Fact Check: War in Ukraine, UK Spending & Russia's Economic Claims Analyzed

Merry Christmas war is over if you want it brackets. People forget that bracket quite often. But it does seem that the

war in Ukraine is beginning to come to an end. President Trump announced today that a meeting between Zalinski and

President Putin will happen. He said, and I quote, "Very soon." There are talks in Abu Dhabi uh getting ready to

get underway. The advance of the Russian armed forces has become completely unstoppable and the finances of the

European Union to keep the war going are becoming exhausted. having previously been regarded as sacrosanked government

after government in the European Union is now bulking at the additional payment of 150 billion euros that Zalinski just

demanded two days ago of his partners. All except in Britain of course where we had World Budget Day. We had World

Budget Day for everyone except the British. another another 10 billion British pounds dedicated from a depleted

English treasury to the thief of Kiev. We made his day according to the British chancellor of the exjecker John Healey.

It's a small price to pay really for the British taxpayer to make his day all over again. This is 10 billion in

addition to the three billion a year for the next 100 years to which we are already committed. It's also in addition

to the 9 billion that we committed extra on top of that just a week or two ago. There's a kind of madness in England.

The people are beginning to shiver at the edge of a bitter winter where, as I can personally testify, the cost of

heating oil has doubled since our last bill, 100% increase. This on a product which is

already four times more expensive than it was almost 5 years ago. But the British

ability to suffer for Zalinski for which line of a map Kansk will lie on when nobody in Britain has ever heard of Kian

unless they listen to me and doesn't give a toss which side of a line it lies. But the British taxpayer is being

bled dry by British Labor government which called on its people to stock up on tins. They didn't say on tin hats,

but they meant on tin hats because the macho war leader Wesley's streeting, the lavender minister of defense warned us

that in a thousand days Britain will be at war. He was very clear about it. And that was 4 days ago. So it's now 996

days until World War II. You see what I'm getting at here? Did these people join Labor politics to double people's

heating bills to make diesel and petrol completely unobtainable, unaffordable for the average working man and woman in

Britain? Did they join politics to tell people to stock up on bottled water and tin cans of food when more people in

Britain are queuing at food banks than are queuing at McDonald's? That's right. We have more food banks in Britain than

we have branches of McDonald's. This gluttony for war on the part of a

so-called labor government will be its downfall. I promise you that. It doesn't look that way to them now. But it's

about to because when the war is over, as before Christmas, I predict to you it shall be,

all roads will lead to Moscow. Everyone in the world will be headed for Moscow to make economic deals. Deals for for

raw materials, deals for rare earth uh minerals, rare uh manganese deposits, gold, silver, and of course petrol and

oil and gas. Everybody will be headed to make new economic arrangements. All the

companies will be back. They've all kept their storefronts here. Did you know that? Did you know that though Gucci is

closed, it's still there? It's still paid its rent and it's about to reopen. Did you know that the same was true of

just about every western outlet that you have ever heard of? None of them gave up their leases. They're all coming back.

Even McDonald's, though, it's now replaced by Russian McDonald's, which is an altogether healthier, tastier, and

definitely cheaper uh alternative. Did you know that 44

African heads of state and government are in Moscow right now for the third Russia Africa summit? Did you know that

the streets were impossible with government delegations flying the

flags of African African nations all guarded against Ukrainian inspired terrorism by thousands, tens of

thousands of crack Russian troops and security forces? Did you know that the world is about to be ready to do

business like never before with an economy that is booming while our economies are sunk into the mire? That's

the kind of idiot leaders that we have. All of them expensively educated speaking as one who isn't and wasn't. I

predicted on the first day of the first package of 22 packages of sanctions against Russia that they would turn out

to be the biggest boomerang in history. And boy, have I been proven right. But the British will not be coming. The

Russians are not coming for Britain. I mean, the idea that anybody would want to run Britain, the the idea that anyone

would want to take on take over Britain's economic, social, cultural problems is so for the birds. It's

laughable in the rest of the world. But the Labor government has tried and may even with some have succeeded in

persuading people that Russia is out to get them. Russia doesn't give them a minute thought. The future belongs in

Eurasia. The future belongs in Russia, in China, in Vietnam, in Indonesia, in India, in Iran, in the bricks, in the

Shanghai cooperation organization. That's where the future lies. That's where the sun is already rising. And

when this war is over, and it is possible to do so, even Taiwan Airlines, is now flying across Russian airspace.

Can you believe it? And yet the British and the Europeans, but particularly the British, are sunk in an ancient mindset

that just makes them look like idiots. But the real idiots are us. The real idiots are us who tolerate government.

so stupid that they will selfharm their own people, selfharm their own economies in some mad cap imperial adventure that

was doomed from the get-go and surely looks doomed now. The prime ministers of Finland and Norway, both of whom of

course have the benefit of a long border with Russia, called President Putin this week. To hell with NATO, they said, "To

hell with the EU," they said. "We have our own national interests and Russia is our neighbor and we intend to start

talking more jaw jaw, less war, war." Mr. The Churchill used to swear by that adage. His successors, although you

could hardly call John Healey the successor of Winston Churchill, could you? No. If you watched the budget

today, you could not. His successors of course are lesser men and women. Ursula Vander Lion has destroyed the economy of

the European Union. Mertz has destroyed the economy of Germany as little soldier Schulz did before him. Macron has

completely destroyed France and they will all pay a very high political price unless massochism can be added to full

hardiness as a national attribute of the countries of the European Union. The race now is on for a quick settlement of

the Ukraine war and a swift return to business as usual, not least in the form of Mr. Elon Musk, who I'm suing in the

high court in Dublin. The case now at an advanced stage. It has lasted years because of the complete unwillingness,

inability of the legal representatives of Mr. Musk and X to even get instructions from their client, let

alone the answers that are required by the court to the legal case that I have filed.

Well, today President Putin revealed something very interesting indeed. Turns out Russia is in a collaboration

with Mr. Elon Musk. So it's Elon Musk that is the Russian affiliated agent. Not me.

I never was. I will not be even if it becomes legal so to be. I will not be. No such

qualms affect Mr. Musk. So my advice to you, Elon, is get on the phone to your lawyers in Dublin because the cost of

reaching a settlement with me rises exponentially from this very moment. The

facts that the economies of Russia, China, the bricks have proven so resilient is

surely the answer to a question many are asking. How did Lula, the leader of the Workers

Party of Brazil, sister party of my own, how did the Workers Party of Brazil and its leader, the veteran trade union

champion, Lula, how did they manage to defeat the United States government? Anyone who was

in any doubt that the US was involved in a regime change operation in Brazil haven't seen Flavio Balssonaro touching

down into exile in Miami in the last one hour. One Balssonaro in jail. One Balssonaro already on the run from

criminal justice. now joined by his brother, the man who just 72 hours or so ago believed he was to be the next

president of Brazil is now the new Juan Guido. Lula is king of the hill, king of the heap and has established himself as

one of the most significant socialist figures in all history. Four times elected, hunted by the military

dictatorship, imprisoned by the civilian political dictatorship

and then released and then elected and then reelected and then reelected. Four great historic victories for Lula. We

have differences, political differences, always have had. But Lula, you are one hell of a class act. A workingass act. A

workingclass hero, as John Lennon told us, is after all something to be. Now, a bit about the situation that we are

talking about tonight. Of course, the enemy never sleeps. reaction is always on the lookout for an opportunity to

advance and indeed it appears to have had some success recently in Hungary and now in uh the Belgrade elections in

Serbia that uh as expected showed a very severe setback for the government there. Prime Minister Vhuch will never be.

President Vhuch is no longer. The party that he leads will have to do one hell of a job of rebuilding itself, of

renovating itself. There are many, many things not to love about former President Vhuch.

But he did actually do better than any of his neighbors. economically. He did actually maintain

relations with Russia, albeit in a very ambiguous and some would say sneaky way. He did definitely open to China in a way

which has been hugely massively beneficial to the workingclass people of Serbia. The European Union hopes that in

getting rid of Vhuch that the Balkans will begin to tumble into their lap. They hope that Serbia will agree to

betray their patrimony, their heartland, their homeland in so-called Kosovo brackets. How come Crimea cannot declare

itself independent from Ukraine? But Kosovo can declare itself independent from Serbia. Closed brackets. I'll wait

for the answer. For answer, can there possibly be none? They hope that they will be able to persuade the new student

list government in Serbia to betray Kosovo, to betray Republica Serbska, to betray Russia, to begin to derisk from

China. They hope they'll be able to persuade the Serbian people to stop smoking and to start loving the LGBTQ++

agenda. I'm here to tell them that they can go whistle. The Serbian people will never agree to any of that. At least

that's my view. We'll hear what my expert commentator George Sami has to say about that in just a moment or two.

But in Hungary also, the using of the anniversary of what happened in Hungary in 1956

has been used to hype up anti-Russian feeling in the country. They hope against hope that Victor Orman will not

be the next Secretary General of the United Nations. I have quite a strong feeling that he will. So, it's the

mother of all talk shows. It is our 599th edition in this current format. Of

course, it began on talk sport radio more than 20 years ago in the United Kingdom. It moved to the United States

of America to the Pacifica Network. It moved back to England to talk radio. And then I was sacked

for my comments relating to Israel. But as Piers Morgan told me the next morning live on television, "A sacking is an

opportunity." And boy, what an opportunity it has turned out to be thanks to you. It's the mother of all

talk shows. Stay tuned.