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Aug. 28, 2025 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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Thierry Baudet - 'Endgame Ukraine: The Globalist Bid for Hegemony'

Member of the Dutch Parliament delivers an analysis on European politics and the Ukraine crisis.

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Thierry Baudet: Europe's Political Courage 00:01:49
This next speaker is a real treat.
I didn't find out about him until yesterday.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't know much about Dutch politics.
I know, I don't even know how to say his name, Geer, the guy with the white hair.
I see him a lot.
And I know Thierry Bodet.
Those are the only two that I know.
He is the founder of the Forum for Democracy International.
He's been a member of the Dutch House of Representatives since 2017.
And I think I know him because of his courage.
We're attracted, if you haven't noticed, to people with courage.
And we try to be as courageous as we can be.
And Thierry has led the fight in Europe against COVID.
He was a leader in that.
And he's very opposed to the proxy war with Ukraine and Russia.
So please help me welcome Thierry Baudet.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's an incredible honor for me to be here today with such luminaries and personal heroes of mine, such as Dr. Sex, but also Colonel McGregor.
I'm very honored to be here.
Thank you very much.
And I believe I'm the only not just European speaking today, but also the only active politician.
So I thought I'll tell you a little bit about the situation in Europe and also the kinds of things that we're dealing with in politics in Europe.
And none of the current situation that we're in is understandable without taking note of the incredible Russophobic paranoia that sweeps through Europe.
A Bulletproof Mercedes Mystery 00:02:39
And I'll tell you just a little anecdote to get you up to speed with the kind of situation that we're dealing with.
As an opposition politician, and I'll tell you a little bit more about my party, my platform, it's called Forum for Democracy.
I'll tell you shortly.
But we've been running campaigns, several campaigns, and I've been attacked twice as the first politician in the Netherlands since Pim Fortaun, who was murdered in the year 2001.
I was attacked twice, first with an umbrella on my head, and secondly, with a beer bottle.
I survived.
I was very lucky, and my head is very stubborn, as most people know.
So it was fine.
And obviously, the perpetrators got a warning from the police, a severe warning, but nonetheless, no serious jail time.
But as a consequence, my party, we need a little bit of extra security.
So we were sort of taking options from car traders for a bulletproof Mercedes and things like that.
And we were just looking around a little bit what the best approach would be.
And so we got this Mercedes car, a little bit old, but the car dealer said it was a decent thing.
And after about two weeks, we were like, oh, this is horrible.
We need to send it back.
And the car dealer refused to take it back.
So we took him to court.
And the story, we did get the money back.
We were able to send back the Mercedes.
But rumor got out that this Mercedes was actually not something that we had acquired as a party.
But some clever journalists tracked the number plate and the license and the origins of the car.
Lo and behold, it had at some point in its lifespan, and as most of you know, Mercedes cars are more indestructible than the deep state itself.
So they've been going around for some years.
At some point in its lifespan, this bulletproof Mercedes had been owned by some Russian businessman.
Next thing I know, articles appear suggesting that this Mercedes had been a personal gift by Vladimir Putin to me, obviously, and only by showing the receipts of the court case that we had bought it and then wanted our money back because it didn't serve our purposes for reasons unconnected, by the way, to the Mercedes itself.
But that's another story.
But we were able to convince these journalists, sort of, for the time being, that perhaps, okay, perhaps it hadn't been a gift by Vladimir Putin.
Gathering Signatures for a Referendum 00:08:48
But you never know, right?
The omnipresence of Russian influence being almost the only thing that they can think of.
And then they call us conspiracy theorists.
It's absurd.
It's really absurd.
And even, and this is just another point, but the complete absence of awareness of the tangible and very real influence of Israeli lobbies in European politics and this fake fear for non-existing or hardly existing Russian so-called interference and lobbies,
that's a paradox that I just cannot get my head around to understanding.
I think it's really very extraordinary how we're constantly watching the Russian spies behind the curtains and there are none, but we're completely oblivious to the Israeli spies that are very much present and the trips and the dinners and all the niceties that are being offered to politicians, journalists and the like, and nobody's talking about it.
That's a very interesting dichotomy.
So I'm a politician in the Netherlands who has been cancelled for five years straight.
And it goes back a little bit earlier.
In 2014, I think you remember, in Britain, there was an announcement by David Cameron that there would be a Brexit referendum.
And having been an opponent of the European Union for all my adult life, I then wrote an op-ed in the Dutch press saying, we also want a referendum.
And I started gathering signatures for that.
And out of that movement grew a think tank, which was then also called Forum for Democracy.
And ultimately, these signatures became so significant that the Dutch government responded and they said, we're not going to give you a referendum, but we'll make a law that will enable you to organize your own referendum if you want one.
And you'll need a hell of a lot of signatures.
But then you can get a referendum about a new proposition, a new law or a new treatment that needs ratification from the House.
And the concession had hardly been given or the association agreement with Ukraine came through.
This was obviously an expansion of European Union power.
It meant the first step towards NATO accession for Ukraine.
It also, they were talking about EU accession of Ukraine.
And we were like, this is the kind of thing that we're going to hold a referendum about.
So I was in the lead in 2015 gathering signatures.
And ultimately, on April 6th, 2016, the Netherlands held a referendum.
We achieved the required number of signatures and we had a referendum about whether or not the Netherlands should ratify the association agreement with Ukraine.
And I won this campaign by almost a two-thirds majority of the voters.
Two-thirds majority of the Dutch voters said, no, no, we're not going to have this association agreement with Ukraine.
We don't have no business there.
It's one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
It will put us on the brink of war with Russia.
We do not want it in the EU.
We do not want it in NATO.
And funny enough, my main opponent in this fight was a man you all know because he's now the esteemed, as Donald Trump said, the esteemed Secretary General of NATO.
It's Mark Roeten from the Netherlands.
And Mark Rutte said, Ukraine is never going to join NATO.
It's never going to join the EU.
This is just about trade.
And it was about 198 pages or something, this association agreement, and only five pages were about trade, and the rest was about military assistance, the security assistance, all that.
So everybody saw through this, but the level of lies and the easiness by which they were just making these false promises shocked me at the time.
And after we won the referendum, and it was very clear what the Dutch wanted, Mark Ruther said, I'm going to sign it anyway.
And the Dutch signed the Dutch parliament, I wasn't a member of the parliament at the time, signed the association agreement anyway.
And of course, the rest is history.
This was the definite next step in the escalation of the conflict.
And I was so angered by it that I changed my organization, which was a think tank, a referendum organization, into a political party.
I ran for office, and then in 2017, I got elected.
And the interesting thing was that for two, three years, we had no problem reaching the media.
We weren't talking about any of the controversial issues.
But then came COVID in 2020.
And I became the only elected politician in the Western world to have opposed every element of the COVID scam, from the lockdowns to the vaccine mandates.
And the scary thing about it, I've written a book about this, it's called The COVID Conspiracy.
The interesting thing about it was that from that moment onwards, and I was the largest party both in terms of members at the time and in terms of seats, we have topped the polls.
We were going to be a government party.
We were going to be in government.
And it was made very, very clear to me around March, April, May 2020 that I could have dinners with wine and you could have every position you want.
We can talk about these.
And it was made very clear that if I was going to go through opposing the lockdowns and opposing all the things that were happening around COVID, that they were going to do everything they could to destroy me and my party.
And so, but I went through anyway because I felt this was the hill I was going to be prepared to die on.
And I still am very, very proud of this fight that we fought.
And it broke the ascension of my party.
It broke our opportunities to be a member of the government in the short run.
But we did stand up to these terrible injustices.
And I experienced something that I would not have experienced if I wouldn't have done that.
And I think it's relevant for this audience to be aware of that.
The way in which mainstream politics is in bed with mainstream journalism to keep dissident voices out.
You simply cannot reach a large audience anymore once you've stood up against any of these fundamental things that they really demand from you.
Hatred of Russia, support of COVID, support of Israel, support of the European Union, but mostly primarily these first three.
And so ever since this moment, we've been in a very interesting situation where we are in this sort of still phase experiment.
Being completely ignored by the mainstream.
It doesn't matter what we do, speeches we give, books we write, nothing, absolutely nothing we do is reported in the Dutch mainstream media.
But we're still the largest party in terms of members in the Netherlands.
So we have a very captive audience.
And the interesting thing is we've recently come out second in a student and school election in the Netherlands.
And that's my that's just a little vision of hope that I have.
And I think it's also true for this country.
I really believe that there's a new generation coming up that is finally beginning to see through these lies that we've been fed and the stories that we're being told and the idea that we need to constant wars to be safe.
And the idea that we were taking the vaccine for somebody else, even though it didn't prevent transmission.
And that's really an opportunity that I see.
So one of the things that I've learned being in politics, and that's a shame, but change does happen, but it just goes a terrible lot slower than we like it to.
That's actually everything I wanted to say.
Maybe, if we have time.
You know, I don't know.
If there's time and you have a question about Europe or the Netherlands, if we have time, obviously, but I'm very happy to answer.
I'll be with Max at the coffee table.
Yeah, I'll be there.
So thank you very much, and I really appreciate being here.
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