The Duran Podcast - Ursula's grift, wants EU army

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

Ursula's grift, wants EU army

All right, Alexander, let's talk about the queen of Europe, Ursula. And she was, I believe, in Lithuania, with the Lithuanian president for a minute, I don't know, whatever. Whatever. And she was giving a speech. And she talked about historic day for Europe, for the EU, because the Baltic states, they are cutting off electricity that they receive from Russia. And they're moving away from the Russian electricity grid. And that means that there will be no Putin blackmailing of Europe when it comes to electricity, though I don't remember when Russia ever blackmailed to Europe before electricity.

But anyway, Europe is finally free from electricity from Russia. And then she talked about an EU army. And that's what she's talking about. And when she mentions an EU army, I think citizens of the European Union should be very worried because she is talking about money and funding for this EU army and for defense spending, money and funding, which Europe does not have, but money that Ursula is going to try and get from the member states and consolidate these funds into the center.

If there's one thing that Ursula is very good at, it's creating these slush funds in the center of Brussels for the center of Brussels. That's what she knows how to do. create slush funds, and that's what she's looking to do with this EU army. That's my thoughts. Anyway, what are your thoughts on everything that Ursula said while she was with the Lithuanian leadership? This is absolutely correct. And I think this is where one really does need to be very hard-headed and understand exactly what's going on. Because, of course, at multiple levels, what Oceila was talking about is fantasies. I mean, you know, liberating the Baltic states from the

Russian electricity grid, which has been completely reliable, has never been used to put pressure on them. The Baltic states have spent, well, how much time and how much rhetoric have they used against Russia in the last 30 years? How have the Russians ever cut off their electricity? Never. Why think that they ever would? But, you know, cut off the Baltic states of the Russian electricity grid, replace it with the European one, talk about European armies, all that kind of thing. Everybody can see that the Europeans can't get their act together on military matters. The idea that they will set up viable military institutions is a fantasy. So the whole thing, one level has a kind of fantastic quality.

But if you focus on that, then you are missing the main story. When Ursula comes to Lithuania and says that this is a great day for Europe, because the Baltic states are now free, she doesn't really mean that in exactly the sense that those words suggest. What she really means is that the Baltic states are integrated into Europe. In other words, far from being free, they have become more subordinated to see. central control from Brussels, because from now on they're going to be getting their electric power, not from the Russians who are outside the EU, but from within the EU. When she talks

about setting up EU armies, well, maybe in her own fantasies she imagines the day when the EU will become some kind of great military superpower. But in the meantime, what she is doing, is she is concentrating defence and security policy in Brussels, taking it away from the member states, and at the same time, she's doing exactly what you said. She's creating new funds, which will be operated by the centre in Brussels. This is the consistent story ever since Osula became European Commission President. She has used the crisis with Russia, the whole Ukraine crisis, to advance massively the whole project of creating a European super state, even run from Brussels, even as the European economy goes

into ever deeper crisis, even as the energy situation in Europe gets into ever deeper crisis. She's talking about liberating the Baltic states from the Russian power system. And of course, shows no interest in the fact that European gas reserve have now fallen below 50%. And it's still winter. We still have many weeks of winter left. And there is no reliable source of gas to get Europe through the summer or to prepare for the winter next year. But that's not her priority. Her priority is to continue the process of centralization, and that is what she's doing.

Moving money out of the member states and into Brussels. I mean, that's how I look at all of this. When it comes to Ursula, that's what it's all about. How do I get money from the member states, from the citizens of the member states, get it closer to the center? So then we can control the money and we can control the entirety of the EU. to every last citizen, we could control it. Absolutely. I mean, you know, we have a situation which you were experienced in Cyprus, where through

the European Central Bank, the European Union could switch off the money supply to member states. How long before they'll be able to switch off the electricity supply as well? Just so. Yeah. No, I mean, quick. They do it quick, too. They do it quick.

and without warning. How realistic is this EU-R-B? You say it's fantasy, I agree with you. Ursula von der Leyen, when she was defense minister for Germany, I believe it was under Merkel. She was perhaps the worst German defense minister, perhaps in all of history.

German politicians and parliament members are even on record saying that Ursula van der Leyen, her tenure as the defense. Minister of Germany was a complete disaster. The German military was training with broomsticks. That's how bad it was under Ursula. She ended up being the EU Commissioner because we know that the more you fail, the higher up you go when it comes to the Collective West. So she failed catastrophically, incredibly. And of course, she got rewarded with the commissioner position in the European Union. But how realistic, given that you have NATO, is her plan for an EU army, for increased

spending for the EU army, for increased money going to a military industrial complex, for increasing the spending budgets of the EU member states. I was reading an article earlier today, which talked about how the European Union is looking at easing some of the restrictions when it comes to spending for EU member states in terms of defense. All the other rules when it comes to the spending and to debt and debt to GDP is going to hold, but they're going to make an exception, an exemption, when it comes to money to the defense of Europe. How realistic is this, what does this mean for individual member states, which are already

just being crushed when it comes to their economies? It is an absolutely and complete fantasy. Look at the European Union. Look at the various projects and plans that it has unveiled ever since the single market was created in the early 1990s. There's been plans galore to do all kinds of things, you know, a centralized railway. I remember all of that. I mean, you know, do all, you know, machine building, aircraft. Because they come up with one plan after. after another, social media, you know, setting up and social media. They are incapable of doing these things. There are no structures within the EU that are designed to do those things. And that is not the priority of the EU leadership. Their concern is not really about having European armies or about having European military industrial complexes or things of that kind. Their major concern is to have very, very large

sums of money allocated to them, which they are then able to control and which they can then process as grants to member states to say, you know, you've got to use it for spending on this or that, you know, defense or whatever, and which then enhances the EU center's control over the States. That is what it's all about. That's what it has always been about. It's what the structural funds are about. It's what all the other funds are about. I wonder if this is the effect of everything that's happening with USAID, with the fear that Trump is going to pull away from Europe, the fear that the money and the funding from the United States into Europe is going to also lessen. I wonder if this is how they're figuring out a way to say, okay,

All this money from the United States, which kept us funded, which gave us all of the riches that we've been accustomed to, is leaving. So we got to figure out new griffs to keep the money flowing. We can't really go anywhere. The United States is leaving us. We can't go to China. We can't go to India.

So we just got to look within. And we just got to take it out of the pockets of the EU citizens. Well, exactly. It's exactly what the U. That's exactly what it is. As the evil Putin, give us more money. We're going to tax you more because you've got to spend it on defense because of the Putin. That is exactly what it is.

The EU has become what it has because of the backing, which goes back decades of the United States. If that backing is now taken away, well, you have all kinds of people who are deeply committed, to the EU project. That is an understatement. I mean, for some of them, it's a religion, quite apart from the fact that their own material interests

are bound up with it. I mean, at some level, they are absolutely, you know, cult-like, in their devotion to this thing. And so, you've got to keep it going. How do you keep it going? You do what the EU always does. You take more money

from the European citizens. You drain the EU economy, the EU people even further, so that you keep this whole project moving forward. And that's what this is ultimately about. It is always about moving the project forward, more Europe. That is always the solution to every problem. Final question, they're going to run into a big problem this time around, which they haven't had in the past. And that's Orban, that's Fizzo, possibly Babich, Kiko in Austria, maybe even Georgesqueu in Romania. And this group of people, this group of new leadership, they also have the support of Trump.

Yes. What happens? Well, this is it. I mean, ultimately, this whole project, and I think this is a thing to say, is unsustainable. It will break down. and what we now see rather late, it's taken a long time to happen, but we are now starting to see opposition grow. And opposition from member states in central and eastern Europe is beginning to grow.

It started with Hungary, as you correctly said, Slovakia, Romania potentially, Austria, the Czech Republic, the old Habsburg states, in other words, are all coming together and opposing this thing. And we see elections in Germany. We see that there's a continuous attempts to try and keep things together in France for socialists, ridiculously, are now, you know, moving towards trying to back, sorry, Macron, but in the process, discrediting themselves, I think that's an important thing to bear in mind. So eventually, this whole thing will collapse. And what oscillates, is doing will hasten that collapse. It will bring it forward more quickly. But in the meantime, real damage is being done. And it has been done every day and it is getting worse.

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