Can Keir Starmer be the ‘bridge’ between Europe and Trump?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The moving parts in the international crisis continue to move. Macron and Starmer in Washington, a new government to form in Germany and Trump never far away from a TV screen. But to what end are all the diverse parts moving?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards. |
| 0:20.9 | Thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:22.3 | And thank you, by the way, for just some brilliant emails on the international crisis that we are trying to make sense of here in the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative. |
| 0:32.6 | They are really interesting, insightful, thought-provoking, and based often on experience of economy, |
| 0:41.3 | how the markets work in relation to defence spending, say, and international mediation and |
| 0:47.9 | from different countries. I don't think I'm going to have time to get through them all, |
| 0:51.5 | but they are great. We'll be coming to them very shortly. Thank you also, those of you who subscribe to Patreon. |
| 0:58.5 | Hopefully last week you got the latest in our series on defectors, Sean Woodward, who defected from the Conservative Party to Labour. |
| 1:07.9 | And yeah, by subscribing, you get all kinds of bonuses, you get this podcast early |
| 1:12.7 | without the ads and all that kind of thing. And above all, you keep us all going in the cooperative. |
| 1:18.1 | So do join if you haven't. And if you have, thank you very much. If it's okay with all of you, |
| 1:24.5 | normally for new listeners, downloaders, subscribers, I sort of pluck out one theme |
| 1:31.1 | to reflect on before we get to the wider rock and roll politics cooperative. But with this |
| 1:37.3 | international crisis, there are so many kind of moving parts that I'm going to reflect briefly on a series of those moving parts, from the German |
| 1:49.0 | election to Stama and Macron going to Washington, to the ongoing debate about defense spending, |
| 1:56.4 | and some wider issues too, Europe and Russia and what that that means and the toughest call of all, |
| 2:04.0 | which goes towards Ukraine and Zelensky. So those are what I'm going to do. I think it's inevitable, |
| 2:11.5 | really. I mentioned last week, and we've got some brilliant emails challenging the parallel I made with the origins of the |
| 2:19.0 | First World War. But what I kind of meant really by saying, forget about the 1930s as a parallel, |
| 2:26.3 | it doesn't work. And incidentally, we've got some good emails on that as well. But the parallel |
| 2:31.2 | with the First World War is this thing of so many moving parts, just to, |
| 2:35.7 | I'm not saying the parallels are at all precise, because that would be bonkers. |
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