Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,318 for Tuesday the 16th of December, 2025.

I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Josh.

Hello there.

And somewhat ill Dan, so be kind to him, give him feelings of warmth and comments.

I'm doing the Hillary Clinton powering through.

Yes, he is, he is, an absolute trooper.

And today we're going to be talking all about how the European elites seem to have some big plans coming our way.

We're then going to be talking about how actually young men don't really deserve those plans.

And we don't really deserve to be put in the meat grinder of war

for their interests. And then we're going to respond to some quite strange news, which is that

apparently South America seems to be getting sensible. It is, yes. I missed the memo about talking

about war, and I'm just like yeah Latin America.

So we're going to talk about pure chaos in our continent and then the most unexpected continent basically cleaning its room and getting its out together.

I'm quite surprised that Peruvian politics in particular is basically like free helicopter

rides or communism. Nothing in between.

That's all there is.

Well, we'll look forward to that.

All right.

So, as we all know, the war between Ukraine and Russia continues.

And we're now a very, very long way away from the Donald Trump.

Oh, when I become president again, we're going to end the war on day one territory.

There's been many, many times, now countless times really,

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