WarRoom Battleground EP 1087: ANDREW SPANNAUS on the EU post AfD victory in East Germany; and COLLIN MCMAHON on AfD's next steps

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What is the opening premise of the WarRoom episode and who are the hosts?

Stephen K. Bannon 0:02

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies. Because we're going medieval on this people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not gonna stop it. It's going to happen.

Jake Tapper 0:24

And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

Unknown 0:34

Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. Warum, here's your host, Stephen K. Banner.

Ben Harnwell 0:55

Hardwell here at the helm on Steve Bannon's Warham. Good evening. Well, you might remember folks, just a week or so ago we had Colin McMahon on. who um who laid the s The scene perfectly ahead of the German state elections and he was pretty much right on every point. He said that the AfD were gonna clock in it around 44%, and that's exactly what happened. They had a great result. We've got Colin, and he'll be back on uh to break the results down, explain to us what we might expect out of Germany in the second half of this show. Before that, I'd like to talk to uh being on the show first time on the war room, um Andrew Spanis, uh an American author and journalist. Based here in Italy. Andrew, um, good evening.

Ben Harnwell 1:52

I know you've written a couple of books and we'll we'll flag these up at the end of the show, and some of the material in those books is directly pertinent to what we're going to be discussing here this evening. I would the two things. And I uh the reason I I ta I tee this up with with a nod towards the developments in Germany. Is this? Is it Germ Germany is the European Union's largest Member State by both population. And GDP and along with France, though equally it is simply just Germany. these days is is is the powerhouse has always been traditionally the powerhouse of European integration. Um and following the results in Germany, I would suggest already This week you can see Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor, trying to belatedly um re retake some of the political terrain, having neglected the basically

Ben Harnwell 3:00

the half of the the fifty percent of his electorate to his right, because he's firmly, let's say, in conventional terms, at the centre. Too little, too late, the AFD I think i is on a roll. One of the things, however, important not just in Germany, but right across the European Union, is this concept of national identity. and sovereignty vis-a-vis the European Union itself. This is where you are an expert. Now let's start off talking a bit about the democratic deficit as it's known. Say a bit about that, about how the the European functions, because this is crucially important. Um and we'll we'll Our Judas explained what this democratic deficit is in the European Union. We'll then talk about exactly what Friedrich Merz is trying to do along with a number of other

Ben Harnwell 3:57

Member States, which is to to pull back down the European Union's budget for the for the seven year projection which they're working on. And I think that, you know, I don't think that the timing of this is coincidental. He's he's sort of pushing this in the very days after his humiliating defeat at the hands of the AFD. But let's do this in stages. First of all, just say a little bit, if you wouldn't mind, about exactly what is the democratic deficit as far as the European Union is concerned.

Andrew Spanaus 4:28

Okay, thank you. Thank you, Ben, and hello everyone. I think that we really need to get an idea of what Europe looks like, you know, what the European Union is. If you live in Europe, you hear incessantly how Europe defends democratic values, how what really needs to be done in order to save Europeans, but also to represent, you know, an example for the world is to have a stronger European. Union. Ан вот people know who have followed Europe or lived here for a long time is that the process of building the European Union has been Very undemocratic, right? Democratic deficit. And the key point is the nineteen nineties, nineteen ninety-two, when basically you have what's called the Maastricht Treaty.