TALK 94.5 Liz And Nick
TALK 94.5 Liz And Nick
BREITBART'S KURT ZINDULKA checks in this morning 5/6/26
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Good morning, Kurt. How are you today?
SPEAKER_01Great. Thanks for having me, Nick, and congratulations on seven years.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's funny because the uh the radio pundits in the area, just a slide note before we get going here, said that uh oh, that show will never last six weeks. Here we are, seven years later.
SPEAKER_01Nice.
SPEAKER_00I know, thank you very much. Okay, so what's going on? Is NATO basically over in a sense? Or can you give us a little insight on what exactly is going on and what's behind this 5,000 troop withdrawal from Germany?
SPEAKER_01Well, I'd say NATO is probably more in a restructuring phase, anything, than a full full collapse right now. Um, but as far as Germany goes, I think this is really actually um sort of a a completion of a long-standing aim of President Trump. Um, you may remember during his first term, he announced that he was going to be withdrawing troops from Germany. Um, and then that order was canceled by Joe Biden. That's right, he did.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So this this is this has been a long uh standing bugbear for Trump because like what he's been saying since basically since he ran in 2016 is why are we defending Germany? They're giving all of their money for Russian oil and expecting us to protect them from Russia doesn't really make a whole heck of a lot of sense. And, you know, I think like really what he wants Germany and some other countries in Europe to do is to start standing on their own two feet. We've been sort of supporting them and defending them since the end of the Second World War. And it's it's about time that that is that Europe starts stepping up and paying for its own defense. So I think that's the biggest reason. But of course, there has also been some pretty big drama between, you know, uh Berlin and Washington over the past couple weeks. Chancellor Friedrich Merz, a very unpopular, historically unpopular chancellor over there in Germany, has been trying to use Trump as maybe like a punching bag to maybe bolster his poll numbers, not really working out too well for him. But he's been saying, oh, the U.S. is getting humiliated in Iran, there's no strategy. And Trump was like, okay, how about we put some tariffs on European cars, which hits Germany pretty hard, and hey, maybe we'll start reducing our troops, which supports a lot of industry over there in Germany. So, and then what we saw on Saturday was uh Chancellor Mercedes was like, Oh, yeah, actually the Iran war is is actually a great idea, and America is our greatest ally. Yeah. So he kind of buckled pretty quick.
SPEAKER_00You know, and people forget too, and I know you remember uh when uh what was her name again? Uh the former Merkel, thank you. And he was sitting down and he gave them all a warning. What are you doing? What are you doing with your energy? You're cutting off your nose to spite your face. You can't afford it to begin with, and everybody laughed at him. They aren't laughing at President Trump anymore, are they?
SPEAKER_01That's exactly right. At the United Nations, you he completely warned them like just a couple years before the Ukraine war, and as soon as that happened, they cut off the Russians cut off the energy to Germany, and they've been in a tailspin ever since. But they just don't have the the cheap energy that they needed to maintain their factories, their industry. So it's it's sent prices skyrocketing, their economy is just in terrible shape, and that's one of the reasons why Chancellor Mertz, um, who used to work for Angela Merkel back in the day, um, is so incredibly unpopular there right now.
SPEAKER_00Now, what are some of the surrounding uh countries, you know, Germany and in those areas, Poland, all that? What what are their thoughts behind this? Are they seeing things through Trump's eyes, or are they still kind of digging their heels in?
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, it's interesting you say Poland. I think Poland is doing some interesting stuff right now. Um, they're led by a globalist leader right now, uh uh uh Donald Tusk, who used to lead the European Council. Um so he's he's he's not exactly a very Trump favorable kind of guy. And what he's been doing, he's been sort of like uh coming out and saying, hey, NATO might be disintegrating, questioning whether uh the US would actually come to the defense of Europe, which I think is is pretty ridiculous, um, especially when Europe hasn't been helping us over the past couple months. It's it's it's sort of a crazy claim to be making. But what I sort of think he's trying to do, I think he's making some interesting moves. He's trying to partner up with President Macron and France, and their big goal, in my opinion, is to set up um something of a form of a European Union army where France would supply the nuclear weapons, uh, potentially stationing them across Europe, including in Poland. Um, the two leaders were discussing that uh earlier this month. And then potentially Poland could uh could act as one of the largest uh ground forces for this. Um they've been they are one of the biggest spenders in in NATO because of course they they remember what the Russians can do. And uh I think what he's trying to do is sort of edge out Germany. So it's some it's some interesting uh internal politics. But at the end of the day, when you look at they're they're they're giving all of this like tough talk towards Trump, but what what they're really doing is bolstering their militaries, which is exactly what Trump has been demanding they do. So they're they're kind of exactly doing what he wants at the end of the day.
SPEAKER_00We're speaking with Breitbart News London deputy editor Kurt Zindulka, uh, giving us the rundown on what's going on over on that side of uh I hate the phrase, that side of the pond. Uh I I I just want to toss this in here because we had some early reports. Uh uh a friend of, we thought, at least publicly anyway, of President Trump was uh Maloney, the Prime Minister of Italy. And then we heard that she was doing some different things that maybe we're not seeing eye to eye with President Trump. What's the story there, or is that just being over underreported, if you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think I think Maloney hasn't showered herself in glory over the past couple weeks. I think it it probably has more to do with internal politics than anything else. Uh, she recently suffered a pretty big referendum loss, which is kind of knocks confidence in her government. And look, all these countries, they are in Europe, they're facing the energy crisis harder than we are. They've basically been in an energy crisis since the Ukraine war, and this is only adding on top of that. So their domestic populations are not going to be exactly happy with with the conflict in Iran. So I think they're playing a little bit to that. And Maloney is is also trying, she's been playing both sides of the coin pretty much ever since she got in there. She's always been trying to cozy up towards Brussels, um, trying to get favorable treatment towards Italy, which sort of makes sense in a way, but that's that's sort of her deal. She plays both sides. That's that's nothing new. Um but what I think what I think we're gonna see, which I found really interesting, um, was uh NATO chief Mark Rutte coming out this week. And what he's saying is that the behind the scenes right now, across Europe, in a bunch of different capitals, um, I I I think places like Greece, maybe Bulgaria, a couple other places, uh Romania, are going to be signing bilateral agreements with the United States um as far as base access. One of the big things uh we've seen from like uh Spain and the UK, and a little bit from Italy, has been they didn't want us to use their airspace or or bases to attack Iran. Some of these other countries, like maybe Greece, is saying, hey, we'll sign a deal with the United States, we'll give you free access whenever you want it. And so I think we're gonna see a bit of a shifting of where our troops are stationed to some of these more favorable countries. So baloney, she might she might lose out on a on a on some some some pretty big uh troop deployments there and for for short-term political gains. I don't know how well that well that idea was in in the end.
SPEAKER_00Right. Now, if people uh read Breitbart News and it's something as simple as is going on the website, you can be part of the fight club, all that, which yeah, I would imagine you've got some uh stuff there on as well, Kurt. Fight club stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was talking to uh uh editor-in-chief Alex Marlowe uh two days ago about this. And I think one of the things we're talking about too, which is which is I think kind of interesting, is what happens with Spain. Like Spain has been just a basket case this whole time. And uh like they've been the the farthest out there. It's it's run by a socialist government, Pedro Sanchez, and he's really tried to put himself as forward as like this new big anti-Trump hero on the global stage. And I think it's really more about trying to save his political skin at the end of the day. Um he's his wife is on trial for corruption charges. His government is is on very shaky ground because he he literally sided with Catalan separatists that want to divide Spain in half. And so his government's very shaky ground. And but being the big I'm a socialist and I stand up to Trump is is very, you know, sometimes winning politics. But I think really if if Trump is going to be willing to take this hard of action against Germany, which really didn't even go that hard on Iran, if he's willing to go that hard on Germany, I think the the White House is going to try to, you know, maybe even push uh Spain out of NATO altogether and say, you know, if if you if you want to act like this, you can kick rocks and defend yourself.
SPEAKER_00What's interesting is, and again, you can get this perspective by reading so many of the different articles in the news that is presented on Breitbartnews.com, uh, and some other, you know, some pretty smart people ignoring the legacy media, many of them, including the articles that are found on your site, are pointing to Trump is really changing things on a global stage. It's repositioning things. And it really sets us, if everything works on, it looks like it can and probably will. It really sets us up to be a powerhouse in energy, which is something that hasn't been uh for for forever really fast. And and I think the other nations, uh someone to mention the basket case in Spain, uh maybe Italy eventually, I think they're gonna see the repositioning and they're gonna see, I mean, you've got people leaving OPEC, nations leaving OPEC. Uh things are really turning around and shifting, and I think people either realize it or they don't, and their their country is gonna be left behind.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think you're right, and I think a lot of these European countries are gonna struggle going forward because they've spent the past two decades or so uh destroying their own energy industries in favor of the Green New Deal and all of that. And in contrast, the United States, which has actually brought down their carbon emissions over the same time just by going to natural gas, has just become the world's largest exporter of oil this week, um, overtaking Saudi Arabia. And this is just a remarkable shifting of the stands, if you will, um, to American energy dominance throughout the world. And I think you're right. This is this is hopefully what I think Trump's real end game here is take care of Iran and then sort of, you know, let say goodbye to the Middle East, focus on ourselves and become rich. I think that's that's his plan at the end of the day.
SPEAKER_00Now, if you were gonna direct somebody to probably one of the most important articles that's uh authored by you on Breitbartnews.com, uh go ahead and give us a couple of titles there so people can kind of get caught up if they miss some of this this morning.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, so I think uh what's gonna be interesting um is the the UK elections tomorrow. This is gonna be um a very big deal. I think it could you could even see uh Prime Minister Sakir Starmer forced out of office within the next week or so, depending on how bad their their their performances are. And this is big news for Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who has been a longstanding Trump ally. Um he's his party is set to dominate um tomorrow, pick up maybe 1,500 local council seats across the country. And uh what I thought was kind of fun in one of their last um final like pre-election pitches, um, Farage's reform party has vowed that they're gonna conduct mass deportations if they get uh into power. And he's saying, hey, if we do this, we're gonna set up the deportation centers only in areas of the country that vote for the open borders Green Party. And I think that's a nice little pre-election pitch is a little incentive to get to the polls.
SPEAKER_00It sure sounds like the election we just went through, doesn't it? All right, thank you, Kurt Sanduca. I do appreciate your time. I appreciate your insight in explaining all of this stuff uh to us. And again, you can go to brightpartners.com and check out all the articles and so much more being informed and entertained with Brightpart. Thank you so much, Kurt.