I think whatever Trump thinks or does, he is 100% correct that the EU needs to shoulder more of the military burden. It is wrong that European security, particularly Ukraine's fate, would depend on which person the US elects as their president. If the aid came mostly from the EU and the UK then the US wouldn't have a say in Ukraine's diplomacy.
Europe has been leeching off of American tax dollars for many years now. All the while lecturing Americans how EU has a superior (they don't) social security (subsidized by the hardworking American taxes). About time the Americans stop slaving for the racist Europeans. Europe is making the same mistakes it made 80 years ago. Supporting a racist power hungry dictator while Russia has to step in again to clean up the mess.
As a Greek person, I hate seeing the top EU shot-callers stuck on perpetual bureaucratic limbo and criminal complacency in the guise of civility and refinement. A war is happening right next to us and everyone's like "hmm maybe additional restraint and understanding will solve everything..." while patting themselves in the back for being as useful as a boy scout.
This is 2 fold, one the over reliance on U.S. support / aid and two not taking the threat of Putin seriously because "it's not our side if Europe" mentality. It seems the majority of Europe is ok with giving up it's Eastern side to Russia. I knew the experiment that was the E.U. was failing but looks like the same can be said for NATO now.
I absolutely agree with you. I'm from Poland and I feel like we're alone grabbing onto the American support. The EU is completely delusional at this point. And you guys in Greece are over worked, especially with the recent Saturdays added to your work week and you still manage to fund your military. But the rest of the EU is just "going green" that's where their focus is. So annoying.
Post WW2 it was understandable that the US would be a large chunk of European security, and it made sense that Europe would encourage that. Sometimes though, in order for history to move on, things have to happen that sort of force it. Times are just changing
Post Cold War after the Soviets Lost, Europe Kind of Kicked its feet up and let USA handle Security. Theyve gotten Lazy and Indeed Times Are Changing. Starting in 2025 they need to go back to defending themselves
USA asserted themselves everywhere around the world and not a single time they did it from the goodness of their heart, they always had something to gain, be it resources or influence. Despite everything Trump says, USA WANTS Europe to rely on them because if they don't, they have no political leverage nor influence over the old continent.
I would agree. It’s crazy how countries in the EU will say they want American to stop “policing the world”, but then not invest more into defense. I would love for US to stop policing the world, but that can only happen when the world takes responsibility. If the US were to pull out right now, the world would be screwed. Prices of middle eastern oil would skyrocket because of the subsequent wars and takeovers that would happen to essential routes and oil reservoirs. The global trade would also hurt because of similar reasons. I think allied countries need to spend more on military and we need our military to have integrated bases and train the joint armies accordingly.
Well WW2 Russia did a lot of work but yes. Having U.S involved in the war. You have to defend two sides which is hard to defend both sides with certain numbers.
This video has the worst and most biased take I ever heard on Biden's mess of Afghanistan withdrawal. Reducing Biden's poor execution of that withdrawal to being Trump's fault is just lazy research at best.
Not really. Anyone who has paid attention to american history would know that we'd eventually get sick of the racism, sexism and authoritarianism and reject it overwhelmingly like we have so many times before. The biggest difference this time is that the democrats convinced themselves and their supporters that they aren't the racist sexist authoritarians. Every time someone learns what those words actually mean and examine the actions of the alt-left they stop voting democrat.
I recently read a comment left on one of T1J's community posts that I thought was brilliant. They posit that the world was actually supposed to end in 2012, but it kept going, and now whoever's in charge of what happens on the "Earth Show" has been struggling to figure out where to take it next. So now they're just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
What many people forget: Pressuring EU countries to spend on military means equipment purchases from US companies they often have to rely on. It's not about total military spending, it's about how it's spent. If EU countries increase spending, they should decouple such spending from the US companies that are the profiteers, but instead invest into domestic company build-up to reduce the real dependency to the US.
We already do, and we should do more. There is absolutely nothing we can't produce in Europe, at least as good or even better. The fact is that we need the Americans , but the Americans need the Europeans just as much. Radar technology, ultra high tech semiconductors technology, money, high end steel etc etc. Stuff that isn't produced and can't be produced in the US but in Europe. China is very much willing to buy European tech to strengthen their military capabilities. Americans are ignorant. We can, and we will strengthen our Europeam military. Money isn't the problem.
I think this can turn out to be a good thing for us Europeans. We have relied on the USA too much and for too long. The USA drew its power from being the world’s police, but as we can see, this is no longer what the American people want their country to be. The idea of isolating America and focusing on domestic issues is not Trump’s idea-it’s the idea of the American people, and that’s why he was chosen by them. It's important to understand that. Many have criticized Trump for his actions, but he says and does things that Americans want to hear and see, which makes it very democratic. This shift could take Europe out of its lethargic state. In fact, it might turn out to be very unfavorable for the USA, as the rise of Europe could deal a financial blow to the United States.
I would not be so sure on that one. Yalls demographics are cooked. Americas is getting cooked as well. We both just going to be on the struggle bus here soon and as we get old, no retirement from the gov cus no young workers :/
I should point out that the american people are just tired of being yanked around by everyone, all of your nations tarriff american goods, yet the us threatens to do the same and you act like we've somehow stabbed you in the back, the us taxpayer literally funds half the world's countries through our economy yet you call us braggarty hicks, also your socialized healthcare is subsidized by americans paying out the nose for our medicines (though red tape doesn't help there either). America might have more or less ruled the world for the last 80 years, but the rest of the world, outside of maybe japan, has treated america like it's some backwards trash heap for at least the 40 years i've been alive, we as a people are tired of doing everything for everyone else while our people are treated badly and suffer, until trump came along our government has completely ignored our anger and worry. Also let me be clear, even during the cold war most americans were isolationist, but saw nato and european assistance as a necessary evil to maintain safety in the us, the us has at least since before ww1 been isolationist and nationalist, our bureaucrats in government however, were globalist, even against the will of the average american, we are not against helping europe, but we're tired of being treated like a sugar daddy with europe and other so called allies not pulling their weight.
@@nickashton8139 Actually american demographic trends are weird, we're not really reducing in population in the way you think we are, our cities are having far less kids but rural is having more kids, while this would cause a crunch at the top end for old age millenials, it likely will not have as big of a effect in the long run outside of shifting america more and more to the right as again, rural is having a boom while cities populations are contracting, especially among african americans (which seems to be highly influenced by abortion numbers, but i'm not gonna get into THAT conversation here). Europe however, needs to rework it's systems to stop relying on social safety nets at the rate they are demographically collapsing, but well, politicians only think about their term, and the next term is the other guy's problem. For what it's worth, china, russia and arguably india are far worse off than europe with demographic predictions, but all 3 have a tendency to lie about their numbers.
I mean Trump was already in office and people claimed relations between Europe and the US would sever and he would withdraw the US from NATO and none of it ever happened. He also warned about Russia during his first term and about Europe’s reliance on it for energy. For a matter of fact as someone who voted for Trump I don’t even know any Americans who actually want to abandon Europe vs them spend more on defense. The US sees China as its biggest threat now
From 🇵🇱: No matter what America does, Europe needs to get serious about Putin and dramatically increase military readiness, including aid to Ukraine. He sees you as his enemy and wants to weaken your society, whether you like it or not. Take our word on this one.
Exactly. "What Europe needs to do" is exactly what Europe needs to do, regardless of who the incoming president is. They continue to kick the can down the road at their own peril.
Why should we Americans pay for your defense?We don't owe you anything Trump should pull us out of Nato we don't have any threat from Russia and we should focus on China
Normally a fan but as someone who was literally executing the plan to withdraw from Afghanistan in real time, this is quite off. What you aren't understanding here is that there was X plan in place to withdraw ~ May 2021, but when Biden was inaugurated, there were 3 months between January and April that they were revising the plan, which would become plan Y. Weekly we would get updates from Generals explaining to us we are legitimately waiting on the executive branch to make this decision, but oh wait, by April we were in crunch time (due to a 3 month intermission) hence why the withdraw was pushed to August, where the shit show happened. The pause and delay in the original plan due to the new administration actually caused things to go worse than if plan X was carried out. Additionally, as you can tell most of your negative feedback is completely correct in that the Afghan National Army had absolutely 0 desire to fight. Their mission was (generally speaking) get paid by day as an Afghan soldier, get paid by night as Taliban. Again, normally a fan, but this came off as really biased and uninformed. Hard for me to forget as someone who was literally in the middle of it x)
@@AllanHinde-mb2prIs the shift good or bad in your opinion? From the outside looking in European citizens need to reign in their governments, a lot. They seem to be doing very little that benefits the citizens.
@@AllanHinde-mb2prwhat shift? The only shift I see is bringing in people from the 3rd world that won’t assimilate into Europe lmfao good luck Oh wait you can’t mention that bc you’ll get arrested
I mean, when you've had US military bases and training exercises throughout most of Europe for longer than most people have been alive, then it gets quite easy to assume they will always be there to defend you. Basically, the same way a child won't learn how to do the dishes if you never make them; Why would Europe spend lots of money on their military when the USA has been there to protect them for the last 60-70 years? The European countries definitely should have spent more on defence, but why would they when the largest superpower on the face of the planet has been protecting them for longer than most people in the country have been alive?
As on older Irish man that's embarrassed by the current state of our national defenses, I hope that if the Americans abandon Ukraine and that the Polish and Brits do go all in to replace them, that the large expat communities here put real pressure on the government to finally pull it's head out of the sand and do something about it. We have the money, the manpower and friendly countries who'd be more than happy to help us to properly beef up our defense forces enough to meaningfully support our European brothers, we're just lacking the political will to do it.
"I hope that if the Americans abandon Ukraine and that the Polish and Brits do go all in to replace them" You say that like the US was actually helping which mostly it wasn't.
What are you on about. The current state of the irish national defences??? And youre embarrassed. When have ireland had any sort of national defence? What wars did you fight in? Irish cabbage.
The US has carried the defense Burden for Europe. This allowed Europe to build its generous social programs and drift to totalitarianism as people give up freedoms for security.
He will definitely change Europe and effectively force it to take more initiatives on its own. I'm not so sure USA is going to benefit from that though.
It won’t. Closed military bases, less trade, less trust, which is what keeps our dollar afloat.. this is what we get for letting the adult literacy rate in this country fall below 60%.
@@razorramon780 I agree and I am not an American. I am Dutch. Obama asked nicely and politely. Trump asked in 2016 2020 again more insistently. To raise militairy spending to 2% of the national income. We did nothing or not nearly enough. The invasion of Ukraine was an indirect result of European failure to comply by NATO standards. Dont blame Trump. What he asjed of us was fair. And we (Europe) complained about the mean words he used. Western European countries who did not spent 2% are to blame.
This. State building was a naive ambition and it would've never worked. Evident in the military loss to the Taliban. You can't make the indigenous population believe some novel foreign values. The fight against Taliban was a fight against the native culture.
That's exactly why Trump just decided to pull out. They weren't an effective government and nothing we could do was going to change that. Hence the last 20 plus years of the war.
You're numbers are not correct, or at least incomplete, concerning EU aid. Your $133B figure of EU aid only considers direct bilateral aid and ignores aid rendered by EU institutions. The total EU-aid is estimated to be $176B. And if you expand it to geographic Europe (which includes the UK and others) , the amount is $203B. It's all in the datasheet of the source you're quoting for this video.
You need to study international relations first Then focus on one aspect of foreign policy, you’re not going to keep up with every one I specialize in Latin America policy but my colleagues are all Asia and Europe
Even Real Life Lore said his own opinion could be wrong depending on what will happen later, as IR could be impulsive. But we can guess some based on history, just like the weather.... but even weather gets wild now
Americans not protecting Europeans means someone else will. You have to start thinking outside the box, these comments are so closedminded and ignorant.
Because it's a lie. Russia would have serious trouble with Italy much less all of Europe NATO. China only spends 1.6% of it's GDP. 2.5% is absurd. Europe NATO was never in any danger spending that much is just for flashy but non effective force projection(not defense)
@@Emmanuel-co6sm Nope they brought this situation upon themselves by meddling in every countries affairs to spread capitalism, every country can commit atrocities as long as they are on the side of American imperialism.
@@FrenzyLive1 If I was in a restaurant with a table of people I can barely communicate with much less stand for extended periods, and the waiter offers to presume what we want in exchange for a 50% discount, I'm saying yes, not considering if it makes me look too reliant to people looking in from the window.
Poland is the only one in the region who truly know the colors of ruSSia and Belarus. US should help Poland secure central and Eastern Europe and not count on silly Germany to do so!
One of the flaws with Western countries in our current decade.... They aren't interested in including people who are straightforward. Because they don't have the "correct" vibes. They want folks who are "exciting." Instead of smart. -With eastern NATO countries being the only exception. (For obvious reasons.)
It's a common issue with Western countries in our current decade..... They won't include folks who lack the "correct" vibes. Even though Poland has the experience and knowledge to help out.
@@MALUR82For real. The German government seems to think if they have a decent military it's only a matter of time until France is invaded. Meanwhile Poland is preparing for a unilateral reformation of the USSR.
@@DarkElfDiva Uh, I get where you're coming from but that's not really right. Naturally *our* timeline is primary to us. We can't put stock in alternate timelines, they're of no causal relevance to us except as thought experiments and what-ifs. We have this reality. It might be entirely illusory, but acknowledging that does nothing for us except let us stare at our navels.
@@humanbeing4841 Those are important things. Hell, they are a net positive in the long term anyway. Sorry, but not everyone wants to throw away their future investments just to have a marginally more powerful military in the short term.
@redman_10t39 Climate change is not important whatsoever, it's a product of decadence. Welfare need to be reduced because it's killing economic incentive for entrepreneurship and eating up money that could be used for military. Welfare is like a drug that once introduced is very difficult to develop political will to cut.
@@JeyKalda Thank you for saying this. The americans have lost their democratic way and now Just dont Care because their country cant get their Shit together
@JeyKalda "For us and our posterity." America was never supposed to be "democratic" crusaders or the world police. The American people have never once voted to go to war to spread democracy.
Fun fact, Trump asked Ukraine about Biden before the Democrat Primaries, about a VP threatening to withhold US aid unless a certain prosecutor was fired, when a video of Biden bragging he did so was played on fox news.
Didn't Trump withhold Ukraine aid for dirt on Biden? Extortion. I think the intent was Biden was his biggest opponent, and that turned out to be the case.
Didn't Trump withhold Ukraine aid for dirt on Biden? Extortion. They tried to give it the appearance of being moral, but I think it was Biden was Trump's biggest challenger in the '20 election.
@@BrunoDias1234 That's really vapid. You clearly know nothing about how to prevent wars, only create them. If you keep on being toxic to powerful leaders you don't like, all they're going to do is want a war. If you are reasonable, rational, and nice to BOTH sides, then your chances of not causing a war is much greater by far. Maybe this takes a genius to understand or someone without cocky issues. If you want to run for president where your main goal is to aggravate and harass NK and promote people targeting them, don't come whining that they start war with your country.
My thoughts exactly. Anyone that actually pays attention to American politics independent of legacy media knew Biden has been sending his son to grab bags of 💰 from corrupt governments.
The smug comparison with WW2 is so braindead it almost hurt to watch. Would Hitler have invaded Poland if the Allies had THOUSANDS OF NUKES and the nuclear triad to deliver them at will? Also, what makes you think Russia has the military capability to roll through Europe - even if they wanted to - when they’ve been in a stalemate for years? I rest my case.
You rested your case before anybody could respond? Firstly, why on earth do you think it's a stalemate? The Russuans have stated continuously from the very beginning that this SMO was about demilitarising NATO (via Ukraine). It is a war of attrition. Russian's have a totally different approach to war not related to territory, but objectives. You are projecting your own goals onto Russia, despite eat they do and say.
@@PaulSimonMcCarthy-fu6ms Wow that was cheeky, I'm reeling. But I think it's a stalemate because the front line hasn't moved in 2+ years of fighting for all intents and purposes. Meanwhile, both sides are both burning significant resources and manpower to hold it in place with little indication one or the other will achieve a breakthrough any time soon. Sure the Russians "took" areas in eastern Ukraine but those were already largely held by pro-Russia rebels who had been at war with Ukraine for over a decade, so that hardly counts as a hard-won victory indicative of broader Russian military superiority. And side note - if you would've taken a second to either watch the full video and/or read my comment in context, you'd find we actually sort of agree..? My point was going against the video's comparison of the concession of the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany with a potential peace deal where Ukraine would cede the eastern provinces currently held by Russia. The implication was that "we thought this would stop them but the Nazis just went ahead and used the newfound advantage to start rolling through mainland Europe" so the Russians will in all likelihood just do the same thing if we try to end the war by ceding those provinces. My point is that is absurd on its face when Russia couldn't even get to Kyiv (obviously if they could've done that to force broader concessions they would've done it already) and when crossing any NATO border could easily trigger the end of the world. The Nazis had neither problem to contend with - they had overwhelming military superiority in the early stages and knew they were catching their enemies with their pants down.
As someone who was in Afghanistan from before Trump's deal first took place, to the late summer of 2020, I can tell you and everyone here that description is almost completely wrong. That was wildly disingenuous of you
As a solider, you were a pawn in the bigger picture. You likely had no idea what was going on above your head. Because American soldiers are only briefed on a need to know basis.
@@94808G "soldiers are just pawns!" so heckin edgy! "need to know basis" I know how stuff works cause I watch war movies! I was one of the pilots flying the cargo missions that closed down all the coalition bases. Do I think I know every little detail about what was going on? No, of course not. Did I get daily intelligence briefs on how the draw-down and peace talks were going, where- if anywhere- we might expect to be shot at, how much damage we could do to the process if we misidentified a hostile act and chose to shoot, and whether we were even allowed to take off that day based on the Taliban's good faith and cooperation? Yup. And most importantly, even not being at a level where I had ALL the information, do I have a significantly more informed perspective than a RUclipsr who was never involved in any remote fashion whatsoever? Probably.
@ you are pawns, no question about it. You’re the equivalent of government property from the moment you sign. Doing the legwork of their bidding without ever truly knowing what anything was ever about. You’re given orders, you follow them. No questions asked. So no matter what little bits of info you were leaked while being on the ground? That was probably the equivalent of a pinky toe on the entire body of which.. would be considered the purpose of you actually being deployed there. Thank you for your service.
The EU has provided less "military" aid, but double as much monetary aid. And that's only half of the story, as the millions of refugees cost just as much. We are thus paying 4 times what the USA "pays". Not to mention that the USA is "earmarking" funds, but delaying the actual act. We Europeans have the same problem that the US Democrats have: Our PR sucks. We are doing the brunt of the support, but the USA is getting credit for every time someone in Washington as much as farts in Kyiv's general direction.
America shouldn't be paying a cent to Europe's defense or aid. The continued insistence that we owe Europe anything is pushing vast swaths of Americans toward insolationism. The average American doesn't care in the slightest about Europe or what's happening over there. Yall have been killing each other for all recorded history and we fail to see this as our problem.
Why the hell should one nation be stuck funding and defending a bunch of others? Ain’t our damn job. I might have my gripes with this country, but I’m damn tired of us footing the bill for your cushy lifestyles. Handle your own business.
@@studybuddy3960 US supporting Ukraine with plenty of surplus, much of which met its best before date or was planned to be replaced, this is true for most of gear/vehicles given to Ukraine from all countries. US is putting their own value on this stuff, then add it up for "value" of aid packets sent. A lot of this needs to be replaced in the US anyway and such bolstering US defence industry and the american workers/people. War has always been a lucrative business, specially when you have the worlds largest military industry. Not trying to downplay the support given, but it makes a difference understanding the details around it, most of the billions given in gear is being paid straight into the US economy. Perfectly lining up with the protectionistic President in January.
If we didn't find the lazy European government then the US could afford to have similar healthcare systems and free college. We could thus reduce the military budget. Tell your government to stop being lazy and defend themselves. You don't see us crying to y'all about our southern border.
Truth be told, it's dark for both ukraine and russia, no matter what happens with the ukraine war, both lost a ton of their young men in this war, and both were already facing suicidal levels of demographic collapse, it's likely the 2, even if they hate each other, may have no choice but to join together with the rest of europe to survive the 20xx years, because it's gonna be bumpy no matter what happens, tl;dr this war is and always has been pointless and self destructive for both sides, a win today for a possible collapse and conquest by their neighbors in 20 years for both of them at the rate it's going, putin's push, even if everything laid out in the peace plan came true, even if russia somehow took all of ukraine, was a failure for russia, as it's severely weakened them and the rest of europe, this war had no victors, only losers, no matter the outcome.
@@tatsuya2112 I agree, if what I heard is true there won't any more Ukrainians or Russians left in the future. Although I don't agree with Russia's plan in solving that lol
so many profound philosophers in this comment section, where were you enlightened people when corruption and murder prevailed? little itsy bitsy burrows paid for by someone else
To be fair about the Afghan withdrawl, they had decades to prepare to fight the Taliban, they simply choose not to. I would rather have left as we did then stay there any longer.
I wouldn’t bc 12 us soldiers died. It was supposed to be a slow withdrawal. Instead we left our equipment over there while hundreds of afghans died some where clinging and dying on the planes as they were departing
@@christianpetersen163 the reality is trade and balancing socialism with capitalism. It is no accident Scandinavian countries have the highest living standards and social safety nets. Certainly not because of their armies.
"How about they do the right thing" I concede that I mostly don't know what I'm talking about, but his second term's policy plan is going to involve a lot of that. Oh I guarantee you.
I am from Czechia and it's sad that so many people now say we shouldn't help Ukraine anymore 😢 I think it's not most of people,but still ... I can get it from some very poor people, they feel like the Czech state doesn't help them enough and sends money to Ukraine...but that's not only them who says that and I feel like these thoughts are spread from Russia to our country
Why make life for your people harder with increasing taxes and such by sending money to UKR, when you can put that money into building your own defence and own military. It would be different if UKR was winning though but its kind of a stalemate with slow minuscule RUS gains, and if the aid keeps coming its just going to remain a stalemate with deathpoll steadily rising on both sides.
We are not sending actual cash. The "money" is in terms of supplies, munition and old cold war era vehicles and machinery. Which in turn gets replaced by modern supplies and vehicles like F-35s from the US. So yes, we are actually putting the money into our own military.
American soft power hasn't and will not end any time soon. Besides having the largest economy and strongest military in the world by far, the US has more cultural influence than any other nation on earth by a huge margin
20:05 map is missing Petsamo, Finland's other 'arm' that used to give us access to the Arctic Ocean and separated Soviet Union and Norway from being neighbours. It was also one of the ceded territories.
A fourth option is a European army, buying together means we buy better meaning we use better meaning we spend better meaning we spend effectively less.
Yeah good luck with that, first there's the obvious language barrier and difficulties but also these are straight up sovereign independent countries with their own interest like France and UK who use their army for their own interest in foreign lands plus there already is a European army, NATO already makes sure all these armies have a specific role in the alliance defense so they can coordinate plus during war they can already pass command of certain armies to other countries commanders so there is no real motive for a European army
@lolthepop324alois8 that's why the Dutch and Germans already merged their military the Dutch got our small navy we got their small army. Language is not taht great a barrier if you train your soldiers look at nato the soldiers work like one big army despite the language barriers if nato does exercises, I know that not only from you know reading and thinking but also because I know some soldiers taht took part in such exercises.
@@dariusgunter5344 yeah I get but the fact these are countries with interests of their own already makes the prospect of a European army impossible right bow
I understand the argument to be that the timeline for agreed upon withdrawal of all US forces in Afghanistan was unrealistically short, leading to large amounts of abandoned equipment. That seems like a reasonable criticism to me. The US practically set up house in Afghanistan for 20 years. It would take a while to clear all that out.
There was plenty of time in the time line for the withdrawal. The military dragged its feet denying the withdrawal until hours before hand. Someone very intentionally bungled that withdrawal. That person should be up in front of a court to answer for the lives lost in that cluster.
Excellent opening statement: we can only speculate! You're being honest. It's ridiculous how all the pundits speak with certainty about what Trump will do and not do.😂
You neglected the fact that the professional and experienced people who worked with Trump during his first term have mostly abandoned him and were supporting Harris during the last election. Trump's cabinet picks are all just people who would kiss his ass no matter what he says as long as he deports immigrants (but only the 'wrong' immigrants as the presence of Musk attests), attacks minorities and women and lowers their rich asses' taxes. He could tell them to invade Mexico and they would fucking do it.
You don’t understand the full range of the situation. Trump has publicly stated that he will build an Iron Dome for America, just like Israel, a defensive military spend rather than an offensive one. That’s his deal to the Military Industrial Complex, no more wars but spend on an iron dome on their own soil to keep the companies happy.
@@asishreddy7729 For the love of god, is the american public actually buying that? With the economy and stock prices there is at least some wiggle room for trump because nobody know what will happen there but this is just showing a clear lack of physics education. The "Iron Dome" is a SHORT RANGE (up to 70km) missile defense system. Thats why it works. For Long range ICBMs there is (for numerous reasons, some physical constraints, some political) no system in existence that can reliably defend a country from icbms. Even further such a system would require extensive deployed long range radars across the globe. If Trump truly plans to fuck their allies by not honoring NATO Europe will wean itself of the US.
True but plz edit that missing space after the comma in. My autistic brain HATES when i know theres this particular specific typo. I know, i know, sounds trivial, soudns random, but what can i say? Mentalhealth is funky like that. And it only takes a second for you to edit
The first war Soviet Union attacked Finland. This war Germany approved. The second war 1941 Finland did not fight FOR Germany, but WITH Germany to protect themseleves. Note the difference. Furthermore the map over lost land is wrong. It does not show the Petsamo area in the north with the important nickel mine.
As a tax paying American I have no idea why any American would support our tax dollars propping up Ukraine while all of the EU does and spends nothing. We have a lot of issues state side we need to focus on. We can’t focus on a region on the other side of the planet that has seemed to be in perpetual conflict since the beginning of time
@@DC_ConcertsAmerica as a country was formed to separate itself from all other countries it would engage in trade but not participate in foreign wars this changed in the last century due to world wars. The United States didn’t even participate in ww2 until years after it started we American citizens want nothing to do with foreign wars. Trump understands this unlike many past presidents so yes those countries should be left to sort out there own affairs the consequences of that would be the chips we rely on out of Twain will be manufactured here now. Problem solved easier than fighting China over a foreign country
@@btkb1427 So European countries pay their full share of NATO? Trump forced them to pay more of that his last term. Why is the US paying hundreds of billions to aid Ukraine, a European nation? Why are European and other nations not paying their share of new drug costs? 90% of new drugs are developed in the US, but the R&D costs are paid for by the US. That's not fair is it?
@@Absaalookemensch so many false equivalencies here, I would have more sympathy with you if it was his first term, but the number paying more than 2 percent now is huge, it's nearly all nato countries Drugs? R&D I have no idea what the actual numbers are so I won't comment but yours seems very far fetched especially since you are assuming it's footed by governments and not private companies, but I have no idea If you cannot see why stability in Europe is in the USA interest I cannot help you, fair or not. Should Poland be upset for spending more than the USA as a percentage of GDP on military? That's rhetorical
A lot will change for America if you choose that path. No one exists in a vacuum, and your country developed the way it did because of its role in the world. It might also be a one-way road when it comes to our relatively short lifespans. For better or For worse
@@philipelandt A lot will change because things will improve. The US being expected play primary roles in national conflicts has reached levels of absurdity when keeping peace in international zones around the world is already takes crazy levels of commitment.
Those new boundaries, another major victory for Russian century's expansion. Russia seized land and expanded their country before & post WWII, from Poland, Germany, Finland, Romania & Japan. Russia was once a tiny land around Moscow, they expanded in all directions, incorporating Finland to the west, Crimea to the south, to the tip of eastern Asia. They sold Alaska to USA out of fear the English will invade Alaska.
To replace the American nuclear umbrella and monitoring will cost Europe ten years and at least five trillion. How on earth do they expect to be able to afford that?
We don't need a nuclear umbrella that can wipe out the world three times. We do have a stock that is a sufficient deterrent to Russia, or do we need a deterrent to the US as well ?
You know how Europeans have laughed at Americans for not having free healthcare for decades. You’re about to find out why. Those countries will have to cut there free healthcare bump up taxes live like Americans have for protection finally playing there part. Which in the long run will mean less spending by the United States more money in American taxpayers pockets.
The U.S. can't afford its own weapons, because the country has a debt much, much great that European countries do. There is even a state budget surplus in the insanely rich Nordic countries. Europe is absolutely able to afford its new, huge armament program, and the U.S. will regret the moment it incentivized Europe to build its own.
@ What? Britain and France are the only nuclear powers and they’ve barely paid a penny to America on trillions of loans that have been in default since 1931. As for the Nordics, the mere mention of war has the population going into therapy.
@@AJThielmannperhaps I was speaking from experience, don’t assume to know my motives. This country needs change, stoping foreign aid won’t fix things immediately but a change of mindset from our leadership will.
So you support the Republican Party who absolutely does not give a shit about poor people? The party that wants to slash social security and Medicaid, and overturn the affordable care act?
Bit disappointing to see the pretty blantant political bias in this video. This channel normally does decent well avoiding most of it. Big drop in standards here.
I hate Trump, and I was devastated when I learned he won the election. That being said, this video has unintentionally made me feel a little relieved about his foreign policy. He is a pacifist in foreign wars. Kudos to him (and Biden for following through) in getting out of Afghanistan. I really hope his plan for ending the Ukraine war happens and I hope he gets the balls to do this for Gaza as well and pull funding from Isreal as well. Great video, but to compare Putin's aims to Hitler are unfounded. Anyone who has been following Putin for the last 20 years knows that he is nothing like Hitler. He wants Nato to be punished, and he will hopefully get his way. Once he does, he can retire, claiming he was one of the best leaders for Russia's interest in history. I hope trump can help the Korean Peninsula as well. When he shook hands and agreed to talk with Kim, that was still historic and I still applaud that historic move. Trump's other idiotic policies however...
As an American, I find it extremely annoying that some Americans don’t feel we need or benefit from our alliance with our European allies, when we’ve been benefiting from each other, I’d even go so far to say America more than Europe, from the alliance with each other. Honestly, yes they can benefit from their alliance with each other more, but not at the expense of the other.
It's times like this that you realize how bias and left leaning this show is. The amount of continued and perpetuated misinformation about Trump is astonishing.
@@a5centin your view, go ahead and inform us why. I won’t deny that America has seen incredible benefit from the world with its wide reaching umbrella covering Europe. European countries laughed at America for not providing things like free healthcare.. where has that gotten us? US develops the most advanced medical breakthroughs in the world, so much so that the world follows us as a leader in medical intervention. American people, taxpayers to be precise, has funded the vast majority of the security bill for the entire European continent over the last 80 years. We have internal problems of our own we’d like to address, and if letting Europe be in charge of its own defense for the next 4 years is the way to do that I’m all for it. Europeans took care of their own people for the better part of those 80 years, now America wants to do the same and it’s a big deal? Welcome to the real world, the one that Americans have been living in. Where everything costs money.
I wish Ground News knew how sick I am of hearing this stupid message. Don't they know there is a point of saturation that makes people LESS likely to use it?
Trump is a f-up, but he was what Europe needed to get a grip on global leadership. Great for Europe, but the U.S. is going to hate being left behind in the dust, which is what is going to happen.
actually i blame Biden for fucking things up in Ukraine, there's some smelly shady business going on within that country well before the revolution and subsequent war, together with European nations standing with this BS.
As an american, i am rather sick and tired of taking out loans in my grandchildren and great grandchildren's names who are not even born yet to fund yet ANOTHER european conflict. Europeans need to figure their shit out and stop begging for us to bail them out.
I mean you signed an Agreement (Budapest Agreement) that you will Support Ukraine in a conflict. Also the US as ond of the oldest democracies stopping to Support democracy around the world wont be a good Look. Maybd you Just get your Shit together and get Health Care and fair wages so that you dont have to live the way you do right now
@@Kamel-d7o I don't know how you managed to get almost your entire statement incorrect. That's quite an impressive feat. First off, I did not sign an agreement. The morons that I did not have an opportunity to vote for or against did. Second, the US is NOT a democracy. Anyone who says "threat to our democracy" is showing how blatantly ignorant they are of our government. Last, I think that is a great idea! We can reduce the spending we waste on all kinds of European garbage to find our own people's needs like healthcare! We also reduce the subsidizes you Europeans have taken advantage of off the backs of American grandchildren for years, whilst simultaneously using the money they should be using for defense on their "free healthcare"! It's a win win! Europeans spend more on defense and Americans get better healthcare!
A fact not to known by many people is that the members of the EU are bound to defend each other if any one of them is attacked. This doesn`t really make any difference, because the members of the EU usually are already members of the NATO (and more after Sweden and Finland have joined NATO), but COULD be important, if a neutral Ukraine is allowed into the EU, but not into NATO.
I actually really appreciate the caveat at the beginning with you saying "this is extremely speculative" because a lot of people are speculating and stating it as fact. Very responsible coverage here RLL.
I think whatever Trump thinks or does, he is 100% correct that the EU needs to shoulder more of the military burden. It is wrong that European security, particularly Ukraine's fate, would depend on which person the US elects as their president. If the aid came mostly from the EU and the UK then the US wouldn't have a say in Ukraine's diplomacy.
Europe has been leeching off of American tax dollars for many years now. All the while lecturing Americans how EU has a superior (they don't) social security (subsidized by the hardworking American taxes). About time the Americans stop slaving for the racist Europeans.
Europe is making the same mistakes it made 80 years ago. Supporting a racist power hungry dictator while Russia has to step in again to clean up the mess.
And we should spent it in Europe, not in the US. At least, that's the plan.
They should shoulder ALL of the costs. They should be PAYING for our security. In fact, invoice the lazy socialist cowards
@thetroytroycan given how much wealth europe has extracted from the rest of the world, it seems fair they should return some of the wealth they stole
@@thetroytroycangiven how much wealth they extracted from the rest of the world, repayment is only fair
We should have woken up years ago, trump or not.
We europeans have been too lazy
I dont want ANYTHING woke in Europe!
Lazy?
We made a lot of money with and off Russia.
We still do.
Classic European L
Arent you guys socials anyway? Whats the difference?
@@gewitterhund3164Like many otthers. But for Europeans it's especially crazy, they feed their worst enemy.
As a Greek person, I hate seeing the top EU shot-callers stuck on perpetual bureaucratic limbo and criminal complacency in the guise of civility and refinement. A war is happening right next to us and everyone's like "hmm maybe additional restraint and understanding will solve everything..." while patting themselves in the back for being as useful as a boy scout.
Ungrateful rat. Russia fought over 10 wars to help free Greeks from ottoman and this how you pay them back?
"Hmmm. Appeasement didn't work. Maybe we need to try more appeasement?"
You can help them all you want but for the US we are done
This is 2 fold, one the over reliance on U.S. support / aid and two not taking the threat of Putin seriously because "it's not our side if Europe" mentality. It seems the majority of Europe is ok with giving up it's Eastern side to Russia. I knew the experiment that was the E.U. was failing but looks like the same can be said for NATO now.
I absolutely agree with you. I'm from Poland and I feel like we're alone grabbing onto the American support. The EU is completely delusional at this point. And you guys in Greece are over worked, especially with the recent Saturdays added to your work week and you still manage to fund your military. But the rest of the EU is just "going green" that's where their focus is. So annoying.
Post WW2 it was understandable that the US would be a large chunk of European security, and it made sense that Europe would encourage that. Sometimes though, in order for history to move on, things have to happen that sort of force it. Times are just changing
Post Cold War after the Soviets Lost, Europe Kind of Kicked its feet up and let USA handle Security. Theyve gotten Lazy and Indeed Times Are Changing. Starting in 2025 they need to go back to defending themselves
USA asserted themselves everywhere around the world and not a single time they did it from the goodness of their heart, they always had something to gain, be it resources or influence. Despite everything Trump says, USA WANTS Europe to rely on them because if they don't, they have no political leverage nor influence over the old continent.
I would agree. It’s crazy how countries in the EU will say they want American to stop “policing the world”, but then not invest more into defense. I would love for US to stop policing the world, but that can only happen when the world takes responsibility. If the US were to pull out right now, the world would be screwed. Prices of middle eastern oil would skyrocket because of the subsequent wars and takeovers that would happen to essential routes and oil reservoirs. The global trade would also hurt because of similar reasons. I think allied countries need to spend more on military and we need our military to have integrated bases and train the joint armies accordingly.
Well WW2 Russia did a lot of work but yes. Having U.S involved in the war. You have to defend two sides which is hard to defend both sides with certain numbers.
@@DumbTheWise after the USSR collapsed there wasnt a need for large militaries in Europe not until 2022.
You assume the Afghan military forces had any interest in fighting the Taliban after the US withdrew, they didn't.
Agree+
just like syria today
they go into the military for a paycheck, not for patriotism
This video has the worst and most biased take I ever heard on Biden's mess of Afghanistan withdrawal. Reducing Biden's poor execution of that withdrawal to being Trump's fault is just lazy research at best.
@@Randomodnar123 They didn't do that and both of them are culpable for the mess.
@@KM_Mountain Both do hold responsibility. The video however is correct.
This timeline is actually legitimately insane.
I find it highly improbable.
It should have been pruned a long time ago.
It's already been insane if you throughout history. We’ve been in the intermission period and now the plot is kicking in.
Not really. Anyone who has paid attention to american history would know that we'd eventually get sick of the racism, sexism and authoritarianism and reject it overwhelmingly like we have so many times before.
The biggest difference this time is that the democrats convinced themselves and their supporters that they aren't the racist sexist authoritarians. Every time someone learns what those words actually mean and examine the actions of the alt-left they stop voting democrat.
Make BAGUETTE Great Again 🥖
I recently read a comment left on one of T1J's community posts that I thought was brilliant. They posit that the world was actually supposed to end in 2012, but it kept going, and now whoever's in charge of what happens on the "Earth Show" has been struggling to figure out where to take it next. So now they're just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Sweden and Finland joining NATO is not worth Russia’s current Ukrainian territorial gain, even if Russia keeps the territory.
Ukraine? Is that little Russia?
Dosen't appear like it. Did Ukraine get nukes or find a way to rely on it's self?
@@BridgesDontFlyOh a putler troll!
Second time I've seen you comment today lol
@@konradreinelt5242
Who's trolling? Is Russia not winning? Is the USA not gonna stop funding in January?
What many people forget: Pressuring EU countries to spend on military means equipment purchases from US companies they often have to rely on. It's not about total military spending, it's about how it's spent. If EU countries increase spending, they should decouple such spending from the US companies that are the profiteers, but instead invest into domestic company build-up to reduce the real dependency to the US.
Yes but US weapons are battle tested world leaders. Not only that but euro gear often has massive amounts of US components inside.
We already do, and we should do more. There is absolutely nothing we can't produce in Europe, at least as good or even better. The fact is that we need the Americans , but the Americans need the Europeans just as much. Radar technology, ultra high tech semiconductors technology, money, high end steel etc etc. Stuff that isn't produced and can't be produced in the US but in Europe. China is very much willing to buy European tech to strengthen their military capabilities. Americans are ignorant. We can, and we will strengthen our Europeam military. Money isn't the problem.
@@MA_KA_PA_TIEAmerican military equipment is filled with high tech European made technology. You don't know anything.
Europe: systematically removes all reasons why US would care about their defence
US: stops caring about European defence
Europe: :O how dare you
Amen!
I think this can turn out to be a good thing for us Europeans. We have relied on the USA too much and for too long. The USA drew its power from being the world’s police, but as we can see, this is no longer what the American people want their country to be. The idea of isolating America and focusing on domestic issues is not Trump’s idea-it’s the idea of the American people, and that’s why he was chosen by them. It's important to understand that. Many have criticized Trump for his actions, but he says and does things that Americans want to hear and see, which makes it very democratic.
This shift could take Europe out of its lethargic state. In fact, it might turn out to be very unfavorable for the USA, as the rise of Europe could deal a financial blow to the United States.
I would not be so sure on that one. Yalls demographics are cooked. Americas is getting cooked as well. We both just going to be on the struggle bus here soon and as we get old, no retirement from the gov cus no young workers :/
I should point out that the american people are just tired of being yanked around by everyone, all of your nations tarriff american goods, yet the us threatens to do the same and you act like we've somehow stabbed you in the back, the us taxpayer literally funds half the world's countries through our economy yet you call us braggarty hicks, also your socialized healthcare is subsidized by americans paying out the nose for our medicines (though red tape doesn't help there either).
America might have more or less ruled the world for the last 80 years, but the rest of the world, outside of maybe japan, has treated america like it's some backwards trash heap for at least the 40 years i've been alive, we as a people are tired of doing everything for everyone else while our people are treated badly and suffer, until trump came along our government has completely ignored our anger and worry.
Also let me be clear, even during the cold war most americans were isolationist, but saw nato and european assistance as a necessary evil to maintain safety in the us, the us has at least since before ww1 been isolationist and nationalist, our bureaucrats in government however, were globalist, even against the will of the average american, we are not against helping europe, but we're tired of being treated like a sugar daddy with europe and other so called allies not pulling their weight.
@@nickashton8139 Actually american demographic trends are weird, we're not really reducing in population in the way you think we are, our cities are having far less kids but rural is having more kids, while this would cause a crunch at the top end for old age millenials, it likely will not have as big of a effect in the long run outside of shifting america more and more to the right as again, rural is having a boom while cities populations are contracting, especially among african americans (which seems to be highly influenced by abortion numbers, but i'm not gonna get into THAT conversation here).
Europe however, needs to rework it's systems to stop relying on social safety nets at the rate they are demographically collapsing, but well, politicians only think about their term, and the next term is the other guy's problem.
For what it's worth, china, russia and arguably india are far worse off than europe with demographic predictions, but all 3 have a tendency to lie about their numbers.
I mean Trump was already in office and people claimed relations between Europe and the US would sever and he would withdraw the US from NATO and none of it ever happened.
He also warned about Russia during his first term and about Europe’s reliance on it for energy.
For a matter of fact as someone who voted for Trump I don’t even know any Americans who actually want to abandon Europe vs them spend more on defense. The US sees China as its biggest threat now
@@nickashton8139 True if Z-ers don't have a lot more kids were in trouble, but it's ok men can be women now 🙄
From 🇵🇱: No matter what America does, Europe needs to get serious about Putin and dramatically increase military readiness, including aid to Ukraine. He sees you as his enemy and wants to weaken your society, whether you like it or not. Take our word on this one.
Polish cope
Exactly. "What Europe needs to do" is exactly what Europe needs to do, regardless of who the incoming president is. They continue to kick the can down the road at their own peril.
Why should we Americans pay for your defense?We don't owe you anything Trump should pull us out of Nato we don't have any threat from Russia and we should focus on China
@@JesusOrDestructionour schools actually encourage us to read history. Try it sometime
Putin is not a monarch. He answers to the rich of Russia
It's funny how many people act like trump wasn't president once already and haven't seen what he actually does.
Because it's a cult and cult members don't question their leader.
It's funny how people never understand that he has filled his cabinet with yes-men unlike last time and can do literally whatever he wants!
@@alex__825 Its funny that people think Trump who had no wars during his term is worse than sleepy Joe Biden.
Nothing is funny about having a President that doesn't start new wars.
They didn't see what he did before, that's the sad part.
Normally a fan but as someone who was literally executing the plan to withdraw from Afghanistan in real time, this is quite off. What you aren't understanding here is that there was X plan in place to withdraw ~ May 2021, but when Biden was inaugurated, there were 3 months between January and April that they were revising the plan, which would become plan Y. Weekly we would get updates from Generals explaining to us we are legitimately waiting on the executive branch to make this decision, but oh wait, by April we were in crunch time (due to a 3 month intermission) hence why the withdraw was pushed to August, where the shit show happened. The pause and delay in the original plan due to the new administration actually caused things to go worse than if plan X was carried out.
Additionally, as you can tell most of your negative feedback is completely correct in that the Afghan National Army had absolutely 0 desire to fight. Their mission was (generally speaking) get paid by day as an Afghan soldier, get paid by night as Taliban.
Again, normally a fan, but this came off as really biased and uninformed. Hard for me to forget as someone who was literally in the middle of it x)
Great info!
Ok, plan X may have caused less embarassment, but most likely still a Taliban victory, right?
Lots of comments saying similar things to you, but your comment was the clearest and most level headed, hats off to you
What changed between the two plans? And would Trump's plan have prevented the Afghan military from also deserting?
Let’s come back to this in 2029 and see if he’s right
He won’t be the political shift across Europe is huge at the moment and nobody can predict rightfully what will happen
Lets Go BRANDON 🇨🇳
@@AllanHinde-mb2prIs the shift good or bad in your opinion? From the outside looking in European citizens need to reign in their governments, a lot. They seem to be doing very little that benefits the citizens.
@@AllanHinde-mb2prwhat shift? The only shift I see is bringing in people from the 3rd world that won’t assimilate into Europe lmfao good luck
Oh wait you can’t mention that bc you’ll get arrested
You can come back by yourself
It's crazy how long Europeans have neglected their own national defenses
Decadence is the reason. Europe has lost its vigor and urgency since WW2. They only care about preserving the welfare state.
While simultaneously mocking the only ones that would defend them. They really have no intelligence.
I mean, when you've had US military bases and training exercises throughout most of Europe for longer than most people have been alive, then it gets quite easy to assume they will always be there to defend you.
Basically, the same way a child won't learn how to do the dishes if you never make them; Why would Europe spend lots of money on their military when the USA has been there to protect them for the last 60-70 years? The European countries definitely should have spent more on defence, but why would they when the largest superpower on the face of the planet has been protecting them for longer than most people in the country have been alive?
well.. could be something to do with not needing them up until.. oh.. 2 and a half years ago. guess they were a bit overly optimistic
@@Phraxas52 Right, but still more intelligent than any Trump supporter
80 years is a long time to outsource your own defense
It’s almost as if they were asking for this
The U.S. MIC rigged it so in order to benefit itself and inflate its profitability.
It was our decision they didn’t have a choice. lol you should have a better understanding of world history.
It’s really not it’s the lifespan of a single generation
Europe is an American colony. They are all vassal states. Empires usually don't want their subjects to have large armies
As on older Irish man that's embarrassed by the current state of our national defenses, I hope that if the Americans abandon Ukraine and that the Polish and Brits do go all in to replace them, that the large expat communities here put real pressure on the government to finally pull it's head out of the sand and do something about it. We have the money, the manpower and friendly countries who'd be more than happy to help us to properly beef up our defense forces enough to meaningfully support our European brothers, we're just lacking the political will to do it.
"I hope that if the Americans abandon Ukraine and that the Polish and Brits do go all in to replace them" You say that like the US was actually helping which mostly it wasn't.
What are you on about.
The current state of the irish national defences??? And youre embarrassed. When have ireland had any sort of national defence? What wars did you fight in? Irish cabbage.
Yeh Ireland is not any sort of military power
@@archvaldor Remind me and yourself the US is a single country while the EU is many countries.
The US has carried the defense Burden for Europe. This allowed Europe to build its generous social programs and drift to totalitarianism as people give up freedoms for security.
He will definitely change Europe and effectively force it to take more initiatives on its own.
I'm not so sure USA is going to benefit from that though.
EU should be able to support themselves without us
It won’t. Closed military bases, less trade, less trust, which is what keeps our dollar afloat.. this is what we get for letting the adult literacy rate in this country fall below 60%.
@@kingslagathor4178 Ukraine is not in the EU
@@razorramon780 I agree and I am not an American. I am Dutch.
Obama asked nicely and politely.
Trump asked in 2016 2020 again more insistently.
To raise militairy spending to 2% of the national income.
We did nothing or not nearly enough.
The invasion of Ukraine was an indirect result of European failure to comply by NATO standards.
Dont blame Trump.
What he asjed of us was fair. And we (Europe) complained about the mean words he used.
Western European countries who did not spent 2% are to blame.
The USA will do better under Trump by a lot actually
If the Afghanistan security forces weren't ready by the time we left, they were never going to be ready, regardless of how long we stayed😅
This. State building was a naive ambition and it would've never worked. Evident in the military loss to the Taliban. You can't make the indigenous population believe some novel foreign values. The fight against Taliban was a fight against the native culture.
I agree completely. There were American soldiers in Afghanistan in 2021 were literally not even born when it started back in 2001.
Facts
That's exactly why Trump just decided to pull out. They weren't an effective government and nothing we could do was going to change that. Hence the last 20 plus years of the war.
Exactly. They clearly didn't want to fight the Taliban. That's an uncomfortable fact.
I'm sure the comments will be completely civil
Quite telling that I initially misread this as "completely evil" and didn't blink.
So far pretty good. Some pretty intelligent people follow this channel
And I'm sure this video isn't bias
Civil as in 90% trump haters and 500 replies on any trump sympathetic comments.
@@zenec_ Yea those crazy facts and truths always get in the way of maga delusions
You're numbers are not correct, or at least incomplete, concerning EU aid. Your $133B figure of EU aid only considers direct bilateral aid and ignores aid rendered by EU institutions. The total EU-aid is estimated to be $176B. And if you expand it to geographic Europe (which includes the UK and others) , the amount is $203B.
It's all in the datasheet of the source you're quoting for this video.
Here before the video title change
"How Trumps 2nd term, will change Europe forever"
Got ya cover👍
"How Trump's 2nd Term Will Change Europe Forever"
lets see how long it takes
Genuine question, why would it change, is it about demonetisation? Performance??
@@EKF4N To capture the attention of the widest audience (some may be lured by one title while others another)
Foreign policy is extremely complicated. I can't even pretend to have an educated opinion.
Indeed
That's on you.
At least you have enough humility to own it. That also is on you (thankfully).
You need to study international relations first
Then focus on one aspect of foreign policy, you’re not going to keep up with every one
I specialize in Latin America policy but my colleagues are all Asia and Europe
I agree with OP
Even Real Life Lore said his own opinion could be wrong depending on what will happen later, as IR could be impulsive. But we can guess some based on history, just like the weather.... but even weather gets wild now
Americans protecting Europeans is getting fucking old.
@stonedtowel yep exactly
American tax payers are over being the world police.
Americans not protecting Europeans means someone else will. You have to start thinking outside the box, these comments are so closedminded and ignorant.
Yes, it is. Pay for your own security. Oops, there goes your socialised (subsidised) cheap Healthcare.
@@Nonamelol. Someone else meaning they'll have to do it themselves.
Make Europe Great Again - MEGA
Mega = μέγας, mégas / “great, large, mighty”
MEGA > MAGA
Lol!
we are great.
@@nickt2822great at freeloading
Omg MEGA
The absolute lack of leadership that it needs to have American president to guide us to be self sufficient is beyond me.
It’s insane to know that the most developed countries on earth hate the idea of being independent!
American really needs to hold everybody's fucking hand all the time i guess
Because it's a lie. Russia would have serious trouble with Italy much less all of Europe NATO. China only spends 1.6% of it's GDP. 2.5% is absurd. Europe NATO was never in any danger spending that much is just for flashy but non effective force projection(not defense)
@@Emmanuel-co6sm Nope they brought this situation upon themselves by meddling in every countries affairs to spread capitalism, every country can commit atrocities as long as they are on the side of American imperialism.
@@FrenzyLive1 If I was in a restaurant with a table of people I can barely communicate with much less stand for extended periods, and the waiter offers to presume what we want in exchange for a 50% discount, I'm saying yes, not considering if it makes me look too reliant to people looking in from the window.
What real power did the afghan government have. The president wasnt even in Afghanistan
This channels track record for predicting anything is bad
True!
to be fair most channels have a negative rate of being right with situations like these
I don't like how Poland is often omitted in those talks.
Poland is the only one in the region who truly know the colors of ruSSia and Belarus. US should help Poland secure central and Eastern Europe and not count on silly Germany to do so!
One of the flaws with Western countries in our current decade....
They aren't interested in including people who are straightforward. Because they don't have the "correct" vibes.
They want folks who are "exciting." Instead of smart.
-With eastern NATO countries being the only exception. (For obvious reasons.)
It's a common issue with Western countries in our current decade.....
They won't include folks who lack the "correct" vibes. Even though Poland has the experience and knowledge to help out.
@@MALUR82For real. The German government seems to think if they have a decent military it's only a matter of time until France is invaded.
Meanwhile Poland is preparing for a unilateral reformation of the USSR.
Poland failed to defend itself when it had no right to Western protection, they also failed to liberate themselves and became a soviet puppet.
what does he do if Ukraine and Russia both disagree with his plan? how does he simultaneously withhold aid and increase aide at the same time?
Trump will probably say "Nobody can end this war in 24 hours" and pretend he didn't say otherwise
@LazloVimes
Increase the weapons given to Ukraine, but not the actual aid money.
You’re assuming Trump has any amount of intelligence or forethought. He’s all vibes and ego bro, he doesn’t know what he would do.
I can't understand how stupid people need to be, to believe him. It's just the typical advertising bullshit, that means nothing, but sounds good :D
Russia's agreement is far more important that Ukraine's. The US represents Ukraine, but not Russia. So if Russia backs out, he's supporting Ukraine.
Get ready for this video to “mysteriously disappear”😂
Dont forget to take DVMP 😎
Please download it and reupload
Why ?
@@subieasunayuukithat's the shitty thing to do.
@@jonyemmWhy would it be? I think the implication is to preserve the video's knowledge and content
I remember when Germany laughed at Trump when he told them they were too reliant on Russian natural gas.
As insane as this timeline is. It's our canon timeline, and our prime timeline. we must make the most of our life here.
Assuming your own timeline/universe is the canon/prime one is pretty arrogant.
@@DarkElfDiva what are you even saying rn. The concepts of time and reality are arrogant?
@@DarkElfDiva Uh, I get where you're coming from but that's not really right. Naturally *our* timeline is primary to us. We can't put stock in alternate timelines, they're of no causal relevance to us except as thought experiments and what-ifs. We have this reality. It might be entirely illusory, but acknowledging that does nothing for us except let us stare at our navels.
Timeline travelers get to postpone their existence for as long as they wish tho
Europe is about to start seeing a lot more tax increases and austerity as public money is being redirected towards military spending.
Europe too busy fighting climate change with their tax money…HAHAHA!!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@oGrasshopperoHmm
Maybe they should stop spending money on climate and welfare and focus on important things.
@@humanbeing4841 Those are important things. Hell, they are a net positive in the long term anyway. Sorry, but not everyone wants to throw away their future investments just to have a marginally more powerful military in the short term.
@redman_10t39 Climate change is not important whatsoever, it's a product of decadence. Welfare need to be reduced because it's killing economic incentive for entrepreneurship and eating up money that could be used for military. Welfare is like a drug that once introduced is very difficult to develop political will to cut.
here before RUclips demonetise another RLL Video
*demonetises
stop slurping another RUclipsr's b...s you n......
@@The_Orgazoidfighting the good fight.
cant spell demonetize without *demon*
Don’t worry it talks about Trump so it’ll probably get promoted considerably the algorithm
Russia gets their buffer state, Europe gets its bread basket, USA gets to cut spending. Win win win
Yeah, how about no ? All that bragging, puffing and huffing about freedom and democracy but then you want to concede to dictators. lmfao.
@@JeyKalda Thank you for saying this. The americans have lost their democratic way and now Just dont Care because their country cant get their Shit together
@JeyKalda "For us and our posterity." America was never supposed to be "democratic" crusaders or the world police. The American people have never once voted to go to war to spread democracy.
@@JeyKaldaAmerica never was a democracy.
@@gaiuszeno1331 so in the USA the people don't rule through representation after all?
Fun fact, Trump asked Ukraine about Biden before the Democrat Primaries, about a VP threatening to withhold US aid unless a certain prosecutor was fired, when a video of Biden bragging he did so was played on fox news.
Oh Real Life Lore forgot about that.
Didn't Trump withhold aid because he viewed Biden as a threat to repeating? And wasn't the Hunter laptop timed with the '20 election?
Google Alexander Smirnov.
Didn't Trump withhold Ukraine aid for dirt on Biden? Extortion. I think the intent was Biden was his biggest opponent, and that turned out to be the case.
Didn't Trump withhold Ukraine aid for dirt on Biden? Extortion. They tried to give it the appearance of being moral, but I think it was Biden was Trump's biggest challenger in the '20 election.
RUclips: how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man
putin: you have done well.... my apprentice
trump: yes master
I love the young people!
RUclips is so pro Putin at this point it's not even funny!!! I don't get it.
@@ulizez89 russia is using ai powered bot farms to flood all social media with bullshit...
@@BrunoDias1234 That's really vapid. You clearly know nothing about how to prevent wars, only create them. If you keep on being toxic to powerful leaders you don't like, all they're going to do is want a war. If you are reasonable, rational, and nice to BOTH sides, then your chances of not causing a war is much greater by far. Maybe this takes a genius to understand or someone without cocky issues.
If you want to run for president where your main goal is to aggravate and harass NK and promote people targeting them, don't come whining that they start war with your country.
America pulling out of Europe will never happen.
Charging for american troop presence might.
Biden wasn't a political rival at that point when Trump was inquiring about his wrongdoings
My thoughts exactly. Anyone that actually pays attention to American politics independent of legacy media knew Biden has been sending his son to grab bags of 💰 from corrupt governments.
Ukraine is entirely dependent on US and Europe. They have no choice in negotiations.
yeah but the EU doesnt want them to lose more land and does have motivations to push for negotiations for Ukraine
Poland with its history of pre-invasion treaties, is now increasing its military defence with good reason as well as providing arms to Ukraine.
The smug comparison with WW2 is so braindead it almost hurt to watch. Would Hitler have invaded Poland if the Allies had THOUSANDS OF NUKES and the nuclear triad to deliver them at will? Also, what makes you think Russia has the military capability to roll through Europe - even if they wanted to - when they’ve been in a stalemate for years?
I rest my case.
You rested your case before anybody could respond? Firstly, why on earth do you think it's a stalemate? The Russuans have stated continuously from the very beginning that this SMO was about demilitarising NATO (via Ukraine). It is a war of attrition. Russian's have a totally different approach to war not related to territory, but objectives. You are projecting your own goals onto Russia, despite eat they do and say.
@@PaulSimonMcCarthy-fu6ms Wow that was cheeky, I'm reeling.
But I think it's a stalemate because the front line hasn't moved in 2+ years of fighting for all intents and purposes. Meanwhile, both sides are both burning significant resources and manpower to hold it in place with little indication one or the other will achieve a breakthrough any time soon. Sure the Russians "took" areas in eastern Ukraine but those were already largely held by pro-Russia rebels who had been at war with Ukraine for over a decade, so that hardly counts as a hard-won victory indicative of broader Russian military superiority.
And side note - if you would've taken a second to either watch the full video and/or read my comment in context, you'd find we actually sort of agree..? My point was going against the video's comparison of the concession of the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany with a potential peace deal where Ukraine would cede the eastern provinces currently held by Russia. The implication was that "we thought this would stop them but the Nazis just went ahead and used the newfound advantage to start rolling through mainland Europe" so the Russians will in all likelihood just do the same thing if we try to end the war by ceding those provinces. My point is that is absurd on its face when Russia couldn't even get to Kyiv (obviously if they could've done that to force broader concessions they would've done it already) and when crossing any NATO border could easily trigger the end of the world. The Nazis had neither problem to contend with - they had overwhelming military superiority in the early stages and knew they were catching their enemies with their pants down.
Your history of the Afgan pullout is completely wrong
“Orange man bad. War good.” Saved you some time folks.
Thanks
Brain incapable of handling more nuance?
first parts not a bad summary but the second one should be "war bad"
I strongly feel bullies should win nothing with their aggression.
America invaded Afganistan and Iraq and dozens of other countires and "won" to an extent
So bullies can win, you just want your bully to win
so Zelenski bullying ethnic Russians shouldn't have won all that sweet support, gotcha
As someone who was in Afghanistan from before Trump's deal first took place, to the late summer of 2020, I can tell you and everyone here that description is almost completely wrong. That was wildly disingenuous of you
Well say more
"You're wrong, but I won't say why"
Okay?
As a solider, you were a pawn in the bigger picture. You likely had no idea what was going on above your head. Because American soldiers are only briefed on a need to know basis.
@@94808G "soldiers are just pawns!" so heckin edgy! "need to know basis" I know how stuff works cause I watch war movies! I was one of the pilots flying the cargo missions that closed down all the coalition bases. Do I think I know every little detail about what was going on? No, of course not. Did I get daily intelligence briefs on how the draw-down and peace talks were going, where- if anywhere- we might expect to be shot at, how much damage we could do to the process if we misidentified a hostile act and chose to shoot, and whether we were even allowed to take off that day based on the Taliban's good faith and cooperation? Yup. And most importantly, even not being at a level where I had ALL the information, do I have a significantly more informed perspective than a RUclipsr who was never involved in any remote fashion whatsoever? Probably.
@ you are pawns, no question about it. You’re the equivalent of government property from the moment you sign. Doing the legwork of their bidding without ever truly knowing what anything was ever about. You’re given orders, you follow them. No questions asked. So no matter what little bits of info you were leaked while being on the ground? That was probably the equivalent of a pinky toe on the entire body of which.. would be considered the purpose of you actually being deployed there.
Thank you for your service.
Tell me you’re bias without telling me you’re bias.
The EU has provided less "military" aid, but double as much monetary aid.
And that's only half of the story, as the millions of refugees cost just as much.
We are thus paying 4 times what the USA "pays".
Not to mention that the USA is "earmarking" funds, but delaying the actual act.
We Europeans have the same problem that the US Democrats have: Our PR sucks. We are doing the brunt of the support, but the USA is getting credit for every time someone in Washington as much as farts in Kyiv's general direction.
America shouldn't be paying a cent to Europe's defense or aid. The continued insistence that we owe Europe anything is pushing vast swaths of Americans toward insolationism. The average American doesn't care in the slightest about Europe or what's happening over there. Yall have been killing each other for all recorded history and we fail to see this as our problem.
Why the hell should one nation be stuck funding and defending a bunch of others? Ain’t our damn job. I might have my gripes with this country, but I’m damn tired of us footing the bill for your cushy lifestyles. Handle your own business.
@@studybuddy3960 US supporting Ukraine with plenty of surplus, much of which met its best before date or was planned to be replaced, this is true for most of gear/vehicles given to Ukraine from all countries. US is putting their own value on this stuff, then add it up for "value" of aid packets sent. A lot of this needs to be replaced in the US anyway and such bolstering US defence industry and the american workers/people. War has always been a lucrative business, specially when you have the worlds largest military industry. Not trying to downplay the support given, but it makes a difference understanding the details around it, most of the billions given in gear is being paid straight into the US economy. Perfectly lining up with the protectionistic President in January.
@@studybuddy3960If you don't understand your own interest, you deserve what's coming
If we didn't find the lazy European government then the US could afford to have similar healthcare systems and free college. We could thus reduce the military budget.
Tell your government to stop being lazy and defend themselves.
You don't see us crying to y'all about our southern border.
That proposed peace plan, well what can I say but, "Peace in our time", and anyone that has opened a history book, knows how dark that is.
Truth be told, it's dark for both ukraine and russia, no matter what happens with the ukraine war, both lost a ton of their young men in this war, and both were already facing suicidal levels of demographic collapse, it's likely the 2, even if they hate each other, may have no choice but to join together with the rest of europe to survive the 20xx years, because it's gonna be bumpy no matter what happens, tl;dr this war is and always has been pointless and self destructive for both sides, a win today for a possible collapse and conquest by their neighbors in 20 years for both of them at the rate it's going, putin's push, even if everything laid out in the peace plan came true, even if russia somehow took all of ukraine, was a failure for russia, as it's severely weakened them and the rest of europe, this war had no victors, only losers, no matter the outcome.
@@tatsuya2112 I agree, if what I heard is true there won't any more Ukrainians or Russians left in the future. Although I don't agree with Russia's plan in solving that lol
so many profound philosophers in this comment section, where were you enlightened people when corruption and murder prevailed?
little itsy bitsy burrows paid for by someone else
Philisofer mtfk
Wow...what a profound idea...u should write a book.
To be fair about the Afghan withdrawl, they had decades to prepare to fight the Taliban, they simply choose not to. I would rather have left as we did then stay there any longer.
FACTS
I wouldn’t bc 12 us soldiers died. It was supposed to be a slow withdrawal. Instead we left our equipment over there while hundreds of afghans died some where clinging and dying on the planes as they were departing
@@pluton__ that was bc Biden botched the withdrawal.
@@safuu202was it not because trump made an impossible dead line and was sluggish which left Biden with a time bomb
15 years to build an effective military? After you've invaded their country?? Not possible at all
I like the tone: "Finland was FORCED to ENDURE neutrality"
Do you understand that neutrality means that you have a huge army to protect yourself?
@christianpetersen163 are you saying a nation of five million people was defending itself (from both sides) with a huge army for almost 100 years?
@@stststefan Yes.
@@christianpetersen163 the reality is trade and balancing socialism with capitalism. It is no accident Scandinavian countries have the highest living standards and social safety nets. Certainly not because of their armies.
"How about they do the right thing"
I concede that I mostly don't know what I'm talking about, but his second term's policy plan is going to involve a lot of that. Oh I guarantee you.
I am from Czechia and it's sad that so many people now say we shouldn't help Ukraine anymore 😢 I think it's not most of people,but still ... I can get it from some very poor people, they feel like the Czech state doesn't help them enough and sends money to Ukraine...but that's not only them who says that and I feel like these thoughts are spread from Russia to our country
If continuing the war only results in more death and no significant progress, then is it worth it?
Why make life for your people harder with increasing taxes and such by sending money to UKR, when you can put that money into building your own defence and own military.
It would be different if UKR was winning though but its kind of a stalemate with slow minuscule RUS gains, and if the aid keeps coming its just going to remain a stalemate with deathpoll steadily rising on both sides.
the problem is that the biggest ukraine supporters are also the same people who are so woke that they wants to destroy europe
@@TonguelessDanny no money spent s most effective in ukraine now
We are not sending actual cash. The "money" is in terms of supplies, munition and old cold war era vehicles and machinery. Which in turn gets replaced by modern supplies and vehicles like F-35s from the US. So yes, we are actually putting the money into our own military.
The end of American soft power is much more consequential than anything that happens in Ukraine.
Who told you it ended?
American soft power hasn't and will not end any time soon. Besides having the largest economy and strongest military in the world by far, the US has more cultural influence than any other nation on earth by a huge margin
@@AW-zk5qb
Eh, not sure that's true. Our allies (India for one) openly defy our sanctions on Russia and we do nothing about it.
american soft power has become as entrenched as roman or chinese soft power was in their imperial days.
@@AW-zk5qbthat doesn’t matter a single bit if USA withdraws from the world and lets Russia China and Iran dictate global affairs
It’s going to be an interesting few years
20:05 map is missing Petsamo, Finland's other 'arm' that used to give us access to the Arctic Ocean and separated Soviet Union and Norway from being neighbours. It was also one of the ceded territories.
A fourth option is a European army, buying together means we buy better meaning we use better meaning we spend better meaning we spend effectively less.
Yeah good luck with that, first there's the obvious language barrier and difficulties but also these are straight up sovereign independent countries with their own interest like France and UK who use their army for their own interest in foreign lands plus there already is a European army, NATO already makes sure all these armies have a specific role in the alliance defense so they can coordinate plus during war they can already pass command of certain armies to other countries commanders so there is no real motive for a European army
It is against european constitution, which is the a core problem of the entire European Union: "EU should not make an army"
@Etrehumain123 there isn't even a "european constitution" do you even know what you are talking about?!?!?!?
@lolthepop324alois8 that's why the Dutch and Germans already merged their military the Dutch got our small navy we got their small army. Language is not taht great a barrier if you train your soldiers look at nato the soldiers work like one big army despite the language barriers if nato does exercises, I know that not only from you know reading and thinking but also because I know some soldiers taht took part in such exercises.
@@dariusgunter5344 yeah I get but the fact these are countries with interests of their own already makes the prospect of a European army impossible right bow
Blaming trump for the afghanistan withdrawal is ridiculous
I understand the argument to be that the timeline for agreed upon withdrawal of all US forces in Afghanistan was unrealistically short, leading to large amounts of abandoned equipment. That seems like a reasonable criticism to me. The US practically set up house in Afghanistan for 20 years. It would take a while to clear all that out.
It is not. He deserve credit for that too
There was plenty of time in the time line for the withdrawal. The military dragged its feet denying the withdrawal until hours before hand. Someone very intentionally bungled that withdrawal. That person should be up in front of a court to answer for the lives lost in that cluster.
Excellent opening statement: we can only speculate! You're being honest. It's ridiculous how all the pundits speak with certainty about what Trump will do and not do.😂
I’m old enough to remember when Obama mocked Mitt Romney for saying Russia was a threat. 😂
Nah the US military industrial complex won't allow trump to get out of NATO. They are making way too much money for trump to cancel that.
Time to clean the swamp
You neglected the fact that the professional and experienced people who worked with Trump during his first term have mostly abandoned him and were supporting Harris during the last election. Trump's cabinet picks are all just people who would kiss his ass no matter what he says as long as he deports immigrants (but only the 'wrong' immigrants as the presence of Musk attests), attacks minorities and women and lowers their rich asses' taxes. He could tell them to invade Mexico and they would fucking do it.
You don’t understand the full range of the situation. Trump has publicly stated that he will build an Iron Dome for America, just like Israel, a defensive military spend rather than an offensive one. That’s his deal to the Military Industrial Complex, no more wars but spend on an iron dome on their own soil to keep the companies happy.
I thought they were losing money, Im completely lost now
@@asishreddy7729 For the love of god, is the american public actually buying that? With the economy and stock prices there is at least some wiggle room for trump because nobody know what will happen there but this is just showing a clear lack of physics education. The "Iron Dome" is a SHORT RANGE (up to 70km) missile defense system. Thats why it works. For Long range ICBMs there is (for numerous reasons, some physical constraints, some political) no system in existence that can reliably defend a country from icbms. Even further such a system would require extensive deployed long range radars across the globe. If Trump truly plans to fuck their allies by not honoring NATO Europe will wean itself of the US.
Creating another Korea, Vietnam, and Cyprus scenario.
Im sorry to be the person to say this but actually Finland wasn't neutral in ww2, they fought for Germany 😅
True but plz edit that missing space after the comma in. My autistic brain HATES when i know theres this particular specific typo. I know, i know, sounds trivial, soudns random, but what can i say? Mentalhealth is funky like that. And it only takes a second for you to edit
The first war Soviet Union attacked Finland. This war Germany approved. The second war 1941 Finland did not fight FOR Germany, but WITH Germany to protect themseleves. Note the difference. Furthermore the map over lost land is wrong. It does not show the Petsamo area in the north with the important nickel mine.
You have no knowledge about WW2, do you.
@andersvinnefors5891 True, Finland also switched sides late war.sometimes, in maps of ww2 are shown in there own side of the war
@@slevinchannel7589 👍🏼
As a tax paying American I have no idea why any American would support our tax dollars propping up Ukraine while all of the EU does and spends nothing.
We have a lot of issues state side we need to focus on. We can’t focus on a region on the other side of the planet that has seemed to be in perpetual conflict since the beginning of time
Because your don't know what you're taking about
'while all of the EU does and spends nothing'
it's painfull to read such ignorance.
The US needs to stop paying Europe's bills and make other countries pay their fair share.
That's only the right thing to do.
So Taiwan and South Korea to also pay for their security?
@@DC_ConcertsAmerica as a country was formed to separate itself from all other countries it would engage in trade but not participate in foreign wars this changed in the last century due to world wars. The United States didn’t even participate in ww2 until years after it started we American citizens want nothing to do with foreign wars. Trump understands this unlike many past presidents so yes those countries should be left to sort out there own affairs the consequences of that would be the chips we rely on out of Twain will be manufactured here now. Problem solved easier than fighting China over a foreign country
Lol did you not watch the video? The USA is not paying European bills whatever that means anyway
@@btkb1427 So European countries pay their full share of NATO? Trump forced them to pay more of that his last term.
Why is the US paying hundreds of billions to aid Ukraine, a European nation?
Why are European and other nations not paying their share of new drug costs? 90% of new drugs are developed in the US, but the R&D costs are paid for by the US. That's not fair is it?
@@Absaalookemensch so many false equivalencies here, I would have more sympathy with you if it was his first term, but the number paying more than 2 percent now is huge, it's nearly all nato countries
Drugs? R&D I have no idea what the actual numbers are so I won't comment but yours seems very far fetched especially since you are assuming it's footed by governments and not private companies, but I have no idea
If you cannot see why stability in Europe is in the USA interest I cannot help you, fair or not. Should Poland be upset for spending more than the USA as a percentage of GDP on military? That's rhetorical
Ol buddy couldn't hide his excitement in the intro. This guy couldn't ignore personal bias if he tried.
im not disagreeing or agreeing but curious what parts you thought were bias and bias to what?
The fact Luxembourg, which is rich and has no way of defending itself, is paying less than 2% is unacceptable. Eff it. Make Lux pay for all of Europe.
If it wasn’t for the US Putin would be drinking vodka on the French Riviera.😂
As an American I don't care about Europe or really anywhere else. It's time America looked inward and abandons the responsibility of world police.
Yes, and Europe is about to embark on a journey which will leave the U.S. in the dust.
A lot will change for America if you choose that path. No one exists in a vacuum, and your country developed the way it did because of its role in the world.
It might also be a one-way road when it comes to our relatively short lifespans. For better or For worse
@@philipelandt A lot will change because things will improve. The US being expected play primary roles in national conflicts has reached levels of absurdity when keeping peace in international zones around the world is already takes crazy levels of commitment.
0:52 ... By the looks of it, this second term will be what the first term should've been
Those new boundaries, another major victory for Russian century's expansion.
Russia seized land and expanded their country before & post WWII, from Poland, Germany, Finland, Romania & Japan.
Russia was once a tiny land around Moscow, they expanded in all directions, incorporating Finland to the west, Crimea to the south, to the tip of eastern Asia. They sold Alaska to USA out of fear the English will invade Alaska.
I went to school with the Estonian Air Force officers. Their entire Air Force was less than 10 aircraft. Why does anyone care what they think?
Let’s go I was early to a RealLifeLore vid
To replace the American nuclear umbrella and monitoring will cost Europe ten years and at least five trillion. How on earth do they expect to be able to afford that?
We don't need a nuclear umbrella that can wipe out the world three times. We do have a stock that is a sufficient deterrent to Russia, or do we need a deterrent to the US as well ?
You know how Europeans have laughed at Americans for not having free healthcare for decades. You’re about to find out why. Those countries will have to cut there free healthcare bump up taxes live like Americans have for protection finally playing there part. Which in the long run will mean less spending by the United States more money in American taxpayers pockets.
@ Yep.
The U.S. can't afford its own weapons, because the country has a debt much, much great that European countries do. There is even a state budget surplus in the insanely rich Nordic countries. Europe is absolutely able to afford its new, huge armament program, and the U.S. will regret the moment it incentivized Europe to build its own.
@ What? Britain and France are the only nuclear powers and they’ve barely paid a penny to America on trillions of loans that have been in default since 1931.
As for the Nordics, the mere mention of war has the population going into therapy.
I’m sick of our citizens suffering from poverty and addiction on our home soil, while we fight wars for countries we arent even allies with
That's not how funds are allocated. Trust, dropping Ukraine will not improve the things you claim to care about.
One does not rule out the other. Sealing yourselves off from the world will not fix poverty and addiction. Edit: Also check out Budapest Memorandum.
@@AJThielmannperhaps I was speaking from experience, don’t assume to know my motives. This country needs change, stoping foreign aid won’t fix things immediately but a change of mindset from our leadership will.
So you support the Republican Party who absolutely does not give a shit about poor people? The party that wants to slash social security and Medicaid, and overturn the affordable care act?
@SmallGunBigHeart true, people should tell their government to stop all the wars. If America ask for help say no thanks
Money tap is off. The EU was the only one with an interest in this to begin with
I thought the US sent over $175 billion to Ukraine
Not even nearly, unfortunately.
They sent over 200b lmao
@youknowwho3751 it's more than that it's like billions of dollars
@@loricproject6878 very true. It's a lot of money even Trump sent millions of dollars to Ukraine as well
RUclips ads are crazy 3 unskipable ads within 4 minutes and 11 seconds into the video
You need to pay youtube extortion fee
Install UBlock Origin my man
Zero ads if you are from russia haha
Get an adblocker
Firefox + Ublock Origin = No ads.
IDK why people are crying about Trump like he's gonna end the world. Go touch some grass yall.
You're the one who doesn't know, so maybe you should be the one touching grass?
Because the internet told them to lol
You are bringing Europe together more and more. They won’t just sit on their hands. Good luck.
Bit disappointing to see the pretty blantant political bias in this video. This channel normally does decent well avoiding most of it.
Big drop in standards here.
Very clear anti-Trump bias trying to be subtle.
Probably not a good idea to alienate 77 million people who may watch your material
funny how this actually made the channel save face imo. i was starting to wonder if it was too right leaning. so interesting.
@@KoiWrez
Save face by being biased?
Not usually a good idea to alienate at least 77 million potential viewers
@@WatchThis2025 better than lying to himself! who cares about right wingers haha
I hate Trump, and I was devastated when I learned he won the election. That being said, this video has unintentionally made me feel a little relieved about his foreign policy. He is a pacifist in foreign wars. Kudos to him (and Biden for following through) in getting out of Afghanistan. I really hope his plan for ending the Ukraine war happens and I hope he gets the balls to do this for Gaza as well and pull funding from Isreal as well. Great video, but to compare Putin's aims to Hitler are unfounded. Anyone who has been following Putin for the last 20 years knows that he is nothing like Hitler. He wants Nato to be punished, and he will hopefully get his way. Once he does, he can retire, claiming he was one of the best leaders for Russia's interest in history. I hope trump can help the Korean Peninsula as well. When he shook hands and agreed to talk with Kim, that was still historic and I still applaud that historic move. Trump's other idiotic policies however...
Wow its cool to see people rewriting history in real time.
Not so cool to see people make vague and meaningless statements, without the ability to back even that up.
As an American, I find it extremely annoying that some Americans don’t feel we need or benefit from our alliance with our European allies, when we’ve been benefiting from each other, I’d even go so far to say America more than Europe, from the alliance with each other. Honestly, yes they can benefit from their alliance with each other more, but not at the expense of the other.
Your TDS is showing RLL...
It's times like this that you realize how bias and left leaning this show is. The amount of continued and perpetuated misinformation about Trump is astonishing.
The USA has been in Europe since 1940. It’s past time we got out.
You don't really understand why. Do you?
@@a5cent why no longer matters. There is a time and a place for everything. The time for the American Empire has passed.
@@blafonovision4342
According to whom has it passed? And why? Because you don't give an s%%%, or is there an actual reason?
@@blafonovision4342
Because you don't give an F if the world burns, or is there an actual reason?
@@a5centin your view, go ahead and inform us why. I won’t deny that America has seen incredible benefit from the world with its wide reaching umbrella covering Europe. European countries laughed at America for not providing things like free healthcare.. where has that gotten us? US develops the most advanced medical breakthroughs in the world, so much so that the world follows us as a leader in medical intervention.
American people, taxpayers to be precise, has funded the vast majority of the security bill for the entire European continent over the last 80 years. We have internal problems of our own we’d like to address, and if letting Europe be in charge of its own defense for the next 4 years is the way to do that I’m all for it. Europeans took care of their own people for the better part of those 80 years, now America wants to do the same and it’s a big deal? Welcome to the real world, the one that Americans have been living in. Where everything costs money.
The DMZ on the Korean peninsula has worked out so well, it's a great idea to create another one.
I wish Ground News knew how sick I am of hearing this stupid message. Don't they know there is a point of saturation that makes people LESS likely to use it?
Why doesn't Europe fix their own problems instead of blaming it on Trump?
Trump is a f-up, but he was what Europe needed to get a grip on global leadership. Great for Europe, but the U.S. is going to hate being left behind in the dust, which is what is going to happen.
Dont worry they will go extinct by the end of millennium due to their birth rates
actually i blame Biden for fucking things up in Ukraine, there's some smelly shady business going on within that country well before the revolution and subsequent war, together with European nations standing with this BS.
As an american, i am rather sick and tired of taking out loans in my grandchildren and great grandchildren's names who are not even born yet to fund yet ANOTHER european conflict. Europeans need to figure their shit out and stop begging for us to bail them out.
I mean you signed an Agreement (Budapest Agreement) that you will Support Ukraine in a conflict. Also the US as ond of the oldest democracies stopping to Support democracy around the world wont be a good Look. Maybd you Just get your Shit together and get Health Care and fair wages so that you dont have to live the way you do right now
@@Kamel-d7o I don't know how you managed to get almost your entire statement incorrect. That's quite an impressive feat. First off, I did not sign an agreement. The morons that I did not have an opportunity to vote for or against did. Second, the US is NOT a democracy. Anyone who says "threat to our democracy" is showing how blatantly ignorant they are of our government. Last, I think that is a great idea! We can reduce the spending we waste on all kinds of European garbage to find our own people's needs like healthcare! We also reduce the subsidizes you Europeans have taken advantage of off the backs of American grandchildren for years, whilst simultaneously using the money they should be using for defense on their "free healthcare"! It's a win win! Europeans spend more on defense and Americans get better healthcare!
@@Kamel-d7o hehehe, best of luck to you all! Love from the USA
@@Kamel-d7o The US has gone above an beyond any legal military commitment (which was zero) described in the Budapest Agreement.
A fact not to known by many people is that the members of the EU are bound to defend each other if any one of them is attacked.
This doesn`t really make any difference, because the members of the EU usually are already members of the NATO (and more after Sweden and Finland have joined NATO), but COULD be important, if a neutral Ukraine is allowed into the EU, but not into NATO.
Scholz is just right now in Ukraine and announced he'll get Ukraine into the EU and is already pretty far in the process with the EUs president...
I hope trump gets European defense back on its own two feet
Stop comparing Trump to Hitler, thank you
They’ll Never stop
TRUMP=HITLER
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Their TDS knows no Boundaries
The Trump comparison is with Neville Chamberlain. Putin is compared with Hitler.
this is the most biased video i've ever seen
I actually really appreciate the caveat at the beginning with you saying "this is extremely speculative" because a lot of people are speculating and stating it as fact. Very responsible coverage here RLL.
Decades of freeloading off America has all come down to this.
The interesting times, they are numerous.
Europe is about to lose there free healthcare and have a tax increase if they want to be independent
Take a drink everytime he repeats himself.
Such a 2010 comment
It's not true. I stopped watching because of misinformation.
Sigh. I just immediately went straight to the comments 😔