Ben Harnwell

She says, I hope for replacement theory.

I hope we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with immigrants.

That's the pitch of these people, Steve.

And these are your allies, right?

These are your European NATO allies.

As President Trump and his administration quite rightly said in the US National Security Strategy released in December, if Europe goes down this road of ever more immigration...

then these European countries will no longer be of any use to America as allies.

There is the hard throwdown from the US administration.

It is having an effect on Europe, but possibly not the effect, Steve, that you're looking for.

And the effect is increasing performative response.

from your European capitals, from your European chances.

They're starting to talk in language which is more acceptable to the US administration, but their actions behind that are totally the opposite.

Let me cite, before I give back to you, let me just cite one example.

I said I'd come on to Italy.

So you have Giorgia Maloney and she's out sort of there sort of preening herself, especially now sort of preparing for the Olympics.

Later on this week, she's certainly going to be the queen bee there.

And she's pushing out this line that don't worry, don't worry, Italy is going to meet the 5% commitment.

We're going to, President Trump is perfectly reasonable.

We're going to meet this 5%.

defense of GDP ratio that he'd like us to do what she's not telling you is that she's sneaking into an order to get that figure up from two percent to five percent she's sneaking in a bridge between Sicily and mainline Italy which she's calling a national security issue she's she's putting in the pensions of the defense sector and she's putting in the expenditure for the coast guard right and