I think whatever Trump thinks or does, he is 100% correct that the EU needs to shoulder more of the military burden. It is wrong that European security, particularly Ukraine's fate, would depend on which person the US elects as their president. If the aid came mostly from the EU and the UK then the US wouldn't have a say in Ukraine's diplomacy.
Europe has been leeching off of American tax dollars for many years now. All the while lecturing Americans how EU has a superior (they don't) social security (subsidized by the hardworking American taxes). About time the Americans stop slaving for the racist Europeans. Europe is making the same mistakes it made 80 years ago. Supporting a racist power hungry dictator while Russia has to step in again to clean up the mess.
As a Greek person, I hate seeing the top EU shot-callers stuck on perpetual bureaucratic limbo and criminal complacency in the guise of civility and refinement. A war is happening right next to us and everyone's like "hmm maybe additional restraint and understanding will solve everything..." while patting themselves in the back for being as useful as a boy scout.
This is 2 fold, one the over reliance on U.S. support / aid and two not taking the threat of Putin seriously because "it's not our side if Europe" mentality. It seems the majority of Europe is ok with giving up it's Eastern side to Russia. I knew the experiment that was the E.U. was failing but looks like the same can be said for NATO now.
I absolutely agree with you. I'm from Poland and I feel like we're alone grabbing onto the American support. The EU is completely delusional at this point. And you guys in Greece are over worked, especially with the recent Saturdays added to your work week and you still manage to fund your military. But the rest of the EU is just "going green" that's where their focus is. So annoying.
It's a repeat of history. The U.S. will become isolationist once again, like it did after WW1, and once war reaches American soil again, like it did in WW2, we will once again become the world's policeman.
@@Rexsuprime @Rexsuprime like mentioned in the video most of Europe did not hold up their part of the deal, so the “promise” that US made, can’t be applied. You know like being delinquent on your rent, you eventually will be kicked out.
Normally a fan but as someone who was literally executing the plan to withdraw from Afghanistan in real time, this is quite off. What you aren't understanding here is that there was X plan in place to withdraw ~ May 2021, but when Biden was inaugurated, there were 3 months between January and April that they were revising the plan, which would become plan Y. Weekly we would get updates from Generals explaining to us we are legitimately waiting on the executive branch to make this decision, but oh wait, by April we were in crunch time (due to a 3 month intermission) hence why the withdraw was pushed to August, where the shit show happened. The pause and delay in the original plan due to the new administration actually caused things to go worse than if plan X was carried out. Additionally, as you can tell most of your negative feedback is completely correct in that the Afghan National Army had absolutely 0 desire to fight. Their mission was (generally speaking) get paid by day as an Afghan soldier, get paid by night as Taliban. Again, normally a fan, but this came off as really biased and uninformed. Hard for me to forget as someone who was literally in the middle of it x)
@@vazquezcarlosI don’t think you can stop someone from deserting if things go sideways, but you CAN prevent them from going sideways by not pulling out expeditiously and leaving a power vacuum for a superior organized force to retake the country in a matter of days.
This video has the worst and most biased take I ever heard on Biden's mess of Afghanistan withdrawal. Reducing Biden's poor execution of that withdrawal to being Trump's fault is just lazy research at best.
Not really. Anyone who has paid attention to american history would know that we'd eventually get sick of the racism, sexism and authoritarianism and reject it overwhelmingly like we have so many times before. The biggest difference this time is that the democrats convinced themselves and their supporters that they aren't the racist sexist authoritarians. Every time someone learns what those words actually mean and examine the actions of the alt-left they stop voting democrat.
I recently read a comment left on one of T1J's community posts that I thought was brilliant. They posit that the world was actually supposed to end in 2012, but it kept going, and now whoever's in charge of what happens on the "Earth Show" has been struggling to figure out where to take it next. So now they're just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
I feel like this video lacks an economic view on the topic. War and international relations over territory especially with Russia's role in Europe are one thing, but the economical relations between the US and Europe might also change drastically with all the austerity measures Trump promised. What he might accidentally cause is a complete shift of Europe's committment to its business relations with the US. If Europe wants to find funding it will (plenty of billionaires that fare very low tax rates compared to workers) and if it deems necessary it might even collaborate with China to step over an extremely erratic US which breaks out of e.g. climate protection agreements, the NATO, etc.. All of it might result in the US losing its more or less total dominance on the world stage, instead having to step down and actually act on eye-level with other superpowers instead of playing the role as world-police. Something the "greatest nation under god" might not be ready for yet.
@@AllanHinde-mb2prIs the shift good or bad in your opinion? From the outside looking in European citizens need to reign in their governments, a lot. They seem to be doing very little that benefits the citizens.
@@AllanHinde-mb2prwhat shift? The only shift I see is bringing in people from the 3rd world that won’t assimilate into Europe lmfao good luck Oh wait you can’t mention that bc you’ll get arrested
What many people forget: Pressuring EU countries to spend on military means equipment purchases from US companies they often have to rely on. It's not about total military spending, it's about how it's spent. If EU countries increase spending, they should decouple such spending from the US companies that are the profiteers, but instead invest into domestic company build-up to reduce the real dependency to the US.
We already do, and we should do more. There is absolutely nothing we can't produce in Europe, at least as good or even better. The fact is that we need the Americans , but the Americans need the Europeans just as much. Radar technology, ultra high tech semiconductors technology, money, high end steel etc etc. Stuff that isn't produced and can't be produced in the US but in Europe. China is very much willing to buy European tech to strengthen their military capabilities. Americans are ignorant. We can, and we will strengthen our Europeam military. Money isn't the problem.
He’s right. The United States needs to realize it has its own problems they desperately need to fix. Instead of trying to be the world’s biggest lender and world police, they need to fix themselves first, and let’s be honest, there’s no shortage of issues to pick from.
The US does realize this, thats why its been trying to get Europe to take control of its own defense and security so its less reliant on the US Military
Ya, and most those issues started over WW1 and WW2. Sure there was other factors, but European greed allowed WW2. US did not want to get into another war due to hurting Germany more than the country that started it. OK, then WW2 after the war so many spoiled children where born. Those children allowed our enemies to grow much easier by selling them selves off for quicker profits. Then allowing bad teachers into schools on top, ya good luck fixing it.
The fact that most of NATO is unwilling to spend 2.5% of their GDP on defense is super annoying. At least France has a nuclear triad and an aircraft carrier with less than 2% of its GDP...looking at you Germany who still doesn't have an armored brigade.
If they could defend themselves then they could be autonomous and denounce war acts like, for example, the US destroying North Stream to bring Germany’s economy down.
Tbf to Germany, their recent history probably makes military spending a bit of a touchy subject. Especially more closely following WW2, Germany re-arming again would likely have been taken pretty poorly by the rest of the world. I think ultimately that's where it comes from with Germany, it doesn't really matter today but I still think that overall mindset still exists today.
Post WW2 it was understandable that the US would be a large chunk of European security, and it made sense that Europe would encourage that. Sometimes though, in order for history to move on, things have to happen that sort of force it. Times are just changing
Post Cold War after the Soviets Lost, Europe Kind of Kicked its feet up and let USA handle Security. Theyve gotten Lazy and Indeed Times Are Changing. Starting in 2025 they need to go back to defending themselves
USA asserted themselves everywhere around the world and not a single time they did it from the goodness of their heart, they always had something to gain, be it resources or influence. Despite everything Trump says, USA WANTS Europe to rely on them because if they don't, they have no political leverage nor influence over the old continent.
I would agree. It’s crazy how countries in the EU will say they want American to stop “policing the world”, but then not invest more into defense. I would love for US to stop policing the world, but that can only happen when the world takes responsibility. If the US were to pull out right now, the world would be screwed. Prices of middle eastern oil would skyrocket because of the subsequent wars and takeovers that would happen to essential routes and oil reservoirs. The global trade would also hurt because of similar reasons. I think allied countries need to spend more on military and we need our military to have integrated bases and train the joint armies accordingly.
Well WW2 Russia did a lot of work but yes. Having U.S involved in the war. You have to defend two sides which is hard to defend both sides with certain numbers.
Your numbers are not correct, or at least incomplete, concerning EU aid. Your $133B figure of EU aid only considers direct bilateral aid and ignores aid rendered by EU institutions. The total EU-aid is estimated to be $176B. And if you expand it to geographic Europe (which includes the UK and others) , the amount is $203B. It's all in the datasheet of the source you're quoting for this video.
Yes. They should have relied on the much more expensive US LNG. So now that they refused the cheap Russian gas, their economy is independent of Russia and booming. Wait, no. It’s collapsing. How’s that an improvement?
You both hate Germany in fact, judging by your acid comments and fakes about Germany's economy collapsing. In your dreams. Russia's economy is collapsing too, if so.
@vladsch1 all the money they spent of Nord Stream could have been spent on US natgas nodes and the country would have tackled the issue at its own pace instead of at gunpoint
I think this can turn out to be a good thing for us Europeans. We have relied on the USA too much and for too long. The USA drew its power from being the world’s police, but as we can see, this is no longer what the American people want their country to be. The idea of isolating America and focusing on domestic issues is not Trump’s idea-it’s the idea of the American people, and that’s why he was chosen by them. It's important to understand that. Many have criticized Trump for his actions, but he says and does things that Americans want to hear and see, which makes it very democratic. This shift could take Europe out of its lethargic state. In fact, it might turn out to be very unfavorable for the USA, as the rise of Europe could deal a financial blow to the United States.
I would not be so sure on that one. Yalls demographics are cooked. Americas is getting cooked as well. We both just going to be on the struggle bus here soon and as we get old, no retirement from the gov cus no young workers :/
I should point out that the american people are just tired of being yanked around by everyone, all of your nations tarriff american goods, yet the us threatens to do the same and you act like we've somehow stabbed you in the back, the us taxpayer literally funds half the world's countries through our economy yet you call us braggarty hicks, also your socialized healthcare is subsidized by americans paying out the nose for our medicines (though red tape doesn't help there either). America might have more or less ruled the world for the last 80 years, but the rest of the world, outside of maybe japan, has treated america like it's some backwards trash heap for at least the 40 years i've been alive, we as a people are tired of doing everything for everyone else while our people are treated badly and suffer, until trump came along our government has completely ignored our anger and worry. Also let me be clear, even during the cold war most americans were isolationist, but saw nato and european assistance as a necessary evil to maintain safety in the us, the us has at least since before ww1 been isolationist and nationalist, our bureaucrats in government however, were globalist, even against the will of the average american, we are not against helping europe, but we're tired of being treated like a sugar daddy with europe and other so called allies not pulling their weight.
@@nickashton8139 Actually american demographic trends are weird, we're not really reducing in population in the way you think we are, our cities are having far less kids but rural is having more kids, while this would cause a crunch at the top end for old age millenials, it likely will not have as big of a effect in the long run outside of shifting america more and more to the right as again, rural is having a boom while cities populations are contracting, especially among african americans (which seems to be highly influenced by abortion numbers, but i'm not gonna get into THAT conversation here). Europe however, needs to rework it's systems to stop relying on social safety nets at the rate they are demographically collapsing, but well, politicians only think about their term, and the next term is the other guy's problem. For what it's worth, china, russia and arguably india are far worse off than europe with demographic predictions, but all 3 have a tendency to lie about their numbers.
I mean Trump was already in office and people claimed relations between Europe and the US would sever and he would withdraw the US from NATO and none of it ever happened. He also warned about Russia during his first term and about Europe’s reliance on it for energy. For a matter of fact as someone who voted for Trump I don’t even know any Americans who actually want to abandon Europe vs them spend more on defense. The US sees China as its biggest threat now
From 🇵🇱: No matter what America does, Europe needs to get serious about Putin and dramatically increase military readiness, including aid to Ukraine. He sees you as his enemy and wants to weaken your society, whether you like it or not. Take our word on this one.
Exactly. "What Europe needs to do" is exactly what Europe needs to do, regardless of who the incoming president is. They continue to kick the can down the road at their own peril.
Why should we Americans pay for your defense?We don't owe you anything Trump should pull us out of Nato we don't have any threat from Russia and we should focus on China
I mean, when you've had US military bases and training exercises throughout most of Europe for longer than most people have been alive, then it gets quite easy to assume they will always be there to defend you. Basically, the same way a child won't learn how to do the dishes if you never make them; Why would Europe spend lots of money on their military when the USA has been there to protect them for the last 60-70 years? The European countries definitely should have spent more on defence, but why would they when the largest superpower on the face of the planet has been protecting them for longer than most people in the country have been alive?
People keep on saying that he has a insane timeline. Meanwhile, he literally said in the beginning that he wants everyone to take this with a huge grade of salt and he’s trying to predict not actually predicting.:/
He will definitely change Europe and effectively force it to take more initiatives on its own. I'm not so sure USA is going to benefit from that though.
It won’t. Closed military bases, less trade, less trust, which is what keeps our dollar afloat.. this is what we get for letting the adult literacy rate in this country fall below 60%.
@@razorramon780 I agree and I am not an American. I am Dutch. Obama asked nicely and politely. Trump asked in 2016 2020 again more insistently. To raise militairy spending to 2% of the national income. We did nothing or not nearly enough. The invasion of Ukraine was an indirect result of European failure to comply by NATO standards. Dont blame Trump. What he asjed of us was fair. And we (Europe) complained about the mean words he used. Western European countries who did not spent 2% are to blame.
As on older Irish man that's embarrassed by the current state of our national defenses, I hope that if the Americans abandon Ukraine and that the Polish and Brits do go all in to replace them, that the large expat communities here put real pressure on the government to finally pull it's head out of the sand and do something about it. We have the money, the manpower and friendly countries who'd be more than happy to help us to properly beef up our defense forces enough to meaningfully support our European brothers, we're just lacking the political will to do it.
"I hope that if the Americans abandon Ukraine and that the Polish and Brits do go all in to replace them" You say that like the US was actually helping which mostly it wasn't.
What are you on about. The current state of the irish national defences??? And youre embarrassed. When have ireland had any sort of national defence? What wars did you fight in? Irish cabbage.
The US has carried the defense Burden for Europe. This allowed Europe to build its generous social programs and drift to totalitarianism as people give up freedoms for security.
It really can't be understated how important it is that a Baltic state like Estonia is proposing a lot of these ideas. They very much seem to remember their time being forced into the Soviet Union and they want to do everything possible to prevent that from happening again. Everyone that was freed of the Warsaw Pact doesn't want it coming back and the larger countries like France, Germany, and the UK need to take note as the higher ups seem to have forgotten a bit.
UK spends the most on defence in Western Europe and has nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers? UK is also increasing its defence spending too. France also has the same. Nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers. Germany and the UK also make a lot of weapons too. Some aren't pulling their weight to be sure.
Many in those larger countries look at the Soviet Union with nostalgia-like Spain's ruling coalition, in a country that barely spends 1% of its GDP in defense, less than even the much-criticized Canada's 1.3%.
I was certainly already giving up on this uploader with his recent posts and complete whining toward Google but his extreme liberal viewpoints and overall lack of understanding of almost anything he posts about I think Google is correct, he’s basically the msnbc of UA-cam I look forward to his further whine posts about why no one likes him for no understanding, well, anything and being so matter of fact. Screw you real life bs
This means, the Budapest agreement signed by UK, USA, Russia, and Ukraine + other East European countries coming out of breakout of USSR, where the laters had let go of N Weapons in exchange of protection, the Budapest agreement is nor worth the paper it’s written
@@orange123yoshi Yes, what you say is true. The UN recognized borders of Ukraine included Crimea. The (not big) amount of territory that is Crimea although very strategic in Black Sea, led to illusion that Russia/Putin territory grab greed would stop there. Despite breaking UN law, I think most politicians and most people chose to overlook as a minor infraction. Now the scenario is blatant land grab +20%, and even with an interim peace deal, no one can say won’t go for a larger chunk. This is unmistakably a break of UN/international law, this is unmistakably the reduction to irrevelance of Budapest agreement (2014 qualitatively it was a break, quantitatively could be overlooked also given history of that patch of land).
Exactly. No country should give up defending itself. Like Europe. They should not give up defending themselves. Even NATO is just paper. Maybe the US will help? Maybe countries will pay their share? Maybe...
You need to study international relations first Then focus on one aspect of foreign policy, you’re not going to keep up with every one I specialize in Latin America policy but my colleagues are all Asia and Europe
Even Real Life Lore said his own opinion could be wrong depending on what will happen later, as IR could be impulsive. But we can guess some based on history, just like the weather.... but even weather gets wild now
Poland is the only one in the region who truly know the colors of ruSSia and Belarus. US should help Poland secure central and Eastern Europe and not count on silly Germany to do so!
One of the flaws with Western countries in our current decade.... They aren't interested in including people who are straightforward. Because they don't have the "correct" vibes. They want folks who are "exciting." Instead of smart. -With eastern NATO countries being the only exception. (For obvious reasons.)
It's a common issue with Western countries in our current decade..... They won't include folks who lack the "correct" vibes. Even though Poland has the experience and knowledge to help out.
@@MALUR82For real. The German government seems to think if they have a decent military it's only a matter of time until France is invaded. Meanwhile Poland is preparing for a unilateral reformation of the USSR.
As an European I'm glad Europe is moving away from dependancy of the US, we can never feel like we need another country to defend us, much less countries like Russia, China or the US. Europe if led properly will continue to be the best place to live
Yeah you shouldn’t expect American lives to be lost when you can’t even pay a fair amount. I seriously doubt any European lives would be lost protecting US homeland. So yes, please stop being so dependent.
The US needs a strong Europe as much as Europe needs a strong US. This is about mutual cooperation and respect, not kicking Europe to the curb. Trump is 100% right Europe needs to step up their game
This. State building was a naive ambition and it would've never worked. Evident in the military loss to the Taliban. You can't make the indigenous population believe some novel foreign values. The fight against Taliban was a fight against the native culture.
That's exactly why Trump just decided to pull out. They weren't an effective government and nothing we could do was going to change that. Hence the last 20 plus years of the war.
Because it's a lie. Russia would have serious trouble with Italy much less all of Europe NATO. China only spends 1.6% of it's GDP. 2.5% is absurd. Europe NATO was never in any danger spending that much is just for flashy but non effective force projection(not defense)
@@Emmanuel-co6sm Nope they brought this situation upon themselves by meddling in every countries affairs to spread capitalism, every country can commit atrocities as long as they are on the side of American imperialism.
@@FrenzyLive1 If I was in a restaurant with a table of people I can barely communicate with much less stand for extended periods, and the waiter offers to presume what we want in exchange for a 50% discount, I'm saying yes, not considering if it makes me look too reliant to people looking in from the window.
The US pulling out of NATO would be the single biggest political mistake in the history of the world. The US being the most powerful country in the world is only because NATO allies _LET THE US_ be the most powerful. And the promise of military support as well as surpassing allies' military investments in joint missions is what buys that power. At this moment the US has a lot of sway in all industries, not just military. But if they pull out of NATO, there is not a single incentive for the former allies to consider US interests in any aspect. On the contrary, the former allies will band together even stronger and the US will find itself a pariah among western civilizations. That's not shooting yourself in the foot, that's crawling into a Howitzer barrel during a barrage...
How silly. You didn't "let" us become the most powerful. We already were long before NATO. Our power lies where it always does, in economic power. We overtook Britain in the 1880's and became the largest economic and industrial power. In the 1940's we became the most powerful military force the world had ever seen. Our companies dominate the global markets in MANY industries despite competition because they are the most competitive. That competitiveness comes from the deep financial capital markets and deep technological and scientific research abilities that no one else can match. Our economy is larger than ALL of Europe combined. You couldn't ignore us if you wanted to.
@@tawnyforest7932 I'm afraid you misunderstood my point. And yes, we can perfectly ignore the USA. Absolute numbers mean nothing. There is only a fraction of both our economies going across the Atlantic, and Europe has clearly demonstrated how quickly it can diversify away from a specific source. Don't be stpd and think you can take on the whole world, because you can't. There's a reason why the US doesn't get fully involved in Ukraine: if it does, it won't be able to uphold other responsibilities similar to the responsibility it has to Ukraine and that it is failing to honor. Yes, the USA mandated itself to intervene in Ukraine for benefits already collected by the USA. Breach of contract warrants punitive damages... But if the US honors its contract with Ukraine, it will not be able to honor its contracts with either Israel or Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan. You are not equipped for a three front was _and_ maintain a defensive readiness. At least not by yourself. That is why you NEED alliances. As for the brunt of your comment: I don't respond to strawman fallacies. Learn how to read comprehensively.
@@DarkElfDiva Uh, I get where you're coming from but that's not really right. Naturally *our* timeline is primary to us. We can't put stock in alternate timelines, they're of no causal relevance to us except as thought experiments and what-ifs. We have this reality. It might be entirely illusory, but acknowledging that does nothing for us except let us stare at our navels.
@@humanbeing4841 Those are important things. Hell, they are a net positive in the long term anyway. Sorry, but not everyone wants to throw away their future investments just to have a marginally more powerful military in the short term.
@redman_10t39 Climate change is not important whatsoever, it's a product of decadence. Welfare need to be reduced because it's killing economic incentive for entrepreneurship and eating up money that could be used for military. Welfare is like a drug that once introduced is very difficult to develop political will to cut.
To be fair about the Afghan withdrawl, they had decades to prepare to fight the Taliban, they simply choose not to. I would rather have left as we did then stay there any longer.
I wouldn’t bc 12 us soldiers died. It was supposed to be a slow withdrawal. Instead we left our equipment over there while hundreds of afghans died some where clinging and dying on the planes as they were departing
yep. He is on the fast track to every other former historian that let their personal politics destroy their work, their ability to do their work, and eventually their own individuality. He has the right to not like Trump, but in his capacity as a Historian his work needs to be as impartial as possible. Or if it isn't he has to give the appearance of it by either going into detail as to why he believes what he is stating as fact or he needs to be just is uncharitable to the other side of the conflict.
@@christianpetersen163 the reality is trade and balancing socialism with capitalism. It is no accident Scandinavian countries have the highest living standards and social safety nets. Certainly not because of their armies.
@@BrunoDias1234 That's really vapid. You clearly know nothing about how to prevent wars, only create them. If you keep on being toxic to powerful leaders you don't like, all they're going to do is want a war. If you are reasonable, rational, and nice to BOTH sides, then your chances of not causing a war is much greater by far. Maybe this takes a genius to understand or someone without cocky issues. If you want to run for president where your main goal is to aggravate and harass NK and promote people targeting them, don't come whining that they start war with your country.
threat to whom, is a question to USA every country that want control and power is a threat, that is why Europe does not have army if European countries were independent of USA they would also be considered as a threat Just look at the scandal when Germans caught USA - CIA spying on their officials..... is germany a threat to USA ? right now no, but in the Future might be
I am from Czechia and it's sad that so many people now say we shouldn't help Ukraine anymore 😢 I think it's not most of people,but still ... I can get it from some very poor people, they feel like the Czech state doesn't help them enough and sends money to Ukraine...but that's not only them who says that and I feel like these thoughts are spread from Russia to our country
Why make life for your people harder with increasing taxes and such by sending money to UKR, when you can put that money into building your own defence and own military. It would be different if UKR was winning though but its kind of a stalemate with slow minuscule RUS gains, and if the aid keeps coming its just going to remain a stalemate with deathpoll steadily rising on both sides.
We are not sending actual cash. The "money" is in terms of supplies, munition and old cold war era vehicles and machinery. Which in turn gets replaced by modern supplies and vehicles like F-35s from the US. So yes, we are actually putting the money into our own military.
@@boarbot7829 Yes, but Africa was robbed of it's riches by the Europeans and left to fend for itself. And the Europeans installed corrupt leaders they could easily influence.
@@monica012077 Europe isn't a real continent. It's sometimes called one just for cultural reasons and because European scientists invented basically everything around the time those classifications were invented and wanted to call it its own thing, but it's not a separate land mass the way other continents are. Europe and Asia are on the same continent.
@ToastytheG The Europe is the treasure, the Ring of power...who owes it rule the world... but to be honest, as an European, I rather prefer to be ruled by America than Russia, not even the other European powers.
True but plz edit that missing space after the comma in. My autistic brain HATES when i know theres this particular specific typo. I know, i know, sounds trivial, soudns random, but what can i say? Mentalhealth is funky like that. And it only takes a second for you to edit
The first war Soviet Union attacked Finland. This war Germany approved. The second war 1941 Finland did not fight FOR Germany, but WITH Germany to protect themseleves. Note the difference. Furthermore the map over lost land is wrong. It does not show the Petsamo area in the north with the important nickel mine.
You neglected the fact that the professional and experienced people who worked with Trump during his first term have mostly abandoned him and were supporting Harris during the last election. Trump's cabinet picks are all just people who would kiss his ass no matter what he says as long as he deports immigrants (but only the 'wrong' immigrants as the presence of Musk attests), attacks minorities and women and lowers their rich asses' taxes. He could tell them to invade Mexico and they would fucking do it.
You don’t understand the full range of the situation. Trump has publicly stated that he will build an Iron Dome for America, just like Israel, a defensive military spend rather than an offensive one. That’s his deal to the Military Industrial Complex, no more wars but spend on an iron dome on their own soil to keep the companies happy.
@@asishreddy7729 For the love of god, is the american public actually buying that? With the economy and stock prices there is at least some wiggle room for trump because nobody know what will happen there but this is just showing a clear lack of physics education. The "Iron Dome" is a SHORT RANGE (up to 70km) missile defense system. Thats why it works. For Long range ICBMs there is (for numerous reasons, some physical constraints, some political) no system in existence that can reliably defend a country from icbms. Even further such a system would require extensive deployed long range radars across the globe. If Trump truly plans to fuck their allies by not honoring NATO Europe will wean itself of the US.
Those new boundaries, another major victory for Russian century's expansion. Russia seized land and expanded their country before & post WWII, from Poland, Germany, Finland, Romania & Japan. Russia was once a tiny land around Moscow, they expanded in all directions, incorporating Finland to the west, Crimea to the south, to the tip of eastern Asia. They sold Alaska to USA out of fear the English will invade Alaska.
Excellent opening statement: we can only speculate! You're being honest. It's ridiculous how all the pundits speak with certainty about what Trump will do and not do.😂
Russia should pay reparations to Ukraine and all who supported Ukraine before sanctions are lifted . Russian Oil and gas can pay for all this including the frozen Russian funds all over the world.
Truth be told, it's dark for both ukraine and russia, no matter what happens with the ukraine war, both lost a ton of their young men in this war, and both were already facing suicidal levels of demographic collapse, it's likely the 2, even if they hate each other, may have no choice but to join together with the rest of europe to survive the 20xx years, because it's gonna be bumpy no matter what happens, tl;dr this war is and always has been pointless and self destructive for both sides, a win today for a possible collapse and conquest by their neighbors in 20 years for both of them at the rate it's going, putin's push, even if everything laid out in the peace plan came true, even if russia somehow took all of ukraine, was a failure for russia, as it's severely weakened them and the rest of europe, this war had no victors, only losers, no matter the outcome.
@@tatsuya2112 I agree, if what I heard is true there won't any more Ukrainians or Russians left in the future. Although I don't agree with Russia's plan in solving that lol
so many profound philosophers in this comment section, where were you enlightened people when corruption and murder prevailed? little itsy bitsy burrows paid for by someone else
American soft power hasn't and will not end any time soon. Besides having the largest economy and strongest military in the world by far, the US has more cultural influence than any other nation on earth by a huge margin
@@nono99136 India is not our ally lol. Sure it can be a partner on certain issues, but by "allies" he means countries that have long-standing security guarantees from America, such as Japan, S.Korea, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, all of Europe etc etc
"Europe hasn't paid their fair share in NATO" - sure, since the war almost all European countries do though and most exceed the 2% GDP commitment. What the US is doing if they pull out of Ukraine over the heads of the EU is alienating a stable ally for absolutely no good strategic reason.
Bullies? Christ dude, this is power geopolitical strategy, not a semester in high school. I would orient your filter of the world into something more based in the real world.
mate...come on - you can think more then that don't you Yankee? You know that most of that money is still within your country and create jobs? (it's not sending directly to Ukraine bank) You know that just because there's 27 countries doesn't mean every countries have the same power/materials/people and money right? Or your schools still not teach you the difference between Hungary and France? :/
@@projectember728 Thanks for spelling out the lexile level of your comment. I'm sure there are plenty of 6th grade books about Hitler and Mussolini that would give you some really great insights into Donald
@ oh no What I’m saying is that people don’t look deeply into his past(especially his presidency). Usually, reading should always have effort put into it to understand the text but a 6th grader wouldn’t really have the same level of patience or understanding as someone with a college degree for example. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk
Your understanding of the afghan deal is pretty bad and missing context. The afghan government was a failed state. They would have never survived no matter what happened.
So the right course of action was to cut them out of negotiations with terrorists entirely and further undermine them while giving in to every demand from the taliban? Sounds like a winning strategy.
@GoDliKeKakashi it may not be a winning strategy, but keeping troops there for another 20 years isn’t either, we had soldiers over there that weren’t even alive yet when the conflict first began. And the afghan government still wasn’t equipped enough to maintain their own security. If they weren’t ready in 20 years they would’ve never been ready
@@hankhill5622 Wait, I'm sorry, where did I say the U.S. should have stayed? The withdrawal was the right move, however you don't just abandon your allies. At the very least, involving them in negotiations would give credence that the U.S. views the Afghan government as the legitimate government and not a group of terrorists. By cutting them out it sends a message to everyone that America recognises bunch of terrorists are more legitimate than the government the themselves set up. It's also incredibly fucked up that Trump gave the Taliban everything they wanted and then arranged the pull out to happen after the election so that if he lost it's not up to him to handle it and if he won, the could easily go back on the agreement since it's just a bunch of terrorists.
If Europe want to spend 2.5% of its GDP on arms for NATO, stop buying overpriced American weapons, and create jobs by spending this money on homegrown weapons. Canadians would likely get on board with this if it creates Canadian jobs.
Every country except Slovenia anywhere close to Russia are already reaching this target. The only countries that aren't are Croatia (1.81%), Portugal (1.55%), Italy (1.49%) Canada (1.37%), Belgium (1.30%), Luxembourg (1.29%), Slovenia (1.29%) and Spain (1.28%). Canada doesn't have the will to secure its own arctic waters from Russian encroachment so I won't hold my breath for Canada to do anything with regards to Europe lmao.
Um.. perhaps you haven't noticed, but the US has budget overruns like crazy from weapon systems development. You think that would wind up being different in Europe? Europe probably saves a lot of money by just buying what they need.
@@sinister184 Oh, I know this. And part of that is because the US is always trying to do something better to be above and beyond all others. They soak billions into trying to make things work, which end up being too complicated. In Europe, there are already aircraft manufactures building quality fighter craft. It already has a good ship building industry. The problem is, you want to build effective weaponry, not glossy weaponry. I know from following Canadian politics, that buying weaponry from the US makes it very hard for Canada to reach it's target. Yet Canada has the means and people to develop and build its own. But if we mush use US made/developed military systems, then at least make it part of the contract that those systems are built in the country buying them, not the US.
@@BestCoastLife Correction: "Some of us want to have more in common with Europe than the US. Although... Quebec tries so hard it makes our eyes roll and we quietly - as it's most polite - want them to go as much as many of them loudly want to go. Er, nvm sorry about that, eh."
As an American, I find it extremely annoying that some Americans don’t feel we need or benefit from our alliance with our European allies, when we’ve been benefiting from each other, I’d even go so far to say America more than Europe, from the alliance with each other. Honestly, yes they can benefit from their alliance with each other more, but not at the expense of the other.
Same thing from the European side of things. Ever since WWII, the US and Europe brought eachother up. The US protected Europe during the war and then fostered the environment needed for massive technological advancement. Open access to the European market has brought millions of jobs and lots of revenue to the American people. In return, we got your tech. This works to a lesser extent the other way around too with companies like ASML providing chipmaking machines for the US. This alliance was great for both sides. Now, however, it is in both the US and the EUs best interest for the EU to become more independent. If Trump pulls back, the EU is weak. If Russia then decides to double down, the unsure geopolitical environment will lead to an immediate drop in the stock market, and as Russia beats down on Europe, the president who comes after Trump (and who is probably milder, whether he/she is a republican or democrat) will have a weaker trading partner with more of their budgets used for a war with Russia rather than growth. If we are strong enough that Russia doesn't think it's worth it to continue pressing, then we don't need to transform into military economies and can continue having great trade with the US. The EU needs to become stronger so that our coalition with the US will be strong enough to prevent dictatorial regimes from taking an expansionist route.
You mean Americans depending on EU for money? Cause most of the money from that war is from Europe so your companies can produce (you had around 50K jobs in Texas and other sounds cities since that war with RU) because of the war and the fact that Europe gave your military contracts) yes you're idiots, because you have no idea even where YOUR OWN money are going too (tips: it's still in your own country)
Holy crap was that an insane take on the Afghanistan withdrawal. The cognitive hoops you had to jump through to blame Trump for Biden's screw-up was a degree of bias that makes everything else you say highly questionable.
I agree that the EU should send more military aid to Ukraine, but let's be honest about the real reason US is sending so much: Military-Industrial lobbying. Every "donation" to Ukraine is another sale and manufacturing contract to replenish American stockpiles. They're not just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, nor is the US sacrificing its own military to do so.
"How about they do the right thing" I concede that I mostly don't know what I'm talking about, but his second term's policy plan is going to involve a lot of that. Oh I guarantee you.
I gotta say this video is pretty slick about its leanings. It looks objective on the surface if you weren’t paying attention to what actually happened during these periods “Trump pressured Ukraine to get dirt on his political opponent” “Trump somehow won the PR battle in the evacuation of Afghanistan” etc.. Except we know that’s how CNN decided to frame these events but not how they actually went down / lack context. I respected this channel but damn that’s disappointing to see the left wing biases.
I was thinking the same thing while watching this. ANYONE who is even REMOTELY paying attention to reality can tell that these statements were bs. The bias is crazy!
Not just bias - it's as if whenever the subject of Trump comes up, the brain turns to mush. RealLifeLore is obviously an intelligent and well-researched channel most of the time, but here, he's acting like the most powerful man on the planet at the time of the Afghanistan withdrawal, Joe Biden, was completely at the mercy of Trump's plan. This notion is obviously stupid on its face and a total fiction. AND we KNOW RealLifeLore knows this. Does RealLifeLore actually believe Biden was totally incapable of saying, "I'm not going through with Trump's plan," and that he was powerless to stop it? He's the commander-in-chief. He has absolute authority to change this if he so chooses. RealLifeLore, for reasons I guess we can attribute to TDS, seems to momentarily forget this or is just willfully denying reality because of irrational Trump-hate.
Yup. And it's happening all over. The good thing is that a lot of people are waking up to it. MSNBC lost over 50% of its viewers. Joy Reid, the biggest racist on TV, will be off the air soon. 70% of people say they don't want men to compete in women's sports. The culture war is finally shifting, and not a moment too soon. Sexualizing children or sexualizing oneself in front of children now has a growing negative stigma. The next census will give republicans an extra 12 electoral votes in red states which will help secure future elections. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of republicans that are just as bad as the leftists, but even they are being called out and losing popularity (Liz Cheney). The people are finally fighting back. People still say Trump will target his political opponents even though only one party has done that in recent memory. From Obama's IRS targeting the Tea Party to Garland going after Jan 6th men and women but not investigating an actual insurrection that happened in Seattle where rioters took over 6 city blocks for over 3 weeks which is by definition a coup de tat, and of course, DA Braggs bullshit case against Trump. Hell, even Andrew Cuomo and recently John Fetterman said the Trump indictments were politically motivated. Yet people still say Trump is the corrupt one? 51 intelligence agents forced social media not to print the Hunter Biden laptop story and legacy media said it was fake news. They covered for Hunter. They covered for Biden's demential that was evident in 2020. They impeached Trump for looking into Biden blackmailing Ukraine, but not Biden who literally admitted to it on tape. The left is fighting to maintain their power and corruption, however. Legacy media is still doing everything they can promote hate and division and claim Trump and his supporters are Nazis and Fascist. But like I said, people are waking up.
I think whatever Trump thinks or does, he is 100% correct that the EU needs to shoulder more of the military burden. It is wrong that European security, particularly Ukraine's fate, would depend on which person the US elects as their president. If the aid came mostly from the EU and the UK then the US wouldn't have a say in Ukraine's diplomacy.
Europe has been leeching off of American tax dollars for many years now. All the while lecturing Americans how EU has a superior (they don't) social security (subsidized by the hardworking American taxes). About time the Americans stop slaving for the racist Europeans.
Europe is making the same mistakes it made 80 years ago. Supporting a racist power hungry dictator while Russia has to step in again to clean up the mess.
And we should spent it in Europe, not in the US. At least, that's the plan.
They should shoulder ALL of the costs. They should be PAYING for our security. In fact, invoice the lazy socialist cowards
@thetroytroycan given how much wealth europe has extracted from the rest of the world, it seems fair they should return some of the wealth they stole
@@thetroytroycangiven how much wealth they extracted from the rest of the world, repayment is only fair
We should have woken up years ago, trump or not.
We europeans have been too lazy
I dont want ANYTHING woke in Europe!
Lazy?
We made a lot of money with and off Russia.
We still do.
Classic European L
Arent you guys socials anyway? Whats the difference?
@@gewitterhund3164Like many otthers. But for Europeans it's especially crazy, they feed their worst enemy.
As a Greek person, I hate seeing the top EU shot-callers stuck on perpetual bureaucratic limbo and criminal complacency in the guise of civility and refinement. A war is happening right next to us and everyone's like "hmm maybe additional restraint and understanding will solve everything..." while patting themselves in the back for being as useful as a boy scout.
Ungrateful rat. Russia fought over 10 wars to help free Greeks from ottoman and this how you pay them back?
"Hmmm. Appeasement didn't work. Maybe we need to try more appeasement?"
You can help them all you want but for the US we are done
This is 2 fold, one the over reliance on U.S. support / aid and two not taking the threat of Putin seriously because "it's not our side if Europe" mentality. It seems the majority of Europe is ok with giving up it's Eastern side to Russia. I knew the experiment that was the E.U. was failing but looks like the same can be said for NATO now.
I absolutely agree with you. I'm from Poland and I feel like we're alone grabbing onto the American support. The EU is completely delusional at this point. And you guys in Greece are over worked, especially with the recent Saturdays added to your work week and you still manage to fund your military. But the rest of the EU is just "going green" that's where their focus is. So annoying.
It is our responsibility here in Europe to protect our land, not the responsibility of the USA.
@@Rexsuprime Yes, I was also thinking of all this countries you mentioned at the end. My government here in Germany has to do more.
It's a repeat of history. The U.S. will become isolationist once again, like it did after WW1, and once war reaches American soil again, like it did in WW2, we will once again become the world's policeman.
Then ummmmm, do it?
@@Rexsuprime Hi, American here. I made no promise to protect Europe. I'm not dying to defend your country. That's your job. Good luck!
@@Rexsuprime @Rexsuprime like mentioned in the video most of Europe did not hold up their part of the deal, so the “promise” that US made, can’t be applied. You know like being delinquent on your rent, you eventually will be kicked out.
Normally a fan but as someone who was literally executing the plan to withdraw from Afghanistan in real time, this is quite off. What you aren't understanding here is that there was X plan in place to withdraw ~ May 2021, but when Biden was inaugurated, there were 3 months between January and April that they were revising the plan, which would become plan Y. Weekly we would get updates from Generals explaining to us we are legitimately waiting on the executive branch to make this decision, but oh wait, by April we were in crunch time (due to a 3 month intermission) hence why the withdraw was pushed to August, where the shit show happened. The pause and delay in the original plan due to the new administration actually caused things to go worse than if plan X was carried out.
Additionally, as you can tell most of your negative feedback is completely correct in that the Afghan National Army had absolutely 0 desire to fight. Their mission was (generally speaking) get paid by day as an Afghan soldier, get paid by night as Taliban.
Again, normally a fan, but this came off as really biased and uninformed. Hard for me to forget as someone who was literally in the middle of it x)
Great info!
Ok, plan X may have caused less embarassment, but most likely still a Taliban victory, right?
Lots of comments saying similar things to you, but your comment was the clearest and most level headed, hats off to you
What changed between the two plans? And would Trump's plan have prevented the Afghan military from also deserting?
@@vazquezcarlosI don’t think you can stop someone from deserting if things go sideways, but you CAN prevent them from going sideways by not pulling out expeditiously and leaving a power vacuum for a superior organized force to retake the country in a matter of days.
You assume the Afghan military forces had any interest in fighting the Taliban after the US withdrew, they didn't.
Agree+
just like syria today
they go into the military for a paycheck, not for patriotism
This video has the worst and most biased take I ever heard on Biden's mess of Afghanistan withdrawal. Reducing Biden's poor execution of that withdrawal to being Trump's fault is just lazy research at best.
@@Randomodnar123 They didn't do that and both of them are culpable for the mess.
@@KM_Mountain Both do hold responsibility. The video however is correct.
This timeline is actually legitimately insane.
I find it highly improbable.
It should have been pruned a long time ago.
It's already been insane if you throughout history. We’ve been in the intermission period and now the plot is kicking in.
Not really. Anyone who has paid attention to american history would know that we'd eventually get sick of the racism, sexism and authoritarianism and reject it overwhelmingly like we have so many times before.
The biggest difference this time is that the democrats convinced themselves and their supporters that they aren't the racist sexist authoritarians. Every time someone learns what those words actually mean and examine the actions of the alt-left they stop voting democrat.
Make BAGUETTE Great Again 🥖
I recently read a comment left on one of T1J's community posts that I thought was brilliant. They posit that the world was actually supposed to end in 2012, but it kept going, and now whoever's in charge of what happens on the "Earth Show" has been struggling to figure out where to take it next. So now they're just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
I feel like this video lacks an economic view on the topic. War and international relations over territory especially with Russia's role in Europe are one thing, but the economical relations between the US and Europe might also change drastically with all the austerity measures Trump promised. What he might accidentally cause is a complete shift of Europe's committment to its business relations with the US. If Europe wants to find funding it will (plenty of billionaires that fare very low tax rates compared to workers) and if it deems necessary it might even collaborate with China to step over an extremely erratic US which breaks out of e.g. climate protection agreements, the NATO, etc.. All of it might result in the US losing its more or less total dominance on the world stage, instead having to step down and actually act on eye-level with other superpowers instead of playing the role as world-police. Something the "greatest nation under god" might not be ready for yet.
Sweden and Finland joining NATO is not worth Russia’s current Ukrainian territorial gain, even if Russia keeps the territory.
Ukraine? Is that little Russia?
Dosen't appear like it. Did Ukraine get nukes or find a way to rely on it's self?
@@BridgesDontFlyOh a putler troll!
Second time I've seen you comment today lol
@@konradreinelt5242
Who's trolling? Is Russia not winning? Is the USA not gonna stop funding in January?
Let’s come back to this in 2029 and see if he’s right
He won’t be the political shift across Europe is huge at the moment and nobody can predict rightfully what will happen
Lets Go BRANDON 🇨🇳
@@AllanHinde-mb2prIs the shift good or bad in your opinion? From the outside looking in European citizens need to reign in their governments, a lot. They seem to be doing very little that benefits the citizens.
@@AllanHinde-mb2prwhat shift? The only shift I see is bringing in people from the 3rd world that won’t assimilate into Europe lmfao good luck
Oh wait you can’t mention that bc you’ll get arrested
You can come back by yourself
What many people forget: Pressuring EU countries to spend on military means equipment purchases from US companies they often have to rely on. It's not about total military spending, it's about how it's spent. If EU countries increase spending, they should decouple such spending from the US companies that are the profiteers, but instead invest into domestic company build-up to reduce the real dependency to the US.
Yes but US weapons are battle tested world leaders. Not only that but euro gear often has massive amounts of US components inside.
We already do, and we should do more. There is absolutely nothing we can't produce in Europe, at least as good or even better. The fact is that we need the Americans , but the Americans need the Europeans just as much. Radar technology, ultra high tech semiconductors technology, money, high end steel etc etc. Stuff that isn't produced and can't be produced in the US but in Europe. China is very much willing to buy European tech to strengthen their military capabilities. Americans are ignorant. We can, and we will strengthen our Europeam military. Money isn't the problem.
@@MA_KA_PA_TIEAmerican military equipment is filled with high tech European made technology. You don't know anything.
Europe: systematically removes all reasons why US would care about their defence
US: stops caring about European defence
Europe: :O how dare you
Amen!
He’s right. The United States needs to realize it has its own problems they desperately need to fix. Instead of trying to be the world’s biggest lender and world police, they need to fix themselves first, and let’s be honest, there’s no shortage of issues to pick from.
They have issues with drug trafficking, failing infrastructure, Inflation and too much illegal immigrants
The US does realize this, thats why its been trying to get Europe to take control of its own defense and security so its less reliant on the US Military
So you are saying USA should have never invaded Germany and Japan?
Ya, and most those issues started over WW1 and WW2. Sure there was other factors, but European greed allowed WW2. US did not want to get into another war due to hurting Germany more than the country that started it. OK, then WW2 after the war so many spoiled children where born. Those children allowed our enemies to grow much easier by selling them selves off for quicker profits. Then allowing bad teachers into schools on top, ya good luck fixing it.
@@PROVOCATEURSK dumbass a world war was going on, and we STILL waited two years to declare war, you can’t compare those at all😂
The fact that most of NATO is unwilling to spend 2.5% of their GDP on defense is super annoying. At least France has a nuclear triad and an aircraft carrier with less than 2% of its GDP...looking at you Germany who still doesn't have an armored brigade.
If they could defend themselves then they could be autonomous and denounce war acts like, for example, the US destroying North Stream to bring Germany’s economy down.
Tbf to Germany, their recent history probably makes military spending a bit of a touchy subject.
Especially more closely following WW2, Germany re-arming again would likely have been taken pretty poorly by the rest of the world.
I think ultimately that's where it comes from with Germany, it doesn't really matter today but I still think that overall mindset still exists today.
germany 2.5% would be theyr total domination
@@MarcusMaybenot Bringing up WW2 after 80 years is fucking insane.
@@MarcusMaybenotthey need to get over it just look at Japan. They are holding themselves back take it how you want.
Post WW2 it was understandable that the US would be a large chunk of European security, and it made sense that Europe would encourage that. Sometimes though, in order for history to move on, things have to happen that sort of force it. Times are just changing
Post Cold War after the Soviets Lost, Europe Kind of Kicked its feet up and let USA handle Security. Theyve gotten Lazy and Indeed Times Are Changing. Starting in 2025 they need to go back to defending themselves
USA asserted themselves everywhere around the world and not a single time they did it from the goodness of their heart, they always had something to gain, be it resources or influence. Despite everything Trump says, USA WANTS Europe to rely on them because if they don't, they have no political leverage nor influence over the old continent.
I would agree. It’s crazy how countries in the EU will say they want American to stop “policing the world”, but then not invest more into defense. I would love for US to stop policing the world, but that can only happen when the world takes responsibility. If the US were to pull out right now, the world would be screwed. Prices of middle eastern oil would skyrocket because of the subsequent wars and takeovers that would happen to essential routes and oil reservoirs. The global trade would also hurt because of similar reasons. I think allied countries need to spend more on military and we need our military to have integrated bases and train the joint armies accordingly.
Well WW2 Russia did a lot of work but yes. Having U.S involved in the war. You have to defend two sides which is hard to defend both sides with certain numbers.
@@DumbTheWise after the USSR collapsed there wasnt a need for large militaries in Europe not until 2022.
Your numbers are not correct, or at least incomplete, concerning EU aid. Your $133B figure of EU aid only considers direct bilateral aid and ignores aid rendered by EU institutions. The total EU-aid is estimated to be $176B. And if you expand it to geographic Europe (which includes the UK and others) , the amount is $203B.
It's all in the datasheet of the source you're quoting for this video.
Does the military spending number change as well or is that all humanitarian spending
it is better to count by GDP % of the country. E.g for Poland it is 5% GDP where for US and Germany around 1%.
It’s a very stupid UA-cam channel.
Yet here you are
@@woutr9024 quote: _"Yet here you are"_
Indeed, here I am......
Congress passed a law that prevents Trump from pulling out of NATO. It was passed with both Republicans and Democrats strongly supporting it.
80 years is a long time to outsource your own defense
It’s almost as if they were asking for this
The U.S. MIC rigged it so in order to benefit itself and inflate its profitability.
It was our decision they didn’t have a choice. lol you should have a better understanding of world history.
It’s really not it’s the lifespan of a single generation
Europe is an American colony. They are all vassal states. Empires usually don't want their subjects to have large armies
I remember when Germany laughed at Trump when he told them they were too reliant on Russian natural gas.
They laughed. Then winter came, and the world laughed.
Yes. They should have relied on the much more expensive US LNG. So now that they refused the cheap Russian gas, their economy is independent of Russia and booming. Wait, no. It’s collapsing. How’s that an improvement?
You both hate Germany in fact, judging by your acid comments and fakes about Germany's economy collapsing. In your dreams. Russia's economy is collapsing too, if so.
@vladsch1 all the money they spent of Nord Stream could have been spent on US natgas nodes and the country would have tackled the issue at its own pace instead of at gunpoint
Every US president warned Germany about that, they have not listened for decades, but to be fair for them the economical gain was worth the risk
I think this can turn out to be a good thing for us Europeans. We have relied on the USA too much and for too long. The USA drew its power from being the world’s police, but as we can see, this is no longer what the American people want their country to be. The idea of isolating America and focusing on domestic issues is not Trump’s idea-it’s the idea of the American people, and that’s why he was chosen by them. It's important to understand that. Many have criticized Trump for his actions, but he says and does things that Americans want to hear and see, which makes it very democratic.
This shift could take Europe out of its lethargic state. In fact, it might turn out to be very unfavorable for the USA, as the rise of Europe could deal a financial blow to the United States.
I would not be so sure on that one. Yalls demographics are cooked. Americas is getting cooked as well. We both just going to be on the struggle bus here soon and as we get old, no retirement from the gov cus no young workers :/
I should point out that the american people are just tired of being yanked around by everyone, all of your nations tarriff american goods, yet the us threatens to do the same and you act like we've somehow stabbed you in the back, the us taxpayer literally funds half the world's countries through our economy yet you call us braggarty hicks, also your socialized healthcare is subsidized by americans paying out the nose for our medicines (though red tape doesn't help there either).
America might have more or less ruled the world for the last 80 years, but the rest of the world, outside of maybe japan, has treated america like it's some backwards trash heap for at least the 40 years i've been alive, we as a people are tired of doing everything for everyone else while our people are treated badly and suffer, until trump came along our government has completely ignored our anger and worry.
Also let me be clear, even during the cold war most americans were isolationist, but saw nato and european assistance as a necessary evil to maintain safety in the us, the us has at least since before ww1 been isolationist and nationalist, our bureaucrats in government however, were globalist, even against the will of the average american, we are not against helping europe, but we're tired of being treated like a sugar daddy with europe and other so called allies not pulling their weight.
@@nickashton8139 Actually american demographic trends are weird, we're not really reducing in population in the way you think we are, our cities are having far less kids but rural is having more kids, while this would cause a crunch at the top end for old age millenials, it likely will not have as big of a effect in the long run outside of shifting america more and more to the right as again, rural is having a boom while cities populations are contracting, especially among african americans (which seems to be highly influenced by abortion numbers, but i'm not gonna get into THAT conversation here).
Europe however, needs to rework it's systems to stop relying on social safety nets at the rate they are demographically collapsing, but well, politicians only think about their term, and the next term is the other guy's problem.
For what it's worth, china, russia and arguably india are far worse off than europe with demographic predictions, but all 3 have a tendency to lie about their numbers.
I mean Trump was already in office and people claimed relations between Europe and the US would sever and he would withdraw the US from NATO and none of it ever happened.
He also warned about Russia during his first term and about Europe’s reliance on it for energy.
For a matter of fact as someone who voted for Trump I don’t even know any Americans who actually want to abandon Europe vs them spend more on defense. The US sees China as its biggest threat now
@@nickashton8139 True if Z-ers don't have a lot more kids were in trouble, but it's ok men can be women now 🙄
The NATO 2% of GDP rule was adopted in 2006, not 2014.
From 🇵🇱: No matter what America does, Europe needs to get serious about Putin and dramatically increase military readiness, including aid to Ukraine. He sees you as his enemy and wants to weaken your society, whether you like it or not. Take our word on this one.
Polish cope
Exactly. "What Europe needs to do" is exactly what Europe needs to do, regardless of who the incoming president is. They continue to kick the can down the road at their own peril.
Why should we Americans pay for your defense?We don't owe you anything Trump should pull us out of Nato we don't have any threat from Russia and we should focus on China
@@JesusOrDestructionour schools actually encourage us to read history. Try it sometime
Putin is not a monarch. He answers to the rich of Russia
It's crazy how long Europeans have neglected their own national defenses
Decadence is the reason. Europe has lost its vigor and urgency since WW2. They only care about preserving the welfare state.
While simultaneously mocking the only ones that would defend them. They really have no intelligence.
I mean, when you've had US military bases and training exercises throughout most of Europe for longer than most people have been alive, then it gets quite easy to assume they will always be there to defend you.
Basically, the same way a child won't learn how to do the dishes if you never make them; Why would Europe spend lots of money on their military when the USA has been there to protect them for the last 60-70 years? The European countries definitely should have spent more on defence, but why would they when the largest superpower on the face of the planet has been protecting them for longer than most people in the country have been alive?
well.. could be something to do with not needing them up until.. oh.. 2 and a half years ago. guess they were a bit overly optimistic
@@Phraxas52 Right, but still more intelligent than any Trump supporter
Make Europe Great Again - MEGA
Mega = μέγας, mégas / “great, large, mighty”
MEGA > MAGA
Lol!
we are great.
@@nickt2822great at freeloading
Omg MEGA
People keep on saying that he has a insane timeline. Meanwhile, he literally said in the beginning that he wants everyone to take this with a huge grade of salt and he’s trying to predict not actually predicting.:/
Here before the video title change
"How Trumps 2nd term, will change Europe forever"
Got ya cover👍
"How Trump's 2nd Term Will Change Europe Forever"
lets see how long it takes
Genuine question, why would it change, is it about demonetisation? Performance??
@@EKF4N To capture the attention of the widest audience (some may be lured by one title while others another)
It's funny how many people act like trump wasn't president once already and haven't seen what he actually does.
Because it's a cult and cult members don't question their leader.
It's funny how people never understand that he has filled his cabinet with yes-men unlike last time and can do literally whatever he wants!
@@alex__825 Its funny that people think Trump who had no wars during his term is worse than sleepy Joe Biden.
Nothing is funny about having a President that doesn't start new wars.
They didn't see what he did before, that's the sad part.
He will definitely change Europe and effectively force it to take more initiatives on its own.
I'm not so sure USA is going to benefit from that though.
EU should be able to support themselves without us
It won’t. Closed military bases, less trade, less trust, which is what keeps our dollar afloat.. this is what we get for letting the adult literacy rate in this country fall below 60%.
@@kingslagathor4178 Ukraine is not in the EU
@@razorramon780 I agree and I am not an American. I am Dutch.
Obama asked nicely and politely.
Trump asked in 2016 2020 again more insistently.
To raise militairy spending to 2% of the national income.
We did nothing or not nearly enough.
The invasion of Ukraine was an indirect result of European failure to comply by NATO standards.
Dont blame Trump.
What he asjed of us was fair. And we (Europe) complained about the mean words he used.
Western European countries who did not spent 2% are to blame.
The USA will do better under Trump by a lot actually
The European sponges should pay for their own defence, and the "Aid" actually means "loan" BTW
As on older Irish man that's embarrassed by the current state of our national defenses, I hope that if the Americans abandon Ukraine and that the Polish and Brits do go all in to replace them, that the large expat communities here put real pressure on the government to finally pull it's head out of the sand and do something about it. We have the money, the manpower and friendly countries who'd be more than happy to help us to properly beef up our defense forces enough to meaningfully support our European brothers, we're just lacking the political will to do it.
"I hope that if the Americans abandon Ukraine and that the Polish and Brits do go all in to replace them" You say that like the US was actually helping which mostly it wasn't.
What are you on about.
The current state of the irish national defences??? And youre embarrassed. When have ireland had any sort of national defence? What wars did you fight in? Irish cabbage.
Yeh Ireland is not any sort of military power
@@archvaldor Remind me and yourself the US is a single country while the EU is many countries.
The US has carried the defense Burden for Europe. This allowed Europe to build its generous social programs and drift to totalitarianism as people give up freedoms for security.
It really can't be understated how important it is that a Baltic state like Estonia is proposing a lot of these ideas. They very much seem to remember their time being forced into the Soviet Union and they want to do everything possible to prevent that from happening again. Everyone that was freed of the Warsaw Pact doesn't want it coming back and the larger countries like France, Germany, and the UK need to take note as the higher ups seem to have forgotten a bit.
Or they’re just fear mongering… Russia could barely beat Ukraine and its been three years. They’re not invading NATO…
UK spends the most on defence in Western Europe and has nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers? UK is also increasing its defence spending too.
France also has the same. Nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers.
Germany and the UK also make a lot of weapons too.
Some aren't pulling their weight to be sure.
Many in those larger countries look at the Soviet Union with nostalgia-like Spain's ruling coalition, in a country that barely spends 1% of its GDP in defense, less than even the much-criticized Canada's 1.3%.
I was certainly already giving up on this uploader with his recent posts and complete whining toward Google but his extreme liberal viewpoints and overall lack of understanding of almost anything he posts about I think Google is correct, he’s basically the msnbc of UA-cam I look forward to his further whine posts about why no one likes him for no understanding, well, anything and being so matter of fact. Screw you real life bs
What’re you talking about Estonia is like 2 cities sharing a border with Russia it’s obviously in their interest you weird plevbitor
I'm sure the comments will be completely civil
Quite telling that I initially misread this as "completely evil" and didn't blink.
So far pretty good. Some pretty intelligent people follow this channel
And I'm sure this video isn't bias
Civil as in 90% trump haters and 500 replies on any trump sympathetic comments.
@@zenec_ Yea those crazy facts and truths always get in the way of maga delusions
This means, the Budapest agreement signed by UK, USA, Russia, and Ukraine + other East European countries coming out of breakout of USSR, where the laters had let go of N Weapons in exchange of protection, the Budapest agreement is nor worth the paper it’s written
That one was broken in 2014 when the Crimean peninsula was annexed tho
@@orange123yoshi
Yes, what you say is true.
The UN recognized borders of Ukraine included Crimea.
The (not big) amount of territory that is Crimea although very strategic in Black Sea, led to illusion that Russia/Putin territory grab greed would stop there. Despite breaking UN law, I think most politicians and most people chose to overlook as a minor infraction.
Now the scenario is blatant land grab +20%, and even with an interim peace deal, no one can say won’t go for a larger chunk.
This is unmistakably a break of UN/international law, this is unmistakably the reduction to irrevelance of Budapest agreement (2014 qualitatively it was a break, quantitatively could be overlooked also given history of that patch of land).
@@orange123yoshi Thanks, Obama!
Exactly. No country should give up defending itself. Like Europe. They should not give up defending themselves. Even NATO is just paper. Maybe the US will help? Maybe countries will pay their share? Maybe...
@@lv3609UN Law is less than worthless.
Foreign policy is extremely complicated. I can't even pretend to have an educated opinion.
Indeed
That's on you.
At least you have enough humility to own it. That also is on you (thankfully).
You need to study international relations first
Then focus on one aspect of foreign policy, you’re not going to keep up with every one
I specialize in Latin America policy but my colleagues are all Asia and Europe
I agree with OP
Even Real Life Lore said his own opinion could be wrong depending on what will happen later, as IR could be impulsive. But we can guess some based on history, just like the weather.... but even weather gets wild now
I don't like how Poland is often omitted in those talks.
Poland is the only one in the region who truly know the colors of ruSSia and Belarus. US should help Poland secure central and Eastern Europe and not count on silly Germany to do so!
One of the flaws with Western countries in our current decade....
They aren't interested in including people who are straightforward. Because they don't have the "correct" vibes.
They want folks who are "exciting." Instead of smart.
-With eastern NATO countries being the only exception. (For obvious reasons.)
It's a common issue with Western countries in our current decade.....
They won't include folks who lack the "correct" vibes. Even though Poland has the experience and knowledge to help out.
@@MALUR82For real. The German government seems to think if they have a decent military it's only a matter of time until France is invaded.
Meanwhile Poland is preparing for a unilateral reformation of the USSR.
Poland failed to defend itself when it had no right to Western protection, they also failed to liberate themselves and became a soviet puppet.
What real power did the afghan government have. The president wasnt even in Afghanistan
As an European I'm glad Europe is moving away from dependancy of the US, we can never feel like we need another country to defend us, much less countries like Russia, China or the US. Europe if led properly will continue to be the best place to live
Yeah you shouldn’t expect American lives to be lost when you can’t even pay a fair amount. I seriously doubt any European lives would be lost protecting US homeland. So yes, please stop being so dependent.
wait till you see what happens to all your welfare programs.
History shows you Europe needs the US…
The US needs a strong Europe as much as Europe needs a strong US. This is about mutual cooperation and respect, not kicking Europe to the curb. Trump is 100% right Europe needs to step up their game
@@rell0223 not really...we've been subsidizing europe since ww2. we have states with bigger economies
If the Afghanistan security forces weren't ready by the time we left, they were never going to be ready, regardless of how long we stayed😅
This. State building was a naive ambition and it would've never worked. Evident in the military loss to the Taliban. You can't make the indigenous population believe some novel foreign values. The fight against Taliban was a fight against the native culture.
I agree completely. There were American soldiers in Afghanistan in 2021 were literally not even born when it started back in 2001.
Facts
That's exactly why Trump just decided to pull out. They weren't an effective government and nothing we could do was going to change that. Hence the last 20 plus years of the war.
Exactly. They clearly didn't want to fight the Taliban. That's an uncomfortable fact.
Poland with its history of pre-invasion treaties, is now increasing its military defence with good reason as well as providing arms to Ukraine.
here before UA-cam demonetise another RLL Video
*demonetises
stop slurping another UA-camr's b...s you n......
@@The_Orgazoidfighting the good fight.
cant spell demonetize without *demon*
Don’t worry it talks about Trump so it’ll probably get promoted considerably the algorithm
The cope for the Afghan withdrawal is wild
what does he do if Ukraine and Russia both disagree with his plan? how does he simultaneously withhold aid and increase aide at the same time?
Trump will probably say "Nobody can end this war in 24 hours" and pretend he didn't say otherwise
@LazloVimes
Increase the weapons given to Ukraine, but not the actual aid money.
You’re assuming Trump has any amount of intelligence or forethought. He’s all vibes and ego bro, he doesn’t know what he would do.
I can't understand how stupid people need to be, to believe him. It's just the typical advertising bullshit, that means nothing, but sounds good :D
Russia's agreement is far more important that Ukraine's. The US represents Ukraine, but not Russia. So if Russia backs out, he's supporting Ukraine.
The absolute lack of leadership that it needs to have American president to guide us to be self sufficient is beyond me.
It’s insane to know that the most developed countries on earth hate the idea of being independent!
American really needs to hold everybody's fucking hand all the time i guess
Because it's a lie. Russia would have serious trouble with Italy much less all of Europe NATO. China only spends 1.6% of it's GDP. 2.5% is absurd. Europe NATO was never in any danger spending that much is just for flashy but non effective force projection(not defense)
@@Emmanuel-co6sm Nope they brought this situation upon themselves by meddling in every countries affairs to spread capitalism, every country can commit atrocities as long as they are on the side of American imperialism.
@@FrenzyLive1 If I was in a restaurant with a table of people I can barely communicate with much less stand for extended periods, and the waiter offers to presume what we want in exchange for a 50% discount, I'm saying yes, not considering if it makes me look too reliant to people looking in from the window.
The fact Luxembourg, which is rich and has no way of defending itself, is paying less than 2% is unacceptable. Eff it. Make Lux pay for all of Europe.
Luxemburg went intriguing everywhere in Europe and making cash all over Europe, remember drunk men Claude Juncker 😉
The US pulling out of NATO would be the single biggest political mistake in the history of the world. The US being the most powerful country in the world is only because NATO allies _LET THE US_ be the most powerful. And the promise of military support as well as surpassing allies' military investments in joint missions is what buys that power. At this moment the US has a lot of sway in all industries, not just military. But if they pull out of NATO, there is not a single incentive for the former allies to consider US interests in any aspect. On the contrary, the former allies will band together even stronger and the US will find itself a pariah among western civilizations.
That's not shooting yourself in the foot, that's crawling into a Howitzer barrel during a barrage...
How silly. You didn't "let" us become the most powerful. We already were long before NATO. Our power lies where it always does, in economic power. We overtook Britain in the 1880's and became the largest economic and industrial power. In the 1940's we became the most powerful military force the world had ever seen. Our companies dominate the global markets in MANY industries despite competition because they are the most competitive. That competitiveness comes from the deep financial capital markets and deep technological and scientific research abilities that no one else can match. Our economy is larger than ALL of Europe combined. You couldn't ignore us if you wanted to.
@@tawnyforest7932 I'm afraid you misunderstood my point. And yes, we can perfectly ignore the USA. Absolute numbers mean nothing. There is only a fraction of both our economies going across the Atlantic, and Europe has clearly demonstrated how quickly it can diversify away from a specific source. Don't be stpd and think you can take on the whole world, because you can't. There's a reason why the US doesn't get fully involved in Ukraine: if it does, it won't be able to uphold other responsibilities similar to the responsibility it has to Ukraine and that it is failing to honor. Yes, the USA mandated itself to intervene in Ukraine for benefits already collected by the USA. Breach of contract warrants punitive damages... But if the US honors its contract with Ukraine, it will not be able to honor its contracts with either Israel or Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan. You are not equipped for a three front was _and_ maintain a defensive readiness. At least not by yourself. That is why you NEED alliances.
As for the brunt of your comment: I don't respond to strawman fallacies. Learn how to read comprehensively.
As insane as this timeline is. It's our canon timeline, and our prime timeline. we must make the most of our life here.
Assuming your own timeline/universe is the canon/prime one is pretty arrogant.
@@DarkElfDiva what are you even saying rn. The concepts of time and reality are arrogant?
@@DarkElfDiva Uh, I get where you're coming from but that's not really right. Naturally *our* timeline is primary to us. We can't put stock in alternate timelines, they're of no causal relevance to us except as thought experiments and what-ifs. We have this reality. It might be entirely illusory, but acknowledging that does nothing for us except let us stare at our navels.
Timeline travelers get to postpone their existence for as long as they wish tho
Well, if you believe that the information in this video is the truth, then you live in a wild alternative reality 😂
Europe is about to start seeing a lot more tax increases and austerity as public money is being redirected towards military spending.
Europe too busy fighting climate change with their tax money…HAHAHA!!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@oGrasshopperoHmm
Maybe they should stop spending money on climate and welfare and focus on important things.
@@humanbeing4841 Those are important things. Hell, they are a net positive in the long term anyway. Sorry, but not everyone wants to throw away their future investments just to have a marginally more powerful military in the short term.
@redman_10t39 Climate change is not important whatsoever, it's a product of decadence. Welfare need to be reduced because it's killing economic incentive for entrepreneurship and eating up money that could be used for military. Welfare is like a drug that once introduced is very difficult to develop political will to cut.
To be fair about the Afghan withdrawl, they had decades to prepare to fight the Taliban, they simply choose not to. I would rather have left as we did then stay there any longer.
FACTS
I wouldn’t bc 12 us soldiers died. It was supposed to be a slow withdrawal. Instead we left our equipment over there while hundreds of afghans died some where clinging and dying on the planes as they were departing
@@pluton__ that was bc Biden botched the withdrawal.
@@safuu202was it not because trump made an impossible dead line and was sluggish which left Biden with a time bomb
15 years to build an effective military? After you've invaded their country?? Not possible at all
The TDS is real in this video
yep. He is on the fast track to every other former historian that let their personal politics destroy their work, their ability to do their work, and eventually their own individuality. He has the right to not like Trump, but in his capacity as a Historian his work needs to be as impartial as possible. Or if it isn't he has to give the appearance of it by either going into detail as to why he believes what he is stating as fact or he needs to be just is uncharitable to the other side of the conflict.
I like the tone: "Finland was FORCED to ENDURE neutrality"
Do you understand that neutrality means that you have a huge army to protect yourself?
@christianpetersen163 are you saying a nation of five million people was defending itself (from both sides) with a huge army for almost 100 years?
@@stststefan Yes.
@@christianpetersen163 the reality is trade and balancing socialism with capitalism. It is no accident Scandinavian countries have the highest living standards and social safety nets. Certainly not because of their armies.
Oh bad, they have been forced to endure peace. Such a madness...
It’s going to be an interesting few years
UA-cam: how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man
putin: you have done well.... my apprentice
trump: yes master
I love the young people!
UA-cam is so pro Putin at this point it's not even funny!!! I don't get it.
@@ulizez89 russia is using ai powered bot farms to flood all social media with bullshit...
@@BrunoDias1234 That's really vapid. You clearly know nothing about how to prevent wars, only create them. If you keep on being toxic to powerful leaders you don't like, all they're going to do is want a war. If you are reasonable, rational, and nice to BOTH sides, then your chances of not causing a war is much greater by far. Maybe this takes a genius to understand or someone without cocky issues.
If you want to run for president where your main goal is to aggravate and harass NK and promote people targeting them, don't come whining that they start war with your country.
I’m old enough to remember when Obama mocked Mitt Romney for saying Russia was a threat. 😂
threat to whom, is a question
to USA every country that want control and power is a threat, that is why Europe does not have army if European countries were independent of USA they would also be considered as a threat
Just look at the scandal when Germans caught USA - CIA spying on their officials..... is germany a threat to USA ? right now no, but in the Future might be
Get ready for this video to “mysteriously disappear”😂
Dont forget to take DVMP 😎
Please download it and reupload
Why ?
@@subieasunayuukithat's the shitty thing to do.
@@jonyemmWhy would it be? I think the implication is to preserve the video's knowledge and content
I am from Czechia and it's sad that so many people now say we shouldn't help Ukraine anymore 😢 I think it's not most of people,but still ... I can get it from some very poor people, they feel like the Czech state doesn't help them enough and sends money to Ukraine...but that's not only them who says that and I feel like these thoughts are spread from Russia to our country
If continuing the war only results in more death and no significant progress, then is it worth it?
Why make life for your people harder with increasing taxes and such by sending money to UKR, when you can put that money into building your own defence and own military.
It would be different if UKR was winning though but its kind of a stalemate with slow minuscule RUS gains, and if the aid keeps coming its just going to remain a stalemate with deathpoll steadily rising on both sides.
the problem is that the biggest ukraine supporters are also the same people who are so woke that they wants to destroy europe
@@TonguelessDanny no money spent s most effective in ukraine now
We are not sending actual cash. The "money" is in terms of supplies, munition and old cold war era vehicles and machinery. Which in turn gets replaced by modern supplies and vehicles like F-35s from the US. So yes, we are actually putting the money into our own military.
Reminder that the EU economy is smaller than the US's overall, so they've given far more aid per GDP.
I always under the impression that the EU's economy was greater because it was a continent. Wow
@@monica012077 California alone has a larger GDP than the entire continent of Africa.
@@boarbot7829 Yes, but Africa was robbed of it's riches by the Europeans and left to fend for itself. And the Europeans installed corrupt leaders they could easily influence.
As they should as they are right next door to the conflict and the US is on the other side of the planet
@@monica012077 Europe isn't a real continent. It's sometimes called one just for cultural reasons and because European scientists invented basically everything around the time those classifications were invented and wanted to call it its own thing, but it's not a separate land mass the way other continents are. Europe and Asia are on the same continent.
America pulling out of Europe will never happen.
Charging for american troop presence might.
Never say never my friend, history always has a way of proving us wrong
Just like trump will never be president eh?
@ToastytheG The Europe is the treasure, the Ring of power...who owes it rule the world... but to be honest, as an European, I rather prefer to be ruled by America than Russia, not even the other European powers.
@@ToastytheGyou would blow him for a nickel huh?
Im sorry to be the person to say this but actually Finland wasn't neutral in ww2, they fought for Germany 😅
True but plz edit that missing space after the comma in. My autistic brain HATES when i know theres this particular specific typo. I know, i know, sounds trivial, soudns random, but what can i say? Mentalhealth is funky like that. And it only takes a second for you to edit
The first war Soviet Union attacked Finland. This war Germany approved. The second war 1941 Finland did not fight FOR Germany, but WITH Germany to protect themseleves. Note the difference. Furthermore the map over lost land is wrong. It does not show the Petsamo area in the north with the important nickel mine.
You have no knowledge about WW2, do you.
@andersvinnefors5891 True, Finland also switched sides late war.sometimes, in maps of ww2 are shown in there own side of the war
@@slevinchannel7589 👍🏼
Nah the US military industrial complex won't allow trump to get out of NATO. They are making way too much money for trump to cancel that.
Time to clean the swamp
You neglected the fact that the professional and experienced people who worked with Trump during his first term have mostly abandoned him and were supporting Harris during the last election. Trump's cabinet picks are all just people who would kiss his ass no matter what he says as long as he deports immigrants (but only the 'wrong' immigrants as the presence of Musk attests), attacks minorities and women and lowers their rich asses' taxes. He could tell them to invade Mexico and they would fucking do it.
You don’t understand the full range of the situation. Trump has publicly stated that he will build an Iron Dome for America, just like Israel, a defensive military spend rather than an offensive one. That’s his deal to the Military Industrial Complex, no more wars but spend on an iron dome on their own soil to keep the companies happy.
I thought they were losing money, Im completely lost now
@@asishreddy7729 For the love of god, is the american public actually buying that? With the economy and stock prices there is at least some wiggle room for trump because nobody know what will happen there but this is just showing a clear lack of physics education. The "Iron Dome" is a SHORT RANGE (up to 70km) missile defense system. Thats why it works. For Long range ICBMs there is (for numerous reasons, some physical constraints, some political) no system in existence that can reliably defend a country from icbms. Even further such a system would require extensive deployed long range radars across the globe. If Trump truly plans to fuck their allies by not honoring NATO Europe will wean itself of the US.
Has anybody seen those 12k North Korean soldiers every western news outlet keeps talking about?
Those new boundaries, another major victory for Russian century's expansion.
Russia seized land and expanded their country before & post WWII, from Poland, Germany, Finland, Romania & Japan.
Russia was once a tiny land around Moscow, they expanded in all directions, incorporating Finland to the west, Crimea to the south, to the tip of eastern Asia. They sold Alaska to USA out of fear the English will invade Alaska.
Creating another Korea, Vietnam, and Cyprus scenario.
Excellent opening statement: we can only speculate! You're being honest. It's ridiculous how all the pundits speak with certainty about what Trump will do and not do.😂
Russia should pay reparations to Ukraine and all who supported Ukraine before sanctions are lifted .
Russian Oil and gas can pay for all this including the frozen Russian funds all over the world.
That proposed peace plan, well what can I say but, "Peace in our time", and anyone that has opened a history book, knows how dark that is.
Truth be told, it's dark for both ukraine and russia, no matter what happens with the ukraine war, both lost a ton of their young men in this war, and both were already facing suicidal levels of demographic collapse, it's likely the 2, even if they hate each other, may have no choice but to join together with the rest of europe to survive the 20xx years, because it's gonna be bumpy no matter what happens, tl;dr this war is and always has been pointless and self destructive for both sides, a win today for a possible collapse and conquest by their neighbors in 20 years for both of them at the rate it's going, putin's push, even if everything laid out in the peace plan came true, even if russia somehow took all of ukraine, was a failure for russia, as it's severely weakened them and the rest of europe, this war had no victors, only losers, no matter the outcome.
@@tatsuya2112 I agree, if what I heard is true there won't any more Ukrainians or Russians left in the future. Although I don't agree with Russia's plan in solving that lol
so many profound philosophers in this comment section, where were you enlightened people when corruption and murder prevailed?
little itsy bitsy burrows paid for by someone else
Philisofer mtfk
Wow...what a profound idea...u should write a book.
TDS: the video
The end of American soft power is much more consequential than anything that happens in Ukraine.
Who told you it ended?
American soft power hasn't and will not end any time soon. Besides having the largest economy and strongest military in the world by far, the US has more cultural influence than any other nation on earth by a huge margin
american soft power has become as entrenched as roman or chinese soft power was in their imperial days.
@@AW-zk5qbthat doesn’t matter a single bit if USA withdraws from the world and lets Russia China and Iran dictate global affairs
@@nono99136 India is not our ally lol. Sure it can be a partner on certain issues, but by "allies" he means countries that have long-standing security guarantees from America, such as Japan, S.Korea, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, all of Europe etc etc
Those who don't learn their history are destined to repeat it.
Dude, the cope for the Afghan withdrawal is wild. You didn't even pretend to be unbiased.
I wouldn't be surprised if this dude has handlers.
"Europe hasn't paid their fair share in NATO" - sure, since the war almost all European countries do though and most exceed the 2% GDP commitment. What the US is doing if they pull out of Ukraine over the heads of the EU is alienating a stable ally for absolutely no good strategic reason.
@ siberia? Russian bot lol
Wow, this wasn't biased at all. LOL
RealLifeLore definitely voted for Kamala
in which way?
One of the very few times I didn't want to cancel a subscription because of a baked-in advertisement. It's actually extremely relevant. Well done.
I strongly feel bullies should win nothing with their aggression.
America invaded Afganistan and Iraq and dozens of other countires and "won" to an extent
So bullies can win, you just want your bully to win
so Zelenski bullying ethnic Russians shouldn't have won all that sweet support, gotcha
Bullies? Christ dude, this is power geopolitical strategy, not a semester in high school. I would orient your filter of the world into something more based in the real world.
You should read provoked then
@@almichaels4128 Putin is a bully by personality
you should be more impartial, your coverage on the afghanistan disaster was biased and incorrect
@@apaullo1387 yea it makes me question the validity of all the other videos I’ve watched on this channel
No it was pretty factual
UA-cam ads are crazy 3 unskipable ads within 4 minutes and 11 seconds into the video
You need to pay youtube extortion fee
Install UBlock Origin my man
Zero ads if you are from russia haha
Get an adblocker
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As a swiss guy... I'm scared of what the EU will do to us once the rest crumbles down...
Let’s go I was early to a RealLifeLore vid
Being an estonian, I like this video :)
I like Estonia because it's name makes it sound like some magical fantasy land.
@@Kragith In many ways you are correct. Even in fantasy, the bad guys are usually lurking just outside the border...
As an American, I love Estonia.
Clearly only you guys, Latvia , Lithuania and Poland are realistic
Sorry, guys. Guess we suck.
80 Billion from our country vs 133 billion from 27 total countries in the EU.
Well, that makes sense when you realise who the warmongers are.
mate...come on - you can think more then that don't you Yankee?
You know that most of that money is still within your country and create jobs? (it's not sending directly to Ukraine bank)
You know that just because there's 27 countries doesn't mean every countries have the same power/materials/people and money right? Or your schools still not teach you the difference between Hungary and France? :/
The USA has a larger GDP than the EU. Yet the EU still spends more on Ukraine
This comment section is brainrot
So was the election
@ 6th grade reading level
@@projectember728 Thanks for spelling out the lexile level of your comment. I'm sure there are plenty of 6th grade books about Hitler and Mussolini that would give you some really great insights into Donald
@ oh no
What I’m saying is that people don’t look deeply into his past(especially his presidency). Usually, reading should always have effort put into it to understand the text but a 6th grader wouldn’t really have the same level of patience or understanding as someone with a college degree for example.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk
Your understanding of the afghan deal is pretty bad and missing context. The afghan government was a failed state. They would have never survived no matter what happened.
So the right course of action was to cut them out of negotiations with terrorists entirely and further undermine them while giving in to every demand from the taliban? Sounds like a winning strategy.
@ If they don’t know what they are doing and the goal is to get our troops to stop fighting then yeah.
@GoDliKeKakashi it may not be a winning strategy, but keeping troops there for another 20 years isn’t either, we had soldiers over there that weren’t even alive yet when the conflict first began. And the afghan government still wasn’t equipped enough to maintain their own security. If they weren’t ready in 20 years they would’ve never been ready
@@hankhill5622 Wait, I'm sorry, where did I say the U.S. should have stayed? The withdrawal was the right move, however you don't just abandon your allies. At the very least, involving them in negotiations would give credence that the U.S. views the Afghan government as the legitimate government and not a group of terrorists. By cutting them out it sends a message to everyone that America recognises bunch of terrorists are more legitimate than the government the themselves set up.
It's also incredibly fucked up that Trump gave the Taliban everything they wanted and then arranged the pull out to happen after the election so that if he lost it's not up to him to handle it and if he won, the could easily go back on the agreement since it's just a bunch of terrorists.
Sigh. I just immediately went straight to the comments 😔
If you're viewing this from the UK, nothing will change with you guys. If You're living in the EU, then things will change.
If Europe want to spend 2.5% of its GDP on arms for NATO, stop buying overpriced American weapons, and create jobs by spending this money on homegrown weapons. Canadians would likely get on board with this if it creates Canadian jobs.
Every country except Slovenia anywhere close to Russia are already reaching this target. The only countries that aren't are Croatia (1.81%), Portugal (1.55%), Italy (1.49%) Canada (1.37%), Belgium (1.30%), Luxembourg (1.29%), Slovenia (1.29%) and Spain (1.28%). Canada doesn't have the will to secure its own arctic waters from Russian encroachment so I won't hold my breath for Canada to do anything with regards to Europe lmao.
Um.. perhaps you haven't noticed, but the US has budget overruns like crazy from weapon systems development. You think that would wind up being different in Europe? Europe probably saves a lot of money by just buying what they need.
@@sinister184 Oh, I know this. And part of that is because the US is always trying to do something better to be above and beyond all others. They soak billions into trying to make things work, which end up being too complicated. In Europe, there are already aircraft manufactures building quality fighter craft. It already has a good ship building industry. The problem is, you want to build effective weaponry, not glossy weaponry. I know from following Canadian politics, that buying weaponry from the US makes it very hard for Canada to reach it's target. Yet Canada has the means and people to develop and build its own. But if we mush use US made/developed military systems, then at least make it part of the contract that those systems are built in the country buying them, not the US.
As a Canadian, I agree with your message. We have more in common with Europe than we do with the USA and their MAGA bullies. 🇨🇦❤🇪🇺
@@BestCoastLife Correction: "Some of us want to have more in common with Europe than the US. Although... Quebec tries so hard it makes our eyes roll and we quietly - as it's most polite - want them to go as much as many of them loudly want to go. Er, nvm sorry about that, eh."
As an American, I find it extremely annoying that some Americans don’t feel we need or benefit from our alliance with our European allies, when we’ve been benefiting from each other, I’d even go so far to say America more than Europe, from the alliance with each other. Honestly, yes they can benefit from their alliance with each other more, but not at the expense of the other.
if you beleive that then why don’t europeans pay the 2%? that’s part of the deal and they aren’t honoring it
Same thing from the European side of things. Ever since WWII, the US and Europe brought eachother up. The US protected Europe during the war and then fostered the environment needed for massive technological advancement. Open access to the European market has brought millions of jobs and lots of revenue to the American people. In return, we got your tech. This works to a lesser extent the other way around too with companies like ASML providing chipmaking machines for the US. This alliance was great for both sides.
Now, however, it is in both the US and the EUs best interest for the EU to become more independent. If Trump pulls back, the EU is weak. If Russia then decides to double down, the unsure geopolitical environment will lead to an immediate drop in the stock market, and as Russia beats down on Europe, the president who comes after Trump (and who is probably milder, whether he/she is a republican or democrat) will have a weaker trading partner with more of their budgets used for a war with Russia rather than growth. If we are strong enough that Russia doesn't think it's worth it to continue pressing, then we don't need to transform into military economies and can continue having great trade with the US. The EU needs to become stronger so that our coalition with the US will be strong enough to prevent dictatorial regimes from taking an expansionist route.
Then why didn't the Europeans honour the 2% agreement?
That's operating in bad faith.
@@micahkiyimba8641 Do you want me to bring in the list of things that make the US untrustworthy and "bad faith"?
As an American, just pay your end of the agreement for fucks sake.
Mocks Americans and calls them idiots. At the same time those same countries depend on US military and tourists 😂😂
We Americans are used to be called idiots, garbage, Nazis, loud tourists, un-educated, etc. etc. etc. We call the rest of the world: DEPENDENTS.
@@soccermatrix get off the internet bro.
Americans just voted in a convicted felon who thinks wind turbines cause cancer, I think it's fair to say they neglected the intelligence stat...
@@soccermatrixyou didn't say we were wrong, KEKW
You mean Americans depending on EU for money?
Cause most of the money from that war is from Europe so your companies can produce (you had around 50K jobs in Texas and other sounds cities since that war with RU) because of the war and the fact that Europe gave your military contracts)
yes you're idiots, because you have no idea even where YOUR OWN money are going too (tips: it's still in your own country)
Beglium shame you are europe’s half official capital 24:19
Holy crap was that an insane take on the Afghanistan withdrawal. The cognitive hoops you had to jump through to blame Trump for Biden's screw-up was a degree of bias that makes everything else you say highly questionable.
Your view, rather your understanding, of history is spotty at the least.
I agree that the EU should send more military aid to Ukraine, but let's be honest about the real reason US is sending so much: Military-Industrial lobbying. Every "donation" to Ukraine is another sale and manufacturing contract to replenish American stockpiles. They're not just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, nor is the US sacrificing its own military to do so.
Greetings from Czechia. Really appreciate your deep understanding of Münich betrayal, and also featuring our prime minister Petr Fiala next to Macron.
"How about they do the right thing"
I concede that I mostly don't know what I'm talking about, but his second term's policy plan is going to involve a lot of that. Oh I guarantee you.
The bias in this video is disturbing.
For real as if the Biden administration didn’t screw up Afghanistan just as bad if not way worse than Trump lmaoooo
Which side is he biased to?
@@ToasterBoss anti Trump
@@geraldarmstrong5646 I understand now watching it back. The taliban section especially.
@@ToasterBoss how exactly could he have described the shitshow that happend to be "less biased"? Pretend it didn't happen?
I gotta say this video is pretty slick about its leanings.
It looks objective on the surface if you weren’t paying attention to what actually happened during these periods “Trump pressured Ukraine to get dirt on his political opponent” “Trump somehow won the PR battle in the evacuation of Afghanistan” etc.. Except we know that’s how CNN decided to frame these events but not how they actually went down / lack context.
I respected this channel but damn that’s disappointing to see the left wing biases.
I was thinking the same thing while watching this. ANYONE who is even REMOTELY paying attention to reality can tell that these statements were bs. The bias is crazy!
Not just bias - it's as if whenever the subject of Trump comes up, the brain turns to mush. RealLifeLore is obviously an intelligent and well-researched channel most of the time, but here, he's acting like the most powerful man on the planet at the time of the Afghanistan withdrawal, Joe Biden, was completely at the mercy of Trump's plan. This notion is obviously stupid on its face and a total fiction. AND we KNOW RealLifeLore knows this. Does RealLifeLore actually believe Biden was totally incapable of saying, "I'm not going through with Trump's plan," and that he was powerless to stop it? He's the commander-in-chief. He has absolute authority to change this if he so chooses. RealLifeLore, for reasons I guess we can attribute to TDS, seems to momentarily forget this or is just willfully denying reality because of irrational Trump-hate.
Yup. And it's happening all over. The good thing is that a lot of people are waking up to it. MSNBC lost over 50% of its viewers. Joy Reid, the biggest racist on TV, will be off the air soon. 70% of people say they don't want men to compete in women's sports. The culture war is finally shifting, and not a moment too soon. Sexualizing children or sexualizing oneself in front of children now has a growing negative stigma. The next census will give republicans an extra 12 electoral votes in red states which will help secure future elections. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of republicans that are just as bad as the leftists, but even they are being called out and losing popularity (Liz Cheney).
The people are finally fighting back. People still say Trump will target his political opponents even though only one party has done that in recent memory. From Obama's IRS targeting the Tea Party to Garland going after Jan 6th men and women but not investigating an actual insurrection that happened in Seattle where rioters took over 6 city blocks for over 3 weeks which is by definition a coup de tat, and of course, DA Braggs bullshit case against Trump. Hell, even Andrew Cuomo and recently John Fetterman said the Trump indictments were politically motivated. Yet people still say Trump is the corrupt one? 51 intelligence agents forced social media not to print the Hunter Biden laptop story and legacy media said it was fake news. They covered for Hunter. They covered for Biden's demential that was evident in 2020. They impeached Trump for looking into Biden blackmailing Ukraine, but not Biden who literally admitted to it on tape. The left is fighting to maintain their power and corruption, however. Legacy media is still doing everything they can promote hate and division and claim Trump and his supporters are Nazis and Fascist. But like I said, people are waking up.
@@cyrusr2209 it was overly obvious. This was basically just a slander video towards trump
“Uncover dirt on his opponent”? You mean point out obvious crimes.
Nice job pinning Biden's disasterous Afghanistan withdrawal on Trump.
Real life lore episode 999: why putin is literally hiter (pls trust me this time)
Who wrote this the CIA?
Refreshing to see a lot of comments from Europeans wanting to defend their own land and be less reliant on the U.S.
6:00 Kaliningrad sweats nervously
What Ukraine loses, Poland is likely to gain in Kaliningrad if they are attacked as part of defence of Ukrainian lands.
Kaliningrad is occupied German territory.
@@jcarey568 Occupied? its a reparation for 27 million soviet people killed by Germany.
@@michaelsmith9590 way to show you know absolutely nothing about the region