The Duran Podcast - Ursula's Plan To Remove EU VETO. Merz's Secret Plan To Stop AfD

Episode Date: August 1, 2026

Ursula's Plan To Remove EU VETO. Merz's Secret Plan To Stop AfD

All right, Alexander, let's talk about Germany and let's talk about EU sanctions or change in sanctions policy. According to the Financial Times as reporting, the European Union is finally done or is thinking about finally ending the big omnibus types of packages. So we got the 21. You may not get to 22. And what they're going to do is break up the big sanctions packages into smaller bite-sized. pieces, which can be easily passed and easily implemented, and you won't run into parts of the big packages being blocked by various member states, like in the instance of Sanctuous Package 21, where Greece said no to the LNG shipping, Portugal said no to the fisheries.

I think people need to understand what this is all about. This is not Ursula giving up on sanctions or wanting to slacken the sanctions pressure or giving up on the sanctions. offensive. It's Osceola beginning to understand that even with alban gone, opposition to sanctions in Europe is actually growing and that there are now increasing numbers of member states that are becoming recalcitrant and are starting to say, well, sanctions are not working. What is now being proposed is going to hit our own economic interests. So Greece didn't like the last, the 21st sanctions package because of the way it affects. affected its shipping industry.

And other countries were unhappy with other things. The Austrians wanted to keep Rafferson bank still in Russia. They all fought back to stop that. So Ursula says, well, how can I get all of these things that I want? The shipping package without the Greeks vetoing it, closing down Rafferson, without the Austrians vetoing it, other things, which others want to veto. How can I get all of these things through? Well, I change the approach.

I don't call it sanctions anymore. I call it economic policy. So I propose these economic decisions, as we can put these forward, as economic decisions. these only require majority voting. I can get majority voting on each part of, each one of these sanctions. I can outvote the Greeks on shipping, on LNG cargoes in Greek ships. I can outvote the Austrians on Ravison Bank.

I can outvote all of the others because there'll always be a core of states who support me and I can play one off against the other and I can always get a combination which will give me majority voting and that way I will be able to continue to get all my sanctions passed. Now, of course, what this does is that it completely throws out the rulebook. They tried it, by the way, last year with, in fact, they'd not only tried it, they did it with confiscating Russian assets. You remember, they changed the rules on the frozen Russian assets. They said that instead of the vote...

They made it legal policy. They made it, they made it indefinite. They made it exactly. They made it, they used, again, qualified majority voting to say that in order for, for the assets to be unfrozen, there has to be unanimity. And they use a procedural vote using this kind of mechanism that Ursula is now talking about in order to do that. Because they shifted it to like illegal.

Yeah, they made a part of the legal architecture instead of a sanctions. Exactly. And now instead of sanctions, architecture, it's going to be economic. Economic, yeah. So she is throwing away the rulebook. I mean, that's what she's doing. She is rewriting. She is rewriting. the rules so that she can go on waging her economic sanctions war against Russia. I mean, the fact that more and more countries oppose her, she still is going to press on and is still going to do this. And of course, what it's also going to do is centralized decision making even more.

because the sanctions, the veto, which was such an important part of joining the European Union, countries could always say, well, we'll be able to protect our sovereign rights by exercising the veto. That's essentially been taken from them because whenever a veto is used, Ursula comes up with some other way to do the same thing and says, that this other way, in this other way, the veto doesn't apply. If you read this Financial Times article carefully, that is exactly what Ursula is doing. And this, of course, completely changes the entire political structure, the whole legal balance of the European Union. I mean, instead of it becoming, instead of it being a union of sovereign states, it becomes a single overpowering,

over-dominant EU centre, controlling occasionally recalcitant provinces, which are all subject to the rule of Brussels. Yeah, why should the member states put up with this, especially the smaller, member states. They've always wanted to go the route of majority rather than the veto route. They hate the veto thing. They hate it. And they've said this. They've said as much that they want to go majority. But rightly so, many EU member states, especially the medium-sized countries or the smaller countries, they always push back on it, as they should. Because if you go the majority route, then you're going to have this group of countries that are all buddies and pals under Ursula's control. And they're going to vote whatever they want through, right? This block of seven or eight big, powerful countries. They'll get whatever they want all the time. But, I mean, take the example of Greece and LNG.

Okay, so they do this bite-sized package of sanctions with this one sanction, economic policy, let's call it. And they pass the economic policy that no country in the European Union can export the LNG anywhere in the world. That's Russian, anywhere in the world. Greece is effed. The Greek shippers are screwed. They're going to lose all that business, and that's the point that they were making.

We're going to lose all the business, not EU business, global business of our LNG, to competing companies in other countries. And Greece said China, the Chinese are going to just come in next day and take over all our routes, all our exports of LNG. That's exactly what's going to happen. And the shippers know it. That's going to sink a country like Greece. which it has its tourism and shipping.

That's all it has left. I mean, there's not much left. Absolutely. Yeah. But you see, this is where it becomes so poisonous, because I'm not sure that they are in a position to object. Because Ursula and her allies control the central institutions. So when the EU council meets,

it's the presidency of the council now that sets. the agenda. Of course, there are countries that also hold the presidency to, and they can play a role. But, you know, they can find an ally that holds the presidency. It sets the agenda. President Costa agrees. They say, look, as a question of economic policy, we are going to stop Greek ships from carrying Russian LNG anywhere in the world. Greece says this is unacceptable. This can only be done through sanctions. The majority say, tough, this is what we've decided. This is what is on the agenda in the council.

We are going to support it. And if you disagree, well, your right is to go to the European Court of Justice and make your case there. Good luck. That's what they're going to say. That's how this is going to work. This is the snake pit that the European Union has now become. They went along with the first sanctions package. And now look where it's going to take all the EU member states.

Exactly. Exactly. The smaller, medium-sized EU member states are going to get completely screwed. Exactly. But aren't you killing the members of your own union? I mean, you really are destroying them. Well, you are. How can you have a union like that, though?

Well, you kind of, I mean, what you're turning this into is not the union that everybody signed up to join. It is a completely different creation. I mean, it's becoming increasingly unpopular. Soon, it's not going to be just unpopular. It's going to be hated. It already is hated, in many cases, but it's going to be even more hated. I mean, this contains within it, the scenes of. of its eventual collapse.

I mean, we need to understand that. But the amount of damage that's going to be done on the way is enormous. And you're absolutely right. All of the others went along with this, including Auburn, by the way. Yes. I mean, including Auburn. Exactly. Good point.

They all went along with this. They all let themselves be dragged along because of the hysteria of the moment. And if you stand up and oppose sanctions against the Russians, that means that you are on the Russian side. That means you're a traitor and everybody was frightened and intimidated and wasn't prepared to face up to this. And we're not just seeing this happen, play out in Europe. It's happening in a EU country as well in Germany because there are no reports in the German media and they've reached the British media as well. that soon there are going to be elections in two East German lander in two big East German states. One of them is Saxon, one of the Saxon is, another is Mecklenburg.

And there is a strong possibility that the IFDA will win elections in both and win elections in both by a landslide and be able to form a majority. government. Now, Germany is supposedly a federal state. It is very decentralized. A lot of the power in Germany is supposed to be held by the lander, by the states. Well, Meuts is apparently, privately calling these states if they elect IFDA government, traitor states, the Daily Telegraph article actually uses that expression to describe them. And he's spreading a story that in the event of some kind of military crisis involving the Russians, these pro-Russian traitor states might try to obstruct military movements through Germany, through their lands, through their territories. So he's coming up supposedly with some kind of plan to prevent them from being able to do

that. Now, I don't take any of this story about this really being about obstructing NATO troop movements in any way seriously. What you're looking at is maths and the authorities in Berlin. looking to strip powers away from states that vote in IFDA governments. In other words, trying obviously to isolate the IFDA, that goes without saying. But in the process, tearing up the balance of powers within Germany, tearing up in a the whole conception behind the German constitution. And instead of having a decentralized federal state in Germany, which has worked very well ever since the Federal Republic was established in the 1940s, centralizing power in Berlin.

Ursula made a statement yesterday and she said that Avdaa is very concerned with the rise of Afdaa. Very concerned. Yeah. We've got tools. They're working on all of this together. Well, of course, exactly. Of course they are. In fact, when I said the plan, because it's difficult to see how this plan,

Meltz's this plan can work through the German constitution, more likely than not, they're going to use the EU structures and EU law to strip away power from the states. Strip away Germany. Destroy Germany. Destroy Germany. It all started with very, very small things, small policies that the EU passed or small actions that Germany took. And we were screaming about it at the time.

We did many videos about it at the time. And we said that EU member states and EU citizens should say no to all these things that to do these small little things that Ursula was coming up with and that Germany was coming up with. Right when the SMO started, Ursula said, as the EU, we're going to ban all the flights. Everyone said, no big deal. It's no big deal. She can ban the flights and that's how it started. Look where we are now.

Exactly. Look at where we are. Everyone bought into it. All the EU member states, all the EU leaders said, sure, banned flights, our airspace to Russian planes. No problem. How bad could it be? Where could this go? Where could this possibly go?

Well, now you're about to find out Greece and Cyprus and Portugal and Ireland. You're about to find out how bad it's going to get. And Germany and what happened with Germany way in the beginning of the SMO Alexander with Olives Schultz, it's just 5,000 helmets that we're going to send to Ukraine. That's it, no more. Just 5,000 helmets and some blankets. And now look where we are. Exactly.

Because, of course, when we said centralized power in Berlin, The real place where power is being centralized is Russell's. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But it's going to kill off everybody else. Absolutely. There's going to be nothing left. It is the parasite that is killing the host.

Yeah. But they can't stop. No, they can't stop. No. A thousand, six hundred entities, that they're going to place on another sanctions list in a new sanctions bucket? I know. I know.

They're going after China and India with that one. Yes. Yes. Yes. I mean, the EU supposedly working for on a free trade agreement with India, written to. What became of all of that? What's going to be China's reaction? What is going to be?

The EU sanctions 300 individuals or entities in China. Well, and I need them. What is going to be China's reaction? I mean, this is going to destroy what's left of Europe's economy as well. because China is going to react and it's going to react toughly. All right, we'll end

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