Ukraine War: Europe Shackles Itself to America's Reckless Foreign Policy, w/ Prof Wolfgang Streeck 

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Puppet and slaves 😂😜😂🤣

Follow the money 💰.

I AN SO SUPPRISE THE LEADERS OF EUROPE.DIDN'T STOP AND THINK BEFORE THEY WENT AHEAD WITH THIS.DECISON TO EXPAND NATO. NOW EUROPE NEEDS U.S. TO PULL THEM OUT THIS MESS..EUROPE CAN'T EXPECT.U.S. TO DO THERE FIGHTING FOR THEM.U.S. HAS THERE OWN PROBLEMS.

Putin is not interested in Europe as long as far from his border. And nobody will interfere in this conflict. But Ursula is puppet, 🤣🤣

@@amossimon3438 this War is US between Russia..others are drag because of what we called NATO members. Very obvious.

They have been bought and paid for unfortunately.

like we have any choice, we got socom and cia runnin around averywhere, why can't wasps stay home since the rest of the world is such a terrible place?? thx yankee for makin my continent the stage of your proxy wars AGAIN. yankees u gotta revolt the world needs an american revolution

It is masochism to the nth degree.

Russia started the fucking war. It is for some reason a detail for some

UK and USA planned the breed Nazis into the Ukraine Army . The knew that these ex football hooligans were stupid enough to go and fight the RUSSIANs for FREE. The TRUE. Ukrainian people were sacrificed by Zelensky for his USA master's

another putin PUPPET

Did you see his comments where he agreed with Putin about the black lives matter movement being a terrorist organization?

And the whole of the EU as a US backed project is detrimental to European countries and workers.

WHY??!!

@@derektay9828 why what ?

EU Parliament is becoming reckless and shockingly DUMB enough to follow US. only EU people can STOP EU PARLIAMENT. TIME FOR COLOUR REVOLUTION IN EUROPE.

European can stay out of this messed.this is not your War. But EU is puppet,.

Peace for them, pieces for all others.

Same here. It could be wonderful, but it's infected with neoliberal totalitarianism on al levels.

Nato: keep Russia out of Europe, America in and Germany (Europe) down. These 3 principles work every time.

@@mariadamen7886 hi Maria, long time since I have seen you in comments...That was a statement made by Lord Ismay 1st general secretary of NATO

mindless EU follow USA, now suffering the self sanctioning on Russia. NATO is dangerous to the free world

Step forward Tony B-liar and George Bullshits .

😂😂

Find any…?

Because US/UK false intels, there are over 1 million Iraqis people died

Always hidden agendas. When it makes no sense ask who benefits.

It will get worse. God willing.

Don't you think this is all by design? Most people especially westerners have no idea how 5 eyes deep state control their government behind the scenes because they were too busy parroting propaganda narratives & talking points from the same power.

A bunch of clowns really

@@alanhamford2538 It will get a lot worse, a great deal worse. WW111 is just around the corner. W111 must be fought on American soil

And they are all a bunch of brain dead politicians.

Really? Japan and Italy and Germany were in deep trouble when America participated in bringing democracy to those countries?

@@drmodestoesq That wasn't America alone. It was the allies. All of them. We had no choice but to act right! There was an alternative to our system and it was quite popular. I'm thinking like Iraq, Syria, Libya ,Afghanistan, Viet Nam, Somalia, Yemen, Chile, Venezuela, El Salvador. And don't forget we brought American values and democracy to the Native Americans on this continent. A democracy is the LAST thing America wants in its vassal states. What we want is obedience and subjugation

Democracy is simply code word for imperialism. What most people want when they say democracy is to having limited government with a few constitutionally granted rights. This can be done with any form of government or with none. Europe is not a democracy as most nation states do not have monetary sovereignty and are yoked to the bureacracy in Brussels with a European president and its own laws extending to all it's member states.

I agree John Swanson.

@@johnswanson4266 wow it's rare when you see an American who understands that I have 2 things to ask one of them is about how Americans deal with the fact they call Russia evil while they destroyed many countries even as recent as Obama administration, the other Is a long shot but I have evidence proves manipulating the satellite images of bucha the famous grave it's a report by BBC can you give it to any famous enough media I ask you since I think you know some of them since it's usually the case with people think like you I tried that myself sending for Russian and western media not the mainstream of course but I failed I don't ask for money I can tell you how to search for the report if you're afraid of clicking a link or give you the link directly again it proves the manipulation just that not all what happened there to be clear

Australia same

I can tell you are a thinking person!

@@bahtalorom 😂🤣

LoveRammstein Ghost. What's stopping you from moving to Russia. Actually most white people in America are migrants from Europe escaping poverty, prosecution and problems happening in those countries at that and sadly still happeing.

@@lealavaamalo4836 You use the word "most" try educating yourself on a better understanding on America and Americans.

Learnt so much/a great deal - not, 'too much'

We in most part of Asia are supporting Russia quietly. We try to stay neutral on surface. However we know its safer to be an enemy of the US than a friend of the US

@@blardymunggas6884 that's the vibe I get from Indonesia as well.. People are fed up to be lectured by the US. Had a talk with my cousin the other day, 22 years old International relations student in Jakarta,we had a good rant about the US, gives me hope for humanity lol

@@blardymunggas6884 India also just want to show itself as a west ally . But we are against war crimes from either sides.

@1xobile Please come and face off with Russia. I want to see how strong the US is. I dare bet the US will be wiped out very fast. Trust me, there are many other countries that will jump in to help Russia if Putin makes the first move. 80% of the world supports Russia. That is why only 45 out of 197 countries sanctioned Russia. Mainstream media won’t tell you that

he should be next Germany's PM, who has interests of people of Germany and it's pride

Please BRICS enact Regime ststem change in usa as we are treated like indentured serfs in this settler colonizer mentality. It has come home to roost

True, chickens have come home to roost

Damn true!

@@eileenmc4746 Do it yourself. You have most guns per person. Clean all the swamp. Washington DC, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street.

@bruce parka Obviously, you have no clue.

Well summarized but you forgot the role of US. US will not let Europe take any decisions in their own interest.

​@@rashmigupta9 Thanks for your reply. You're perfectly right, but it's rather the fault of the spineless European leaders than of the US. Usually I start with the idea to write a short reaction, but it always seems to have a life of it's own and turns out way longer than originally intended. If I would put all my arguments in one post, I'd probably end up with a book instead of a post ;-). I didn't even mention the effects of the shortage of chemical fertilizer, which will probably become the greatest tragedy of this conflict.

The issue is not the supposed Atlanticism of Macron who is rather more for beefing up the military capability of Europe given the prospect of Trump being elected again, disbanding NATO and handing chunks of Europe to Russia. The problem is rather the weakness of Germany which has been free-riding on defence spending, relying totally on the US for its protection while cosying up to Russia as a supplier of energy with a naive belief that through trade with Russia comes political change that would make it liberal and democratic. ‘Wandel durch Handel’ sounds nice but has not not worked in China or the Middle East either. Realism requires a recognition that outside of North America, Europe and a few Asian and Pacific countries, the world is a rather nasty place. Real Politik would suggest Europe still buy oil and gas from Russia because for all their talk about an energy transition they need to buy hydrocarbons for at least a few more decades from unsavoury regimes to the east or the south. Germany would do well to reconsider restarting a nuclear programme but exactly they can do that with the greens in power is not obvious.

​@@patrickmccutcheon9361 I would more than welcome the dissolving NATO and was utterly disappointed when Trump did not go ahead with his treads to do so. NATO is not designed to protect Europe, but is merely a tool for the US to justify its illegal military exploits all over the world. Its purpose was to suppress Russia, keep Germany in check and keep Europe subservient to the US. That's exactly what they are doing now, cratering the European and especially the German economy in an effort to destroy Russia. The latter will fail epically. Russia will know a few difficult years, but will not collapse and will finally come out stronger than before. Unsurprisingly Europe followed US demands to the detriment of the living standards of the European citizens. Lloyd Austin made the US objectives pretty clear in his statements last week in Poland and Victoria Nuland made it crystal clear how the US stands against Europe. In its whole existence, NATO did not perform a single defensive action. They were instrumental and even leading in several offensive and mostly illegal military exploits, like the war on former Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan and are now the major cause of the conflict in Ukraine. The conflict in Ukraine would never have occurred if not for the US/NATO machinations in that country. Russia is not the USSR, is not a danger to the European continent. Europe doesn't need US protection against Russia and would be a lot better off if they throw the US out of Europe and form their own foreign policies. "Wandel durch Handel" works just fine as long as the US is not involved. China has done pretty well following that principle and pulled most of its citizens out of poverty, while the US is just going the other way. The middle east would be a prosperous region if it was not for the US who turned it in a devastated hell hole. It's pretty clear to me that it's actually the US's neo-colonial policy which is destroying the world. There is virtually no conflict in the world where the US is not involved, directly or indirectly. Russia has a strong defensive military, but aren't able and have no interest in occupying any country for longer periods of time. They do have a potent nuclear force, probably even stronger and more sophisticated than the US, but using this for offensive purposes is futile and counterproductive. Russia will use its nuclear arsenal if the situation runs out of control, but only as a last defense. Russia is just as democratic as the US and changing its political system is not a task for Europe or any other foreign power but for the people in Russia. Unlike the propaganda spread by the west, Putin has an approval rating of more than 80% (reported by a German polling company, which is not very Russia friendly for the moment), indicating that the Russian population is on average pretty happy with his decisions. Putin was the first one to acknowledge that there is still a lot that needs to be improved, but he pulled Russia out of the miserable swamp they were in after the fall of the Berlin wall and dramatically improved the living standards of the Russian population. The US is far from democratic, they have thrown all democratic principles overboard for the benefit of the rich and powerful. A recent study from the Prinston University on the effect of public support on proposed legislation showed that the public has no influence on the decision making of the US, whether proposals are supported by no one or by 100% of the population. The graph was a complete flatline. The graph for the effect of support by corporate America however nearly had a 100% correlation with the approved laws. Showing clearly that "by the people, for the people" is dead and burried in the US and morphed into "by the rich and powerful for the rich and powerful" no matter if the democrats or the republicans are sitting in the white house or congress. The last time I was in the US, my wife was disgusted by the poverty we saw in the LA and San Francisco area. I used to travel to the US every year and personally witnessed the deterioration of the situation of the living standards in the US. I also traveled to Russia and China and the contrast with what I saw in the US couldn't be more clear. Neither is the US a force for piece, Smedley Butter said it best in his time and the situation only deteriorated ever since. Fully agree with your stance on nuclear energy and it's crystal clear that Europe will need fosile fuels for a long time before they will get alternative green energy to a level that it can replace oil and gas.

Well said

Eu : Come on man , we are your best Buddy . You should sell it for less .

I don't think they will , Judging by the way America has antagonize Russia , they won't . More European countries want to join.

Too few to do any good for Peace.

There is more good channels: Jimmy Dore Show, Richard Medhurst

Jews posses 98% of US wealth!

He is stupid. Western left helps China to control the world, soon China does

Prof Streech is brilliant!

America and Europe have very deep connections, so that will not happen.

This is America's proxy war they control nato in conjunction with their treasonous allies like the UK so they'll continue to do what the real world leaders, the trillionairre psychopaths behind the WEF tell them too.

We need to be in BRICS 1st as they'll sanction us...

@@grahamt5924 A deep connection like Europe being the abused wife and America being the husband beating the Sh*t out of her...😡

what's so frightening is that Putin deliberately warned in 2019 that he will deliberately target US cities if attacked

@@als5482 Why did Putin think the US was going to launch a nuclear war on Russia? Could it be to do with the way the US unilaterally abandoned 3 nuclear treaties?

this is why Asia is largely reticent. the US going ballistic over Russia and especially China, when those of us who actually may have reason to be concerned about China haven’t panicked yet, tells us that not a single one of us could ever achieve full prosperity and independence and potentially outpace the US in economy or technology etc. because they simply will never allow it, since China’s only sin is really just that it became better at a bunch of things than the US, without using all of the US’s value system, or agreeing to be its vassal. That could have been any single one of us. The US will never accept honest competition and gracefully letting another country lead because it’s simply better at some things. That’s what I’m taking away from seeing this, as an Asian.

@@nurainiarsad7395 yes its nice to see you are clever. I'm ashamed as a white person that we cannot tolerate anyone beating us, whether chinese or russian

@@als5482 I thought Russians were white

Should, but it sold that with outsourcing its defense to America. Therefore not independent.

EUROPE CAN'T SEEN FUCTION ON THERE OWN.LAST 100 YEARS. ITS PULLING COUNTRIES LIKE U.S.DOWN U.S. HAS SET EUROPE FREE MAKE THERE OWN DECISIONS.

All the conflict and trouble are caused by United States, but Europe is puppet so drag.

⚠️Didn't George Bush Jr said "we have no permanent friends, we have permanent inyerest"?

EU is Us colonie since the beggining, it is not something new it is just more exposed now

@Leah Peah where in Europe exactly? England?

@Leah Peah The amount of wisdom and knowledge you have showered upon a pleb like me( a person from third world country and a shithole as said my fox news anchors) have forced me take a wild guess and I'm sorry i can't help it . You are bonde having blue eyes ageing around 35-45 from Midwest or maybe down south probably Texas, god fearing neighbour loveing ( only if they happens to be white) person?

@Leah Peah west..LOVE ONE ANOTHER??????OH, REALLY????? UNBELIEVABLE 😂😂🤣😂🤣

So true but then all NATO member countries are occupied territories or colonies of USA! It’s a shame that people do not realise it even though their presidents do because they are put in governments of those countries by USA mafia government and that way US government has a say in every single NATO member country!

Or the 1st politician's in the world to congratulating the German chancellor would be The American president .

educate yourself your Post is BS

Do we want a strong Germany again.

Yep, this is the chickens coming home to roost after centuries of Imperialism and Colonialism, better late than never.

Hahaha.....

Does Russia have to take the curse of colonialism? Because they seem to be still attached to the idea of military imperialism.

I wouldn't call it "curse"... more a sin ;)

If all the world leaders or all men and women see things this way we would all lieve happill8e ever after

The New Atlas..a very concise and detailed plus informative channel..

USA has been Shekeled long time back.

The Gray Zone is good too.

Also take a listen to iEarlGray.

On it , thank you.

and what about Biden..."leader of the free world!". 🤭

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Sorry, Turkey's army may be larger at the moment, but Ukraine's army is growing in capability at a faster rate, and Ukraine has ample nuclear fuel on hand in its many nuclear reactors for possible nuclear weapons, as mentioned by Zelensky in Munich.

If you put "combating glorification" in your browser. This is a UN document dated after the coup in Ukraine

A lot can change in 13 years. There are so many factors to consider with the fascist element being just one. The fascists were reliant on outsiders such as the oligarch Kolomoisky and George Soros funding to carry out their propagandising of the Ukrainian population and the control of the media. Also understand that Ukraine is not one homogeneous country, there are different factions and groups with different interests. Certainly this war United them but what happens afterwards when the rebuilding starts. Ukraine is poorest country in Europe. It hopes to join the EU to reap the benefits , but with the bad economic problems Europe faces now it looks unlikely it will qualify to join in the near future until conditions change and after any economic restructuring takes place.

Primary contact, not stupid at all. Zelensky raised the threat/boast at the Munich security conference earlier this year in front of world leaders. Ukraine has a number of very large nuclear power stations that could be used for fuel.

@@michaeljones825 Good point. Canada has also sometimes voted No at the UN to combating Nazism, probably since the powerful Chrystia Freeland (Deputy PM) herself years ago attended OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) summer camps for descendants of Ukrainian fascists and ultranationalists who immigrated to Canada right after WW II. The OUN collaborated with the Nazis in WWII (one served as Prime Minister of occupied Ukraine), and they participated in the massacre many tens of thousands of Jews and Poles, while more than 200,000 mainly west Ukrainians joined the Waffen SS and tried to overthrow the Soviet government. Post-2014 coup Ukraine is a failed state: not only is it broke and economically unviable, but the political intimidation of politicians by the various neo-Nazi and violent ultranationalist groups has been steadily growing year by year. They are still comparatively small in number but large in influence inside the small power elite in post-democratic Ukraine. Moreover, there are said to be more than 100,000 neo-Nazis and untranationalists in the Ukrainian military, many recruited from neo-Nazi and jihadi groups around the world. Moreover, all sorts of Jim Crow-type laws were passed after 2014 that severely discriminate against Ukrainian citizens who are ethically Russian. For example, ethnically Russian citizens are routinely said to be subhuman and have different genes than "real"/"pure" Ukrainians, and they are now unable to speak Russian in public, make political speeches in Russian, or publish books in Russian. Soon after the coup the Ukrainian Socialist Party and the Ukrainian Communist Party were outlawed, and Zelensky recently shut down 11 more opposition parties and three opposition TV stations. Ukraine seems to be at an economic and political dead end, unless a fascist dictatorship is acceptable to the Ukrainian people. Somehow I doubt it. I personally think that partition is the only answer. Western (ultranationalist) and eastern (ethnic Russian) Ukraine are radically different cultures (much of western Ukraine was part of the Austrian empire until the end of WWI), and they will never mix well. These two different cultures were unified only by the centralized power structure of the USSR. Now that the USSR is gone, the former Ukrainian SSR needs, I would think, to be divided up. Otherwise there may never be peace -- or freedom from neo-Nazism in the east. Apparently many Ukrainians have also begun to wonder about partition.

EU Parliament is becoming reckless and shockingly DUMB enough to follow US. only EU people can STOP EU PARLIAMENT. TIME FOR COLOUR REVOLUTION IN EUROPE.

“Democracy” is a global racket.

EU is Us colonie since the beggining, it is not something new it is just more exposed now, there is no major politician in the EU not blessing by the US.

In a Democracy nobody votes for the destruction of their own economy. Elites controlling your country is not democracy. Nobody votes for elites to control their country. Destroying the economy is not what any voter wants eltes controlling your country is facism and anti democratic this is how terrible ideologies like communion and socialism become popular.

Look at the history of Athenian democracy that happily voted to cut their own throats after cutting the throats of their children and wives.

Do you think there will be Nuclesr War in EU?

nice echo chamber of ppl unable to process even one rational thought at a time.

@@id9139 If there is it will also be in USUK because one triggers the other automatically. So it will be all over the world.😒 Russia won't start it. But America would!

24000 in The UK.

@@tinaforbes1059 It's more like 9700 in the UK.

@@mpemberton7760 Not entirely sure, to be truthful. That was the head counting numbers when I last checked.

Secretary General Lord Ismay put it best "NATO was created to keep the US in, Russia out and Germany down". Good thing Germany is re-arming. Russia is a stepping stone to China for NATO because we all know the US will sacrifice it's allies when taking on China.

That's wrong:Germany 35.000 troups Japan 47.000

An example, Marie Le Penn's programme for government was very similar to that of the Conservative party of Britain's programme, yet Le Penn is described as "far right"

@@michaeljones825 You know that but you don't know the woman's name?

She's just 100% bought and has no concept of integrity or principles. It's evident in every single thing she does, not just with regard to this crisis.

Please do so, neoliberalism ills has to be discussed more

The EU thinks it would still be a helpless toddler without the US, even though it isn't. It's fear of abandonment, even though the parent is highly abusive.

Lots of arm twisting, and politicians not caring about their civilians, only for profit.

America did everything in its power to stop NS2 and in the end the only thing that would stop it was war. Germany is now the unwanted stepchild to the US, Poland has become the "favorite child" and will remain so as long as they do exactly what they are told.

@Neil Rusling yah it has become cheap specially to those countries who are smart and can not anymore stomach and do not abide to the dictators of this proxy war it’s a never ending war after Middle East and now Ukraine where millions of people died and left every country destroyed and people living in poverty. So tell me which of this country has a clean hand?

Well, as the Nordstream 2 pipeline showed, if Germany is really determined, they can simply build it, no matter if the US and the EU is against it. It's just easier to do what the US wants as long as no essential German interests are involved.

Try The Duran.