The Golden One - Marcus Follin - The European Union – Abolish or Reform?
Aired: 2025-12-09
Duration: 10:06


=== Captain's Mismanagement (03:23) ===

[00:00:00]  What to do with the EU, you might ask.
[00:00:03]  To abolish it or to reform it?
[00:00:06]  Something needs to change.
[00:00:08]  That much is clear.
[00:00:10]  I will use a metaphor of a big beautiful battleship.
[00:00:15]  It's a powerful ship and vast amounts of time and resources been poured into the creation of this big, beautiful and powerful ship.
[00:00:28]  However, it's going in the wrong direction.
[00:00:32]  The captain is greatly incompetent.
[00:00:35]  The crew is bad as well.
[00:00:37]  They are mismanaging this fine ship.
[00:00:42]  The ship itself, it doesn't plot its own course.
[00:00:46]  It goes where the captain determines that it should go.
[00:00:52]  So the EU, in this case, it goes in a very bad direction, which is very bad for the peoples of Europe.
[00:01:01]  Now, the EU is an inanimate object.
[00:01:05]  It's not even an object.
[00:01:08]  It's a set of laws, a framework of legislation, if you will.
[00:01:15]  It doesn't have an agency of its own.
[00:01:18]  That's my main point here.
[00:01:20]  Same thing if we're talking about a political party.
[00:01:23]  The party does not have an agency of its own.
[00:01:28]  The people who are running the party, they have an agency.
[00:01:32]  You can use a historical example.
[00:01:34]  You can look at the Catholic Church, which today is a very anti-European institution.
[00:01:41]  Compare this to the Middle Ages when the Pope called for crusades to defend Europe.
[00:01:49]  Two completely different things.
[00:01:51]  Why is that?
[00:01:53]  Yes, because ultimately it's not the institution itself that has an agency or a direction.
[00:01:59]  It's about who calls the shots.
[00:02:03]  Who's in charge?
[00:02:04]  Who's the captain?
[00:02:05]  That determines the direction, the institution or whatever it might be.
[00:02:13]  Small thing as a local party, big thing as the EU or the Catholic Church.
[00:02:19]  So when I encourage young guys to go into politics or to go into institutions of power, it is with this knowledge that you need to keep in mind that you as a person you have agency.
[00:02:33]  An inanimate object or an institution such as a political party does not have an agency of its own.
[00:02:41]  This can switch from year to year depending on who is in charge.
[00:02:46]  So humans, like the gun debate in the US, guns don't kill people, people kill people.
[00:02:54]  It's a good saying.
[00:02:55]  Same thing here.
[00:02:56]  A party doesn't do anything on its own.
[00:02:58]  The people in the party, they are doing things.
[00:03:01]  Same thing with the EU.
[00:03:04]  Who is in charge?
[00:03:05]  Now we have anti-European individuals incompetent as well.
[00:03:12]  So we need to replace them.
[00:03:13]  We can only do that if we get good guys into positions of political power.
[00:03:19]  So we have some good guys also in the EU Parliament as we speak.

=== Europe's Unifying Call (06:42) ===

[00:03:23]  We just need more of them.
[00:03:25]  Then someone might say, oh, but the metaphysical foundations of the EU, they are built on economy and trade and everything like that.
[00:03:35]  Again, this can change in a year.
[00:03:38]  It all depends on who is in charge.
[00:03:42]  Who is the individual who sits by the levers of power?
[00:03:48]  Who are the guys and girls who push the buttons in the parliament?
[00:03:52]  That is what is interesting.
[00:03:54]  So it's all about humans.
[00:03:55]  It always comes down to what human is in which position.
[00:04:02]  What moral framework does he or she operate within?
[00:04:05]  What zeitgeist is influencing his or her behaviour.
[00:04:09]  So that's where we come into the meta-political battle where we can actually influence policy from the outside.
[00:04:16]  So we need metapolitical pressure and we need political pressure.
[00:04:22]  So both are true.
[00:04:23]  Now, anyway, that said for the EU, I view it as a powerful ship that needs to be used for something good because it needs to be used.
[00:04:34]  Otherwise, we will be at the mercy of greater powers.
[00:04:38]  To use an example, if Russia were to invade Estonia tomorrow, there is nothing Estonia could do against Russia.
[00:04:46]  However, a strong EU led by someone competent, such as myself, if I may be so bold, or someone at least adhering to my vision and teachings, could simply say no.
[00:05:01]  This can of course only be done if we first restore order to Europe by initiating a large-scale re-migration process.
[00:05:09]  But my point here is that geopolitically speaking, Europe needs to be united and strong, otherwise we will be at the mercy of others.
[00:05:17]  Same thing as I made a video earlier this year about Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland.
[00:05:24]  Now I admire Donald Trump and I want the best for my brothers and sisters in Finland, in the new world.
[00:05:31]  But when it comes to geopolitics, it's just a statement of facts that Donald Trump could do it because Europe is weak.
[00:05:41]  If we want to avoid these things, Europe needs to be strong and united.
[00:05:46]  Imagine the following, that a Chinese fishing fleet is destroying the environment somewhere in the world.
[00:05:56]  Could a country well past its military prime, such as my own beloved Sweden, nothing we can do to China, nothing we can say to China to get them to stop.
[00:06:08]  However, if an emperor of Europe, if an executive of Europe, of the EU, or a formed EU would say to the Chinese leadership that you are not allowed to destroy these ecological systems, they would say, okay, cool, I understand.
[00:06:27]  I understand your perspective.
[00:06:29]  We will give different directives to our fishing fleets.
[00:06:34]  We have a global responsibility.
[00:06:36]  We have a responsibility towards Mother Nature.
[00:06:40]  And we can only take that responsibility if we are strong.
[00:06:44]  And we can only be strong if we are united.
[00:06:47]  Now, personally, I would like to see many reforms being done to the EU.
[00:06:51]  I might make a podcast episode about it where I go in depth because shorter video is quite hard to talk about all of the reforms.
[00:07:00]  But simply put, I would like to see a smaller but stronger EU, so cut away a lot of the bloated bureaucracy, for the EU to stop micromanaging the affairs of the individual member states and focus on military strength,
[00:07:18]  projecting global power, doing cool things, and by cool things I mean scientific experiments, creating an economic environment that is good for growth so that we can have good nice strong European companies that can actually be competitive.
[00:07:34]  Now something else I want to say is that when we're talking about a unified Europe this does not mean that all Europeans need to become the same but the EU is not the main driver here.
[00:07:46]  It's globalization overall.
[00:07:48]  So you have the same guy in New Zealand, Portugal, Norway, Canada, and California.
[00:07:55]  It's the same guy.
[00:07:56]  Basically, you've grown up with World of Warcraft or Age of Empires.
[00:08:01]  You've grown up watching Lord of the Rings.
[00:08:03]  You're into Warhammer, you're into the gym, you have the same perspective.
[00:08:07]  So you are the same guy.
[00:08:09]  Now, when I say that we are the same guy, you are the same guy, it's a fun way of saying that the current culture goes across borders.
[00:08:18]  So, and that has nothing to do with the EU.
[00:08:21]  We become more similar for better or worse.
[00:08:23]  I don't see any problem with it, to be honest.
[00:08:26]  But if you look at empires, historically speaking as well, you can still retain your local identity.
[00:08:32]  You can still retain your national identity despite being in an empire.
[00:08:37]  So, to conclude, my main point, and this is of utmost importance, because this is an insight that will save the West and save the world.
[00:08:48]  An institution does not have agency of its own.
[00:08:52]  What matters is who is in charge.
[00:08:56]  This is true for the moderate political party in Sweden.
[00:09:00]  This is true for the EU, this is true for the Catholic Church, this is true for the Freemasons, this is true for your local football team.
[00:09:10]  What matters is who is in charge, who sets the course.
[00:09:15]  The EU in the correct leadership.
[00:09:17]  And again, I encourage all young men go into politics.
[00:09:21]  Try to get into positions of power so that we can all steer this ship in a healthy direction.
[00:09:28]  Because now, let's be clear, it's going towards some cliffs.
[00:09:33]  It will crash and sink unless we can actually steer it in a better direction.
[00:09:39]  So, that is what's at stake.
[00:09:41]  But my point is that an object, an institution, does not have an agency of its own.
[00:09:48]  It's about who steers the ship.
[00:09:52]  Second point: we need a unified Europe to project global strength in order to take our responsibility as guardians of Mother Nature.
[00:10:01]  Very simple stuff indeed.
[00:10:03]  So, anyway, thank you for watching and thank you for your support.