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🎙️ Evarist Bartolo | Former Foreign Minister of Malta🕊️ A conversation that moves beyond headlines, into the moral collapse of modern politics.

When Malta’s former foreign minister Evarist Bartolo speaks, the room quiets.He’s not here to defend the system — he’s here to question how it lost its soul.

From the car-bomb assassination that shook Malta’s democracy 💣 to the crumbling illusions of the Enlightenment 🏛️, Bartolo connects the dots between Europe’s colonial reflexes, America’s fading power, and a world rearranging itself around new centers of gravity 🌍.

We talk about Palestinian statehood, the proxy war in Ukraine, and how populism and “illiberal democracy” are symptoms of a deeper civilizational fatigue.And we ask — can small nations like Malta still speak truth to empires? 🇲🇹

🧭 Expect thought-provoking insights on:
The murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and what it revealed about Europe’s conscience.
The post-colonial mirage that keeps the Global South chained in Western dependency.
The Saudi-Pakistan security pact reshaping Middle Eastern power lines.
The rise of authoritarian populism as a reaction to Western hypocrisy.

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📌 Timestamps available below

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
08:30 Assassinations in Malta
12:55 Malta’s role in international politics
18:05 Palestinian Statehood
25:20 The end of Enlightenment 
29:30 The changing Middle East
35:10 Pakistans security deal with Saudi Arabia
38:35 Colonialism never ended
48:30 Americas proxy war in Ukraine
01:05:20 Americas declining influence
01:20:45 The rise of populism
01:35:00 Illiberal democracy
01:39:00 Europe as Americas vassal 
01:44:15 Migrants and oximorons

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