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How does history, ideology, and economic survival play into Europe's aggressive stance against Moscow?
What are the long-term consequences for Europe’s stability and global influence? 🌍
Join Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris as they deliver sharp, clear, and in-depth analysis of the real motives behind this escalating conflict.
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Is it about geopolitics, energy dominance, or something even bigger?
How does history, ideology, and economic survival play into Europe's aggressive stance against Moscow?
What are the long-term consequences for Europe’s stability and global influence? 🌍
Join Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris as they deliver sharp, clear, and in-depth analysis of the real motives behind this escalating conflict.
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00:00All right, Alexander, let's talk about the European Union and Ursula's trip to London
00:07to meet with Stammer.
00:10It's my opinion that these meetings are all about rolling back Brexit.
00:18And who better to help the EU and the UK roll back Brexit, join forces, unite than Putin,
00:27than Russia, right?
00:29Russia's like the Swiss army knife for globalists that can solve all kinds of globalist problems,
00:35right?
00:36So Ursula and Stammer, they're talking about how the UK and the EU, they need to reintegrate
00:43to get closer together in order to take on the threat of Putin.
00:49Ursula claimed that Russia cut off the gas to Europe.
00:54They love saying that, but that's her claim.
00:57Stammer's talking about UK-EU unity.
01:02The subject of unity, Alexander, the European Union is trying to hold it together, it seems.
01:12What are your thoughts?
01:13Well, exactly.
01:14I mean, can I just say about Ursula coming to London and meeting with Stammer, you're absolutely
01:19right in the sense that obviously their main topic is going to be Ukraine and all of that.
01:25But the reality, the underlying substance of it is one further big step, one big step at a time
01:35towards bringing Britain back into the EU.
01:40I mean, this is the agenda.
01:42And by the way, if you follow the British media, you can see this.
01:45You can see that two of the most strident pro-Ukraine, pro-Zelensky, anti-Trump media outlets in Britain are the Financial Times and The Guardian.
02:01And they're constantly saying that what Britain now needs to do is to make a choice between the United States and the EU.
02:10And of course, it goes without saying that what they're saying, what Britain should do, what Stammer should do,
02:17which is, of course, exactly what he wants to do, which is to turn back towards the EU.
02:22And the objective, to be clear, is to get Britain back into the EU, not parts of the EU, to take it completely back in, to reverse Brexit entirely,
02:40and to do so as quickly as possible before elections happen in Britain, in which reform is likely to do well,
02:49particularly in the working class Labour constituencies, where reform is apparently making big progress,
02:56and where people voted overwhelmingly for Brexit.
03:02So this is part of the agenda.
03:04You use Ukraine, you use the topic of Ukraine to facilitate the reversal of Brexit.
03:11No doubt about it.
03:13But having said that, there is a bigger story here as well,
03:16because one of the most extraordinary things over the last couple of days, the last week or so,
03:23is that the Americans presented their plan for a final settlement of the conflict in Ukraine,
03:29or at least a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.
03:33I'm not sure how final it would really be.
03:34But anyway, a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, which is basically the Kellogg plan.
03:39Now, the Kellogg plan, I don't think it has any prospect of success,
03:46but at least it does take into account some of the realities that the Russians occupy huge territories of eastern Ukraine,
03:55that they are in control of Crimea, that none of that is going to be reversed,
04:00that the Russians adamantly oppose Ukraine joining NATO,
04:04that so long as Ukraine exercises or purports to exercise or intends to exercise the rights to join NATO,
04:12the conflict in Ukraine is going to continue.
04:16The Europeans reject that wholly.
04:19They rejected the plan in its entirety.
04:23They backed Zelensky to the hill when he rejected the plan entirely.
04:28I was reading in the British media, UN officials, named EU officials,
04:36including a political ally in Germany of Friedrich Metz,
04:41and this person is a member of the CDU and a named MP within the CDU,
04:47say that for the Europeans, they have two red lines.
04:51One is recognition of Crimea or indeed of any Russian territory or any Russian controlled territory.
04:57There must be no recognition of them because that would supposedly destroy the rules-based order
05:04that has preserved peace in Europe and all that nonsense.
05:07That's one thing they said.
05:09The other is that there can be no question of in any way compromising Ukraine's,
05:16on Ukraine's right to join NATO.
05:18That is an absolute inviolable, inviolate thing.
05:23Now, notice that they are not coming up with any proposal,
05:30alternative peace proposal of their own.
05:34The war in Ukraine is being lost.
05:38They've heard that the Americans are preparing to walk away.
05:42The amount of military equipment being sent to Ukraine from the United States is diminishing.
05:47They're in no position to replace it, and they know that perfectly well.
05:51So they're not coming up with any peace proposal.
05:54They are rejecting the American peace proposal, which at least is based on some of the realities.
06:02They want to continue this conflict with Russia in Ukraine.
06:09And it's clear, given that Ukraine is losing the war, that they are prepared to sacrifice Ukraine to that end.
06:19Now, the question is why.
06:21Now, I've come to the conclusion that for the Europeans, for Ursula and her people, for Merzid,
06:28it is no longer a question of defeating Russia.
06:33It is no longer a question of preserving Ukraine.
06:37It is not even about keeping the United States involved in Europe.
06:44It is about preserving the European Union.
06:49It's all about now the existence of the EU itself, because from a European point of view,
06:56what they've come to believe, and I think, by the way, that they are right about this,
07:02is that if there is a peace agreement over Ukraine, it will shatter EU unity,
07:13probably beyond repair, in the sense of the Baltic states,
07:18Poland will reject such an agreement, whatever its form,
07:23whereas other countries, not just Hungary and Slovakia, but big countries like Italy will accept it.
07:34And they will start voting if the EU center tries to preserve the sanctions against Russia.
07:41They will start voting.
07:43These big countries will start voting in the EU council to have vetoing against further extensions of the sanctions.
07:52causing the entire sanctions regime to break down.
07:56Now, that is, for the EU center, a critical danger.
08:05It is almost an existential risk, because exactly as you said at the start of the program,
08:12they have now built the entire project of EU integration, and, by the way, of bringing Britain back into the EU.
08:24They built it around hostility to Russia, hostility to Putin,
08:31this idea that Europe is going to be constructed on the back of opposing, you know, the Russian hordes that are supposedly on the brink of invading Europe and taking it all over.
08:45So, this is what it has all devolved into now.
08:52Exactly.
08:52Exactly.
08:53You want money for climate change?
08:56You got to do it because of Putin.
08:57You want money for the military?
08:58We got to do it because of Putin.
09:00We need a fund for this or that, for infrastructure?
09:03Well, we got to do it because of Putin.
09:04We want to reverse Brexit?
09:06We got to do it because of Putin.
09:07Everything now is built around Project Ukraine, even more specifically around Russia.
09:14So, Russia is going to serve all of the EU's purposes, all of its slush funds, whatever it needs to do.
09:22Censorship, you got to censor it because of Putin.
09:25Cancel elections?
09:26Well, we got to cancel elections because of Putin.
09:29So, Russia is key.
09:30Russia is the platform, the policy of the European Union.
09:36It's the reason that Europe exists now, is Russia.
09:40That's it.
09:41So, if the US is not fighting Russia, then why should the European Union even exist?
09:49And going back to Italy, on a side note, did you read the story about the ICC documents?
09:57Yes.
09:57That never made it to the judge on purpose, obviously.
10:02The Italians, very high up officials.
10:04Yes.
10:04They didn't submit the ICC warrant papers or something like that to the proper court.
10:10And so, there is no ICC warrant against Putin.
10:13I'm not saying that Putin is going to travel to Italy.
10:14No.
10:15But obviously, that shows you the fact that a country like Italy, the third biggest power in the European Union, is obviously there are people very high up who are waiting for the opportunity to break from Ursula's iron fist, from her rule, from her unity.
10:35Obviously, Hungary is a country that is ready to, that has broken away and just needs support.
10:41You have Slovakia.
10:43FISA going to victory day on May 9th.
10:47The European Union is furious.
10:49Orban is saying that he's hinting that maybe he's not going to vote for the renewing of sanctions and the frozen assets.
10:56The EU is terrified about those frozen assets being released back to Russia, because who knows what funny business was going on there.
11:04Absolutely.
11:05Just before you continue with that.
11:07I'm done.
11:08I'm done.
11:08So, all of those things.
11:09All of those things are risk.
11:10All of those things, because on the question of the frozen assets, you remember some months ago, maybe a year ago, you said that they'd probably already dipped into the capital, because the interest was not enough to cover all that they'd been doing.
11:23And I'm sure you're absolutely right about that.
11:26There isn't.
11:27There's 240 billion euros of assets in Euroclip.
11:34When we actually do the accounts, we'll find out that there's an awful lot less.
11:38And, of course, a lot of the interest has already been used, all kinds of things.
11:43The Estonians have already talked about this.
11:45They've already said that if the assets are unfrozen, then European taxpayers are going to take a hammering, because much of that money has already gone.
11:56And they're going to be legally obliged to return it.
11:59And it isn't there anymore.
12:00But that's just the frozen assets.
12:02I mean, there's all sorts of other things that one could say here.
12:06First of all, about Italy.
12:07Let's talk about Italy.
12:08I mean, you're absolutely right about the whole ICC warrant business, about the papers never reaching the judge and all that is clearly done on purpose.
12:18But look at what Italy has been doing quietly without much, you know, attracting a lot of attention over the last couple of weeks.
12:30First of all, Maloney has been to, I think it was Mar-a-Lago.
12:34She's met with Trump in the United States.
12:38She's apparently a very friendly meeting with Trump.
12:42She is not supporting this.
12:45She's never supported.
12:46In fact, she's always opposed the plan to send European troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping force, reassurance force, whatever it is.
12:56Apparently, Italy has stopped sending weapons to Ukraine.
13:00I mean, this has apparently been going on for quite a long time.
13:05And Italy has been quietly, apparently, supporting American moves towards negotiating an end of the conflict.
13:14Italy is not even increasing military spending.
13:18They're not spending two percent of GDP on military.
13:21And they apparently have no plans to do so.
13:26Italy has quietly bailed out of the whole Project Ukraine project.
13:33I mean, they bailed out of it.
13:36They've done it in a very clever way.
13:38They've done it in a way that doesn't attract attention.
13:41Maloney still goes to all the meetings.
13:43She doesn't say very much.
13:45When she does say things, she says it very much to the point.
13:48But in all practical terms, they're out.
13:53Now, all the other countries that you mentioned, Hungary, obviously, Orban, is saying that he's going to veto any rollback of sanctions.
14:00If there were a deal, he probably would do it because he would have the Americans and the Russians behind him.
14:07And not just the Americans and the Russians, but a lot of other people, too.
14:11Fico is in open mutiny.
14:13He's going to Moscow for the 9th of May.
14:16Nothing will persuade him not to go.
14:20And, of course, in other countries, you see simmering rebellions as well.
14:25In Germany, as we saw, the eye of death continues to grow in strength.
14:30In France and Britain, well, we talked about reform, but there's also opposition to Macron in France.
14:38And, of course, in Romania, one of the courts have now overturned the decisions, the administrative decisions to bar Giorgescu from participating in the elections.
14:53There's now a huge new political – there's now attempts to get higher courts to overturn it.
15:03We've had French officials – remember we talked about the presence of the French troops in Romania?
15:10And that might be one of the major reasons why the EU generally were so keen to prevent Giorgescu being elected.
15:25Anyway, the French are apparently meeting with all kinds of top officials in Romania.
15:32And apparently – and I haven't seen this – I haven't seen reliable confirmation of this, but I've seen reports about it.
15:40The Electoral Commission in Romania are saying that if the court order stands, allowing Giorgescu to participate in the elections, they will defy it.
15:53They will simply ignore the court order.
15:55So you can see that there is a battle underway right across Europe.
16:02And how do you preserve EU unity?
16:05How do you move forward with every single part of the project?
16:10How do you start getting people to agree to – states to agree, Germans to agree to euro bonds, war bonds as they will initially be, but ultimately euro bonds as well.
16:24How do you get all of that done?
16:26You do that by prolonging the conflict, by telling people in Europe that there's this existential conflict with Russia,
16:33that the Russians are on – that the Russians are coming, that the Russians are at the gates,
16:39that we have to rearm and re-equip and centralise everything.
16:44The Americans are leaving us.
16:46We've got to build up the European army to hold the Russians back.
16:52We've got to do all of this industrialisation, which is, you know, to underpin rearmament,
16:59and it's all got to be organised in Brussels, they want to continue to be able to say that,
17:06because that's the only way now that they can scotch all of these dissident forces
17:13that are starting to develop across Europe, bring the Italians back into line,
17:20get the British back into the EU, crush, Orban, Fitsa, and all of the others,
17:29ban the IFD as a pro-Russian party.
17:34That's the only way they can do it, by keeping the war going.
17:37Reverse Brexit as well.
17:39Reverse Brexit, absolutely.
17:40So basically they need time.
17:41What the EU is fighting for is time.
17:45That's right.
17:46And I wonder what their timeline is.
17:48Is their timeline another year, a year and a half, in the sense that they're saying,
17:55you know what, let's wait out Trump.
17:58We're not going to be able to beat the United States.
18:00No.
18:01We're a vassal to the United States.
18:02We are a vassal to the United States.
18:04We know it.
18:05So let's wait out Trump till the midterms.
18:10Exactly.
18:10And then maybe we'll get the Democrats in there,
18:12and then they can start investigations on Trump, and then we're in the clear.
18:15Or is it, let's wait out Trump until the next elections,
18:19and maybe not only will we not have, we'll also have a Democrat in one of the chambers in Congress,
18:28but maybe we'll also get a Gavin Newsom president or someone as president who's just going to go to,
18:36who's going to default to Obama, Biden, foreign policies.
18:40So is the plan, let's wait out Trump until the midterms,
18:47or is it let's wait out Trump until the next election cycle?
18:51So in order to wait out Trump so they can get back to the good old days with Biden,
18:56with a Biden-Obama type of administration in the US,
19:00it's important that they keep the conflict in Ukraine going,
19:06even if they have to sacrifice all of Ukraine.
19:10Maybe Ukraine can last another year or two.
19:13If we could just give them enough support,
19:16they can last a year or two,
19:18and then we've got changes in the US.
19:20Absolutely.
19:21So is that the timeline?
19:25Absolutely.
19:26Can I just say something?
19:27I think that the key is the midterms.
19:31Because the other thing about Ukraine is that Ukraine is the issue of Ukraine,
19:36the topic of Ukraine,
19:38not only helps the EU to preserve its own unity,
19:43but it's also the issue,
19:46the one issue that the Democrats have,
19:49and which is bringing them all together.
19:52Because at the moment,
19:53the Democrats look to be in a very, very bad shape indeed.
19:57I mean, they're continuing apparently to sink,
19:59in spite of all of Trump's problems.
20:02But clearly,
20:05you want the Democrats to come back
20:08and come back strong in the midterms,
20:11to at least recapture maybe the House,
20:14even if they can't manage the Senate,
20:16but at least something to put Trump on the defensive,
20:21to then bog Trump down in all kinds of investigations
20:25and all of those sort of things.
20:28So I suspect the calculation is
20:31that you only have to wait until the midterms.
20:34I think the view,
20:37the conventional wisdom in Europe,
20:41is that Trump's popularity is going to implode.
20:44I'm not saying this is going to happen,
20:45but I think that's what all of these people
20:47are saying to each other.
20:49Trump's popularity is going to implode
20:51because there's going to be a recession
20:52in the United States.
20:54The tariff policy isn't going so well.
20:56All of that.
20:57Trump's popularity is going to implode.
20:59The Democrats will sweep back in
21:00with the midterms.
21:03Then we're through the danger point
21:07if we can keep Ukraine going until then.
21:11Fine.
21:13We're through.
21:14We've come through.
21:15What happens to Ukraine after really doesn't matter anymore.
21:19And of course,
21:20you use Ukraine to hold things together in Europe
21:24and you use the topic of Ukraine
21:28to hold the Democrats together as well,
21:30because at the moment,
21:31as I said,
21:32they don't look to be in good shape at all.
21:35And they're very unpopular,
21:37even with most of their own voters.
21:39Yeah.
21:39And it gives the EU the time that it needs
21:43if they get a result that's favorable to them
21:46in the midterms in the US.
21:48It gives them the time that they need
21:49to get Italy back in line
21:51to regime change Orban
21:54to regime change FITSO
21:56to ramp up the censorship
21:58to put in place CBDCs
22:01and digital currency
22:03and all that for the euro.
22:04It gives them time to do all of these things
22:06to create big, massive slush funds
22:07for defense spending,
22:09big, massive slush funds for climate
22:11and all of that stuff.
22:12Yeah.
22:14So they need to keep Ukraine fighting.
22:19Exactly.
22:19Sacrifice Ukraine, even.
22:21Sacrifice Ukraine in order to keep the whole
22:25Russia is our enemy narrative going
22:29in order to give them the time they need
22:31to build up the center of Brussels.
22:37Exactly.
22:37Build up the strength in the center.
22:39Yeah.
22:39Because to state it again,
22:42if your priority was not just to preserve Ukraine,
22:46but to preserve the existing setup in Ukraine,
22:51which is what they say,
22:52they would be backing the Kellogg plan.
22:55Yeah.
22:56David,
22:56the Kellogg plan
22:58is the best possible plan
23:00Ukraine
23:01can
23:03hope
23:04to get
23:05when Trump says
23:06that if this goes on long enough,
23:08there won't be any Ukraine left.
23:09what he said,
23:11you know,
23:11in his latest Truth Social post
23:13that in three years,
23:15you won't have your country.
23:17He's absolutely right.
23:19But
23:19no one,
23:21notice,
23:22no one in Europe
23:24addresses that issue.
23:25No one in Europe
23:27actually
23:29addresses the realities
23:31on the ground.
23:32Yeah.
23:32All right.
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