Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis: The EU is broken 

He's gotta get another cup of coffee!! 😴😴

If only it was also an example to Parliament

Yes. I wonder why such debates can't be had on more established media outlets. But apparently they cannot, so I'm happy to find them here.

@@excel04 Not possible with the present opposition which is largely made up of p.c. extremists and just plain idiots.

Yes, and note it is a new start-up, not tired old media, giving us this long-form intelligent dialogue!!

@Robert Kavanagh absolutely. We must look who owns the press and what the agenda is or are . Easiest strategy to divide people between one and the other. People needs to be educated about all this . There needs to be a movement like back in the day Bottoms 🆙.

You mean featherweight demagogues. Varoufakis' heart may be left wing but his wallet ain't

@@CM-eg3gl when you are left leaning you are by definition a demagogue, starting with Marx himself…

Mr. Defeatist and Mr. Defeated. No wonder they're both fully allowed on all online platforms.

@@CM-eg3gl ''Featherweight''..and yet what you have to offer is ad hominems.

@@CM-eg3gl Just like the majority of sanctimonious & supercilious liberals.

He may as well have described the current public school educated Conservative Party. They make decisions on behalf of working people never having to work a day in their lives. How would they possibly know what working people want?

@@henryburton6529 What a strange - and by implication, inaccurate retort, not least because the Conservative party is neither devoid of disgrace or resignation inducing scandal! Nevertheless, should you perceive the current government all but absolved of accountability then it would be more prudent to ascribe proportionate blame to Labour who’re currently failing to provide anything even approaching effective opposition. To put it mildly...

@@makara80 I'm not sure whether I was clear with my last post as your post doesn't seem to make sense. What I'm saying is the current government are mostly from immensely wealthy families. They have no concept of what working people live like. They have no idea about the challenges we face because none of them have ever faced them or ever will. For that reason I am not surprised they implement policies that would enrich their donors and hurt working people without remorse. Labour have nothing to do with it. The current labour party have had no power for over a decade now. They are not responsible for anything about how this country is run. They have not had a say in it.

The tori party?

@@henryburton6529 As much as you might dislike the current government, more people disagree with you than agree - that's why the Conservatives have a substantial majority. If, however, public confidence in the Tories wanes, then the public have the ability to democratically elect a replacement. This is what it means to be accountable to the people, and to "pay a price for being wrong".

This is why British migrants living in Spain and France must go home because they have created ghetto in Benidorm, Dordogne when the only language spoken is English and they all refuse to integrate to Spain or France

@@diegolove173 that's a rather Xenophobic view, when British tourism adds around 11 billion euros to the Spanish economy per year. Even when youth unemployment is the highest of all EU member States (39%) and that was before the pandemic. You think the kicking out of the brits will help your country survive its economic mismanagement and over spending. Yes, you might hate the brits. But let me tell you something if it wasn't for the sunshine, cheap beer and very cheap package holiday deals. Brits would love to go more accommodating and friendly countries. Gracias para el sol, pero no hospitalidad.

@@diegolove173 The Brits and Americans know only one language and that is English. Only a very few are willing to learn a second one. I had a second home in the Algarve (Portugal) for many years where I observed exactly the same.

@@adonisnetworks I dont know how much British tourism adds to Spanish economy per year ,but assuming you are right , it wouldn't be better for those British to spend those Billions in their own country ??? Most British create guettos and refuse to integrate and assimilite to the country and culture they are IN , its a fact , immigration does not work because of this !

We have always been a multicultural people, it was always a mix of Anglo-Saxon, German, French, Scandinavian etc ETC. sadly the problem is countries where people are not "cultural Christians". Had nothing to do with the religion they believe in, more the morals and values they hold... Which is what sets this island apart from the rest of the world

Well said.

Can you imagine Donald Trump partaking? Truly great intellectua discussion un civilised manner. Thank you!

@@ARenewedmind why bringing DT into this conversation?

Fracking hell... Really?!?! does anyone still take this lying hypocrite that constantly contradicts himself seriously?!?!?! He just goes round regurgitating often contradictory "theories" and rehashing the obvious and his conflicting waffle depending on the audience and who's paying... Just look at the results of his "policies" and "predictions" - why do you think he was dropped kicked out of government by his "communist" comrades who were initially selling him as a "rock star" politician?!!!! Don't fall for his duplicitous waffle and delusions of adequacy... he is little more than a narcissistic, treacherous little "populist" stooge and - to quote the pathetic clown himself - "a comedy of errors wrapped up in harmless waffle" - which sums this champagne socialist perfectly... Lets face it, he just regurgitates and adapts his conflicting waffle according to his audience and who's paying... just ask his former "communist" comrades who also betrayed Greece - or those holding his off shore accounts... Time to wake the fracking hell up! It's actually slimy treasonous "populist" stooges like this and little niggle fartmirage that are undermining Europe!

Wow,and some people think the age of 'purple prose' has gone.

It's ideology. Luther King vs X.

(their - possessive)

Stealing the resources of the 3rd world and enslaving its people caused that migration. People there are reluctant to leave their country of birth as you would be, but they are given no choice.

@@jrphartley - In Africa, which I know best, but probably in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria etc, you would be hard pressed to find a government whose leaders and politicians of all stripes, at every level, who do not enrich themselves at the cost of their fellow countrymen. Also a well established people smuggling chain, often supported by NGO's, signalling their virtue, make the journey from remote village to city ghetto far simpler. There is nothing wrong with enterprising people trying to forge a better life but what is seen now is ugly. I don't see much goodness in any of it.

@@jrphartley An immature and frankly stock 'progressive' claim that has no bearing on reality. Do not be so willfully ignorant of the world around you.

Same...

Yes I was just going to post the same, except 5 hours.

@@fiveleavesleft6521 it’s not a competition but why spend so much time watching debates when you could read about the subject yourself everyone has some bias so yes listen from people that explore the topic but also read and make your own conclusions.

@@jackbauer5455 Kind of a strange projection there. I've read several thousand books including by both of the guys above, Sapolsky, Harari, Dawkins, Pinker, Haidt etc. They are great but they are monologues- an actual open intelligent conversation is a totally different dynamic and experience.

@@fiveleavesleft6521 Spending 5 hours watching a debate seems counter productive unless you actually participate in the debate since its about putting the things you listen into practice by having your own discussion that is how you grow and learn not by watching others for 5 hours just my experience. Why make it 5 hours if you can make your point across in 3 hours or less? The aim is to summarize the discussion in the least amount of time possible without comprising the quality of the message.

Aye!

Yes the Nationalists yearning for “independence”, by leaving a generous union in order to join a mean one.

I've never been to Scotland but I think a lot of this is down to a kind of historical 'cultural resentment': Culloden, Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, etc. That the Scot Nats have tapped into this, and are exploiting it just for an elite group to gain power? I think the scots should look closely at what the Scot Nats are actually offering: "Will it make us any more scottish?" "Will we be better off economically with independence?"

@@stepchicken3238 yes the numbers do not make sense at all... You commonly see Scotland portrayed as ‘as rich as our Scandinavian neighbours’, the big number £160bn, which is GDP, not govt revenue. Scottish govt has a tiny tax base of a million people: “There are estimated to be 4.5 million adults in Scotland in 2019-20 and 2.5 million income tax payers. Around 2 million adults, or 44.6% of all Scottish adults, will not pay income tax as they will earn less than the Personal Allowance.” (Gov.scot website) The Scottish govt get about £65bn in taxes... and spend £75bn (actually £81,015,000 as of 2019-20). The difference is paid by tax payers from elsewhere in the UK... the famous Barnett Formula. Westminster handed Scot govt £8bn over covid (that’s about ten years of oil revenue). These numbers from Scottish Govt: www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-revenue-scotland-gers-2019-20/pages/5/ The cry is always, the oil. £700m in revenues in 2020? This isn’t changing anything. Orkney & Shetland are pursuing independence from UK and from Scotland, which would mean most of the oil/gas goes to them: www.spectator.co.uk/article/freedom-for-shetland Here is (Westminster, biased?) easy summary of the numbers: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06625/ When/if independence negotiations happen, Scotland will have to take on a fair portion of UK national debt... at about 9% (that percentage to be negotiated), lets round it down to £100bn. Or nearly twice the Scottish govt revenue. Tiny tax base. Gigantic disparity between income and expenditure, which oil will make no dent in. Vast debt. UK tax payers no longer helping out. Very likely the most energetic Scots seeking lives and paying tax outside Scotland, as now. Almost a fifth of Scots currently live outside Scotland: www.gov.scot/publications/demographic-change-scotland/pages/7/ Not just people, but core Scottish businesses would leave: such as the Royal Bank of Scotland: www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1429856/nicola-sturgeon-news-snp-scottish-independence-rbs-hq-edinburgh-london-scotland-economy-1429856 These don’t seem like rosy prospects. There is the major issue missed entirely in the video above: a Scottish currency. Scotland before adopting the Euro (obligatory for all new members - ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/euro-area/enlargement-euro-area/who-can-join-and-when_en) would have to have its own central bank with its own currency. A central bank needs to back the currency with reserves: that line on bank notes, ‘the (central) bank promises to pay the bearer’… money is a token, backed (once by gold) by the promise of other money! Here is a brief look at the near impossibility of Scotland doing this: most especially with a working annual deficit of £20bn, and a likely debt of twice govt income, one suggestion is Scotland get immediate help from the IMF: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.scotsman.com/news/politics/post-scottish-independence-currency-plan-huge-risk-say-economists-3127558%3famp Then there is Euro-qualification… a maximum 3% annual deficit on revenue/expenditure. To be adhered to year on year. Current estimates (which seem modest to me) are 9%. Personally I have no strong feelings either way on Scottish independence, (or Catalonia independence, or Basque independence). But I genuinely don’t get the numbers.

@@quentinnewark2745 The Tory's and Westminster don't help. Nor do the incompetent opposition parties in Scotland. It's nothing more than people being told that they are oppressed and life will be rosey once we break the shackles... That coupled with the fact that not a lot of people up here know anything about history.... I don't know much but I know enough to understand that robert the Bruce was as ruthless as any English king of the time... He was punching up the way so is portrayed as a hero...

Agreed. Seems to be what happens when you get real intellectuals debating, not just pretend ones.

I disagree. This was.a debate between a rightwing leaver and a left-wing one (for Britain anyway). The equivalent would be Corbyn vs Farage, You wouldn't understand the reason we even have an EU from this debate.

@@simonsmatthew Except that Varoufakis explains that the EU origins lie in protectionism…and much of EU current culture and organisation is still a consequence of, and reflects those origins…and this has been perfectly reasonable….But the question arises: is it relevant currently for such a large, expanding, and diverse union, and one that’s clearly no longer self sufficient, to operate under a protectionist regime and identity? Indeed, what is so special about the area as a whole that makes it deserving of protection?

@@simondegroot2240 It's about power. That is the irony that Brexiters never understood. Yes you get sovereignty outside the EU, but what use is that without power? China and the USA are basically continental sized countries with protected markets and currency areas. Japan is dependent on energy, but it has a large closed market that is not dependent on foreign capital (The Kwarteng budget shows what can happens when you do not have that: you are hostage to the international capital markets). Gernany and France wanted a large protected market and currency area like the US and China for the EU. The new Eastern states like this (and FOM rights and the German capital) but they are fiercely nationalistic and they don't want to sacrifice any national sovereignty - there main reason to join the EU was to cut themselves off from Russia and their entry was led by the aspiring bourgois class that preferred to look west. In the long term I think there will be a split between the new and older members.France and Germany can then get on with the job they started.

Someone connect this man with a more reliable server!

Imagine Murray, Rees Mogg, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson on a desert island. Beyond paradise.

I don't mind Murray on certain topics. He may have a great mind but it's not manifest here - nor can it be. Politics is not the stuff of intellectual virtuosity

When Nato countries destabilize and b0mb the shit out of countries all over the world, spend billions of tax-payers dollars,Pounds or Euros on the Military industrial complex and no one is allowed to say anything. There was no syrian migrant crisis before the west decided to fuck up that country for example.

I agree I'm also centre ground on the political spectrum, Douglas & Yanis are prime examples how NOT to be FAR right & FAR left... this is what keeps the political spectrum stable, thus you get a peaceful & sensible debate which they can see eye to eye on some of the subjects plus working together...this is so important for the world to see more of. Hats off to them both :-)

Douglas Murray is fascist?

He is delusional and clearly a blank slater, he ignores values and culture as key to binding a people in successful democratic union

@@JamesCoffey he is a communist.

@@JamesCoffey yep!

@@nicolettecoetzee7339 I am not sure about that but he certainly refers to himself as a Marxist. (So did Mussolini, btw, even Yianis mentioned it).

He chooses to ignore the downstream negative consequences of letting in large numbers of adherents to a religion that makes them unlikely to integrate and which will continue to have a higher fertility rate than the native population.

Yanis has seen the effect that peddlers of hate have. He writes about his experiences in Greece under military rule. Have you ever been to Muslim countries? They have non-Muslim minorities, living with them for thousands of years. Christian Arabs are still around and freely practicing their religion.

@@Qasibr Oh! Silly me! I forgot to mention the Christian population of Turkey, who accounted for nearly 100% of the population and have now dwindled to single digits.

@@Qasibr For some reason, RU-vid didn’t register my last message. I can’t be bothered to argue with you so I won’t be repeating the message. Suffice it to say that I’m under no illusions about “The Religion of Peace” 🤮

@@Qasibr Christianity went through the same thing. Best not to demonize everybody who follows Islam , the worlds largest and most followed religion. Dangerous to demonize every 1 in 3 people who are also largely normal and peaceful people.

@@andylewis7360 haha and you think Christianity is a “ religion of peace “? Non of the Abrahamic faiths are only peaceful. For a religion that 1 in 3 of the worlds population follows, yes it is largely peaceful, the statistics say so.

He is the treacherous castle guard leaving the secret gate open to the enemy...

I agree

These people dont understand once their culture is gone it aint coming back. Same happened to Romans. Once its gone its gone forever.

@@martinpospisil3747 good point about the Romans.

Yanis needs to visit parts of the UK with large influxes of immigrants. There is no intention to integrate and become part of the system, there’s even talk of introducing Sharia Law in some areas. Many immigrant women who have been here for years can’t speak English yet they occasionally crawl out of their insular existence and try to converse with healthcare workers etc via translators, and they think this is ok. We are a people who accept women are equal to men and yet we see foreign women wearing some of the most oppressive uniforms. We have terrorist attacks on our territory but we are not allowed to identify difference. The British people were never asked if mass immigration was acceptable to them, it just happened because those in Westminster are so out of touch with ordinary people, and easily influenced by big business in an attempt to feather their own nests.

Yeah, Yanis is great, but his take on immigration is retarded.

MSM was never there for honest brokers. It is only that these days an audience can be reached which does not have to go through a centralized point.

Would be great if Andrew Neil contracted him for his new channel

I’ve seen that as a trope peddled by hate merchants. Do you know this to be true statistically?

@@Qasibr There's a powerful interview by Triggernometry with a grooming gang victim which goes into the racially motivated aspect. Triggernometry is a great channel too.

@@Qasibr lookup 'Rotherham grooming gangs'

@M C BOT

@@Qasibr Yes, you can (at least 2 years ago), check out the national statistics in Sweden. Low numbers until the arrival of the migrants. They have the best and most public statistics, but it is repeated all over Europe.

Do you read the Daily Telegraph? Was this interview sponsored by them (or the Spectator/Daily Mail)?

And what will be the result in the long term? With the migration to Europe of the Islam religion and birth of muslim children? There will be a muslim Europe. Sorry to say. That’s just statistics.

Douglas has racist tendencies and romanticised view of empire.

@@Adi-gh9dunonsense

may i ask in what sense?

​@@paolomh113 thats a question with a long answer... but in short... don't, year on year, bring hundreds of thousands of unskilled young men into a country with a completely different culture and expect it to end well.

@@elingrome5853 Thx and although I do understand about the quantity I disagree about 'unskilled young men', 'completely different culture' and 'to end well'.

@@paolomh113 In the spirit of genuine curiosity, could you elaborate on why you disagree with the descriptions given?

@@MrXaphus he could not, because "he has a dream..." as Varoufakis does. And a dream is not an elaboration of anything real.

The truth is, the game was rigged from the start.

In general!

Don't think so. He is a politician, he wants US to sleep.

His ilk always ignore the demographic consequences of letting in enough immigrants that the native population becomes a minority. The only countries that survive in the long term have strong borders.

31:19 excellent, excellent question. I had the exact same suspicion last time I tried living in London

33:00 - that’s just not true. I was working security in London in 2012 and earning less money than I’d earned in Liverpool 10 years previously , absolutely because of a huge number of immigrants willing to work for less money.

@@RICHARDGRANNON not true.

A long exposed falsehood, cant believe you are still peddling this. Try google

@@theBagheera22 Well I tried Google as you suggested and the top results (from credible sources/institutions) pretty much all confirm Marie’s assertions. Nice try.

@@makara80 fullfact.org/europe/did-auditors-sign-eu-budget/

​@@theBagheera22 One link to a ‘charity’ of dubious integrity, staffed almost exclusively by veterans of the leftwing press and receives the mainstay of its funding via “big tech” ...against well over a dozen articles and reports from rather more credible sources... Nice try.

@@makara80 let me know what right wing frothing at the mouth tin foil hat website passes muster in your world

Yanis, like so many on the left, don't place anywhere near enough importance on cultural difference. It's simply a fact that Albanians can assimilate into Greece FAR easier than Syrians or Somalians into Europe. Saying so doesn't depend on a claim that European culture is better than that of the Middle East or the wide variety in Africa, but that they are VERY different. Yanis, and the left more broadly, want to pretend that culture doesn't matter; that people are people, no matter what their culture. But it's simply not true. Europe and its descendants (the broad Anglo world) have a common cultural connection based in Christianity and the Medieval world that is profoundly alien to those from outside it.

@@Incornsyucopia I agree. It is absurd to compare Albanians, who already lived next door to Greece, with Somalians and claim there is 'no difference'. That's like saying because French people can easily integrate in the UK that Africans also can. It is too great a simplification with too many unknowns.

Thank you! Well put.

Exactly right. Also, I am greek.

you deliberately misunderstand him in order to easily put down an argument he didn't make

@Michael Rosenzweig precisely! I have the greatest respect for Yanis Varoufakis..one of the rare heroes willing to stand up for the truth with compassion for the vulnerable. But i suppose what we need to do is to stop bickering and wasting our time with out of date left /right arguments and fight for a democracy!

@Michael Rosenzweig despite whatever Facebook/ Twitter echo chamber you’re apart of tells you, the UK does not resemble 1931 Germany in any sense, quit the drama Michael.

And weirdly it is actually anti-diversity! These people don’t actually know what they want!

Batley is what England is now. The EU did not do that to you - you did it yourselves.

@@terencefield3204 eh?

@@iconicon5642 Your obtuse stupidity is your problem, and nobody else's.

@@terencefield3204 What have I done to myself?

I feel pity for the Greek situation, until I see comments like this. You're calling the best advocate for Greece arrogant, seems like you're the arrogant one. You live in a country filled with the ruins of a collapsed empire but still attack the guy trying to prevent the collapse of Greece today. I would gladly trade any of my country's politicians for varoufakis.

@@sandworm9528 nonsense!

@@C_R_O_M________ beautiful rebuttal, Plato would be proud to see how far the Greeks have come

@@sandworm9528 it's analogous to your arguments. Nothing more or less. I wrote all these things and you wrote virtually nothing to counter-argue my points. Sorry to disappoint you.

Yes, he completely ignores the incompatibility due to the cultural differences with the current migrants, which was not the case when talking about (past) immigrations within Europe (eg. from Ireland to the UK).

@@maxeisert7466 "Yes, he completely ignores the incompatibility due to the cultural differences with the current migrants" This is ahistorical analysis - the same was said of Irish Catholics when they immigrated. Now they are just English people with Irish sounding names. You know like Wayne Rooney. In 50 years there will be people call James Bin Laden and no one will blink an eye lid.

@ max eisert As I said in my reply, I was not thinking of Aurelius' border policy or his stoicism but his pollyannish view of humanity. And, to repeat, I was being unfair to that worthy emperor

Assimilating white European Albanians and assimilating Arabs, Somali's etc is a false equivalence.

@@maxeisert7466 Looks like my reply didn't take but YV's reflexive quatation of Marx in response to a question about immigration being unfair to labor reveals YV is either dishonest or crippled by doctrinaire thnking

Yes, he made no real criticisms about what the EU did to Greece. He still sees Tsipras as his friend! He described himself as a Marxist (of some sort). He is attracted to centralised, bureaucratic states.

Yanis has abstract ideas that make no sense when you start applying real life logic. Like he says that all publicly listed company dividends should be paid to the entire public as a universal basic income. So basically, the owners of those companies are investing in them to later not be paid dividends that they are investing for. Or companies will just stop issuing dividends... Such a strange guy.

@@harisadu8998 Basically, a self-publicist setting himself up as the people's champion - the cultural Marxist angle - whilst 'walking both sides of the street.' The net provides a perfect medium to operate within to turn the usual dry subject of Economics into a radical platform. There are loads of them like him on the net, "How do I obtain fame and fortune from what I know?"

I got the feeling he knows he's is wrong but he also knows that if he fully admits to it he gets called a racist ,ect

Also, he hates the EU, but wants to preserve it so he gets to hold the reigns. Typical Communist, I'm afraid.

On the contrary, he is telling it like it is.

@@DonGonzalito Actually if you listen carefully he tells people what to think on the topic of migration, he doesn't tell it "like it is". He said "we should all have a dream..." which by itself is quite presumptuous and assumes we should all have the same vision as him. Then he proceeds to describe children growing up in multi-racial, multi-cultural societies where all differences are irrelevant apart from the content of one's character. There are so many flawed assumptions baked into that statement that its difficult to know where to start. The most obvious one being that when a society has no culture or value system to bind it we wouldn't even agree on what it means to have good character. Look at America tearing itself apart at the seams. One side thinks children learning about cross-dressers will build character, the other considers it anathema.

@@nikola9348 Your answer has so many nativist misconceptions about "caracter", that one doesn't really know how to address it. But, to stay on point, Varoufakis is just pointing at the typical "that immigrant came to steal your bread" trite song, which you seem to have swallowed whole.

@@DonGonzalito You don't know anything about me or my views bar what I wrote above. None of what I wrote says anything about immigrants stealing jobs. I don't know what you expect me to read into your response other than that you find it easier to straw-man people than engage with what they actually said. Back to character - my point is that one of the main reasons Western society is falling apart and everyone is at each others' throats is because we can't agree on a common set of moral values. In such circumstances it becomes impossible to have a unified vision of what it means to have good character. One person's good character is another's flawed/sinful character. The point is not that immigration is the cause of this. The point is that Varoufakis's dream that mass immigration will work seamlessly because we will all value the content of someone's character by the same set of standards is naive to the point of absurdity.

​@@nikola9348 Now you proceed to build a "mass migration" strawman. Try harder.

It’s highly likely because Germany is no longer in a position to be the main financier of the project. In fact, if Germany stopped paying for 65% of the EU budget (its share), tomorrow, the EU would cease to exist. There is tremendous dissatisfaction about the EU within Germany and there is the beginnings of serious discussion about a Dexit. You just won’t hear about it if you don’t live here.

@@cloudybeforerain7134 Germany is not the main financier. It is the main beneficiary of the project. Don't you understand how the EU works? There is some dissatisfaction in germany with the EU, but it's not from the government or the wealthy. They are benefitting from it. The regular germans have seen their living standards crash in the last 20 years and it has been done by their own government and their industrialists. It's not really a nice place to live, any more. It will only change when the regular people (not their leaders who already have their fingers in the pie) from the other EU countries realise what is happening, that germany will leave, or be forced to become part of a democratic Europe. It's for the financial reasons that leaving the EU isn't favoured by the german masters. Also, a big problem would then be losing the Euro, for germany, because a reintroduction of the Deutschmark would make german products too expensive for export. The country would suffer (well your masters would start to suffer). The regular germans would suffer even more. So I think it is more likely that they will stay in, for the meantime, at least until they are rumbled.😆

I think you need to take more time to educate yourself on what Varoufakis actually does or doesn't believe. I wouldn't exactly call pre-War Nazi Germany a thriving democracy in which the German people voted for the construction of camps and ghettos for Jews. In the past Varoufakis has argued for a written British constitution, like the American one, no doubt he believes the same for a federalised Europe. Nor does he believe in a 'benevolent king' rule over such a federal system. Federal simply refers to a surplus recycling mechanism which distributes surpluses from one part to a deficit region in another part. It's an economic argument, not a cultural one.

@@mitsterful you need to take my comment into context. Do you really think I believed that Varoufakis is actively proposing monarchy? I am making the Rothbardian case here. My education levels are fine and probably a lot higher than 99.99% of the people on this planet. So…

@@C_R_O_M________ Chill your ego a bit, my dude.

@@notSDF It's on ice for quite a while. Same result!

@@C_R_O_M________ That being said, you might still want to take a step back and reflect on it. Best wishes.

More a geopolitical aristocratic drag-queen-monsters ball ...really. 👹💃 With such intellectuals in the lime light and at the forefront of the know...shocking nothing ever really changes.

So what, when Mr Varoufakis had power to do something for Greece he sold it lock stock and barrel to the EU! He is an inflated personality trying to stay relevant. I don't trust one thing that comes out of his mouth.

Well you talking about genetical similarities seems a little bit odd. Are you arguing that shared genetical background - beyond that of the human species in general - is a contributing factor towards integration?

@@user-xq4st9ie7r Yes, because it makes assimilation of a group much easier

@@Pan472 How do genetically similarities, on a minor scale, make assimilation/integration easier?

@@user-xq4st9ie7r local people tend to be less racist towards them. That's about it, however in the case of the Balkans, the culture is also a bit similar so that would help.

Linguistic proximity? 😵

The Greeks I know don't like Albanians and wish they didn't go there

@@nick101984 Isn't that the definition of racism? There are indeed racist Greeks as well as decent Greek people.

@@alexbatsis2785 these were very decent patriotic Greeks who didn't like being responsible for Albanians and gypsy as well. The bad Greeks have allowed that to happen. Now if I remember correctly the unemployment is like 40% for people 35 and under. Then the ones who do work make 7-1000 euros a month. They didn't seem to happy about it. Greece is a wonderful beautiful place I wish them tbe best!

@@alexbatsis2785 Perhaps a more constructive alternative to simply deriding large swathes of people as ‘racist’ is to consider _why_ such apparent prejudice manifests. It could of course very well be predicated on a conventional aversion to outsiders/foreigners. Or perhaps there are other, more substantial causes worthy of consideration...

On the contrary, what you identified as a “colossal error” it was the fact that exposed Greece’s intrinsically bad economic design as soon as the first economic crisis appeared on the horizon. By not having the ability to issue new debt in their own currency the Greek governments had to start restructuring the economy (admittedly, in a painfully slow manner - since the leftist mentality had to been exposed to the constituency - hence the reign of the ridiculous Varoufakis bunch - so as to make masks drop). If Greece had still access to the printing press, it would have prolonged its procrastination to progress into something more viable. Problems are not solved until their social security gets a radical solution like substantial cuts of benefits and pensions! In other words, there’s a long road ahead to be covered. One step at a time.

@@C_R_O_M________ What you just said is pure German propaganda and therefore I will not reply to such profound nonsense.

@@Athenaikos I wouldn’t expect you to! I am merely stating facts for others to read. You are most likely of Greek decent as I certainly am too. I know the system from up close and personal. Disagree all you want but make it with arguments and see where dialectics will get you. I have pretty solid arguments in support of my case. Are you up for the task? P.S. Exactly which part is German propaganda (laughing out loud for that!)? I mentioned a bunch of things. Are you bundling them all together?

Submission?

Yes for peacekeeping and free trade. Forget the political project

I doubt european countries would give up on having a future.

Germany doesn’t need to invent a reason. The fact is, Germany is no longer in a position to finance this gargantuan project. It will come to an end at some point soon.

The EU was a good idea, however the countries who contribute obviously want to call the shots, the recipients are passive not wanting to upset anyone, how is this equal except on paper.

@@johnburman966 All countries contribute , but its true some countries are bigger and more influential than others , still all countries have veto vote on desitions !

they are only different if you're bigoted against one and not the other.

@@TheShootist Nonsense. We are deeply affected by our environment and culture. If the cultures that produce the parents are radically different from one another, the outcomes won't be the same, obviously. Stop looking for bigotry everywhere and you might be able to have a grown up conversation about certain topics

@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodr9390 Bigot. one who regards or treats members of one group differently than another group based upon immutable characteristics of birth. That people differ between individuals goes without saying.

@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodr9390 just say you're racist and go!

@@TheShootist Actually, nowhere in my comment can you find "immutable characteristics of birth". I claimed it is up to environment and culture. If there is only variance amongst individuals, can you tell me exactly what a "culture" actually is, and why we have so much variance between groups that follow different cultural norms? Thank you for accusing me of bigotry though, you're definitely getting me to question my own thoughts and how I've been telling myself lies all these years. You're a precious soul Scotty

We are in a world where the super rich corporations have monopolies and in many cases have legal immunity, like section 23@ and vaccines. The only real threat to them is democracy so they are setting out to destroy it.

Why do you think there as a period when the elite class didn’t control most things, when did they not look with contempt at everyone below them? Brexit was one of the only pokes in the eye these people got, they just adjusted to it. It’s easy to get corporations to pay for hospitals. Tax them. But the elite won’t do that because they know it will kill the goose that lays the golden egg.