Hanwell
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for Deutschland, but it strikes me, listening to you describe the interaction that you had with the former, well, the then Chancellor Angela Merkel, that if she had followed your advice,
on the admission of over a million Syrians, unvetted Syrians into Germany.
The whole consequent problem with the AFD would never have arisen because the AFD in its present form is largely a response to the consequences of the invasion that Germans are living with on a day-to-day basis.
Do you find that somewhat ironic as well?
Something on this show that we sort of follow every day, basically, of the four hours that we put out every day, is the fact that these populist nationalist political parties like the AFD in Germany, like, say, Fratelli d'Italia here in Italy,
and so on and so forth, right across the European Union.
These are largely a consequence of the uncontrolled immigration that we have seen in continental Europe since 2015 onwards.
It hasn't simply changed the political landscape
of Germany, it's changed the political landscape right across the European Union.
Let me ask you this question then before I give a quick shout out to one of our sponsors.
Friedrich Merz a couple of days ago announced that he was going to send the Syrians back, considering that the Assad regime fell, and he's projected that 80% are going to return.
Dr. Marson, do you think that's, is he, is this what we call in colloquial English performance politics?
That is, is he simply saying this because he's trying to do something to diminish the AFD's appeal and to show himself as taking this issue seriously because it is taken seriously by German people?
Is it really a realistic expectation that 80 Syrians are going to return to Syria voluntarily?
It's absolutely true.
And let's face it, it would be possible.
It would be possible for Germany if it had a government that was politically minded to do it, to send a million Syrians back.
But that would require the whole of the political class, at least the governing political coalition, to be absolutely serious about that.
How serious?
Would it require a seriousness much like that shown by President Trump in America?
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