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Clip of the Month: George Friedman on the Essential European Problem

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  • Опубликовано: 22 фев 2015
  • Stratfor founder and chairman George Friedman says that German reliance on exports and illegal entrepreneurism in Greece and other less affluent European economies, in large part, led to the debt crisis.
    This Carnegie Council event took place on January 30, 2015. For complete audio and transcript and video clips, go to: www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio...

Комментарии • 12

  • @Athenaikos
    @Athenaikos 9 лет назад +3

    Outstanding!

  • @MarcinMoka1
    @MarcinMoka1 Год назад

    Wow. So much food for thought in that last sentence here in 2023 amidst the Russo Ukrainian war.....

  • @brigittecooper5272
    @brigittecooper5272 Год назад +2

    He has a far reaching hidden agenda

  • @hakunamatata9307
    @hakunamatata9307 7 лет назад +7

    To say that the gemans being germans again in that context is not very friendly if you suppose to have an objective view on these issues

    • @expansionone
      @expansionone 3 года назад +5

      it's called free enterprise and innovative. The Americans are jealous?

    • @max05003
      @max05003 3 года назад +2

      Yes, being a greek myself I can tell the country has serious internal problems rooted in its history. Now, it is true there was some exterior influence too, both in its history and its current affairs. It's a complex situation. It just morphed over the years. But Germany did not have any hegemonic plans. They merely exported and traded across the globe successfully.

    • @max05003
      @max05003 3 года назад +5

      Also in another video, you can see Friedman blaming Germany even for the Vietnam War. He is obsessed with them.

    • @pantherhd62
      @pantherhd62 Год назад

      ​@@max05003 He hates Germany and our success. And yes, he is jelous.

  • @JamesBrown-ux9ds
    @JamesBrown-ux9ds Год назад +2

    More or less story telling and propaganda to impress a not too well informed middle class US audience.
    Very much just the opposite is true: German exports (high class machinery and production equipments for instance, not crude oil or for consumerism) into the EU were necessary to function as change agents to lift other EU economies productivity to world class standards. And a hard and risky job to do for the germans, cause usualy you can do this once - and than the other competes with you.
    And Greece - Time has long told the story now: All the EU imposed (but bot Germany in the first place!) on Greece was sound and healthy, they are on a good path now.
    (But they used to be 'heavyly corrupt' in the past, as long as they had this US backed military dictator regime in Athens, instead of a democracy - no country on earth used to have per capita more Airforce, all bought in USA, than Greece back then - the Europeans haven't forgotten.)

  • @ralphbernhard1757
    @ralphbernhard1757 7 дней назад

    Rich, blaming the divided...
    The people of the Greater Middle East, including the Levant (most of whom are Semites, and the followers of Abrahamic religions) have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common. Strategically ambiguous rulers make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople, then during WW1 the seat of POWER playing these games changed to London/Paris (Sykes-Picot/Balfour Declaration/WW1), then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, starting around the time a bark by Washington DC in 1956 (Suez Crisis/War) showed who the new boss was, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire ME was the playground during the Cold War).
    Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the ME, in order to "rule" over the dissent which is classical "divide and rule". Today, their leaders are ALL tools. Draw lines on the map without asking any of those affected. Endless wars, constant dissent. Divide and Rule. Oldest trick in the book...
    Who wields the POWER? Who has had (in all historical cases in the ME/Levant) the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organizational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline?
    Same types of people and systems. Different times. Same games.
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    The people of the Africa have been "divided and ruled" over by outsiders for centuries. Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common. Strategically ambiguous rulers make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople in North Africa, then during the era of Western imperialism the seat of POWER playing these games changed to the USA/Europe, then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, Africa was the "playground" during the Cold War. Moscow was taking on the role of arming the resistance.
    Once the dividers have reached peak power for themselves, by simply drawing lines on the map without asking any of those affected (Congo Conference/1884) so the own systems of gain can siphon off wealth like a giant vacuum cleaner. The intention was simply to avoid unity in Africa, in order to "rule" over the dissent which is classical "divide and rule".
    Today, all African dissenters, including some of Africa's own greedy corrupt leaders, are ALL tools. Endless wars, constant dissent.
    Give them money, and they will dance for the dividers...
    Divide and Rule.
    Oldest trick in the book...
    Four corners of the globe. Different rules. Same games.
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    The people of the Americas (most of whom are Christians), including the USA, have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common. In the beginning stages of era of European Imperialism, first Spain and Portugal entered the Americas, employing the divide and rule technique of top-down power on the local systems (Aztecs/Incas), then after 1900 as European colonial powers' influence decreased, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC. As the own power increased incrementally, the entire world became the playground after around 1900.
    _Today, it is the globalists who employ imperialist tools to play divide and rule games on their neighbours._
    *Forget "nukes". The "divide and rule/conquer"-strategy is the most powerful force on the planet.*
    Ever since the two-faced "snake" slithered down that tree of unity (fable), speaking out of both sides of the mouth (lies, deceit), human beings have fruitlessly warned and have continuously been warned, against "divisions" within a peaceful status quo. Such divisions create GAIN for OUTSIDERS (Eden as a "system" divided by lies and deceit).
    Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the Americas, in order to rule over the dissent which is classical divide and rule.
    Endless wars on anything and everything from "drugs" to "terror", constant dissent with everything's a war war war...
    Insert levers of lies, mistrust...
    Create favourites: favouritism, by granting access to the own POWER, to those who volunteer to act as proxies...
    Point the systemic finger, everywhere else, by use of the own paid stooges of power...
    Divide and Rule.
    Oldest trick in the book...
    *In February 1948, George F. Kennan's Policy Planning Staff said: "[W]e have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. ... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity."* [Critical question: Who is "we"?]
    And that is what they did.
    And that is what you are fighting for.
    America's friends and self-proclaimed default rivals in Europe are still being burnt to ensure this disparity continues, with a "pattern" of alignments which are beneficial to the own rule. Set up European and Eurasian nations (including the MENA region) against each other. It is how divide and rule is implemented. The imperialist playbook of Great Britain and the USA for more than 100 years. Read Halford Mackinder (Pivot of History, 1904) and Zbigniew Brzezinski (Grand Chessboard, 1997) regarding Eurasia for the template. Who wields the POWER? Who has had (in all historical cases in the ME/Levant) the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organizational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline?
    That is what empires have always done.
    Create the default rival/enemy on their own marching routes.
    It is usually the power most likely to succeed which is determined as the default rival/enemy.
    Notice how, as soon as a rival starts mass-producing products high up in the value chain of capitalism, and starts vying for markets, and becomes successful, it immediately becomes the systemic rival, and is then geopolitically encircled by the greater empire. It happened around 1900, as Germany started building high-value products, and it happened around 2000, as China started moving away from building cheap toys and labor intensive kitchen appliances...
    The games start on the home turf. The first victims are their own people, locked in the eternal struggle for wealth and personal gain which they have been deceived into thinking is "good", but which WILL be exploited by the snakes who deceive them in the divide and rule technique of power. Because ..."most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place." - Walter E. Williams
    *War is a great "divider." It goes straight through the heads of millions and billions of people from the very top tiers, right down to the individual level. War divides alignments and alliances, goes straight through organizations, divides political parties, tears through families, and finally at the very bottom tier, goes straight through individual hearts and minds as individuals struggle with themselves.*