Comments by "Anita K" (@Anita-k) on "What happens now for Ukraine?" video.

  1. I might be totally wrong about this, Jake, bc I'm certainly the opposite of an expert on this whole topic, however I heard more than once, that many European countries had outsourced their weapon productions to the US in the past decades ... and at least Germany - and there might also be other European countries with the same or similar limitations, I'm not aware of - was allegedly not allowed to own or produce larger amounts of weaponry due to starting WW2 together with rų. & That's why we don't have the luxury of having many weapon and ammo factories here in Europe anymore and relied so heavily on the US to send them to Ukraine on our behalf - I don't think or at least I'm not sure, if we expected the US to "lead us"* or make the first move - basically it would've taken new negotiations, agreements, laws and especially solutions to satisfy Ukraine's shell hunger problem. * Is the US the leader of NATO? I'm not sure tbh but I'll look into it. There just were no wars in Europe for 8 decades (except for ex-Yugoslavia during the 90ies) and so any war related factories here "kinda starved" and closed down, but you're right, we just oversplept that we should've build new such factories during the past ~1000 days, I agree, I'm just not sure if ALL European countries were legally allowed to do so, due to post WW2 multilateral agreements we diligently honoured. But in turn Europe helped Ukraine financially, to assure they can pay for their basic needs, like their pension and education system, medical institutions, military salaries, etc, to generally keep Ukraine afloat as a country ... which to me makes perfect sense, at least that's how I understand Ukraine related agreements between Europe and the US (... but as mentioned I could be totally wrong). Tbh I don't even understand this whole "Europeans against Americans" beef you mentioned in your community post ... guess there were just lots of European viewers venting their frustrations and grievances in their comments about speaker Mike Johnson delaying Ukraine military support for several months and the US not allowing strikes into rų with US weapons, but I don't think it's that serious, or at the very least I really really hope that's not the case! Unfortunately people don't always think ahead when writing their comments and as an individual I can't influence nor change others posts. Anyways ... we Europeans must wake up now - and we allies shouldn't accuse each other, let alone "fight" in unnessessary online arguments - bc that'd make rų SUPER HAPPY. & So we absolutely mustn't give them some more ammunition to drive a wedge between us.
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  2. 1:52 That's so true, I don't watch news media and I'm European - so your statement about "news for profit media being gone" = also true here in Europe - and I'm (late) grandma age, so it's not just the younger generations, it's us older folks as well.
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  3. Tbh with you Jake, I felt an incredible amount of dread this week's Wednesday when I heard he won - and I mean a level of dread and doom, I hadn't felt in a very long time/decades, especially thinking about Ukraine's future - but that's what we got now and as European I can only hope for the best. & Yeah of course I was disappointed. However I think Ryan Macbeth put it the best before this election, saying something along the lines of "he fears the chin. and he's aware they're watching the US closely, people don't worry, he can't let Ukraine down and it'll be ok". & I truly hope Ryan's right.
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  4. & While I can't change nor influence other Europeans comments, I really wanna apologize to you on their behalf, Jake. Hope you accept my genuine apology.
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