Is World War 3 Coming?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- PDS Debt is offering a free debt analysis. It only takes thirty seconds. Get yours at PDSDebt.com/leeja. | Regional conflicts seem to be proliferating in the middle east, between China and Taiwan, and between Russia and Ukraine. What would it take for those conflicts to expand into a full blown world war? Let's discuss!
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Small quibble: the acronym is pronounced nor-ad. Big quibble: The republic of china(taiwan) lost recognition by the us when the us recognized the peoples republic of china(china) in '79. Previously all of china was considered sovereign to taiwan. Its a BIG detail on whether china thinks they can get away with invading. Ths only thing protecting taiwan is the value of tsmc chip production. They've got no alliances only economic interests.
Thanks so much for pointing that out! Pinning so the mistake is noted for all viewers as I agree it's an important oversight in the video! Sorry for the mistake y'all, we're learning, we're growing, etc. To clarify: the US does not officially recognize Taiwan!
@@LeejaMillerdamn that’s crazy. The humility you have on this reply is insane. Like impressive to see. Just saying…
😂@@LeejaMiller😂🎉😂😂
Don’t forget, North Korea is quite literally dropping shit balloons on South Korea.
lol... yeah like what's up with that?????
There's a lot of jokes here
Biological warfare (spreading disease)
@whiteknight9429 people in SK send the balloons with propaganda on them over the border so NK sent them back
@@whiteknight9429 Could be an attempt to spread disease, maybe? Like how way back in medieval times they'd catapult plague corpses over fortress walls to spread the disease among the people within.
You know... when I said "I hope I get to see major world events", I meant like... the first Alien spotted, Cure for cancer or Space Travel... Not WW3.
Careful what we wish for 😅
Me too !😢
Lmao i wish it was that simple
You asked and the monkey’s paw curled…
Same here cause wtf is really going on
Both my grandfathers and several of my great uncles fought in the Second World War. My grandfather, on my paternal side, said be vigilant because Nazism isn't dead by a long shot.
Smart man SMH on all the people like those in your family they are beautiful real patriots who saved us all only for many to spite them all & go straight to it plus more it will be way worse here I fear. I am terrified Biden will not win & then we are fucked we also need a majority in congress & senate & we have to reset & fire some supreme court justices asap! I’m so scared.
What did he say about communism that killed over 100 million?
@@stephenmurray2851 more than one person has said that number is exaggerated.
@@grapeshot exaggerated? Ah OK. So it was only what? 50 million. Oh that's OK then. Nasty piece of work
@@stephenmurray2851 How sad that you feel obligated to actually defend the axis powers with whataboutism. And we couldn't POSSIBLY tally up how many died, and are still dying, as a direct result of capitalism.
The war in Ukraine has given us a glimpse into what modern war looks like. It's the first time 2 sovereign nations with (mostly) modern militaries have gone to all-out war since like the 50's. We've learned a few things: Tanks are pretty much useless if you can't control the skies, and tiny bomb-carrying drones which are really hard to detect have made it increasingly difficult to control the skies. Combine that with the threat of nuclear war keeping militaries from escalating things too much, and modern warfare seems to look closer to World War 1 than World War 2. The war in Ukraine, in many places, has devolved into trench warfare. Hell, China and India literally fight each other with clubs and bricks to keep things from escalating. You can find videos of it, it actually looks like a medieval battlefield.
Well, considering the iran iraq war in the 80s had trensh warefare even in the age of aviation, it makes sense european nations wouldnt be that much better
Ask the Germans in Normandy 80 years ago about tanks and controlling the skys ...
@@minestar2247 To be fair, even though it was in its infancy at the time, the age of aviation had started by WWI, as you had aerial dogfights and bombing runs throughout that war. In fact, that was the war of the Red Baron.
@@kat021171 exactly, trench warfare is inevitable
It’s still not all out war there. Ukraine has been handcuffed until recently having to promise not to strike into Russia and other agreements. When Russia invaded, the west super under reacted and is only now giving Russian assets abroad to Ukraine. The very fact that thousands of Russians will travel to Europe this summer without issue is appalling
Just a small note. Yes the main players in both world wars were european powers, but saying that the criteria for a world war is a european conflict just flat out ignores the fact that the world wars were fought all over the globe. Take ww2, for example. It was fought in Europe, Africa, and Asia. There were major actions in China and the Philippines. Australia, Canada, India and othe British commonwealth countries all had a hand in it. Obviously the US played a major role both through the lend lease program early on and direct actions post pearl harbor. A world war effects everyone in the world. It is not a "european war" and saying that it was or is is just way to eurocentric an understanding of what actually happened.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Thank you for saving me the trouble of writing this up.
@@Jszar thanks for recognizing the effort.
In fact the Pacific theater was WAY bigger than the European one in WWII. By far!
That's what I was thinking. To say it was a "western-centric" understanding is to completely ignore the massive campaigns in Asia and Africa during the war.
She's just turned into reactionary "West all bad, all West fault for everything" shill. Sadly, what gives the rest of the left a bad rep.
World War 2 started in 1937... by an Asian Power, but sure it was purely European. Man, these youtube wannabe leftists, really just totalitarian, really show their lack of knowledge regularly.
I'm more worried about right wing extremism and its embrace of fascist authoritarianism than I am about WWIII.
I think it's semi-connected globally 😢
Both are connected. The people who would want a war are often those same far-right despots.
I guess. Perhaps the only thing worse than dying for your freedom is not having any to die for.
This also scares me. The embrace of authoritarianism. But now we have all three candidates DJT, Biden, RFK have all come out in support of genocide. This is maddening that we might see all of our freedoms evaporate overnight because bibi decided to not stop. Watching the biden not put his foot down on this obvious genocide is disheartening. Because now DJT could end up walking straight into the oval office with project 2025 at his back. And watch, just like xi and putin, they will make it so they can never be removed. Meanwhile poisoning our food, air, and water supply just enough to not outright kill ya. China is not off the hook though either, or did forget about the Uyghurs. China economy runs on an capitalistic system minus the social safety nets. The saving grace for them is that they have lifted themselves out of poverty for a large portion of people. If this is the best it gets for them, what happens when capitalism fails them as well. Remove citizens united, the idea that corporations are treated as persons (no double dipping for owners), raise the tax rates on corporations and the wealthy (not to confused with high income earners cause those two are not necessarily the same), remove the bribes of our congressmen and congresswomen.
Same here. Seriously, you would think more people would be just as concerned since that is an ever pressing threat
For a second I thought this was a re-upload then I realized that was the "Is Civil War Coming?" video. What a wonderful time to be alive 😂😅😊😢
nervous laughter 😬
It's all speculation. If it were to happen then it would've happened already. The 80's weren't a cake walk either and it's similar to what we're going through right now. We just have tik Tok and influencers in the mix now
@alexlopez5800 the only speculation is what would happen if it kicked off in earnest. Saying that tensions are high rn isn't speculation and just because it isn't Bay of Pigs level yet we are still only a few minutes to midnight
I was like "didn't we already talk about this? No wait that was just like local war this includes everybody"
If your title ends with a question mark it's likely the answer is "no".
I'm sure someone else has mentioned this, but NATO actually doesn't allow new members with ongoing territorial disputes. Ukraine was not viable since 2014. That rule is as old as the alliance, and it's not due to trying to gerrymander the boundary of what's a world war or where Europe begins/ends.
Yes it's why Putin messed around in Crimera, although I don't think it would have mattered anyway with the whole Ukrainian being like the 2nd most corrupt country behind Russia supposedly, however the measure that LoL
It’s the largest reason Ukraine haven’t been able to join nato despite wanting tour for the last decade.
I wonder if forgoing crimea and joining nato was possible and a better choice for Ukraine
@@sentryion3106 Maybe, though they still think that they can win it back. The war isn't over yet, so there's still time. But I don't think Crimea is too valuable for Ukraine anyway, since it's populated by Russians who largely didn't like the European direction the country took (hence no resistance of Russian invasion).
@@jamesmoran8294 actually thinking about it again the donbas region is also contested as of 2014 so they would need to forgo a lot of territory. Still if it could have prevented this war it was definitely worth it
@@sentryion3106 Honestly after the frontline settled it was clear what the people on the other side wanted. Call a truce, make a loyalist exchange, and let the country divorce. Of course the Russians wouldn't have been happy with that outcome, so we may have seen a totally unprepared Ukraine fight a stronger Russia.
As someone who has visited China, depending on where in China you are, the women walking safe is true but 1 hour away and toddlers are shitting on the sidewalk curb cause the public bathroom is a homeless apartment.
Not too far from some places in the US lol
Same here been to China many times through the years until covid hit everything slowed down but I remember being in cities where quite literally you can go down a beautiful Main Street with tall buildings and manicured trees then make a turn left or right to a side street and see tiny houses in poor neighborhoods that take you back in time. Yes I saw toddlers having their butts hanging over the trash cans or bridges over the river but never thought it was because of homeless people living in public bathrooms.
U have to compare China now to where China was 30 years ago, they're still growing
@@finallyforfeiteddo you genuinely think china even half way compares to the US?
@@HasnaaAlaa. Yes I have been going back and forth to China 6-10 times a year (before Covid) and you’re right it’s a growing young economy however think of it as the economy of the 40s and 50s in the US. There are factories but the workers have no rights and there is a deep divide in classes between poor to the upper class. There’s really no middle class. Now there’s a big shift in the Chinese economy since covid and the government is trying to hide it and manipulate their stocks which caused the upper class to lose so much money from the housing crisis and banks are holding their money. There were a LOT of deaths that are not properly documented as covid too. I just went back 2 months ago (didn’t stay long) from not being their for almost 5 years and I can see a big difference in the number of people walking the streets or in public places as well as I noticed the people I do see are 40 -50 years of age or younger. I only seen a hand full of older people in the 5 days I was there and that was a shocker compared to the last time I went when I seen lots of people of all ages walking the streets. They definitely were hit hard with covid.
I hit the like button after the line “two bros gazing into each other’s soul windows….what could go wrong?!” 😂
It’s an apt comment but can also be argued as being counterproductive. Demeaning one gender to raise another is….repeating history. Let’s be bigger than that.
Five feet apart 'cause they're not gay
@@SpoopySquid I miss Vine.
@@benedictdonald4338 Not the point. The point is that the anti-intellectual GW decided to base our strategies on a brief moment of charm negotiation rather than everything else we knew about Putin.
I am also nervously searching for better places to take refuge should things get worse. I'm stuck in Florida, so I'm already behind the ball. 😅
My ultimate fear is that no matter where we go, fascism has an ugly way of spreading, infecting, and taking root. Like a cancer, it metastasizes.
All those fools up north are worried about Mexicans flooding into their states. They should be more concerned about Americans fleeing the southeast. I want to get the f out of here. Sick of the humidity and the mosquitoes..
Come to Brazil!
No seriously, come to Brazil - Leftists are needed.
Just don't be overwhelmed with the 27 political parties...
Fight it where you live--that's the only choice for all of us. Fascism anywhere is a danger to everyone.
@HANKTHEDANKEST Completely agree. It's just difficult in Florida. This place is a shitshow. I'll keep fighting for as long as I can, but the worse the persecution gets and the more dangerous it becomes, it will no longer be safe or viable for myself and my family. I'll not put them in jeopardy. At that point, we'll have to have an exit plan. Live to fight another day, and such. 🖤
It’s not a guarantee, but there are blue states like New Mexico that are safe for now.
People really forget that Ukraine in 2014 was a very different thing when Putin invaded Crimea. They were neither prepared nor so unified, and Turkey was playing games, so we had limited unilateral plays we could possibly have made in the Black Sea by then. Not to mention that's another decade of Ukraine getting smarter while Russia dumbed down further and degraded its own military through all that corruption.
Also the fact that Putin has done so is exactly why everyone around has been scrambling to get into NATO.
(Which honestly also means he broke that 1992 treaty, and everyone knew he would eventually. Another purpose of NATO was to put a bit of muscle behind the UN idea of the West/Europe not actually *fighting each oher again.*
It's easy to be cynical about Western/particularly US style captialism/corporatism, deservedly, but a lot of the adversaries are one degree or another of kleptocratic neofeudalists all for the big money and environmental looting, too. The corporations and oligarchs have little to no loyalty to nations, much less to freedom and human rights and democracy.
Exactly. Late-stage capitalism sucks, but dictatorships are a fuck of a lot worse. End of.
One would have to live in one to truly make a definitive assessment of this; preferably without a " funny blue passport ", and over a long stretch of time without means of maintenance, I'd think.
I like “neo-feudalist” - great description of China
Ukraine most corrupt country in Europe after Russia. Ukraine ranked 130th among 180 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2017 released by Transparency International. Ukraine improved its last year’s result by one point and got 30 points out of 100 possible. Next to Ukraine stand Gambia, Iran, Myanmar and Sierra Leone. Ukraine was able to achieve a slight improvement due to the fact that in 2017 the Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities (Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office and National Anti-corruption Bureau) forwarded to courts first corruption-related cases where the suspects were high-ranking officials. 🤨
And also Russia 11:14 @@Daniel-rp7nb
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
Albert Einstein
Einstein was wrong. WW IV will be fought between bacteria strains fighting over scarce resources.
i dont know about that i feel that humanaty Just wants to consistently wants to extinct itself.
mfer was spitting
Einstein got it wrong. WW IV will be a war fought by strains of bacteria over the remains of human civilization.
Well. If we even manage to get to a world war 4. If 3 is bad enough to bring us back to sticks and stones, god only knows how much of the population will remain.
The good news is; in 2063 on the 5th of April, after his maiden flight in the Phoenix, Zefram Cochrane will make first contact with the Vulcans, after the crew of the Enterprise saves humanity and the rest of the galaxy from time travelling Borg, setting into motion a chain of events that lead to the formation of Starfleet and the Federation of Planets.
Yeah, but before that WW3 happens according to Trek lore…
Glad you're here man. Wouldnt that be cool. What would first contact do to our world? Im sure a few billion would try to push our absolutely correct religious beliefs on them.
@@mattjones5105 He's referencing the fictional event from the Television series Star Trek. Zephram Cochrane is a character within the universe that discovered warp drive, essentially "putting earth on the galactic map" - this isn't a serious suggestion that Aliens will visit earth in 40 years.
FELLOW TREKKIE, WHAT'S UP FROM FLORIDA!!! 🖖🏿
Star Trek: First Contact!!!
$1 billion could have put a dent into homelessness here at home.
Really, not much - and not compared to the economic benefits long term in weapons sales, global trade and influence. And anyway, where is the political will to spend that on the homeless?
@@Daniel-rp7nb Exactly what economic benefits "long term" will there be for the homeless? Or are you just talking about the country in general (homeless not really included) here? What exactly is even the point that you're making?
@@Daniel-rp7nbI think a few years ago it was estimated it would take $20B to solve homelessness. Completely.
By pointing out that the military industrial complex is good for the economy and that solving homelessness wouldn't be, I think you have the right understanding but wrong conclusion. What's profitable is not always right, and what's right is not always profitable. Capitalism is good for a time, but it becomes an ouroboros inevitably.
If homelessness were solved, companies wouldn't be able to exploit their workers with the fear that they may become homeless. That's a very good thing... just not for the economy.
Having the wealthy pay their taxes, and curbing corruption -- legal and illegal corruption -- would benefit Americans more. It would yield less waste in arms production as well.
@@thebaronlouis8619 With some aid, most homeless would become more productive. Helping is in fact productive in the bigger picture, on a long run.
Born to late for world exploration and born too early for space travel but born just in time for WWIII
When extreme economic struggles occur world wars are not far behind
Thank you for the video, just a quick correction (17:54) , Iran is not an Arab nation.
Islamic not Arab (Arab being an ethnic/linguistic group - Iran is “Persian”/Farsi)
Just a note, my wife, a Chinese-American immigrant, is currently in China with our children and does not feel comfortable walking the streets alone with our children.
My guess it is vastly depends on where you are in China to feel safe, but also this could just be a form of propaganda that uses social media to ignore the issues China has. Not to say that it is all problems, but that each place has its problem, and that issues like sexism are pretty widespread.
@@seanmcdonald4686 No it’s ’cause she’s Chinese.
The Uyghurs feel the same.
Those who are left.
In china or here????????
Isn't that normal for China?
A tiny correction (don't throw stones and slippers, I'm from _another_ post-Soviet country). In Russia and other post-Soviet countries The Great Patriotic War and WW2 are 2 different things. WW2 is, well, WW2, and The Great Patriotic War is the part of it USSR directly participated in. At least that's how we were taught in school.
As a geopolitics obsessive, and a major Leeja fan, I have to say you did a perfect job at summarising the macro and micro factors into one, digestible video. Thank you and well done! Please more international videos! It would be amazing to see your take on international events!
Yeah this was very helpful video connecting the dots on geopolitics. I'm interested to start learning more
As a geopolitics obsessive, I must say she went too easy on Russia and China. The US is bad but they are no better.
edit: type error
All I'm going to say is that "Young people wanted to 'Bring back the 1980s'..... so how does it feel being on the brink of WWIII? You enjoying it yet?"
Yes, I'm a Gen-Xer who lived through the 80s (I turned 13 in 1980), and yes, it WAS an amazing time to be alive. It was also a very dangerous time to be alive, and now we get to revisit it. Also, WWIII pretty much started a long time ago, it's just been a very slow burn getting to the "Oh, SHIT!" part.
Also, more people need to accept that it's not anti-Semitic to speak as Israel's government and their "Whoops! My bad!" policy of killing civilians, many of which are children. That doesn't mean we hate Jewish people.... it means we're criticizing the Israeli government. Hell, Netty-Yahoo over there is having his police forces knock the crap out of Orthodox Jews within their own borders, because they are speaking out against him. It also doesn't mean that we "support Hamas"... we're just against the wholesale murder of non-combatants, and the only thing they can say about those deaths is "Oops! My bad!" before doing it again, and again, and again.
As it stands with Ukraine, either fight them there, now, or we fight them all over Europe within the next 5 years or so.
I'm just waiting for the catalyst that's going to get NATO fully involved, because we know it's coming.
Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China... in that order, are the worst threats right now. While China may WANT Taiwan, I don't think they are actually dumb enough to start a war with their largest customer (on the global market) over it. If Apple, Amazon, and Walmart close down their sweatshops, the Chinese economy will collapse. There's a WHOLE lot of interconnected pieces in this whole mess.
I'm listing Russia at the top of the list, because I wouldn't put it past Putin to use a few tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine at some point. If any NATO people are caught in that... you can kiss Russia goodbye, and even if only conventional weapons are used to do it, Russia may well all 15 of their functional ICBMs.
Here’s what’s antisemitic: conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism in the first place - I’m never gonna forgive the Dems for that one. That said, I’ve seen way too much conversation fueled by both antisemitism and Islamophobia, which is awful…including applauding Hamas for their attack on Oct. 7. It’s a shame we can’t all just agree that hate is wrong and killing civilians is a war crime, but that is where some people seem to be at.
But as a fellow Gen Xer who has also watched all this play out over the years, I can say you really called it by pointing out the “interconnecting pieces”, which are so complicated and tangled that no one could sort it out in a mere comments section on UA-cam. From global oligarch buddy systems to Christian Dominionists to the military industrial complex, it seems everyone has a stake in Israel.
I guess I don't see those other countries as threats. It's basically the US still trying to push ppl around acting like the world can't see how their rules based order is a sham. The US seems to be the one escalating.
What do you mean by WW3 started a long time ago? How so?
How the hell said we want to bring back the 80’s? The fuck kind of young people are you talking about? I just don’t want to die overseas for a cause I don’t believe in, if my country gets invaded I’ll surely defend it but I’m not willing to lay my life down because our leaders hate each other.
The Best economy is a balance between Capitalism and Socialism, the same for government is Social Democracy. You take the good parts from socialism and capitalism and ignore the negative sides, having a more direct democracy on the local level and a federal government on top. Then checks and bounds are important to retain Democracy and have a humane vision for the people. More open borders and a globalist philosophy, regulate corporations and have a strict gun policy. Norway is an excellent example of this form of government and economy. A move to green technology and dealing with Climate Change is also critically important.
"Whether peace is to be reached only after unimaginable horrors precipitated by humanity’s stubborn clinging to old patterns of behaviour, or is to be embraced now by an act of consultative will, is the choice before all who inhabit the earth. " - The Promise of World Peace
Both capitalism and communism as philosophical systems are not the same as their historical implementations. Capitalism as developed in the works of Adam Smith is not the capitalism we have in America today (he actually thought governmental regulation to hold markets in check was good, for instance). The communism developed by Marx, "Workers of the world unite!", a thought system that has led to many good things like unions, workers rights, etc. isn't the same as that of Maoist and post-Maoist China. Both of these philosophical systems have been abused by those in power. Those people are the actual bad influences at play. It's hard to say what a purer form that was implemented purely for the best of all would look like for either of these, but it's certainly not what we have, and arguably, either could be good.
Great comment that too few people can hold in their minds. But I think we largely do know what regulated-liberal-capitalism looks like - In many ways it’s the UK and Germany and the Nordic countries. Strong capitalist economies, where capitalism is constrained by regulation and the rule of law, and there are strong societal safety nets and labour protections. Unfortunately also high tax. Or Singapore, which has extraordinary economics, but robust social “goods” (great education, social housing, pensions and healthcare) and very low income tax (15%). If the whole world could work like Singapore we would all be a lot happier.
@@Daniel-rp7nbWhile I live Singapore, it would be uncandid not to acknowledge that it is being run as a benevolent tyranny.
It continues to do well because of the impact Lee Kuan Yew had on the personality of the government. Much like the influence that George Washington had a succeeding US Presidents.
The US trade war with China has NOTHING to do with how "bad" China is, "communism", dictatorship or whatever. It's what the Us ALWAYS did and will ALWAYS do when an economy is predicted to surpass them. They did that with Japan in the US- Japan trade war in the 90's, when Reagan put 100% tariffs on Japanese gods and Us congressmen went to the White House's garden to smash an evil Toshiba stereo with sledgehammers. Japan was a democracy, capitalist and an ally. Only that Japan "accepted it's place in the new world order" and joined the Plaza Accord, effectively becoming and Us bitch, even letting the Us cause the Japanese 90's bubble to slow down its economy in the 90's. Nothing new under the sun. When the Us face serious competition it ALWAYS hide and cry. It did that before. It did that even with my country, BRAZIL, centuries ago, over a HAT.
BY THE WAY, China became so powerful exactly because China and Japan have a beef over the war crimes Japan committed in China. To attack Japan guess which American president normalized relations with China and started investing there when Den took power in China and created the Economic special Zones? The Us is ALWAYS creating a new enemy trying t defeat an old foe, just like with the TALIBAN.
Guess in which country the US is massively investing now to provoke China? The Us wouldn't be so stupid AGAIN to invest in a country in which they cause remorse, right? something like VIETNAM, for instance?... Oh! Wait! Vietnam is the maor destination of the so called "china+1" policy by the West. haha
political philosophies are abused just like religions
To be fair, as long as social/socioeconomic power exists as a concept, people are going to use it for personal gain to the detriment of literally everyone else, so, imo, the only system that has any chance of working for the best of all is one with no power/hierarchy, that is anarchism.
17:50 I think it should be said that Israel (and the US) holds all the cards in ending this "war." On top of it not being a war, Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people, and it isn't biased or partisan to say that. Love you Leeja!
Yeah, I’m not sure how we just accepted calling this a war - you can only declare war on another nation state, and Israel doesnt recognise Palestine as an independent state - its a “police-action” or anti-terrorism campaign - which throws the loss of human life and infrastructure into a very different frame
Or, Hamas could just surrender and return the remaining hostages. In 18 years, Hamas has failed utterly to liberate the Palestinian People or even provide them with basic security. Hamas has enriched itself on international aid and used the Palestinian people as human shields, a recruiting pool, and as corpses to be avenged.
Netanyahu is a terrible person who has committed war crimes after failing utterly to protect his own people. But he seems fully willing to spend every Palestinian life to destroy Hamas. Does Hamas agree?
Came here to say this!
23:30 this is an error. The United States government legally does not recognize Taiwan as an independent country. The official policy of the US government is that there is only one China and Taiwan is part of China. We maintain no formal diplomatic relations. This is a huge error in your script!
While the US does not recognize Taiwan as an independent nation, the US does maintain informal diplomatic relations with Taiwan and the Taiwan Relations Act requires that the US sell Taiwan military equipment appropriate fornits self defense and that any reunification of Taiwan with the mainland only occur due to the voluntary choice of the Taiwanese people.
I wish I could see the Reagan shirt, but I adore that scarf!
Plus, awesome video! Y’all and research are close friends! Loving this channel!
There's a link to buy it. It says "Reagan Ruined Everything "
Putin can’t beat Ukraine and China’s economy is likely to head into recession. If they think they will beat NATO they are absolutely crazy. Netanyahu is a wild card who thinks America owes him unconditional support while having zero influence on his decisions. He will soon find out how wrong he is.
You can add Azerbaijan and Armenia, with France being involved somehow, and Azerbaijan (and Turkey, another NATO country) meddling in New Caledonia because why not.
Yeah all of that Azerbaijan and New Caledonian stuff is just pure speculation at this point.
Nobody knows what is going on.
Stop spreading misinformation
Forget Arzebaijan and Armenia. Forget about the Middle East, forget even about chia and Taiwan. No one is paying attention to the escalation between Thailand and Cambodia. and also exactly because no one is paying attention a world war can start is there. That can spill over Taiwan, Japan and south Kora (that dispute islands). Vietnam and China (again a beef over islands and sovereign waters), if South Korean and Japan start, North Kora comes in, Vietnam and the Philippines, India an China... THAT area is a mine filed. And it's hold together by the skillful diplomacy of the ASEAN countries. The West could never handle that.
Misinformation and pure speculations from a “random person on the internet”
"Democracy loving" not sure what is democratic about a choice between two awful groups every 2 or 4 years. Not sure what is democratic about a massive prison population or an insane number of black people unable to vote because of their "record" Super low voter turnout illustrates how undemocratic our system really is.
sarcasm bro
leeja i just really want you to know that discovered your channel a few weeks ago and have binged all of your videos. i love watching your new videos at my dumb pizza job
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It makes sense that Winnie the Pooh would give his friend a jar of honey.
The US trade war with China has NOTHING to do with how "bad" China is, "communism", dictatorship or whatever. It's what the Us ALWAYS did and will ALWAYS do when an economy is predicted to surpass them. They did that with Japan in the US- Japan trade war in the 90's, when Reagan put 100% tariffs on Japanese gods and Us congressmen went to the White House's garden to smash an evil Toshiba stereo with sledgehammers. Japan was a democracy, capitalist and an ally. Only that Japan "accepted it's place in the new world order" and joined the Plaza Accord, effectively becoming and Us bitch, even letting the Us cause the Japanese 90's bubble to slow down its economy in the 90's. Nothing new under the sun. When the Us face serious competition it ALWAYS hide and cry. It did that before. It did that even with my country, BRAZIL, centururies ago, over a HAT.
Honestly if the US would stop stirring things up, it would help. When we go into to save a situation, it gets worse and we always end up as the bad guy. No one views us as the good guys anymore except us.
You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain.
--Harvey Dent
Other countries never viewed the United States as the “good guys”. It’s good that a lot of people are finally waking up though
nah some of us have known this country sucks from the jump, and many many more are realizing that right now. The us never had a net positive effect on the world, their propaganda just worked really well.
It's because nobody outside the U.S. ever saw you as the good guys anyway. The U.S. have always been the bad guys.
Hell, a lot of us don't even see ourselves as the good guys!
You forgot the alternative of aliens taking over, and AI running everything.
China, walkable cities, even the ghost cities are filled with people living in them.
High-speed Rail between every city to get you around in no time at all.
Poverty is very low.
Sounds like a paradise, almost
If only they weren’t lying also a walkable city is meaningless when there is nothing in it
@notamurderer6226 I follow a guy unaffiliated with any government, just a normal guy, who LIVE STREAMS on Tiktok Inside China 🇨🇳 Every City with NO harassment.
It is our American media and Republicans who are Lying
Finally, can't wait for the 3rd and final part of the WW series to be released after such a long hiatus.
Might be the finale
Finale of the current series.@@OhAwe
@@OhAweOh, I hope so. I hate it when a series is dragged on longer than it needs to be. The Cold War arc was a little underwhelming, personally.
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Oh don't get me started on CW, 528 episodes of dull "build up" and then one of the major characters just collapsed in a heap and it was over.
I know right the World War arc was so fun. I can’t believe they discontinued it for a while season 2025 of earth is gonna be such a fun watch.
Biden: "We're drawing a red line at Rafah."
Netanyahu: "Guess what we just did."
Biden: "Sorry about that line, sir, we'll move it."
We aren’t anything like as close as we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when communication between superpowers were worse and there were direct threats to territory or vital resources (Gulf oil production). These days Russia, the US and China have constant communication between militaries to avoid misunderstanding. There are ways sub-war conflicts can happen - economic and cyber attacks for example - but nuke use doesn’t achieve anything for the superpowers.
Lets get real… ww3 already started but not like the last 2 its been creeping up slowly and started without anyone knowing or atleast takling about it
That’s what I was mentioning to someone all the things that have been happening especially the past few years it’s slowly creeping in. I think of school history books and when we would read the build up of war… what it was like years before and it building up. I feel like that is what’s happening right now and it’s a eerie feeling
@@alexispascal9245The oncoming storm
Not sure I agree with the World War phrase being uniquely tied to Europe only. WW2 of course saw fighting in Europe but also in the Asia-Pacific Theater and North Africa and involved many countries around the world contributing to the war effort on either side either through direct fighting or supply. There have been many wars fought in Europe in the past that still involved many countries and have not been referred to as "World Wars" in the history books. Just my two cents.
Believe it or not but your Mean Girls references really did give me a much better understanding of NATO and all that. Although, I never really tried to understand NATO before.
If you ever do a video on poverty, alcoholism and class mobility in America, hmu. You will want to interview me.
Nato is simple small countries get the backing of the strongest military in the world protecting them from potential conflicts while also making sure America can’t go back into its isolationist ways and let a small conflict grow out of control
Absolutely fantastic video, concise and efficient. Thanks!
Just a note that's a minor quibble. The P5 is less about who industrialized first (in fact, China wasn't very industrialized for the first 20-30 years of the UN), but something much more obvious but lost to time; the P5 were the "Allies" of World War II (US, UK, France, USSR, and the Republic of China). That's changed some, most notably in the early 1970s when the US and UK agreed to transfer the seat on the P5 that had belonged to the Republic of China (at this point filled by the government in Taiwan) to the People's Republic as part of the "detente" with China that was forged by Henry Fucking Kissinger. The other notable change, the more obvious one, came in 1991 when the USSR dissolved and Russia had been given their seat at the P5 table. And one may ask why Russia and not one of the other republics? Well, prior to 1991 the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR (Belarus) had separate membership in the UN from the rest of the Soviet Union, and they were the two other likely candidates. Since the Russian SFSR was the largest and "most advanced" of the republics that were represented by the USSR's seat at the UN, it became the official successor-state. So, in the end, the P5 are the successor-states of the Five Allies of WWII, as recognized and agreed upon by the rest of the club, which the UN in turn rubber stamps.
Leeja …Uh….just so you know, the Han Chinese (dynasty) have actively sought to rule the world for at least 3000 years
America’s bid to be the rulers
of the world is only 125 years of time, & arguably only AFTER WW 2 did our world hegemonic power take off, compared to Russia and China, we are the least experienced in the world’s long power play. Our advantage as the most powerful economy is hanging on by a thread, because corporate or capitalistic greed drove us to offshore for cheaper Chinese manufacturing labor.
The Chinese approach is an all encompassing, pragmatic way millennia long.
ours is short, narrow, & quite possibly stupid, which may be the difference between a supreme leader, and much clumsier and slower to act “Democratic republic”
Capitalism, without limits and basic common sense, seems more likely to dissolve from collective mediocrity than the others systems, and now we are just as brutal as the despots we used to fight against. As for war deaths Xi, & Putin are elites, chances are our elites are working in concert with theirs & the WEF
This is a class war before it’s any other kind.
That was very informing. Thank you ❤
NATO is the plastics of International Relations and the US is Regina George 🤣🤣🤣
The best way to describe the U.S. is the comment "What the hell is the United States doing?" in a gaming video I watched.
To which I (an American) replied, "I ask myself that same question every week."
The thing that frustrates me with the Left (and I’m a progressive socialist type): there’s a naive belief that whoever has the most power is ALWAYS the biggest villain and the worst threat. We don’t want to become China, because it has all the worst features of capitalism; billionaires, inequality, poverty and the worst features of modern communism, an authoritarian leader and a completely unaccountable government with total control over the public. Russia is straight up old style imperial Empire with a capital E. They didn’t just invade Ukraine, they are annexing it. Which means taking the land and destroying the Ukrainian identity. The Iraq war was horrible and I protested it, but the US didn’t stick a flag in Iraq and put it on a U.S. map. The US didn’t say “Iraqi isn’t a real nationality”. The United States are hypocrites and a kind of sneaky imperialism with tendrils everywhere. But we still have real elections for now and they do limit what our leaders can get away with. Right now I hope that is punishing them severely for overturning Roe and corrupting our courts. But we may also become more like these other authoritarian countries very soon. Let’s see how that goes I suppose.
I’ve been to Ukraine several times since it was in the USSR, and it’s absolutely heartbreaking to see how it built itself up, only for it to be destroyed. Shame on the world for outcasting it. I have no words to truly describe my disgust.
As an historian, tenuous at best.
The US supports Taiwan because it is a part of the First Island Chain strategy of it's China containment strategy. Ceeding support of Taiwan would enable China to dominate Politically and Economically the entirety of South Asia ( Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, The Philippines and others) as well as long time Allies Japan and South Korea. The Chips are very important, but it is much bigger than just that.
China has not passed us technologically. Their military is at least 20yrs behind. Robotics are similarly behind. AI maybe. And advanced semi conductors and chips are dominated by Taiwan and South Korea
Keep in mind that Taiwan is part of China they are not an independent country.
@@ericmacrae6871 they are an independent country they fit every other part of an independent nation except for name. And that’s only because of the “one China policy“ many Taiwanese people consider themselves Taiwanese and not Chinese anymore. Taiwan as a nation has separated itself from the Chinese identity. It used to claim itself as the “real China“ and constitutionally it still does and due to the complicated situation at hand, kind of has to. But overall. It is an independent nation.
@@stargazer-elite not by a long shot the entire thing about Taiwan vs China is who controls mainland of China THAT IT. When communist took power the fascist fled to Taiwan and created a base over there before Mao could finish the revolution and kick the fascist out. The world greatest tyrant that the world as ever seen arrived in Taiwan and put a military base there. Ever sense it was a cold war between the two government about who controls mainland China. Even now Taiwan STILL claims all of China PLUS more territory then the 13 dash line. So please don't come here and say they are independent. On top of that the US continually spread it's propaganda in Taiwan in support of the current regime. Yet the vast majority of people support the status quo and there is some decline of the current fascist government.
The bottom line Taiwan isn't a country period. Never was and never will be and on paper it is still not recognize as a seperate country. So this whole liberal propaganda that we have to support Taiwan you are simply support western imperalism that it
@@ericmacrae6871CCP shill.
The one big question I have for our military spending is like our medical costs. Are we getting what we paid for? Are the weapons and tech better, or are we just paying more for less?
Naval task forces and air strike groups are smaller than ever before because our ships and planes are that much more capable. That means fewer of our soldiers in harm's way to begin with, terrorist attacks in neutral ports notwithstanding. That means lower personnel costs overall.
I'm glad that, hopefully, that translates a soldiers safety, but does the amount of money spend reflect that or do other countries do that same thing but cheaper. The Pentagon has misplaced billions in military spending. Like they don't know where it went. That is a big concern.
Great video Leeja-just subscribed. Admit to being very depressed thinking about our shared future-I’m 70 years old, parents both served in the Second World War , maternal grandfather a First World War veteran, wounded on the Somme-as a youngster in 1960s England, I thought all these horrors were behind us… sad to think we have but just started as we rush to the final Armageddon… I wish nothing but peace and love for all of us sharing this planet… and hope that we can survive the excesses of our overpowered frontal cortex as it tries to wrestle with our primitive survival instincts. If we only make 100-150,000 years as a sentient species, maybe that’s not bad considering we haven’t seen anything else in the universe do any better. Love to all
Answer:
Probably, yea.
Well actually, great video!
Aw I was gonna say that. Nice tho!
love you, thank you for these digestible breakdowns
Just like Iron Maiden song said, we are 2 minutes to midnight!!😮😮
we were 2 minutes to midnight in 2018. we're at 90 seconds now
@@tribbybueno idk.... the middle east tends to just.... be like that.... constantly.
@@tribbybuenoexactly. 2 minutes to midnight is a reference to the dooms day clock.
@@johnnygoodman2003 i don''t think it even exists anymore
@@taxirob2248 you know you can Google it to prove it still exists.
Just some info on the UN: The Security council is made up of 5 permanent seats; they're the allied forces of WWII (plus France). There are 10 "rotating seats"; These are Member Nations that are elected every 2 years by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Latin America had international organizations all the way back in the 1800s. The OAS were pioneers of the whole concept. But people assume it began when Anglos started noticing it.
Good job
If WW3 comes, I'll be sitting in prison for refusing the draft 😂
And die from radiation?
How very patriotic of you. 😐
@@FretfulClown95 Fuck patriotism. All forms of nationalism are evil
Hm.
@@FretfulClown95fuck patriotism. If we are to fight it will be for ourselves and our communities. And it won’t be in some far off war where every side is a villain. It will be fighting at home for liberation.
>I go on UA-cam
>I watch an informational video on geopolitics
>There is another Coronacion De Gloria
Thank you so much for this rundown. I feel so much more clued in to the international players now.
I am a sinologist who got his degree with special expertise in top Chinese policy, i studied under one of the, if not thr most knowledge people in the world when it comes to top Chinese politics, and I also have special expertise in Taiwan affairs.
Life under Xi Jinping is a bit hard to explain. Many of the downsides are not the fault of Xi, but the system. Many of the upsides of Xi, is mostly due to him. But there are always two sides of the coin. So let us start with the dowmsides.
Issues with public pension. That is huge right now, elderly living off scraps. Is that only China that have this problem? No. Korea got the exact same issue. High unemployment rates for young people. It is extremely extremely difficult to get a job as a young person in China right now. We have literal PhDs in physics, computer science and other STEM from the most prestigious universities in China, working as streets sweepers, and other jobs like that. Why is that? They can't find work within their respective fields so they do the second best thing, they work for the government. That is secured pension and benefits.
What are some upsides? Really high quality infrastructure. 5G, expanding the high speed railways, bridges to nowhere, railways to nowhere, cleaner greener energy. The air has gotten much cleaner under Xi. That is a plus. Local governmental officials are a lot more accountable. I am not saying it is great, but it is better.
Government censorship has increased, that is true, it is harder to hide money. It is harder to take obseen bribes. And more. Overall he has been a net negative. Not because of internal affairs, but because of international politics and the increases jingoism.
Really, then why are record numbers of Chinese flying to the Chinese embassy in Ecuador trekking through dangerous Central America areas and finally crossing the Mexican border to live in the U.S., if things are good. My guess is that many can't pay to escape China even though they want and deserve it more.
This is the first time in my life I have no idea what the world will look like in 10 years time.
If you want to see this as 'manplaining', well that is up to you, but I believe Russia has more nukes than the US and as far as the 2 atom bombs dropped on Japan: It was estimated by the US during WW2 that as many as 1 million US casualties in defeating the Japanese home islands, especially after seeing how tenaciously the Japanese fought and their willingness to die, rather than surrender. Also, US conventional bombings killed thousands more Japanese civilians than the 2 nukes combined. Even after both atom bombs had been dropped, the Japanese army wanted to continue fighting and it was only the intervention of the Emperor Hirohito that forced the Japanese to surrender. Let me finish by saying that I am not advocating the use of nuclear weapons in any present or future conflict, but the use of the atomic bomb against Japan probably saved lives on both sides in the long run.
Pack up girls we’re all moving to ✨ Argentina ✨
That's where the remaining "mustache man" people went. I'm headed to Denmark 😂
@@howisthisevenreallife go to iceland. denmark wont be safe
You'll still feel the effect of a WW in Argentina...
Maybe do your part instead of running away?
Unfortunately, they just elected a right wing mini Trump…
Russia and China have been "marginalized"? That's even sillier than saying Germany was marginalized pre-wwii.
Yeah - China hasn’t been marginalised in any way at all, and Russia has a lot of constraints by is by no means operating in the “margins”
Allowing the PRC into the WTO in 2000(ish) is what kicked started that country's economy and transformed it into the World's Factory Floor. PRC prosperity was the direct result of its inclusion into the Western system.
I honestly dont get why people are downplaying the atrocities of china and russia like PLEASE dont be this blind. I know the US has its faults but do not think the grass is greener
Just got to consider when the US thought they were at war, vs. when the earliest events started in WWII.
Hindsight is 20/20.
I absolutely love, enjoy, and am tremendously enlightened by all your videos. Never cease. Thank you SO much!
I will burn my draft card if it comes to that somehow.
Didn't they mull about passing a law automatically enrolling adults in the selective service?
They'll automate conscription but they won't automate voter registration.
@@duel424 You might want to familiarize yourself with the Black Sabbath song "War Pigs", if you haven't already.
@@IggyStardust1967 An absolute classic of a song, also I highly recommend T-Pain's live cover of the song. It was phenomenal. Thankfully I can't be drafted by the US since I'm not American.
And you'll go to jail.
You can enjoy a long stay at your local prison facility. I hear the inmates are extra friendly! 😊
As a Chinese I can confidently say they will be no war But if USA touches our border again they will face consequences and I mean a very hard consequence
Havent watched the vid yet but all i know is china is playing the long game, hoping america will crumble like the soviets did 30 years ago. Theyre playing smart and wont invade taiwan until they know for a fact theyre more powerful than america
They're stealing UYS tech, brainwashing people with social media, and flooding the country with opioids. They're doing their best to bring about America's demise
Mainland China is rapidly aging out of being a viable manufacturing or military force. The last of the pre-One Child Policy generation are entering retirement. The One Child generation and their children are experiencing increasing trouble with a declining economy, a real estate burst, and a banking crisis, just to name a few. The Mainland's long game is trying to keep several hundred million seniors fed and housed with the working age population too small to do it.
@@Rob_F8F Aged population is not a problem for Chinese government since they don't have election and don't have to cater to aged population. It is your kids you have to rely on in your senior years, not the government.
@@pawelzybulskij3367 There are not enough working age people in Mainland China to support the size of its economy. And while the government is not dependent on votes from the retired/retiring people, allowing millions to literally starve to death does not promote societal stability or regime security. The CCP relented on its Zero C0v!d policy in the face of massive protests that threatened both.
@@Rob_F8F Chinese Government does concern about future shrinking size of economy as a tool to project power on the world, but aging population in China is a concern mostly for aged population and for their children if they have ones, and little concern for the government. I don't think there will be lack of societal stability or threat to the regime. Historically, it was quite common for old people to rely on their children or work until death, and senior poverty was rampant. I think they will just suck it up.
Love love love every video you release! Thank you for the education I appreciate your voice!!!🩵
I was starting to wonder whether RFR was going to be referenced. All who discuss American politics with me know that I've been pointing out his evils for decades. Thanks for the backup.
Never mind China; It is not a real Marxist nation: it's a bureaucratic oligarchy where the heads of the organs of state became a new propertied minority ruling class- putting its own interests above that of the working, farming and defending peoples of China. The USSR took the same route. You should take a closer look at Cuba and see that it is the real deal.
It's not surprising that a Leeja Miller fan doesn't understand shit about global politics.
@@nightraven2975 Donald Trump is the antichrist.
Cuba depends on capitalist trade deals with Europe, hard foreign currency from tourists, and significant remittances from the Cuban diaspora.
Yes, truly a Real Deal Marxist nation.
I'm here for the gloom and doom. 😈
Palpatine is behind everything
Good video, Leeja. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
The CCP's authoritarian rule means that any advances as a result of true innovation do not exist. They cannot and do not allow creative and independent thought in their schools... critical thinking and the scientific method do not work with "communism with Chinese characteristics.". Instead, almost ALL innovation is stolen, something the CCP has and continues to encourage. And any domestic innovation is highly likely to be mostly surface level. Considering that they Chinese people are getting more and more difficult to control for the CCP as their social contracts are not working out. Taiwan is the easy scapegoat which can be blamed with zero consequences in their rhetoric.
MANDATE OF HEAVEN TIME
@@EDPsJailWardenBased.
You’re completely right.
When a country starts failing, it always starts pointing fingers at some scapegoat to flimsily unite the people against.
@@phaIIicaIIyimpaired “ W-w-when a c-c-country s-s-starts falling blah blah blah”
Sorry for being one of those mansplainers, but your history on the Ukraine conflict is extremely limited, as is your simplistic characterization of Putin. The US has wanted to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia for a long time, in fact the US wanted to officially invite Ukraine and Georgia in 2008, but were prevented from doing so by France and Germany who understood that it would mean war with Russia. Instead the US pushed through an "open-door" policy towards both countries. It should be noted that there was no opinion for NATO membership at this time in either Ukraine or Georgia. The US-backed coup in Ukraine is what sparked the invasion of Crimea. This is basically like if China would invite Canada and Mexico to a military alliance with them, and once the people of Canada elects someone who instead chooses to be allied with the US, China instigates a coup against the Canadian government. The Russian invasion cannot be justified, the loss of human life can never be justified, but it could have been prevented if the US wasn't so keen on expanding NATO to Russia's borders.
Also regarding Taiwan, a big reason for US involvement is that the US wants control of the South China Sea, because remember only the US had the right to control seas thousands of kilometers from their borders.
You don't have to apologize for being a "mansplainer". 😑
Literal vatnik tripe
Another error.... The US does not recognize Taiwan as a legitimate state on paper. Like most countries, it recognizes Mainland China as the only China but does support Taiwan (off paper)
The best place to live on the brink of World War 3? The Moon
Love the video! Doesn’t article 5 give member states a way out of coming to the defense of member state? I saw a video from Real Life Lore or some channel that stated that the language within it is intentionally… not vague but not as concrete.
Love your Mean Girls reference!
There was a 'Amazing Interiors' episode about some rich guy turning bomb shelters into livable homes for WW3. Good to know there's a good option.
"and we're Regina George" ... Fuck i knew it
I know 25% isn't good odds and can backfire spectacularly, but oh man, when you pull it off, the results can be SO sweeeeet.
Study your American history. Do you think Americans voted for a middle class and worker's rights? Of course not. We vote for those that support oligarchs being in charge...until McKinley happened and we got the middle-class...and if that guy's aim had been better with Reagan, we just might still have one.
If Crap hits the roof your best bet would probably be Central or South America
Cheering for the people and against the leaders everywhere.
A YT channel that is an absolute wealth of information and nuance on not only how foreign policy works but why it works that way “nations don’t have friends, they have interests” is a tag line of his. He’s also schooled in military doctrine. His channel is ‘Beau of the Fifth Column’. FYI his personal politics are SUPER LEFT anarchist.
“removing term limits is a classic authoritarian power move”
america: well we can’t possibly be authoritarian if we’ve never removed our nonexistent term limits (talking only ab the judicial n legislative branches)
As long as people like her survive, WW3, what is the reason to survive WW3?
You messed up on the Iranian Revolution history. The revolution was not against secularism. In fact, most Iranians opposed theocracy. The ayatollah rallied Iranians around Islam b/c it represented, to Iranians, the antithesis to American imperialism. It was only after the Shah was deposed that the ayatollah & his goons violently consolidated power to create a theocracy. A lot like the US, the current Iranian regime’s base is comprised of less educated, more rural communities.
Your section on the middle east, specifically Saudi-Iranian rivalry misses a key element of religion, while they are both Muslim countries, there is a key difference in that one is Sunni, the other Shiite. This matters, as it adds another layer of complexity, comparable with the European wars of religion in the 16th-17th centuries.
Your commentary around Nato/Europe not letting Ukraine into Nato & the EU also skips the requirements around the potential member states not being involved in a conflict - which Ukraine unfortunately is. So as much as many member states would like it to be, it is blocked from doing so. This doesn't also factor the unilateral agreement from all member states, which is potentially difficult as some share wildly different values and agendas (Turkey).
The South China Sea is another key flashpoint - not just Taiwan - that the US and it's regional allies are closely involved in, another very touchy subject not to be glossed over.
Note on Ukraine not being allowed as part of Europe since it is a bit misleading:
EU=European Union and Europe are not 1:1. There are a set of criteria you have to fill to be an EU-member, such as having your finances in order, documented democracy etc.
Not being an EU member does not mean that you are not in Europe (look at Norway or Iceland, who is considered a part of Europe, just like we do Ukraine). In order to meet these criteria then many structural changes are needed in a country, and it is therefore expected to take a very long time. The EU is not known for bypassing rules. 😅
So if a country is not in the EU, they will have to do a lot of work on their own to set up agreements themselves. (Norway are for example, a part of the Nordic union)
Besides that then EU have historically been a non-military union meaning that what each individual country does is their own thing (we see a change happening here) though many countries are indeed a part of nato, making the lines blurry. 😬
That is all thanks 😅
i was going to ask what the shirt was but i saw it below, nice!
5:14 “nor - rad” not, “no-rad” - NORth American Air Defence Command - Nor as in North
I really like that chill jazzy music you have at the end. That type of music keeps me calm. I'm autistic.