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Being french, i feel that you misunderstand some of the issue within the EU. i'd agree that we care primarily for our worldwide objective, but that is because most other EU countries have absolutely ZERO ambition on that side. most of europe is completeley inexistant in terms of geopolitics (generally the north), the only thing they care for is trade. furthermore, there is again ZERO solidarity in europe in that regard either. As a typical case study : the entire EU's photovoltaic industry was devastated by chinese dumping, why ? because anytime we tried to do something about it, china threated to poke at germany's car manufacturinig, and thus germany blocked everything. this kind of attitude is a cancer for europe. beyond germany, eastern europe countries frankly behave like parasites. some are just plain old tax haven, costing us billions in tax revenue, and some of them just want to exploit the free market to syphon jobs because they have lower wages. they wipe their asses with what effect it has on us. But it's not entirely true to say we don't care for our neighbor's geopolitical interests. again there is few of them in the first place, the continent being rather peaceful, but we do care a lot when our neighbors are threatened. we send ships and fighter jets to greece when things were about to turn really sour, we also cooperate intensely with italy and spain regarding the bazillion migrants who keep trying to sneak up in our countries. but guess who didn't give a rat's ass ? well northern europe of course ! too busy hiding behind some uncaring rule saying the first place they step in has to deal with them. So to summarize, we'd be hard pressed to care for their geopolitical interest because they have little to none. and they don't give a damn about our interests either. that's why we don't want new countries to join in, not because that would dilute our power but because the EU is already so fucked up that we're considering just leaving. the two-speed europe is just a way to ditch all those opportunists and fix some issues.
@@dirtypure2023 Because of Brexit. Officially Northern Ireland is a part of the UK and not a member of the EU. Legally Northern Ireland will remain a part of the EU common market, and its citizens will have the right to be Irish (EU) and/or Northern Irish (UK) citizens with the corresponding passports, rights and restrictions. This also means that despite Northern Ireland not being a part of the EU and being a part of the UK, the EU-UK border isn't at Northern Ireland, but between Ireland and the rest of the Isles. There's a lot of political ambiguity which has been left unresolved but marking NI as part of the EU has implications of political endorsement for NI incorporation into the ROI
@@Kretek Oh, duh. I knew that lol. Because Brexit. I'm from the US so these things aren't always obvious at first. Must have been a mistake on the map, right?
@@noaccount4 Thank you for that, I seem to remember a CGP Grey video about that exact topic that's very good. The border situation is pretty strange from an American perspective. So many overlapping interests complicating it. What is ROI, btw?
A small note on the French nuclear umbrella. France has a number of nuclear missiles equipped submarines, and can strike much farther than his own borders.
I was telling myself the same thing. I'm quite surprised that information didn't make it to the video. As long as these submarines remain undetected, they have the whole globe in range.
He was not speaking about the reach of the missiles.. but the strategic doctrine of his umbrella.. The strategic doctrine and communication about nuclear weapons of France speaks only about protecting France only. Nothing is said about European allies... If Berlin (for exemple) is hit by a nuclear weapon from Russia.. Nothing is said about possible retaliation from France. That video is super on that point of vue... France could share this umbrella to other European countries.. It will slow down the need of USA protection and dependance (Belgium and Holland choose the F35 mostly for his nuclear capacity).
it's rare in France too. Lol. I lurnt things I did'nt understand at all. Yet, Germany , Italy and spain are starting to join France in the military effort. Germany is starting to wake up to the idea that the US are not going to lift a finger for them in case of attack. The US treat Europ like an economical playgorund and organize hostile moves in order to preserve it's influence (fueling riots , anti-european cultural influence, funding and manipulation of medias, pushing the migration crisis , not very good allies), yep we need tp be smart, the hollidays are over.
@@backintimealwyn5736 Everything you said in last half of your statement is the Opposite of reality. Where does this hubris come from? The only correct thing you stated is your last 4 words.
This is true but it is a partial view. All countries have their own goals some are divergent and others converge. the majority of EU countries have a real interest in increasing the power of the continent if we consider a eopolically unstable future potential
@@redhidinghood9337 hasn't the UK done that? The difference is that France is in the EU and even if it does emphasise her own interest within the block, the direction is still forward. Other EU members will push their own agendas too, which means that the overall effect will be forward. Slowly, the interests of all members will become the interests of the EU. This is why France does not want to have new members. I agree. The EU needs to stabilise structurally, politically, financially and also the Security and defense needs to be solidified.
America has probably caused some of the confusion with some of the policy's that they do making next to know sense form a solely American focused standpoint (Protecting all shipping without a price), but are instead Altruistic moves.
@@lorenzofalorni3961 "If you let them", dude no one is stopping them, their allies are literally begging them to spend money on their military. Germany and Japan (to a much lesser extent) are weak because of their own societies.
@@Livinivs they literally had their constitutions changed by the occupying allies forcing them to take a demilitarized and dependant stance towards the United States.
As a Belgian, I would much like to see Europe get a more powerful own ideology away frown the US and any other major power. The French approach with only importance for their interest isn't entirely the right way to do that, but once that policy becomes more beneficial to all of Europe, I hope it becomes the reality.
Fun fact the India Tanzania Japan Nigeria Vietnam Ghana south Africa Italy Poland Hungary brazil and Israel all have the most support and love for the US then any other country in the world Vietnam comes in number 1 with 85% of its population saying they love and support the USA and hates Chinese expansion this makes Vietnam the most pro american country in the entire world and history
I agree but for those who don't....Lol that's your truth and your entitled to believe it with your alternative facts. But you are wrong we are all equal in my world of sunshine and lollipops.
Not really, given France's position within the EU. France still has to consider the values and objectives of its fellow EU members. Acting unilaterally effectively throws central Europe under the bus. The US on the other hand, is one singular government without the added baggage of needing consensus. The US can, and does, play geopolitics without needing to consult with the EU. Realistically though, it would be better if the US and EU coordinated politics and even military actions in the face of Chinese and Russian threats.
it isn't even true, france has lost much by complying to europe's interests and assignments. It always wanted to be the first one moving towards a real unification of europe while it has always been the only one, losing lots towards germany, england, etc...
@@alexisbelfer7881 No it hasn't. If so France would not have refused to join NATO. It gets all the defenses against Russian's militarily. France wants to be the premier state of Europe. Not one state of many.
If France looks too ambitious compared with its neighbours, it is only because Germany and Italy have no strategic ambitions at all. Germany sees itself as a giant factory and does not care about the geopolitic challenges we are facing : they are only interested in selling cars to the Americans and robots to China. They also totally abandoned the idea of autonomy. They expect the US to defend them forever. Of course sometimes they feel uncomfortable: every 2 years they face the humiliation of revelations about being spied by their best friends in the US, and when the american voters elect a Bush or a Trump, Germans display embarassment, because they must admit they are then dependant of toxic leaders. But these small annoyances do not last much: soon economic figures showing the prosperity of the German foreign trade make them forget everything else. You could think that Trump's move to remove 9000 US soldiers from Germany last year sounded like an alarm to them... It did not...
BREXIT is the best opportunity for Europe to create its own security pact. For years Britiain vetoed every discusion for a European security pact because it prefers NATO. Buyt when you are in NATO you are forced to follow the American foreign policy.
@@silveriorebelo8045 Solidarity between EU countries is the only thing protecting their independance. What if I said that YOU are the naïve one here, that your ideas are promoted by FOREIGN elites that just want a bunch of tiny "independant" puppet states (Russia, China, Trump)
dude, they are americans, don't expect much intellectual content from them; this was the best they can do (even though it was very boring and biased to hear and that even an internship could have done better).
France is the only ambitious country in the EU. The other one want EU to be like the Switzerland of the world: neutral, prosperous and with no geopolitical influence
Being french I understand this dream of a splendid neutrality, the problem is that geopolitics forbid us, with countries like China Russia or Turkey, to stay neutral It is a good dream but a non feasible one
As a french ... i can say that it is effectivly something The EU is full of nation that "lost the intrest to be part of history" For a growing number of french. If the rest of the europeen nation want to die, we don't ! So more and more french are very anty-EU. Tho not a lot talked about (even in france).
Please tell me how can you say something like that and keep a straight face? “European nationals that want to die”?? Please tell me which are those? I am calling you out on this because you are just repeating far right propaganda of Marie Le Pen. Who is btw one of the weakest politicians in France. And most French are pro-European no matter what propaganda La Pen is trying to push.
If France wants the rest of the EU to play its military-strategic game -- which is not completely unreasonable when France does so much of the heavy lifting -- the rest of the EU needs to get something out of the deal. This is really basic diplomacy, kids' stuff. It's so basic that Macron must surely know it. This makes me think that his whole public position may not be for real, but rather a domestic publicity stunt.
The idea is not just to work for France's interests, but to defend common European ones, and to play a role in world geopolitics. Things like pressure from the US against North Stream 2, fears of Russia in the Baltic states, pressures of Turkey against Greece and Cyprus, for instance, are partly caused because on an absolute incapacity of Europe to be a strategical power in the world, while our shared economy allows it. We can't let all our foreign choices be dictated by the US or China, who will, as all nations do, focus on their own interests before ours. We don't want a France which decide, and other members to pay up, we want a common ability to respond to a world not designed to be kind. See it like Germany's influence on the economic field. They lead, because they are in position to, but at the end of the day, choices are taken to the benefits of the majority, not just the ones of Germany.
@@ikeu6433 On this specific topic, he does reflect, I believe, the opinion of a large part of the French population. Why would that mean that France doesn't "respect other nations" ? We like our neighbours, we have close historical, cultual and economical ties, and we share common interests. That's why we believe that Europe should be able to defend its interests. I mean, I have a lot of respect for the Americans, and I see them as key allied of Europe, but being allied doesn't mean being a puppet. And honestly, since 1949, I can hardly remember a moment when Europe acted on its own, and not according to Americans interests.
@@ikeu6433 On what matter, for instance ? Honestly, I don't have any clear exemple of any cases where Germany and France, within the EU, forced the UK to act against the will of its government. The common market is the reason why the UK joined the EU in the first place, the UK was favorable to the integration of eastern european countries, and the immigration policy was, at the time of Syrian crisis of 2011-2012, supported by Cameron government. They kept their currency, and never fully endorsed the EU contribution system since Thatcher. What you're saying may be true, in many cases, for smaller countries, but I don't think that the UK was "dominated" in the EU. They just always had a very special position, half inside, half outside. Remember that in 1960, they created their own alliance block, rival of the EEC. And of course, the delocalisation of the 90s, and then the immigration crisis didn't strenghten the ties between the UK and the continent.
@@ikeu6433 Well, the fact that the EU isn't democratic enough is admitted by everyone, France included. It's a technocratic structure, and the Parliament has very little power compared to the Comission and the Council (not elected, Comission members are appointed by national governments, and the Council is formed with ministers from each countries). I'm French, so I might not be totally objective about that, but I don't really see our politics dominating the EU. Economically, sure, Germany and France dominate the union, but diplomatically ? France is quite alone in the Sahel, the Iranian deal was concluded with Germany, the UK and France as nations, not as EU members, and on the same idea, French involvment in the Turkish-Greek dispute wasn't really followed by other member states.
@@ikeu6433 No worries, I have some biases as well against the actions of my country, both the colonial expansion as a whole, and in particular in Africa, both before and after the decolonisation in the 60s. I won't obviously speak on the behalf of the entire French population, in particular in these days of identity divisions, but I can share my own views. France in the Sahel is the reunion of two politics: the traditional French influence in West Africa, and the struggle against djihadism. The first one is a long standing politics of supporting militarily and financially African leaders, often non democraticly elected, in exchange of a huge influence in the region. The second one is the fight against sunni extremism, which stroke France on its soil in 2015 in Paris and Nice. Basically, when France intervened in 2013, Bamako, capital of Mali, was about the fall against a coalition of djihadism elements (GSIM, AQMI, don't know the english acrononyms) and Touareg autonomists mouvments (Liberation Mouvment of Arzawad). At the time, the intervention was quite usual, defending the Malian dictator, Ibrahim Keita, close to french interests, against its enemies. But it quickly became our version of the American "war against terror". I think the comparaison with Afghanistan war is quite relevant. A war justified as a revenge against terror attacks and a fight against djihadism (9/11, Paris attacks), that is now at a dead end, as final victory seems impossible to reach. Thing is, French people want this war, or at least wanted it. Not because of the noecolonialist interests involved, but because they needed to know that our government is striking back against djihadism.
@@youtubeuser8232 I'm not going to look for an example bc if I do youtube will recomending me his videos in my feed and I'm glad that isn't happening anymore.
🔸 Each nation has its own interests, and it's not a bad thing, but what the EU needs to have is common fair 'game rules' so each nation can strengthen EU as a whole in reward getting what each nation lacks... with cooperation and maintaining well thought our vision we can achieve great things. Fight from inside won't lead to a happy end.. most likely we will get back where we left off.. I mean WW1/2.. let's learn lessons and do our best to live peacefully inside within the EU & with our neibors. 🙏
right but we as europeans have history as our burden and also so many cultures and languages to deal with ..Eu with its bureacry tends to draw one pool of people and that creates trouble of its own..in reality we can trade and well keep war at bay which was the intended purpose but lets not thing that it can become something it is not and never will - if anything past virus years have thought how fast borders close and national interest surface :)..and rightly so. By the way Marcon will not be elected for second term and that is good. Sadly am afraid that germans choose wrongly and go green because that will ruin there economy.
@@hoponasu2471 as a Turk i see eu trying to adopt marxist liberalism from usa and try to change european culture. Germany for example has become small america. You must defend poland, france, hungary, greece and should keep eu intact albeit update it in direction of afd, le pen, kurz and orban. Dont listen to us/uk propaganda. Their propaganda to us for example led to Islamists. They did the same for Iran in 79.
Yes, the EU can't coordinate a coherent foreign policy to save its life (just look at Libya/Eastern Mediterranean and Eastern Europe for evidence of this). They should look into doing something about this lack of coordination if they want to exercise power over their back yard.
@@johnarbuckle2619 yes i know. Marxism is about not rejecting a false statemenet and instead making synthesis from it. This is unscientific . In science we reject something that contains falsehood. Liberals are tolerable of intolerany people when they should reject this. You are unfortunately tricked by american liberal propaganda.
I am Brazilian and the way he says mahron sounds exactly like the word for brown um Portuguese, which is marrom lol. I also imagined Macron as a Black person singing samba (here in Brazil we.have a famous female samba singer, Alcione, whom is also know as "marrom"
8:59 Yeah except the fact that France condemns the human rights violations like the mistreating of the Uighurs in China and is very critical of Chinas big "Belt and Road Project"..
@@kaidone1 Some of their projects can eradicate all the power Turkey has over access in and out of the Black Sea, which is crucial as it is connected to a River Network with access throughout the Balkans, Central Europe and the Netherlands.
@Anonymer Nutzer Germany is on Turkey's side. Merkel always seems like paralyzed when the issue of Erdogan's rising power is at stake... I do hope that after abandoning the Serbs in 1999 (thanks Chirac) , and abandoning the Syrians in 2013 (thanks Hollande), we won't abandon the Greeks if Turkey starts thinking about rebuilding the Ottoman Empire...
@@redhidinghood9337 standing for france is standing for ourselves ,all of south europe if not europe in general are children of Rome .Enough with the americans the chinese the russians and the turks .We barely even crawl huh ? as long as we breath it is fine dont you worry about us we lived through harder times
I rarely agree with Macron, but for the case to support Greece against Erdogan who claim some greek Islands like Kastellorizo. I totally agree with the fact we must defend all country's of European Union against aggressive neighbors. Ottoman empire is dead, the dream of Erdogan to resurrected it will never become a reality. Greek people have already suffered enough because of this, 1453 fall of Constantinople, century's of turkish tyranny on greek people until 1829. Millions greeks fleed Anatolia during 1921 to escape their madness (it seems the genocide of the Armenians was not enough). Love you from France greek people, i hope this dark days will never come back, and if they come back i hope my country will fight with you for your liberty. (sorry for my baguette English)
Unrelated to the accuracy of the vidéo, and maybe I missed it, but I think it would have been worth making it explicit to the viewer that you're Polish in the context of a video exposing France vs eastern Europe.
His opinion is biased but I don't think him being polish has something to do with it. Any pro-european would support the strengthening of the east against russia.
@@redhidinghood9337 wrong, im european and i don't give a shit about russia. if anything, id be against my country's interests to fight a war against a country many miles away. and for what? hundreds of thousands of my people would have to die so that some irrelevant eastern european country gets to expand eastwards into russia? how would you explain to my country's people that those thousands of deaths were necessary and that this war was for our sake when we wouldn't even get any spoils of war? it was a huge mistake expanding the EU eastwards. our objectives would probably be more aligned and we wouldn't have the looming threat of a third world war, a war that only the americans and eastern europe would benefit from.
@@tfw2997 I doubt Eastern European countries want to expand their territory towards Russia, neither to start a war they would be the ones suffering the most since they're on the frontline. These countries are more likely scared by the unbalance between their own strength and Russian strength. This can be explained by the fact that most of them have been occupied by Russia multiple times in the past. Or the fact that Russia still considered them as its backyard even after the fall of the USSR. Eastern European countries mostly want to keep Russia as far as possible, and that's what their policies are about.
The French nuclear umbrella: a single one of its four ballisitic missile launching subs can deliver 16 M-51s, each with up to ten 100Kt warhead, each with 10.000+km range. Not to mention the air launched ASMP-A missiles, some of which are on our aircraft carrier, currently near Syria... But then, in a way, you are right, given the distance between Paris and, say, Tahiti, France’s nuclear umbrella cover its territory...
Nuclear power is not a power as power without full control is no power neither. No country has full control of using nuclear weapons as they know that they’ll kill theirselves as well. Our blue faint dot just too small for using nukes. Bad luck…
@@thibaultlecalvez5493 These words come from a Japanese-American man, 1 year after the dislocation of the Soviet Union. It's something that was believable by the time. The world geopolitics looked like everything was about communist dictatorships vs capitalist democracies. And since many communist dictatorships fell apart, it probably meant capitalist democracy would eventually become the only way on Earth. Though this was kind of stupid to be honest. Capitalism and democracy don't magically appear and eternally remain. The world is probably less democratic than 10 years ago in fact.
@@gael9270 I agree but : "The world geopolitics looked like everything was about communist dictatorships vs capitalist democracies" is only true from an american point of view, the rest of the world was more prudent.
@@thibaultlecalvez5493 This idea of "end of history" was also used to some extent in Western Europe to legitimate economic liberalism. These common ideas that deregulation is "modern" (in a positive way) or that there is no alternative to it both inherit the idea of "end of history" in my eyes. Plus the end of history also involved the idea that the USA would play the world police officer. Whenever a country isn't peaceful, the USA would come and fix the problem. The number of American interventions of this type is big between 1991 and 2000. And such idea was highly supported by many countries, Europe having hard times to get out of it even nowadays.
Support France from Turkey. Time to end Political Islamist fascism, marxist degeneracy and liberal lunacy. Time for Renaissance , order and progress. We will follow.
Support and respect Turkey and the people who don't follow Erdoğan. I am French, I hate Macron and Melanchon to the deepest of my heart but those who don't listen Macron, Melanchon and Erdoğan propaganda are those who I respect the most. France had good relations with the Ottoman Empire until 1914. 🇫🇷🇹🇷
@@Diegomax22 i think macron is ok. Melanchon is a globalist puppet. Erdo gets 40 percent of the votes so he still isnt supportes by majority after 20 years. Rest of Turkey is fragmented but still they are majority. We have Turkish vs Kurdish nationalists switching sides. Kurds supported him for 15 years only in last 5 years they vote against him and now half of Tr nationalists vote for him meanwhile other half and kurds vote with secular opposition. Secular oppo gets 30 percent - ten percent less than erdogan but whenever i watch german tv they make turkey look like arabs, and mock them. In fact many of secular turks support france as opposed to germans because ataturk and ottomans liked french culture found germans too vulgar and marginal. Hopefully we will get back secular , nationalist Turkey back.
@@Diegomax22 macron looks like he is accepting positions from le pen which is good. Melanchon is a puppet. Problem with melanchon is that french are not as rich as germans , suis or swedes so french people will uprise if liberal globalist comes around.
I am Italian and I would like the United States of Europe to be founded. Not only because we would have geopolitical importance, but also because we would finally have what was there before the Middle Ages, that is, a united civilization. I would be proud to be a citizen of a country where there is the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower, the Sagrada Familia and all the other wonders that exist in the 27 EU states. 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇭🇺🇵🇹🇲🇹🇨🇾🇧🇪🇩🇰🇳🇱🇫🇮🇸🇪🇱🇺🇱🇻🇪🇪🇱🇹🇸🇮🇬🇷🇮🇪🇪🇦🇭🇷🇨🇿🇷🇴🇸🇰🇸🇰🇦🇹
The problem is always the same: when some says a united(european) civilization, they really think: "french" or "german" or "italian" or whatever ...when the y say "european"
The EU is already a superpower, Economically and politically, militarily too if all of the armies were to combine. It would have the 2nd strongest army in the the world.
If all of Europe actually were to invest 2% in their military. And only be a tiny bit more efficient than America with their budget. They already would have the strongest military. Because everybody in Europe is good at specialising.
But the EU has starkly declined in terms of economic significance over the past 20-30 years. Going from I believe around 38% of the world's economy to the mid 20s today. While the EU is certainly prosperous, and safe I don't think its long term indicators are good.
For now Europe is just a huge free Market. Economically yes, politically not really. 27 countries have to be agreed for every single decision and it rarely happens because guess what, every countries has its own agenda. Europe is a civilisation, not a country.
@@mikamusarde6495 Unfortunately it fails to protect its civilization - with growing compact Islamic groups financed from outside and benefiting from democracy - to grow. The people feel more unsafe than before. And the market is not that free - you have quotas, you have hundreds of regulations, you have funding/subsidizing which I thought is specific for the communist countries, you have EU countries trying to prevent other EU countries from doing business (typically poor East-EU) cheaper in them... Only Switzerland looks like a properly governed state, but it is outside the EU.
As an American who's thought about this before I am all for greater European centralization and a defense outside of NATO. While French ambitions and skepticism aren't exactly doing a great job at selling the concept, I'm sure as time goes on the other European nations will sign on.
@@EverlastGX Except that terrorisme is mainly an internal problem link to immigration. (Ok immigration is in the maintime an inside and outside problem)
One of the overlooked elements of France's centrality to Europe in the future is demographics. All of Europe's native populations are struggling demographically, and France is also facing this, with the worry that a differential in birth rates and continued immigration will erode their culture and lead to a muslim majority in the next century. However, what is not often remarked upon is that France has the highest birth rate in Europe (the highest of the entire G8, in fact), and although the 10% of the population of North African extraction no doubt is pushing up the average, even if we are to separate that population out, ethnically European citizens of France still have a birth rate considerably closer to replacement level than any of their neighbors, and they're far ahead of the disastrously low birthrates of Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, and the post-Soviet states.
lead to a muslim majority in the next century. This is delusion and erasure of French people with a background of immigration from Muslim countries who are now irreligious.
I'm a Indian and intrested in geopolitics. I would say that Macron's vision is right to much extent and Europe should think on it. Germany want to keep their military small but we all know it's very powerful if given the resources and freedom. France can lead Europe for sure. Recently it helped Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
@gedeyom gıyamete hımaneye helped Greece by sending military support. They are selling Rafale jets and provided them ammunition on time. And as i remember, also sent the aircraft carrier to Mediterranean. Also the french side issued statement in favour of Greece and Armenia making Turks red faced
@@usernamemetin That is why Erdorgan screamed like a pigglet and said he was bullied by France ... Germany was useless in this crisis. They are just focus on their economy and that is it.
A federation just makes no sense. We are talking of countries with different histories, different cultures, languages and interests. You cannot make a federation with that except by destroying many differences by imposing one common model and one unique language and most of the people are against it
@@omer.g4386 Bullshit, they haven't got one bit of power, you say that because you're a leftist and you don't like them because they're conservatives, the problem is your people, not them. Slavs will always be a burdain someone will have to carry, nothing's changed. The real problem is Germanic leftist progressive countries making Latin countries live with their shitty law, taxation and welfare systems, it just doesn't work, Latin countries are not meant to be social-democrat.
I think French atitud is very positive to push not only its interest but european ones. During te visit of Macron in China he bring with him many euripena minister not only french ones. when is the last time Germany did it: never.
It's France biggest mistake: to sacrifice its sovereignty for an utopia. There is no Franco-german couple: Germany always look towards the US, and keeps making a fool of France.
To Eurosceptics, we don't have to leave the EU like the UK, we have to adapt it to our times, don't make mistakes. Long live France and the EU 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇫🇷🇪🇺🇫🇷
The EU can't be changed due to the need of unanimity for any major constitutionnal reforms. Plus I'm not even mentionning the corruption with lobbyist within the parliament and the neoliberal policies.
Others have mentioned it, but I must say, it's truly stunning to hear the French nuclear umbrella be described as limited to its own territory. It may be small in numbers - "only" 290 active units - but its range definitely covers the whole of Europe, and those stationed on its submarines cover the world. Also, nuclear war in or near Europe is realistically only going to be started by the US or Russia (and perhaps Israel). In terms of nuclear arsenal, no one can come even close to the insane stockpiles that Russia and the US have. So having more than a token nuclear umbrella is kinda pointless.
They are already buying gas for decades now.. Via pipeline through Poland, Ukraine etc.. It's not about more gas it's about cheaper gas for the German ppl who need it anyway.. The rapid rise of renewable energy in Germany is a fact nobody can deny
@@jgr7487 do you feel competent enough to judge about that things! Are you informed in some form? I don't think so.. Don't get me wrong but we're just dudes watching yt.. I mean I can literally see the progress outside my window.. Each day two new wind turbine built up in a row..
@@EngelinZivilBO I'm just saying wht Good Timed Bad Times mentioned in his Energiewende video. also I don't live in Germany, but I live in a country that mostly depends on hydroelectricity to survive, but we have been building a lot of thermoelectric plants because those are (sadly) the best sources of complementary electricity to the grid.
@@EngelinZivilBO wind turbine or solar panel needs equivalent power source on the side to compensate when the production fall (no wind or no sun) ..... and that means basically installing new gas turbine nearby .... nuclear remains better for environment when you do the math properly.
I'm sorry I am only getting to this video now- I have a tendency to save Good Times Bad Times Videos until I need to binge watch them for my own sanity (busy International Relations graduate student). First of all, really informative video, but also thought-provoking. Really made me consider how France is toeing the line compared to its Western/NATO allies, which is not what you usually hear even from US-think tanks on EU relations. Also, this narrator is more my speed for sure. Yes, "Mahron" was a bit amusing, but it's not like I can speak French either. This channel is doing a great job of presenting geopolitical issues, while not only confounding but in some cases taking preconceived notions about the state of alliances and state priorities and turning them on its head. Great work!
WOW, as a French i must congratulate you because this is the first time i hear a foreign person understand the French strategy, especially the Archimedes lever which is the corner stone of our philosophy. A problem we identify in France is that we see Germany as almost a satelite state of the US, they only follow NATO's rules and they would never dare stand up to the US (because of obvious political and economic reasons of course). To go further i would say that the EU nation's interest are profoundly divergent and are not leaning at all toward more cohesin but more divergence. France objective interest is to collaborate more with Russia and the UK rather than central europe while it's the contrary for Germany overall. And finally, i would say that our mistake is that we want to europeanize our domestic strategy of national strategic autonomy (bsically giving ourself the ability to do everything on our own) which is the compass of our politics since centuries but not necessarily the goal of the other european nations.
@@geoffreycharles6330 In subjects like the stability in east med France NEEDS to have better diplomatic relations with Russia. In the subject of the Sahel regions, where Russia is way more present than one might think (they even council the central Africaingov), France cannot ignore Russia either. Moreover, Russia is a power also present in the pacific ocean, just like France.
@Rob Schiller To a way lesser extent. A good example of that, is the French stance toward european defense, France wants europe to be completely autonomous while Germany's government constantly replies that the european defense has to be base on the NATO "canvas", these are two clear differences.
@Rob Schiller I'm sorry but I don't see France as an US sattelite as the rest... France has a powerful army, nuclear deterrance, and a veto right in the UN security council. The recent event show us that France can act on its own, for instance when Erdogan's Turkey was threatening Greece, we were the only one to stand up with Greece, while other europeans were afraid to do anything in a dispute between two NATO member even while one is EU member and Euro user... and Trump's USA didn't do anything because they don't care that much about Greece... France can, and will, do whatever is needed to protect its allies, our allies. If you are european, France is your best ally right now, its not the strongest military powerhouse on the globe but it's the one you can count on. Not the USA which aren't reliable anymore. I'm 100% with my president when he say NATO is brain dead. We all witness what happened under Trump presidency, Trump wanted european member to "pay more", he often treated his allies badly, and did not make USA act like the friend it used to be. For 4 years, europeans were on their own on many crisis. So yes, NATO is brain dead, because Turkey is in it, and the USA are not reliable anymore. Because even if Biden has regain the white house, for now on, every 4 years the USA has a decent chance to elect a president who will not see us as ally ! The EU countries has to understand that and quickly build their own defence strategy, France is willing to do a lot on this matter but nothing significant will happen if we are alone...
@@geoffreycharles6330 comparing French/Central European collaboration with the German one is just nonsense.. It seems like the author of this video and many other forgets that Germany is in Central Europe. They invented that thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitteleuropa
That's absolutely not France's plan. European defense capabilities that France is pushing for are absolutely aimed at potential Russian and Turkish agression towards EU members. If having a dialogue with Russia is planning the stab eastern Europe in the back, why are you still trusting the US and NATO?
Thanks for good job! It would not be superfluous to add an analysis of the partnership with Greece and Egypt. France is now very active in this region.
There are a lot of mistakes in this video... First, France have several nuclear missiles equipped submarines to strike far away from its borders. Then, only 40% of the french of Russia, and it's mainly the far-right who have a friendly feeling. At the end, France make huge effort toward the other EU country, for example the new defense projet or the crisis between Greece and Turkey where France has no direct interest.
@@olivierlitou1594 FYI nuclear umbrella doesn't refers to a weapon's range, but to the territory covered by it. If Russia launchs an attack against Germany, France will not answer with nuclear weapon. It will only happen if the attack targets French national territory. THAT's what nuclear umbrella means. You're welcome.
@@lionelpahulycz9077 There are mutual defence agreements (NATO & UE). How can you write that France will not respond to this king of situation ? Please read the texts and stop writting bullshit.
I like Peter Zeihan's idea, that the Scandinavian countries will support the Baltic Nations, and by extension Poland, against Russia. This may even draw in the UK, which could allow for some support from the US, even if they draw down their involvement in the area. There is some merit to a Mediterranean vs Baltic Sea split of Europe. With Germany/France being the pivot point.
@@jebbo-c1l Well Scandinavian countries were never even trying to have anything more than defensive armies, so a bit strange idea that Scandinavia would somehow protect anyone else. But Finland and Sweden are not parts of NATO, so you can be sure "Scandinavia" is not relying on US help (I'm counting Finland into Scandinavia, even though it's not Scandinavian).
I have mixed feelings with this video, so I made sure to watch it all despite not really appreciating it. I do feel like not all of your points are objective and you maybe also focus a lot on Macron. Maybe it's a biais coming from me and the fact that I'm French, but maybe you actualy give personnal opinions while speaking as if you present only the truth in a science documentary style of narration.
J’ai trouvé la vidéo pertinente sauf sur le point selon lequel la capacité de déploiement militaire de la France est faible. Le journaliste a omis de parler des « confettis d’empire ». La France c’est douze fuseaux horaires, la seconde ZEE... ça donne une idée
@@gael9270Quand il parle de "brain death" de l'OTAN par exemple, il omet de préciser que Macron a balancé ça juste après que Trump ait dis que les US ne serait pas obligé d'aider un état balte contre une agression russe. Ce qui change beaucoup le contexte mine de rien.
honnêtement cette vidéo n'a aucun intérêt, le niveau intellectuel de cette vidéo est nul, c'est aberrant... Tellement de points sont superficiel, et même carrément des fakes news parfois. Le pire c'est quand même le point sur la Russie, la vidéo suggère que le fait que nous "discutions" avec poutine soit en train de faire transpirer les états de l'est et que ca provoque une discorde européenne. Les gars sont malades, tout le monde discute avec la Russie, les allemands ont même fait un énorme contrat économique avec la construction de l'énorme gazoduc, et nous a absolument rien fait avec les russes jusqu'à présent, c'est des malades mentaux, je veux bien que ce soit des américains et qu'il faille faire de la propagande vu leur passé avec la Russie, mais faut pas s'étonner que derrière le pays sombre dans l'abrutissement générale derrière.
France is not Europe. This is why Norway havent joined yet. Germany is not Europe. No single nation is Europe, however small a nation we all together is Europe, and if the E.U is going to be a big boys club then the union will fail. France, Germany, Italy and frankly all members have to sacrifice egocentric goals and think bigger, think collective goals. Balance the power, might is not right if we want E.U to work.
I don't agree with you on Macron's policy. During the crisis Macron relied on the eu comition for the vaccine wich led to a shortage in France. The military project SCAF wich is highly critiscised in France is another example because Germany want a total share of intellectual proprety wich is not in the interest of France. I really don't think that Macron only values France's interest. I however overall agree with the rest especially on the archemedes lever
The interest of France is make all the other countries buy their crap. Like when France forced Spain to buy those awful Cougars in order to not keep helping terrorists.
@@marneus i didn't know they were awfull ? And well it is the rule of armement industry it is not specific to France and well a lot of countries are quite happy with the french armement
@@pierrev6 they are not military helicopters, yet France made Spain buy them in order to extradite murderers. Yet the Cougars have killed more than 20 Spanish soldiers in accidents due to their poor design.
@@marneus the cougar is a military helicopter and it happend once for spain. Such accident do not mean the helicopter is crapy as it happens with that said i am sorry for the victims.
@@marneus France is the 3rd seller in weapons in the world. Behind USA and Russia and before China! India, Egypt, Australia, Russia, Indonesia, Croatia, Greece, etc... already buy Rafales, Tanks, Submarines, Helicopters, etc... Maybe they're not all completely stupids, maybe they all have military experts to appreciate the excellence of the french technologies! So calm down your racism anti-french and get more informations before insulting France, pretending crazy bullssshits like she "make all other countries buy their crap" or "in order to not keep helping terrorist" !
As a French, I can say that I find this video extremely accurate 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 There was no mention of the UK which has been a competitor of France on this specific area of influence within the EU and remains a key player on any topic related to Europe security.
Fun fact the country's that love and support the USA the most is: 1. Vietnam is the country with the most love for the US at 85% the most pro american country in the world 2. Israel 83% 3. The Philippines 81% 4. South Korea 77% 5. Poland 73% 6. Nigeria 69% 7. Hungary 66% 8. Italy 61% 9. Ghana 59% 10. Tanzania 57% 11. Japan 57% 12. UK 57% 13. India 55% 14. Brazil 54% 15. Peru 52% These 15 country's have have the biggest love and support for the US country's that see the USA as a threat is 1. China 88% 2. Jordan 82% 3. Turkey 77% 4. Germany 73% 5. Netherlands 71% 6. Sweden 66% 7. Spain 63% 8. Lebanon 60% 9. Belgium 58% 10. France 55% 11. Canada 51% 12. Russia 48% 13. Chile 46% Russia has seen the biggest jump in approval for the United states in the world in 2016 only 15% of Russians liked the USA in 2021 43% of Russians like the US
France is still playing as a colonial power with troops in eight African countries, they want a European Army to further their ambitions to regain their Empire
@@RyanBarroso Brother there are several reasons to Love France... But Two main reasons are -- France always Stand up and Speak the truth And-- France is the only country in this world who knows the meaning of Friendship... Always stand by their friends No Matter what... Whether it's Greece or India. Thank you France for being so nice and for being so Awesome 😊🇫🇷
@@cb00ful They were one nation before the state was born, except the UK, which is dying in front of our eyes. In contrast the EU is several different nationS.
I love the apology at the end. (Still, it probably would have been better to just go with the most basic American pronunciation of Macron over what we heard instead...)
Macron is pro Europe and an Europe with France and German as co leaders Hé s à dreamer. Le Pen is against immigration and wants France s Come back like first country in Europe.
@@ohpatriote5622 Honestly, Le Pen would in all likelihood simply accentuate more what Macron already does. He hates Islam, he speaks out a lot against woke culture coming from the States, he never shuts up about France being the greatest thing in the universe... if you showed excerpts from some of his speeches to the voters in 2017 and told them it was from the future French President, they would immediatley assume it had to be Le Pen who ended up winning.
First of all she won't. Le Pen doesn't actually have a vision for Europe, she'd like to reduce the integration, she opposes the liberal values of the EU, and wouldn't care if Russia tried to build itself a new sphere of influence in eastern Europe. She's just a demagogue without coherent geopolitical policy.
That "rule" has a unwritten law of buying American products. Nato kinda is a American trade deal. Enforcing that budget will backlash, like it did for trump.
I mean, EU has no territorial prétentions, nor does it is threatened due to France nuclear arsenal. Basically, most EU nations have no reason to invest in military, being strategically immune to aggression due to nato and E.U. allies.
Some spend more than 2%, like France some, spend less, nothing is forgotten but I have a feeling you must have been listening to Trump. But he is very ill informed and had this idiotic optimistic idea that if defence spending in Europe increased it would bring more money to the USA. That is not how it automatically works. There is a agreement on how NATO is financed and there is also an agreement among members that their aim is to reach or maintain the target defense spending of at least 2% of their GDP by 2024. However NATO funding represents only about 0.3% of GDP of Allied defence spending. I suggest you read reliable sources, some links below. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures www.globalfirepower.com/defense-spending-budget.php
It's reality, Germany, Greece, France are over or near of 2%. The problem is more Economic, 2% is better, but if economic situation is bad, it's nothing.
@@Chris689200 EVERY countries in the world NEED to be autonomous in defense. NATO must be a bonus, a Joker, not the only way. Of course is better for american government, but not for European countries.
in fact the since the brexit aggrement, the border and the customs house are "in the see". EU customs officer check products when they arrive in north ireland even it's part of uk
Saying the French nuclear umbrella is the reason why the US is necessary is wrong. France has a full nuclear traid capable of hitting targets in Russia and China. The main thing that the US brings to the table in the relationship with European powers is the conventional forces, intelligence and soft power.
Thanks for a good video. As a Dane, I have to say I, on one hand, share the Eastern Europes view of Russia and on the other after Trump, I also share Macron's need for the EU to become a superpower. We should no longer rely on the US alone, but start building the EU into what we need. We should not forget that while many voted for Biden, almost as many voted for Trump. Tony Blair has a very sober take on medium-sized powers and their future. We only get a place at the table, if we stick together. th-cam.com/video/4Z2-zkn7Gco/w-d-xo.html
Can EU become a super power? We do have the size even with Brexit. So the opportunity is there if we want it. If EU uses 2% of BNP on military power then we will be. foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/13/europe-is-still-a-superpower/
I believe that we should bend the French initiative into making EU a hard power. It not something we can do overnight, but the faster we get going, the faster we get there. US will likely be focused on China in a great power conflict, so EU needs to be able to deal with Russia on its own. Russias economy is only the size of Spains, so it is not unbeatable. Its not the USSR any more. So if we spend the 2% we can beat Russia. Also we should not leave NATO, but build a EU structure that can work with NATO but also work on its own. www.economist.com/special-report/2019/03/14/what-would-happen-if-america-left-europe-to-fend-for-itself twitter.com/stephenWalt/status/1338876782355902469
The mistake of the French in trying to adopt an independent security policy independent of the US. Is not getting the Germans to actually rearm there military. Right now, Europe’s ability to project military power without the US , is like man in a wheelchair trying to climb a mountain. Europe’s military structure and Navel depth is barely adequate to project power into third world Africa. While capable of defending there own borders ( some can, others can’t ) ALL European countries lack the needed sea lift capacity to tackle any second tier military. If Europe had to take over most African countries, or any in the Middle East. They would need to schedule the war at least 1 to 2 years in advance. I give Kudos to France and Britain both for there aircraft carriers, but without additional sea lift capabilities and much more in the way of airlift, air tanker and troop transport. Europe could NOT successfully invade ANY second tier country or a well motivated third world country. I think it’s sweet that Macron thinks they stand as equals to America and China in military power. The truth is, not even China ( supposed world’s largest Navy ) can exert military power away from there own shores . It’s all good to bark Loud, but it’s the dogs who bite you need to worry about. Until Europe, China , Russia or any other country acquires the necessary sea & air lift capacity as well as the necessary sea & air tanker capacity. The only way for those military’s to invade another country is if they can walk there. That situation is very unlikely to change at all in this century. For all the indignation and righteous complaints about the use of American military muscle. The ONLY global military security player is Uncle Sam. While many countries play very important roles in regional world security ( Britain,Australia,France,Japan, other nato partners). It only works if America acts as the muscle and backbone of current world order. With all that being said, most Americans are no longer interested in being the worlds police force. Incase no one noticed, the last 4 US presidents have shown a diminishing interest in maintaining the current global order. The US is now energy independent. We are tired of the quagmire in Middle East politics. We are tired of paying to secure global shipping. And most of all, we are tired of having our sons and daughters killed, injured and disrespected around the world while underwriting global security. I personally, as an American fully endorse Macrons desire to take on the mantle of security guarantor for Europe. But until France gets serious And puts several hundred billion euros every year into their military. He will be little more than a dog with a loud bark, and a very limited bite. That, is a recipe for world disorder. IF YOU WANT PEACE !!! PREPARE FOR WAR. !!! But France and Nato are NOT prepared.
I don't get you comment. You endorse Macron desire to make Europe stand on its own two feet, but you're not confident about their ability to do so... Is it France's fault other if EU countries fail to understand their proposal is the only option ? USA are less and less a reliable ally, as you say american people are tired of being the world police, we all see that in the recent years. France is the only one to propose something in Europe, i don't get why other european countries don't accept the offer. It's not like there is any other option available, because again : the USA aren't reliable in the long run.
I mean, it was the USA that created that quagmire in the Middle East with their Gulf Wars, support of islamist fundamentalists during the Afghan war, and unconditional support for Israel. The US might very well have caused more harm than good around the world, but I guess that that is what policing is to you Americans, the police shoots an innocent person and then puts the blame on them.
You absolutely get it, France cannot make it alone that's why we're trying to make that shit european sized but our beloved passive neighbor dont seems to understand the issue...
Well the first was from retired generals and the second was anonymous, so I don't really see the threat. It looked more like a political ploy of the far right, and a "click bait" from the utterly pathetic "paper" who published them. If those military members want to do politics they can, but as civilians, as the rules allow.
@@ouicertes9764 I don’t think it was an exaggeration or “click bait.” There are very real concerns that France (and other countries in the same position) could be heading towards a civil war. Civil war doesn’t have to be two organized armies, but can be widespread unrest and street fighting. It’s already obvious where not to go as a French person in the suburbs.
you seem to have a lot of consideration for those who don't have as much of you. Unfortunately good feelings and emotions have nothing to do with geopolitics. Portugal has already had far more benefits from the EU than from its "English speaking friends"
@@tiber64 I won't argue your point... However, there's the other side of the coin...And that is the consequences of picking a side if push came to shove...And i'm pretty sure the consequences of siding with the EU would be worse on that scenario...
French idea of EU's military autonomy sounds good to me as a European but in practice they're switching the U.S. bootlicking to Russia bootlicking, which Germany, Nordics and Eastern Europe aren't fan of.
Yeah, sure, the only european country that opposed NATO, wasn’t part of it at first then left the commanding structure because it felt it was too instrumental to US policies is bootlicking the US. I’m not sure what your opinion is on Germany or the UK, some kind of willing vassal state probably
@@phirus02 Not really in my opinion, it stands like an alliance with great involvement from it’s members, but those are nonetheless free to do their foreign policy as they wish, even allowed to make aggressive move without the necessity of involving other members. Objectively, it’s a defensive alliance in which one member dictates the priorities. Countries are still free to leave it or to do as they wish, as Turkey have demonstrated lately. And the US have no levier to coerce the members into spending more, neither are the US in a position of forcing a member to provide more troops or even get a nation to not withdraw the units it sent to serve under nato command under it’s obligations. Basically, it’s based on good will
@@noahamankwaah9802 refresh my mind what is the other superpower in this world ? And can you also define me the characteristics of a superpower!! Thank you
@@yvanpanama1765 Either you're willfully ignorant or you're one of those "America #1" type. There's no way you can deny that China isn't a superpower, they have it all: the world best economy, great military, soft power (Tik-Tok, and other). There is a line between being patriotic and being a nationalist foul.
I'd love to see a completely united europe, but I doubt it can happen until countries start putting their citizens first and stop holding on to this weird notion of a nation state. No matter which country you look at they all see to trend towards this weird government controls the people archetype which is just not a long term sustainable solution, the US is a great example of how fast you can go from the mightiest nation without equals to being a sad big bully letting out it's frustrations on weaker nations to distract from it's own shortcomings. The EU is turning more and more into a mess with loads of worthless burocracy like the biannual movement of parlement just because no nation is willing to take a hit for the benefit of others, maybe it'll get better now but until they get their head checked the EU is going to run itself into irrelevancy, they'll keep complaining about terror and migrants that they bring upon themselves til the day ww3 begins.
@@veduci22 he a liberal in the American sense. That different principles and and believes can truly stand strong together. But human history shows it the complete opposite.
@@brentherman7393 human history shows that Europe is too tribalistic to ever stand together. At one point the whole world was under the gunpoint of Europe. Yet the Europeans decided to have 2 apocalyptic wars in which 70 million Europeans died and they lost their global supremacy forever. If Europe ever put it's differences aside and united, it would be a very powerful bloc that would have its own say on things, not just an American vassal state.
Not a United Europe, too many differences in cultures, language and most of all history. When was the most powerful parts of Europe all behind a single banner? SPQR? Seriously.
@@TRG29338 yes you are correct, he was an amazing battlefield commander, and did some very progressive things at the time, had he won in Russia the world would be a significantly different place, especially Europe. A unified Europe with the Romans were a true jugernaut, at least in the Western world I do not believe it's a stretch to say we still live in their shadow or likeness somewhat. Europe is important but macron needs to get his senses back.
France must lead Europe with Germany to maintain its power and influence in the world. They must adapt in this fast changing world and shine in economy, international diplomacy, trade, media, defense and etc
France has had 5 republics almost 250 years. I don't think the fifth one will last much longer. Macron is desperately trying to give off an air of confidence, but behind the façade in France, it's rotten. I lived there for a year. Never again.
Fascinating, inciteful and very clear video. I really have learnt something today, thank you GTBT, the world needs more explanations like this. I disagree with the final observation, the UK is not just after its own benefits in global politics, it is a world player and wants to thwart the expansion of authoritarian, non democratic states that seek to damage the freedom of people.
Yes, because the EU will declare war on Russia eventually as it still seeks to expand its borders right up to Russia’s. NATO made a promise and broke it.
@@custossecretus5737 Nope... EU just wants its security. Russia on the contrary, would like to oblitera Lithuania Lettonia Estonia and Poland from the map. Neither France nor Germany want to invade Russia. We both tryed and failed
Talk about that horrible army cohesion. Bloated officer corps just so each country is represented, language barriers, doctrine incompatibilities, cultural and moral incompatibilities. Conflicting interests in arms manufacturing complexes, not even to mention a huge array of different military equipment with their own maintenance and logistics costs. One eropean army is not even an unlikely dream, it's an unlikely nightmare.
This is why the United States agrees to protect Europe in the event of an attack, because many countries rely on the USA for security and to focus on the economy. And when the United States is no longer able to protect Europe, then Europe will remilitarize.
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why is kosova a part of serbia on the map you show?
Being french, i feel that you misunderstand some of the issue within the EU.
i'd agree that we care primarily for our worldwide objective, but that is because most other EU countries have absolutely ZERO ambition on that side. most of europe is completeley inexistant in terms of geopolitics (generally the north), the only thing they care for is trade. furthermore, there is again ZERO solidarity in europe in that regard either.
As a typical case study : the entire EU's photovoltaic industry was devastated by chinese dumping, why ? because anytime we tried to do something about it, china threated to poke at germany's car manufacturinig, and thus germany blocked everything. this kind of attitude is a cancer for europe. beyond germany, eastern europe countries frankly behave like parasites. some are just plain old tax haven, costing us billions in tax revenue, and some of them just want to exploit the free market to syphon jobs because they have lower wages. they wipe their asses with what effect it has on us.
But it's not entirely true to say we don't care for our neighbor's geopolitical interests. again there is few of them in the first place, the continent being rather peaceful, but we do care a lot when our neighbors are threatened. we send ships and fighter jets to greece when things were about to turn really sour, we also cooperate intensely with italy and spain regarding the bazillion migrants who keep trying to sneak up in our countries. but guess who didn't give a rat's ass ? well northern europe of course ! too busy hiding behind some uncaring rule saying the first place they step in has to deal with them.
So to summarize, we'd be hard pressed to care for their geopolitical interest because they have little to none. and they don't give a damn about our interests either. that's why we don't want new countries to join in, not because that would dilute our power but because the EU is already so fucked up that we're considering just leaving. the two-speed europe is just a way to ditch all those opportunists and fix some issues.
Why you copying CaspinReport TH-cam channel ?
Europe better not go pro China
Turns out it wasn't France, but Russia, that convinced the EU to militarise. Well done, Putin.
An eagle will only show its claws when you wake it up. Well done, Putin.
Putin: It went just according to plan, it was a bad plan but it worked🥰.
The smily face is very important.
Russia woke up the European juggernaut lol and made them self relieble
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@@kevink7529 HRON
Marine le Pen ===> marina la pan lol
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Too few consonants cramped together for a polish guy :))
sounds like a medieval Arab leader
Lmao showing Northern Ireland as an EU province is a spicy take
Why's that?
@@dirtypure2023 You really need to ask??? xD Its part of UK.
@@dirtypure2023 Because of Brexit. Officially Northern Ireland is a part of the UK and not a member of the EU. Legally Northern Ireland will remain a part of the EU common market, and its citizens will have the right to be Irish (EU) and/or Northern Irish (UK) citizens with the corresponding passports, rights and restrictions.
This also means that despite Northern Ireland not being a part of the EU and being a part of the UK, the EU-UK border isn't at Northern Ireland, but between Ireland and the rest of the Isles.
There's a lot of political ambiguity which has been left unresolved but marking NI as part of the EU has implications of political endorsement for NI incorporation into the ROI
@@Kretek Oh, duh. I knew that lol. Because Brexit. I'm from the US so these things aren't always obvious at first. Must have been a mistake on the map, right?
@@noaccount4 Thank you for that, I seem to remember a CGP Grey video about that exact topic that's very good. The border situation is pretty strange from an American perspective. So many overlapping interests complicating it. What is ROI, btw?
A small note on the French nuclear umbrella. France has a number of nuclear missiles equipped submarines, and can strike much farther than his own borders.
*Its, or her if you want to personify the country.
I was telling myself the same thing. I'm quite surprised that information didn't make it to the video. As long as these submarines remain undetected, they have the whole globe in range.
He was not speaking about the reach of the missiles.. but the strategic doctrine of his umbrella.. The strategic doctrine and communication about nuclear weapons of France speaks only about protecting France only. Nothing is said about European allies... If Berlin (for exemple) is hit by a nuclear weapon from Russia.. Nothing is said about possible retaliation from France. That video is super on that point of vue... France could share this umbrella to other European countries.. It will slow down the need of USA protection and dependance (Belgium and Holland choose the F35 mostly for his nuclear capacity).
@@Jose-gc8rl did you just assume France's gender lmao
@@NoName-rl3fh It's La France, he aint wrong so-
Very interesting. Here in the US, it's rare to see any analysis of European politics any deeper than surface level, so this video is appreciated.
Thanks!
Here in Europe it's the same.
it's rare in France too. Lol. I lurnt things I did'nt understand at all. Yet, Germany , Italy and spain are starting to join France in the military effort. Germany is starting to wake up to the idea that the US are not going to lift a finger for them in case of attack. The US treat Europ like an economical playgorund and organize hostile moves in order to preserve it's influence (fueling riots , anti-european cultural influence, funding and manipulation of medias, pushing the migration crisis , not very good allies), yep we need tp be smart, the hollidays are over.
@@backintimealwyn5736 its kinda impossible for a major war to start or a major country to attack EU , maybe small proxy wars only
@@backintimealwyn5736 Everything you said in last half of your statement is the Opposite of reality. Where does this hubris come from? The only correct thing you stated is your last 4 words.
"France is playing geopolitics with its own objectives in mind." It's called Realpolitik and, flash news, every single country does this.
This is true but it is a partial view. All countries have their own goals some are divergent and others converge. the majority of EU countries have a real interest in increasing the power of the continent if we consider a eopolically unstable future potential
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The difference is that France is playing to benefit only itself while acting like they're teying to benefit the EU
@@redhidinghood9337 hasn't the UK done that? The difference is that France is in the EU and even if it does emphasise her own interest within the block, the direction is still forward. Other EU members will push their own agendas too, which means that the overall effect will be forward. Slowly, the interests of all members will become the interests of the EU. This is why France does not want to have new members. I agree. The EU needs to stabilise structurally, politically, financially and also the Security and defense needs to be solidified.
America has probably caused some of the confusion with some of the policy's that they do making next to know sense form a solely American focused standpoint (Protecting all shipping without a price), but are instead Altruistic moves.
So many highschool kids in the comments who have played too much HOI and think Germany still has a military
Germany is like Japan, if you let them go all out they will become a military superpower.
@@lorenzofalorni3961 "If you let them", dude no one is stopping them, their allies are literally begging them to spend money on their military. Germany and Japan (to a much lesser extent) are weak because of their own societies.
@@Livinivs they literally had their constitutions changed by the occupying allies forcing them to take a demilitarized and dependant stance towards the United States.
Well I grow up from that game
@@Livinivs and then what? @Lorenzo is right. Germany could spend more money and effort but it would change the balance of Europe
As a Belgian, I would much like to see Europe get a more powerful own ideology away frown the US and any other major power. The French approach with only importance for their interest isn't entirely the right way to do that, but once that policy becomes more beneficial to all of Europe, I hope it becomes the reality.
Fun fact the India Tanzania Japan Nigeria Vietnam Ghana south Africa Italy Poland Hungary brazil and Israel all have the most support and love for the US then any other country in the world Vietnam comes in number 1 with 85% of its population saying they love and support the USA and hates Chinese expansion this makes Vietnam the most pro american country in the entire world and history
@@Steve-zc9ht No one cares.
@@rimpak7748 yeah ik but I don't care if no one cares because I don't care
@@Steve-zc9ht is it really true, even the not far too long war they had
As an Englishman,I think French positions are good for all europe,wary of mass immigration and Turkey
Northern Ireland being part of the EU. We have a time travel here.
It's not even time travelling, it's alternative history.
Wishful thinker lmao
from the best future
@@gavinmccormick3658 Yeah, a future where everyone's neutral truly would be the greatest.
I laughed when I saw this.
In the European Union, everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
Yep, just like everywhere..........Waik up my friend
Once you realize there is no such thing as equality the faster and better your mind will be.
I agree but for those who don't....Lol that's your truth and your entitled to believe it with your alternative facts. But you are wrong we are all equal in my world of sunshine and lollipops.
that don't mean thonier
No equal, but proportional.
"France is playing geopolitics with its own objectives in mind."
Coming from a US based media, it's quite hypocritical.
Not really, given France's position within the EU. France still has to consider the values and objectives of its fellow EU members. Acting unilaterally effectively throws central Europe under the bus. The US on the other hand, is one singular government without the added baggage of needing consensus. The US can, and does, play geopolitics without needing to consult with the EU. Realistically though, it would be better if the US and EU coordinated politics and even military actions in the face of Chinese and Russian threats.
it isn't even true, france has lost much by complying to europe's interests and assignments. It always wanted to be the first one moving towards a real unification of europe while it has always been the only one, losing lots towards germany, england, etc...
The truth in itself isn't hypocritical. It would be if the U.S. insisted that it wasn't working on its own objectives.
@@alexisbelfer7881 No it hasn't. If so France would not have refused to join NATO. It gets all the defenses against Russian's militarily. France wants to be the premier state of Europe. Not one state of many.
The EU is weak so why would the US take their interests into consideration? Or any other countries interests?
If France looks too ambitious compared with its neighbours, it is only because Germany and Italy have no strategic ambitions at all. Germany sees itself as a giant factory and does not care about the geopolitic challenges we are facing : they are only interested in selling cars to the Americans and robots to China. They also totally abandoned the idea of autonomy. They expect the US to defend them forever. Of course sometimes they feel uncomfortable: every 2 years they face the humiliation of revelations about being spied by their best friends in the US, and when the american voters elect a Bush or a Trump, Germans display embarassment, because they must admit they are then dependant of toxic leaders. But these small annoyances do not last much: soon economic figures showing the prosperity of the German foreign trade make them forget everything else. You could think that Trump's move to remove 9000 US soldiers from Germany last year sounded like an alarm to them... It did not...
BREXIT is the best opportunity for Europe to create its own security pact.
For years Britiain vetoed every discusion for a European security pact because it prefers NATO. Buyt when you are in NATO you are forced to follow the American foreign policy.
The problem is almost no country, France aside, wants that outside of NATO.
you are very naive - that is the idea promoted b y the Cabal elite in order to destroy the independance of the European nations
@@silveriorebelo8045 independence? We need a super state from Europe, to many little countries cant fight big bad mofos
@@silveriorebelo8045 Solidarity between EU countries is the only thing protecting their independance. What if I said that YOU are the naïve one here, that your ideas are promoted by FOREIGN elites that just want a bunch of tiny "independant" puppet states (Russia, China, Trump)
@@benoitbvg2888 trump is a country now?
France’s nuclear umbrella goes far away from it’s own territory, and thats without counting the umbrellas of our overseas.
What regions are protected by French nuclear weapons?
We have snle’s (nuclear submarines) in unknown locations all over the globe. So we have a strike capacity anywhere at any moment.
dude, they are americans, don't expect much intellectual content from them; this was the best they can do (even though it was very boring and biased to hear and that even an internship could have done better).
@@anamarvelo only the regions that pay for its protection. There are for example in pacific ocean.
@@alexisbelfer7881 They are actually polish, but yeah it was highly biased.
The pronunciation of french words tho 😂😂😂😂
I know, and I'm sorry. I literally can't make the right sounds.
@@Archangelm127 bless you m8
@@Archangelm127 Omg it's fine. I was joking. I respect your efforts to spell the names. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 God bless you.
I know, LoL... The first time I heard him pronounce Macron... I was like, who is Ma-hon?
Great content though keep it up = )
@@The_Frederix Or Marina la pan. Haha
Marine le Pen will ban English just because he pronounced her name wrong. Lol 😂
France is the only ambitious country in the EU.
The other one want EU to be like the Switzerland of the world: neutral, prosperous and with no geopolitical influence
Being french I understand this dream of a splendid neutrality, the problem is that geopolitics forbid us, with countries like China Russia or Turkey, to stay neutral
It is a good dream but a non feasible one
As a french ... i can say that it is effectivly something
The EU is full of nation that "lost the intrest to be part of history"
For a growing number of french. If the rest of the europeen nation want to die, we don't !
So more and more french are very anty-EU. Tho not a lot talked about (even in france).
@@silentgladiam2096 ye but switzerland still manage it, to be super neutral lol
Please tell me how can you say something like that and keep a straight face? “European nationals that want to die”?? Please tell me which are those?
I am calling you out on this because you are just repeating far right propaganda of Marie Le Pen. Who is btw one of the weakest politicians in France.
And most French are pro-European no matter what propaganda La Pen is trying to push.
@@marinonino4350 How is she "the weakest"? She won 55% of the voters in 2020 polls.
If France wants the rest of the EU to play its military-strategic game -- which is not completely unreasonable when France does so much of the heavy lifting -- the rest of the EU needs to get something out of the deal.
This is really basic diplomacy, kids' stuff. It's so basic that Macron must surely know it. This makes me think that his whole public position may not be for real, but rather a domestic publicity stunt.
The idea is not just to work for France's interests, but to defend common European ones, and to play a role in world geopolitics. Things like pressure from the US against North Stream 2, fears of Russia in the Baltic states, pressures of Turkey against Greece and Cyprus, for instance, are partly caused because on an absolute incapacity of Europe to be a strategical power in the world, while our shared economy allows it.
We can't let all our foreign choices be dictated by the US or China, who will, as all nations do, focus on their own interests before ours. We don't want a France which decide, and other members to pay up, we want a common ability to respond to a world not designed to be kind.
See it like Germany's influence on the economic field. They lead, because they are in position to, but at the end of the day, choices are taken to the benefits of the majority, not just the ones of Germany.
@@ikeu6433 On this specific topic, he does reflect, I believe, the opinion of a large part of the French population. Why would that mean that France doesn't "respect other nations" ?
We like our neighbours, we have close historical, cultual and economical ties, and we share common interests. That's why we believe that Europe should be able to defend its interests. I mean, I have a lot of respect for the Americans, and I see them as key allied of Europe, but being allied doesn't mean being a puppet. And honestly, since 1949, I can hardly remember a moment when Europe acted on its own, and not according to Americans interests.
@@ikeu6433 On what matter, for instance ? Honestly, I don't have any clear exemple of any cases where Germany and France, within the EU, forced the UK to act against the will of its government. The common market is the reason why the UK joined the EU in the first place, the UK was favorable to the integration of eastern european countries, and the immigration policy was, at the time of Syrian crisis of 2011-2012, supported by Cameron government. They kept their currency, and never fully endorsed the EU contribution system since Thatcher.
What you're saying may be true, in many cases, for smaller countries, but I don't think that the UK was "dominated" in the EU. They just always had a very special position, half inside, half outside. Remember that in 1960, they created their own alliance block, rival of the EEC. And of course, the delocalisation of the 90s, and then the immigration crisis didn't strenghten the ties between the UK and the continent.
@@ikeu6433 Well, the fact that the EU isn't democratic enough is admitted by everyone, France included. It's a technocratic structure, and the Parliament has very little power compared to the Comission and the Council (not elected, Comission members are appointed by national governments, and the Council is formed with ministers from each countries).
I'm French, so I might not be totally objective about that, but I don't really see our politics dominating the EU. Economically, sure, Germany and France dominate the union, but diplomatically ? France is quite alone in the Sahel, the Iranian deal was concluded with Germany, the UK and France as nations, not as EU members, and on the same idea, French involvment in the Turkish-Greek dispute wasn't really followed by other member states.
@@ikeu6433 No worries, I have some biases as well against the actions of my country, both the colonial expansion as a whole, and in particular in Africa, both before and after the decolonisation in the 60s.
I won't obviously speak on the behalf of the entire French population, in particular in these days of identity divisions, but I can share my own views.
France in the Sahel is the reunion of two politics: the traditional French influence in West Africa, and the struggle against djihadism. The first one is a long standing politics of supporting militarily and financially African leaders, often non democraticly elected, in exchange of a huge influence in the region. The second one is the fight against sunni extremism, which stroke France on its soil in 2015 in Paris and Nice.
Basically, when France intervened in 2013, Bamako, capital of Mali, was about the fall against a coalition of djihadism elements (GSIM, AQMI, don't know the english acrononyms) and Touareg autonomists mouvments (Liberation Mouvment of Arzawad). At the time, the intervention was quite usual, defending the Malian dictator, Ibrahim Keita, close to french interests, against its enemies. But it quickly became our version of the American "war against terror".
I think the comparaison with Afghanistan war is quite relevant. A war justified as a revenge against terror attacks and a fight against djihadism (9/11, Paris attacks), that is now at a dead end, as final victory seems impossible to reach. Thing is, French people want this war, or at least wanted it. Not because of the noecolonialist interests involved, but because they needed to know that our government is striking back against djihadism.
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Good Times Bad Times are my go to places for geopolitical-related information. Keep up the good work.
VisualPolitik is very good too!
Visualpolitik is too much politically opinionated.
Thats a fact.
On the other hand, I personally don't like his political leaning.
@@mashup_editor An example?
@@youtubeuser8232 Idk i remember watching some of their videos and it was so full of inaccuracies i couldn't stand it
@@youtubeuser8232 I'm not going to look for an example bc if I do youtube will recomending me his videos in my feed and I'm glad that isn't happening anymore.
🔸 Each nation has its own interests, and it's not a bad thing, but what the EU needs to have is common fair 'game rules' so each nation can strengthen EU as a whole in reward getting what each nation lacks... with cooperation and maintaining well thought our vision we can achieve great things. Fight from inside won't lead to a happy end.. most likely we will get back where we left off.. I mean WW1/2.. let's learn lessons and do our best to live peacefully inside within the EU & with our neibors. 🙏
right but we as europeans have history as our burden and also so many cultures and languages to deal with ..Eu with its bureacry tends to draw one pool of people and that creates trouble of its own..in reality we can trade and well keep war at bay which was the intended purpose but lets not thing that it can become something it is not and never will - if anything past virus years have thought how fast borders close and national interest surface :)..and rightly so. By the way Marcon will not be elected for second term and that is good. Sadly am afraid that germans choose wrongly and go green because that will ruin there economy.
@@hoponasu2471 as a Turk i see eu trying to adopt marxist liberalism from usa and try to change european culture. Germany for example has become small america. You must defend poland, france, hungary, greece and should keep eu intact albeit update it in direction of afd, le pen, kurz and orban. Dont listen to us/uk propaganda. Their propaganda to us for example led to Islamists. They did the same for Iran in 79.
Yes, the EU can't coordinate a coherent foreign policy to save its life (just look at Libya/Eastern Mediterranean and Eastern Europe for evidence of this).
They should look into doing something about this lack of coordination if they want to exercise power over their back yard.
@@kaiserkhan9832 Marxist liberalism? I don't think you know what any of those words mean.
@@johnarbuckle2619 yes i know. Marxism is about not rejecting a false statemenet and instead making synthesis from it. This is unscientific . In science we reject something that contains falsehood. Liberals are tolerable of intolerany people when they should reject this. You are unfortunately tricked by american liberal propaganda.
Can`t hear anything but MAH-RON :)
That was killing me too but I am French. Still interesting video though.
Why not just listen to the information, it is the reason for the video
I am Brazilian and the way he says mahron sounds exactly like the word for brown um Portuguese, which is marrom lol. I also imagined Macron as a Black person singing samba (here in Brazil we.have a famous female samba singer, Alcione, whom is also know as "marrom"
8:59 Yeah except the fact that France condemns the human rights violations like the mistreating of the Uighurs in China and is very critical of Chinas big "Belt and Road Project"..
omg they build roads!!
@@kaidone1 wow you have such and understanding of soft power -.-
@@gringlebandersnatch its cringe af to start a war because of "soft power" or because the build roads and ports
@@kaidone1 Some of their projects can eradicate all the power Turkey has over access in and out of the Black Sea, which is crucial as it is connected to a River Network with access throughout the Balkans, Central Europe and the Netherlands.
@@elseggs6504 you have no idea of RBI when you talk stupid things like that
Greece stands with France 🇨🇵🇬🇷
@Anonymer Nutzer You're German ?
@Anonymer Nutzer Germany is on Turkey's side. Merkel always seems like paralyzed when the issue of Erdogan's rising power is at stake... I do hope that after abandoning the Serbs in 1999 (thanks Chirac) , and abandoning the Syrians in 2013 (thanks Hollande), we won't abandon the Greeks if Turkey starts thinking about rebuilding the Ottoman Empire...
Greece should stand for itself. It's barely even crawling right now
@@redhidinghood9337 standing for france is standing for ourselves ,all of south europe if not europe in general are children of Rome .Enough with the americans the chinese the russians and the turks .We barely even crawl huh ? as long as we breath it is fine dont you worry about us we lived through harder times
I rarely agree with Macron, but for the case to support Greece against Erdogan who claim some greek Islands like Kastellorizo. I totally agree with the fact we must defend all country's of European Union against aggressive neighbors. Ottoman empire is dead, the dream of Erdogan to resurrected it will never become a reality. Greek people have already suffered enough because of this, 1453 fall of Constantinople, century's of turkish tyranny on greek people until 1829. Millions greeks fleed Anatolia during 1921 to escape their madness (it seems the genocide of the Armenians was not enough). Love you from France greek people, i hope this dark days will never come back, and if they come back i hope my country will fight with you for your liberty. (sorry for my baguette English)
I hope Europe becomes United States of Europe 🇪🇺
Love from Croatia 🇪🇺🥰🇭🇷
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Long Live Europe, we're all different, but we're one
@@RyanBarroso ta gueule
@@gutsjoestar7450 pourquoi t'insulte tdc???
Unrelated to the accuracy of the vidéo, and maybe I missed it, but I think it would have been worth making it explicit to the viewer that you're Polish in the context of a video exposing France vs eastern Europe.
yea of course he's polish
@@tfw2997 found out in the comments
His opinion is biased but I don't think him being polish has something to do with it. Any pro-european would support the strengthening of the east against russia.
@@redhidinghood9337
wrong, im european and i don't give a shit about russia. if anything, id be against my country's interests to fight a war against a country many miles away. and for what? hundreds of thousands of my people would have to die so that some irrelevant eastern european country gets to expand eastwards into russia? how would you explain to my country's people that those thousands of deaths were necessary and that this war was for our sake when we wouldn't even get any spoils of war?
it was a huge mistake expanding the EU eastwards. our objectives would probably be more aligned and we wouldn't have the looming threat of a third world war, a war that only the americans and eastern europe would benefit from.
@@tfw2997 I doubt Eastern European countries want to expand their territory towards Russia, neither to start a war they would be the ones suffering the most since they're on the frontline. These countries are more likely scared by the unbalance between their own strength and Russian strength. This can be explained by the fact that most of them have been occupied by Russia multiple times in the past. Or the fact that Russia still considered them as its backyard even after the fall of the USSR.
Eastern European countries mostly want to keep Russia as far as possible, and that's what their policies are about.
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The French nuclear umbrella: a single one of its four ballisitic missile launching subs can deliver 16 M-51s, each with up to ten 100Kt warhead, each with 10.000+km range.
Not to mention the air launched ASMP-A missiles, some of which are on our aircraft carrier, currently near Syria...
But then, in a way, you are right, given the distance between Paris and, say, Tahiti, France’s nuclear umbrella cover its territory...
Yeah 😂. This guy is spreading anti France propaganda
That's not what nuclear umbrella means, it means France's doctrine is to use nuclear missiles only in defense of french territory not Europe
@@Alhmaleonn thats not what nuclear umbrella means
Nuclear power is not a power as power without full control is no power neither. No country has full control of using nuclear weapons as they know that they’ll kill theirselves as well. Our blue faint dot just too small for using nukes. Bad luck…
'Western Liberal Democracy as the final form of human government.' The absolute hubris and ego to assume this.
'Western Liberal Democracy as the final form of human government.' i don't know who said that, but he/she is not european .
Chinese "mass surveillance state" is the way to go...
@@thibaultlecalvez5493 These words come from a Japanese-American man, 1 year after the dislocation of the Soviet Union.
It's something that was believable by the time. The world geopolitics looked like everything was about communist dictatorships vs capitalist democracies. And since many communist dictatorships fell apart, it probably meant capitalist democracy would eventually become the only way on Earth.
Though this was kind of stupid to be honest. Capitalism and democracy don't magically appear and eternally remain. The world is probably less democratic than 10 years ago in fact.
@@gael9270 I agree but : "The world geopolitics looked like everything was about communist dictatorships vs capitalist democracies" is only true from an american point of view, the rest of the world was more prudent.
@@thibaultlecalvez5493 This idea of "end of history" was also used to some extent in Western Europe to legitimate economic liberalism. These common ideas that deregulation is "modern" (in a positive way) or that there is no alternative to it both inherit the idea of "end of history" in my eyes.
Plus the end of history also involved the idea that the USA would play the world police officer. Whenever a country isn't peaceful, the USA would come and fix the problem. The number of American interventions of this type is big between 1991 and 2000. And such idea was highly supported by many countries, Europe having hard times to get out of it even nowadays.
Support France from Turkey. Time to end Political Islamist fascism, marxist degeneracy and liberal lunacy. Time for Renaissance , order and progress. We will follow.
Women can't wear burqa in France
@@Kuasarakyat2 wearing burqa thinking to go to heaven is wrong. That is for 6th century arabia.
Support and respect Turkey and the people who don't follow Erdoğan.
I am French, I hate Macron and Melanchon to the deepest of my heart but those who don't listen Macron, Melanchon and Erdoğan propaganda are those who I respect the most.
France had good relations with the Ottoman Empire until 1914. 🇫🇷🇹🇷
@@Diegomax22 i think macron is ok. Melanchon is a globalist puppet. Erdo gets 40 percent of the votes so he still isnt supportes by majority after 20 years. Rest of Turkey is fragmented but still they are majority. We have Turkish vs Kurdish nationalists switching sides. Kurds supported him for 15 years only in last 5 years they vote against him and now half of Tr nationalists vote for him meanwhile other half and kurds vote with secular opposition. Secular oppo gets 30 percent - ten percent less than erdogan but whenever i watch german tv they make turkey look like arabs, and mock them. In fact many of secular turks support france as opposed to germans because ataturk and ottomans liked french culture found germans too vulgar and marginal. Hopefully we will get back secular , nationalist Turkey back.
@@Diegomax22 macron looks like he is accepting positions from le pen which is good. Melanchon is a puppet. Problem with melanchon is that french are not as rich as germans , suis or swedes so french people will uprise if liberal globalist comes around.
I am Italian and I would like the United States of Europe to be founded. Not only because we would have geopolitical importance, but also because we would finally have what was there before the Middle Ages, that is, a united civilization. I would be proud to be a citizen of a country where there is the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower, the Sagrada Familia and all the other wonders that exist in the 27 EU states. 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇭🇺🇵🇹🇲🇹🇨🇾🇧🇪🇩🇰🇳🇱🇫🇮🇸🇪🇱🇺🇱🇻🇪🇪🇱🇹🇸🇮🇬🇷🇮🇪🇪🇦🇭🇷🇨🇿🇷🇴🇸🇰🇸🇰🇦🇹
The problem is always the same: when some says a united(european) civilization, they really think: "french" or "german" or "italian" or whatever ...when the y say "european"
@@RoninTF2011 I didn't mean that
@@ilariasurico6124 Yeah sure :-P
French are French, Italians are Italians, always been (pretty much), always will be ...
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The EU is already a superpower, Economically and politically, militarily too if all of the armies were to combine. It would have the 2nd strongest army in the the world.
If all of Europe actually were to invest 2% in their military. And only be a tiny bit more efficient than America with their budget. They already would have the strongest military. Because everybody in Europe is good at specialising.
But the EU has starkly declined in terms of economic significance over the past 20-30 years. Going from I believe around 38% of the world's economy to the mid 20s today. While the EU is certainly prosperous, and safe I don't think its long term indicators are good.
For now Europe is just a huge free Market. Economically yes, politically not really. 27 countries have to be agreed for every single decision and it rarely happens because guess what, every countries has its own agenda. Europe is a civilisation, not a country.
@@mikamusarde6495 Unfortunately it fails to protect its civilization - with growing compact Islamic groups financed from outside and benefiting from democracy - to grow. The people feel more unsafe than before. And the market is not that free - you have quotas, you have hundreds of regulations, you have funding/subsidizing which I thought is specific for the communist countries, you have EU countries trying to prevent other EU countries from doing business (typically poor East-EU) cheaper in them... Only Switzerland looks like a properly governed state, but it is outside the EU.
@@angelg3986 Im agree, only Switzerland looks like a real democracy. The European union looks like the old soviet union.
As an American who's thought about this before I am all for greater European centralization and a defense outside of NATO. While French ambitions and skepticism aren't exactly doing a great job at selling the concept, I'm sure as time goes on the other European nations will sign on.
France should definitely focus on internal issues.
They can focus on more than one thing at a time.
Most internal issues come from the outside. Like covid or terrorism.
@@Jay-jq6bl yeah, current police protests showing how they handle internal issues xDD
@@hesar1975 It's over exagerated.
It's happening because the election is coming soon.
@@EverlastGX Except that terrorisme is mainly an internal problem link to immigration. (Ok immigration is in the maintime an inside and outside problem)
One of the overlooked elements of France's centrality to Europe in the future is demographics. All of Europe's native populations are struggling demographically, and France is also facing this, with the worry that a differential in birth rates and continued immigration will erode their culture and lead to a muslim majority in the next century. However, what is not often remarked upon is that France has the highest birth rate in Europe (the highest of the entire G8, in fact), and although the 10% of the population of North African extraction no doubt is pushing up the average, even if we are to separate that population out, ethnically European citizens of France still have a birth rate considerably closer to replacement level than any of their neighbors, and they're far ahead of the disastrously low birthrates of Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, and the post-Soviet states.
lead to a muslim majority in the next century.
This is delusion and erasure of French people with a background of immigration from Muslim countries who are now irreligious.
okay
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 Less go France, we support you from Poland
War history split us too much
Time for cooperation !
I'm a Indian and intrested in geopolitics. I would say that Macron's vision is right to much extent and Europe should think on it. Germany want to keep their military small but we all know it's very powerful if given the resources and freedom. France can lead Europe for sure. Recently it helped Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
@gedeyom gıyamete hımaneye helped Greece by sending military support. They are selling Rafale jets and provided them ammunition on time. And as i remember, also sent the aircraft carrier to Mediterranean. Also the french side issued statement in favour of Greece and Armenia making Turks red faced
@@ashutoshanand1573 france did not do shit. They over estimate their influence.
@@usernamemetin yes i know
@@usernamemetin That is why Erdorgan screamed like a pigglet and said he was bullied by France ... Germany was useless in this crisis. They are just focus on their economy and that is it.
@@skippylegrandgourou2069 True
I honestly want to see a European Federation.
A federation just makes no sense. We are talking of countries with different histories, different cultures, languages and interests. You cannot make a federation with that except by destroying many differences by imposing one common model and one unique language and most of the people are against it
@@Spallding75 All it needs is a little push and a big disaster for everyone to unite.
A European federation with regional subdivision would be awesome.
It would turn the democracy problem even worse, no thanks
@@lhommedelayaute1989 It would allow places to be governed by the people that lives in and not by their imperialist overlord. Savouè Abada by the way.
Latin Europe and Germanic Europe sholdnt be together like they are right now, it's a dysfunctional abusive relationship.
In my opinion the real problem is with the Mid-esatern countries (Poland, Hungary)
@@omer.g4386
Bullshit, they haven't got one bit of power, you say that because you're a leftist and you don't like them because they're conservatives, the problem is your people, not them.
Slavs will always be a burdain someone will have to carry, nothing's changed.
The real problem is Germanic leftist progressive countries making Latin countries live with their shitty law, taxation and welfare systems, it just doesn't work, Latin countries are not meant to be social-democrat.
@@juanme555 ?
what exactly has the language family to do with social welfare programs?
@@ceoofeurope1710
Ugggh, your whole profile is a load of repulsion.
Well, France has its own foreign policy.
UK hasn't.
Not joking or exaggerating.
0:29 “French economy minister BRUAWHAWAAAAAAA”
hahahahahaha
I think French atitud is very positive to push not only its interest but european ones. During te visit of Macron in China he bring with him many euripena minister not only french ones. when is the last time Germany did it: never.
It's France biggest mistake: to sacrifice its sovereignty for an utopia. There is no Franco-german couple: Germany always look towards the US, and keeps making a fool of France.
@@FrenchLegitimist We are occupied and a colony of the U.S. We don't exist as a real souvereign state.
To Eurosceptics, we don't have to leave the EU like the UK, we have to adapt it to our times, don't make mistakes.
Long live France and the EU
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Non.
@@l.f.9897 Si.
Good luck with making 27 countries unanimously agree !
The EU can't be changed due to the need of unanimity for any major constitutionnal reforms.
Plus I'm not even mentionning the corruption with lobbyist within the parliament and the neoliberal policies.
@@jfp7752 yes
Others have mentioned it, but I must say, it's truly stunning to hear the French nuclear umbrella be described as limited to its own territory. It may be small in numbers - "only" 290 active units - but its range definitely covers the whole of Europe, and those stationed on its submarines cover the world.
Also, nuclear war in or near Europe is realistically only going to be started by the US or Russia (and perhaps Israel). In terms of nuclear arsenal, no one can come even close to the insane stockpiles that Russia and the US have. So having more than a token nuclear umbrella is kinda pointless.
It's not about range. Nuclear umbrella means the countries you'd defend with your nukes.
@@FOLIPE I would really like you to reconsider that post XD
meanwhile, Germany is building the Nordstream 2 pipeline to import gas directly from Russia to Germany, because they gave up on Nuclear.
They are already buying gas for decades now.. Via pipeline through Poland, Ukraine etc.. It's not about more gas it's about cheaper gas for the German ppl who need it anyway.. The rapid rise of renewable energy in Germany is a fact nobody can deny
@@EngelinZivilBO do you mean the rapid rise of über-dirty coal & Russian gas burning?
@@jgr7487 do you feel competent enough to judge about that things! Are you informed in some form? I don't think so.. Don't get me wrong but we're just dudes watching yt..
I mean I can literally see the progress outside my window.. Each day two new wind turbine built up in a row..
@@EngelinZivilBO I'm just saying wht Good Timed Bad Times mentioned in his Energiewende video. also I don't live in Germany, but I live in a country that mostly depends on hydroelectricity to survive, but we have been building a lot of thermoelectric plants because those are (sadly) the best sources of complementary electricity to the grid.
@@EngelinZivilBO wind turbine or solar panel needs equivalent power source on the side to compensate when the production fall (no wind or no sun) ..... and that means basically installing new gas turbine nearby .... nuclear remains better for environment when you do the math properly.
Atleast luxemburgh is there to keep their forces at bay
I'm sorry I am only getting to this video now- I have a tendency to save Good Times Bad Times Videos until I need to binge watch them for my own sanity (busy International Relations graduate student). First of all, really informative video, but also thought-provoking. Really made me consider how France is toeing the line compared to its Western/NATO allies, which is not what you usually hear even from US-think tanks on EU relations. Also, this narrator is more my speed for sure. Yes, "Mahron" was a bit amusing, but it's not like I can speak French either. This channel is doing a great job of presenting geopolitical issues, while not only confounding but in some cases taking preconceived notions about the state of alliances and state priorities and turning them on its head. Great work!
WOW, as a French i must congratulate you because this is the first time i hear a foreign person understand the French strategy, especially the Archimedes lever which is the corner stone of our philosophy.
A problem we identify in France is that we see Germany as almost a satelite state of the US, they only follow NATO's rules and they would never dare stand up to the US (because of obvious political and economic reasons of course). To go further i would say that the EU nation's interest are profoundly divergent and are not leaning at all toward more cohesin but more divergence. France objective interest is to collaborate more with Russia and the UK rather than central europe while it's the contrary for Germany overall.
And finally, i would say that our mistake is that we want to europeanize our domestic strategy of national strategic autonomy (bsically giving ourself the ability to do everything on our own) which is the compass of our politics since centuries but not necessarily the goal of the other european nations.
What makes you think it is France's strategic interest to collaborate more with Russia than with Central Europe?
@@geoffreycharles6330 In subjects like the stability in east med France NEEDS to have better diplomatic relations with Russia.
In the subject of the Sahel regions, where Russia is way more present than one might think (they even council the central Africaingov), France cannot ignore Russia either.
Moreover, Russia is a power also present in the pacific ocean, just like France.
@Rob Schiller To a way lesser extent. A good example of that, is the French stance toward european defense, France wants europe to be completely autonomous while Germany's government constantly replies that the european defense has to be base on the NATO "canvas", these are two clear differences.
@Rob Schiller I'm sorry but I don't see France as an US sattelite as the rest... France has a powerful army, nuclear deterrance, and a veto right in the UN security council. The recent event show us that France can act on its own, for instance when Erdogan's Turkey was threatening Greece, we were the only one to stand up with Greece, while other europeans were afraid to do anything in a dispute between two NATO member even while one is EU member and Euro user... and Trump's USA didn't do anything because they don't care that much about Greece...
France can, and will, do whatever is needed to protect its allies, our allies. If you are european, France is your best ally right now, its not the strongest military powerhouse on the globe but it's the one you can count on. Not the USA which aren't reliable anymore.
I'm 100% with my president when he say NATO is brain dead.
We all witness what happened under Trump presidency, Trump wanted european member to "pay more", he often treated his allies badly, and did not make USA act like the friend it used to be. For 4 years, europeans were on their own on many crisis. So yes, NATO is brain dead, because Turkey is in it, and the USA are not reliable anymore. Because even if Biden has regain the white house, for now on, every 4 years the USA has a decent chance to elect a president who will not see us as ally !
The EU countries has to understand that and quickly build their own defence strategy, France is willing to do a lot on this matter but nothing significant will happen if we are alone...
@@geoffreycharles6330 comparing French/Central European collaboration with the German one is just nonsense.. It seems like the author of this video and many other forgets that Germany is in Central Europe. They invented that thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitteleuropa
You should disclose that you're from Poland, this is very biased against western european countries
A nice way to avoid facing Poland’s own misdeeds.
Should he remained unbiased if France is planning to stab Poland in the back by letting Russia do whatever it wants in eastern Europe?
That's absolutely not France's plan. European defense capabilities that France is pushing for are absolutely aimed at potential Russian and Turkish agression towards EU members. If having a dialogue with Russia is planning the stab eastern Europe in the back, why are you still trusting the US and NATO?
Thanks for good job! It would not be superfluous to add an analysis of the partnership with Greece and Egypt. France is now very active in this region.
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There are a lot of mistakes in this video... First, France have several nuclear missiles equipped submarines to strike far away from its borders. Then, only 40% of the french of Russia, and it's mainly the far-right who have a friendly feeling. At the end, France make huge effort toward the other EU country, for example the new defense projet or the crisis between Greece and Turkey where France has no direct interest.
No mistake in this video, you just don't understand what "nuclear umbrella" means.
@@lionelpahulycz9077 It's a mistake. And what about the other ones in this video ?
@@olivierlitou1594 FYI nuclear umbrella doesn't refers to a weapon's range, but to the territory covered by it. If Russia launchs an attack against Germany, France will not answer with nuclear weapon. It will only happen if the attack targets French national territory. THAT's what nuclear umbrella means. You're welcome.
No true 🤗
@@lionelpahulycz9077 There are mutual defence agreements (NATO & UE). How can you write that France will not respond to this king of situation ? Please read the texts and stop writting bullshit.
I like Peter Zeihan's idea, that the Scandinavian countries will support the Baltic Nations, and by extension Poland, against Russia. This may even draw in the UK, which could allow for some support from the US, even if they draw down their involvement in the area.
There is some merit to a Mediterranean vs Baltic Sea split of Europe. With Germany/France being the pivot point.
what the fuck is Scandinavia going to do against Russia in the baltics lol. They wouldnt be able to do anything without US or European support
@@jebbo-c1l
Well Scandinavian countries were never even trying to have anything more than defensive armies, so a bit strange idea that Scandinavia would somehow protect anyone else.
But Finland and Sweden are not parts of NATO, so you can be sure "Scandinavia" is not relying on US help (I'm counting Finland into Scandinavia, even though it's not Scandinavian).
I have mixed feelings with this video, so I made sure to watch it all despite not really appreciating it. I do feel like not all of your points are objective and you maybe also focus a lot on Macron. Maybe it's a biais coming from me and the fact that I'm French, but maybe you actualy give personnal opinions while speaking as if you present only the truth in a science documentary style of narration.
Je serais intéressé de savoir ce qui te choque dans la vidéo exactement.
J’ai trouvé la vidéo pertinente sauf sur le point selon lequel la capacité de déploiement militaire de la France est faible. Le journaliste a omis de parler des « confettis d’empire ». La France c’est douze fuseaux horaires, la seconde ZEE... ça donne une idée
@@gael9270Quand il parle de "brain death" de l'OTAN par exemple, il omet de préciser que Macron a balancé ça juste après que Trump ait dis que les US ne serait pas obligé d'aider un état balte contre une agression russe. Ce qui change beaucoup le contexte mine de rien.
honnêtement cette vidéo n'a aucun intérêt, le niveau intellectuel de cette vidéo est nul, c'est aberrant...
Tellement de points sont superficiel, et même carrément des fakes news parfois. Le pire c'est quand même le point sur la Russie, la vidéo suggère que le fait que nous "discutions" avec poutine soit en train de faire transpirer les états de l'est et que ca provoque une discorde européenne. Les gars sont malades, tout le monde discute avec la Russie, les allemands ont même fait un énorme contrat économique avec la construction de l'énorme gazoduc, et nous a absolument rien fait avec les russes jusqu'à présent, c'est des malades mentaux, je veux bien que ce soit des américains et qu'il faille faire de la propagande vu leur passé avec la Russie, mais faut pas s'étonner que derrière le pays sombre dans l'abrutissement générale derrière.
@@gael9270 Ca le choque qu'on puisse dire du bien de Macron
Vive la France, vive l'Europe
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Lang lebe Deutschland, lang lebe Europa
@@DerMke We Germans support France🇩🇪🇩🇪
France is not Europe. This is why Norway havent joined yet.
Germany is not Europe.
No single nation is Europe, however small a nation we all together is Europe, and if the E.U is going to be a big boys club then the union will fail.
France, Germany, Italy and frankly all members have to sacrifice egocentric goals and think bigger, think collective goals. Balance the power, might is not right if we want E.U to work.
@@filipefernandes870 did he say that tho
The channel gonna go from 10K to 15K very quickly
you were right, its at 15k rn
@@stuckonaslide 18k
I don't agree with you on Macron's policy. During the crisis Macron relied on the eu comition for the vaccine wich led to a shortage in France. The military project SCAF wich is highly critiscised in France is another example because Germany want a total share of intellectual proprety wich is not in the interest of France.
I really don't think that Macron only values France's interest.
I however overall agree with the rest especially on the archemedes lever
The interest of France is make all the other countries buy their crap. Like when France forced Spain to buy those awful Cougars in order to not keep helping terrorists.
@@marneus i didn't know they were awfull ? And well it is the rule of armement industry it is not specific to France and well a lot of countries are quite happy with the french armement
@@pierrev6 they are not military helicopters, yet France made Spain buy them in order to extradite murderers. Yet the Cougars have killed more than 20 Spanish soldiers in accidents due to their poor design.
@@marneus the cougar is a military helicopter and it happend once for spain. Such accident do not mean the helicopter is crapy as it happens with that said i am sorry for the victims.
@@marneus France is the 3rd seller in weapons in the world. Behind USA and Russia and before China!
India, Egypt, Australia, Russia, Indonesia, Croatia, Greece, etc... already buy Rafales, Tanks, Submarines, Helicopters, etc...
Maybe they're not all completely stupids, maybe they all have military experts to appreciate the excellence of the french technologies!
So calm down your racism anti-french and get more informations before insulting France, pretending crazy bullssshits like she "make all other countries buy their crap" or "in order to not keep helping terrorist" !
As a French, I can say that I find this video extremely accurate 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
There was no mention of the UK which has been a competitor of France on this specific area of influence within the EU and remains a key player on any topic related to Europe security.
Fun fact the country's that love and support the USA the most is:
1. Vietnam is the country with the most love for the US at 85% the most pro american country in the world
2. Israel 83%
3. The Philippines 81%
4. South Korea 77%
5. Poland 73%
6. Nigeria 69%
7. Hungary 66%
8. Italy 61%
9. Ghana 59%
10. Tanzania 57%
11. Japan 57%
12. UK 57%
13. India 55%
14. Brazil 54%
15. Peru 52%
These 15 country's have have the biggest love and support for the US country's that see the USA as a threat is
1. China 88%
2. Jordan 82%
3. Turkey 77%
4. Germany 73%
5. Netherlands 71%
6. Sweden 66%
7. Spain 63%
8. Lebanon 60%
9. Belgium 58%
10. France 55%
11. Canada 51%
12. Russia 48%
13. Chile 46%
Russia has seen the biggest jump in approval for the United states in the world in 2016 only 15% of Russians liked the USA in 2021 43% of Russians like the US
@The Wandering Ronin technically we are since we are the most powerful and influential country in the world
Mrbrain bob not for long
@@Steve-zc9ht Canada sees US as a threat more than Russia?
UK has a military alliance with France now
The quality of your work is great! Hope this channel grows!
Thank you!
Nice quality ☺
This half-empire, half-confederation thing Europe has got going on is novel, interesting, but also deeply flawed.
Hard to focus on something other than your own interests when others refuse to see what is and isn't in their interests.
Good video dude!
France is still playing as a colonial power with troops in eight African countries, they want a European Army to further their ambitions to regain their Empire
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We love you frace from 🇮🇳🤗
Thank you for supporting us everywhere🇫🇷❤🇮🇳
@@RyanBarroso Brother there are several reasons to Love France...
But Two main reasons are
-- France always Stand up and Speak the truth
And-- France is the only country in this world who knows the meaning of Friendship... Always stand by their friends No Matter what... Whether it's Greece or India.
Thank you France for being so nice and for being so Awesome 😊🇫🇷
@@thakuraryansingh2462 thank you so much for your kindness, I wish you the best for you and your country ! 🇫🇷🇮🇳🇫🇷🇮🇳❤
@@RyanBarroso thanks brother 😊 I live in Goa. If you ever get a chance then please do visit my state. You will love it...
Great topic
We tried this with the kalmar union. It didn't end well.
Established countries won't give up their sovereignty to another country.
So where did Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and Romania come from then?
@@cb00ful They were one nation before the state was born, except the UK, which is dying in front of our eyes. In contrast the EU is several different nationS.
14:43 he said it correctly yaaaaay
I love the apology at the end. (Still, it probably would have been better to just go with the most basic American pronunciation of Macron over what we heard instead...)
Much appreciated video
Thanks Peter!
Great video. I would be interested to hear about how France's direction under Macron differs from Le Pen's vision, if she eventually gains power.
Macron is pro Europe and an Europe with France and German as co leaders
Hé s à dreamer.
Le Pen is against immigration and wants France s Come back like first country in Europe.
@@ohpatriote5622 Honestly, Le Pen would in all likelihood simply accentuate more what Macron already does. He hates Islam, he speaks out a lot against woke culture coming from the States, he never shuts up about France being the greatest thing in the universe... if you showed excerpts from some of his speeches to the voters in 2017 and told them it was from the future French President, they would immediatley assume it had to be Le Pen who ended up winning.
@@yarpen26 if you think Macron is that bad then you’re not ready for Le Pen
(And macron being anti-Islam is kinda fueled by Turkish propaganda)
First of all she won't. Le Pen doesn't actually have a vision for Europe, she'd like to reduce the integration, she opposes the liberal values of the EU, and wouldn't care if Russia tried to build itself a new sphere of influence in eastern Europe. She's just a demagogue without coherent geopolitical policy.
I think Europe should take a more agresive stance too for exaple to push for the 2% GDP to military funding. But that seems to be forgoten.
That "rule" has a unwritten law of buying American products. Nato kinda is a American trade deal.
Enforcing that budget will backlash, like it did for trump.
I mean, EU has no territorial prétentions, nor does it is threatened due to France nuclear arsenal.
Basically, most EU nations have no reason to invest in military, being strategically immune to aggression due to nato and E.U. allies.
Some spend more than 2%, like France some, spend less, nothing is forgotten but I have a feeling you must have been listening to Trump. But he is very ill informed and had this idiotic optimistic idea that if defence spending in Europe increased it would bring more money to the USA. That is not how it automatically works. There is a agreement on how NATO is financed and there is also an agreement among members that their aim is to reach or maintain the target defense spending of at least 2% of their GDP by 2024.
However NATO funding represents only about 0.3% of GDP of Allied defence spending.
I suggest you read reliable sources, some links below.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
www.globalfirepower.com/defense-spending-budget.php
It's reality, Germany, Greece, France are over or near of 2%. The problem is more Economic, 2% is better, but if economic situation is bad, it's nothing.
@@Chris689200 EVERY countries in the world NEED to be autonomous in defense. NATO must be a bonus, a Joker, not the only way. Of course is better for american government, but not for European countries.
The way he Said "Macron" sounds more or less like "nerd" in my language...
Mahon
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Marrons Glacés!😋🤣🤣🤣
I just literally pause when I saw northern Ireland as part of EU.
yeah, I need to correct this map
@@GoodTimesBadTimes overall it is a good content, it's just a small mistake which doesn't really have a big impact in the video.
in fact the since the brexit aggrement, the border and the customs house are "in the see". EU customs officer check products when they arrive in north ireland even it's part of uk
Mutch love for france ❤
Saying the French nuclear umbrella is the reason why the US is necessary is wrong. France has a full nuclear traid capable of hitting targets in Russia and China. The main thing that the US brings to the table in the relationship with European powers is the conventional forces, intelligence and soft power.
And economy
This channel is underrated af, great video :D
Thanks for a good video. As a Dane, I have to say I, on one hand, share the Eastern Europes view of Russia and on the other after Trump, I also share Macron's need for the EU to become a superpower. We should no longer rely on the US alone, but start building the EU into what we need. We should not forget that while many voted for Biden, almost as many voted for Trump.
Tony Blair has a very sober take on medium-sized powers and their future. We only get a place at the table, if we stick together.
th-cam.com/video/4Z2-zkn7Gco/w-d-xo.html
Can EU become a super power?
We do have the size even with Brexit. So the opportunity is there if we want it. If EU uses 2% of BNP on military power then we will be.
foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/13/europe-is-still-a-superpower/
I believe that we should bend the French initiative into making EU a hard power. It not something we can do overnight, but the faster we get going, the faster we get there. US will likely be focused on China in a great power conflict, so EU needs to be able to deal with Russia on its own. Russias economy is only the size of Spains, so it is not unbeatable. Its not the USSR any more. So if we spend the 2% we can beat Russia. Also we should not leave NATO, but build a EU structure that can work with NATO but also work on its own.
www.economist.com/special-report/2019/03/14/what-would-happen-if-america-left-europe-to-fend-for-itself
twitter.com/stephenWalt/status/1338876782355902469
That could be the subject for a new video: Can and should we develop EU into a super power? Should we use the Conference of EU to do that?
EU will never equal America in military strength or soft power. It will be America's sidekick, with more autonomy
The mistake of the French in trying to adopt an independent security policy independent of the US.
Is not getting the Germans to actually rearm there military.
Right now, Europe’s ability to project military power without the US , is like man in a wheelchair trying to climb a mountain. Europe’s military structure and Navel depth is barely adequate to project power into third world Africa. While capable of defending there own borders ( some can, others can’t ) ALL European countries lack the needed sea lift capacity to tackle any second tier military. If Europe had to take over most African countries, or any in the Middle East. They would need to schedule the war at least 1 to 2 years in advance.
I give Kudos to France and Britain both for there aircraft carriers, but without additional sea lift capabilities and much more in the way of airlift, air tanker and troop transport. Europe could NOT successfully invade ANY second tier country or a well motivated third world country.
I think it’s sweet that Macron thinks they stand as equals to America and China in military power.
The truth is, not even China ( supposed world’s largest Navy ) can exert military power away from there own shores . It’s all good to bark Loud, but it’s the dogs who bite you need to worry about.
Until Europe, China , Russia or any other country acquires the necessary sea & air lift capacity as well as the necessary sea & air tanker capacity. The only way for those military’s to invade another country is if they can walk there.
That situation is very unlikely to change at all in this century.
For all the indignation and righteous complaints about the use of American military muscle. The ONLY global military security player is Uncle Sam. While many countries play very important roles in regional world security ( Britain,Australia,France,Japan, other nato partners). It only works if America acts as the muscle and backbone of current world order.
With all that being said, most Americans are no longer interested in being the worlds police force.
Incase no one noticed, the last 4 US presidents have shown a diminishing interest in maintaining the current global order.
The US is now energy independent.
We are tired of the quagmire in Middle East politics. We are tired of paying to secure global shipping.
And most of all, we are tired of having our sons and daughters killed, injured and disrespected around the world while underwriting global security.
I personally, as an American fully endorse Macrons desire to take on the mantle of security guarantor for Europe. But until France gets serious
And puts several hundred billion euros every year into their military. He will be little more than a dog with a loud bark, and a very limited bite.
That, is a recipe for world disorder.
IF YOU WANT PEACE !!!
PREPARE FOR WAR. !!!
But France and Nato are NOT prepared.
Most people misunderstand what france want, they don't want to replace usa in rurope, they want all european country to finally move their ass and act
I don't get you comment. You endorse Macron desire to make Europe stand on its own two feet, but you're not confident about their ability to do so...
Is it France's fault other if EU countries fail to understand their proposal is the only option ?
USA are less and less a reliable ally, as you say american people are tired of being the world police, we all see that in the recent years. France is the only one to propose something in Europe, i don't get why other european countries don't accept the offer. It's not like there is any other option available, because again : the USA aren't reliable in the long run.
France > germany
I mean, it was the USA that created that quagmire in the Middle East with their Gulf Wars, support of islamist fundamentalists during the Afghan war, and unconditional support for Israel. The US might very well have caused more harm than good around the world, but I guess that that is what policing is to you Americans, the police shoots an innocent person and then puts the blame on them.
You absolutely get it, France cannot make it alone that's why we're trying to make that shit european sized but our beloved passive neighbor dont seems to understand the issue...
As a French citizen after the last two Military signed letters 😳😳😳😳
A British citizen it just makes great soap opera.
Well the first was from retired generals and the second was anonymous, so I don't really see the threat. It looked more like a political ploy of the far right, and a "click bait" from the utterly pathetic "paper" who published them. If those military members want to do politics they can, but as civilians, as the rules allow.
@@ouicertes9764 I don’t think it was an exaggeration or “click bait.” There are very real concerns that France (and other countries in the same position) could be heading towards a civil war. Civil war doesn’t have to be two organized armies, but can be widespread unrest and street fighting. It’s already obvious where not to go as a French person in the suburbs.
Tout le monde peut signer la pétition il me semble donc elle ne peut pas être prise en compte
@@tellingfoxtales Yeah like watching muslim call for prayer in London 😂, you guys are already doomed.
"Europe will be your revenge." - West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to Charles de Gaule.
Good analysis. I'll keep an eye on this channel from now on.
You obviously researched the subject, but the result is not even average. Many things are misrepresented or misunderstood.
Do a better one then
How exactly?
Portugal's ties with the US and the UK are WAY TOO important for our country to just disregard them and oppose them as EU front...
Portugal? U mean western spain?
What do you mean?...I thought there was only the Atlantic west of Spain...
you seem to have a lot of consideration for those who don't have as much of you. Unfortunately good feelings and emotions have nothing to do with geopolitics. Portugal has already had far more benefits from the EU than from its "English speaking friends"
@@tiber64 I won't argue your point... However, there's the other side of the coin...And that is the consequences of picking a side if push came to shove...And i'm pretty sure the consequences of siding with the EU would be worse on that scenario...
@@tiber64 Those EU benefits courtesy of the British tax payer you mean!
French idea of EU's military autonomy sounds good to me as a European but in practice they're switching the U.S. bootlicking to Russia bootlicking, which Germany, Nordics and Eastern Europe aren't fan of.
Actually we're trying to make EU autonomous from US/Russia and China. Russia isn't seen as an ally. I think the video is a bit misleading on this
Yeah, sure, the only european country that opposed NATO, wasn’t part of it at first then left the commanding structure because it felt it was too instrumental to US policies is bootlicking the US.
I’m not sure what your opinion is on Germany or the UK, some kind of willing vassal state probably
@@Chris689200 well they pretty much are vassals states. All of NATO basically
@@phirus02 Not really in my opinion, it stands like an alliance with great involvement from it’s members, but those are nonetheless free to do their foreign policy as they wish, even allowed to make aggressive move without the necessity of involving other members. Objectively, it’s a defensive alliance in which one member dictates the priorities.
Countries are still free to leave it or to do as they wish, as Turkey have demonstrated lately. And the US have no levier to coerce the members into spending more, neither are the US in a position of forcing a member to provide more troops or even get a nation to not withdraw the units it sent to serve under nato command under it’s obligations.
Basically, it’s based on good will
You're completely boutlicking the U-SA if you lick Na-to.
This type of coverage is very informative. Thanks
Pour moi, la France sera toujours la grande nation. L'amour d'Angleterre
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France is already a nuclear super power for those interested.
A nuclear “ power” the only superpower in this world is the USA
@@yvanpanama1765 not anymore
@@yvanpanama1765 We're not in the 40's anymore bud.
@@noahamankwaah9802 refresh my mind what is the other superpower in this world ? And can you also define me the characteristics of a superpower!! Thank you
@@yvanpanama1765 Either you're willfully ignorant or you're one of those "America #1" type. There's no way you can deny that China isn't a superpower, they have it all: the world best economy, great military, soft power (Tik-Tok, and other). There is a line between being patriotic and being a nationalist foul.
I'd love to see a completely united europe, but I doubt it can happen until countries start putting their citizens first and stop holding on to this weird notion of a nation state. No matter which country you look at they all see to trend towards this weird government controls the people archetype which is just not a long term sustainable solution, the US is a great example of how fast you can go from the mightiest nation without equals to being a sad big bully letting out it's frustrations on weaker nations to distract from it's own shortcomings.
The EU is turning more and more into a mess with loads of worthless burocracy like the biannual movement of parlement just because no nation is willing to take a hit for the benefit of others, maybe it'll get better now but until they get their head checked the EU is going to run itself into irrelevancy, they'll keep complaining about terror and migrants that they bring upon themselves til the day ww3 begins.
There is no united Europe without common values and principles... The migrant crisis shows that there is a deep split between member countries.
@@veduci22 he a liberal in the American sense. That different principles and and believes can truly stand strong together. But human history shows it the complete opposite.
@@brentherman7393 human history shows that Europe is too tribalistic to ever stand together. At one point the whole world was under the gunpoint of Europe. Yet the Europeans decided to have 2 apocalyptic wars in which 70 million Europeans died and they lost their global supremacy forever. If Europe ever put it's differences aside and united, it would be a very powerful bloc that would have its own say on things, not just an American vassal state.
As a french I absolutely don t want to see the united states of europe. I prefer a weak France than a France that is just a région of a large country
@@marclecur6827 Then a weak France you will have,not weak, very weak.
Not a United Europe, too many differences in cultures, language and most of all history. When was the most powerful parts of Europe all behind a single banner? SPQR? Seriously.
I believe that brief distinction lies with Napoleon.
@@TRG29338 very true, it's not the early 1800's anymore
Confederation
@@TRG29338 yes you are correct, he was an amazing battlefield commander, and did some very progressive things at the time, had he won in Russia the world would be a significantly different place, especially Europe. A unified Europe with the Romans were a true jugernaut, at least in the Western world I do not believe it's a stretch to say we still live in their shadow or likeness somewhat. Europe is important but macron needs to get his senses back.
Exactly France culture now is basically african.
Those flag animations starting around 5:33 were very satisfying
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Short answer: No
Long answer: Non
Very nice video!
oh those Western Franks
France must lead Europe with Germany to maintain its power and influence in the world. They must adapt in this fast changing world and shine in economy, international diplomacy, trade, media, defense and etc
France has had 5 republics almost 250 years. I don't think the fifth one will last much longer. Macron is desperately trying to give off an air of confidence, but behind the façade in France, it's rotten. I lived there for a year. Never again.
@Arthur salut et ne reviens jamais, tu ne nous manqueras pas
@@CaptainDangeax What do you think about France being behind the Madrid train bombs?
Bye bye
@@marneus I think you're putting too much shit in your brain for your own sake
Someone stole your iphone ?? lol
Great video
co to za mapa, widzę, że jest polska między dwiema wojnami, ale nie jest to dla mnie do końca jasne.
@@glavatazelva to mapa Polski przed drugą wojną św ale po stracie kresów
Great content, the music was amazing too.
Fascinating, inciteful and very clear video. I really have learnt something today, thank you GTBT, the world needs more explanations like this. I disagree with the final observation, the UK is not just after its own benefits in global politics, it is a world player and wants to thwart the expansion of authoritarian, non democratic states that seek to damage the freedom of people.
I went to look at how many subs
You have and expected 2-3 million
Oh boy, don't know if I have this many chairs here.
One of the biggest fears for the USA, is if Europe becomes really one army.
Yes, because the EU will declare war on Russia eventually as it still seeks to expand its borders right up to Russia’s.
NATO made a promise and broke it.
@@custossecretus5737 Nope... EU just wants its security. Russia on the contrary, would like to oblitera Lithuania Lettonia Estonia and Poland from the map. Neither France nor Germany want to invade Russia. We both tryed and failed
Talk about that horrible army cohesion. Bloated officer corps just so each country is represented, language barriers, doctrine incompatibilities, cultural and moral incompatibilities. Conflicting interests in arms manufacturing complexes, not even to mention a huge array of different military equipment with their own maintenance and logistics costs. One eropean army is not even an unlikely dream, it's an unlikely nightmare.
This is why the United States agrees to protect Europe in the event of an attack, because many countries rely on the USA for security and to focus on the economy. And when the United States is no longer able to protect Europe, then Europe will remilitarize.