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George Galloway (0:00)

The lights are going out in Ukraine, and so is Starlink. The whole country plunged into darkness, and the armed forces unable to see what's coming in, or what they would like to put out. It is a game changer in the NATO war on Ukraine.

But you know, there's a Psy-Op going on when little Zelensky is in London, his safest of havens, prepared actually for him moving there, rather than Miami, where he might have preferred, because the more he insults Donald Trump, the less welcome he'll be there. In the next, well, days, weeks or months, certainly not years, when he departs the political scene. I hope, intact, for his sake, when he appears on Piers Morgan, you know the Psy-Op is complete. And my former constituent, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of MI5, is a graduate of one of Britain's very finest universities, the University of Glasgow. I know that because I was, for a long time, its member of Parliament. But he studied mathematics rather than politics. So somebody phone him now and tell him, I'm about to school him here on the Mother of All Talk Shows. And it's live. So stay tuned.

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George Galloway (1:46)

Well a million people are without lights in Ukraine this evening. But even more significantly than that, Elon Musk has switched off the Starlink. Or at least he's running it at half speed, which restricts the range of the missiles, projectiles of all kinds that he has been sending every single day and night at civilian targets, for the most part, inside Russia. I'm talking about shops and warehouses. I'm talking about high-rise flats. I'm talking about the chests of children, students sleeping in their bed. Children sleepily traveling in school buses. I'm talking about old-age pensioners gunned down in the streets by Starlink linked and guided projectiles. Well, no more. If it's more than 160 kilometers in range, well, Starlink ceases to work. It's an important step. It's still not enough, but it does mark the rapid and increasing deterioration in relations between the United States of America, the only military power that matters in NATO, except for those that have got nuclear weapons. But then those nuclear weapons require American cooperation to be fired, and that doesn't look likely to be forthcoming. So the fallout between the American government with still more than two years of its presidential term to run and the European Union has begun to make the war camp in Europe free at the edges. Not significantly yet, but the AFD-BSW coalition government in Saxony-Anhalt, the regional government, one of several, that has now fallen out of the purview of the ruling coalition in Berlin, passed a resolution today demanding an end to monies for Ukraine, an end to German participation in the war, and the beginning of a diplomatic offensive by the German government to try and bring the NATO war on Ukraine, which started as long ago as 2014, though some would argue it started in 1945, to bring it to a conclusion. As Germany gets ready for winter, nobody else is getting ready for winter. The rest of the European Union, which has spoken, has spoken against Trump, against the United States diesel diplomacy, against the Elon Musk switch-off of Starlink. But somehow, you get the impression, they're not doing so with quite the gusto that they would have done just a few weeks ago. Andy Burnham, the British Prime Minister, about whom much more later, I promise him, was not exactly fulsome in front of the fireplace in 10 Downing Street today. When he promised some tailor-made British military equipment, which would be coming to Zelensky, he said, as soon as possible. Just about the least bankable promise a politician can make. I'm going to do this as soon as possible. You get the impression that they know that sooner or later, the politics of all this is going to break against them. After all, the Americans are going to be toasting with Russian heating oil and their cars buzzing with ever cheaper Russian diesel in their tanks, while their voters, the ones they have to get the approval of, but the next election, again, elections, coming up in many important places soon, are going to be paying top dollar and are going to be, when it comes to LPG and when it comes to heating oil, struggling even to make the price range that will cripple the Western economies and freeze the Western voters. You can see how that looks all right on paper. You can see when you are in the adrenaline rush of Braggadocio, when you've hugged Zelensky so many times, you're pretty close to his sniffles, if you get my drift. You can see why they have to keep saying it, but it's going to be a different thing when elections start being lost, which they very likely are going to be lost starting in France. The French people are out in their millions and are about to be joined by the organized battalions of the French working class. The CGT and the great trade union regiments are going to be joining the school students, college and university students on the streets of France and given the revolutionary traditions of France, there's no telling where that might lead to. After all, the president Macron has only a few months left to run. April, his presidential term, runs out. Will he make it the April fool or will he have to cut and run? There's a lot of speculation about that and a lot of opinion polling, which shows a final round of voting when the elections come early next year between Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a classic left versus right battle. The left and the right in France have only a few things in common, but one of them is that they have no wish at all to go to war with Russia. No wish at all to continue shelling out hundreds of millions of euros of French taxpayers' money to keep Zelensky's arse warm and his pile of cocaine stashed while their voters, the ones they need the approval of, the support of are going hungry, cold, unemployed and in a public realm that has become nightmarish. Some of the finest buildings in France are in flames this very evening. There's an election coming up even sooner in Spain where, after the uprising of the Spanish people, the pressure is on the Spanish Prime Minister and his so-called Socialist Party if they're going to win in the elections coming up in just a few weeks. They're going to have to alter their foreign policy too, and they're going to have to free my friend Fergie Chambers. The German politics though is the most interesting one of all.