NATO Military Chief on How Countries Can Prepare for War, a Second Trump Presidency and More | WSJ 

i don't want make fun of you, but define Rational

@@bestvideos4ever1 Rational means having reason or understanding relating to, based on, or agreeable to reason. you can look it up in the dictionary.

Exactly 💯Abicaksiz

Well said and I agree

shocking of your above "soft racism comment" for generalizing 17 million people. All matured people knows that every place has smart and dumbs, good and evils...

@@lmvcnn Dutches are as good or bad as any other nation, no Difference !!!

Bauer is delusional, but he's well paid for it.

​@@lmvcnn oh just... Sod off. I'm Dutch and the culture generally permits more abrasive comments than others. No racism involved. The Dutch culture allows comments to people you have no relationship with. This is different from other countries.

this man needs war to get more stripes. Dangerous figure.

absolutely correct .... it is the greed which was the driving force ..... the madness to get more and more at a cheaper price, ..... now China has the biggest army in the world they produce their own nukes and they want to dominate and control everyone, Tibet, India, Bhutan, Hong Kong China sea, Philippians, Taiwan, ..... and when in 2008 Greece was in bankruptcy, they bought their infrastructure, ports and transport with that they control all movement, and in Africa they do the same ....

It's not either or, it's both.

you did ask for this, any chance of alternative economic systems like mutalism or syndicalism were lumped into le ebil GOMMUNISM and demonized by the average american until neoliberalism is the last that remains, so now neoliberalism is what happens, so you exactly have yourselves to blame

@@NeostormXLMAX Who is you? The average worker with no political power?

@@toddharig8142the average american has a good amount of political power they just don’t use it

Hi, American daughter!

This man had no clue, what Putin prepared las 25 yeras to destroy all enemies.

@@PavolFilek Putin can't even make sure there is fuel and heat 10 km outside Moscow, 😂😂

He is a war bond salesman and you're sucking it up perfectly for him.

@@HPF-JensenAnd you're the one who's is "whistling in the dark!"

@@patrickganly5206 yes and i like it

Actually, Bauer is straight out of the world of Dr Strangelove. In an interview the other day (in a leading Stockholm morning paper) he called for Europe to switch to an overall war economy and hedge everything on an attempt to scale up military production to help Ukraine break Russia /a completely futile aspiration).

@@louise_rose we'll see

@@louise_rose How is that Dr. Strangelove? And no, do not misrepresent what was said, which is that stockpiles should be prioritized for Ukraine. Nothing about "breaking" Russia in the territorial sense you dishonestly imply.

​@@louise_roseAnd you went from a disney's story. EU peace means american control, but now the usa are tired. So or we defende ourself or prepare to a bad final, not now, not tomorrow but very soon.

@@cesaresperelli2817 That's just BS. Europe can very well do without propping up Ukraine It's the American elites that can't stomach losing control of Ukraine

True. This were the times when cheap oil and gas came from Russia in the western countries. We can very easy see how the narrative changes, when western countries are at risk or lose money or cheap resources.

Our Western European mistake was that we assumed Russia could go through the same path that all the other countries "behind the iron curtain" went through. We didn't realise that Russia is a completely different beast. I'm also guilty of that. Russia was never able to really make the transition to a stable democracy, and they always kept the "We are the superior Russians" mentality. At least we can claim that we did give them a chance, by integrating their economy into ours. But looking backwards, that was a mistake indeed. 2014 should have triggered a lot more action than it did.

We were coled " Good looking" to. 😂🎉

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@RPGPlayground Democracies don't stage coups in Ukraine and then trick Ukraine into fighting a proxy war for the NATO Mafia. NATO thought they could punish Russia for not kissing the ring. Tough luck.

Maybe being happy because your government functions correctly, makes you want to protect it

@@alexdevcamp Or maybe being happy because your government incites hatred against a neighbouring country and it's people!

@@alexdevcamp Or maybe being happy because your government incites hatred against its neighbouring country with no rational reason to do so!

@@alexdevcamp @alexdevcamp Or maybe being happy because your government incites hatred against its neighbouring country with no rational reason too do so!

@alexdevcamp Or maybe being happy because your government incites hatred against its neighbouring country with no rational reason too do so!

empty words and pure B.S from him

@@beatxassassin6439 Ok Vladimir

Because they pretty much are lol

Chill out lol

While he does nothing.

@@bo45 great quip

we do, dont worry!

Italy here, I watch the news every day and I hadn't seen this before.

💯% true 💙🇺🇲💙

In my time , during Vietnam it was said , "What if they had a war and nobody came " . " War is a Racket" a book by Maj Gen Smedley Butler USMC two time Medal of Honor times two . You 'all must be invested in war . Any of you ever wear the uniform ?

Enlist yourself WARPIG

Yeh, good luck with that one..

Why ? What has he done to earn such admiration ?

Absolutly. The difference between civilized humans and animals, is the capacity to help others to heal. If an animal breaks a leg, it's done, it will possible die. A human, is taken care until it heals. We can only survive a war if we stop this nonsense of me, me, me and my rights. Ubuntu is the way, "what is good for all, is good for me"

empty words and pure B.S from him

Which is the best one coming from America?

Admiral did nothing but report fake news.

Dude what are you talking about, there are so many. You just have to look outside old europe. Almost everybody in the nordics and central/eastern europe talk like this, senior military or politicians. We get it. The convenience junkies, deniers and fools are from France, Germany, Spain, Italy,, the US and the UK etc.

Typical general who wants more money for his war

@@jaja3359 Ben Hodges

He has no power. In ww2 look what germany did to these tiny euro nations

@@AckzaTV You have to ask yourself if the circumstances are similar before making such a statement... Things have change a lot in the last 80 years..a small state or a small force can do great damage to a much bigger one! Analyze the current Ukraine situation against Russia or even the Hothis against ships patrol. War is dirty business and now it's dirtier than ever so let's just do our best not to go there!

When people from Eastern and Central Europe were saying exactly the same things for more than a decade we were called “grumpy” “pessimistic” and “Russophobic”

@@BlazejMarczakright?! I’m from Eastern Europe and so many of us were saying these things, but we were dismissed as hateful, uneducated and yes - Russophobic. 🤷‍♀️

He knows nothing. Just empty words and pure B.S from him

@@beatxassassin6439 Care to elaborate? Dont think you can.

​@Redcrown1979 NATO enlargement is CONTRARY to peace. Shoud we try with Chinese and Russian military alliance in Cuba ? In Mexico? Have you ever tried to think that the RF also need their own security 🤔....?

You think he could supervise the deportation of a load of malaysian dissidents to cape town

We are all going to face the consequences of our leaders.

Stoush

@@phil20_20didn’t the collective we vote for them?

Russians definitely didn't seem prepared for total war... they are struggling to take a country at their border, a country deprived of a NAVY, with a very limited and outdated air force, and whose army was mostly composed of old soviet equipment. China hasn't been at war for decades, they're able to produce lots of things and are way more technologically advanced than Russia... but I highly doubt things would go smoothly if they had to go to war against a near peer adversary tomorrow.

​@@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1ncleast-worst candidate, is the order of the day...beta-tested in oz (like a lot of things, I suspect...lockdowns, and the attendant amendments to statutes, like planning permission by-pass, lock downs on borders?)..

empty words and pure B.S from him

@@beatxassassin6439 I really despair reading the pro-war comments here…..

@@SS-qk8oc Neville.Chameberlain or Winston Churchill?

All these liberal civil movements totally destroyed the nationalism. In the US and outside the US, young generation is increasingly liberal and progressive. Nationalism is white supremacy and racism. defense industry is warmonger. And many immigrants in the west are from Middle East, Asia and South America. They are from the 3rd world countries. They are, in their nature, against war with other developing countries like the war in Middle East. They hold a quite different view of world from the native population. This makes the society very divisive. I don’t think the many individual “me” will become a collective “we”. Because “we” have no common ground!

Bot.

Probably Made in China, Atleast the buttons

Soon NATO will be past

Ukraine is democracy now?😂

How is it that Rand corporation members have so much influence over NATO? That's the only explanation I can come up with after reading the Rand corporation report 2019 on Ukraine. Why has reality become so similar to the report?

Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), reportedly observed that the purpose of the Alliance was to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down.

He doesn't have a clue, zero.

So why don't you apply for his job, ​@@mitrovdan?

@@smallpeople172 no, no, let him do it he's on the right track. Cranking up the supply of shells is going as planned, right? Where would we get that idea from that Russia is out producing the entire western world (shells) by a margin of 6 to 7 against 1? Their economy is also in disarray, the Dutch aren't quietly buying russian gas and there certainly aren't any LNG tankers coming into the Rotterdam harbour, definitely not in Spain, France, GB etc etc. As far as I know the Canadians haven't eased the restrictions on russian aluminium for their aviation industry, 😉. Or are you suggesting that the western plan to drag Russia into a Ukrainian quagmire is working? Seems to me the other way around - could have fooled me.

​@@mitrovdan Get used to it buddy. Relations with Russia are not going back to normal. This talk is about self-reflection on the mistake of letting our guards down too low around our former & once again current enemies. It's up for debate if they ever were "friends" at all. 30 years isn't very long. He has every clue, it is you who seems not to. Yes. So the plan's not working. He talks about this, how our enemies use resources like aluminum & gas against us. To make us fund them. To hit us in our pockets. How we walked right into that. How Russia is producing this & that. Do you have a better one? You think you know how to simply turn around 30 years of mistakes? Or do you just want the prices to go back down on the international commodities our enemies use against us? They're not. Well, not unless we be good & roll over when they tell us to. Until we're their slaves. You want to be a good boy & roll over don't you? Oh yes Mr. Putin here's Ukraine pleeeeease make the gas prices go back to normal! Oh yes Mr. Hitler here's the Sudetenland you asked for and so WW2 never happened & that's why we celebrate Neville Chamberlain day! Or am I wrong? What *do* you want?

It is now.

That's complete nonesence. It is we who live in the past, who remember the past, and who have been warning our politicians about the need to strengthen our military, bring back conscription ( of some type) etc. We remember the Cold War, the frightening times and wars through the 60's, 70's , 80's and 90's so we are under no illusion about the situation we are in.

This

He is in politics> General or admiral in Western militaries is actually a political function.

NO. He is an expert and we need him where he is.

He is, listen to the dribble.

Soldiers cant be politicians

Admiral states facts that are half truths

Seems like the Ukrainians blew up NS... likely for more a couple reasons : - Hurt Russia's ability to earn money and pay for its war - Preventing EU countries to take the easy route and go back to a cheap Russian gas in the future

The western imposed sanctions are the cause of gas supplies being cut off / diverted. Considering the amount of sanctions imposed on Russia by the west, it would seem only natural for Russia to respond in kind, but this doesn’t appear to be happening.

It's possible Russia blew it because they have contractual obligations to deliver given amounts of gas. This way they're off the hook. Maybe the West did it? We can only speculate. No intelligence has been made public.

Nato blew piplekime its obvious

The world is dangerous because countries don't oblige by international law thinking that might makes right, for a long time it did. These countries were warned that there would come a day that this policy would blow up in their face, guess what, it did, some started crying wolf. As a statesman recently said, "the vampire bal is coming to an end". This whole BS around Ukraine didn't have to happen, as with Serbia, Lybia, Syria, Afghanistan and so on, and so on. Now a statesman reacts to those provocations and all of a sudden some remember that the world is a dangerous place with dangerous countries.

The politicians were the problem. Chancellors like Schroeder and Merkel mollycoddled Putin and undermined Europe's security for Russian energy. Putin corrupted both the SDP and CDU, Germany's two major parties.

Voters ram the politicians more than the other way around, so attention to news media and education are necessary for an informed electorate.

​@@richarddietzen3137just tell me all the objective facts i will make my own conclusions on most matters

why

promoting war? They lost me as soon as they said the war is still happening. We dont want war with Russia, they don't like Putin, he does the opposite of their desire.

He most probably wants to act as a 'bridge' between the public & the interviewee

​@@artiefakt4402yeah, you act like that by interviewing and paying attention, not looking around because someone in the audience moved.

@@AmYiChai The interviewee also looks at the audience while he speaks, and he does it quite a lot... if you don't want interaction, just put everybody in front of a screen.

@@artiefakt4402 except he wasnt doing 'that'. Pay more attention to the interviewer when he looks away, where he then looks, for how long. He even would do that to break eyecontact with the interviewee. Thats just not right.

Yeah you're right I have noticed that

think hard, buddy.

That’s the number agreed on lol

​@@renesalinas8621Those numbers are Ukraine 's secret. Not even informed to NATO.

So true ...

Why listen to people who support russia?

@@opus3989 You are mistaken, I'm afraid. These men are ex high-ranking NATO officers that support their own respective fatherlands, the USA and Germany.

That’s an admirable ambition. But, when the other guy is a predator, best be ready.

Preparing for war means preparing for peace.

Didn't we say that before Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan? Was the Vietnam domino theory correct? Is the end of the world happening because the Taliban took over Afghanistan? Russia won't invade NATO...unless we continue to mess around with it ​@@patrickdonohue530

Gasprom shut down gas deliveries to Germany in 2022 months before the pipelines were blown off.

I do not see that. Compared with previous Nato Generals, he is simply echoing, what he is told to by the hegimonial power...

You are a Ukranian bot. Or just easily impressed….

Aren’t you bright.

It was always so, from prehistoric times. The leaders, who start wars are feasting in their palaces, while simple people are being killed, raped and enslaved. You dont't like it, start working on your own empire 😅

Do you think the official of NATO is idiot or stupid?

@@SorminaErianaWell, a lot of people in the US think Nato officials are just as silly as American politicians. Thats how uneducated they are on geopolitical matters and who the representatives from NATO are.

"If you want peace, prepare for war" - Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (Roman writer ≈ 4th century AD) Most European countries live under a dangerous illusion. It is time wake up.

Everything you’ve ever eaten in your entire life had to die

Are you equating people , humans to animals???!!!

​@@user-gd8du9zq3mhumans are vertebrae mammals. We are nothing but animals.

You don't invest in death you invest in defense. You invest in strength. In protection from death.

That would be nice. There is a difference between an offensive posture & a defensive posture. Pretending there are no bad people wishing others harm is foolish. Better to be prepared than not.

Unless you are an autocrat, and don't care about your people. That is what he is talking about here.

@@phil20_20 assuming democracies are inherently peace loving is a woefully false equivalence. NATO are the ones that upset the balance of power and peace in Europe, not Russia. And autocracies do care a lot about their own people, you've deluded yourself into making a caricature of your enemies

​@@phil20_20the west don't care about Human life Look at The Middle East

@@wolfswinkel8906Agree and even Reuters had an article that Putin has around 84% approval rating. That’s higher than any leader in the West. Russia had a record breaking 74% voter turnout with Putin winning 87% of the vote and there were 1,299 international observers from over 130 countries.

Do you believe in lies.