Hello and welcome to another episode of Realpolitik. I am your host, Firas Mardad.

This is the last episode of the year. So before anything else, the most important thing to say to you is Merry Christmas.

Have a wonderful holiday, spend time with your families, go to church. But let's talk about

slightly more depressing things right now. We have to talk about geopolitics. And I think what I want

to start with is the single most important development that's happened in the year. This wasn't

obviously the bombing of Yemen or the bombing of Iran or Trump's attempts at

making peace with the Russians. I think the most important thing that has happened is the

rise of identity politics among the white population. And I don't mean that negatively.

Basically, the Israeli war on Gaza and its conclusion and then the

strikes on Iran really galvanized the right in the West in a very particular way. It started with

opposition to going to war with Iran, with the opposition for the United States going to war with Iran, with the United

Opposition for the United States going to war with Iran.

This is what got Tucker Carlson to invite Nick Fuentes onto his show,

and then we saw the fireworks that came afterwards.

And the reason Nick Fuentes is popular, fundamentally, is because he says that every

single group in the world has identity politics except for white Westerners. And this was

apparently some kind of revelation or some kind of very unusual thing to say. And it is because for decades now, Westerners weren't

allowed to be proud of their nations in any particular way. White people weren't allowed to be

proud of being German or British or American or anything else, really. It was meant to be

guilt all the way down. And so when the

strikes on Iran happened, Tucker decided that as part of his arsenal in terms of pushing back

on this, according to him, he was going to invite Fuentes onto his show. And this led to an

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