The UK Is In MASSIVE TROUBLE

Russell Brand
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Afghanistan, Iraq. They live in sort of that already. They live in their little tribal area.
But guess what? They're at war with the tribe that's two miles down the road. They never see
each other, but they go to war over that guy stole my goat or that guy's uncle took something from us
a long time ago. And that feud is there. And so they are constantly combating each other on that.
And it's just to us as Americans, when we go over there and we figure this out, we're like,
what the heck is going on here? How can you guys live like this? Because we live under,
we follow under one command, right? It kind of sounds refreshing. Like fight your neighbor over
a goat. Get back to some local wars again. Gangs of New York. Yeah. I mean, that's how our country
was formed. I know. I was thinking about the UK. I mean, that's right. You had the Lords. You had
these little sections that were, some people were just, some people were unjust. Then it
kind of goes wrong. I guess the King is that just takes too much power and that's why it's become
what it was. And then it makes me think about our favorite movie, the Patriot. It's a phenomenal
movie. It's a good movie. It's a good movie. America's based on that for the UK to rise up
again. Would they? Could they? Well, I think firstly, stop insulting England.
Secondly, it is interesting to think of how does a nation expand and contract and ultimately
implode and fail. I see Tucker on something the other day and he was asking, why did Britain,
I was on Piers Morgan, but why don't, aren't British people mad that the first world war
and second world war essentially bankrupted that nation and drove it into decline? And it's been
on my mind since I heard him say that. And I thought, what is the stain on the national
character of a fallen empire? Could they even, if they wanted to, in the UK revolt?
They won't be able to. While British power globally and economically has completely imploded
after those wars, it's a deep power. It's like it runs deep, deep families, aristocracy,
institutions, like the idea of overthrowing all of that in the UK. It's sort of hard. It's very
good at absorbing and redirecting dissent in the UK. It's good at absorbing it and redirecting it
and protecting it. Even the, whatchamacallit, that y'all have a holiday where they celebrate
the dude who tried to overthrow it. Good old guy folks. Yeah. Celebrate him by burning him.
Yeah, you're right. By burning a dissenter, a Catholic dissenter. Britain's good somehow at
maintaining it. But you know, like in Bulgaria, about a week ago in Bulgaria, there was a general
strike across the population and the whole government had to resign. And I know we sort
of think of Balkan countries and little countries as not being sort of comparable to long established
former imperial powers. But actually I do think that's what all this is about. I think there are
going to be big revolutions in coming years. God, it's not that long ago since the Russian,
French and American revolutions aren't that long ago really. None of them are that long.
Like there's that famous, some kind of quip, was the French revolution a good thing? Someone's
saying, you know, it was too early to say. Like, you know, that's one of the things that people,
you know, some sort of quip or whatever. Anyway, I just feel like because things are getting so
fast now, change is happening so quickly, I feel like you could see in the same way as Napster
collapsed an entire record industry and the record industry had to reformulate, you could see it and
what's happening as we were discussing in media, you could see it happening in politics now.
It did happen a bit, like in Europe, some new parties came from nowhere into ascendancy. A
political party called Podemos won in Spain. And Spain is not like, you know, UK, Germany,
France, but it's still a significant, you know, nation. And then Pepe Grillo in Italy. And even
Zelensky increasingly does look like he was always a puppet, always. And it was always a bit of a
but like you're seeing new political movements forming and getting in power very quickly.
El Salvador, like you went to El Salvador. Did you see, did you feel that what they're,
I know what they're trying to do to talk about all the changes of it. Did you feel that when
you went there? Like something's happening here from an outside?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can feel that something's happening there, but it does feel also pretty
colonial. Like you feel like they've worked out in El Salvador that there's a branding opportunity
through Bitcoin and stuff like that. And if Costa Rica can create this Pura Vida thing,
what's the El Salvadorian equivalent of it? I think it's really good leadership. It is pretty
amazing to change a country from like that kind of murder rate to what they've achieved in El
Salvador. It's really, really impressive and unbelievable in a way. But those changes always
come at a cost. Building super jails and banging up gangs and arresting, jailing people without
trial and all of that. Yeah. Thanks for watching the video. Have a look at this one over here,
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