Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Watch: Russia will retaliate if US deploys missiles in Europe" video.

  1. It is telling that he is concerned at the prospect of us missiles in Europe, but has no fear of EU missiles.
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  2.  @230sergio  business partners, where one is applying sanctions on the other for the illegal invasion of a third European country. This is not a business relationship, it is a precursor to war. Given the EU is dependent on russian gas supplies, this is a relationship that the Mafia would recognise.
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  3.  @230sergio  it is sufficient to worry the Germans, who gave up nuclear power. The relationship between the EU and Russia can at best be described as abusive. I maintain that if the EU had its own military, it like be at war with Russia by now.
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  4.  @230sergio  strange then that Germany was notable for calling for new sanctions on Russia. As for NATO being gone, this news report was about russian concerns about the us sitting intermediate missiles in Europe. How is the us going to put such weapons in europe, if it is not via NATO?
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  5.  @230sergio  I take issue with a number of point you raise. First, Russia action in the Ukraine is illegal under international law and is not exactly a sign of friendship. You are being simplistic to equate international relations with personal relations. You can be friends with people from Russia, you cannot be friends with the Russia state. States do not have friends they have alliances, sometime with very unpleasant states, such as he Saudi regime. In the case of Russia, It's actions suggest it has an agenda. I suspect that Putin wants back the states that were under its control when it was the USSR. In the case of the Ukraine, it was attempting to protect a buffer between it and the west. I think the EU precipitated the war in the Crimea and Ukraine by attempting to extend its influence there. The EU quest to for. Its own military is at odds with your view it wants to be friend with everyone. What is it going to do with its own military? Either it is going to use it or it is a waste of tax payer money. I can spectate what it will be used for, it could be to keep internal order. It could be used, as the French want, to act as a police force to protect EU interests in Africa. The French certainly want it to further their imperial ambitions for the EU and cement their position as the titular leader of it. It could also be used in defence against Russia and Chinese expansionism. The Germans, who for so long were denied their own military force, know the financial advantages of not paying for your own defence, something the Japanese also learned post WWIi. This advantage will disappear if the EU exchanges NATO protection, based on US military power,for its own military. Once the EU has a military force, it will be required to use it to justify its cost, sooner or later the EU will be involved in an ill advised military adventure, that may lead it into a serious conflict with one or other of the big power blocks. Your comments about the potential of the US is interesting, because the fledgling EU super state is showing all the signs of evolving into the US of Europe, driven by the same financial ambitions that will see a few super rich haves ruling over a majority of disenfranchised have nots, a true undemocratic plutocracy. That brings me back to using the EU army to suppress insurrection.
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  6.  @230sergio  not sure hat you man by privilege of people or law. When identifying conflicts between power blocks, you miss maybe the most obvious, hat between Russia and China. They have a history of such conflicts. I note your reservations about French intentions. But I suggest the France is using the departure of the UK from the EU to further its Imperial ambitions through its military power. With the departure of the UK, the French are currently the only nuclear power in the EU. This is the starting point for their bid to lead the EU. I believe that Macron has stated that he wants the EU army to act as a police force in Africa. It must be assumed that this is to protect extensive French interests in the continent. The French also want its military manufacturing industries to profit from supplying weapons to the rest of EU member states. It was the French that were determined to exclude the UK from access to the Galileo satellite network post brexit. This may yet back fire if the UK government goes ahead with developing their own system. The euro is a currency built on sand. Until there is true fiscal union of the euro zone with federal control of the economy, the currency will always be unstable. You assume hat Putin is only motivated by wanting to make Russia profitable, but just as Macron wants to be the next emperor Napoleon. Putin seem to have ambitions to be the next tsar of Russia. Both are empire building. I think Putin maybe motivated by the humiliation that he thinks Russia suffered when the USSR fell apart. Hence the need to put it back together again.
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  7.  Declan Flanagan  it is a shame that you do not have the time to keep up with world politics, had you done so you would know that Trump's American is not the power it once was. It is the us that wants the UK to remain in the EU. And independent UK is not in us interests.
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  8.  Declan Flanagan  I assume your joy is related to the UK's imminent freedom for the EU. It is a shame that other EU states lack the courage to become independent. I suppose there is no hope for EU puddles like the RoI, who are destined to be betrayed by the Eurocrats.
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  9.  Declan Flanagan  sorry it is not your country, your government has given up any claim to it. Though I would be very happy if NI was the responsibility of the RoI. It cost the UK more than its EU membership fee. You and the EU are welcome to this political and economic liability. It would represent a significant wind fall to the rest of the UK. While a few in the RoI would welcome the change, your masters in Brussels might not be so happy.
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  10.  Declan Flanagan  as I said I do not fear if NI decides to join the RoI. But then you would have to contend with loyalist terrorism, and they are better at it than the republicans. The EU does not fear about NI or reunification. They are only interested in keeping the UK in the customs union. This is clear from the changing claims being made. A few weeks ago, the EU and the RoI were claiming that the border would remain open even in the event of a no deal Brexit. Now they want to apply pressure to the UK, they have decided this is not the case. Its just the EU playing politics with the Irish border issue. The north wants it both ways, it wants UK money and will not be voting for reunification any time soon, not now not in 20 years. As to enjoying paying money for regions you know nothing about, isn't the RoI a net contributor to the EU budget. Do you know which regions of eastern Europe your money is being sent? So nice of you to support foreign competitors. Curiously, the RoI's biggest foreign investors are not from the eu 27, they are the UK and the US.
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