The Weekly Forum - 16 August

Ever since the Ukraine war broke out in 2022, FVD has opposed NATO’s proxy war against Russia. For instance, FVD’s MPs refused to attend a video speech given in the Dutch parliament by President Zelensky – the only party to do so. FVD was also the first to disagree with the absurd claim that the Russians blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Now German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian they say sabotaged the pipelines, while the Wall Street Journal claims that Zelensky himself ordered the attack. This is highly embarrassing for those who uncritically applauded the Ukrainian president two years ago. It means that Germany, France and the Netherlands, the primary victims of the sabotage (the Dutch company Gasunie, the French company Engie, and two major German energy companies being shareholders in Nord Stream, together with Gazprom, the majority shareholder), have been giving tens of billions of euros to the very country which attacked their critical infrastructure. FVD has been proved to have been right all along.

Read FVD's Statement here

FVD International’s director, John Laughland, was interviewed by Nina Byzantina on her Winter Latina show on X and Youtube this week. Nina is a historian and independent analyst who has a substantial internet presence and a strong interest in Russia. They discussed the work of Forum for Democracy which includes both politics and metapolitics – the party and its work in parliament, the food delivery company Eerlijk Eten (Honest Eating), Amsterdam Books, the Renaissance Institute and the FVD primary school. Together they tried to answer the eternal question, What is to be done? Judge for yourself whether John was able to answer it!

Listen to John's interview here

It is precisely because FVD does not do just politics that we are honoured to publish articles by Sid Lukkassen, the Dutch philosopher who reflects on social trends. Sid has written much about the alienation experienced by inhabitants of our modern dislocated society. In this latest piece, he argues that this alienation could itself be the prelude to a modern form a Caesarism, focused perhaps on a technologically talented leader. Leadership and its magic are indeed absent, as concepts, from the analysis of most critics of modern society, who prefer to reason in terms of abstract liberty. Yet we know that it is a fundamental anthropological fact that people yearn for leadership - especially when they are atomised and lonely.

Read Sid Lukkassen's article here

The Forum changed from being an (audio) X-Space to a video broadcast this week. It was a huge success, not least because of our excellent guest Maike Gosch, with whom we discussed the attacks on free speech in Germany and around the world.

Watch The Forum & Friends here

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John Laughland,
Director FVD International