The Future of Europe.
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I think the biggest problem here in Germany is that we hate our own nation. For example in history class I was called a racist because I didn't think Bismarck statues (founder of Germany) should be torn down
Wow why is that, here in Serbia we also learn about Bismark he was a great statesman, why would you ever tear his statues down?
@@markostojic45 Because back then we were „racist“ with our colonial empire and „imperialist“ by having wars
@@finnonaut500 Jesus, such a sad perspective of ones own history.
@@markostojic45 This is the sad reality here
@David Garcia My brother in christ besides Maximilian I of Mexico the rest of the imperial government was shit as fuck wtf
The problem is that Europe, mainly Western Europe, has started to hate themselves and become unloyal to their nations.
It's the problem of the younger generations. Same thing in US btw
If you look at the greatest generation(who fought in ww2), now there's a healthy generation in many ways, despite their racist views.
This Europeans hate themselves narrative is often deployed by voices trying to undermine European unity . Which is super ironic and disengenious.
Why would you be loyal to a nation which state is obsessed by taxing you more and more and make petty rules about everything? Why would love your nation when the governing body is a thief and burden to your life and happiness?
@@SSDDssed America has to spend all its tax money on defending Europe, then Europe can spend all ITS tax money on luxurious social and health programs. 😮
Because their nations are no longer European. Europeans are human and humans are tribal. Its just our nature.
We must go back to theat idea and become competitive again.
One thing I would mention for the European militaries is the fact that Poland of all nations is becoming the largest and most powerful European nation, militarily. Also Poland stronk
Its with Eastern European nations like Poland and other former Soviet blocks I think the US should create defense treaties with and pl out of freeloaders NATO.
Ukraine will rule you all
@johnbattle7518 NATO freeloaders? Like the UK which has spent billions supporting the USA in their wars (but didn't receive help when we liberated the Falklands). Those billions aren't included in our military budget figures.
@@MrLordingit "Their war"? It was the UKs foreign policy to stop the spread of communism. They did that with the US as their main ally, Churchill even called it the iron curtain in Europe basic history tells you this. Nobody put a gun to your heads and it's not like we couldn't do it without you. Besides the UK isn't what I was talking about. More like Germany Norway Spain etc etc etc.
@@MrLordingit they did receive help during the Falkland wars they received live transmissions from the Argentine military from the United States intelligence that is unprecedented for that era
As a swede i couldn't agree more about europe, thank you for posting this
🇺🇸🤝🇸🇪 🤗🤗🤗
Bollocks
Sweden is finished sadly. Swedes are non confrontational and aren't having children while the immigrants are having 3-4 kids and are very much about the violence life. By 2050, Sweden will be 10% Swedish, 90% Muslim.
Agreed!
Felt the same way when watching this.
Kind of refreshing and thankful feeling hearing an outside "conclusion" of the state of affairs in Europe and in Sweden.
Oh yea, you guys fucked that immigration thing up royally.
Keep in mind that a large part of the unemployment statistics in countries like Greece is workers in what we call "black economy" were essentially the boss and the employee will come to an agreement to illegally avoid making the position official so as to avoid taxation (in a country like Greece were 55% of the worker's money goes to taxes, it is a prevalent option, especially for the young who don't need public insurances, state pensions and the like). This means that many of the people will state that they're jobless to avoid taxation even though they're not.
Overregulation creates black markets
@@offworlder2390 no no, I'm not talking about the black market 😅. I called it black economy because I don't know exactly how it's called in English. It is essentially working and getting paid without the state ever knowing so that you don't have to pay the taxes
That’s still a bad thing, because Greece is in a debt crisis, and that sort of tax evasion was one of the biggest problems that lead to it.
Also, grey market workers are generally less efficient than normal workers and have less protections.
@@offworlder2390 indeed taxation is theft
@@innosam123 greece is in dept for a ton of reasons including their refusal to raise their pension age many years back
As an Italian I can absolutely confirm that there is a resentment against the boomer generation due , at least in Italy, to the way the retirement system works and the fact that as a young skilled person is really difficult to find a suiting job for your capabilities. The fact is that there are more old people than there are youngs, and in democracy the majority rules.
Purtroppo hai ragione
Se non fosse per i boomer e le loro pensioni tanti giovani farebbero la fame sotto un ponte. Il nemico non sono i vecchi, ma gli sfruttatori.
I rather think the entitlement of the younger generations is the issue. Can't find a job in your profession? Go work in a mine or a factory. Screw your capabilities and screw your inclinations. The luxury to work what you like is only earned after you have done the shittiest jobs imaginable.
Maggioranza non significa il giusto, appunto. La situa è parecchio complessa ma non dobbiamo scoraggiarci e nasconderci dietro delle banali scuse. Possiamo imparare dai nostri errori.
@@julius43461 Well, even if that is the problem, don't you think is the boomers fault for rising children like that? People becomes entitled because they're raised to be.
This video is aging incredibly well.
In small cities in France for the summer after not being here for 8 years (but having visited for decades) - it remains an "open-air museum" but demographically it's a very different country. There's almost no integration of Muslims, Africans, and the native French population. Everyone stays in their own communities.
I spent last summer in Poland, and it remains the same country demographically that it always has been, just more Ukrainians (for obvious reasons).
So what I'm hearing is that we've managed to hit the Renaissance's objectives of getting as close as possible to the ancient Greeks.
I call that a win.
Not true at all we don't live up to those ideals at all, if you mean a group of arguing city states but larger then yes.
@@amh9494 We don't, but people during the Renaissance used to.
@@Foxeen515 ...
It wouldn't be a WhatifAlthist video if you didn't hear constantly "Europe has declined from 38% of the world's economy to 24%, Whilst the US has remained a stable quarter."
Yep, and every time he fails to understand that GDP is a misleading statistic because or the broken window fallacy.
GDP fails to account for wealth that is destroyed, and EU consumer protection regulations mean less wealth is destroyed in Europe (by asset depreciation) than in the rest of the world. GDP also says nothing about how wealth is distributed, which is a lot more equitable in Europe than it is elsewhere.
Envy is strong in this one
@@husted5488 Yep, and it's far from the only time he falls into the very trap he tries to expose!
@@PragmaticAntithesis I was talking about this europoor's comment which is made out of envy, stop coping.
@End NATO >he says europoor unironically
I agree with you that The World Wars have given the European psyche PTSD, but I think you shouldn't underestimate the psychological after-effect of 'landing on top' (through the centuries), of winning the global culture race and how that element interacts with the World Wars PTSD and with the last 100 years of development in how Western culture thinks about race. It's a perfect storm of these three.
Its like if Japan went through their Warring States Period and then into the Heian Period instead of the other way around. Its pretty bad. Japan is a very apt comparison I think.
That's only if their 'culture' does not implode on itself.
I see the flaw in this video is the fact it’s done through a American lens
Tbf the US won the culture race. Europe follows US cultural norms, albeit the US is a descendant of Western Europe.
@@SCIFIguy64 how do you figure, Europe isn't as ass backwards as the U.S.. although American I am insulted on behalf of Europe that you would make this comparison.
It hurts my soul, when whatifalthist said that whole Europe depends on Americans militarily, while we Finnish have been preparing for Russian threats for whole 80 years and most of us are proud of our culture, language, history and willing to defend our country
Europe will survive "current year" trends...
Let's be honest: you do. If it wasn't for our nuclear weapons Russia would have invaded long ago
This isn't 1938, Finland couldn't stop a modern-day Russian invasion without heavy foreign support. Even back then, Finland despite inflicting heavy casualties, still lost and was forced to sign a humilating peace deal to give up its land.
The exception that proves the rule.
I agree with you, but Finland is a rare exception: a country with balls. There are very few Finlands in the world. God Bless you. Still: why did you wait 73 years to join NATO? I would have thought you would have been the first to join.
1) Most Europeans - at least from the eastern part migrate to Scandinavia, Germany, Britain or Benelux, not US, simply because it's much easier, closer and in most aspects better
2) I find it bizarre that Europe would wage an offensive war if Russia was about to collapse. Also, Russia is unlikely to fully collapse even in a crisis at this stage but I understand that's just a speculation
As a German I hope that our eastern brothers may help steer the social and cultural collapse away. Where did you get this tidbit from?
@@izayaorihara7059 they won't
Every European's geopolitical analysis: Hmm after determining that everything is totally collapsing with no means of protection or recovery for the aftermath and that an unprecedented amount of unpredictable high risk long term problems are going to sprout all at once, I've concluded that everything is just going to magically be okay.
For the first part , yes but that situation will only be like that for a short period of time because of declines in thoose countries.
@@notahandle965 the entire video is based on a false understanding of EU-USA relations. Yes, Europe does not have the GDP or the military power of the US. No, they are not at the brink of collapse. No analysts thinks Europe is even close to collapse. Maybe it is not the dominant world power anymore. So what? Australia is doing fine without being dominant, Canada is doing fine and Europe is too. Crisis like 2008 or Greece were not a sign of European decay, but a sign that Europe is still able to react to crisis without the US. The Yugoslav wars were the exception, not the primary example. Europe has integrated half of the Warsaw pact in just a few years and now the living standards are better than ever. Also the idea that Germany, France and the UK would fight for spheres of influence as soon as the US pulled out from Europe is just as stupid. They can't just dominate their neighbors and they definitely cannot without working together. Also the demographic and immigration stats don't really seem to proof the same point? Many European countries are balancing out their birth deficit with immigrants. And the part about European cultures being washed away by American culture is the most stupid and American claim I've heard in a while. I DoN't UnDeRsTaNd oThEr LaNguAgES sO oBvIoUslY tHeY hAvE nO MoViEs Or SoNgs. The ignorance is outrageous. Also regarding defense: Yes the American military is very present in Europe. No, the European Union would not be open for invasions without the US. Non-EU states maybe. But if we look at Ukraine we can clearly see that the US did not prevent it either. So to put everything in short: Yes Europe does have serious issues. No, it is not unable to solve them and it will not instantly collapse if the US pulls out (which is very unlikely anyway because of the interests the US have in Europe)
Did he say "scrimmage between Poland and Slovakia" ? That's the most unprobable scrimmage ever. I come from Slovakia and there hasn't been one major issue between these 2 countries in decades.
poland has built a wall with Belarus?
@@chasx7062 yes
As a Pole I like Slovakia, this sentence was so inaccurate XD
I love Tatry and skiing in Slovakia, aslo when I was a little kid I often go to the Tatralandia and I remember this queues on the border, because we wasn't in UE yet
Has there ever been any dispute between Poland and Slovakia ( maybe except WW2 when sloviakia was a puppet state)? I have no idea how he came up with this.
@@qudlik3117 This is a hack video and channel, why do you stress over it??
I like how calm people disagree with parts of this video and they explain why and they don't try to talk anyone down 🙂
I agree. Also, as america exports it's culture and influence all over the world, everyone has an opinion about the US, and every intellectual who interested in this, at least tries to understand it. But doing the reverse, understanding all other cultures from the US is very-very hard thing to do.
I'm a european, but to this day I can't fathom, how can it be, that just because I live 50-100 km from an other country, with basically the same genetic background, people have so opposing ideas and values.
The good ending
@@kmolnardaniel 100km away the people behave differently (even if they are genetically similar) because culture triumphs genetics. They developed a different culture of behavior even in a similar environment, with similar genetics.
..this guy has an excellent sense of insight..europe has a ton of problems..
..look at london becoming muslim..
....this guy is good..he really has a profound sense of prediction and extremely conscientious..
..more of us need to listen to his take on what he thinks into consideration or this could become a very ugly place..and many of his predictions will become true..like the turning on class status out of resentment from the past..
..we are constantly rescuing europe out of every predicament..but we're the uncivilized ones..
@@bflex i always get people moving from war and unemployment but why UK and why not greece or Europe
Half of my family is from Malta, which for those who are unaware is an incredibly small nation, one of the smallest in the world. However, Malta is also one of the most densely populated, and in recent years it's only getting worse. When I went to visit last fall, it was the first time I had been there in over seven years, and it felt like so much had changed. Before then I had never noticed seeing an Indonesian or a Malaysian in Malta, but when I went there last, there were certainly enough to notice. They predominantly worked the ferries and at little shops here and there, jobs that would have normally been taken by a native or even a mainland European immigrant. A similar scenario applies for other ethnic groups, including Africans and central Europeans like Albanians. The problem is that Malta cannot keep up this mass influx of migrants, who take jobs that the native Maltese would have normally taken. Some towns and villages on the main island took over an hour to find a singular parking spot in the early afternoon, with traffic jams and accidents being a regular occurence due to the terrain, driving culture, and designs of the roadways. On top of that, the rent and housing market is exponentially increasing while wages remain the same and working hours are notably reduced when compared to that of somewhere in America. All that coupled with several other problems are serving to cripple the Maltese economy, while the government only seems interested in stroking its own ego and focusing on leftist social politics that only shoot themselves in the foot even further. While nations like France and Germany are at risk of population decline, Malta has the exact opposite problem, where mass immigration is causing an economic crisis that will surely lead to disaster.
For wealthy immigrants, Malta is appealing because it is the easiest and cheapest European country to get a passport and citizenship.
Perfect microcosm of what is going on all over the continent.
Albanians are Central Europeans? They border Greece
Some of this is what happens when you try to replace the people who have a birthright to their land...
Nobody has a birthright to land. You may inherit some land maybe...
@@86Corvus course they do. People whose families have lived in a country going back thousands of years should have more rights then someone arriving on a boat.
People will fight for their country as u are about to find out.
@@thebreakdown7753 Well said. Even if they were born there, they stand on top of a mountain of our ancestors bones. All of them, young, old, newly arrived, born to Europe by migrant parents - all of them need to go home. We will accept nothing short of full remigration for all non-Europeans, and Europe shall once again be European. They all have home countries where they are the absolute (if not exclusive) majority, and where their identity, culture, tradition and religion is protected and celebrated. We shall once again have that too.
23:13 France and Germany "aren't that connected economically anyway" is simply a false statement.
Germany is by far Frances biggest trading partner with ~80B$ in exports and France is Germanys 2nd biggest partner with ~106B$ in exports (US being the largest)
Even trying to analyse EU economies seperately is so stupid like german economy could even work without the other EU countries and vice versa.
@@d4rktranquility yeah at this point we can't realistically survive without each other. Maybe we could afford to lose a few of the smaller members, but ripping out any of the key members would be insane
@@Barwasser yep, I don't fully agree with this video, I think that with bad times Europe (but most importantly the EU) could shine again, already we are basically one giant economy (or at least this is my perception) and by what I'm seeing in the recent years (even during the period of right winged parties) we are getting also politically more connected. The statement of Mario Draghi (prime minister of Italy) that the eu must federalize to survive, Macron pushing for an EU army or even how the EU basically kept afloat it's members during the pandemic by providing funds and vaccines, to me those seems all attempts at responding to the current crysis.
@@fabriziobrown4454 yes but then you also got the EU instated Covid QR codes.
@@bigbadlara5304 fighting back against government overreach is gonna be important whether it is against the EU or your national government.
21:42 a conflict betwen Poland and Slovakia is absurd. Non of the countrys are (nor where) ever hostile to eachother, the border is clear, and is set by the mountines. There is no polish minority in slovakia nor slovakian minority in poland.
Just shows you that he's still got much more reading to do on Europe.
While I do agree with the general sense that we're staring down the bottom of a barrel in Europe atm I wouldn't say the crisis is going to he as bad as he makes it out to be.
Same thing when he suggested a potential conflict between Spain and Italy. What.
@@p_snimon_enis9850 eh? 🤣🤣🤣
Even ignoring how hard would it be to wage war through the mountains (there's a reason border was ALWAYS there), over what those countries would fight? Slovakia is way to week to realistically expect raids for resourcers or holding territory to be succesful, especially as regions adjecent to Slovakia aren't the richest with exception of Krakow metropoly. And Poland doesn't require anything that is in Slovakia? Like, Poland has everything it needs except oil and nuclear. Neither is in Slovakia. Where is the closest place that has those? Ukraine. Even if Poland would decide to become agressive, the direction of agression is quite clear into historical Wild Fields of Commonwealth.
War with Czechs on the other hand? Well, logically it still has no sense, but at least there is some actual conflict potential over Zaolzie and Czechs complaining about Polish industrial sector in Silesia. Still, mountains make this practically impossible to happen, but at least it has some basis.
Technically, there was a conflict over some border provinces when the two were gaining independence, but it’s not really a thing anymore.
Hungary and Slovakia however… Ironically, Hitler did a better job drawing borders for Hungary than the entente did after WW1. Huge Hungarian minorities outside Hungary.
23:14 what ? as a french person i honestly can't buy the "france and germany aren't that economically connected anyway". both countries are insanely interdependent when it comes to everything from industry, energy and the service sector. france's biggest trading partner is germany, and germany's second trading partner after the US is france. you can't just dismiss that.
i think that part illustrates the problem i have with this video, and also all the problems i have with americans trying to understand how europe actually works. it's overly simplistic to think that both countries have "spheres of influence", and that germany somehow has more leverage than any other country on the continent. both germany and france simply would'nt have any leverage whatsoever on the world stage if they didn't have each other, and that's not even mentioning all other european nations contributing just as much.
more broadly, i think what most americans dont get is just how you can't reduce the european union as just another tool used by more powerful countries to seek out spheres of influence within itself. in many ways, i'd say it's quite the opposite : it is more of a compromise between countries to have leverage against larger powers OUTSIDE the european union (china, india, the US, etc. and no, russia is not what i'd consider a larger power, i think everyone now knows what it really is : a joke). that's actually how the european union managed to enforce industrial standards abroad, for example.
If you talk to any european thats not french or german they will say the same exact thing about spheres of influence. This just seems to be your bias as a french person clouding your judgement
@@STEP107 Or it might seem that way to an outsider. I'm French as well for context and while I agree that we do have a sphere of influence in Africa and have mostly good relations with western europe countries I don't see Italy or Spain as "under French influence" they are their own countries with their way of seeing things which do not feel the need to adapt to each other. Yes there is a degree of cooperation and when it comes to the EU France most likely has the biggest say of the three but I would not call it a sphere of influence
As a person in a country indebted to europe (greece, so literally indebted) i wish i could leave for a country and continent more proud of itself, were people are not afraid to speak their minds and where they have hope for the future. The atmosphere here is the most oppressive you can imagine, everybody is hopeless, just living because they have to. Historically, revolution or collapse is our only hope, and i say this as a complete moderate conservative.
Edit: yeah some times i fantasize about it all ending, bacause i wish for renewal, for a revival of some kind of spirit rather than boring, monotonous, drudging existence
Same
Looking at Greece in the last 20 years and trying to imagine what it would be like if I lived there gave me that exact same feeling and it made me really sad for you guys. I live in California and to be honest it's going in the same direction here as well now that Biden and his left wing policies are aimed at destroying us too. All these god damn immigrants need to go back home and stop destroying everything here and living off of the welfare that was created as a safety net for our elderly and weak. It wasn't supposed to be used for working age males from other countries that go out and steal from us and rape our young girls rather than getting a job. Diversity is a plague that does nothing other than destroy the unity that once made us strong. The more you diversify your population the more impossible it becomes to govern and reach a concensus on any topic. There's no way to keep everyone happy if everyone has opposing beliefs about what should be done in a society..
Looking at Greece in the last 20 years and trying to imagine what it would be like if I lived there gave me that exact same feeling and it made me really sad for you guys. I live in California and to be honest it's going in the same direction here as well now that Biden and his left wing policies are aimed at destroying us too. All these god damn immigrants need to go back home and stop destroying everything here and living off of the welfare that was created as a safety net for our elderly and weak. It wasn't supposed to be used for working age males from other countries that go out and steal from us and rape our young girls rather than getting a job. Diversity is a plague that does nothing other than destroy the unity that once made us strong. The more you diversify your population the more impossible it becomes to govern and reach a concensus on any topic. There's no way to keep everyone happy if everyone has opposing beliefs about what should be done in a society..
Go to Turkey, they still have real Men and self respect
@@manhoosnick😂😂 real men the same men that got slaughtered at zenta.
I don't know what it's like on the continent but in Britain I've started to realise how non-meritocratic our economy is becoming. I've heard multiple stories of people with amazing qualifications attempting to get jobs that would suit those but being constantly denied. Literally people with PhD who have to work in restaurants as they are waiting to get accepted somewhere. When at the same time I've noticed many people doing undergraduate degrees in fairly useless degrees tell me that they have been guaranteed a job starting at like £35k because they know someone who has spoon-feed them the job. I'm positive this has gotten worse because my parents and grandparents had no university education but managed to get decent jobs based simply on their interviews and training. When now this no longer seems the case. It really does seem to be about your connections now which is really gonna show up in the near future when those qualified but unemployed start to accuse elites on sucking up all the best jobs, proving that Britain isn't, as free an equal as we pretend. In fact this may have played a role in Brexit aswell.
Not too mention the fact that our politics is an absolute shambles at the moment everyone hates both the major political parties to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if it just imploded in the next election.
What if they all vote green or something? I’m Canadian and don’t know much about the uk but currently in Canada lots of people hate the current government and part of it is because our leader is weak minded and has fucked our economy
@@mcjesus5603 yeah I think if the Liberal democrats (who are the 3rd most popular, centrist party) get their act together they could definitely win lots of seats and if they join together with the green party then now would be their best opportunity to win since like 1910. I think they need a more charismatic leader however.
@@MrHawkMan777 interesting
When nearly 50% of Young People in Britain go to University often to study shitty degrees (ones that you can get in with using BTECS or shitty A-Level results) then it probably speaks for itself why people with Uni degrees can't get good jobs. There isn't that many of those jobs to go around, and a lot of the "University Degrees" people get now are what the gov calls 'Mickey Mouse degrees' from shitty former polytechnic universities.
People with actual good Uni degrees will get jobs in them, either in the UK or outside, but relatively few people who go to Uni here will get degrees with any sort of value. It also doesn't help that the 50% of young people in Britain who go to University will also never likely work a single day of their lives until graduation from Uni. You can have all the education in the worl but that won't get you a job.
@@MrHawkMan777 Not going to happen with the electoral system in the UK.
"Europe doesn't have its own music." Europe was prominent in the development of electroswing, industrial, darkwave, new wave, and electronic music. It went for house music in a much bigger way than the US. Maybe its poppiest pop is imitational, but there's innovation beyond the big-media spotlight. And if it's in English, that's a worldwide language now, so it's a way to reach the widest audience.
Europe literally created written music and like 90% of instruments. Classical music is European music.
@@alexhurt7919 doesn’t matter. He’s talking about current music. He acknowledged that Europe dominated society for hundreds of years, and classical is part of that history
It’s not relevant anymore, just like the continent
At this point this popped in to my mind: ruclips.net/video/zu2ry9kyZWU/видео.html :DDDDDDDDD
@@benc.3128 If you are ignorant about classical music, that's your problem, all across the world classical music is taught and appreciated.
Europe invented Heavy Metal!!! 🤘🤘
The balkans (especially countries like Greece) have their very own music industry which is a bubble not many foreigners get into.
Most Greeks hardly know artists like Kanye or Eminem or even Ed Sheeran, the greek music industry is rich enough to fulfill you and not needing to listen ti “foreign” music
The percentage between “foreign music” listeners and greek music listeners is split in half.
As someone from Croatia, it's also mostly the same here 🙂
Being from the USA I'd love to hear some if your guys music. I hate all the lame pop crap around here and would love to broaden my horizons and hear something new.
You are right guys, some Americans forget that the European culture has so many languages and culture that don't need to "copy" from them.
I think Europe, at least the Western part, is pretty much over. In France the only reason why the aging of the population isn't as bad as say in Germany is simply because the immigrant population is much larger in France and they have the most children of any immigrant population in Europe. France will likely be the first European country to become majority immigrant in the next few decades. This is likely why our government is forbidden from taking racial statistics in Metropolitan France. I believe the Native French population is already at or below 60% of the overall population, and most of that 60% is considered elderly or approaching elderly.
@@noboliNo America is worse than France lol. When the world goes to shit America will become a continent full of rival warlords.
@@noboliNo No, hold the ground. Islam cannot be allowed to genocide European culture from the continent
The French generals seem to be realising they may be needed sooner rather than later .
Time for America to recolonize the motherlands.
This is simply wrong 😂 it just shows how american these mfs think most immigrants to europe and any country for that matter adapt their fertility by the next one or two generation
It's hard to imagine just how traumatising it would have been to be a European during the world wars. As an Australian basically all of history is viewed as being something that happens far away. When talking about wars and such things with people here its not uncommon to have the person you're talking to basically throw their hands up say things like "I don't get it." "What's the point?" "Such a waste of money and people" (--> all direct quotes from my dad).
The stereotype is definitely true when it comes to American ignorance but most of you clearly haven't spoken to the average Australian. It fills me with great shame when I hear a fellow countryman say something about how much better they are than those ignorant Americans and then in the same breath pull out the most braindead hogwash about some incredibly complex topics.
At least Americans interact with the rest of the world. Australians just view the rest of the world as that thing you hear about before the sports comes on T.V.
It wasn't that traumatizing for the people who lived through it.
The trauma started at the end of the sixtys when the boomers found out about injustices that happened during the war.
@@dave_sic1365 Really, the problem is with the Marxist subverters in University. I remember being told that everything bad in the world is the fault of White Men, specifically Europeans, to the point that I started getting depressed. I eventually had to throw off the shackles, and I only went for my two year degree.
Most of what we see in the west is the result of brainwashing in the Universities. Young people are taught a Marxist Conflict Theory of history, and try to atone for it. It started in the 60s, and only now is starting to die out in the younger generations, and only because the world is not going well enough for such lies to be comfortable anymore.
I really agree with this channel putting Social Justice as a religion, but its been around for a while. It's the Marxist professors teaching the kids to regret being born, and hate their race. Some people grow out of it, some never do, but Western Society is sick from that Marxist disease, even as the 3rd world has benefitted from Western inventions and methods in the Post War period.
I think times are going to get worse before they get better, but as a result, the lies are gonna be seen for what they are, and people are going to turn to common sense answers to the crisis of our time.
As an American, I have simaler feelings about my nation as you do about Australia. I guess both our counties have alot in common when it comes to cultural arrogance, dispite our differences.
"with people here its not uncommon to have the person you're talking to basically throw their hands up say things like "I don't get it." "What's the point?" "Such a waste of money and people""
Everything changes when the food shelves go bare. Europe hasn't experienced, hyper-inflation, extreme unemployment and empty store shelves in about 80 years. When this starts to happen, people like your dad will flip like a switch and mirror the emotions of Europeans 80 to 90 years ago.
..wars are nothing like what they are know..but
I remember listening to a podcast poking fun at the future of politics, and he said something that got a chuckle out of me: "People today seem to want either a hardline nationalistic policy or a hardline socialist policy and, unfortunately, history does offer us a compromise."
Uh, hardline National Socialism? 🙄
@@Emanresuadeen Ukraine’s Speed running that vibe rn lmao
@@Lucky-sh1dm speed running it with their Jewish president
"Europe just copies American culture." Americans travel to Europe and see that music and fashion are very similar and so, in their arrogance, they just assume that everyone has copied them. But virtually ALL the top fashion houses are European. When it comes to mass retail fashion, the biggest in the world are HM (Sweden), Zara (Spain) and Uniqlo (Japan). Modern fashion is a global phenomenon; that's why it's the same everywhere. But the European influence is substantially larger than the American.
Music is another example. Europe received a lot of American influence in the 50s with rock, but that was just after the USA itself had imported huge amounts of European influence in the 20s and 30s, with cabaret etc. By the 60s and 70s, the biggest names in pop music were coming out of Britain and Sweden. This became a two-way flow. Again, European and US pop music are similar now because they've been co-evolving in tandem for 70 years, not because Europe has "copied" the US. American artists have copied as much from the Beatles and ABBA as Europeans have copied from Britney Spears. US artists have copied European techno and metal, while US and European artists are both in a frenzy now copying Latin American reggaeton.
sound like a salty European.
Literally the one word "Beatles" refutes half his video
I travel all around the world and in every country I hear American music and sometimes more than local music. Occasionally you'll hear something from somewhere else. It may be true that individual artists are copying each other across the pond but the rest of the world doesn't care and just listens to American music anyway. Your whole tirade is so typically European though. It's in the vein of, "ha ha look Americans don't know geography" while having half the per capita GDP. The real world doesn't care about some artificial standard of what "should" matter. Power is power and influence is influence. The rest is cope.
@@SorenzoWhat popular artists today do you think are influenced by The Beatles in anyway? Cardi B?
Your argument might have been good fifty years ago.
@@yeussean I wonder how long Europe will remain European.
This boils down to 1 thing- will they close the borders or wont they
they need to, desperately
The problem with a united states of Europe is that unlike each US state their is too much individual identity for true unity. If I had to guess Europe in the future will be like the Greek city states, sharing a common identity but with too much difference to unify.
Eventually though, those city states did unite. I'm sure the same will happen to Europe. If globalization continues the way it is, all of these countries will speak the same language anyways, English.
@@g1u2y345 I dont want to. I will continue to speak and teach my children german.
Ur not gonna cramp us all together and let us loose our cultures. We dont want that. Besides that im not against a unified outer policy. But we can do that without a usa 2
Sounds like Europe through most history
you know that europe is not a country so ofcourse the diffrent countrys have indivdual identities,
It is nothing like the us, as in Europe the diffrent countrys can leave the union to if they want while the us states can not leave the US.
Europe can never unify because each European country has too much pride in its historical origins, plus many of the European countries come from different ethnicities which some even today consider to be inferior as opposed to others
I'd like to see a whatifhistory on what would have happened if Europe had a population boom from 1900 to 2022 instead of population stagnation. I always wondered how the world would have been different.
ww1 and ww2 avoided
@@sinoroman Not sure about that.
Some European countries already are extremely densely populated like Italy or the UK, you probably see many more immigrants form those countries going to nations like Argentina or Australia increasing their populations. Slavic countries and France probably would become the new powers as they own relatively more empty liveable land and can feed many more people.
He quit doing WhatIf videos.
A bit ironic for his name.
Europe had a population boom from 1900 onwards,
but the world Wars fucked it up
I am thoroughly enjoying your videos, Rudyard. Thanks for making these.
What's interesting is that Oswald Spengler's Decline of The West predicted much of this, especially the emergence of the EU.
No the eu is a good thing its just too diverse with non-europeans
Original smart Irish vote was NO to european dictatorship. They knew the score. So why another vote? Same thing happens in the states when we vote NO to state lottery; couple years go by and another vote . . .in fact one state voted about 4 times before gambling was allowed on riverboats . . . . . . . . .
As a european, I thank you for saying this. Unfortunately, it will mostly fall upon deaf ears.
Yeah they never care.
As a European as well, I don't really see that this video is saying anything new. Most people I know in my country are well aware that things are not great and will probably get worse for a while yet.
@@cerdic6305 In my opinion, I think with what's going on in America makes Europeans feel a lot more better or naive about their own situation. Truth be told both societies will face a crisis and it's very ironic how the 'less developed' one will most likely be able to better handle it. Who knows only time will tell.
@@i_like_chomp6382 you’re right that a lot of Europeans think we’re doing better than Americans culturally/societally (as in we think we have better laws and political situations) but I don’t think more than a few people would say their country was better economically, at least not in my country.
@@cerdic6305 I think to many Europeans the economy isn't their biggest concern, they value quality of life over basically anything. As long as something doesn't directly interfere with their lifestyle it is irrelevant.
Regarding Nobel Prizes: I think you've overlooked the fact the US has a huge population.
If you add the UK, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland and France you get a population of 255 million and 403 Nobel Prize winners, which is better than the US with its population of 330 million and 400 Nobel Laureates with lots of room (as far as population) to spare.
Furthermore, the US ranks 15th in the world based on Nobel Prizes per capita, with 11 of the 14 countries ranked ahead of them in Europe. Overall, 16 of the world's top 20 Nobel Prize winning nations per capita are in Europe.
Pssst, you're messing with his right-wing bias "stuff that is good for workers is bad for the country". I'm sure all those homeless people in Los Angeles are great for innovation and growth!
@@richardholfeld4619 LA's shittyness is based solely on Left-leaning policies
Obama got one as did Bush or some other twat. Point is only euro-centric goofs care about “peace prizes.”
@@kilors206 Can you be more specific? Which economic policies lead to this?
Tell it like is James 👍
Interesting video!
One of the main point I would like to raise is that France and Europe are very close partners in reality and have a strong ideology that priorizes keeping them together to avoid errors of the past. You often hear politics talking about it when any major decision has to be taken on a European level.
It is true tough that their own ideologies and cultures are very different.
I don't see them getting any closer but as of now, it is not like you portray it in the video.
Thats why nothing gets done.
France isn't part of Europe?
Thank you so much for doing this video fantastic!
i’d like to argue that the reason american culture is so integrated into european society is more so an economic reason. the european artists see what the incredibly rich artists in america do and copy to try and bring the same success. there’s plenty of creative music in europe, it’s just pop music right now is the same for both continents essentially.
Eurovision does have a certain degree of wacky creativity, but it's not the same as the standard pop music...
Exactly, America is the mirror Europeans want to imitate. What ever the trend is in U.S you rapidly see it in Europe.
same with Latin america, except we have our pop too
@@nathan_408 US spanish music also seems to be dominating globally
Uh one art in poland won’t be as like in tanzania
Same for US and bosnia, especially when we talk about culture
As a Spanish Social Politics student, I'm getting more and more convinced the demographic crisis will end up devolving into an open conflict (massive civil unrest) that will pit the young (which will suffer the burden of sustaining the economy) against the retired population (who are constantly getting better treatment from the different Governments at the expense of the young).
It's been said many times in this channel that inequality is the main driving factor of social unrest, and a rising problem (specially in Southern Europe) is the so called *generational wealth gap,* only made worse by the political system being incentivized into fueling this problem just to get the votes of the elderly (local example: the Spanish Government announcing they'll keep linking the pension rises to the inflation, while the rest of the population sees their wages stagnate) . I fear the inevitable solution will be "sacrificing" the elderly (taking away their quality of life by massively cutting pensions) just to save the active population from getting broke.
That said, I see Europe recovering from this by the later half of the century. Europe has a very strong historical bakground and value system to fall in its entirety. Whether we end up with an united Europe or a bunch of hyper-nationalistic states its up to the imagination.
Yes, you saw this with the corona, where the senior's votes were saved with the sacrifice of the youth's future.
Ideally we would get a unified, hyper nationalist Europe. One that can defend itself from African and Arab hordes. A Europe united around around shared blood, culture, race, and the greatness of Europe as a civilization and people.
Identitarianism is the salvation of Europe.
in truth mate we are fucked, same thing happening in romania and all the young people are leaving for western/northern europe. i still hope for a united europe (if god wills it, a federation to hold itself a superpower) but this "pandemic" if we can even call it that fucking shattered the hope I had. Wages suck, working hours are crazy, people are unhappy, can't do business for shit and we are getting preached at by the political elite. can't catch a break
@@declanfeeney7004 There is 0 chances unfortunately, and those hordes will replace us 100%
once somebody contributes less to the national budget, eg. they retire, their vote should be weighted less, otherwise this happens, they had many years to accumulate wealth. Same time, governments should not inflate their debt and should stop printing money and encourage inflation, they are biggest gangsters
Im so glad your content got recommended to me
Keep up the good work
Don't forget Poland. They are rapidly becoming militarily powerful.
He didn't
as a german, i have to agree with your points. europe has become complacent, but here is to hoping that ukraine will be an effective reality-check. after brexit and the migrant crisis i was worried europe would fall appart, but now that reality is finally setting in and that europe is not above having war, the eu has a purpose again. i just hope we don't go back to complacency when this whole mess blows over.
The EUDSSR is declining anyway, and with the black money hole Ukraine a lot faster. The incompetent and arrogant leadership is the worst enemy of the EU-countries. Nobody of them worked in the private economy. And the head of the EU is a corrupt woman, which destroyed the german army and left it in shambles.
Rooting for you guys 🇺🇸❤️ My ancestors came to America from all over Europe. I wish there was a way for y’all to shed your narrow identities and embrace a deeper Indo-European/Western connection. USE needs to happen in my opinion.
I wouldn’t be so confident. Especially with our current government. I mean most of the greens say that they hate our country and the SPD is openly cooperating with the ANTIFA (left extremist group)
>the eu has a purpose again
lol. lmao even.
You have to be kidding.
Yes, ending complacency is the way to go, but following this logic the EU is the absolute last thing we'd wan't.
Put legislature and border authority back into the hands of the nation states, not into the hands of some faceless unelected bureaucratic body. Along with ending the laissez-fair immigration politics.
@@marcusaurelius5742 You forgot about the indo- part of indo-european.
I wouldn't say Europeans don't try to justify why their social democracy is the best system. The Quality of Life metrics in the Scandinavian social democracies are often cited and positively regarded. But they do downplay the sluggishness such a regulated economy causes.
Really Europe's fundamental flaw IMO is how self-flagellating Europe's elites are. Wanting Europe to grow greater (at least as Europe rather than vague internationalist ideal) in any way is treated as if you're being nostalgic for the days of colonial genocide.
You mistake noise for reality. What’s holding us back is that the Euro got too big too fast and that we invested too much in China and do not regulate internal migration better, , leading to a lot of brain drain and pack of investment. In the USA, this isn’t as obviously because it compensate via international aggressiveness which do not want to afford because confrontations are expensive snd fixing the EU economically is already difficult enough without wars etc.
Also because creating a new form of government democratically is simply difficult.
The social capitalism we employ has little to do with progress or a lack there off. Remember Silicon Valley? How it started? Military funding by the feds if I recall correctly. Look it up.
Also, don’t forget, half of us were under the, both politically and economically terrible Soviet system until roughly 1991, Britain, France & Germany to Name the Big three still repaid debt/ war reparations to the USA until literally 2006, 1987 and finally, 2010 snd guess what; Switzerland is both the most innovative nation on the planet AND has the same average income per citizen as the USA.
Didn’t loose population, didn’t have to rebuild, no debt and no commies.
How is our economy in Sweden "regulated"?
There is so much to back the clear superiority in certain areas. Indexes associated to quality of life, security, environmental sustainability, etc.
As a avid student of history, I have to point out that there is nothing wrong with the empires or nostalgia for them. In fact europe should rethink it's reluctance to exercise its will abroad.
With the gradual withdrawal of US from the policing role, especially on trade protection, we will have to step in.
EU is much more dependent on imports than US is.
it isnt the best
The UK has one important cultural export: Warhammer 40K.
And sport. The world is playing British sports. Football which dominates Europe and Latin America, rugby amongst the Anglosphere (minus US), cricket in the Indies...
Watching this while the Euro goes below the Dollar for the first time in 20 years.
Oof, well that was a slap of a reality check. One thing I want to note is this: the people of Europe aren't as pacified as you think. Its leaders are. When people don't want immigration they're called Nazis by their own leaders. The people might dislike it at an overwhelming rate but anti-immigration parties are literally jailed for being racist. Europe has had a really hard time balancing the nation states on which it has functioned ever since the dawn of man with not being racist. It doesn't help that the ideological framework behind the largest democratic power in the world is directly the opposite of what we're used to. A multiethnic country with numerous cultures that promotes pluralism and the difference of opinions between classes. This may be normal for countries as large as America, but it's nigh impossible for Europe to maintain the things that set it apart while also trying to draw inspiration from America's system.
oh wow, I did not even think about it in that way...
Based, same opinion. Europe should be a community of independent national states, which cooperates and counts interests of it's members, and of course Europe wouldn't be as it is if we didn't have constant rival with each other :)
Still, wars, especially world wars were a mistake.
Anti-immigration parties are not jailed though. The only case I know of government intervention on an anti-immigration party is the AFD party in Germany being marked as extremist (which they are tbf) so the secret service could keep an eye on them.
@@rubenraasveldt3693 You Forget Golden Dawn. And many, many other parties.
We don't want to be like the Americans. Their system is laughed at.
Meeting people from eastern Europe is always interesting. The millenials being children of communist citizens makes things VERY different for them. Many adults are ego maniacs after being complicite in the communist heirarchy, or they were outcasts and poor. You can kinda tell who was who, much deeper direct history than we see in the US
I live in Warsaw. It’s not like that at all.
I can vouch for the ego maniac one. But "many" is an exaggaration, a better word would be "a small minority of". the younger generation doesn't seem to have this scar of communism.
It was so weird hearing from other people I knew they also had grandparents who had weird manipulative tendencies that exactly lined up with one of my grandparents.
I also can add that even institutions in some Eastern Europe countries like Romania are still communist like. For exemple, recently SRI (romanian secret service) proposed some laws(which is illegal in every democratic country for a secret service to make laws) to parliament to vote. Laws that included all romanian citizens to be forced to help secret agents if they ask and need help. That not not happen not even in communist era. Not even communist secret police did not dare to propose such a law. Another law SRI proposed was that SRI agents to have the right legally to have business. This is corruption and greed at the highest level.
XDDDD what a bullshit
@@wonderwinder1 I live in Plovdiv. He's 100% correct.
I am german
Every word you say is true, and i am so sad about it .
Once again i'm at a point where i binge your videos and now was recommended this and decided to rewatch. And a good thing i did, now i noticed many more misinformed points but to point them all out i need a third and propably a fourth watch👍🏻
😊
"Europe's far right"
_picture of Boris Johnson_
lol
22:00 an invasion of switzerland would be quite literally the worst military strategy used ever. Not only would invading them make everyone pile on the new aggressor, but the Alps and Swiss military/defenses are extremely good.
France has an airforce
Enough blackmail to start WW3
Nobody will fuck with the Swiss Banks, their military is barely even needed
@@ktoth29 and no way of transporting military equipment through demolished tunnels and mountains.
Plus, Switzerland has a weirdly large amount of national pride compared to most European countries...at least that's what it felt like when I was there.
@@michaelwellen2866 Makes sense, though, given they have kept to themselves more than the rest of the continent.
Amazing analysis, keep up the good work!
hey, this is a great channel. appreciated
An interesting analysis, as always, but it’s one of the few were I mostly disagree. At the beginning you mentioned the views of much educated Europeans towards the USA as being somewhat distorted. As a Portuguese, I find this video as the opposite - the view of educated US Americans towards Europe, that also ends up being distorted and molded by its own worldview. Basically, your interpretation of Europe seems more of a reflection of American thinking than reality. You treat the disintegration of European cohesion as inevitable and develop your conclusions from that premise. I think you should be more careful in that interpretation.
In your analysis, I found two historic parallels particularly curious and . First the comparison of Greeks and Romans to Europeans and Americans - I would dare say it was that comparison that inspired you to make your general argument. You imply that the EU will fall just like the Greek leagues eventually succumbed. But while very solid, I don’t consider that comparison to be absolute. And I found a counter interpretation in another historic parallel that you mentioned very briefly - the European Union having the same role of the Catholic Church as mediator for the cohesion and pacification of the “Cristianitas”. It’s even more striking as Christian Democrats were perhaps the most influential political group in the creation of the EU. Even the flag has a lot of Catholic symbolism since, golden stars on a blue field is a common association with Our Lady. Well, the Church certainly passed through a lot of existential crisis and always found itself in a power legitimacy competition with the local Kings, who can be an analogy to national sovereignty. In fact one can see today’s competition between sovereignist and europeanist tendencies as an evolution of the struggle between the temporal and spiritual powers of old centuries. But the point is that the Church was in a constant dynamic of reform, although at its own pace, and managed to survive, with its influence on the European societies varying with the secular circumstances. I think this is a better analogy with the European Union. The Americans ironically see it as something recent, therefore with weak foundations and that can easily disappear, but the EU is too needed in the continent. Everything will be done to guarantee its existence. It is facing and will face a lot of crisis, but like the Church as an institution it will probably rather pass through constant reform than declining to the point of irrelevance. Remember that we are the continent that maintained the HRE centuries after it’s existence was (arguably) needed. And it has to be said that while it is true that America is winning the cultural scene, by now, when regarding politics the EU is the one seen as a model by external countries. Europeans don’t migrate to the US as if it were the first option. They mostly migrate internally to the richer countries of the continent. Only certain niches migrate to America.
Also, before the 24th of February I would find it a bit easier to agree with this analysis, but since the war in Ukraine a lot have changed that you didn’t seem to take into consideration. The Russian invasion, contrary to its intention, only strengthened the cohesion institutions of Europe, while at the same time the Ukrainian resistance allowed a window of “acceptance” to national sentiment and militarism. This moderate and healthy (in my opinion) equilibrium is contrary to the “doomerism” of recent years and seems to have set the EU in an optimistic path and a favorable place in the coming international order of the Old World. Russia also made the idea of “influence zones” very unpopular in Europe.
Also one thing you could have mentioned is the demographic geography of the EU heartland - the “European Banana” covering the Rhine river and extending to Milan (and London). Densely populated and spreading between several countries the economy and societies, while distinct, are too interconnected to allow the disappearance of the EU. If Belgium ceases to exist and France “inherits” Wallonia (which is not that improbable) that it will only more integrated in this economic-demographic structure.
Finally, as someone who lives in Europe I feel I have the duty of warning against using France as a base of interpretation. You said you lived in France, but if you shouldn’t use your experiences there to conclude that is how European nations behave in general. France is it’s own thing. Like America its influence is primarily cultural, but every time they tried to politically or military influence other Mediterranean states it always end up in failure.
And here are some thoughts. Some things could be more explored, others perhaps are not relevant. In either is a small contribution, in giving my vision as someone from Europe. Either way, we are living “busy” times, let’s see what History has for us. Thank you for your work, we’ll be waiting for more. Obrigado!
Great comment I agree with you
Thank you for speaking the truth
Really great points. One more thing I'd add, in the part where he talks about declining populations, he quotes France and Britain as having comparatively better birth rates than other European states, but does not take into considerations that those countries are also full of POC immigrants whose birth rates are much much higher, in fact over 30% of the babies born there aren't ethnically native to those countries and it's getting worse every year
Best comment in here, in my opinion.
You address several leaps of logic and some very wrong assumptions that are not backed by facts.
One of the easiest ones to disprove is the claim that European talent mostly emigrates to the U.S. that is not true. Most European talent emigrates from the outskirts of the EU to the heartland where they can enjoy a very high standard of life and still be close geographically to their roots. I am within an emigrant circle and I barely know anyone that went to the U.S., I actually know more Americans that came to Europe for the quality of life standards.
Most Europeans that go to America go for the money mostly and I know of at least one case when they promptly come back to live long term in Europe.
Yep great comment, i feel whatifalthist is not understanding that europe is moving in the direction of unifying and not the americian mindset of breakup/collape/disuninty that the united states is heading in.
France and Germany are actually pretty close partners, with each a very distinctive role: France does food, Germany does industry. However, they are both breaking the deal quite a lot lately with the french industry re growing thanks to its pseudo empire, and germany buying the crop in Poland.
And Germany manages cars, France does luxrury etc
@@franknwogu4911 the french industry became a joke after the monetary unification, luxury is not enough
I’d like to see the UK form strong ties with France and all along the north coast to Poland and into the Baltic states.
@@timcarpenter2441france and the uk are the best allies, though poland and France im not that sure
@@timcarpenter2441 You mean after Brexit? UK will not form anything with anybody anymore from now until its dissolution.
I totally agree that European countries need to spend more on defence. One of our problems is that the two countries that do take defence seriously (France and UK) are at the "wrong" end of Europe, given that the threat is from Russia.
However, I do wonder if even Trump would actually pull the US out of NATO. The US is proud of its massive military machine, but this is a machine designed to police the world and deal with hostile powers wherever they may be. An isolationist America would need minimal military forces (you are unlikely to be invaded by Canada or Mexico). But the people who want to "put America first" certainly don't want to dismantle those armed forced. So what would they all do? Russia still has 5000 nuclear warheads pointed at you, the only plausible military threat the US faces. Keeping Russia down, keeping them economically weak and putting pressure on their very hostile regime is very much in the US interest. Letting them become much more powerful by taking back Eastern Europe would be judged a foreign policy disaster.
Trump was good at foreign relations tho. Only under Obama and Biden was Russia invading and being aggressive on the world stage
If the US was out of NATO, those Russian nukes would be pointed elsewhere.
To hell with Europe.
We on the right here in the US love Trump. He's not going to leave NATO if he gets back in office. We won't take an isolationist stand either. The thing about Trump that makes him so strong is that our enemies have no idea what he will do so they sit down and shut up rather than acting belligerent like they have been under Biden. Trump is a buisness man who likes to make the best deal he can of anything on the table. Sometimes he says things that aren't what he actually intends to do in order to manipulate the deal into his favor. This gets everybody on the left into a anxious mess and causes them to spin out all kinds of fake press about him. If you get any news from or about the US from stations like CNN, MSNBC, etc.. it's mainly filled with lies about Trump so don't take it too seriously. Trump will bring peace and prosperity back to the world if he is elected again.
If the US were to pull out of NATO the military would refuse and likely coup trump as that is probably the stupidest move possible.
“Good for the workers but bad for the economy” the most American sentence ever.
Well this continent has survived literally everything that has been thrown into it and if some guys manage to pull off THE comeback that was the eastern roman empire, I believe that it can happen one more time
Easily. But in the 11th hour, as these things often come
You might be right.
Αδερφε μου δινεις ελπιδα. You are right
But there is no eastern roman empire....so...?
Except Constantinople 💯
Europe is like an old folks home. The people are kept comfortable, and entertained, they're fed, and protected, and they're all just laying back and enjoying their retirement waiting for their civilizations to die. They have lost all of their vigor, their energy, their will to power, and their desire to carry on, and it's a crying shame if you ask me.
Every dog has its day. You can’t be on top forever
That's such an accurate description of Europe, holy shit
As a European I could not think of a better analogy. This is exactly the sentiment. And no wonder, considering the demographics.
Another apt comparison would be to inheritor in a rich family, who now feels bad conscience due to how their wealth was gathered, and now wants to help people with it. He does not understand why he has to be rich while others starve, and donates to charity and invites the homeless to his mansion, which is now in a slightly delapitated condition as they no longer can afford all the servants and repairs due to the inflation in prices and labour. But he has no longer any contact with the poverty and hard work that preceeded it, so he does not respect those values. He just chills and tries to enjoy life with his friends, but he feels like has no purpose and can't measure to his powerful ancestors and rich family members.
@@tj-co9go That's an excellent comparison, I hadn't though of that. It's not as bleak as mine, but perhaps more fitting.
"no king rules forever my son"
Love the vids mane
Great video. You obviously put a lot of work into it. I believe the western governments allowing mass unfettered immigration will eventually create a backlash that will be ugly. Certain ideologies can't seem to grasp the idea of consequences to there actions.
The Victorian ideals of Europe died in the mud and the blood of the trenches. It was mown down by the millions by machine guns and it was torn to shreds by raining shrapnel. The First World War really is the Blueprint for Armageddon (great podcast series by Dan Carlin, give it a listen).
The best, the brightest, the most idealistic, cut down before their prime, and leaving the world to the shell shocked and weary. And then add another world war on top of that. Geesh, it was pretty terrible.
The final stages of imperialism
Absolutely true and the worst thing is by 1917 the politicians on both sides knew it was a disaster and just couldn't stop it. Lord Lansdowne an Irishman in the British government wrote a public letter saying; "we're killing the best of our young men just stop and everyone go home" and he was shouted down as a defeatist.
Love those Dan Carlin podcasts. Absolutely the best!
as a belgian i can say that a lot of the things you say are absolutely true altough i doubt there will be a nation that will try to concure its neighboors, left or right wing nobody wants war and most nations esspecialy in western europe the core of the EU have very strong relationships not only the government but also the population
Meh, the only thing keeping wars from happening here is American hegemony looming over us. Without it, we are going to party like it's 1941 all over again.
Cough cough *the Balkans* cough cough
@@perrycalstrum4079 lol, the most toxic place on earth.
Say that again if the us pulls out
I can safely say, I would try to conquer bosnia
i think people underestimate how people can live their entire lives without doing what you expect them to do
Many interesting points to consider. Advice: proof your video more before releasing. When your text screens have misspelling or grammar errors the impression is that they were thrown together hurriedly which implies that the thoughts and conclusions are not well thought out, but rather some top-of-mind ideas.
Rutyard has stated many times he is terrible with precise stuff like grammar, math, or punctuation, and he barely graduated high school and dropped out of college. I find his videos incredibly insightful and thought provoking, but anyone can criticize it's legitimacy to there hearts content if there desire is to discredit and ignore it.
The problem with the EU is it started as an economic union, that's now trying to be a cultural union. But is resorting to urban Cosmopolitan values and almost American style social justice. Which is less popular amongst the general public.
Lol.
the eu has zero say in these matter you are just making the eu into a boogyman for issues caused by your own politicians
@@applejuice7847 those politicians are controlled
not true. in Europe everyone is very jealous if its own culture, and cosmopolitan values are nowhere to be found. actually there is a resurgence of 'local is better' as answer to globalization. also, social justice it is not a thing, nor in politics, nor for the population as a whole
@@chemicalfrankie1030 social justice doesn’t exist in europe? what the fuck are you talking about
I’m an Austrian and it’s gloomy. Nobody does anything, if you talk about serious things, no one wants to hear it. And everyone is partying all the time. Surreal.
I’m in love with your channel
The greeks didn't stick together, Europe will.
Even the most far right forces are more entho centrist than nationalist, and they see brothers in their neighbours, not rivals. This is increasingly true for the youth. Don't worry, we'll put it together
It is essential. Europe couldn't afford it's most recent brother war and it has brought it's people to the brink. Another brother war would bring them to extinction. Europe must understand it must first fight off the world as even it's 'ally' the US is nothing but an entity that attempts to subjugate and control it by 'being friends'.
The enemies are in order of importance, WWII guilt instead of pride and seeing German's or Germany as enemies not as the very people who tried to save Europe and it's people from precisely the current future. Followed by a hostile, managerial elite that wishes nothing but to comfortably rule by pushing paper across desks getting noticable salaries and ridiculous benefits. A cultural vacuum filled by soulless American consumerism as though it could ever be some civilizational ideology. Somewhere in there the threat of an East Asian, totalitarian technocracy also exists.
Yeah, a right winger in France would be happy for electoral success of AfD in Germany
As an Lebanese-American of shia muslim descent, who has a deep appreciation for the west and its people, I mostly agree with the premises presented in this video. Pertaining the immigrants, especially many of the muslim immigrants, there indeed is an issue. Although this may not apply to all of them, religious extremism and radicalism has been propagating within the muslim sphere for the past half centure, due to a myriad of factors, such as the US backing of the salafist/wahabist governments and institutions, thus allowing them to fund their brand of islam unfettered. This ideology is the source for the overwhelming majority terror attacks that have occurred, and specifically incites terror. Genetrally, Muslims aren't usually like this, however, regarding even the non salafist sunni muslims, wahhabism has penetrated their religion to some extent too. Salafists should be distinguished from the general sunni population, due to their inherently violent ideology, and there should be an active effort to subdue it, preferably by attacking the head of the serpent, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states; the verty people that have funded ISIS and have gotten away with it, and sending a barrage of suicide bombers into my neighborhood in Lebanon via the syrian rebels.
From a little reading on MEMRI (an Israeli organization) it seems MBS is working on religious reforms against extremism by purging hadith that don't have high reliability, with such hadith being the basis to justify extremist ideologies.
Lmao you're so ignorant. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are fuck*ng terrified a
Of ISIS and salafism because Salfis don't view them as proper Islamic states. Particularly regarding the monarchy system.
@@Lestibournes Good, but this is really insignificant. The war on Yemen, and the brutal totalitarian theocracy persists. I have a relative that disappeared after being tricked by locals to shittalk the kingdom.
All of this could have been prevented if Islam were to go through a period of enlightenment like it's sibling religions smh.😮💨
@@momo-cchi5978 To be fair there was an Islamic golden age. The Islam you see today is a product of the modern era, surprisingly. Salafism is a modern phenomenon.
32:50 no, Europeans learn English like literally everyone else in the world to have access to the internet. This is more and more important in a globalized world
You do know that the Internet isn't only in English? There isn't even a massive difference between languages.
Half of the languages of Europe are only spoken in their respective countries. There's no effective internet support for those languages. I remember when I was 8 and had my first console, I bugged my mother all the time because I didn't understand a thing 😅
@@georgios_5342 Must of been lucky then, most I've used had good enough support. Though that could be due to my low standards.
@@travis9841 all the important information on here is in english.
Europe dousnt have its own music . Ermm drum and bass , garage , grime drill, techno , indie , jazz core , dnb teck , dub step . Anyone add some I forgot .
Man's clueless .
So much of modern culture can be traced to Europe lol
you forgot hardstyle gabber uptempo terrorcore
Don't forget turbo folk
Good placement of the Bosch painting ❤
I gotta say it sounds like you got a better grip on Europe in the last few months (most your Europe videos had quite the problems, this one i only have minor disagreements with)
Although it still has the problem of "why are polish speaking bands not that popular in Spain?" and similar stuff from comparing to the US which uses English a language known by most Of the world to some degree which provides a clear adventage in spread. With that in mind outliers like Rammstein should be considered impressive enough, i mean when was the last time you heard a song from an (actual) African band on the radio
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@@LeifMaelstrom thing is aside from BTS I never heard that shit on the radio. I think generally they're only loud online creating an illusion of being bigger than they are.
If mainstream metal was as obnoxious Germany would likely be thought much bigger as well, twitter just isn't infested with rabid Accept, Kreator, Helloween, Heaven shall burn and oh right THE SCORPIONS fans on the same scale as with pink-black or whatever they're called. Most obnoxious metal fans talk about tiny bands literally only a dozen people have heard of, not the hugely popular with us it's "how can you like [big band]?" instead of "how can you not love [big band]?"
Die Antwoord.
Im Portuguese, I see the southern governments literally exploring the european central bank to exend our social programs above our capability and kick the can down the road. The european democracies are becoming electoralist republics, this means that goverments govern to the next elections and democracy only exists once every 4 years and the entire government is dedicated to stay popular.
This makes our governments extremelly shortsigthed policies. We say that "they run behind the loss", allways micro-managing and without having an strategy for the future.
We literally had an election in january where the ruling party won a majority without a program, without a reason and without a message. They literally said: "with us, everything will stay the same. We need stability, and for providing stability, we need a majority"
And I think that this is the reflection of the major problem of europe: people just want things to stay the same, they are afraid of change, they are afraid of taking action. And the people WILL obstruct any atempts of reform, just look at france, a coutry whose social state is rotting, but as soon as Macron touched it, he became unpopular, and imidiatly all the politicians that are not Macron started promissing more spending, more pensions ... more rotting...
The only thing that can get european governments to do anything is when there is a crisis. Beeing the TROIKA and austerity during the eurocrisis or all this situation on Ukraine. You see european leaders so unconfortable about their positions on Ukraine, they are jsut trying to go with the flow and not lose their popularity.
The problem with europe is that Portugal and spain are not becoming more like the rest of Europe, but the rest of europe is slowlly turning themselfs into the Iberian ditch.
One thing I found really interesting in this video was when he talks about the fact that our parliaments are organized with a governing center and extreme parties... 12:45 this is the exact criticism we make to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic. Its an house with 2 large centrist parties, called "the arch of government", where one of them is in Power, beeing an absolute majority or a relative majority. The rest of parliament is composed by extreme left (literally soviet era comunists, and Maoists), and then there is the extreme rigth and the extreme liberals. One of the central parties is more left leaning and talks with the lef extremists, the other leans to the rigth and talks with the new extreme rigth and the liberals.
i am also Portuguese and i agree 100% with your view. Bravo.
I'm Spanish and I couldn't have said it better. Obrigado.
Boa noite (ou dia) meu amigo Portuga, falo do Brasil, ex-província do Império Português. Gostaria de saber: Sei que isso pode ser aleatório, mas o que tu acha do período Monarquico em Portugal e do Reino da Espanha? Ou melhor: A União Européia, na sua opinião, ajudou os Ibéricos ou apenas destruiu seus países?
As a German, I never put it so well but this is it. Too many of us are afraid of change. It’s not that change is impossible, but like you say, it’s always an uphill battle unless a crisis forces a severe reaction. As politicians in Brussels say, Europe never wastes a good crisis, meaning that it is often the only time when things can be adjusted etc.
This has been the problem with Democracy since the ancient greeks, which is why Europe turned to monarchy after the fall of Rome and enjoyed 1000 years of progress and prosperity on the continent in spite of the constant internecine conflict for power among the elites.
Most US hit/pop music since the 90's have been written by Swedes. Also, EDM was directly influenced by German electronic of the 70's, and remember those little boybands called The Beatles and Rolling Stones, to name but a few?
These may seem insignificant point, but I think they do highlight the consistently, "unique" takes on broader geo-political aspects of 20th/21st (modern) Europe, this guy has. This is not a criticism, merely an observation.
Yes but even the beetles and all those Swedes were mimicking genres of music created by Americans. They were European yes but they’re music was American in style
France's greatest export is Daft Punk and I thank them dearly for that.
The Beatles existed 60 years ago though? That’s like if Russia constantly went around saying they were are the forefront of technology because “Remember Sputnik?”. And claiming Swedish people invented rap (a ghetto black American genre) because they made some rap music is as ridiculous as Americans saying “we invented the moon because we went to it” 🙄
@@vexed5567 That is true but in turn the roots of those styles for the most part came from Europe. Since the European colonisation of North America, music, philosophy and culture was generally in a cycle of reinvention across the Atlantic
@@viewer.123 HE IS TALKING FOR EUROPE NOW! NOT EUROPE 500 YEARS AGO GOD DAMMIT!
As a European I can tell you that west and Northern Europeans hate themselves and their history because they have been getting guilt tripped for it the last 6 years or so, even though the grand majority of their ancestors had pretty much no say in what happened back then, and this guilt tripping has caused them to slowly but surely destroy themselves
Na m8, you fall pray to thinking that level of noise = degree of presence. In essence, you got noice tricked into thinking that there is actually a dominant movement like that when in reality, it’s a fringe minority that, as my words imply, is incredibly noisy.
Europe needs nationalism, free market economies and strong militaries imo
I agree with your opinion. As danish person, I constantly see people being proud of Denmark and what our ancestors have done. Military is the only thing we lack on.
Slowly but surely is a nice phrase, but incorrect. It is certainly not set in stone, a counterculture has sprung up against it. Also guilt-bases mechanisms often move towards different topics over time. You could be correct, I'm just saying it is not for sure.
@@danielimmortuos666 “Europe needs nationalism and strong militaries”
Lmfao like that worked out so nicely the last 2 times
I am German and I have been watching the country and the continents decline since the early 2000s. All the crises of the 2010s and the recent Covid crisis have accelerated this decline. I think Europe is going to have more military conflicts and especially civil wars and breakaway states are likely to happen. EU and Euro will be a thing of the past soon, since these systems are practically destroying themselves.
Also this whole western fetish with immigration to make up for falling birth rates is madness. This has never worked. It didn't work for the Assyrians, Romans, Malmuks (the slaves usurped the previous dynasty), nor the Ottomans. Tbf the birth control pill alone has killed off more the 65 million Americans. Idk what's going to happen as the demographic implosion happens at the welfare system runs out of money. Should be interesting.
Germany plays major role in this decline. Its ideology is based on German Frankfurt school of neo Marxism. Germany produces the most dangerous psychopathic politicians and philosophers. Marx, Horkheimer, Adorno, Merkel, Schwab.
Also Germany is completely servile to American ngo's and elites, who destroy your country by uncontrolled immigration and energy deprivation.
You need to reject Marxism and bring back Christian religion.
. You are so correct. Pressures are building up everywhere and something is going to explode like it has around Israel but it's going to be all over the world. The world in a decade is going to be scary. Plus, look at all the national debts and artificial economic bubbles.. There is going to be a mass re-set and it's going to be ugly.
The EU is the cause of Europe's decline.
30:47 You said it right this time because the Kingdom of Pontus was in fact, an ethnically Greek kingdom. Back in your "What if Ancient Greece Industrialized?" video, you erroneously called Pontus "a Turkish kingdom" even though Turks did not arrive to Anatolia until 1073.
6:32, 6:52, 32:29 I would argue that Europe various world-renowned musicians but not to the same extent as the US and frequetly heard on American radios. Admittingly, most of their music adheres to American music genres. Examples are the The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen, One Direction, Adele, and Lorde for the UK. David Guetta is a French example. Maneskin are an italian example. Aqua and Lukas Graham are Danish examples. ABBA, Sabaton, Avicii, Zara Larsson (as you mentioned), and Tove Lo are Swedish examples. By the way, Harry Styles is British, not American (32:29).
You need to cite your sources, give potential solutions for the societal problems you address in each of your videos, and give conclusions at the end of each video.
I agree with this. It does feel hopeless
Oh man, this one is juicy! I'm a British guy living in Asia and this video is 90% correct. You're going to upset a lot of my fellow Europeans who don't want to face up the the truth though.
European GDP has been severely underperforming compared to US GDP for a long time, the US recovered from the 2007 recession. Europe did not. The stats show this and there is no arguing against it. Not to mention there are countries where inflation is not so bad in Asia (3%), see Japan and China. Inflation is crazy in Europe right now, almost double digit figures. Most of what else you state I also tend to agree with, like Europe absorbing American culture rather than exporting their own. That is definitely a trend I have witnessed.
However there were one or two points you made I did not agree with. One about US immigrants assimilating more easily than in Europe. I'm not so sure I see the US is having a lot of problems with this too.
Watching your country losing its identity and influence is the most depressing thing I've ever seen. There is no strong movement to counter that, nobody is pushing a European identity movement, it's just people are accepting this shift like sheep.
I'm tired of this timeline.
Not everyone are sheep, you'll see more and more wake up to reject this forced death upon us. But YOU have to do your part too Alex, spread knowledge, rekindle passion for your nation in people, get involved
Ah so now you know what many third world countries have and still are experiencing
@@wrestlinganime4life288 bro take your guts pfp off, you don’t deserve it for that abysmally god awful take
it is worth notice that Eastern Europe has a completely different approach to its own identity and army
An absolutely excellent watch from start to finish. And well informed I agreed with all the sentiments however depressing they are
A lot has changed on the subject of military spending, and as far as NATO is concerned, I've always understood it as a community of interests, never really as friends.
This is a little too generalised an argument in places. Britain and France both retain highly experienced and well trained armed forces. Other countries like Sweden, Finland and the Baltic states maintain high degrees of readiness. Judging a whole continent by Germany’s thinking is too simplistic.
Both are massively underfunded
The fact those two countries have such relatively strong militaries is part of why they get along so well with the U.S. compared to the rest of western Europe. Both also have substantial soft power outside of Europe as well.
Only 30 years back literally the whole world wanted Germany to become as pacifist as possible to secure peace in Europe. It's just now that everyone realizes the actual opponent is a different one.
@@R3GARnator Spain and Germany have massive influence in the world aswell.
Germany leads the maschinery and car sector. It's not as abvious as McDonald's and Google but just as important.
Spain and Potugal are still the Motherland of a whole continent. Having huge influence on their culture.
@@doscassette871 U.K.’s military budget is going up to 2.5% of gdp and Germany’s is also going up to 2%.
Both Will have military budgets over $80 billion meaning they’ll have the 3rd and 4th largest military budgets in the world.
Frances budget is currently at 1.9% of gdp (around $50 billion) but I’m assuming that there will be an announcement very soon that there military budget is also increasing.
more and more europeans slowly overcome their ptsd / guiltcomplex but it hope the numbers will grow before it is too late. I'm German and unfurtunaly the germans are suffering of the worst ptsd in europe. Generations nowadays should not only look at the bad stuffs that happened in history. There is no nation or population group in europe or all over the world without sin.
In Holland when they test all of the alarm systems all the kids still say "the Germans are coming" y'all are never gonna get rid of that image.
In fact, just few populations in history has developed an ideology dedicated to repair its pasts sins
Here's a Guten Tag! from Hungary! :D
Germany is possibly the only place where this effect makes sense. It actually is your fault that all of this has happened (not as a person, but as a nation) and not only that, but the West literally put you back on your feet. The West fed you and allowed to have an industry, while the countries you ravaged and destroyed could only hope to move there as gastarbeiters. You never had to pay reparations afterall, as that was deemed "too harsh" by America. You were even given the right to reunite, and become the largest, strongest, most influential country in Europe, the very continent you destroyed. This definitely has left everyone else bitter. I don't think a single country, even Austria at this point, supports Germany for EU leadership, even though it is a defacto reality. Also, really questionable decisions made by Germany when it comes to Russia and Turkey.
No other European country has sinned and been given a second chance like Germany did.
Well, there's no nation in Europe without sin, but I cannot think of German action that wasn;t a sin. The sentiment you state is appropriate to all european nations EXCEPT Germany.
This channel is is an informative and brutally honest opinion source .keep up the good work sir
Sorry, this guy's smart enough. And not all of his points are wrong.
But blow the smoke off this, and it's just the libertarian fever dreams
of another 22--year old.
As a European I think its fine to learn a few things from this video. You don't have to agree with everything. And obviously hes missing some European context. But there is still things to gleam.
yeah you can definetly see that hes american :D
glean not gleam.
@@permanentmarkerone oh thanks. Whats gleam again?
@@karigrandi7 and you europeans don't have a problem talking about americas problems even though you're not america
@@franknwogu4911 america is living in tje past. even asia can talk about america.
Chav subculture isn't an example of trying to copy African-Americans. It's more like convergent evolution, where you get two populations with similar social status taking on similar traits, but they're different in many ways as well. A lot of racism (actual racism not fake racism) exists among chav communities so that isn't it. The "wigger" phenomenon (as it's sometimes unfortunately dubbed) is a quite separate thing.
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He never alluded to this… he simply said why is it European nations specially more Anglo influenced ones like UK and Ireland mimic Black American pop culture. But then again K-pop can also be criticised for the same thing and they are from higher class backgrounds.
Chavs might just as commonly look like a Russian Gopnik but they act the same as any other culturally arrested person in the US. They certainly aren't good for society or should be considered some kind of logical evolution in being. They suck.
@@makeytgreatagain6256 yeah but chavs have absolutely nothing in common with black Americans
A lot of people don't get this, especially in the united states. This is going to sound racist because it is statically racist, Black stereotypes are not black stereotypes, they are poor stereotypes. Crime, slang, absent father, drugs, violence, lack of intelligence, drip culture, all of it are not "black" its poor. Poor white people, Hispanic people, Asians, all speak with the wrongly coined AAVE slang, and are more likely to participate in or be a part of black stereotypes.
These videos are rare - they are making me think and examine my own thoughts critically when compared to your conclusions.
Thank you - from one centrist who views the world as considerably more complicated than the media and politics normally portrays to another.
Rudyard definitely ain’t a centrist
@@cara-seyun rudyard is clearly a right-winger, idk, he's smart sometimes but he says a ton of bullshit too
Is there a reason why Denmark isnt included on the thumbnail?
I really like your Greek-Roman / European-American comparison. Its actually freaky how much that history rhymes.
It’s a good comparison. It’s too true how much the US tries to emulate the Roman Empire as well.
It's interesting, but comparisons like that can't be used to predict anything accurately. There are just as many significant differences between the two situations as there are similarities.
@@user-kn6dq8uw2p I would say the US tries to emulate the Roman Republic and is in deep denial of its inevitable transformation into the Empire.
It's mind blowing. And it actually goes much deeper than that, if you speak french, read and watch Phillipe Fabry.
He made a deep model to show how history repeats itself every 1500 to 2000 (a cycle) and we are at the 3rd cycle. Probably one of the most interesting thing I have ever read, it's crazy.
@@cerdic6305 Yeah, Personally I hope we avoid repeating/rhyming with the worst parts of Roman History, Like Caeser, The Authoritarianism, The Civil Wars, and Etc
You put the "Now back to the video" BEFORE a sponsorship. My trust is broken. Now I shall hone my skill of perfectly skipping your sponsorships by looking for the "part 1" card.
You cannot deny though that he got you to watch at least a small part of the ad. If I was the sponsor, I’d give the guy a bonus for that tactic, intentional or otherwise 😆
I pay for YT premium, I skip these ads out of principal. If I was going to actually buy Nord VPN, Squarespace, a Ridge wallet, or whatever I would have done so by now
@@ThatGuy-bh9qh I have ad blocker, I also skip these ads out of principal. :D
Can't knock the hustle though. I want all my favorite creators to have booming patreons and good sponsorships.
@@shorewall came back to this video and found this thread again. Have you heard of sponsorblock?
When economic conditions deteriorate, it’s common to find fault with and criticize a successful minority.
I loved the last part "waiting a new crisis for a new byzantium"
As part of the working class in a rich European country. It's clear that our leaders are running it to the ground due to incompetence, politics and ideology.
Rudy, big fan, you should take some time and clean up your editing/presentation. A tiny amount of effort would up your production quality significantly. Clipping your own lines, different mics/audio quality from line to line, etc are a little jarring. Just some constructive criticism. Thanks for being so prolific, love your channel!
I would rather have more videos tbh
You said the USA has made up 25% of global gdp for 60 years, but today it’s only 15%?
Fascinating video. But I want to add something regarding the Europe/American involvement with "conflict solving". The USA guaranteed Bosniak leader, Alija Izetbegović, support for seeking independence from Yugoslavia. So in a way, they might have stirred the pot additionally or even *crucially* and made Alija take the final step to starting the war. If he thought he had no foreign allies, he might not have started anything. And the Bosniak side has not agreed to almost any peace deal throughout the whole war (probably because of this American factor) while the Serbian side agreed to big majority of the peace deals. Although I personally have no doubt that domestic politicians, Milošević, Izetbegović and Tuđman together with the whole bureaucratic infrastructure that let it all happen are most at fault, not just the American support.
Also, had the USA not symbolically guaranteed Ukraine protection against Russia in the past 10-15 years, the Ukrainian politicians might have acted differently when negotiating their position between the West and Russia, in a way that would not have triggered Putin. Also, the "French involvement" in Africa is despicable, they were installing dictators there for decades and just continue to economically rob and subdue those countries.
Skirmishes between Poland and Slovakia?
I am from Slovakia and that sounds extremely unprobable. If anything Slovakia is the most polarised country right now in east Europe due to incompetent politicians corruption and russian influence, so internal skirmishes are more likely.
Would never happen unless Poland was protecting Solvaks from some bad regime.
@@ForageGardener Why would Poland "save" slovak people? We aren't that much close and also would be difficult to excuse it on Polish side, since there aren't polish minority here. I see this possibility more for Hungary, since we have huge hungarian minority and in case of "bad regime", they would easily excuse the need to protect their minority here.
Also, we kind of already have "bad regime" with no outlook to any solution since most voters are boomers and both sides of political spectrum in slovakia are in core socialist with incompetent and nepotistic people.
@@MartinN1711 As a voice from the other side (polish), I can confidently say that I don't see any way the possible will or an impulse to clash with Slovakia would appear. There are no historic and territorial conflicting "wants and needs" that I am aware of, and I have never seen even slightest anti-Slovak sentiment
Poland invading Slovakia is surely the most outlandish idea I've heard in a while.
It's scary how well you described current politic climate of Poland when talking about Slovakia. May we found resolution to that kleptocratic problem Brother.