On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Clare Daly, former member of the European Parliament for Dublin and co-host of the I4C Trouble podcast. She discusses the announcement by Ireland’s foreign minister that moves will be made to relax rules on deploying troops abroad and potentially to Ukraine, the EU and UK’s announcement of a ‘Coalition of the Willing’ for Ukraine which echoes the run-up to the Iraq War, the plans for the EU to trim down its welfare state to build a ‘warfare state’ as it ramps up the drive for war with Russia, the total capture of the EU’s institutions by the military-industrial complex, the moves to make warhawk Kaja Kallas the fully-fledged EU foreign minister, the EU living in a complete media bubble and officials being completely ‘brain dead’, Europe being excluded as the US and Russia mend relations, the bloc’s subservience to the US and inability to break out of it, the scale of the economic crisis and poverty in the EU which is ignored, the silencing of dissenting views across Europe against those opposing the Ukraine proxy war, the EU’s complicity in the Gaza genocide and the bloc’s human rights rhetoric having zero credibility, US Vice President J.D. Vance’s criticism of Europe-wide censorship, and much more.
