Ukraine War Upd. EXTRA (20240703): Military Aid News, Trump & NATO Analysis
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Your excuse or explanation for European NATO countries not spending 2% on defense is untenable. That is like saying, “I am not buying car insurance because I have never had an accident.” Worse yet, you blame the USA for why they aren’t spending 2%. You call people out all the time. How about calling those nations out? Not spending atleast 2% on defense is a bad strategy and short sighted.
You just have to realize, that there's no point in trying to make the Europeans happy with the US's military involvement in Europe. They will complain that it's too much. They will complain that it's too little. They will even complain, if they find it to be just right.
Thanks Jon, another excellent video. SLAVA UKRAINI from the United States
I am100% for NATO and Ukraine. I am an internationalist and not an isolationist. You said the USA and Europe will suffer equally if Russia invades another European country. This is not helpful because it is disingenuous and not true. The USA would suffer greatly no doubt. However, Europe would suffer much much more. Why? The USA is much more economically independent because it is more of a “continental” economy. We are food and energy independent, have an abundance of natural resources, can import low to medium value add goods from Mexico, and our sure size allows a very diversified economy. So, are you still sticking to the USA would suffer equally statement? We are on the same side. Please be a little more balanced and truthful in your statements because it hurts OUR cause
Very well explained. Europe is, regardless of what anyone my think, highly dependent on the USA for its security. NATO will be seriously undermined if Trump ever becomes President again and follows his previous threats to make USA leave NATO. Hopefully his “short sighted” thinking, gets through to Americans and not vote him in as next President. He is a dangerous “Dog eats dog”business attitude which is not the qualities required to be an effective successful President of the greatest democracy the world has ever known.
Total legend , keep the great work going.
Good Afternoon Jonathan and the ATP Team
To you too Richard
@@Finnishguy777 Cheers Tomi
Just catching the update extra before a good night's sleep 👋😄 Have a good night, or day !
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Even though Australia is not in NATO… if US companies paid tax is Australia then we could afford to spend more. Just wondering how much tax FB, Google, Apple etc have avoided paying in NATO countries?
100% agree......
Same in the UK. All the big US corporations are chronic tax avoiders and base themselves in low tax countries
Same in The Netherlands. Starbucks and other companies....
I would vaguely agree but I would go further companies like X and FB that goes against the west and Europe's narrative should have to pay 70 percent tax regardless the country or even if they don't outside their own country for damages they have incurred.
@@denismorgan9742 utter lunacy here.
Hi again people, thank you Jonathan..
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A great day to you Tomi 🤗
@@surpriseitsus9622 to you too Lynn
NATO would have had to reorganize anyway in recognition of the threat China and N Korea.
It just makes sense that the US would reassugn resources on the basis of 80 percent in the Pacific and 20 percent for Europe. With Europe covering the reduced US responsibilities in Europe.
The alternative would be to expand NATO to include Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and some Oceana island Nations.
It would be great for Australia to finally be allowed in NATO. We are actually really strategically located. Oh and hasn’t the US and Russia shared a border in the pacific for ages?
I always figured it as the US actually couldn’t stand alone against Russia. Conventional war US vs Russia was likely never going to happen because of amphibious landing issues, but if the soviets had controlled Europe, the US could not have stood alone (without nukes)
The threat from China is much reduced if Ukraine prevails and Russia is militarily diminished. China would see how NATO (with the USA) and other democracies stand up to naked aggresion. Chinese expansionist plans would no doubt be curtailed.
This makes no sense in the context of Nato. The pacific is not the responsibility of Nato. This is what Aukus and the quad is about. Focus on making SKjaukus or whatever don't drag Europe and Canada into that mess. The USA can align with all the terror states they want to stop china if they like (ie; India).
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G'day Alan 👋😊🌻
@@smith...1 good day to your good self
Hi Alan 🤗
@@surpriseitsus9622 hiya there how are things with you hope all is going well and you are all keeping good. I myself am still alive get in there. My left leg and arm I have just been told will only get to about 60 to 70 percent but I can still get around that all that matters.
Jonathan, it is time for the US to acknowledge the changing nature of the world, as the structures and functions of globalization crumble and are replaced by a regional model. Europe is, demographically, culturally, and economically, in serious decline, and as our values and interest diverge from those of Europe, Nato will become less strategic and less important. Trump is simply acknowledging this reality. The US has limited resources and new, emerging threats. We are shifting our focus to South American and the Pacific, where our future will be determined. This does not mean that we will cut all ties with Europe, and I expect our ties with Eastern European countries to continue if not expand. As Europe declines, our interest there will also decline. The idea that Nato is in our interest because it served a purpose in the past, is quaint but wrong. And the notion that our commitment in Nato will be reduced, does not mean that we are turning our back on Nato, at least not immediately. We can have an alliance, but with new limits. BTW, the idea that Europe will replace the US in military power is ridiculous. You people are resisting the small increased in military spending that are in front of you today, with your main concern that defense spending to mean fewer goodies in your social programs. The idea that you'll give up on what is required to really matter, militarily, is a farce.
An at the same time condescending and inaccurate description of Europe.
Some countries are flourishing, while some are struggling.
But the same could be said for different states in the US.
@@viggoholmsen7203 Condescending? Maybe. Inaccurate? No. At the heart of Europe's decline is an energy policy that has left European industry crippled, while European's spend 3x more to heat and cool their homes than the average American. European deference to the Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism on your street will, it time, make you an unreliable ally, as Islam replaces Christianity and forces out the atheists. European demographics show decline, and there will be fewer and fewer people to defend traditional values. Who in Europe will accept fewer social programs while spending enough money to really defend themselves from Russia? Look at the elections in France, and tell me that they are ready to shift money to defense and accept less government spending on their pensions. Same is true in the upcoming UK elections. Who really believes that the UK is committed to long term defense spending at the expense of health care, less social spending and more taxes? From the US point of view, that is decline and we need to prepare for it.
@@viggoholmsen7203 He either is an idiot or a somewhat smarter russian troll. Europe isn't in decline yet its the rest of the world catching up. And yes i'm from europe and i have been shouting for over 2 decades that we need to beef up our defense. So i do hope we finally move to an EU army and have an EU nuclear programme cause its clear the USA is a declining nation (not that they have to be but their voters seem hell bent on making it so).
NATO's Article 5 has been invoked once… in support of the US shortly after September 11, 2001
This American will never forget that. I won't let the rest of America forget that either.
Look, geopolitically, the US has its balls tied in a knot, because Europe as a whole, has not decided that it wants to fight a war yet. Instead they have decided to complain it sucks, and argue in the highest courts, while funding retirement plans, social services and tens of thousands of other non militaristic civilian programs for their own nations, who might not be here if RU rolls across UKR....mark my words, if UKR falls because europe does not support...Then you will see the EU fall apart when nations who hoped to keep UKR bleeding to protect their own borders are now fighting human waves of UKR women and children armed with sharp sticks fighting for RU with AKs pointed at there backs... as RU eats up one after another EU nation including the UK. Europe needs to turn to a war footing and start moving troops into western UKR and this drama will stop, this decade, because RU will stop, or because a global war will last a year and be over and we can all move on. Everyone has more money and more hardware and more soldiers in their stock, and they are knowingly not giving and moving them to UKR... That needs to change. Give them everything, otherwise we all should expect to be holding a weapon soon enough in our own countries and watching them fall first hand.
You just might open your eyes and look up what really has been spend by Europe. Yes america deliverd most weapons to Ukraine but we spend about 5 times as much money keep Ukraine running as a country and taking in their Refugees. In the mean time we are building up our militairy industry wich just can't be done fast. We don't have the workers either and it ain't like we can just pour unskilled workers on it most Militairy stuff is just to high tech. And you can't just magic up production plants out of thin air. They are beeing build but the production needed will be only there in 2027.
Dam big fingers rumps past not rumos past 😂
I disagree with your mental gymnastics on this video. There is NO excuse for we in the UK and other NATO Countries having allowed our militarys to become so ineffective.
Explanation vs excuse. There was no moral or normative claim from me so it is but mental gymnastics. I agree we should have been spending more. But we didn't. What explains that?
Short sighted European policy is what explains it.
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Hi smith and Thanks for the update Johnathan .. 💙💛💙
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Hello and hopefully you're sound asleep 😴 🤗 🌌 ❤
Trump should ask for a 99 year lease for the port city of Odessa (similar to UK and hong kong) in exchange for military assistance. Would give the USA a rwal return on our investment in the security of UKR.
The General Dynamics here where i live in Camden, Arkansas, where much of the equipment that goes to Ukraine is built, had an explosion earlier this morning.. multiple injuries, looking like 1 fatality. They build mortars, the hydra rockets, modular artillery charges, and the javelin anti tank missile, shaped charge warheads for TOW missiles as well.. doesnt look like it affected Lockheed or Raytheon or any of the other defense companies located around it
It is completely normal for the defense/weapon industry to have accidents sometimes, it is completely irrelevant whether the factory in question produces goods for Ukraine only for the USA's own army, the accident could have happened regardless of where the finished products end up, the accident is of course an unfortunate thing, but it is not related to Ukraine or Europe in any way
@Finnishguy777 we have accidents here all the time... but rarely of this size and destruction... Ukraine has nothing to do with it, other than weapons are built that go directly there... not a question of if they do, I know they do, HIMARS is built next door, ATACMs are built next door, patriot pac 3 missiles are built 2 buildings down, plenty in stock for now... just stating about the incident... ive lived here for 33+ years and only the 2nd explosion ive heard and felt from my house, which is about 20 miles away from the facilities there.
@@johnoliver4739 I'm sorry for the accident, in Finland recently there have been attempts to break into various critical infrastructure sites such as water supply and electricity supply, there is no evidence of who is behind them, but I personally suspect Russia, the authorities have not commented on the matter other than saying that Russian involvement cannot be ruled out at all
@Finnishguy777 oh definitely... and im sure there are russian operatives here as well... they can get in almost without being known across the southern border... im waiting for a couple of calls to find out what caused it, whether it was an accident or what... the last time, the worst accident i can remember was in the late 90s, early 2000s a bunker used to store fuel and rocket motor components was leaking and ignited and blew up, it destroyed the bunker and cleared every tree for over half a KM in every direction around it.
20:50 The US were not afraid of Soviet expansion without a reason. Apart from the Soviets taking control over the countries that would later be part of the Warsaw pact, the US and the UK together prevented a Soviet backed communist takeover of Greece, and helped Turkey when the Soviets tried to force them into joint military control of the Bosporus. After that it was clear that a defensive alliance between the US and European democracies was a necessity.
Thinking America will soon achieve island status, thanks for the updates
Trust me.........real Americans like me are fighting.
I agree with you completely again Jon. Minty
A couple of items to assure clarity and to state the correct facts regarding the 2% GDP spending. The commitment of spending of minimum of 2% of its GDP to defense spending came about in 2006 when NATO defense ministers all agreed that each member country would commit to spending 2% of its GDP on defense. It was not in 2014. Rather, it was in 2014 that President Obama expressed displeasure on the lack of member countries not fulfilling their 2006 pledges commitment to 2% of GDP. As a result, in 2014, the NATO countries put together a Defense Investment Pledge recommitting their support to meeting the 2% of GDP guideline of defense spending as pledged in 2006.
Second, although President Trump has expressed concern just like President Obama in 2014, even after the illegal invasion of Ukraine, at the end of 2023, only 11 NATO countries had met their commitment of spending 2% GDP on defense. I am encouraged that according NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated 23 of 32 members will meet their annual commitment by end of year 2024. This fulfillment needs to continue by all members.
Although I agree with Trump on spending needs by NATO members, I disagree with any down sizing or withdrawal from NATO. NATO has been a force for good since 1949 and continue to do so in the future. But it will only work if all members fully participate and share in meeting their expressed obligations. This includes defense spending along with actions that support the fulfillment of NATO's goal, namely to safeguard freedom and security by both political and military means.
Starmer will never be prime minister.
Are you serious?
Nice rant. Can you do the same regarding the lack of any EU country suppling jet fighters?
You mean apart from France with Mirages, Netherlands, Belgium , Norway , Denmark with F16s , Czech Republic ,Romania ,Slovenia, Slovakia , Poland with Migs . The US …zero
@@allymac18 mostly very old stuff. F16s require USA permission. Where is the latest European stuff? EuroFighter, Rafel, Gripen for example.
@@allymac18 The migs and f16s are old stuff. Also F16s need USA permission for everything. EU should be sending the latest equipment. Foe example Gripen, Rafale, Typhoon. Stop saving, the rainy day is here. I agree with everything JP is saying but it does not matter, GOP will not change. It's kind of like arguing that old age should be avoided.
YES but how much of the weapons from USA industrial complex go to European country's & how much money does America make from the sales.
The founding of NATO made sense for the USA after the Second World War to push back the feared dominance of the Soviet Union as the strongest power in Europe. But now, 35 years after the Cold War, Russia simply does not have the capacity and political influence to dominate Europe like the Soviet Union did. In addition, Europe is becoming significantly less important in relation to other parts of the world. It follows that, considering the national interests of the USA, it makes no sense to continue NATO.
Jesus Christ, Johnny. You wasted 40 minutes of my time on Trump, when Biden is just a soft version of Trump towards Ukraine
Maybe Europe has to defeat Russia together with Ukraine without the US and after the war work together with the new Russia and China without the US? Have this Huge EurAsian continent?
EU to UK is EA to US.
An interesting idea!
How exactly would that work culturally?
@@ChrisLindsey-vs9vq Like we work together with anybody in the world. If you are from the UK you have been working with Indians, Africans and HK Chinese and Americans, so why would it be any different to work with Russians and ML Chinese. What matters is what kind of government and justice system they have.
@ChrisLindsey-vs9vq In a world of pragmatism, real politik and business, I think your question may be a bit of a side issue.
Consider Russia, Iran,North Korea and China. Apart from the common denominator of all of them being dictatorships, they do make for some very odd bedfellows - as a group.
So, apart from their very essence - authoritarian - being the same…I’m sorry, what?
They are authoritarian regimes. That is their essence. That draws them to each other against non-authoritarian regimes. Stunning that you would view them as strange bedfellows.
"You defeat China by defeating Russia in Ukraine"
This is an unsubstantiated claim.
Very thorough discussion and advocacy for why Americans should want to lead in NATO not follow or pull out
Just before the election could America make a donation to Ukraine or another country to be spent in Ukraine.
Hello again everyone 😄
Hi again Sheryl 🌻
@@surpriseitsus9622 Well hello again to you too Lynn 😄💐
13:07 THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU JP and Michael Hirsh for speaking the truth about NATO's 2% spending goal not being a requirement for accession to NATO, continued membership in NATO, or to have NATO allies fulfill their article 5 commitments to one another. They are not obligations to be paid to Donald Trump or the U.S.A, they are not debts owed to any official or nation.
The 2% should be a requirement for continued membership.
Please stop comparing the cost of defense missiles to the cost of attacking drones in the damage they can do.
Most missiles do nothing! So compare the cost of the defence with the statistical chance of the possible damge that drones do.
All too slow, Ukraine could have won this war by now with the proper help, I am very worried for the future of Eulraine, Europe and the UK.
Thanks JP.
Good afternoon, everyone. For my fellow Americans............Please take a look at Americans protesting giving aid to England in 1940/1941. ( Lend Lease and Destroyers for bases) Signs carried by American citizens said "Hitler never attacked us" "Make peace with Hitler" " Hitler is Europe's problem let Europe deal with it" Do you have any idea what would have happened if we had listened to these people. The bad guys would have won WW2........and/or the cold war........
Admittedly,and not proudly, I lived in a geopolitical cave before russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. I have seen the Hitler sympathies of that era and it is an historical echo that we are experiencing at this exact moment. Hitler and putin are interchangeable, along with the naz i’s of that era with russia of today. Similarly Ukraine and the Ukraine war of today is eerily similar to Czechoslovakia of 1938/39. And of course Chamberlain of that era is DJT here in 2024. We finally woke up to the evils of authoritarianism in Europe in the early 40’s, although it was a bit late. I wonder what our US electorate will do, given this echo of history that we are experiencing right now in 2024? Great comment by the way.
@@LadaGaga93 Your 100% right.......we can't let history repeat itself.
@@KevinForst-n2t I’m sure you’ve seen it, but Lincoln Project-Near Miss, touches on this. Unbelievable we had these sympathies.
How much of the us defence product are sold to nato countrys?
il me semble que si trump quitte l'OTAN l'Europe sera obliger de se réarmer a fond. Par contre si un jour les US ont un problème avec la Chine devrons faire sans l'Europe !
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"Ask Trump what his (global) strategy is"?? You might as well ask a two year old what his plans for his pension are! He cannot and does not think strategically. He thinks very short term, what is the win NOW, and what's in it for me. He cares nothing for the security of USA and even less for global security. He has a very small mind and is unable to empathise with others or think or plan outside what the benefit for him and his crime family.
Mr. P. monthly rant about the idea USA ( assuming Trump wins ) wants Europe to do the heavy lifting for NATO. omg like groundhog day.
The 2% defense spending commitment came about in 2006 (defense minister level), but elevated in 2014 to heads-of-state level.
I'm not going to comment on the Politico article, as it only expands on a likely positioning (on NATO, Ukraine, strategic outlook etc) if Trump gets reelected - a foreign policy agenda, if you will.
I'll just mention this, though.
Pulling the US completely out of NATO would be a grave mistake.
But a shift towards the Pacific region is understandable and has been happening for decades already.
The understanding now should be that Europe must play a larger role in the North Atlantic, freeing up additional US resources.
But in a longer perspective, the Arctic is also becoming a strategic focal point of importance and NATO is well placed to be in the vanguard.
BTW.
NATO should be viewed as a triangle focusing military, economic and political unity and presence.
A similar organization could be created in the pacific with core strategic allies in the region.
Previous attempts to do just that stranded (SEATO), but the time seems ripe for another try, formalizing and consolidating current bilateral agreements "under one roof".
The new organization could have close ties and possibly coordinate with NATO, but should remain a separate entity.
This geopolitical regionalization is already crystallizing.
Just seeing if I am still blocked
This is fantastic news! Thanks JP
5:48 will ukraine and its allies say no to Trump and his vision of ending the war? Meaning to reduce dependence on U.S military assistance.
No one will listen to trump 👐
Yeah. Let’s go with that.
Half of the US didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020. Not even half of the eligible voters. It was around 25% that voted for Trump. Around 50% of eligible voters didn’t vote.
If those 50% actually cared, someone other than Biden would be in the White House right now, and Trump would never have been President.
And? Funny but that’s how our system works.
Your little rant on security was understandable but when applying that to Trump should understand that he hasn't a clue he knows or understand anything.
Perhaps we should cancel orders of U.S military equipment and services.
Why is America not like it used to be back in the old days by now Trump would have been nocked off.
There's always been an isolationist element within the US, a viewpoint which is entirely understandable and acceptable- if not entirely welcomed as in everybody's best interests
What's not entirely acceptable is America blowing hot and cold in regard to its relations with other fellow allied nations.
Consistency is the bedrock upon which alliances are built.
The US should feel as free to be inconsistent in alliance matters as anybody else.
@parcomolo256 Yes, every country has the right to be inconsistent in their international policies, it's just that it make everything exponentially dysfunctional untill there's a point where other countries will not see a reason to continue with further treaties or alliance agreements.
Oh boy, isolationism 😔 No trade, no money, hope you're independently wealthy. Small minds thinking small. Good grief
@@surpriseitsus9622 MAGA
Oh boy! Foreign adventurism. How awesome for the rest of the world.
Ukraine certainly seems like a good place to get involved because it is in our interest.
But it is only prudent to have a very high threshold for what’s in our interest.
You would have us as the global Karen. No thanks.
GER parliament (budget committee) just decided to buy 105 new Leo2A8 for BW.
Also, 4 more Patriot batteries, in addition to the 4 budgeted earlier this year.
So Ukraine might get maybe 14 more Leo's and another Patriot battery from GER later.
Problem is that this new stuff will only arrive years from now.
Maybe we'll do some kind of Patriot ring swap with Israel, though...
Get 4 old ones from ISR, send 1 more GER Patriot now and 2 more once the Israeli ones are modernized...
That way, Ukr would overall get 6 from GER/ISR (3 delivered soon, 3 to come) and maybe another 4 from US/ISR.
"You defeat China by defating Russia in Ukraine." 🤣
That's got to be one of the stupidest things I've heard in a while.
Please change your channel name from Geo Politics to Geo Wishful thinking.
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@@ATPGeo Even you have to agree that's pretty stupid right? You don't defeat China by aiding Ukraine. That's a fantacy in the heads of Pro Ukrainian crowd. China has now very large economy if they don't devalue thier currency it would be bigger that the US. Even at the height of the cold war USSR had only the 1/3 of the economy of the US. Sooo you don't defeat China by defeating Russia. The worse thing you can do is to over commit to a conflict that is in the peraphery of US interest like Ukraine conflict. Any over commitment by the US will favor the Chinese in a upcoming war in the pacific.
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ATPGeo: You defeat China by defeating Russia in Ukraine.
You: You don't defeat China by aiding Ukraine.
You are right, You don't only need to aid UA, but aid them to the point, where UA can defeat russia. So a bit of a misplay by You there.
And the point is, by this no one means militarily defeating China, but China will be deterred. And that is a defeat for China. In economical and in military terms. But no one has to go to a direct military conflict with them. It really is not that hard to understand, now is it?
With russia defeated China would need to change their ways in order to stay afloat. So for the current system, that would be a defeat and for the "West" a win. "West" is not against China as a country or a culture, but as a current system, they are. China is a threat and when it no longer will be a threat, well, that is a win for the "West." At least at that point in time.
@@ATPGeo I told you from the very begininig you should never support proxy wars for moral reasons. Becuase invetably there will come a point where the proxy's interest and the US interest diverge and the US will always pursue it's own intersts.
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As a Trump voter, i absolutely disagree with his stance on NATO and Ukraine... he wants to be compared to Reagan so had, but taking the opposite stance of what Reagan did.. he wants to act as a savior but the last time we took an isolationist stance, we ended up drawn in anyways and Democrats took control of congress for 32 of the next 36 years..
why........just why. He is a terrible human being. Are you aware he went to the Jeffery Epstein "teen girl sex island" 7 times..........there is video of him with Epstein and photos on the plane and flight logs that are in evidence in the Gisel Maxwell case. You're voting for one of the most despicable humans our country ever produced...........I hope you can live with yourself.
Why the hell are you voting for Trump?
@user-sg6or2nu5n why wouldn't I?.. i voted for him in 2016 and 2020.. my first priority is domestic policy.. I dont like Bidens half ass support of Ukraine, but its better than nothing, i damn sure dont like his domestic policy and crushing the middle class.. people want to say the economy is doing better bc the stock market is setting records.. yeah it was under Trump too, and has just continued going up, but the stock market doesnt mean anything in how people are doing day to day financially with record costs and record inflation.. the top 5% of wealth own 90% of stocks, the top 10% own 95%.. bc the middle class cant afford to invest. I live closer to the border, still several hundred miles away, but not way up north, and i can see how bad it is here, even more so when i go to South Texas and visit family. The crime, the military age males from many countries just coming across, the fentanyl ODs, more than 300 Americans die every single day from fentanyl ODs. And with Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran/proxies, potential of China/Tawain, North/South Korea... we are 1 accident 1 idiot away from being involed in 5 wars... i damn sure dont trust Biden making the calls during war time, i dont trust him not to get us involved in a direct kinetic war.
@@johnoliver4739 First of all. Our economy is growing faster than any other G20 nation. Unemployment is at a 50 year low. Wages are outpacing inflation which is coming down faster than any other country. All 3 stock markets are at all-time high. . Trade deficit fell by 19% last year crime is down. violent crime is way down. CHIPS act is bringing high tec-manufacturing back to US and Biden signed the largest Infrastructure bill ever. Trump said he will give Putin Ukraine land for peace which is no peace at all.........what the hell are you voting for?
@@johnoliver4739 Do you really think a man who never worked a day is his life and inherited 420 million $ from his daddy not including 8000 rental units in New York city care about the middle class? Biden was raised in Scranton from a poor working class household.
Do the Americans not realize that dropping support for Ukraine will eventually affect their political and economical relationship with Europe and various Asian countries?
And... if it does?
10yr from now Americans will be wandering who was the idiot who thought heavily armed Europe was a bright idea. :D
I respected George HW Bush for his long-term strategic vision. Sadly, it appears over the last thirty years that US has lost sight of its’ position/influence in the world.
Thank Reagan.
America needs European and the world to survive if they don't they won't have any markets still haven't got enough in their own country to keep the economy going
@atpgeo Maybe Trump & CO could start by not giving tax breaks to all his friends and collect some taxes instead... then maybe the debt wouldn't be so great.
I refuse to believe that Trump could become president again. I don't think the people of the USA is that stupid.
What you really mean is that you can’t believe people are too stupid to believe what you believe. I bet you consider yourself an open-minded, tolerant sort.
@@ChrisLindsey-vs9vq No, I'm quite intolerant of many things such as racism and sexism. Also I'm very much against russia and everybody who continue to do business with them or in other ways assist putin khuilo. What I mean is that I believe that most Americans will see that Trump is a liar and a liability for the US. He has lost the GOP the last 3 elections.
Be assured, as an American I am so ashamed & frightened for the condition of our politics
So the World’s one and only remaining superpower is preparing for retirement? I think it is a wise decision. It is the world’s oldest liberal democracy, is it not? Oldest in years, and oldest in all other metrics relating to old age.
Europe should not only allow the US to retire, but provide it with all of the care and consideration it requires, on its journey towards the setting Sun.
Bon voyage America! Gute Reise! Toodle-pips!
Not if this American has anything to say about it. Real Americans like me are working hard.
@@KevinForst-n2t Lose that ‘if’, and boldly have your say in it, then. Real Americans, as I have known them, know how to Stand and Be Counted.
Real Americans don’t give a toss what anyone else thinks it means to be a real American, not even other Americans. We don’t seek validation from others.
@@ChrisLindsey-vs9vq That’s a raccoon you’re describing. Fair enough: you can hardly be more real as an American when you are a raccoon.
Who is underwriting USA's debt if not all tradingpartners and military partners who purchase stuff from them, planes, tanks, trade etc etc? Stupid!
Trumpf (actual spelling) should've gotten a lead haircut out of national security because it's the military's oath to defend the constitution from both foreign and domestic enemies.