Hello and welcome to colonial outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast that your problematic uncle will be increasingly confused by because we are going to go pretty deep on this one discussing the European Union and the rise of fascism and the modern era. We're going to be bringing in Ukraine, potential trade wars with Europe, frau genocide, Ursula van der Leyen, more sanctions on Russia,

the militarization of Europe and Germany, German politics, fun times, but we're mostly going to be

focusing on the great leader, or the erstwhile, great industrial power of Europe, Germany.

Germany, because no one fascists like my people.

Round three, here we go.

Maybe third times the charm.

So we are joined for our weekly geopolitical update episode by regular contributor

Elina Xenofontos.

Thanks so much for coming on.

Thank you for having me.

It's going to be an interesting one.

As always, to be fair.

Yeah.

It's an interesting time.

Yeah, it's our first uniquely Eurocentric one, I think, in a while.

Yeah, it is.

But a lot's been happening as well with Europe, like you said, trade war sanctions, fascism on the rise. So yeah, it's been quite, it's going to be quite in the center of attention for a bit.

Yeah, and of course, you know, the situation in the Middle East is fluid, but the ceasefire in Gaza seems to have been extended for at least another week.

Lebanon, what's going on in Lebanon is kind of also threading the needle and whether or not

hostilities will break out again. And there were Israeli airstrikes in the confines of Damascus,

and now the Israeli military say,

we are not leaving,

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