Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "Is the EU too Dependent on China?" video.

  1. For something in the order of 40 odd years now, the west has been indulging itself in a sort of fantasy that other nations; many of which were and are, sworn enemies, can somehow be brought around to the light if only we'd engage with them more. This is a manifestation of the peace-at-all-costs progressive left's attitude that there are no bad people and no bad countries and if some of them act that way, it's only because we don't love them enough and we're not inclusive enough and we're generally too mean to them. In other words, like nearly everything wrong in the world, it's somehow OUR fault. This has led the modern western liberal political class; perhaps the most gullible, naive, stupid, willfully blind and cowardly in history, to throw the lessons of millennia past onto the trash heap and, led along by a merchant class that can't believe its luck, dive head first into the swamp of total engagement, unlimited exchanges, free trade and friendship.... all while the Russias and Chinas of the world bust a gut laughing at us behind our backs while they count the cash we've been gifting them. This has resulted in the de-industrialization of the west, the death of our middle class - an anomaly in history, unique to western democracies - and of course, the nuclearization and massive expansion of aggressive Chinese military power. What China and those like it have today, they have because WE gave them the means to acquire it. The invasion of Ukraine was a frozen flounder across the face to many of these idiots but it seems that it's still a lesson they realize they have to learn but really don't want to. Certain European leaders... cough.. Scholz.. cough... say all the right things but in the next breath, betray their desire to forget the whole thing ever happened and go right back to the way things were... before. Likewise, most of the rest of Europe seems to want their cake and eat it too. They know full well the threat that China represents and they know they need to do something about it.... but they really don't want to preferring instead to just wait and hope that if they ignore the problem a little while longer, the whole mess will just evaporate somehow.
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