The High Cost of Being a Geopolitical Bystander | MCC Brussels Podcast
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While the world burns, the technocrats are busy drafting press releases for a Monday that never comes. Host Jacob Reynolds is joined by MCC’s Richard Schenk and Jerzy Kwaśniewski (President of the Ordo Iuris Institute) to expose the reality of a Europe that has become a mere bystander to history. In this week’s podcast: from the EU's total irrelevance in the Iran crisis, to the "SAFE" programme’s debt-trap for national sovereignty, and the shameful censorship of conservative voices right here in Brussels.
Technocrats have no merit. That is the problem in western Europe. Meritocracy has been traded in for communism once more. With the expected result.
This time by the manager revolution. Or maybe the manager class is what used to be the proletariat and the priests.. Flexible ethics equals evil. Merit by Identity equals decline and injustice. Modern "science" equals irrationality and opportunism. Inclusion equals corruption. Durability equals degradation. Making everything illegal and only prosecuting those they don't like ends the rule of law. As does replacing a constitution by treaties. Signed by bribed officials. Entitled moral superiority equals death of virtue.
It doesn't go anywhere. Communism never does. It just lingers and declines while everything of value degrades. And people eventually die out. Like a disease. Only far worse.
The Geopolitical Void: The European Union loves to play-act as a global superpower, but when confronted with the reality of the conflict in Iran, the mask slips. While others deal with hard realities, Brussels hides behind "international law” - a dream that has never survived a single contact with a real aggressor. We explore why the EU’s moral evasiveness and lack of military teeth have turned Europe into a spectator, rather than a player, in world politics.
The "SAFE" Debt Trap: In Poland and beyond, the EU's "SAFE" programme is being sold as military rearmament, but the fine print reveals a "double-conditionality" power grab. This isn't about defence; it's about the Commission using your national security as leverage to enforce "Rule of Law" compliance and gender ideology. It’s a mechanism designed to ensure that if you don't vote for the "correct" liberals, your borders remain undefended.
Dunia sudah lupa kepada 🇵🇸palestine ,, iran sebenar nya rakyat baik,, dia ingin membalas dendam demi 🇵🇸Palestine
The Censors at the Book Fair: The banning of the Jean Gol Centre from the Brussels Book Fair is the latest skirmish in the war on free speech. Invoking "public order" to silence dissenting voices is the hallmark of a desperate elite. In the "Rainbow City" of Brussels, diversity is celebrated - unless you happen to hold a conservative opinion. We discuss why the authoritarian left is cracking down harder as they feel their intellectual grip failing.
00:00 Intro
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02:27 Europe’s Military Limits
07:41 International Law Isn’t Enough
Isn’t that funny you took their mask off they cannot be counted on when we need them the sooner we can get out of NATO the better let them figure their own problems out. I know Vladimir Putin is laughing at you people. That’s why he put a warship right in British Waters-and all you hear are crickets paper tiger that’s my opinion.😢
12:43 SAFE Programme Risks for Poland
16:54 EU Conditionality and Defence
EU Commission and leaders of the 27 EU countries seem to think that they can avoid active strategies in order to solve e.g. the problem with expensive crude oil, expensive natural gas and LNG which in turn leads to that almost everything in EU will be more expensive. It leads to general inflation. And the competitiveness of EU is lost.
Solutions:
1) EU should help USA changing the regime in Venezuela. When Venezuela has a normal, democratic, non communist regime, then EU could help Venezuela to restart their oil industry and import low cost crude oil from there. Possibly their crude oil needs to be desulphurized and cracked / hydrocracked into somewhat lighter oil with lower sulphur content before it can be exported to EU and used in most oil refineries in EU.
2) In e.g. Brazil, perhaps also in Argentina, bio-ethanol has as low cost as crude oil based petrol. However, EU puts a lot of customs on it… why? EU claims that they want climate smarter fuels and less fossil fuels. When does EU remove the punishment customs of ethanol from South America and from North America as well? So an import of biofuels from America becomes profitable.
EU needs to secure the biofuels industry in EU also. That can be made by making an EU directive about that e.g. 10% or maybe 15% of the fuels used in EU shall be biofuels that are produced in EU. If a certain EU country cannot fulfill this demand, then they can import biofuels from other EU countries or pay them for using their share of biofuels that shall be used in EU.
3) EU does it best to stop biofuels based on crops in EU as it is now. EU has made EU Directives as REDIII and LULUCF. EU should declare ”force majeure” instead because of the Iran war, the Ukraine war, etc. and scrap these EU directives instead. The farmers of EU need to have better profitability. So let the EU farmers crops be converted to liquid biofuels as ethanol, bio-petrol, bio-LPG and HVO with a co-production of animal feed. Then EU can decrease import of both fossil crude oil, refined crude oil products and of animal feed. All is imported to EU. It is expensive. We in EU could use that money for something better. We could e.g. improve our defense against invading countries as Russia, improve our intelligence gathering and anti terror defense. It is needed.
24:06 Brussels and Free Speech
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EU are weakness the only superpower they had was US keeps us all safe
I wanted to get to the US help our US brothers and sisters and was told no so EU uk are not alies they hanging onto the old oder
The rich are know mass makin bunkers not cos nukes cos if Putin wins the west leaders lost the west people who sooner jump into the Russia army than fight them. So they building back up for that . Think about putin wins west is done and Putin is not after us the peoole he have the the ones at the top they the vampier ball
This is the only major war in 100 years that the British didnt want to be a part of.. wankers
@AlmostOutsideEurope has no leadership with brains or moral authority.
@ChixbytheseaThe dbag is wrong, Iranians are white. If u saw the avg Iranian in Rome, Athens, Valleta, or Yerevan; you wouldn't know they weren't from there. Stop with this nonwhite/poc bs!
@dmendez4741I am constantly perplexed by Europe. Europe is a continent with 44 countries who all speak different languages, have different cultures, and agree on very little. Yet they all refer to themselves as European. The EU makes polices yet commands no military to enforce those policies. Europe seems to be doomed to repeat history because it learns from it.
@fracken1441PEACE IS EARNED. You cant just declare to be a liberal peaceful nation without helping to fight totalitarianism. You cant be a bystander forever.
@SallyTR3BBeing part of the EU is just surrounding your country
@steves3234It’s funny to hear countries like Poland say it’s not their fight. They don’t want to get involved because they’re a far away. This is why the United States needs to get out of NATO and leave Europe. NATO is there because the United States protect them & funds most of everything but😅 when it comes to the United States needing help Europe is nowhere to be found other than criticizing.
@Pa226pthere is not 'international government', therefore 'international law' DOES NOT EXIST. globalism is a failure.
@ravencroftgraphics3dSomeone said it! International law means nothing. Those with power take what they will and the weak suffer what they must.
@studlyamericanmatt2440And when Iran change government the EU will come to reap the benefit without the cost.
@rayweil9942My analytical review; if USA never involve in world war 1 , Germany could have taken all powers of the world,
Israel in particular was extinct, WW2, if USA never involve againstJapan,it had ruled the world under Japanese samurai beheadings. If USA bystander of Iran , the world would be under Muslim doctrines of sowing fear and erasing christians of humanities , once I see note of MarkTwain quote " the only thing necessary for triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", means byestander off, could be lookouts for others to fall, not good 😢😢😢.gh
Nobody needs to hear more European talk. The world needs to see Europe act. But they can't. It's Welfare over Sovereignty.
@JeffCardoso-w6rUnlike the above gents, Muslims have
great ambitions for Europe, once called
Christendom.
Trouble is bc we wanted to b multicultural...we dont stand strongly 4 anything...usa etc dont know wot our identity is...b4 we would stand on the side of freedom against oppression but now we hav too many different ppl from all over with different stakes an opinions an priorities ...an with lits of ppl in europe cowardly supporting ICRG....an it sucks!!! I wanna b ob the right side of history at 55 an used to usa an Israeli allies here in UK but "our" govt only prioritises its Muslim Brotherhood masters wishes...which includes graping our children an ethnicallyy cleansing us uk natives ...so starmers more worried about upsetting ICRG an the so called king also has tajen too much blood money an sold half our country to Qatar,obviously feeling being royalty isnt lucrative enough...even tho its citizens like me at 55 with heart trouble cant get benefits an must work my 73rd hard low paid job,rather than ponce of my teacher 6:18 wages!! Wotta shtshow when cowardice an greed take over!! Theyve hada gr8 run an must surely not b surprised now theyve pushed it SO far that its all facing a just mussolini type end an told the public to eat cake more than once too many times!!🇬🇧✝️🕊🙏🫡❤️
@jasonjones5194They sold us vaccines, and they are grand.
@firstrush8455Yeah it’s time to immediately end all NATO Europe funding and pull out all our troops
@tmilholin7552Total respect for Poland, and Hungary!
@kimchristensen6962Let them sit. Americans Israel have this.
@sandpyper3997That's cuz they are keeping the "safe" money!! If it ain't already spent!! That's why the USA is don't with Europe!!! Jus a bunch if greedy heartless people!! No use in trynna help them cuz they will stay at war with eachother!! Theres no team!! Just 1 country trynna rule over all the rest!!
@brianwinesberry4651There will never be a United States of Europe. There's 50 somewhat autonomous states but they have a common heritage, culture and interest. Forcing that on sovereign European nations is unnatural.
@sharksbreath7Hello from Canada. Well done gentlemen.
@thatsjohn3938Very concerned for Europe. You have lost your rich national identity and unique histories. Do man-made laws rule us?
God's thoughts are not man's thoughts. God's ways are not man's ways.
We are created by a Creator with inalienable rights. You understood this and stood up for this opportunity that dramatically changed human history.
Nations rise and fall Either aligned to God's priorities and principles or not. He will laugh at those who think they rule themselves!
It is thorough a shared national covenant, historically based on godly principles that God can work through a nation by our prayers. Europe, as has 72 other countries were twisted by illegal voting machines and leftist policies forgetting your amazing heritage that we Americans now treasure. It is a beautiful historical and cultural example that you set!
The EU is a clown show. Useless and weak. Europe can just shut up and go along with the US, because Europe cannot defend itself. The 20th century proves my point.
@FrankSpelkerEurope is offended cuz Trump told them they’re naive for importing illegals from 3rd world countries. Simultaneously Europe is scared shtless of the muslims all around their soil and how will they react. Maybe some of them go BOOM BOOM? Can’t wait to see Europe in 20 years. Balkan will maybe still be corrupted but our women and children will still be safe.
@Frank-DuxVanDammeEU UN all about the support for the Brotherhood as they have encouraged Muslims to spread world wide.
@margarethall4559The definition of modern international law is a picture of a B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, or perhaps a picture of a US Carrier Battlegroup with multiple carriers (an indication that the US is dead serious).
@fubarace1027"The reality is the military capabilities of Europe in the region are quite limited." Allow me to fix that statement...
"The reality is the military capabilities of Europe are quite limited." More accurate.
Why don’t you mention UK and Spain, they both didn’t allow USA and Israel to use their military bases in important locations? The whole EU are trying to push the new world order and Trump won’t allow it.
@sergiocrego7241Europe is irrelevant.
@nadiraslam5982Oh you mean the cowards and sellouts. Hardly a surprise. Europe. What a fkn joke. Get the f out of the sandbox take your toys go home and crawl into your safe space.
@Scenario7-y9tchicken byspasser plse stand aside
@berzmenta8447Persian is what the Greeks called the Iranians i wish people would stop using it as the Iranians native name it is not!. It's iran with archaic pronunciation.
@alexshtyn6336"International law" "International order" that only existed because of America if you can't see and accept that fact you are delusional
@brobasticbroham446The UK and France backed the mullahs taking power in Iran, as they thought they could control them and get cheap oil from them. They use iskamic terror groups in africa ( Boko Haram) to keep the individual nations there as colonies, instead of allowing them to form free governments they don't control.
@thomasblankinship98Britain would not only not help us with Iran when Trump asked them for their help, but they also outright prohibited us from using their bases in the Mediterranean. Britain is no friend of the United States. We will never forget this.
@angelokarras580Follow the Creator God not the EU which is evil and corrupt.
@BillKoethNice show…
@stephenhopkins6166The polish gentleman who undoubtedly was under the thumb of the Soviet Union gets freedom of speech… too bad some Belgiums can’t…the world turned upside…but this man appreciates it.
@stephenhopkins6166Who decided Iranians were "non-white"? As I understand it Iranian is derived from Aryan. Phenotypically they are as visibly "white" as Italians and Spanish.
This feels like racial code for non-European.
Europe is broke, most EU countries debt to gdp ratio is greater than 100%. They used all their money and got into excessive debt for their social programs. Now they are vassals. BTW we don't even need the UK's Lloyds of London Ins anymore.
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