voted in. Monty 1054 says, Trump humiliating the Europeans over Greenland in the way he does,

shows that the U.S. is still a European offshoot. The only way you construct a positive self-image is by denigrating someone else. Well, there's something in that. I'm fat. I'm no doubt there is. Lori says Lee Harvey-Adwell, Oswald's first cousin was judge in charge of Serbia, as judiciary for 10 years after the war. I had no idea. No knowledge of that at all. Thank you for that. Thank you for that, Laurie.

Alexander, final thoughts? That's everything. I'll just just just to throw in a little piece of somebody brought this up about Lee Harvey Oswald. A lot of talk about Denmark and Danes and Vikings and singing Wagner. The greatest Wagnerian tenor ever was a Dane, Loretz Melchior, as a great person who listens to a lot of Wagner. I have recordings of him from the 30s and 40s. So there we go. But no, I mean, this is a critical moment in European history.

It's a real, it's a point, a moment of clarification. We see what the empire of Brussels has brought us to. We have conflicts in the East, which we can't resolve. conflicts in the West we can't resolve. We are ruled by insignificant and fanatical people. Our economies are failing. And this is Europe. This is Europe which used to be the centre of culture and world affairs,

and it's been reduced to this. The real story about this affair is not Trump. It is what the European Union has done to Europe. and what Europe has done to itself. Paul Walker says three comments ignored. Why? I haven't seen the comments, Paul. Are they on YouTube or Rumble?

Let me know, Paul. I haven't seen them on the feed. But if you tell me which platform they are, I'll find them, I'll track them down. Sparky says, aside from gold, Burkina Faso's strength is its lack of a colonial legacy bureaucracy since it was essentially a giant company town. operation when it was Upper Volta.

Right. Okay. Sticky Mark says, I watched the Aurora live cams in Greenland. Wow. Wow. Yeah. I'm looking for that. Alexander, I'm just going to... Yes, looking for these. Let me look for Paul's comments. I can't find them anywhere.

I don't see them. I don't know, Zareal. Have you seen them? From Bo Omega, Alexander McCurris, your misunderstanding is the thinking the USA needs or wants Ontario, Quebec to join the USA. Wexit is the four western provinces, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba deciding whether to leave Canada. We have resource wealth. But no say in government policy votes set up that Liberal Party gets elected east of Manitoba before our votes are counted. Right. I get that and I thank you for that explanation.

The one thing I would say is, why are you sure that if you become American states, you will have more say than you do as Canadian states? I mean, maybe you will. I mean, I don't know. I don't know what the internal arrangements in Canada and the United States are. But you are going to be just a small number of states in a huge, Federation, whereas you are now a big number of states in a small federation. So, I mean, I just make that point, as I said, I mean, I'm not pushing it because I don't

know enough about this, but I just would make that observation. And I think before you make a decision, you need to weigh up all the factors and decide what it is exactly that works for you best. All right, Harry located the three super chats, but I don't, I don't see. see them at all. I don't know why, but Harry said he's going to pace them so I can get to them. Empire We Are says the treatment of Jacques Bodd and Scott Ritter brings to remind me a Roger Waters lyric from 1985. You have no reason to the law anymore. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I mean, this is, we talked about the European Union, the disaster that

is brought to the people of Europe and to Europe as well. A system that is weak externally, but repressive internally. Well, the Jacques Boar affair demonstrates that in the starkest way. As to the case of Skull, of course, that happened to the United States. So it's different, but this whole business of debanking

is very sinister altogether. Yeah, very much. There's three above that one. I'm not even getting these messages. Fuzzy Balls says George Orwell, 1984, predicted this for Europe. Yeah, he did. Laurie says Lee.

It's exactly right. He's turned out to be incredibly precious. Laurie says Lee Oswald's cousins. Name was Jean Maret. Okay. Charlemagne 2116 says, what is the correct European response to Trump's threats? I think start talking to Russia, China,

close American bases on European soil. Start talking to Russia, negotiate and enter the conflict in Ukraine. and undertake a root and branch discussion about what has brought Europe to the point that it has. These are the things they should do. It is the things that they are incapable of even thinking of doing. I can absolutely assure you there is no one in Brussels, no one in Paris, no one in Berlin, you know, within the political class, no one in absolutely London,

who is debating any of these points. Here we go from Paul, the Duran. Read JSOC report 2025, quite a roadmap. Okay. Yes, the first one. I think that's the first one. As Ariel says, Clowns to the left of Mr. Joker

to the right, stuck in the middle with you. Thank you, Zareel. Thank you, Zareel, for that. Huey Koon says, I'm keeping a list of all the words. Alexander chronically mispronounces Xi Jinping instead of Xi Jinping. Fordhore instead of Forda, Nekspedia, instead of Nixperia. Well, there we get. Well, there we go.

I should say that people in China, actual Chinese people have told me, that my pronunciation in his first name is the right one, just to say that's from Chinese people. So. And I'm still waiting for the other two from Paul Charlemagne 2116 says what is, and I read that one. I read that one. Sir Mug's game says when it comes to defending U.S. national security, the U.S. will pull your teeth out, then order you to smile. Very good.

And Deborah says, hasn't the. avarice and terror the US commits on the world made Brick's countries great again. Perhaps the EU may rise in opposition to Trump. No, the EU will not rise in opposition to Trump. The only thing that can be done with the EU is for it to be done away with. I mean, it needs to be completely taken apart. And the European nations must then work to rediscover their own destiny and their own and shape their own fate.

then we will have a moment of liberation, and then we might find our way back. Harry C. Smith says, make America go away hats for sale in Greenland. Okay. And also from Paul Walker. That was from Paul Walker. Healy is Agent 47 from Timu. Temu, Timu. Okay.

John Healy. I'm not sure. Agent 47 from Tebow. I can't stand him, by the way. John Healy, I mean, I'm again, a classic example of a British defense secretary who talks in the most grandiose and confrontational terms without having any force behind him. I think that is just about the most dangerous thing that you can have.

Yeah, I do not like Healy either. Who was before Healy though? I didn't like the guy before he. No, I didn't like him about it. Who was? It was. I can't remember now. He was that guy that was?

No, but ultimately was Ben Wallace. He's still around. Yeah, he's still around. He's still folks. He was awful. I think those are the questions, right? Paul? I think I got the three.

I apologize for that. They weren't coming up on my screen. Thank you, Harry, for that. Den Sin Ben, And Tura Kastra says, how long will it take for European nations to return hat in hand to beg for Russian oil and gas? Are China and India using Russian full capacity? Once, if it ever happens, if they ever do that, then that will be an absolutely key moment

for Europe. But I don't believe it ever will. That's the reality of it. The IFD might win in Germany. They might try something of that kind. They will be massive opposition. And I think the Russians will be deeply skeptical. Healy is just another globalist mouthpiece.

I'll talk, no substance. Yeah. Yeah. Healy looks like Count Orlock. Ha, ha. Another vampire. All right, I think that's everything. Did I miss any questions? I don't think I missed any questions now. I think we got all of the questions. Thank you to our moderators. Thank you, Zareel. Thank you, Harry. OMG, Mr. T says, wouldn't it be a good thing for Europe in the long term if things escalates over Greenland? What I mean is that Europeans will be so shocked by the ruthlessness of the U.S. that they will actually vote in different leaders. One would like to think, sir, but I don't believe it will happen like that. I think,

the present system will perpetuate itself at least for a time okay from uh hughy coon says i have lots of chinese co-workers and they all tell me it's she maybe it's a dialect thing i know i think i think so i think so but i'm told in Beijing it's sea there we are tomato tomato all right all right uh we'll end it uh there uh Thank you very much to everyone that joined us on this live stream, to everyone that watched us on Rockfin, on Odyssey, on Rumble, on YouTube, and the duran.locals.com. Keep in mind, we have 26% off all merch in the Duran shop.

So keep that in mind. There is a link in the description box for that. And thank you to our moderators, to Zareel and to Harry. I think that's it for. today moderating. Thank you. I think I missed anybody. So thank you so much to our moderators.

Once again, to Paul, I apologize for not getting, not seeing those three messages. And one second, Alexander. Yeah, that's everything. I think that's everything. Okay. We've got some videos to do. We do indeed. We do indeed.

I guess we got the big speech from Ursula today. Absolutely. I mean, we're all on Tenderhooks waiting for her great Chichelian operatory. Boa Omega sent us a local sent us an AI of the clowns in Europe. Someone mentioned clowns. Yeah, that's Aureole at the Durand. Thank you for that, the image. Boa, and another one from the British Parliament, Alexander.

Yeah. Good British Parliament. Yes. One sec. Well, Chinese troops returned from training in Canada. They were there during the first Trump administration. We only found out about them after the 2020 U.S. election. I think unlikely that we're going to see that, at least for the time being.

I don't think that the Canadians will want that. And Tsunami bomb says the commissioner is appointed by the EU parliament. How is that not perfectly democratic? If they wanted things to be different, they would simply vote for a differently. but they don't well well commissioners are not voted in by the european parliament they are chosen by the commission which is selected by the member states after all kinds of haggling and then they're presented to the commission to the parliament for confirmation which is a very very different process the parliament confirms yes the the choice they're rubber stamp it exactly exactly yeah okay that is

everything. Take take care, everyone.