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➡ The text discusses Germany’s political situation, the decline of the Green Party, and concerns about potential war. It highlights the hope for a renewed partnership with the U.S. based on shared values. The Green Party, once popular for opposing U.S. missile deployment in Germany, is now seen as problematic due to its anti-technology, anti-industry, and anti-national pride ideologies. There’s also growing concern about the possibility of war, with many Germans preferring diplomacy over weapon delivery to resolve conflicts. The text also mentions the impact of immigration on education and the rise of the Alternative for Deutschland party. Lastly, it discusses fears about the deep state trying to start a war before Trump potentially takes office again.
➡ The text discusses a belief that there are plans to create chaos during a political term to prevent progress. It suggests that these plans could involve economic issues, wars, and riots, both in the United States and globally. The text also discusses the potential for uncovering corruption and the fear this might cause among certain groups. It ends by discussing the role of central banks in funding wars and the idea that the West is causing its own problems, rather than these being caused by external threats.
➡ The text discusses the concept of the Great Reset, where power is taken from elected bodies and given to private technocrats representing the billionaire class. It highlights the resistance of the American people to this idea, and their frustration with the establishment. The text also discusses the potential for alliances to challenge the establishment, the role of the deep state, and the importance of dialogue between Americans and Europeans. It ends with a discussion on the situation in Syria, the role of the intelligence community, and the potential for a larger conflict involving Iran.
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And I am very happy and honored to have both of these guests on the X22 report spotlight. Harley, welcome to the Spotlight. Good to be back, Dave. It’s been a little while. Yes, it has. And our new guest, Dr. Reiner Rothfuss. Welcome to the spotlight. Oh, thank you so much. It’s a pleasure to be here with you. Yes, thank you for being here. And doctor, let’s just start off with you. Since you’ve been the German parliament and you’re basically on the ground there, here in The United States, we hear, you know, stories of, oh, the government is going after people for saying the wrong thing.

There’s controlled speech there. So do you feel like the freedom in Germany is deteriorating right now? Oh, yes, definitely. But you also have to see that the political fight has become sharper in these days. So let’s say 20, 30 years ago, everything was running smoothly. There were no bigger conflicts in society, economy was running smoothly. And as the, yeah, I would say ideological conflicts rose, as also the geopolitical conflicts arose, above all with Russia, the grip of power became tighter on dissidents, on opposition parties. And, yeah, the need for opposition rose strongly in Germany. That’s why the alternative for Germany was formed in 2013 as the Euro project went wrong.

And then in 2015, there was this giant migrants and refugee wave flooding into Europe caused by the illegal military interventions in Libya, in Syria, and before also 2003 in Iraq, 1999, it started in Yugoslavia. So things have changed over time. And so resistance rose and as a consequence, those in power, power, those behind the scene in power also started to crack down on dissidents, on opposition figures. And you feel that more and more stronger and stronger in Germany also, as an individual taking part in debates, political debates on social media, it can hit you at any time, anywhere.

So, I mean, for the people that are in Germany, I mean, when you speak to people, do they really feel it like, you know, like we’re heading in the wrong direction? Oh, yes, definitely. I mean, we had government approval rates of as low as 18% in Germany with the Scholz government. And so it was just a matter of time until it tumbled. And now we will have new elections on 23rd of February. And one of the major issues debated now is the issue of the Ukraine war. And of course, alternative for Germany was always in favor of creating good and normalized relationships with Russia, overcoming the tensions, bridging the gap between east and west, integrating Eurasia and, yeah, gaining also sovereignty, a larger degree of sovereignty with respect to our relationship to Brussels and to Washington.

And now at the moment, it seems that the two major players in the political scene in Germany, the Social Democratic Party and the Christian Democratic Union, managed again to focus all the attention on them as the main players. So Scholz all of a sudden started telephone diplomacy with President Vladimir Putin in Russia, and the chancellor candidate of the Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, who was the former German boss of Blackrock, launch an initiative to place an ultimatum against Russia should they continue to bombard civil population. Then he would deliver cruise missiles of Taurus type, German Taurus type, and allow their use on Russian territory.

And so all of a sudden the attention of the population was shifted away from the opposition party, Alternative for Germany, to Olaf Scholz and his very low approval rates rose sharply. And now we have to struggle to get back the debate from this. I would say theater play, back to real solutions. Yeah, Harley, do you want to. Dave, if, if I can jump. One of the leading issues now is the economy. And with Schultz, you have the Greens in the parliament or in his coalition rather. The Green New Deal has wrecked the German economy on top of the sanction policy against Russia, the, the loss of cheap oil and gas.

And now you have the auto industry going into a tailspin. And Germany’s position in Europe as the economic driver depended on largely the high tech auto sector, the engineering and so on. And you’re even seeing Volkswagen talking about shutting down plants. You have the chemical industry talking about moving to the United States or China, and the overall standard of living is dropping. Now what I’ve known since I’ve been here seven years now is the, what Greiner brought up, which is an unspoken issue for many Germans, is sovereignty. Who runs the government? It’s not the German people, it’s not the German parties.

It’s run through NATO and it’s run through Washington and London and there’s resentment over that, but it’s been largely tamped down. And when you speak up against it, then you end up being called an extremist, a racist, anti Semite, right winger, neo Nazi. That’s the targeting of the Alternative for Deutschland because they’re essentially saying that Germany has to regain its sovereignty. So I think this is one of the key issues that Reiner runs up against in the campaigning, the attempt to create an enemy image of a patriotic party in Germany. So with, I mean, since I, I’ve read about the economy and I read about the Volkswagen, the manufacturing, I also read about the electricity costs in Germany because don’t you have windmills and solar panels? And I mean, this is what I’m hearing out here.

So I mean, you can correct me if I’m wrong, but that the electricity costs, with all this implemented, the cost of electricity has gone up. Yeah, we pay about 40 cents of a dollar per kilowatt and these are among the highest prices for electricity in the world. And of course it’s not a very promising locational factor for industry to come here to Germany, invest here. So we have a strong outward flow of capital, of investments much larger than the inflow, and that of course prepares economic disaster for Germany. And Germany is the engine for European integration.

So also the EU project in itself is at risk. But that’s the really short sighted policy of Brussels and also of Washington in the past because by wrecking the North Stream project, they have also wrecked Germany by cutting us off Russian markets and Russian energy resources, etc. They have weakened Germany. And Germany is the engine, the financier of all the European cooperation and integration. And so I think we have tough times ahead. And as Harley has rightly said, our industry is based on the combustion engine based automobile industry. And this is being destroyed through the Green Deal policies, through the CO2 religion which still reigns in EU policies.

And of course we are worried with the perspective of our industry leading towards United, United States. And Trump has already promised that he will continue this policy of attracting German industry and automobile manufacturers, making them really American. And that of course scares us because yeah, we, we need a real U turn in these policies. We need to follow a line, a policy line like Hungary and Hungary is also promising for us as we can see, that Donald Trump as incoming president respects patriotic political leaders in Europe, as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. So he’s not against sovereignist leaders in Europe, he’s against the globalist faction in Europe.

And that at least gives us the hope as alternative for Germany that once we rise in political weight as we approach power, we may find a good partner again in the United States to build up a new Europe which is focused on the Christian values, the necessities of the own autochthonous population, just like Trump is seeking same values also for the US Population. So our hope is that we can reestablish a great partnership in the future that has been to the detriment of Germany in the past 20, 30 years. A lot. Is the Green Party losing power now from everything that they have done.

What would you say? I would say they’re in a free fall. The Green Party initially benefited in the 80s by opposing the deployment of US missiles to Germany to face off against the SS20 missiles that the Soviets were bringing into the East. And so the Greens grew out of that. But they always had this horrible Malthusian ideology that people are the problem, that technology is the problem, industry is the problem, and increasingly that national pride is the problem. And so you have now the, I mean, the real shift was in the 90s when Joshka Fischer was the foreign minister and he sided with the war hawks in the west on the bombing of Yugoslavia.

Today, the most pro war party in Germany is The Greens, Annalena Baerbock, who made her career as a trampoline expert. She became famous for her jumping on a trampoline. She’s the foreign minister. She’s completely out of her league, and her talking points come directly from Brussels and Washington. And the economics minister, Habeck, is an idiot. He’s still saying Germany has to get rid of the combustion engine by 2030. And meanwhile, they speak against government subsidy. And yet the only way that the windmills and solar panels are able to be competitive is huge government subsidies at a point at which the German budget for the first time in many years is going negative.

So this caused a crisis. The German government collapsed, what, about a month ago, six weeks ago, the French government collapsed. Yeah. You know, you have a complete breakdown of political parties in Europe because of the loss of sovereignty and, and the war policy and the green policy. So, you know, a lot of people in Germany are looking at the United States, and while they were afraid of Trump the first time around because they said, well, he’s against NATO, he’s against us, now I think more and more people in Germany are beginning to suspect that NATO is not exactly defending German interests, but creating a circumstance where Germany will end up in a war with Russia.

And the defense minister of Germany, Pistorius, has said Germany must become war ready. And they’re actually talking about turning the subway stations into bunkers. Are they really? Yeah. Wow. So, I mean, the perception now out in Germany, I mean, I know what it is here with Biden, with his, you know, last couple of weeks here, where he’s, you know, they’re pushing war very, very hard. Are people nervous in Germany that we’re going to be entering World War Three? I mean, we have Ukraine, Russia, Syria, Israel, and maybe something with Taiwan and China. All of this is happening at the same time.

So are. Are people in Germany, are. Are they nervous about war? To some extent, yes. At least we can see that. In a recent survey, 68% of the population said that they want more diplomacy to solve the Ukraine conflict and not the delivery of weapons, which has cost us billions of dollars already. But, you know, if the media always tells you that everything is fine, you can escalate on and on. And Russia will never hit back seriously against Germany. At least then, of course, the population is not really that aware of the real risks of these policies.

And so this is a problem in general in our Western democracies, that some unknown forces in the background can just abuse the media in their way, manipulate people’s minds, and also voter behavior and this is of course, very, very dangerous, because if people don’t understand the dangers that the political decisions imply that are being taken, then they cannot even criticize them. They cannot even vote for alternative parties. And this is not being understood enough in Germany at the moment. What the real risks are, the risks of escalation. Harley, what do you think of the, the risks of war actually starting? Well, I think the, in a sense, it’s lucky that, that Putin, as opposed to a military nationalist, is the president of Russia, because Putin is taking a long view of the situation.

But I think the danger is real. If you think about it, the German tanks crossing Ukraine to fight against Russians, that to people in Russia reminds them immediately of World War II, the idea that Germany has to be war ready. I can tell you my children are going to schools in a relatively prosperous area of Germany, and yet because of the immigration, the classrooms are overcrowded, there are not enough teachers, and there are as many as 40 or 50 languages in these schools. And you know, I, I used to live out in Los Angeles and I got used to the idea of 40 or 50 or 60 languages in classrooms.

But the German education system was the strong point of Germany for many, many years. The economic miracle was based on the return to the Humboldt education system. Science, culture, that’s gone. And, you know, the, the green policy brought in a form of wokeness into Germany. And I can tell you that there are people who would like to protest, who would like to, you know, in my neighborhood, I talk to people and I bring up the question of the alternative for Deutschland and they start whispering. They don’t want someone to overhear them. It’s almost as though the East German Stasi are still around every corner.

And I know Reiner’s familiar with that, very familiar with that. That’s why it’s the eastern part of Germany that’s voting so strongly for the afd. You know, Dave, I don’t know if you, you know this, but there were three state elections back in September, and the Alternative for Deutschland won the highest votes in one of them and the second highest votes and two others. And these were real shocks to the German establishment because they didn’t understand why people would vote for the AfD because they believed the propaganda the same way the Democrats in the United States believe the propaganda that Trump is a racist, a misogynist.

You know, that’s the power of the media. And we should never forget that the media is a corporate cartel, the mainstream media, and it’s intertwined, interlocking boards of Directors with the banks, with the big pharma and so on. And that’s a tough task to take on. But what happens at a certain point is reality hits and the fact that the budget, that Germany, which has always, almost always had a surplus, no longer does and that the idea of continuing to send money to Ukraine in a losing war that could bring NATO into immediate conflict with Russia doesn’t make sense to a lot of Germans.

But they’re still scared. Yeah. For me the big question is does NATO, does deep state need war before Trump comes in? That’s my big concern. And yeah, information reaches me every day about army flights, transport flights over East Germany. Friends sent me information all the time. Airbus A400M Atlas at the moment. I just got this information today. Boeing 747 for HAF transport flight. Lockheed Martin, Casey 130J Hercules, etc. Yeah. And they asked me what is going on there? Do you have any further information? We don’t get that information as parliamentarians, but yeah, we always see transport of material of soldiers towards East Europe, Eastern Europe.

We see the opening up of NATO controlled headquarters for the Baltic Sea region in Rostock. We consider it as a breach of the T2 plus four treaty. And these escalation steps continue. They go on and on. And I ask myself, who is in control of, of the situation at the moment? Is it already Trump? Would the military listen more to Trump or more to the deep state factions inside the military? Should any forces try to escalate the conflict now as it is the case in Syria, obviously, Or would they not be capable of doing so? I mean we know from history that wars often are started or escalated through false flag attacks.

Yes. Who is in control of those developments? If there was a false flag attack and the media attributed it uniquely, all telling the same story to Russia, what would be the consequences? Well, from my opinion, I think the deep state, I think they are trying to start a war before Trump takes office or they’re going to try to stop Trump from taking office just like they tried back in 2020 when there was the insurrection and they tried to use the 14th Amendment to make sure that he could never ever take office again. So this time around I believe that they are trying to create as much chaos as possible.

I don’t even think it’s just war. I think they have like a multi level plan to make his term as chaotic as possible so he can’t get anything done. And I feel that’s, that’s what they’re pushing right now. And it has to do with the economy, it has to do with war. It has to do with maybe riots in the United States, maybe riots around the world. I mean, we saw this back in 2020 when BLM was rioting in the United States. But they also write it in other countries, too. So it wasn’t just here. So I think they’re planning on doing something like this.

I feel like Harley wants to say something. Yeah. I think one of the things we have to look at then is, first of all, they have tried to kill Donald Trump. Yes. At least twice that we know of. And secondly, the panic, the level of panic at. The idea of Matt Gaetz being Attorney General was one of the tipping points for me to see this. And I wrote a couple of articles about this. What did Gates represent to the Democrats and to the anti Trumpers in the Republican Party? He was one of the strongest voices exposing the corruption of Russiagate.

And Russiagate was a British Obama intelligence community operation to try to destroy the Trump campaign in 2016. And then once he came into power as president, to tie him in knots so he couldn’t proceed with his policies, especially about draining the swamp. And so the people who are running Russiagate are still around. They’re still saying the same lies. They haven’t been stopped. And so the idea of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General totally panicked them. Same thing with Cash Patel as FBI Director, RFK Jr. Who is very intent on opening up all the files of secret operations by the permanent bureaucracy.

And then you bring in Tulsi Gabbard as well. You have a potential in the foreign policy team and the intelligence team. Remember, one of the great powers of the presidency is the control of intelligence, control of the Justice Department and the military. And if that gets out of their control, out of the control of the deep state or the. The corporate cartels, if it’s actually run by some people who are patriots. It’s not just that the policies will change. It’s that we’re going to find out how much corruption there was over the last years, how many people died in wars, how many people died from big pharma policies.

There’s a huge. The swamp is deep. Yeah. And needs to be drained. And I think that’s what they fear. I agree. And I think this spreads much, much further than the US because once information is uncovered, it then spreads to Germany, it spreads to France, it spreads to the UK and then all of a sudden, everyone starts to realize, wait a minute, this is all connected. And, you know, all these different countries are being controlled by a certain group. And that’s when, hey, let’s just talk about protecting our wealth right now because time’s running out. Citigroup predicts gold hitting 3,000 by 2025.

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Remember what Snowden exposed, that the US was wiretapping Angela Merkel. Why would you do that? You know, the, the idea that they have to control everything. And this, this also gets to the question of, is there democracy? You know, you, you have an election in Romania last week where a conservative nationalist came in first. The EU immediately went in there and said it was undemocratic. They got the Romanian Supreme Court to overturn the election. So in the name of democracy, they’re imposing the tightest form of autocratic or even fascist rule. And I see something like that coming in Germany because fascism is not a product of nationalism.

That’s part of the lie that was spread after World War II by the British through the collective guilt theory against the German population. Instead, fascism is when corporate and private interests control the government. It’s called corporatism, which was the original name for fascism. So we have a chance to open up the history books and show people what actually was responsible for these wars. And deep down, it’s an imperial policy that was originally run out of the British Empire and after World War II was taken over by the Bushes and the Harriman faction and what we know today as the deep state in the United States.

So I think this is an opportunity for a real opening of truth, but it’s going to come with a huge fight. I agree. Definitely the Europeans will not be happy to join that fight because the EU project is dominated by those globalist forces which have lost Washington to Donald Trump. And I predicted after his election victory that the globalist forces would then concentrate focus on the eu to use the EU as their tool, as their instrument in their hands. And as you can see now, the Europeans have set up this northern group comprised by 11 countries to keep the war against Russia in Ukraine running.

And that is already a sign that we may be shifting away from the U.S. and we may, as European countries, at least most of them, we will voluntarily join this globalist campaign against Russia. And that is of course very dangerous for those European countries. If I could ask you something about that. Isn’t the problem with that? I mean, that’s a dream of the von der Leyens and the European Commission, but the European economy can’t sustain it without cheap energy. And look, the, the British have run out of ammunition. The, the French I think have five of these missiles that, that they’re trying to get to Ukraine.

Germany is having an incredible economic problem. It’s unsustainable. It’s going to collapse. Now the question is, does it collapse in the course of a war? I totally agree with you. It’s a dead end road. And we will face reality, tough and hard and harsh reality as Europeans, sooner or later. But it seems that the Europeans or most of the European countries still are choosing to head in the wrong direction. And that was also made clear by J.D. vance when the European Union made new threats against X, the former Twitter platform. He said, come on, why do we still uphold NATO? It’s an alliance where we share common values and the most important value is democracy.

And democracy’s most prominent fundament is of course, free speech. And if the Europeans have chosen not to abide to those joint common, shared values, then we don’t need NATO anymore. And I think this is the great hope that the Trump administration will lead the way now to really dismantling deep state structures. And the Europeans will stand alone and will be weakened on their falls on the wrong path. And then we, the patriotic forces who also stand for truth, for real democracy, for the will of the people, we will have a strengthened position to also convince the voters in our countries that yes, we need definitely a new direction, a direction where we will become a part of a larger world where we will leave this isolation, this self determined isolation of the collective west and we will get back to the table of a multipolar world.

And there we will join the US, I hope as a partner, we will join China as a partner, we will join Russia as a partner and we will give up this domination of the west headed by the United States and oppressing most of the other partners in the world through a so called rules based order. It’s over. This time is over. We cannot dominate the world any longer. The colonial period is about to End now, only now. And I think this also opens up really promising new perspectives for peace, for prosperity. And Harley, to your point where you’re saying Europe doesn’t have money, well, that’s normally where the European Central bank comes in, where they’ll just fund anything.

They’ll, they’ll fund a whole war. You know, the countries will just borrow. They don’t really care. It’s the same as the Federal Reserve where you have central banks. And I think if we take a step back and look at where does this crisis come from, is it really the case that, that Russia is a threat to the West? Is it really a case that all the bad things happening in Europe are caused by Russian men in green suits who come in and cut cable lines and do all kinds of dirty tricks? No, we’re doing it to ourselves because, and this is what the deep state is about.

And people should not forget for a moment that had Trump not been elected in 2016 and not elected again in 2024, the project of the Great Reset would already have been successful. And the Great Reset is when you take all power away from elected bodies, the executive branch as well as the Congress, and put it in the hands of private technocrats who are acting on behalf of the billionaire class, the corporate cartels. And so the great hope, I think in the world what Reiner was talking about is the American voter. The American people did not submit to the arrogance and the condescension of the establishment in the United States.

In fact, I think I was just in the US For a few weeks right before the election. And I had for the first time a much more strong sense, especially in North Carolina, of people just saying, who are these guys telling us that we shouldn’t do things to control the water from rivers? You know, we just had that massive flooding in western North Carolina because the government refused to invest in normal water management and flood control. And then they blame the people for it. Of course, you know, the idea of blaming families for calling them racist because they’re worried about the effects of immigration when they can’t feed their family, that doesn’t work in the United States.

And we’ve got to get that kind of spirit in the populations of Europe. And I think what I see in the people I know in the AfD and also in a certain sense from the anti establishment left, you know, you don’t necessarily trust them, but they’re talking to the voters about the same thing. It’s ironic the links parti, the old links parties is collapsed. But what’s Emerging is an anti war, anti green, pro peace section of the old left. And in some cases, the potential for an alliance to bring down the establishment is there, but the fear that’s engendered in people by the deep state.

And in Germany, it’s called the Bundeswerfassenschutz, the security state, which learned a lot from the Stasi in the old communist period. But I think the importance of a dialogue between the Americans and the real Europeans, not the, the globalist Europeans, but the, the real Europeans who are nationalists but also recognize the, the benefit of certain kinds of collaboration with other countries. That’s the future for Europe. And I think it started, I mean, here in the United States when the people finally reached a point where they said enough is enough. We’re sick and tired of being lied to.

We’re seeing the policies of the other side. We see them pushing war. And I think this is why a lot of people woke up and, and voted for Trump. And actually, you know, as they say, now he has a mandate. And I think this is spreading to other countries. I mean, Argentina, they elected Javier Melaye. He’s doing great things. In Argentina, we have El Salvador, Geert Wilder in the Netherlands, I think Macron, Trudeau, Schultz, I think Starmer. I think we’re going to see a huge change around the world. And I think people are, are getting sick and tired of this.

And I think this is why you see petitions, this is why you see the recalls. Everyone’s, you know, now saying, okay, enough is enough with what’s going on. And I think we’re going to see change. Listen, the deep state, they’re going to fight back. They’re going to push whatever they have to push, and they’re going to do whatever they’re going to do. But I think the people are much more awake and they understand a lot more today than they did, you know, years ago. And I think the people are just getting sick and tired of, of all of it.

Dave, let me just bring up two points quickly here that show that the situation in Syria, whatever else is going on, the idea that people who six months ago were known as head choppers, Islamic Jihadis, are now being portrayed as great potential government that causes people to scratch their heads. But it goes back to what Michael Flynn said back in 2012 when he said the CIA is building ISIS and building Al Qaeda as a weapon against sovereign states. And this is one thing that I think causes people to ask questions. And then when you take someone like a Tulsi Gabbard or a Cash Patel and call them extremists because they’re saying, let’s get to the truth here.

The intelligence community should not be in the hands of people who have vested interests that are partisan. And the intelligence community is filled with people who ran lying stories about Trump and Putin back in 2016. Now today there was an article written by Fred Kemp, who’s the CEO of the Atlantic Council, who warning that Trump wants to run a wrecking operation against the intelligence community. Well, good for him. Yeah, that’s what we need. They make it sound like it’s a bad thing. It seems that his picks for the key personnel were much better this time than 2016.

So let’s hope that he will be successful in draining the swamp in this sense. And what I want to add also concerning Syria, I think there lies also a big danger in this present conflict because the swift developments in Syria were surely driven not only by Turkey, but also by Israel. And I see that the Iranian influence was strongly weakened in Syria. Of course, this takes a little bit away the pressure from Israel, but my concern is whether a larger conflict with Iran is about to being started. Yeah. Because the region of course, affects very strongly also Germany.

So through the 2011 initiated civil war, which was more or less a geopolitically driven proxy war in Syria, we got a wave of around about a million Syrian refugees. And now as Assad, as the main cause of flight for those people is gone, the question is, can we send those people back? Or will Syria now remain in turmoil, in trouble, become a failed state, just like Libya, which was bombarded and destroyed as a state structure in 2011 through NATO bombardments, will we be able to stabilize, to build up Syria again and use also the human resources.

The people who have fled Syria, come to Germany, send them back, launch big re migration programs and stabilize the region? Or will it become a new hotspot for a larger conflict involving Iran? Because Donald Trump also made it clear that he wanted to halt the development of Iran. Yeah, that’s a big question. Maybe you have more thoughts or deeper insights on that issue. You know, you know what’s interesting and hardly, I think we had discussion, these discussions going back with Obama, with Syria. I find it very interesting that throughout all these years, it was very easy now for the rebels or the terrorists to overthrow, reach Damascus and remove Assad, and Assad had to escape.

After all, all this time with everything that was going on, I felt like it was just too easy. Well, there’s an element of this which is set piece diplomacy, that the idea is not necessarily to win the war, but to keep the war going, to keep the chaos going. That’s the essence of British imperial geopolitics, divide and conquer. And it’s worth noting that Syria and Lebanon were part of the Sykes Picot Agreement in 1916, secret agreement between France and Britain as to who would control the Middle east after the Turks left. So we’re still seeing the same kind of battles that were the inter imperial rivalries of the beginning of the 20th century.

And the 20th century was a century of wars. And in the last part of the century, and so far this century has been U.S. permanent wars. And this is not what the American people want. This is what the war hawks, the Dick Cheneys, the Halliburtons, that’s what they want. And that’s why Reiner’s right to point out that the leading candidate for the Christian Democrats for the chancellor in Germany, Friedrich Merits, was the head of blackrock in Europe. So, you know, everywhere you go, these same peoples keep popping up. And it’s our hope that Trump will take seriously what gave him the victory, which is the anger at being told what to do by unelected bureaucrats, including those at the Federal Reserve.

And if we can, you know, that’s what, as you know, Dave, that’s what I’ve been fighting for with, with Lyndon LaRouche and our organization for years. And LaRouche was a victim of the original Russiagate. Going back to the fact that the person who prosecuted him in the 1980s was the same Robert Mueller who was brought in to go after Trump. Right. It’s interesting that you mentioned the Federal Reserve because Trump, it seems like he’s leading us down this path of going back to tariffs, going back to the time of McKinley talking about no taxes on tips, no tax on Social Security.

It feels like he’s bringing us down this path where eventually he might remove the central bank. I mean, this is the third one in this country. It’s been removed twice before. And maybe this time around that’s his objective. Because this is the way I feel if we do not remove this, the private Western central bank systems that are privately owned, where they just create currency out of thin air if we don’t remove it. And let’s say, you know, Elon comes in, Veve comes in, they, you know, they cut government and, and they cut spending, if you still have an open end credit card, it’s always going to breed corruption.

In the end, even maybe right in the beginning, it might seem fine, but you know, what happens over time oh wait, I can borrow a little bit more. Oh wait, I, I can make up a program, I can use this money, then launder it out and then it starts all over again. I mean, I feel that his mission should be eventually to get rid of the, the private wisdom or restructure it and go back to the constitution here, which I think then would change the rest of the world and it would bring the rest of the countries to say, okay, we’re not going to use the private west central bank currency anymore.

We’re going to go back to our national currencies where, you know, we’re not just, it’s going to, maybe they can, you know, peg it to gold again, but we need some type of sound money to, to stabilize everything and make it so corrupt politicians can’t use this to fund certain operations around the world. Well, in Europe the two problems. One is Mario Draghi who is the controller of the European Central bank and he goes back to the city of London. He was deployed by the City of London to wreck Italy. And then Mark Carney, who for a period of time was at the, I think bank of England and the may have been the ecb.

He’s now a top official at the United nations and he’s working on continuing to fight for the great reset. So this is when you talk about corporate control, this is what you’re talking about. The JP Morgan chases, the bank of America, the London banks and so on. And one good sign was when the Saudis broke the agreement on the petrodollar because the petrodollar was a City of London and then Wall street deal that Kissinger set up. You know, that’s the de dollarization. Many Americans are scared of that. I don’t think the Russians are going to get rid of the dollar, but they’re basically saying you can’t weaponize the dollar against other countries.

And I think in the long run it’s in American interests for us to earn the money that we get as opposed to stealing it. And that’s what the central bank system is all about. How you can rig the terms of trade so you can steal. And they’ve gotten away with it for a long time. And as Reiner said, this era of colonialism and imperial policy is coming to an end. And the question is, will it be through war and destruction or will it be through cooperation of sane adults who break with these private interests? I agree.

Rainer, did you want to say anything, add anything? Well, I think that the partnership between Germany and United States should be revived to find this path into a new future where both United States and Europe positions itself in a multipolar world, ending this colonial period. And I don’t see other really reliable partners in Germany who really understand the policy goals of Donald Trump other than the alternative for Germany. So my wish would be that Our Chancellor candidate, Dr. Alice Weidel, meets with Donald J. Trump even maybe before being inaugurated and sending out a signal that patriotic forces across the Atlantic can and will still work together, heading towards a better future where we don’t need those endless wars.

And, yeah, setting the foundation to ending the Ukraine war, setting the foundation also for settling the conflicts in the Middle East. And yeah, we need to find also ways to come along with China, because many people, of course, are now worried about a future round of conflict between the US And China. And I have just read today that there is really a larger, a very large concentration of Marine ships of the Chinese army around Taiwan at the moment. There are so many conflicts going on in this critical phase when the United States is still governed by a lame duck, when maybe other hidden forces.

A very lame duck, very lame duck, and before Trump comes in. So this is a very sensitive phase. And I hope, yeah, that we can control all those dangers at the moment, but this German American partnership really should be revived, and it should in the future, not exclude Russia, it should not exclude China. I think, moving forward, I think this time around, I think this is, we have one chance to do this now. And I think he needs to set everything straight. And I think he’s prepared to do that. And just by the picks and the people that he’s bringing in now, I think he’s, I think he sees the board.

I think he’s seen, you know, who’s with them, who’s against him. I mean, went through, you know, 2016 all the way to today. And I think he’s seen a lot and I think at this point in time that with seeing who’s on his side, who’s not on his side, who’s corrupt, who’s not corrupt. Remember, he was a businessman. He went into D.C. it was a cesspool of, you know, these individuals that were all out for themselves. And I, I think he see, hopefully he sees things very, very differently. And I think this time around, I think he’s prepared to work with many countries and remove the globalist structure.

And I think we’re going to see something very, very different. I mean, he talks about the golden age in America. If there’s a golden age in America, there’s going to be a Golden age around the world. And I think the rest of the world is going to follow. And I think the people around the world are going to, you know, demand it from their leaders. I don’t think they’re going to sit back because if they see it in the US I think they’re going to say, well, look what they’re doing. Why are we still doing this? Why do we have windmills? Why do we have solar power? Why are we paying all this? It makes no sense.

And I think the people, they’re gonna, they’re gonna push back very, very hard. Yeah. Yeah. And I hope that Donald Trump will also pull out of those globalist institutions like the who, the World Health Organization. Some people also call it the World Health Organization, which has really deprived people worldwide of their basic rights during the COVID pandemics. And this also needs to be really reviewed. To which extent do the sovereign states want to submit themselves to such globalist institutions? The Paris Climate Accord, for example, the also UN Migration Pact. We need to really put back the power into the hands of the people, as Donald Trump already said it during his inauguration in 2016.

And that also means to take the power away from those globalist institutions. I agree. Including NATO. Yes. It’s not something that should serve its own interests, but the interests of the people. And the interests of the people are peace. And NATO has not served peace in Europe at least. I want to thank both of you, Harley Reiner, for coming on the X22 Report Spotlight. Let me start with you, Harley. If people wanted to get in touch with you or see you work, where should they go? Two things. I’ve always asked people, if they want to talk to me directly, they can send to my personal email and I’ll respond.

It’s Harley Sch. And you can see my daily 10 to 12 minute video update at the larouche organization.com and you click on programs and then what comes up is Harley’s daily report. And that’s where you can get that. And it’s basically the kind of discussion we’ve been having. And Reiner, if people wanted to see your work or contact you. Yeah, you’re always welcome to visit my YouTube channel, Dr. Reiner Rothfuss, or you can also contact me via email. That would be info@reiner -rufus.de Great. I’m going to put all the links at the bottom of the video.

I just want to thank Harley and thank Dr. Reiner for being on the show. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Okay, Dave. Well, thank you thank you.
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