Ep. 3830 You Won’t BELIEVE What Italy Just Did!!!

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2:01and France's a Manuel Macron hid underneath their desks like cowards, Prime Minister Georgia Maloney is stepping up. Italy's sending air defense systems and military assets directly in the line of fire, humiliating her spineless European colleagues and showing the entire world who really represents the new leadership of civilizationless Europe. We're going to look at this extraordinary political realignment that's happening on the continent, a realignment that President Trump is fully acknowledging and what it means for this war and the future of the West. Hey gang, it's me Dr. Steve, your Patreon professor here to help you rightly understand this absolutely stunning turn in the war with breaking news and analysis. You're not going to get anywhere else. So you know what to do. Make sure to smack that bell and subscribe button. What happened in the last 24 to 48 hours really is nothing less than a geopolitical earthquake on Europe's southern flank. Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney

3:02went on national radio RTL 102.5 and just announced that Italy will send air defense assistance to Gulf countries in direct response to Iran's missile and drone strikes and she didn't just say it is like some abstract expression of solidarity. She gave the concrete reason for what they're doing here. There are tens of thousands of Italian citizens living in those Gulf states and roughly 2000 Italian troops already deployed there and they will be protected. Now at the very same time this was happening Italy's parliament and Rome passed a motion giving Maloney's government explicit authorization to deploy air defense systems anti-missile batteries and surveillance technologies to help the Gulf states defend against Iranian missiles and drones. Now the key here is that this resolution doesn't just talk about diplomatic support or humanitarian aid. It's specifically green light

4:05hard military capabilities. S.A.M. systems radar and integrated air defense assets and it reiterates that Italian bases will remain open to the United States for logistical support of ongoing operations and stark contrast to the weak need leftists in Spain and Cure Starmor in the UK. In other words, Italy is not just issuing statements. Italy is plugging itself into the war fighting architecture that is defending the Gulf and by extension defending the entire Western energy system. But what's so fascinating here is that if you listen carefully to Maloney's language you can actually hear something even deeper going on. So she stressed three things. She stressed friendship with the Gulf states the duty to protect Italians living and serving there and the vital importance of Gulf energy to Italy and Europe's survival. And why that's so interesting is that there's not a single mention

5:07of the liberal international order or an appeal to the rules-based order or defending globalism or anything like that. That's just all gone. It's completely absent from her rationale. This is civilizational realism. She's signaling that Italy understands this war is not just about Israel and Iran. It's about whether the West and Western civilization retains control over its own lifelines, energy, trade and the safety of its people abroad. And so she says very simply we're going in. Now, contrast that with the utter cowardice that we've been hearing from Britain's far-left-labor prime minister, Kier Starrmer. In a recent interview, when asked about the war and specifically about the United States using British bases to hit Iranian targets, Starrmer made it absolutely clear. He's like, he's like, we're not getting involved. He told British media

6:08that he would not allow the United States to use UK bases for offensive operations against Iran. And instead, what he did is he ran back and forked to Britain's mosques to give speeches like this. But on the run, I want to make clear that the UK was not involved in the offensive stripes of the US and Israel. And that remains the case. So he's busy pandering to the Muslim population, the rapidly growing Muslim population in the UK. And cowardly distancing himself from this operation. Where's his loyalty's lie? Do his loyalty's lie with a civilizational, distinct West or with some nefarious liberal globalism?

7:08I mean, think about that. The country that once stood alone against Hitler. Now, as a government that openly tells Washington, you can't launch strikes from our soil. Like, you're going to offend our rapidly growing Muslim population if you do that. That's not neutrality. That's cowardice. So while Maloney is sending air defense batteries to intercept Iranian missiles before they reach Gulf cities and energy infrastructure, Starmer is effectively saying, you're on your own. Let me go to another Ramadan meeting. One leader is looking at tens of thousands of her citizens saying, these are my peeps and I'm going to protect them. The other is looking at the media and mosques and promises not to offend. One is treating this as a war of a clash of civilizations that demands courage. The other is treating it as a PR problem that demands caution.

8:10Now, let's zoom in on exactly what Italy is doing here because it's not mere symbolism. It's pretty impressive stuff. According to multiple reports, Italy will deploy air defense systems to key Gulf partners. These systems are designed to intercept precisely the kind of weapons Iran has been firing. So ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones aimed at bases, cities and energy infrastructures. The importance of which just got foregrounded with the latest Iranian attack on the oil refinery in Bahrain, which just happened hours ago. So what's so key here is that Maloney is not just condemning Iranian strikes. She's sending the hardware that shoots the missiles down. This comes on top of the roughly 2,000 Italian troops already stationed in the region on ongoing missions and it dovetails with Italy's naval presence, safeguarding shipping lanes that Europe's economy depends on.

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10:10I'm the host of big technology podcast. A long time reporter and an on air contributor to CNBC. And if you're like me, you're trying to figure out how artificial intelligence is changing the business world and our lives. So each week on big technology, I bring on key actors from companies building AI tech and outsiders trying to influence it. Asking where this is all going, they come from places like Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and plenty more. So if you want to be smart with your wallet, your career choices, and meetings with your colleagues and at dinner parties, listen to big technology podcast wherever you get your podcasts. The Trump administration has been very clear. The war is going to intensify not taper off. And in that environment, the choice facing European leaders is very simple. Either you help build the shield that keeps Iranian missiles from plunging your energy and your expatriates into chaos, or you sit back, right, put out carefully worded statements, and hope that Washington will somehow do it all for you.

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13:14Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya. But now the civilizationalists are taking over. And what we have to understand is that what nationalist poppiles like Maloney and Trump for that matter represent is something very, very different than the Neocong globalists. Remember, according to the Brussels class, Maloney was supposed to be too far right or too popular, so too nationalist, too conservative. But in the moment of crisis, it is precisely that national civilizational identity that gives her the clarity to act. She talks openly about Italians abroad, about Italian soldiers, about Italy's energy lifelines. She sees Italy as a particular people in a particular place with particular duties. She sees Europe as a civilization with its own unique identity and unique destiny that needs to be protected and defended at all costs. Starmer, on the other hand, speaks in the vague language of restraint

14:14on all sides and avoiding escalation and the importance of the international order all the while trying to actively tie Washington's hands at critical bases. Sanchez, the factless socialist prime minister at Spain is doing the same thing. So in real time, before our very eyes, Europe is being spiritually redrawn. On one map, the old Brussels London axis of managerial globalism, technocrats, process, committees, managerialism, statements, and above all, a commitment to never, ever, ever, ever, ever in any way offend racial and religious minorities. Those are their top priorities. But on the new map, it's emerging access to civilizational populism. A United States under Trump and increasingly right wing Israel fighting for its own civilizational survival. And now in Italy under Maloney,

15:15decisively stepping forward as a serious power, that is the new rising world that we see. Italy backs golf partners with concrete air defense deployments, coordinates with Washington, and openly acknowledges that the golf falls either into chaos or in China's proxies hands, Europe's energy and security go with it. Now Maloney and our foreign minister are careful to say that Italy is not formally entering into the Middle Eastern war officially, and they're supporting their partners in reinforcing defense, not all funds. But make no mistake. I mean, if you're sending integrated air defense systems into a live theater where Iranian missiles are flying, you're in the war, whether you admit it or not. Once those Italian operated systems shoot down an Iranian missile aimed at a golf city or an American base, Rome has crossed a line that Starmer is desperately trying to avoid.

16:20Maloney is betting that history will remember who stood up when it mattered. Starmer is betting that history will forget who sat down. So what does this mean going forward? Well, bottom line, it means that the center of gravity in Europe has already shifted. And Italy that's willing to send air defense systems to the golf to openly tie its fate to the defense of Western energy and Western allies is in Italy that can never ever from now on be ignored. And a Britain and a Spain for that matter. It's unwilling to let the United States use its base as to stop Iran as a Britain that will increasingly be, that's a Britain that will increasingly be worked around bypass and frankly, I'll just be blunt, forgotten. In the future architecture of the West, Washington will remember who showed up and who shamefully hid.

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