FVD continued its international reach this month with MP Gideon van Meijeren’s trip to Washington DC. He attended the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Forum which brings together parliamentarians and government officials from around the world. He also travelled outside the city to talk to ordinary people about the threats from immigration and globalist policies. Gideon’s conclusion is FVD International’s slogan: we have to fight globalism worldwide.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDeTrUiqWeU&amp;ab_channel=FVDInternational">Watch Gideon’s video here</a><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeIQ_Uw61ed3-3sng_nC25A_k3lmYCKMFoRyNSQ-ZLBQfGZ5GV2NVpta0sIWEpSoNT6wZ4rUhIq1UNjz6VfG64dnjAgKq14AYcuWECr1VTkoQ6MQk50VGBTZJsPYLP5L9-6ts5Z1A?key=RpvGOnq4lCltcWL1aoYB0yQT">As we head into the second Trump era, it is worth looking at the origins of the neo-conservative ideology which continues to dominate the US establishment and which reaches well into the new administration.&nbsp;Neo-conservatism’s roots lie in largely Jewish leftists, many of them Trotskyites, who were recruited into the CIA’s cultural cold war starting in the 1950s, and who ended up being fanatical propagandists for the warfare state. Viktor Falkner traces their history back to their origins to get a better idea of the challenge which true conservatives face.<a href="https://fvdinternational.com/article/neoconservatism-the-blueprint-of-the-us-security-state">Read Viktor Falkner’s article here</a><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfPM-sLlX39AsH-azDOlY5Yai4-6K80DV_w-Hvs4Q40lyeeOzlsGcBTDKE3KScBy8vTO0oJ--ahnRXUqapOlFR-A-v5miaQWssJIJlwEMceFKeZul8pmkiXa2Ou8Ve_QM2QgD6h9A?key=RpvGOnq4lCltcWL1aoYB0yQT">Is neo-conservatism a conspiracy and, if so, how does one expose and neutralise it?&nbsp; Professor Hei Sing Tso argues that conspiracies exist but that they sometimes have a more diffuse structure than is often assumed.&nbsp;Moreover, there can be surely little doubt that the Deep State exists and that it practises conspiracies all the time – witness the recent revelations about the 4-year long conspiracy to hide and deny Joe Biden’s senility.&nbsp;The Chinese professor gives some interesting pieces of advice drawn from China’s famous tradition of military strategy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://fvdinternational.com/article/multipolarity-conspiracies-and-stratagem">Read Hei Sing Tso’s article here</a><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXd_omu3XUtS7A-kpqseGbzh1pwSsEzYeoIYUpROatyjr0_k5dx6Pu0Hc46cAAxLnMYyN0Ra2CGiZ9fMkZMoLMqLS0uTV_iMkybSZbv37_M5VxWWA5sP-HN1RFNXFA8WTVMAdZTfXg?key=RpvGOnq4lCltcWL1aoYB0yQT"> &nbsp;Debbie Lerman was our guest on The Forum this week.&nbsp; She was superb on the power of the deep state during Trump 1, especially during the Covid scam.&nbsp; If you missed it, you can listen back by clicking below.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTbaovW5f0&amp;ab_channel=FVDInternational">Listen to The Forum here</a>

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The Weekly Forum - 20 December

The Globalist elites are now facing a great challenge - the rise of multipolarity as advocated by Alexander Dugin. This phase of multipolarity is an era of great struggle. The trend has been accelerating after the Ukraine and Middle East conflicts broke out. However, even though we can see some progress in beating the globalists, the enemy will not just sit and remain idle. They will keep on reacting with different means.&nbsp;Recently, there are two contributions that revive the value in studying conspiracies and covert affairs. The first is from Julian Assange. His theory of conspiracy is unconventional. Assange argues that conspiracies are not run by a few men in a secret room. Instead, there is a network of traders of secret information. The information will be only valuable if kept secret within this close network. Surprisingly, a member may not be aware that he is part of the conspiracy at all. Conspiracies can happen everywhere in business and politics, nationally and globally.&nbsp; Within the network, there are links having thick information flows, making them the engine for the whole conspiracy. To Assange, a conspiracy is an emerging entity and cognitive device. It can outthink the same group of individuals acting alone, take information from the environment, pass through the network and act on the result.The second contribution is the subject of deep state. The study on deep state can be traced to a German scholar, Ernst Fraenkel. Indeed, Carl Schmitt embraced this concept and recently scholars have developed a related discipline known as para-politics. Some have argued that deep states only flourish in those nations with fascist history such as Italy but Swedish political scientist Ola Tunander pointed out that even Sweden has a tradition of deep state.&nbsp; The deep states in different Western nations have close connections with the big brother deep state in the U.S-the capitalist-military-security complex.&nbsp;When talking about conspiracies, many people treat them as a product of the magination, or as a hobby of those obsessed with UFO, occultism and the paranormal. The above two contributions have made clear that conspiracies, or covert manipulation, have played a larger role than we assumed in global affairs. It is quite naïve to turn a blind eye to the existence of covert powers. As said before, globalists are facing great challenges from the rise of multipolarity but they will not retreat easily. In my view, covert struggle and tactics will become more essential for resistance.Assange suggested using “leakage” for cutting off a conspiracy network into parts, so as to weaken its power and authority over the conspirators per se. Certainly, investigative journalism still plays a critical role to combat cover-ups, scandals, corruptions, etc. Apart from the courage of journalists, I suggest we can equip ourselves with more tactics.In this article I want to discuss how Traditional Chinese Stratagems can be applied as tactics in covert struggle in the era of multipolarity.First of all, I want to introduce the basic dialectic of Chinese cosmology from the Book of Changes, or I-Ching. According to I Ching, the universe is composed of two polar forces, Yin and Yang. Yin means Woman, Moon, soft, weak, etc while Yang refers to Man, Sun, Hard, Strong, etc. Yin and Yang form a dialectic wholeness. Yin will transform gradually to Yang and vice versa. Traditional Chinese Stratagem emphasizes the Yin part of dialectics. In terms of politics and struggle, Yin means convert means, hidden way, and even conspiracies. In Chinese stratagem thinking, conspiracies are normal in human affairs. In other words, we can apply some principles of Chinese stratagem to combat conspiracies, deep state, hidden operations, etc.<ol><li>Secrecy</li></ol>Chinese strategy emphasises secrecy. There are two aspects here. Firstly, we need to know the secrets of our enemies. This is intelligence work. I think investigative journalists can play a similar role. Therefore, the “leakage” tactic suggested by Assange should be used with careful planning. Some information collected may be reserved and not made public if it is of strategic value for other operations. Secondly, our own actions should be kept secret. If conspiracy is secret, counter-conspiracy should be kept highly secret, otherwise our enemy may launch preemptive attacks. &nbsp;<ol><li>Bizarreness</li></ol>In Chinese strategy, “bizarreness” embraces the unconventional, the unpredictable, surprise, creativity, etc. In all conspiracies (including deep state or networks), there are one or more cores that are controlled by only a few people. The flow of orders and directions to the outer operators may take more time than in formal and legitimate organisations. If we can use unpredictable and unconventional tactics, the conspirators may not be able to catch up and respond promptly, making the conspiracies less effective.<ol><li>Dialectic Change</li></ol>As mentioned above, Yin does not stay as Yin forever. It has a tendency to change to Yang because Yin has the seed of Yang. Conspiracy is hidden, so it is a Yin entity. However, it has a tendency to change to be open and seen. Tactically, we need to find the seed of Yang and activate it to germinate, so that the whole conspiracy will push up to the surface and burst into the open. Assange’s use of leakage is an external approach, while Chinese strategy resorts to an internal approach. What the seed of Yang is depends on the particular conspiracy. It is something that urges or motivates the conspirators to give up secrecy - money, emotion, etc. We may use different means to promote such internal drive for exposure. It is an indirect stratagem.<ol><li>The art of borrowing&nbsp;</li></ol>There is a very special Chinese stratagem known as “borrowing”. We can even borrow from our enemies. Besides leaking conspiracies, we can borrow from conspiracies. The first way is common. Many conspirators like to distract attention by making others believe there is another conspiracy responsible for the operations. This is known as “scapegoat conspiracies”, mostly used by intelligence agencies around the world. Another borrowing stratagem is to steal the resources of the conspirators. We can firstly create a fake target for the conspirators. They will then use resources to deal with the target. We trade with the conspirators to make the profit gain so as to “rob” their resources!&nbsp;<ol><li>It is better to lose!</li></ol>To win, you must lose first. This seems illogical but it is a wisdom. Sometimes we need to retreat for success. Most global and grand conspiracies have big targets. Take the example of depopulation by different means. The global elites have won the first round to cut down population by vaccination. As a resistance stratagem, we may consider diverting vaccine production to other countries to weaken those global pharmaceuticals with conspirators behind. Also, we should increase attacks on LBGT target. The higher goal is to interfere the depopulation agenda. It is not necessary to fight head to head with the enemy.Conspiracies are hidden warfare but real. Apart from modern knowledge and tactics, we can learn insights to cope with them from ancient wisdom.

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Multipolarity, Conspiracies and Stratagem

When the United States invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003, the extent of the influence of neoconservatives in the US government became clear. This group of thinkers, writers, diplomats and activists gained a foothold in no time and have since become an integral part of US foreign policy. Although the name suggests that these are classical liberals, liberal conservatives or supporters of traditional American values, in reality neo-conservatism is global revolutionary liberalism. It seeks to make the US into a unipolar power based on a liberal-democratic world community, in which Americans, as representatives of the ‘good’, see all those who oppose their interests and principles as enemies to be fought. Think of ‘the axis of evil’ (Iran, Iraq, North Korea), a phrase President George W. Bush used in a speech on 29 January 2002, coined by his neoconservative editorial writer, David Frum. Although neoconservatism is often associated with the 1990s and early 2000s, it remains the guiding ideology of US foreign policy today, as evidenced by Ukraine policy and regime change operations in the Middle East. Neoconservatism is far from spontaneous, however, as a little dip into history reveals.The founder of neoconservatism is the Jewish-American journalist, Irving Kristol. He was born in New York in 1920 and studied at City College. Kristol was a staunch communist; while a student he joined the Young People's Socialist League, the youth movement of the Socialist Party of America. Although Kristol was active in the communist movement, he turned away from the Stalinist Soviet Union and followed its main opponent, Leon Trotsky. The early Soviet Union gave much hope to international communists and anarchists like Kristol and Emma Goldman. However, they became&nbsp;<a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1920s/disillusionment/index.htm">disillusioned</a> with the impact of the revolution and specifically the cruel politics of Joseph Stalin, who was often seen as a ‘traitor’ to the revolution. Kristol joined a group called the ‘New York Intellectuals’, a club of Jewish thinkers and writers who broadly belonged to the ‘anti-Stalinist left’. That is, they had an affinity for socialism and communism, but no longer identified with the Stalinist Soviet Union. Other well-known Trotskyists within this grouping include Seymour Martin Lipset, Nathan Glazar, Irving Howe and Leslie Fiedler.While the United States and the other Allies worked with the Soviet Union to dismantle the Third Reich, the US-British axis was working on the next step - containing the Soviet Union and even a follow-up war. The British were always suspicious of the Soviet Union, given their good ties with Pilsudski's Second Polish Republic, which was invaded in 1940. Domestic communist parties were also seen as extensions of the Soviet Union (like the CPUSA in America). Although Operation Unthinkable, declaring war on the Soviet Union just after World War II, was never carried out, containment of the Soviet Union as a superpower, and communism as its political ideology, were the strategies employed. A key example is the Truman Doctrine, which stated that Americans would work to ‘protect democracies from authoritarian threats’ - in other words, to fight the growth of the Soviet Union and its power bloc, a double-edged sword through the intertwining of political ideology and geopolitical interests.Here we see an interesting phenomenon, namely that political ideology became intrinsically linked to a power bloc and its interests - the liberal democracies to the US, the communist people's republics to Russian ones. There are widely accepted arguments for this, such as the liberal peace theory which holds that liberal democracies pose no (military) threat to each other (ergo; the more liberal democracies, the more peaceful the world). Liberal-democratic sentiments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc were closely monitored for this reason and nipped in the bud if they harmed the interests of the power bloc. The main example is the Czechoslovak liberalisation during the Prague Spring of 1968, in which Secretary Dubček was brutally pushed aside by a Warsaw Pact military invasion. On the other hand, a major thrust emerged in the Western bloc to monitor communist movements and adjust them where possible. The anti-Stalinist left formed a very important pivot in this, being an enemy-affiliated political ideology disconnected from it. If this movement could be redirected further, a ‘safe’ form of socialism separate from the Soviet Union could emerge.The New York Intellectuals were an ideal breeding ground for this. After World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). This explicitly anti-communist organisation aimed to weed out pro-Soviet sentiment from the wider Western intellectual space. In 1950, the CCF began with a conference in West Berlin, attended by several prominent liberal and socialist writers and thinkers, including Raymond Aron, Arthur Schlesinger, Bertrand Russell, Karl Jaspers and James Burnham (known for his book&nbsp;The Managerial Revolution). Also of note were Sidney Hook and Norman Podhoretz, members of the New York Intellectuals and key pivots in the development of neoconservatism. Like Kristol, Hook was a communist until World War II; he then turned away from it. More on Podhoretz later.One of the magazines set up and funded by the CCF (i.e. by the CIA), together with British intelligence agency MI6, was a magazine called Encounter, whose founders were Irving Kristol and British journalist Stephen Spender. Like Kristol, Spender was a communist in his youth: he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1936. So although it was run by two (former) communists, Encounter was hardly critical of US foreign policy. Its aim was to bring out a magazine that was ‘left-of-centre’, which would at the same time argue against neutrality in the Cold War - in other words, to rally the anti-Stalinist left behind the Western bloc in the Cold War. CIA agent Michael Josselson, born into a Jewish family in Estonia in 1908, was appointed coordinator through the CCF to ensure that Kristol and Spender stayed within the permitted ideological margins. From the start, Josselson on the one hand and Kristol and Spender on the other argued with each other over the magazine's direction and the editorial freedom the latter would have.<img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfTzkumM0GMySrQjY6rvJOmPuDSsrxWjnbY5oufSZEsAMNxmcbeWMtHKzIEkge91rWvIvs6gShSzygjt40SoyLNVhLcYx5eGYiIVFqgl0x7lrN3FfY_y-pA_TVyNbloV-ZNT4YQ7A?key=jeURqdbf_FGeKResTksZT0O5" alt="Afbeelding met kleding, persoon, Menselijk gezicht, stropdas

Automatisch gegenereerde beschrijving">Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz at the London office of Encounter in 1953 (1)What remains unclear, however, is to what extent Kristol and Spender knew that the CCF was actually a CIA front. When it was announced in the New York Times in 1966 that the CIA was behind the CCF and played a major role in the creation of Encounter, both claimed to know nothing about it. Kristol had left by 1958 and Spender left Encounter after the CIA's role in the whole thing was revealed. Besides Encounter, Kristol worked for the magazine&nbsp;The Public Interest, the think tank American Enterprise Institute and the magazine&nbsp;Commentary of which Norman Podhoretz was editor-in-chief. Podhoretz is a key figure within neoconservatism and was acquainted with Kristol. About&nbsp;Commentary, Benjamin Balint, formerly assistant editor of this magazine, wrote that it played a key role in transforming the ‘Jewish left’ into the ‘neoconservative right’.&nbsp;Commentary was founded in 1945 by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) with the original aim of providing an intellectual Jewish perspective on matters of culture, politics and society. Initially, the magazine was liberal and progressive, with a strong focus on anti-fascism and anti-Stalinist communism. Under Podhoretz,&nbsp;Commentary shifted to the right in the 1970s, in response to the (New Left) protests against the Vietnam War and the entry of radical politics within the Democratic Party (including Saul Alinsky and Weather Underground frontman, Bill Ayers). This is when the transformation described by Balint took place. Commentary went from the anti-Stalinist left to the neo-conservative right, with an even greater focus on US military power and hard-line pro-Israeli politics. In&nbsp;Commentary's wake, neoconservatism grew as a (geo)political ideology in the United States.Kristol, along with Gertrude Himmelfarb, had their son William (Bill). Kristol Jr. co-found the neoconservative think tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC), with Robert Kagan in 1997. This think tank advocated a ‘new century’ based on American principles and interests. In their Statement of Principles, they advocated making the most of the unipolar moment created by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, making the United States the only remaining superpower on the world stage. By lavishly increasing defence spending, promoting political and economic liberalism abroad and challenging what they saw as hostile regimes, the end of history would be confirmed. Many of the PNAC signatories held prominent positions in the Bush administration, including Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney and Richard Perle. Other signatories included Norman Podhoretz, Frank Gaffney, Paula Dobriansky, Gary Bauer, Francis Fukuyama, Steve Forbes and John Bolton. Under the Bush administration, America invaded Iraq, something Kristol and Kagan had advocated since 1998. For instance, after the 9/11 attacks, they wrote a letter to George W. Bush saying that Saddam Hussein should be removed, regardless of whether evidence could be found that Iraq was involved in those attacks. In addition, several bilateral treaties, including the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (2002) with Russia, were abandoned under the neoconservative line of the Bush administration. This gradually strengthened the US’ unique position outside the international rule of law.Neoconservatism evolved from a movement of former anti-Stalinist left-wing intellectuals to a dominant force in US foreign policy. Led by figures such as Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, this ideology has undergone a transformation which is deeply embedded in the US security state. With its roots in the Cold War and the struggle against communism, neoconservatism has developed a vision that positions the United States as a unipolar power, charged with the mission of promoting a liberal-democratic world order. This ideology and interests behind it not only influenced the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overall restructuring of the Middle East, but also remains visible today in US policy towards Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Neoconservatism, with its emphasis on military power, proactive intervention and the promotion of liberal democracy, became the ideology of the US security state. What was once revolutionary politics is now the centrepiece of US geopolitical strategy.Sources: (1)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24475599">https://www.jstor.org/stable/24475599</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/robert-fulford-when-the-cia-had-a-magazine">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/robert-fulford-when-the-cia-had-a-magazine</a> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/origins-congress-cultural-freedom.pdf">https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/origins-congress-cultural-freedom.pdf</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220308021038/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/books/12commentary.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20220308021038/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/books/12commentary.html</a>

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Neoconservatism: The Blueprint of the US Security State

During a recent debate on immigration in the Second Chamber (Lower House) of the Dutch parliament, MPs were asked to comment on a 500-page report on the issue. Thierry Baudet went to the very heart of the matter. His first point was that, contrary to what liberalism pretends, people are not interchangeable. They are not just numbers on a spreadsheet. Instead, they are bearers of a particular culture and identity. It is not neutral if a Dutchman is replaced by an African. The second is that mass migration is causing the very structure of society to change: native Europeans are being replaced by non-Europeans. Soon, the natives will be a minority in their own country. This is what is correctly called ‘the great replacement’ and it is truly happening. Third, unless it is stopped and reversed, it will be irreversible.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KhcmHX1U6i8">People are NOT interchangeable!</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5K4N3Qnabbo">Becoming a Minority in our own country</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HQusGN14cLg">The Great Replacement is NOT a theory!</a> &nbsp;<img src="https://lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfTlSLBIdVyKAzMbuVoykj5NIxfcsJ7Dr_-YUFYm-k7mXTUj8nZrzEetsYbwE3zHopjhDHfO8fH0J0qmXT1l5dPOACrUPfl3VNGBwkfMBBZ8UkaauBkop1YKWYtO70xEEqTtpOleg?key=p1oQXEVVtPVkX-whrqGi4ZZH">Iem al Biyati, leader of FVD’s youth wing, gave a lovely speech in El Salvador during the recent Patriots conference there. Iem laid out in a few clear sentences the glories of Dutch history - and then said that the modern trend is to denigrate all that by pretending that the past is nothing but oppression and reaction. Not only is the past being erased, the future is too – by mass immigration, a deliberate project to change Dutch and European society radically. Iem remains both optimistic and ambitious: Europe can recover from this once it liberates itself from the pernicious legacy of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgfq_P_2NM">Watch Iem’s speech here</a> &nbsp;<img src="https://lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeO8EiQcUM8LwAmyJ-rWX6tZlc975EUy6ncBEXpONJos4khfubuzyg4ghQJFpBp2Yr19wrtGdGMO8BLPsFSDxq4tKWcB7eFo5OfzEAEc2vG71jY35UjvpjLGgwOE9oSw3XnkY9Uqw?key=p1oQXEVVtPVkX-whrqGi4ZZH">The EU is well known for ignoring the results of elections. It famously ignored the result of the Dutch referendum on the Ukraine accession agreement, organized and won by FVD in 2016. But so far it has never actually cancelled one, as it now has done in Romania, after the well-known and respected public figure, Calin Georgescu, unexpectedly came first in the first round of presidential elections. The vote has been retroactively cancelled, just days after simultaneous parliamentary elections were validated! Bertolt Brecht’s old joke has lost none of its sad piquancy: it is time to dissolve the people and elect another. An FVD friend in Bucharest, Kees Cramer, has sent us an analysis of this full-frontal assault on democracy. It is nothing less than a coup.<a href="https://fvdinternational.com/article/the-coup-in-romania-a-struggle-for-sovereignty">Read Kees Cramer’s article here</a> &nbsp;<img src="https://lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdBDVYFl4PtHzT2gN1K5zfRW-nOa0-I658L3QvPGyTtxdCnaCh1nk_sIBFXPxihoMXA0xIeF1I4Jl2fg3x2y44SCcnT3yn68eJ4UoyzbdzqHcMYOcuC9yuI7UBR7HCJ6CGiD9a8?key=p1oQXEVVtPVkX-whrqGi4ZZH">We discussed the fall of Syria on The Forum this week. Mark Sleboda gave us a superb analysis of the collapse of the Assad regime while Vanessa Beeley, who had quite literally fled the revolution for Lebanon, told us her harrowing first-hand experiences.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTz_0aWr2U">Watch the Forum &amp; Friends here</a>

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The Weekly Forum - 13 December

Since Sunday, November 24, 2024, Romania has been on an unprecedented political rollercoaster, with events escalating rapidly. The tightly packed election calendar included three key dates: the first round of the presidential election on November 24, the parliamentary elections on December 1, and the second round of the presidential election scheduled for December 8. However, what began as a relatively normal election cycle quickly turned into a fight for Romania’s very sovereignty.On the night of November 24, exit polls shocked the political establishment. Calin Georgescu, an independent candidate, was unexpectedly in third place. By 9 PM, the globalist powers that be began to realize that their carefully laid plans were at risk. As the night progressed, Georgescu surged to second place by 11 PM, and by 2 AM, he was in the lead. This was a major surprise and a clear sign that the Romanian people were waking up to the need for change.But this wasn’t going to be a simple election. The next day, the so-called "globalist jihad" was unleashed, echoing the same kind of forces that worked against figures like Pim Fortuyn in 2002. One of the most significant attacks came from Cristian Terhes, a Romanian MEP, who had previously been aligned with the AUR party before defecting. Terhes appealed to the Constitutional Court for alleged fraud in vote counting, aiming to derail Georgescu’s momentum.The court, however, upheld the election results on December 2 and allowed the second round of voting to proceed as scheduled. This decision, though, was just the beginning of a much larger political battle.Georgescu, who can be compared to figures like Thierry Baudet or Robert Kennedy Jr., has emerged as a charismatic nationalist voice in Romania. Much like Baudet, Georgescu’s intellectual background does not hinder his connection to the Romanian people. His direct, no-nonsense approach resonates deeply with those frustrated by globalist influence and the erosion of national sovereignty. Georgescu's views on the environment and globalism, especially his criticism of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, reflect a deep desire to return to a more rooted, natural way of life. His platform focuses on the core issues of water, food, and energy—areas he believes the globalist agenda has corrupted. This message of self-reliance, wrapped in the framework of Orthodox Christian values, is one of the reasons why he found a groundswell of support, particularly among the youth on social media platforms like TikTok.This popularity did not sit well with the powers that be.&nbsp; By December 6, Romania’s Constitutional Court took the shocking step of annulling the first round of presidential elections, declaring they needed to be rerun. The decision came when voting for the 2nd round already started in the diaspora; Australia and New Zealand. The move to cancel the results was an outrageous act of political interference, clearly aimed at stopping a candidate who represented Romanian sovereignty.This was not a decision made in a vacuum. Behind it lay the influence of President Klaus Iohannis, whose intelligence services reportedly hastily compiled a dossier accusing Georgescu of Russian interference in the election—an accusation that was unsupported by any real evidence. The timing of this dossier, just days after Georgescu was poised to win, is deeply suspicious. The facts are clear: the Constitutional Court acted outside its legal authority by making a decision that was retroactive, rejecting its own previous ruling that had validated the election results after a recount of the 1st round results. It became increasingly clear that this was not an independent judicial process but a political manoeuvre orchestrated to eliminate a strong nationalist candidate.Georgescu’s political vision is one of national renewal, focusing on the reclamation of Romania’s natural resources and energy sovereignty. His promise to nationalise Romania’s oil and gas industries and to withdraw from the EU’s globalist policies aligns him with a broader movement of countries that seek to break free from the stranglehold of international financial elites. His position is clear: he will not bow to foreign powers or allow Romania’s wealth to be looted by global interests. This stands in stark contrast to the current leadership of Romania, which has allowed foreign corporations to plunder the country's resources, including its fertile agricultural land, natural gas, and rare metals.As the political situation in Romania escalates, the globalist forces are desperate to maintain control. The European Union is in turmoil, with its economic system teetering on the edge of collapse, and Romania’s rich resources are increasingly seen as a key prize. There is speculation that the EU, led by France and Germany, is willing to sacrifice Romania’s sovereignty to secure access to these resources. This is particularly alarming given Romania's strategic importance, not just in Europe, but also in the wider geopolitical context.The power struggle in Romania is part of a broader global battle for control. The European elites, including figures like Klaus Iohannis and his NATO allies, are pushing Romania towards greater involvement in NATO’s military operations, especially in the context of the war in Ukraine. Georgescu, however, has been outspoken in his opposition to NATO’s expansion and Romania’s role in the conflict. His vision for peace in the Black Sea region, and his calls for an immediate halt to all payments to Ukraine, have made him a target for those who want to drag Romania into a war that serves the interests of foreign powers, not the Romanian people.The sudden cancellation of the elections has triggered widespread outrage in Romania. Social media is ablaze with messages of defiance, and many prominent political figures have come out against the coup. Even some within the globalist camp, like Georgescu’s opponent Elena Lasconi, have condemned the actions of the Constitutional Court and called for accountability. This is a crucial moment for Romania. The coup against Georgescu is not just an attack on one man, but an assault on the democratic process itself.Despite the enormous pressure, both Georgescu and George Simion, the leader of Romania’s largest sovereignist party, AUR, have urged their supporters to remain calm and avoid street protests. The political battle has shifted from the streets to the courts, and the stakes have never been higher. Romania’s future as a sovereign nation is on the line.Georgescu’s calls for a return to Romanian nationalism and sovereignty have struck a chord with a growing number of Romanians, who are fed up with foreign interference and the erosion of their cultural identity. The globalists, however, are determined to prevent this shift from taking hold. The political establishment, with the backing of powerful international interests, is willing to go to extreme lengths to preserve its grip on power.The events of December 2024 represent a pivotal moment in Romania’s history. Will the Romanian people allow their country to be dictated to by foreign powers, or will they stand up and reclaim their sovereignty? The outcome of this struggle is far from certain, but one thing is clear: the Romanian people are ready for change. And Calin Georgescu, despite the globalist opposition, remains their best hope for a future free from external control and influence.

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The Coup in Romania: A Struggle for Sovereignty

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Thierry Baudet was summoned to the police once more this week for questioning about two campaign videos FVD produced during the November 2023 elections. Might they have offended someone?&nbsp; Might they have encouraged discrimination? These could be criminal offences!&nbsp; The videos deal with LGBT issues, especially trans ideology promoted in schools, and immigration – the two big flagship policies of what we should call the ideology of ‘dissolutionism’ - dissolution of the nation by changing its ethnic base, dissolution of the family by pretending that two people of the same sex can have children. The fact that the Dutch equivalent of P.C. Plod is on the case recalls the numerous knocks at the door which have occurred recently in Britain and Ireland to arrest perpetrators of so-called hate crimes, ‘hate speech’ being one of the main pretexts for censorship. Yet if a political party cannot campaign in favour of the nation and the family, without being intimidated by the police – which is anti-constitutional in many countries - then there is no democracy left at all.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhlALNc40CU&amp;ab_channel=FVDInternational">Watch Thierry's video here</a>&nbsp;<img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcWl1wFWCSNH4jSEv2KV9Nvj0scn0Y8PQwq7q46y8VlBuKuTuPDWyFCbWFCdb9AxHKgSLcZaT4cAXxphwAZg2V4PPIVlM3jD4op5cN646b2-Rbm8eEyrIJAau8OkQicJDi0JvZN?key=Os1yQt4EGM0vZgZtMbH5pn8K">FVD International director, John Laughland, was a guest on RT’s Crosstalk last week, to discuss the decision taken by ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden (subsequently filmed nodding off during a summit meeting in Africa) to attack Russia with American cruise missiles guided by America. How would America react if Russian guided missiles were targeted at Texas from Mexico? John emphasized two points: the extreme difficulty of knowing what will happen next, because history is often made on the basis of split-second decisions, and the equally immense difficulty of envisaging any negotiated outcome to the current conflict, the enmity between Russia and the West having now reached what appears to be a point of no return.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH9GVNvJ3F8&amp;t=2s&amp;ab_channel=FVDInternational">Watch the interview here</a><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdnjK9BG65R1dCPVrqbglyxvufhVtro6YUeJb8uApz1VixWjmaCwZycT_WjwbadeOyskROdyTHhS02qJH3m_IBn5BevuDFlAL5eFGbbbOGscH-nItZUvxYKSX5ELs1_rAJGLYH9?key=Os1yQt4EGM0vZgZtMbH5pn8K">We are once again honoured to publish the indefatigable Vaclav Klaus, this time on the world order. Klaus correctly points out that a new world order is emerging and the old one disappearing. But what will that order be, and what is meant by ‘order’ anyway? Klaus’ response is that the key to any new arrangement will be pragmatism. He rejects absolutism and urges compromise. This is because the notion of ‘order’ is itself misunderstood. Klaus does not quote Hayek or Oakeshott but his thinking clearly draws in these two great philosophers who explained precisely that order is about habit and custom and that it does not have, and should not have, the illusory certainty claimed by rationalism.<a href="https://fvdinternational.com/article/notes-for-montenegro-a-world-order-under-threat-is-there-any-chance-to-change-it">Read Klaus’ article here</a><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcbd1C4ddbpN0voAdzTlYD-_EcEftaxnCUR5S2ziqibUTiDvfhdlwRGpsAnSyBTyNy_Y_km3EzwajgLjFWzbjs6ycESu0Ri-ZH0vmhwYaSlXFI3ZORjCeuQvsEHaw0M2qFfaGtABg?key=Os1yQt4EGM0vZgZtMbH5pn8K">We discussed the Ukraine war on The Forum this week with Professor Glenn Diesen, professor of politics at the University of South-East Norway, and Dr Rainer Rothfuss, a member of the German Bundestag and a former professor of political geography at the University of Tübingen. You won’t find many debates like this anywhere else.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/ItlL1ekWlUo">Watch the Forum &amp; Friends here</a>

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The Weekly Forum - 6 December

Montenegro, 26 November 2024It is great to see good old friends after such a long time and to get a chance to discuss with them the topics we all consider crucial and fundamental. We may have different views on some of them, but the friendly and free exchange of views is absolutely irreplaceable. There is no alternative to it.The Covid hysteria brought about an involuntary and frustrating break in our contacts and in our discussions. We hope it will not return, at least without much stronger public resistance than was the case at the beginning of this decade. Even the politicians have, hopefully, learnt something.I would like to express my gratitude to The Boris Mints Institute, Tel Aviv University and the University of Donja Gorica and especially, personally, to Boris Mints for organising this event and for bringing us together. An additional benefit, at least for some of us, me included, is the very rare opportunity to visit the beautiful country of Montenegro.&nbsp;I was asked to open this morning’s session with my remarks on the topic&nbsp;“A World Order Under Threat”. It is a great but extremely difficult topic. To discuss it comprehensively is beyond my very limited capabilities. Nevertheless, I accepted this task. Let me make, therefore, as I stressed, at least a few remarks on it and let me try to elementarily structure it.&nbsp;I share the feeling of the author of the invitation letter to this gathering that&nbsp;the world is finding itself under real threat or even stronger “the world plunged into one of the darkest moments in modern history”.&nbsp;I see it very similarly but I have to admit that the mere fact that we are meeting again – after so many years – could be taken as a signal that the world is coming closer to some sort of rationality and order. The unexpected results of the American presidential elections also indicate that something – even for us, pessimists – is in the air.&nbsp;The reelection of Donald Trump as U.S. President – an election outcome that is dividing America and the world – is for me&nbsp;a proof that even the unexpected can happen. I don’t hide that I see the Trump’s reelection as an extremely positive outcome. A hope for many of us. I don’t overestimate it, however. The party which lost the elections is not – I am afraid – willing to take it in a friendly way. We will be witnesses of a merciless clash between two blocks&nbsp;representing widely different world views. It is not only political. This result will define the content of the forthcoming era. Not only in the United States.An elementary structuring of the topic: a geopolitical oneI am not a geopolitical theoretician, I have not been able to find any theoretical concept or background behind it. Without such a backing, we are on thin ice. All our reasoning is inevitably rather soft. With all these reservations,&nbsp;there is no doubt that one of the important aspects of the existing world threats is geopolitical.&nbsp;We don’t live in a world of perfect competition of small sovereign states. We don’t live in a Metternich-like post-1815 European order. We don’t live in a bipolar world of the Cold War era either and there are many signs that we’re leaving the unipolar world of American hegemony, which started after the fall of communism. This is something the Americans are not ready to accept. This will be leading to a growing instability, I am afraid.When I look at the current world, we are&nbsp;somewhere in-between&nbsp;all these hypothetical models of world order. This “in-between type” of situation is very dangerous. The current Russia-Ukraine war and the not less destructive tragic conflict in Gaza are, for me, an undeniable evidence of the coming of the end of one “world order” and of the difficult birth of a new one. The new order will reflect the new distribution of power in economic and military sense. The old one doesn’t reflect existing realities. This is, however, only one dimension of the whole problem.Another world order: a more implicit oneThe other, not less important, dimension of the current world problem can’t be measured by GDP or the size and strength of armies. It is the ongoing breakdown of&nbsp;another order,&nbsp;the breakdown of&nbsp;the dominant system of believes, of habits and traditions, of culture, of behavioural patterns. These create another, perhaps more implicit than explicit world “order”, but it is not less important. It keeps the world together. This “second” order is also under a fundamental threat now. Some of us often speak about the self-destruction of the West. This may lead to an even more tragic state of affairs.I expect protests from the audience that I did not mention another dimension –&nbsp;international law, pacts and agreements, United Nations and similar organizations.&nbsp;I have not forgotten them. I am well aware of them. I am convinced, however, that the institutional or legal arrangements are&nbsp;the consequence of the existing reality both of the power relations in the world and of the implicit order of beliefs, habits, traditions and of cultures in a broader sense.&nbsp;Not the other way around.Methodologically, I take the term “order” only as a habit or a custom. Talking about order is an overstatement. I prefer to talk about “arrangements”. Let’s use the word order only with a small “o”. There has never been in international relations an order with a capital “O”. Only on paper. An order of that kind can only be a normative ideal, not a descriptive notion.&nbsp;Even in the best of times, “the order” was a fragile, temporary construct. I don’t see anything like that now.&nbsp;Do I have any suggestions what to do with it?As someone coming from a small country which for most of its history was not a sovereign – we were a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire for centuries, a part of Nazi German “Reich” luckily for years only, a part of Soviet imperium for four decades, and now a part of the European Union – I don’t feel justified to propose&nbsp;strategic responses&nbsp;to the existing international threats or challenges, as you put it in your invitation letter. Who should be the receiver of these proposals?There is, nevertheless, one fundamental “strategic” response to all these problems and this is to&nbsp;choose between peace and war, between fighting and negotiating, between absolutist stances and realistic compromises, between attempts to mastermind the world and to accept a dialog, between results 10 to 0 and 6 to 5 (or 5 to 6).&nbsp;The discussion about them is long overdue.For someone like me, who lives in the Czech Republic, in a country which has on its territory the highest number of Ukrainian refugees (per capita) in the world, in a country which was liberated by the Soviet armies at the end of the Second World War and in a country which was – on the contrary – occupied by the Soviet Union (and some Central and East European countries) in 1968, something which is a living memory for some of us,&nbsp;the main issue of the current world is the Russian-Ukrainian war in all its consequences, especially the indirect ones.&nbsp;I am frustrated not only by what Russia did on the 24th February 2022, but also by what the world, the world superpowers and international organisations, allowed to happen. No international organisation reacted. Some of them even added fuel to the fire. Not just after the 24th February, but – what was more important – before this date. Madame von der Leyen praised herself recently for being in Kyiv eight times since February 2022. My question would be: “How many times was she there before that, both before 2022 and especially before 2014?” All the evidence suggests that this was the moment when it all started. Everything else is a consequence.I see a potential way out of this puzzle in accepting reality and searching for a compromise solution.&nbsp;The world missed this opportunity in 2014. It missed it in March 2022 when the Istanbul talks offered a solution. We don’t have the right to miss it again in a new situation after Trump’s election victory.&nbsp;We shouldn’t be passive observers. That’s the main reason why we are here, I suppose. We all must help. In this case, as in other similar cases. As in Gaza.

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A World Order Under Threat: Is There Any Chance to  Change It?

Thierry Baudet and other senior figures from FVD attended the Patriots conference in El Salvador last week. El Salvador has hit the news recently, ever since its rock star president, Nayib Bukele, transformed his country from the most dangerous in the world to the safest by imprisoning the gangsters who had taken over the state and destroyed society. In his talk, Thierry said that patriotism was an idea whose time has come, and which is therefore unstoppable. He repeated his scepticism about free trade and of course his opposition to multiculturalism, but added that Europe’s history and civilisation are the greatest in the world. Pride in our past is exactly what our enemies want to take from us by promoting ‘oikophobia’, hatred of one’s own country. We must be in favour of our civilisation and do everything to nourish it, Thierry insisted - and not just be stuck in opposition to things we do not like.<a href="https://x.com/thierrybaudet/status/1861051165107945909">Watch Thierry’s speech here</a><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXd9v196oC1H2dDT_QolIEOMr6S_cfdGTXemaNnEdL4WxLzlWRPvyNrt0OfRNY43zuuk89VityZ59OG8gn2wQiVnyZ5-l-QgEp5Mb7wuNNBQj2GIlmxMAajQoSdIGd6RKACIAyPljw?key=DkpyPN4_U0N4mSEODXowZOCd">Ralf Dekker is back in parliament! As Pepijn van Houwelingen takes paternity leave for a few months, ‘the godfather’ has returned to the Second Chamber. Naturally, he has hit the ground running, with a masterclass speech on the war in Ukraine which we have translated using AI. According to Ralf, the war is unwinnable for the West and is the consequence of the provocations of NATO which transformed Ukraine into a vassal state and a battering ram against Russia. Ralf believes that Olaf Scholz’s telephone call to Vladimir Putin, the day after the US elections, and the German Chancellor’s firm opposition to helping Ukraine to attack targets deep inside Russia itself, mark a turning point which the Netherlands should embrace. Only this would be in the national interest - instead of the country currently playing splendid second fiddle to decisions taken by others.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtr7UnNFZc">Watch Ralf’s speech here</a><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfkkTWZAo0dvGK6-n9wrO7YI47Os7QaaVgZY-bmVnq9vib0fTjCwKcHAwlcpLhVtlpLMkCfdmZs-nCtoiOsHTdITxj47fnne17LPEu_2YoXUFzm2Dko8jELpcTqnhrwyPPsVzrGRQ?key=DkpyPN4_U0N4mSEODXowZOCd">How deep does the rot go? FVD is surely unique among political parties in digging further than anyone into the challenges presented by the decline of the West – a decline which, according to FVD International’s Vincent Vos, began with the Enlightenment and the French revolution. Those movements were, at bottom, a rebellion against God, which both ancient Greek (Icarus) and Christian (Lucifer) mythology have warned against. Today’s Western civilisation, which draws heavily on those movements but with the addition of 19th century materialism (the brother-enemies, liberalism and Marxism) is but the ultimate paroxysm of this rebellion which, like the others, will end in destruction.<a href="https://fvdinternational.com/article/norms-and-values-give-me-a-break">Read Vincent Vos’ article here</a><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXf3ftKzntLAuKf-HAnK-LQLRVHMN9cjNwrL6CoOM-xD1Ew6E8Mhl5Mlw8JP03MD4r3kRvcwOWhRwrZeIgptEz_WE6Dootuwu98yezJMzPJZXpa_xifrKD4Zup3lCmMOrDPCyj7r?key=DkpyPN4_U0N4mSEODXowZOCd">We had a fabulous discussion on The Forum this week with Daniel McAdams and Catherine Austin Fitts on the Trump administration. Appointments or disappointments? Click below to find out.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oltZlYg8lP0">Watch The Forum &amp; Friends here</a>

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The Weekly Forum - 28 November

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