Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "" video.

  1. I am a big fan of Elvira. I have read some of her books and enjoy them and watched a lot of her videos. It is interesting to see her in a different venue. That said, I think Pyotr is sorely misinformed about what he calls MAGA and the US in general. I get it. He is in the UK. I am American, but I have also lived and worked in England. I was also elected to the board of the school my sons went to. I had to get approved by the Home Office. The thing is, MAGA type movements are arising all over Europe, including the UK. It is most likely that a more populist (I don't like that term) movement will form the next government in the UK. In Germany and in France the populist movements are gaining ground. One thing he does not understand is that the US is done with trying to tell other countries how to handle their own affairs internally. After WW2, as the result of that brutal war, the US engaged in "nation building" in both Germany and Japan. This worked, but the circumstances were very specific. Since then, the only other place where it has worked, to a large extent, is South Korea. Otherwise, it has been an abject failure. While Trump has been the one to make this trend of noninterference explicit, it is something that the American electorate has wanted literally since the end of the Cold War. The whole 9/11 situation and the GWT was a detour. Pyotr's whole worldview is very Eurocentric. Right after Trump took office his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, made it clear that the unipolar world order was over, done. The cost was too great and the benefits minimal to the US. In addition, countries representing at least half the world's population, didn't want it, and were vocal about it. I am also amused at the comments he makes about religion, especially "Christianity". He seems to equate it with Catholicism. That is interesting because he lives in the UK, which is an Anglican country, not Catholic. I grew up Greek Orthodox and married in the Episcopal Church (Catholic without the guilt my in-laws quipped). While living in England I was a good Anglican. I even ran the coconut shy at the church fete. The Orthodox would say that the Catholic Church was a break away sect, hence the name Orthodox. It would be interesting to know about Pyotr's background in this context.
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