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	Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Cedars.
	This is Tuesday the 2nd of December 2025.
	I'm your host Telios and I'm joined today by Josh and Dan.
	Hello traps.
	And we're going to discuss the European establishment's panic about the rise of the AFD, what this shows about Western politics and how to fix Germany and Europe and the West.
	And I think it's fairly easy.
	It's very minimalistic.
	I'm going to give you some suggestions because I don't like always whining all the time without giving practical solutions.
	I want practical solutions.
	Is it press the fix everything button?
	No, it's a bit more complicated than that, but not very complicated.
	Right, so we're going to start with Germany.
	We are going to talk about the AFD and what is happening with it.
	And then use this as a springboard for discussion about European politics and Western politics and discuss about some very worrying trends displayed in Western politics and especially how the establishment is trying to guide the narrative and guide people's attention towards particular matters and try to obfuscate the actual issues.
	So I'm going to start talking about the AFD and everyone is panicking about it, about its rise.
	And let me show you in the federal elections of 2021, they scored 10.2%.
	It's not bad, but it's still not enough necessarily to be the dominant force in politics, certainly with all of those other parties.
	And of course, it's worth mentioning if you're from outside of Europe, lots of continental European countries have more representative systems.
	And so there are lots of multiple parties in which they have to go into coalition with one another.
	It's basically impossible in the German system to have a majority government.
	I think their sort of federal chambers operate on a system where half of it is elected by the region as a first part of the post, but the other half is a party list.
	So you're guaranteed to have a coalition of some sort.
	But I mean, that stat that you just showed us with the 10%.
	I mean, back when that happened, all the other parties basically went out and said, okay, well, we're going to never work with the AFD.
	We're going to give a commitment that we will never form a coalition with them.
	Now, you can get away with that when they're scoring 10%.
	So hopefully for their benefit, it hasn't gone up since then.
	No, it has gone up because I showed you the 2021 federal elections.
	In the 2025 federal elections, they scored 20.1.
	Oh, dear.
	And right now, they are scoring really well on the polls.
	For some reason, nothing works here.
	Oh, well, we don't need technology.
	It was manufactured in Germany, I imagine.
	Right, so let me just use this mouse.
	Right?
	Well, the Germans used to be quite good at making things.
	I think these are all Taiwanese or something.
	Right, okay.
	So right now we have 26% the AFD, according to some polls, ahead of the coalition CDU CSU, which is supposed to be the sort of centre-right coalition, something like the Tories of the UK.
	But the thing is, one of the important things is lots of these continental parties, obviously, they need to go into coalition with their more centre-right, sort of I want to say comrades, but not really.
	They're sort of left-wing in some ways.
	But the problem is that, as we've seen as a sort of demonstrable trend, particularly in France, is that all parties will try and gatekeep out the most right-wing party and they'll go into coalition with people who would normally be their political enemies.
	But it's sort of like a no enemies to my left scenario, whereby, as long as the nasty right-wing party is not getting in, they don't really mind.
	They'll go into coalition with the far left.
	You can see this with the deal Macron did with some very left-wing parties.
	I mean, in the case of Germany, this is leading some nonsense situations where you've got the CDU, which, like you say, is some version of the Tories.
	I mean, it's really the Church of Merkel, is what it is.
	They started off as a sort of Christian Conservative Party, but they've sort of abandoned basically all of that.
	They're going into alliance with the SDP, the sort of German labour, but also the FDP go in there, who are supposed to be sort of free marketeers, and the Bloody Green Party, they're all about deindustrialization in the industrial heartland of Europe.
	So you get these nonsensical coalitions being formed just to try and keep the AFD out.
	And I mean, I know you're talking about the federal elections here, but I mean, it's even more stark in the regions, in the states.
	I've got 16 states.
	And in the case of the eastern part of Germany, with the former eastern states, you know, AFD is now regularly getting, you know, well above 30%.
	Yeah, it has won in several regional elections.
	Well, he's come first.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Not quite the same as winning because they get blocked out, so they don't actually form governments.
	So, what both of you are talking about is the coalition.
	And this is one of the major issues in German politics.
	And this is one of the reasons why the AFD is rising all the time, because these coalitions form together and everyone sees them as acting together.
	And it is usually an issue of who just leads the coalition.
	Because before we had the SPD that was leading the coalition, we had Chancellor Olaf Schultz.
	Now they lost, and we have the CDU leading the coalition.
	But they are governing with the same party.
	So it looks like they are just in it together and they form the establishment, what in some circles some people discuss as the uni party.
	And all that actually changes is who leads it, whether it's going to be the leader of the more center-right or the leader of the more centre-left.
	And the absurd thing here is as well that it's basically a coalition of neoliberals and they're gatekeeping out the AFD, trying to make out that they're the scary far-right party.
	They're basically the National Socialists all over again when actually you read their manifesto and they're classical liberals.
	They're still within the liberal framework of Germany, which its constitution enforces.
	I mean, I'm not going to use the term neoliberal to discuss them because I think that's a BS term that the left is using all the time to discuss, to describe everything they dislike, just like some right-wingers use liberalism to describe anything they dislike.
	But yeah, we do have, let's say, social democrats and centre-right people, and the centre-right in Europe seems to be ideologically tied in a sort of not ideologically, but habitually tied in a long process of trying to signal virtue to the centre-left.
	So we have just like the Tories right now, they try to out-left labor.
	Lots of centre-right conservatives within quotation marks in Europe are trying to show that they are multicultural.
	But they're only centre-right, really, in the existing paradigm of politics.
	They're not necessarily, if you look at the vast sum of all that is possible in the world of politics, they wouldn't necessarily be classified as centre-right.
	And if you look, I don't know, 70 years ago, they'd be seen as radically left-wing, wouldn't they?
	Are you hinting that no extant German political party has what it takes to save Germany at this point?
	Well, I think their best chance is potentially the AFD.
	But I understand that the hands are somewhat tied given the way in which Germany is structured post-war.
	Right.
	So here we have another poll that says that the AFD scores 27%.
	There are several polls that say that it's right now the number one party in Germany.
	And it keeps rising.
	In the federal elections I showed before of 2021, they were 10.2%.
	Then they went to 20.6%.
	They nearly doubled.
	No, actually, they more than doubled their percentage.
	Now they seem to be close to 26, 27%, which means that unless the CDU change course, yeah, the rise of the AFD will keep happening.
	And people like Robin Brooks are asking themselves, there's only one question for Germany.
	What policies will stop the inexorable rise of the AFD, which is heading for 30% in the polls?
	This will literally tip Europe if it continues.
	Germany with AFD in government won't stand up to Russia, and it also won't stick with the Euro.
	I hope it won't literally tip Europe.
	I mean, that would be some major geological change if that were to happen.
	So it might be the point he's making isn't necessarily untrue, that with the AFD leading in Germany, Germany tended to be the sort of tends to be the center of Europe, both geographically and politically a lot of the time.
	But also it's funding Europe.
	Exactly.
	And I think that that's why it has that power in the first place, is that it has the economic power.
	And of course, this is also waning, but still, the rest of Europe isn't exactly doing too well relatively anyway.
	There are some success stories.
	I know that Poland is still doing quite well.
	Denmark's doing quite well.
	So there are two border countries with Germany that seem to be doing okay.
	Although, of course, there are questions about the migration to both of those.
	Still.
	Yeah, I think that this rise is in some respects really close to the rise of reform in the UK.
	And if we are to make this, let's say, analogy, we have to ask, you know, what sort of people vote for reform or who wants to go and vote for reform.
	And I think that something very similar happens in Germany.
	Well, I mean, the polling in both cases is led by young men.
	Yes.
	But also, I think you mentioned in a previous conversation we had with Carl, either you or Carl said that Lib Dems are British people with gardens.
	And when it comes to reform, it's British people without gardens.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I think that this is really insightful.
	Because when we're talking about people with gardens and people without gardens, it's not an issue of the haves and have-nots.
	That's not where I'm getting towards.
	It's an issue of whether some people want to be shielded from the decline that rampant multiculturalism is bringing upon Europe.
	Yes, if you haven't personally felt it yet, you can afford to have some daft political notions.
	Well, yeah, because whenever you see the more centerist in our political paradigm, Lib Dems, and I imagine it's going to be similar in Germany.
	It's usually in small villages where they're not touched by these sorts of things.
	But as we're seeing across all of Europe, these sorts of things are permeating everywhere.
	There was a case of that 16-year-old lad in France that was living in a village of no more than 160 people, and a bunch of Muslims turned up to their Festivities, I don't know what the occasion was necessarily, and just started stabbing people.
	And if it can reach people that are in about as a remote town as you possibly could, because that's very small in this day and age, isn't it?
	Then, not to sound too hyperbolic, but this is how people will see it.
	Nowhere is safe.
	The wealthy areas are sorting to tip.
	I mean, the rough map of Germany, if you look at the states, is the east, they're polling at around 30% in the sort of state elections.
	In the industrial heartland, which is mostly West Germany, that is still sort of 20% they're polling.
	But then in the rich bits of Germany, the sort of north bits and the south bits, the sort of shipping lanes, the export areas, the place where the finances occurs, they're closer to sort of 10, 12%.
	So again, it's just working on the economics.
	The more desperate your situation, the more likely you are to go for AFD.
	And the significance being in terms of sort of actual governance is in these state parliaments, if you could form the coalition, be the head of the coalition, you get the control of the executive apparatus.
	And actually, it's quite a lot in Germany.
	It's police and lots of state broadcasting, education.
	There's a lot that goes with the power.
	They're actually quite powerful, these state units.
	But if you're going to try and block it, which is what the other political parties have been doing, I mean, that just starts to become completely unviable when they're getting about a third of the vote.
	And the reason being is that the absolute minimum you need to form a coalition is you need to be able to pass a budget.
	And that can be as simple as you do a coalition deal where they just abstain from voting on the budget.
	So they don't necessarily work with you, but they abstain from voting on the budget.
	And then because you're the largest party, you can get your budget through and then you get the controls of the apparitions of state.
	But when AFD are polling up around sort of 30%, you've got these increasingly tenuous coalitions.
	And, you know, something like the FDP and, well, I mean, any of them, SDP or even the Lincoln, I mean, they just can't function together.
	Yeah, they seem to strike a chord with the Zumers and the German working class.
	And they seem to be doing it really well.
	I don't think that it's an issue of any kind of civic humanist desire for civic participation or something.
	It's an issue of solving some very few problems.
	I think that's how they view things.
	I think a lot of them would just go out of politics if they thought that the more establishmentarian parties would adopt some of their policies.
	That's my hunch.
	Maybe some wouldn't, but I think that this is, generally speaking, the sort of temperament.
	Well, the problem is they kind of poison the well on this stuff.
	Because they've been building these coalitions, what they've done is they've cemented in especially young men's mind that all of these parties are the same, that they're the unit party.
	And then you combine that with the talk, and I'm sure you're going to come on to the efforts to try and ban the AFD.
	And again, that is just cementing everybody's view that the only alternative to basically all of them is going to be the AFD.
	And so it's pushing people.
	Plus, and they have tried the thing that you sort of suggested there, which is taking their policies, but they do it as talking points only, and then they don't govern that way.
	So again, everything is reinforcing that you have to go AFD.
	And there's also the aspect of the sort of thing that attacking Donald Trump constantly or calling Nigel Farage racist in Britain does, where not only does it get their name out there and give them the name recognition to the point where Nigel Farage is now the most recognised politician in Britain, obviously Donald Trump the same in America, that doesn't really work when your country doesn't work either, right?
	Yeah.
	So you've got to really be living it up large to be able to say, listen, these people are going to upset the good thing you've got going on.
	When you've got decline, an obvious decline and rapid decline, as you've got in Germany and many other European countries, then saying this person is dangerous, they stand against what we stand for.
	Well, people associate advertising.
	Yeah, people associate the union party with managed decline, basically.
	That's exactly what it is.
	Well, to be fair with Germany, it's more like managed demolition at this point.
	Well, yeah, there's a lot of self-sabotage.
	I want to go back to something you said before, because I think that this is ultimately what the issue is: is that there is a very large number of people in Germany who like the AFD rhetoric.
	And instead of trying to listen to it, the other parties have said, no, we're going to marginalize you and we're going to call you Nazi, irrespective of whether you are a Nazi or not.
	So I think a beginning of an answer to this question is that the German government must stop acting as if opposition to rampant multiculturalism makes one a Nazi.
	Because that's what's happening.
	And we see this across the entire West.
	There are people who are saying we don't think that ideological multiculturalism is working.
	It has so many problems.
	It brings so many problems and destruction.
	And all the state does in response to them is just manage decline, the micromanagement of things getting worse.
	And the more people see this, they cannot unsee this.
	And the response of the establishment, where they are trying to hide this, is, we're going to call you a Nazi, we're going to call you a racist, we're going to call you an extreme right-winger.
	So this doesn't work.
	Yes.
	It's also a tough sell because I'm obviously no historian, right?
	But when I think of the National Socialists and their leader, I don't think of a lesbian.
	Yeah, I don't think of a lesbian whose partner is Sri Lankan.
	Yeah.
	You know, I could be wrong.
	Maybe I've just read the wrong books, but that's not the impression I got learning about the mid-century.
	Why do so many right-wingers, by the way, have foreign spouses?
	You must have noticed that.
	So many right-wingers do.
	If you go to, like, I remember back in the game going to some UKIP things, and everybody there's got, like, an Indonesian wife or something.
	It's like, I'm sure there must be a reason for it.
	I'm just not sure what it is.
	There are many.
	There are many.
	When you've got a foreign wife, haven't you?
	She's Greek.
	There you go.
	But also, I know some reactionary spaces that have a lot of trans people and people who sleep with them.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, they pose as reactionary vanguards.
	Oh, right, yes.
	That might be something else, though.
	Yeah, name shall not be mentioned.
	Right.
	So we're going here to the political article talking about the attempt by German lawmakers to ban the AFD.
	So if you're discussing for years to ban a party on the grounds that it's extremist, well, the question is, is it actually extremist?
	If you cannot convince people that it is actually extremist, because you are the boy who cried wolf, because you see everything as Nazi, yeah, it's going to backfire.
	And even most of them understand this.
	That's why they didn't move forward with it, because they want a supermajority, I think around two-thirds, to ban the AFD as extremists and they just didn't have it.
	And they thought that banning it before that would boost its appeal.
	And it would absolutely do this.
	And also, there's the other bit which is the more pragmatic bit is that if you want to do something unpopular, you don't just let it hang in the air and hover for years.
	You just do it and people have the opportunity to change the page.
	They are not doing that, even that.
	So they are, even in terms of bad standards, they are incompetent.
	Yeah, because I, you know, if I were thinking like an evil uni party blob leader, I would want to just get it out of the way, ban them, and then just say, okay, we've done that, moving on, now we're going to talk about how to fix, I don't know, our energy sector, which is what they should be talking about.
	Yeah.
	And we have here the AFD firewall, which is also another instance which confirms what Josh was saying before, that the center-right of, within quotation marks, of Germany is very happy to make a sort of alliance with the left and other leftists' party against the AFD.
	So here we have Germany's conservatives.
	They passed a strict migration motion with votes by the far-right party.
	And they say here that they breached the historic firewall on not working with the far-right.
	It's the sort of custom according to which all the parties are going to form a coalition against the far-right and they're not going to work with the so-called far-right.
	But what happened was that because they made a fuss, they said that no, we're not going to go forward with the support of the AFD, so we're not going to pass the motion.
	So virtue signaling to the left was more important to them than policy.
	Why?
	Because they seem to be basing their whole legitimacy upon the idea that the AFD is a Nazi party.
	And right now, I will say this.
	There are negative effects of contaminating public discourse.
	When everything you disagree with is Nazi, people stop understanding what the term means.
	And if you have 100 Nazis in a place with 10,000 Nazis, you don't have 10,000 Nazis or zero Nazis, you have 100 Nazis.
	This is not something that the German establishment and the left wing want to do.
	I mean, it might actually result in quite a lot of Nazis, because if you spend decades telling everybody that everything they want is Nazi, then sooner or later people will decide that all they want is Nazis.
	That's how they're going to think.
	And that's why terminology is important in the debates.
	If someone is giving you a sort of terminology and you accept it without questioning, you start defining your position in the terms that the opposition wants you to define.
	And this, in some circles, some people want to say, right, I want to show that I'm based.
	I want to show that I don't care about the left.
	But when we're talking about elections, there's the general public.
	And if lots of people start doing this, the general public will vote against them.
	But this, I see it, as a sort of last-ditch attempt to prevent an inevitable trend, because as far as I see it, the growth of the AFD is proportional to the decline of Germany in the sense of the more the uniparty mismanages the country, the more popular they become.
	And that's not going to change because their approach isn't changing and therefore their rise is inevitable.
	And therefore, this is a last-ditch attempt to try and make them sound unappealing, like, look, we're going to lose another war if you vote for the AFD.
	You know, they never heard of Third Times the Charm.
	But the point being here that it's out of weakness that they're doing this sort of name-calling, really.
	As it is with many individuals, when they don't actually have a good counter-argument and a good track record themselves, they resort to name-calling in the hope that it shields them better.
	Because, of course, to the supposed centre-right party, the AFD is the major electoral threat.
	And by siding with the left, it's a short-term solution to have coalition partners, perhaps, and maybe wrangle some governing power.
	However, all it's going to do is further cement the idea that the AFD are the only party that you can trust.
	So it's a very short-term approach to get some, you know, maybe the next cycle, but it will backfire in a longer-term approach, assuming that things continue as they are, of course.
	I mean, put it this way, if I was the AFD, I'd be delighted with that sort of strategy.
	Because it's basically saying, okay, well, you know, I'm the only alternative, and it's just going to push votes their way.
	It's very, very short-sighted, if not incredibly stupid.
	But also, this emboldens leftists, and especially far-leftists, because if you say that the sole goal of politics is to not appease the so-called far-right, you may end up appeasing the far left.
	And that's one thing that keeps happening.
	And because they are appeased, because they appease the far left, the far left becomes emboldened because it's like Millais says, give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
	They are taking a mile.
	And they go out and they are attacking AFD people.
	Now, I'm not going to play it because maybe YouTube has issues with it.
	We're not going to play this.
	It's also a very pathetic punch.
	I have to say it's a very pathetic punch.
	But we do have violence on street level.
	We do have, you know, that's something that presumably they want to not happen.
	I think it's also worth mentioning.
	Often a big deal is made of left-wing street violence.
	And obviously it's undesirable, but these are thoroughly unexceptional people.
	They're not people to be afraid of.
	You shouldn't be put off by them, especially when it's the fate of your country.
	You know, someone who's lived on a diet of vegan and soy isn't going to punch you very hard.
	And you shouldn't be so weak of mind that the threat of, you know, a small group of strange people attacking you should put you off.
	You should care enough.
	And I think that what has happened here a little bit, particularly in Europe, is there's been a bleed over from the United States where there is a legitimate threat, obviously, with lots of incidents of fatal shootings and the like of right-wingers from the left.
	And people see that lethality and they think, okay, it's only a matter of time.
	But although there are attacks, it's not on the same level of lethality in Europe as it is.
	And obviously it's still unpleasant, but it shouldn't be enough to put people off following the politics they believe in.
	This is what the left has always been.
	I mean, if you go back 150 years and look up anarchists, they're just called them anarchists back then.
	The left has always done this.
	They can't get what they want through persuasion, so they just attack people quite ineffectively.
	But every so often they get a Franz Ferdinand or something and all goes a bit crazy.
	I mean, they are extremists in the temperament.
	Unless you give me everything, you have given me nothing, and you're an existential threat to my existence.
	That's how the extremists think.
	What you said before is absolutely correct.
	The establishment seems to be working for the AFD inadvertently, but it seems to be working because the way they operate sends votes the AFD way and deprives votes from themselves.
	That's why occasionally both the SPD before when it led the governing coalition and the CDU now that it governs the coalition have occasionally made statements that indicate a tough stance on migration.
	But there's a question that How sensible are they and how convincing are they?
	Last time when it came to Schultz, he made some statements about it.
	People for about a week were ecstatic.
	Some right-wingers would say that, well, listen, Schultz is more right-wing than the CDE.
	And then Schultz went to Uzbekistan, he signed a deal and he said, well, let us increase migration flows to Germany from Central Asia.
	Now, Friedrich Mertz is saying that Syrians no longer have reason for asylum in Germany.
	And he says that the Syrian civil war has ended and they have no reason to be given asylum there and they should all go back.
	But the question is, what is he going to do about it?
	If his governing partner is pro-migration, which is the SPD, is he going to break the firewall and pass this with the AFD and then be seen as the person who somehow collaborates with the far right?
	Or is he going to just do nothing, wait for a few weeks for the polls to somehow turn more to his favor or to micromanage the decline of votes in this case and just do nothing?
	There's a big question there.
	I don't know what's going to happen.
	Most likely, I think it's going to be the same.
	And that's why he seems to be doing it.
	One of the features of modern politics across both sides of the Atlantic is that lots of political leaders basically do headline phishing where they say things that sound great, attract voters, and then just do nothing about it.
	Trump's quite guilty of this sometimes.
	He sounds a lot better in headlines.
	And when you actually look at the practical things he's done, it's like, oh, okay, actually, you've done a lot less than you've claimed you were going to do.
	Of course, there are many reasons for that.
	However, it's still an important point that you can sound good.
	And if you only go by headlines, which many people do, then it can help people in terms of their public image.
	And it's just a cheap tactic, in my opinion.
	I think it's far better to say, here's how I'm going to do this thing, rather than saying, I'm going to do this thing.
	Show your workings, not just I'm going to get to this end result, and that's it.
	Or show a result, because I mean all that happened with this.
	It's even better, yeah.
	People just turn up and say, and they say, where are you from?
	And they'd be like, oh, well, not Syria.
	Somewhere else.
	And okay, fair enough.
	Come in then.
	Now, as we said, there are very adverse effects with rampant multiculturalism and an ideological stance towards it makes one unable to see them or makes one unwilling to see them.
	And especially those who live in a particularly seclustered, secluded environment, they don't come into contact with these problems as other people do.
	And they have the privilege to create a delusion around themselves and accuse as extremists everyone who is pointing their attention towards these problems.
	Now, if you believe Die Welt, you will see here that they say that immigration has not raised German crime rate.
	A new study by a top German economic policy institute has confirmed the academic consensus.
	There is no correlation between increased migration and a rise in crime, despite the political debate.
	Even if they've approached this as honestly as possible, there are multiple ways you could have that result.
	So say there have been changes in police practicing.
	Maybe increases in technology and surveillance has meant that crime has been naturally falling anyway and it's been able to mitigate crime.
	So the crime by the native Germans has actually gone down massively, but then the decline has been reduced by the foreign population basically propping it up.
	Because I don't remember before the age of mass migration any instances of Germans mass slaughtering each other at Christmas markets and things like that.
	And what it also fails to acknowledge is the nature of crimes.
	If you lump all crimes together, you know, and say crime is just an abstract concept.
	You know, maybe petty thefts have gone down.
	Maybe people are more wary in major cities.
	And it's not even anything policing related.
	And this is affecting the numbers.
	Like these sorts of headlines, they may sound very positive.
	There's so much devil in the details here that needs to be explained.
	I'd like to know, for example, is stealing a Mars bar counted as one crime and is driving a BMW into a Christmas market counted as one crime?
	Because, you know, I can tolerate some crimes more than others.
	So if you look at this report, it cites the latest national crime stats from 2018 to 2023 with location-specific data.
	And they say migrants tend to settle in urban areas where there is more population density, nightlife, and more people in public spaces at all hours of the day.
	That means that the general crime rate is higher and crime suspects are just as likely to be German as of foreign background.
	Right, so it's the city that does it.
	But let me just show you what it says about 2023 and 2025.
	So there are data ever since from 2023 onwards that suggest the exact opposite.
	So they say here we have this article by the European Conservative.
	Foreigners behind 40% of violent crime in Germany.
	According to a report, a sharp rise in rape and sexual assault cases has sparked alarm among official and the public alike.
	And that's one of those crimes that if you were to pick crimes going on in your country, that would be one of the ones you really wouldn't want going on.
	Yes, and it's what you said, Josh, before.
	It's people who are saying that in some respects crime goes down, but when it comes to violent crime, it goes up.
	And we see this pattern across Europe.
	We see some groups overrepresented in crime.
	Well, we can look at the Danish data, of course, just north of the border with Germany.
	They keep very good data.
	I'll be talking about them later on, in fact.
	Not their data this time, though.
	And we see that people from specific parts of the world are far more likely to commit violent crimes or sex crimes.
	And we've got the same data in Britain that shows the same trend.
	And it's the same in Sweden.
	It's the same in lots of other countries that actually collect this data.
	And I don't know how publicly available it is in Germany.
	You very rarely see it.
	I would imagine that they're of the mindset of we're not going to publish a breakdown by nationality or ethnicity.
	But of the countries that do, all of the trends seem to complement one another, which seems to suggest that it's probably going to be the same in Germany.
	And that many people from areas like sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle East or some parts of Asia are far more likely to commit crimes in Germany than your average German citizen.
	And also a more fundamental point, who gives a toss about their numbers?
	I mean, you get these academic institutions who put together these studies that say that, you know, the crime numbers are whatever the hell they say they are, which we don't believe.
	But I remember back to about 11 months ago, being kept up till about 4 o'clock in the morning because I'd seen some footage on X of the last Christmas market attacks last Christmas.
	Saying it was in Magdeburg.
	Yeah, I think it was right.
	And seeing an image of a mother sobbing over half of her child because the attack there.
	You can come out of all the solid numbers you want.
	After you see something like that, you're not going to be persuaded that a bunch of academics have done some figures.
	Here we have this article by Bild.
	Do check it out.
	You can translate it from German to English and it cites reports of the federal police, not something that some academics somewhere conjured.
	It talks about the federal police report and it says how in cases of violent crime, it goes up and some groups are overrepresented in it.
	And of course, there's the very obvious point that it's different if a native German commits the crime than someone who has been allowed into the country because the native German, you know, they've always been there.
	Whereas the person allowed into the country, that is a policy decision.
	That is the responsibility of the government fundamentally and their criteria for allowing people into the country.
	And therefore, it is fair to put more scrutiny on the foreigner doing the crime because they had less right to be there because they aren't German.
	I mean, if you travel to any Southeastern Asian countries, it's very unwise to drive there because they basically have the policy.
	Whereas if there's a traffic accident, for example, even if it was clearly the fault of somebody else, you know, you were stopped and they ran into the back of you, you'll get the blame.
	And the reason is, is if you had not been in the country, it would have been impossible for that to have happened.
	And therefore, you were automatically at blame.
	Same logic here, except they flip it around the other way.
	They try and pretend that the government's decision to let somebody in and then they hack people apart or stab them or drive into a Christmas market had nothing to do with the fact that the government let them in in the first place.
	Clearly, bloody did.
	Someone spoke about the statistics and these are statistics of a federal police report.
	And she was convicted.
	She was a member of the AFD.
	She was convicted for inciting hatred, upheld on appeal after using official statistics to warn that Afghan migrants are disproportionately liable to commit sexual violence against women.
	Here we go about this.
	What actually happened to her?
	Did she get jailed or something?
	Or what happened to her?
	I think she got fined around 5,000, 6,000 euros.
	But take that with a pinch of salt.
	Take that with a pinch of salt.
	Go back and check.
	Right.
	So again, we have another article here from the European Conservative that cites new data about it.
	This is from April the 2nd of this year.
	It cites more data that suggests that, again, some groups are overrepresented in violent crimes.
	And what is interesting is that there's a question.
	Why is someone persecuted for citing the evidence that federal sources give?
	And the answer is very simple.
	She spoke about them with an angle that is not the angle that the establishment wants people to view things.
	And when it comes to this to crime, there is a sort of dual conflicting nature or conflicting approach towards reporting it.
	Because on the one hand, half the establishment will say it doesn't happen.
	And those who will say it does happen will have to give a narratival twist.
	And the narratival twist is always economic.
	It is never cultural.
	And when it's economic, they're saying if some groups are overrepresented in crime, just as the evidence suggests, the only proper remedy is not being tougher when it comes to policing or something.
	The only proper remedy is to tax more the natives and give more money to these groups.
	Because if they're going to get more money according to the leftist logic, they're going to have more opportunities.
	They're going to feel more integrated.
	They're going to feel that they have more of a stake.
	But in the meanwhile, multiculturalism says do not integrate.
	There are two things to say here.
	First of all, that crime and poverty association is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard because there are plenty of instances of poor white people not committing crimes.
	It's a cultural thing, I think, or you could even argue there's a genetic element to it as well.
	But you can look at things like London and the London crime rates.
	The black minority in London, which is 13% of the population in London, I believe it is 61% of knife murders and 63% of gun crime.
	So they're a majority of those crimes, despite being 13% of the population.
	However, they're not the most impoverished group.
	The most impoverished group are Bangladeshis and Pakistanis.
	And so if they're committing over 50% of these crimes and they're also not the most impoverished group, well, that seems to suggest that there's...
	And also, if they're committing over 50% of the crimes, even the leftists who can't get their head around per capita can still understand it.
	Exactly.
	It's so overwhelming that it's indisputable, really.
	Unless, you know, whenever I've pointed out, people don't argue the stats.
	They just say I'm racist for pointing it out, which, you know, is no argument at all, really.
	Sure, yeah.
	And we had several attacks.
	This is the attack that Dan mentioned before last December.
	It was so horrific.
	I mean, I just, I could barely sleep that night when I saw this.
	And if you remember, the Guardian and several establishmentarian voices were saying that this is basically someone who is an AFD supporter and is anti-Islamist.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they were saying this.
	And they were saying that this driver voice support on the social media for the AFD and for Elon Musk, who publicly backed the AFD, saying that it's the only anti-migration party can save Germany.
	So this is disgusting propaganda.
	Yeah, but that goes all over the place.
	And I mean, I'd be particularly interested on the Medenberg thing to hear in the comments from any Germans because German Christmas markets are absolutely fantastic.
	I mean, we have them here, but nothing like the extent the Germans do, though.
	I mean, they really take it seriously.
	I went to a Christmas market in Bath over the weekend with my girlfriend, and it was very different than I remembered it as I used to live in Bath for a while, about six years ago now.
	And back then, it was a lot quieter.
	There were no diversity barriers.
	There weren't those big metal things that stop you driving.
	So there's very noticeable barriers all the way around it, was there?
	And a very large police presence.
	Okay.
	It actually felt a little bit scary, to be honest.
	Like, most people weren't really aware of it.
	They didn't think anything of it.
	But I was able to sort of figure out, okay, well, the police have deemed this a high target area.
	So they put the barriers up.
	There were, you know, more police around that market than I'd seen in all my time.
	Yeah.
	But I'd love to, I mean, that's great.
	I'd also love to hear from sort of any Germans who started going to Christmas markets already.
	I mean, what is it like?
	Because, I mean, I'd imagine if I had a young family in Germany, would I take them to a Christmas market?
	I mean, you'd want to because it's a great experience.
	But I mean, presumably, these things must be surrounded by basically a fortress at this point.
	I mean, it happens every year, every year, sometimes several a year.
	So presumably, you just simply cannot have any Christmas market anywhere in Germany at this point without a sort of roving.
	There was at some point a rumor that German markets, Christmas markets were cancelled.
	That has been contested, but whether, to whatever degree they have been cancelled or kept, there is always this fear looming over people's mind.
	That's why they have the protective barriers.
	Now, one thing to say here is that when it comes to crime and when it comes to people talking about the dangers of multiculturalism, we encounter yet another pattern.
	And I put it here in seven steps.
	Number one, a crime is committed by members of groups the left considers oppressed.
	Number two, the MSM, mainstream media casts aspersion about oppressor groups that imply that the far-right is to blame.
	Number three, when the identity of the perpetrator cannot be denied, mainstream media treats it as an isolated incident that was caused by mental illness and which does not suggest any deeper pattern.
	Parenthesis here, every time someone criticizes their agenda, they're not saying this is an isolated incident of someone who is a right-winger who criticizes us.
	They're talking about a great pattern of far-right epidemic.
	Right, stage number four, politicians and establishmentarian voices make performative expressions of sympathy to the victims and their families.
	Stage number five, after the empty virtue signaling session, they will scaremonger about the far-right and make irrelevant remarks about fascism and Nazism, whose purpose is to frame every person who doesn't buy into the progressive narrative as an enemy of society in progress.
	Stage number six, those who challenge the dominant narrative are met with content-wise, irrelevant screeching about racism and extremism, whose only person is to divert purpose is to divert attention away from the dead ends of the progressive paradigm.
	And number seven is business as usual.
	And business as usual involves the proposal of half measures.
	When there was the Solinger knife attack, they said, let's ban knives.
	This is the previous Interior Minister, Nancy Faser.
	They say ban knives.
	And because right now, crime in trains and train station is going up, especially violent crime against women, also of a sexual nature, they're contemplating women-only carriages.
	I mean, what a literal honeypot that is.
	So they're saying to rapists, by the way, that carriage over there, it's full of young women and no men to stop you.
	I mean, that is not a good idea.
	And by the way, somebody in the comments answered my questions about the Christmas market.
	So apparently, even though the state brings in all these immigrants, the cost of securing a Christmas market falls on the Christmas market.
	So meaning that lots of the Christmas markets have had to be cancelled because they can't afford the security measures.
	So the costs of the security is placed on the Christmas market, but the immigrant, I mean, that is something that the state does.
	We've also got to address the sort of elephant in the room with these Christmas markets is that they're attended by basically people who have grown up Christian, you know, their Christmas traditions, and so it's part of that tradition, isn't it?
	And so it's normally going to be native Germans and there are not going to be any, you know, collateral for groups that the attacker would not want to attack.
	For example, fellow Muslims.
	And here we have the latest disruption.
	This is in Vienna.
	Vienna is in Austria.
	But again, it was disrupted by pro-Palestine protesters.
	Right, and this isn't the only disruption.
	And I want to say that, you know, if the establishment says that it wants multiculturalism and it wants to respect different religions, then you can't have the religious festivals of one group undisrupted and saying that every sort of disruption or protest is evil far-right extremism on the one hand.
	And then when you have something like this, it's business as usual.
	It's just the voice of the oppressed.
	This is absolute nonsense.
	And this isn't just what is happening, there is also the economic aspect of it.
	And it seems like the German establishment for a long time now has suffered from the green craze.
	And not just the green craze, but also more socialist and central planning kind of madness that is attached to EU policies.
	And they seem to be doing the unthinkable.
	They shut down their nuclear reactors.
	This is just like this is saying we are not going to embark upon the journey that all modern countries must walk into.
	We're going to turn our back to technology.
	Meanwhile, everyone else won't do it.
	It's like trying to drive to work, but insisting that you're not going to put any petrol in your car.
	Doesn't work.
	It's like the head of policy was Ted Kaczynski.
	They're trying to sabotage all innovation in Germany.
	And of course, the foundation of which, the foundation of all German industry is cheap energy.
	So by making energy more expensive or just non-existent in shutting down power plants, all they're doing is devastating all of that industry that remains because, of course, a lot of it's been outsourced to places like China.
	And before that, Russia and cheap gas.
	Exactly.
	And if you are to be a modern industrial country, particularly a developed one, you need to have that cheap energy nailed down.
	Germany can do that.
	It's not in a position where it can't have cheap energy because of any circumstantial thing.
	The decision is entirely political.
	And it is an act of self-sabotage because, you know, to thrive economically, as Faras often says, you need two things, which is cheap food and cheap energy.
	And that is very, very true, that you need those two things.
	Obviously, there's more to it than that.
	But those are the two building blocks to which all of the others emerge.
	And neither of those things are being done because things like net zero are antithetical towards making things affordable.
	And now I want to give a few practical tips for the EU establishment.
	Number one, you need to understand where we are.
	We're at the stage where those who can't shut up about Weimar and the dangers of appeasement are doing all they can to appease those who are explicit about hating Western civilization.
	And I want to say that what they should do is basically do what they are doing in a very small scale.
	If you look at the Belarus and Poland border, the Polish-Belarusian border, you will see lots of members of the EU, like Donald Tusk.
	He's not exactly a very conservative figure.
	I mean, should go without saying.
	He was also one of the top officials of the EU.
	If you look at what they're saying and the rhetoric they're using about the border between Poland and Belarus, you will say that this is the exact rhetoric of the so-called far-right with migration.
	So here, we have Donald Tusk saying hybrid warfare as a tool of destabilization.
	Lukashenko and Putin are mobilizing thousands of illegal migrants with the help of smugglers, amassing them at the borders of Poland, as well as Finland, Lithuania, and Latvia.
	This is both a lucrative business for them and a serious form of hybrid warfare.
	They're using, if you read this, they're using the same rhetoric that the people they're demonizing are using with all the other borders of the EU.
	So stop being hypocrites.
	Apply what you're applying in these borders to all the borders of the EU.
	It's very simple.
	Turkey is doing the same thing to Europe.
	Greece.
	Particularly Greece.
	Greece, Bulgaria.
	And it's interesting as well because I think it was Libya reached out to the UK government recently saying, listen, we want to work with you.
	We will help you restrict migration for free if you just train us to do it better because we're being inundated by sub-Saharan Africans.
	So just help us out.
	And I don't know whether that was answered.
	That was like a free way of solving a problem there.
	Just like we can stop illegal migration from sub-Saharan Africa with Libyan help because it's one of the main ports of entry and they'll do it for free.
	Will they actually do anything about it?
	There are obvious solutions to this.
	And final point is that Putin's Russia does pose threats to the EU and to Europe, but it's not the only threat.
	So the EU establishment should stop acting as if this is the only threat to Europe.
	I mean, one of the things I wanted to do is just quickly point out the scale of the industrial decline that's been happening in Germany.
	So, I mean, this is a chart that sort of shows it all.
	This is German industrial production going back to 1991, you know, to present time.
	And you can see German industrial production was sort of heading up.
	And you get that 2008 dip there, but there was a V-shaped recovery from there and it came back quickly.
	Then you get that sort of sharp downward spike with the beginning of the Ukraine war.
	But I mean, it's already in massive decline there because, I mean, the Greens had come in back here.
	And I mean, this is an absolutely terminal decline.
	You're looking at industrial output that was last seen back in 2005.
	I mean, these people have effectively lost 20 years worth of progress.
	So the growth craze.
	Yeah, through their series of insane economic policies.
	And, you know, I just want to sort of take you back to the 90s and the sort of general view that we had on the Germans.
	Germany basically stood for quality.
	You know, if you wanted to buy a quality car, you bought an Audi or a BMW or, you know, a Mercedes, something like that.
	And they had strong brand as quality.
	If you wanted quality consumer goods, you went and bought a Siemens or a Bosch or I always bought the Milly ones.
	It's still the case in many headphone manufacturers like Sennheiser.
	I presume they're German by the name.
	I'd imagine so.
	Yeah, very odd Chinese name, wouldn't it?
	But I suppose it's possible.
	But yeah, I mean, they were quality.
	And the German industrial model was kind of basically three legs to a stall.
	I mean, one was cheap energy, which are getting from Russia.
	And they were bringing on nuclear as well.
	I mean, the early part of this, when it's all going straight up, they're bringing online nuclear.
	And then it's a highly skilled industrial workforce.
	And the third leg of the stall was exports.
	Now, they kicked out, they've already broken one of those legs of the stall.
	The other one, the workforce, I mean, that was coming under pressure because of aging demographics.
	So that was an issue.
	But Germany had the solution to that is while you have your cheap energy and while you've got your high-skilled workforce, what you do is as your population ages, is you simply transition to more and more automation.
	And as long as the whole model works, you're getting your cheap energy and you've got your existing high skill base and you've got the margins to do so, you can actually just make the transition to automation.
	And it's a smooth transition.
	But because they kicked out energy and they couldn't stop themselves with over-regulating the workforce, they've made it completely unviable.
	So margins have been destroyed before the automation took place.
	I mean, to give you an example of how bad it is, German industrial output fell by 4.3% in August.
	Now, if it had fallen 4.3% in a decade, that would be a crisis.
	If it happened in a year, that would be a catastrophe.
	But 4.3% in a month.
	I mean, that is, I mean, that is managed demolition at this point.
	I mean, I'll show you this.
	This is vehicle manufacturing.
	And again, what was happening at the beginning part of this where the line is just sort of sloping straight up is they were selling into, well, everyone really, including the booming Chinese market.
	And that's kind of fallen off.
	The Chinese are now producing their own cars.
	They've overregulated everything.
	Well, the problem is with these sorts of industries, right?
	You need to have the competitive edge at all times.
	If there's a little gap, it allows domestic industry to the countries you export spring up.
	It's the same as having sort of protectionist tariffs, only they don't need the legislation to put them in, because then these industries don't have as much competition in the domestic country.
	And so they can, you know, occupy that niche that the quality German car could once occupy.
	Well, I don't think you can stop foreign markets from having their own sort of domestic supply.
	Of course, but it gives them opportunity to out-compete you.
	But the key thing you want to maintain is you want to maintain the brand image.
	If you're, you know, if China is producing its own cheaper cars, but the premier option is still a BMW or Audio Mercedes or whatever it is, then you still maintain the higher end of that market.
	And actually, that kind of suits you.
	If you're being pushed into a contraction anyway due to workforce, you probably want to focus on the higher value goods.
	But I mean, what's happened to the German economy is starting from the energy level up, the whole industrial base has been knocked out.
	So German was massive on chemicals.
	And chemicals are kind of the star of the industrial chain because they feed into everything.
	They feed into agriculture, they feed into cars.
	I mean, they feed into all of it, really.
	And they're also one of the industries most sensitive to changes in energy costs because they need a tremendous amount of energy to produce them, right?
	Well, the chemical industry is like a big vat.
	You put stuff in the vat and then you blast an enormous amount of energy into it and something happens and you get something else out the other side.
	So I mean, it all hinges on cheap energy, which then feeds into everything else.
	Same as steel.
	Again, big pot, loads of energy goes in, steel comes out the other side.
	And then you're supplying all the other industries that are built on top of it.
	Now, once those things have gone out, which they have done, so all of this is being relocated.
	I mean, one of the huge, I forget the name, but one of the huge chemical firms has just relocated to India.
	The rest of the chain collapses as well, because you might as well do everything else overseas.
	I mean, if you're going to be doing the chemicals and the steel elsewhere, you might as well then do the, you know, the consumer goods and the cars there as well.
	I'll also show you this.
	I mean, this is, so you can see what's happening to the German workforce.
	And this is, I think, oh, this is August.
	No, sorry, September 2025, change over the last year.
	And as you can see, you know, where are the jobs going?
	Well, 75,000 jobs created in care and social care, 66,000 in healthcare, 40,000 in public administration, as if Germany needs more public administration going on.
	And then you look down the bottom and see all the industrial parts of it.
	And, you know, manufacturing sector in total, it's lost 165,000 jobs.
	And of course, they're also very productive and beneficial jobs for the economy, right?
	Yes.
	Of course, you know, care workers and everything are important, but they don't really have economic output in the same way that industry does.
	It doesn't necessarily move your economy forward in quite the same way, does it?
	No, no.
	And I mean, this for me highlights the other issue, which is the, I mean, it's the aging workforce, but also it's the over-regulation of trying to get anything done in Germany.
	Because if you're going to, I mean, put it this way, employment rights and all the extra regulation are an expensive luxury.
	But if you've got a homogeneous workforce, you can kind of afford it if everybody's pulling in the same direction.
	And let's say you're an industrialist and you're looking to hire a couple of lads, but their dad already works at your factory.
	I mean, you don't know what you're getting with them, but you've got a pretty good idea.
	I mean, the apple doesn't fall that far from the tree.
	And so, you know, maybe you don't mind taking these young lads on and giving them all the employment rights because, you know, their father's worked at your firm for 35 years.
	You can kind of see where you're going with that.
	It's a very different situation where you've got a Syrian just off the boat, and you're like, okay, do I want to lock this guy in and make it almost impossible for me to fire him and give him all these workers' rights and just hope he doesn't abuse it.
	It's a completely different situation.
	And they've been trying to get around their problem by just importing people but with massive employment rights.
	And I mean, just to cap this off, I'll just give you a couple of quotes from German industry because German industry is historically been extremely reserved.
	They don't make a lot of public comments, but they're absolutely screaming about it now.
	So the president of the BDI, the industrial locations find itself in a historical crisis, the biggest since the founding of the Republic.
	This is not a cyclical dip, but a structural decline.
	The industrial base is being lost.
	CEO of Bass F, we're losing our competitive.
	It's the deindustrialization of Germany.
	CEO of one of the big chemical firms, Germany is going to become an industrial museum.
	Wacker Chemiki, something German chemicals, excessively high energy prices and bureaucratic obstacles have stopped the development of the German chemical industry.
	The steel industry is saying that it's no longer economically viable.
	The Chemical Association is saying capacity utilization in basis chemicals is lowest at 30 points.
	I mean, to give you an idea of that, 60% of Germany's aluminium production capacity is not being used.
	It's just sitting idle or has already been sent overseas.
	IG metals, whole regions face industrial collapse.
	The chairman of Bosch, Germany is massively over-regulated and is losing the ability to compete internationally.
	You know, I could give you dozens of these quotes.
	Industry is screaming loud and clear, you know, we're dying here.
	We're almost dead.
	And what the hell does Germany have left?
	I mean, what is it going to be producing?
	Sausages?
	I mean, seriously, without industry, and they've built their whole model of, you know, it's not so much as a country, but a guilt project.
	And, you know, the Germans need to do something about it.
	I mean, it's probably, I mean, it is too late to take it back to, because the margins have been lost and the opportunity to automate has already been lost.
	But at least they can recover something now.
	But if they run this much further, the only thing I can see for Germany is being a location for wealthy Asian sex tourists.
	They should start deregulating.
	Definitely.
	They should start deregulating their economy.
	I mean, I guess what I'm saying is, if you don't take the sensible option of the AFD right now, you're going to be forced to have a far, far more radical option.
	And it's not going to be as milk toast as the AFD.
	No, that's very true.
	I think that this is a similar situation to a lot of Europe, really, because these problems that are sort of prevalent in Germany are very similar to those across the entire continent because Europe operates as a sort of policy block, doesn't it?
	Particularly with the EU, everything is sort of uniform to some degree to presumably to encourage trading, but really it's just a sort of socialist experiment.
	But that's just my opinion.
	But things are changing all across Europe.
	And of course, this was from October, so some of it's a little bit out of date.
	He talks about Wilders leaving in the polls in the Netherlands, and actually, they didn't do too well.
	They lost a third of their seats at the last election.
	However, they are still a major party, but they're suffering from a similar problem to the AFD in that it's difficult to find coalition partners that, you know, maybe you can find them, but at the same time, part of the reason that they called an earlier election was because of the difficulties of their coalition partners.
	And of course, one of their criteria was that they couldn't have Wilders being exactly.
	But yes, you've got the right winning in the Czech Republic.
	The Freedom Party won an election in Austria.
	Obviously, we've talked about the AFD.
	Le Pen's national rally were the number one party in France, but they were kept out by a coalition of Macron centrists and the left.
	The Vox Party is rising in the polls in Spain.
	It's now the third largest.
	And the Swedish Democrats are increasing in the polls as the second largest party.
	And so there does seem to be a rightward shift in response to a lot of these problems.
	And that is reassuring because people have correctly identified that it's not right-wing policies that have basically destroyed the economic base of Europe and made it more dangerous.
	It is mass migration and deindustrialisation that has done that.
	It's the welfare state.
	Because frequently you hear the argument that it's the right-wingers more than the left-wingers because you want industry and cheap labor, but it's also the extreme welfareism in combination with mass migration.
	There's no denying that there is a sort of capitalistic element to mass migration in that it doesn't benefit ordinary people.
	In fact, it makes them suffer an incredible amount.
	But it does benefit elites and multinational corporations that aren't necessarily married to the fate of the country that they operate in.
	They can base themselves there for a certain number of years and then move on to somewhere else when the going is good.
	And so they should always be treated as fair weather friends and not be listened to because they don't have the interests of the country at heart.
	But it is reassuring that people in multiple different European countries are identifying the problem here of welfare, of over-regulation, of net zero sabotaging, cheap energy and cheap food and immigration.
	These are all things that are problems across the board and people are actually pushing back against it, it seems.
	And I think that one thing that does concern me is the fate of a country if it fails to resist this sort of thing.
	And I know Ukraine is its sort of own unique case, but obviously it's been used as a proxy to fight the Russians with lots of European money being poured into it.
	And this is sort of your fate of if you lose or if you become part of the hegemon and you have no sovereignty, what will happen is you'll get 10 million labor migrants.
	This is what's going to happen to Ukraine once the war is over.
	They're going to bring in 8 million or 10 million to stay afloat.
	10 million what?
	The Malians?
	Well, the thing is, I've been thinking about this.
	If you're a European, are you really going to move to Ukraine?
	Because, of course...
	No, probably not.
	Why?
	One, it didn't have the strongest economy before the war, so it would be a dip in quality of life for, say, a Western European.
	It would probably be quite easy to find a wife there, though.
	That's true.
	Yeah, that's a dark way of looking at it, but you are right, and they are very beautiful.
	However, Europeans are probably not likely to go there, especially after the war, because the economy doesn't offer them anything to migrate.
	It seems like it.
	It's going to be...
	Yes.
	Who's actually going to capitalise on the ability to move to a European country as a step up?
	Ukraine hasn't suffered enough.
	That's what's going to be inflicted upon us.
	It's going to be Indians, it's going to be sub-Saharan Africans, people who don't mind living amongst the rubble of a destroyed civilization.
	And in fact, for some of them, it's going to be an aesthetic improvement.
	And by the way, I see the Ukraine war as one of the principal achievements of it from a dark point of view is keeping Germany and Russia apart.
	Because, I mean, the great game of European politics for the last 200 years has been keeping Germany and Russia apart.
	And I just see the Ukraine war as an extension of that.
	It seems to be a little bit.
	And I do know that many of the Eastern European countries are taking it a lot more seriously than some of the Western European countries, sort of France and Britain and the like.
	You know, we're far enough away from it that we don't really feel that much pressure.
	But Poland takes it very, very seriously.
	You see all the time them talking about Russia.
	And although we use it as a sort of scare tactic, obviously these countries have a memory of being under Russian control and are genuinely fearful of it because they did suffer under the Soviet Union, obviously.
	So I'm not saying it's illegitimate.
	In the case of Poland, they were sandwiched.
	Exactly, yes.
	And it was a rough time for them.
	So I understand that.
	And their concern, I totally get it.
	They are on the borders of a country that could be hostile to them and has a history of it.
	Are you talking about Germany or Russia?
	Either or.
	But Western Europe, we're far enough removed that we don't need to worry.
	And so our attitudes are very different towards it, which I find interesting.
	We're much more on the sort of, we'll throw in weapons and sort of see what happens.
	You know, we'll pour some of our money in there.
	And it can be a proxy war, and it's more political for us than survival.
	There's a spectator sport over here.
	It seems to be.
	And it's sort of sickening because what's actually happening is a generation of young men have been sent to their death in Ukraine and Russia.
	Yeah, and you get idiots over here sticking Ukraine flags up in their garden, thinking how wonderful they are, that they're supporting this meat grinder.
	It's sick.
	Yeah, it's one of the most gross things that is going on in Europe at the minute, that we're just throwing money at, you know, this is a meat grinder.
	Yeah.
	And destroying our own economies in the process.
	So, you know, great.
	But it's not all just Ukraine that needs to be worried.
	The French as well, you sent me this, Stelios.
	This is from July.
	All Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip will be eligible for the first time to apply for asylum in France.
	Of course, Europe has become the refugee center of the world, apparently.
	If your country is going through trouble, all of a sudden you can live in a much richer country, which definitely is not a bad incentive for people.
	Not to mention the fact that what you're selecting for is cowards, basically.
	This is real.
	If it's men.
	One thing I want to say here is that it does look as if we are governed in Europe in general, both the UK and continental Europe.
	We are governed by people who hate European civilization actively or a virtue signal to those who do.
	Because it looks like all these political parties are trying to show the left how great they are and how progressive they are and how they are the true progressives.
	Well, I think it's because all of Europe lives in the shadow of World War II.
	Because it was such a destructive thing that they process it by saying, well, if we move to the right, therefore there will be camps and people will be killed en masse.
	And there's this sort of leaping logic of if you know if we deport immigrants, it will be just like mid-century Germany.
	Yeah, but there was also the Cold War.
	And the Cold War was between the West and communism.
	It's funny how that's forgotten, isn't it?
	That both of them were threats to the rest of Europe.
	Both of them wanted to conquer a large portion of Europe.
	That is true.
	I mean, two quick points on this.
	I mean, we did come close to camps, and it was over COVID, because several European countries instituted laws against not being vaccinated, and they applied criminal sanctions.
	And Austria, for example, was at the point of having to put 7 million people in camps.
	So we came close to it, but it wasn't because of mid-century German politics.
	It was because of neoliberal politics.
	And just on this...
	It's insane.
	You're going to let the Gaza strip into France.
	That's the thing.
	They're ecophobic.
	They think it's a virtue to hate your civilization.
	It's the opposite of xenophobia.
	And there's an excellent book by Benedict Beckold about it.
	I've interviewed him and discussed with him.
	And he says it's the exact opposite of xenophobia.
	They want to say that, well, we're not xenophobic.
	We're phobic with our own.
	That's just a luxury belief, isn't it?
	It is a luxury belief.
	And the people who do say this are usually people who live luxury lives.
	And they hate their own civilization.
	But they think, in this case, for Gaza, they're very much in favor of the idea of patriotism and self-government for people in Gaza.
	But they say that the same rhetoric is Nazi-ish in Europe.
	They also double standards.
	They equate oppression with being good, don't they?
	Like, if you're an oppressed person, you're somehow more virtuous than the oppressor.
	And the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are oppressed by the Israelis, and therefore they must be good people.
	And therefore, even to question their character and suggest that maybe they cause significant problems in neighboring Lebanon and that's why Lebanon's not taking any of them would be a controversial statement or even a xenophobic statement rather than it just being an observation of reality.
	It's basically living in the world of abstractions.
	Rather than looking at, here's how the Palestinians behave.
	Maybe it's a good idea not to have them in your country.
	Exactly.
	And because it's abstract, their model for understanding things cannot account for massive discontinuities between cultures.
	Some cultures have such a vast difference in how they value things that they can't have rules for conflict resolution and coexistence.
	I know.
	You can't coexist with everyone in the world.
	Everyone knows it.
	Everyone knows that you can't coexist, for instance, with cannibals.
	Right?
	I'm not saying that people in Gaza are cannibals.
	That's not what I'm saying.
	If you go against Papua New Guinea, Stalios.
	Yeah, but no, everyone knows it, that you can't coexist with a cannibal, right?
	So everyone understands this at a very general level.
	The point is, start asking yourself why can't you coexist with a cannibal?
	And why what are you doing when you understand that someone else is a cannibal?
	And why do you want the population of cannibals to rise?
	It's a very strong analogy, but I like it.
	And I think also the correct response to these sorts of things is I wouldn't even grant a tourist visa to a significant portion of the world, let alone allow them to settle in my country.
	It's got to be a very selective group of people with a large degree of cultural overlap that should even be eligible to enter your country full stop.
	you know, for any reason.
	Because of course, if, for example, we took a Papua New Guinean cannibal and dropped him in London, not only would he blend in very well, but also he'd probably cause a large number of problems because he's from such an alien society that he would not be able to integrate under any circumstances and even future generations would not be able to integrate because they've adapted to a way of life that is antithetical to ours.
	Also, we need them.
	I've been thinking about this because I heard the other day that we can't do a study on microplastics because you can't find a control group who don't have microplastics in them.
	So that's why I've decided I really like North Sentinel Island.
	Because even though they're probably cannibals and they kill you on site, they don't have any microplastics.
	And one day we might really need them for a scientific study.
	I'd imagine they probably would have microplastics, though.
	They just everywhere is infected with them now, the whole planet.
	But I'd imagine less so there.
	I would say so, yeah.
	There would be ways of figuring it out.
	But even if you do address these sorts of problems and recognize that migration and all of the policy things we've talked about are problems that need to be reversed, well, unfortunately, you won't be able to do anything about it because the EU will prevent you from doing anything about it.
	And here we've got the Lord of Slop here, Inevitable West, all the way back in January of this year, talking about the Romanian right protesting the fact that the EU basically cancelled the democratic result of the ultra-national state.
	So if you do actually have someone who's going to put your country first, and, you know, obviously Romania doesn't necessarily suffer from the same extent of mass migration as, say, France, Germany, Britain, Sweden, and some of those other countries.
	And even so, they can't be allowed to reverse it.
	Because if you have a country that is doing particularly well compared to some of the others, then it undermines the whole experiment, doesn't it?
	The whole point.
	Well, it shows why democracy is a scam, because it's a rulebook written by your enemies and judged by your enemies.
	So it's not going to get you anywhere.
	Just one thing, he won the first round.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Most probably people, I've been told by some people from Romania that most probably if it went to the second round, he'd lose because others would ban together.
	But yeah, I do remember who was this guy behind the DSA, who was always angry at Elon, who was saying, yeah, we cancelled the elections in Romania.
	We're going to cancel them everywhere.
	I do remember that.
	I can't remember who that person was.
	He's a French one.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, you remember this kind of, you know, he was so, on the one hand, he says, let's protect our democracy and then we're going to cancel all your elections.
	Yeah, that's who rules Europe.
	It was just a mask off moment, really, because they don't actually care about democracy.
	Of course they don't.
	They care about winning, as most people do.
	Like the sort of view of democracy now as this sacred thing that everyone follows the rules of and you know it's all fair play.
	Well, that's out the window in a lot of countries.
	Not just Europe as well.
	And I think actually in countries like Asia, you know, obviously that's not a country, countries in Asia or sub-Saharan Africa, they're at least a bit more honest about it.
	Just like, yes I, I rigged the election.
	Um, you know, I got 98.
	You know, don't look at the ballots.
	Um, whereas we, we live under this illusion that things are fair.
	But of course um, it's just more obscure and less overt in the in lots of countries.
	And so, even if there is a popular movement that gets electoral successes, it's going to face unprecedented resistance from organizations like the EU, even organizations within the country itself.
	It's going to have coalitions against it.
	It's going to have the most difficult rise to power humanly possible, and I think that this is all basically boils down to the fact that they know that they're going to fix the problems and it will make the their opposition look like well, we're the ones that caused all of them and they'll become irrelevant.
	They might even have, you know, there's a limits.
	I think there is a limit to how sort of corrosive they can get for each uh member state.
	So maybe you know, if they have any sense of self-preservation, they should take these uh issues seriously instead of going full authoritarian.
	So this was another thing.
	From may of this year, Telegram ceo Pavel Durov announced, uh, they received a request from the French government to silence conservative voices in Romania, and I don't know quite what to think of this because um, I don't know this telegram ceo.
	I don't know whether he's cooperated with people or what the story is, but i've heard rumblings of you know things, of maybe he's got his own agenda, but who knows?
	Uh, I haven't looked into it, but just you know to make you aware.
	But it is interesting, isn't it?
	I, I could certainly see the French government doing this sort of thing because, of course, we're talking about senior voices in Europe, and France and Germany are now the two most senior voices.
	It seems like uh, Germany is sort of holding the purse strings and the French are holding the sort of uh, they're policing the politics.
	That seems to be this sort of dual role they're occupying within Europe at the minute, and it wouldn't surprise me if, if the EU in intervene, intervened with this election, albeit the first round, that they would also be trying to use other underhanded tactics to silence them.
	But the problem is, of course, for them that, as things get worse, people are going to become less and less concerned by these sorts of methods and say, well okay, you're trying to persecute us, that just means we're right and it's going to make people more extreme.
	Uh, whichever way you look at it, and although I don't necessarily think that um, they're going to allow there to be an easy democratic solution to these sorts of things um, it's going to go more and more in a an extreme, maybe even militant direction in in many cases, if people don't believe that you can rely on democracy, so what they're doing is creating the monster they fear the most by doing these sorts of things, and it's it is very short-sighted,
	and I wanted to uh just end on a bit more of a positive note, I suppose, which is uh, the Danes are quietly doing very well.
	I saw this today and it's a story from Visigrad saying a Danish sperm bank has decided to start IQ tests of donors banning people with an IQ below 85.
	That's racist.
	I know that's terrible.
	How could they do that?
	And Connie Druckpa here points out correctly that by having this social democratic veneer actually you can do very based things.
	Why 85?
	I mean what woman goes with a sperm bank and says I'd like an 87 IQ please.
	I know at least cap it at like 100 average at best.
	But again why lag why would you go for that?
	You should have 145 IQ minimum men and just milk them.
	Is there a little bit of an incentive here Dan?
	Is that what's going on?
	I mean Daniel.
	Why 85?
	I mean that doesn't make it easy.
	If they're going to select for a boundary make it higher in my view.
	But I find it interesting that no one's saying, you know, the Danes, they're being eugenicists, blah, because they have this veneer.
	It's all acceptable politics and therefore they can get away with more.
	And quietly in the background, they've been doing lots of interesting things.
	And Drukpa again has been pointing out some other things of in response to Denmark raising the retirement age, he's basically saying that you can sort of get away with the social democracy sorts of things if you just pay attention to what the data is telling you and quietly do it in the background.
	There was a hilarious incident with a BBC reporter who went to a social democrat in Denmark trying to talk about multiculturalism and the social democrat destroyed him.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Well, it's not surprising really because they've been collecting some of the best data in Europe about migration and it's been incredibly useful.
	They've limited migration a significant amount and lo and behold, they're mysteriously doing quite well.
	I've talked about Poland doing well as well, but of course they're being flooded by migration now to a certain extent too.
	But there's a sort of way out here that if you just pay attention to what the numbers are telling you and make pragmatic choices, you can fix things.
	You know, just quietly do away with the migration, you know, quietly raise the IQ boundaries.
	Be a realist.
	Just look at the world around you.
	Okay.
	User says here, keep going for 10 euros.
	Thank you very much.
	Krish 281 for 10 Euros says, have you considered it's all worth it?
	Because no matter where Piers Morgan goes in Europe, he can have a nice curry.
	Yeah, this interview was two of the people I consider the least credible talking to each other.
	The only thing is as well that on the continent they don't really have that much Indian food.
	Like Indian food is more of a phenomenon in Britain and particularly the Tikka Masala, which of course has its origins in Scotland, albeit dubiously.
	So Piers isn't actually going to be able to get his Tikka Masala in the office.
	This is from Scotland.
	Why isn't it deep fried?
	Comparative history.
	Relatively healthy.
	For £5 says it's more likely that Putin is positioning Russia for the fall of Western Europe rather than invasion.
	I mean, I know I think he did invade Ukraine, but also I don't think that Russia is in such a great state as Tucker says.
	Principled Uncertainty for £10 says the West realized that they could no longer be at the back end call of fossil fuels ingeniously.
	They hijacked environmentalism to make energy austerity a choice, not an imposition.
	Xavier.
	Well, there is something to say about this in that both Norway and Great Britain have the North Sea oil field.
	There's lots of natural gas we can produce.
	Europe need not rely on importing energy.
	Also, France has all of its nuclear power stations.
	Obviously, Germany has some.
	We could rely on that quite easily.
	You don't have to be so cynical about our future there.
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	Good day, lads.
	Bismarck is spinning in his grave along with Kaiser Wilhelm II in Norway, I think.
	Suckduck for five dollars as you're forgetting the official operation of NATO is to keep Germany down and Russia out so they can't have cheap energy.
	Principled Uncertainty for £10.
	How many watts does it take to power Stellios?
	Okay, and we have 141 Paladin for $10.
	Hey Dan, could you explore critiquing the free market from a right-wing perspective?
	I'm not a socialist, but I feel the capitalist class is heavily invested in ruining civilization.
	What can be done?
	Yeah, I mean, that's sort of themes I touch on in Brokenomics, but I'll maybe include a bit more of that.
	The engaged few, that's just what Germany needs.
	Another clutch of economists assuming a can opener.
	Plasma Stream says, I wonder what the Patton Viets is.
	Principal Uncertainty, again about me.
	No man has ever needed to drop an E more than Stellios.
	I will go Eskimo hunting with Eustelios if you want to.
	Okay, Gimli, son of Gloyn, the industry in Germany is starting to side with AFD though, so politics has to follow at some point.
	As if the industry can survive until that point, right?
	Luke Stewart, he is actually giving a good answer to you.
	The reason why a lot of people have foreign wives is that the ones here are mental, and so men have to, what Jesus said in Luke 13, 6, 12.
	I'm going to look that up.
	Okay.
	And we have another one, again by Principal Uncertainty for £10.
	Thank you very much.
	It will never just be the native population versus the foreigners, as most modes predict.
	It will be the visitors and their indigenous supporters.
	Very different numbers.
	Right, should we go to the videos, please?
	Apparently, Jesus, Jesus said, Woman, thou art loose from thine infirmity.
	Okay.
	Wise words from Jesus there.
	Let's go and watch Zesta King.
	Hey again, load seaters, still in Carlisle, and currently I'm at the cathedral.
	Very nice indeed.
	Lovely stained glass there.
	And look at that roof.
	Classic St. George up there, killing your dragon.
	Also, some beautiful medieval war art right here.
	Well, I'm joking.
	Okay, let's go to the next one.
	I didn't realize he was a vampire.
	The spirit of the post-modern leftist Xenophilia seems to- Nope.
	Yep.
	Is this one yesterday?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It is amusing how the physiognomy of the Europodi conference checks out.
	Communism has proven time and again that it is the ideology of spiteful mutants.
	Many of the old traditions we spurn because of their antiquity and lack of tech are turning out to be true, as they were the solution to questions we had yet to formulate, but instinctually knew we needed solutions.
	Maybe we'll see come to pass one of the most notable solutions.
	Savage pagans turning to Christianity.
	Let's go to the next one.
	G'day, Lotus Eders.
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	Let's go.
	Next one.
	Okay.
	Let's move to some of the comments.
	Sophie Liv.
	I'll be extra careful reading your comments, Sophie.
	Ha, yeah.
	Denmark is only doing well in comparison to the countries around us.
	Germany and Sweden.
	What was that noise?
	Being three steps behind Sweden, but going in the same direction isn't exactly great, guys.
	We also have constant increases in Muslim migration and 20% of the population being either foreigners or children of foreigners.
	Sophie's always, every time we say something good about Denmark, Sophie is going to come back and say something bad about Denmark.
	You're a spirit.
	Sophie, I want a good comment about Denmark.
	Well, Denmark has a Sophie, so it's got that in its favor.
	Yeah.
	An extra good news.
	Something extra.
	We know this.
	Omar Wadd.
	It's politically suicidal to ride this tiger to the end.
	If they form the coalition with the AFD, there would be negotiation and compromise and continue to suppress a large block of political will.
	They're ensuring that there will never be a level of contribution, of retribution.
	I mean, that's a good point.
	I mean, what you kind of want is for the AFD to become so dominant in the end that they don't have to compromise, but they don't have to form a coalition with the SDP or something.
	Maybe the Libertarian Party, or they really, really have to do the CDU.
	Or you have a massive, something that could happen.
	You have a massive sort of civil strife within the CDU.
	And half or more goes and forms a coalition with the AFD.
	Maybe, maybe, I don't know.
	I mean, it's also worth mentioning that many people on this podcast are to the right of the AFD anyway.
	And so they're not exactly that radical.
	And it might take a lot more than even what the AFD is proposing to help save Germany.
	Cambrian Kulak says they don't kill you because you're Nazis.
	They call you Nazis so they can kill you.
	That's a Twitter meme.
	Lars Peter Simonson, yes, the AFD is to the right of the National Socialists.
	The National Socialists were a far-left party.
	They were the furthest right party in Germany because Germans are filthy socialists.
	I really like this discussion because it seems to me that there are two fundamentally different ways of carving the political spectrum that people are using.
	So one is the economic, where it says if you don't have a, you know, it's command economy versus free market.
	And they say the Nazis weren't free market, so they're closer to the other bit.
	But the other is the more French Revolution style, where, you know, towards the right and further right, you had people who were basically against the revolution and they wanted to go back to absolute monarchy, although not with populist characteristics.
	I think the Nazis had populist rhetoric in their ideology.
	Michael Brooks says right-wingers like myself have foreign wives because they're more morality similar to us than the weirdo feminist produced by our system.
	Also, having a foreign influence in the house helps you to recognize the great things in your culture that make it unique and thus wants to protect them without the need to hate others.
	Makes sense, actually.
	Brian Tomlinson, when I read of right-wing politicians being locked up for wrong thing, I always wonder whether when the ECHR are going to turn up to protect their right to free political expression.
	They won't because it's the people.
	The ECHR has Article 8 that heavily suggests that there is no such thing as a categorical opposition to deportations from the ECHR.
	So it's much more the people who are behind it.
	The whole concept of human rights is basically just made up, isn't it?
	It's just a political agenda.
	You're not born with these rights, you know.
	I don't think so.
	You're a libertarian.
	Well.
	How come?
	I'm a very specific kind in that, you know, I don't think, I think these rights are basically just like a shopping list of things people want.
	And they don't really have any basis in reality.
	They're just, you know, it's like I could say I have a right to a Porsche.
	Doesn't mean the government should give me.
	I mean, I do have a right to a Porsche.
	By the way.
	Right.
	Henry Ashman says, Germany went mental over nuclear energy and it feels like everything else in the industrial collapse springs from that.
	Going green was worse overall than going nuclear.
	Then that led to a reliance on coal and Russian gas to top up.
	then Russia definitely blew up within quotation marks.
	Definitely the pipeline that was their biggest source of leverage, driving Germany back to call.
	Time Steeler, why do so many right-wing...
	Ah, yeah, we had this Anonymy...
	I went to a German Christmas market in Japan.
	No barriers, safe and extremely clean, especially at night with people drinking.
	Dudley Douchebag says, what is the current opinion of the new Republican movement video that is now circulating?
	Tempest in a teapot to entrap the angry Irish or a movement that intends to be radical trying to not fed post on this new bit of news.
	I haven't seen that.
	It's free Irish boomers in a living room somewhere wearing balaclavas and putting bed sheets up and it shouldn't be read into any more than that because it's just free blokes looking like the IRA.
	It's not to be taken too seriously.
	And last comment, Cambrian Kulak says, Dan, would you do an episode on the Morgenthau plan?
	Financial sovereignty was attempted and that was the punishment.
	Living a legacy to this day.
	I'll think about it, yeah.
	Right.
	Thank you very much.
	I hope you enjoyed it.
	Thank you very much, Josh.
	Thank you very much, Dan.
	You're welcome to see you tomorrow at 1 p.m.
	Goodbye.

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