Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "US troops pullout: Nearly 12,000 US military to withdraw from german bases" video.

Germans better learn how to say yes sir in Russian. Those in the east just need to remember how.
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doni i during WW2 the russian state took a duplicitous path. First signing a non aggression pack with NAZI Germany, and then switching sides when attacked by the Germans. After the war russia switched again, with a military standoff with the western allies. I do not think russia today can play the victim, it is far more likely that russia will attack Germany than the other way round. That said, both are very unlikely unless brought about by Russian attempts to occupy the former soviet satellite countries in europe. Should the eu manage to acquire its own military forces, Germany might be emboldened to defend against any russian advance into such satellite countries, by leading a combined EU military force. Certainly the power of NATO is currently waning, due to the weakness and loss of engagement of the US resulting from the actions of the Trump administration. Any war between Russia and Germany will be the result of expansionist actions of either Russia or the EU. I believe that if the eu already possessed its military force at the time of the Russian invasion of Crimea, the EU and Russia would have been involved in military conflict. Since any EU military will lack cohesion for years to come, any such conflict will most likely drag a reluctant NATO into the conflict once the Russian forces start to advance into Europe. There can be little doubt that an newly formed EU military force would be no match against russian forces, unless backed up by US military power. Fortunately, the formation of the destabilising EU military seems more far off now then in any time over the past few years. One must hope that Russia does not attempt to take advantage of this latency, since any such action might reinvigorate the NATO giant, particularly as the trump administration is on the way out.
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@mailing7395 it was never over, its just the military fighting stopped. The war just continued in another form. The winner is yet to be decided. Putin is on a mission to regain control of the satellite countries of the former USSR. The EU is empire building, the two will come into conflict sooner or later.
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@mailing7395 the us federal model has had 400 years to evolve and it is still problematic, do you think the eu should copy it. You may not want US weapons, or rather the protection of NATO, but the fledgling eu federal military will be no match for the Russians. The Russians and the us have been evolving their military technology for 70 years, spending levels of money that the eu has been unwilling to spend. By obtaining a military, the eu will change its threat status from harmless to mostly harmless. That is sufficient to make it a threat, worthy of attack. If fact better an early preemptive strike than wait for its status to evolve to slightly dangerous.
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@mailing7395 empires will inevitable involved in wars. The eu is trying to turn into an empire, it will therefore be involved in wars. The EU is making the same mistakes as the US did, it expected to be able to export its brand of capitalism to the world without a fight, the EU is doing the same with a concoction of socialism and collectivism. It is already failing with its latest members, and it will be challenged by the other super powers. Like all ponzi schemes, it must expand to survive, so war is inevitable.
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@mailing7395 have you ever heard the term caveat emptor. An eu company buys a toxic american company and then itself becomes toxic. How was this a surprise, its just the effects of globalisation and greed. Multinationals behaviour in this way, its what they do. The car diesel emissions scandal showed that German technology was about cheating.
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@dirkstrauss8818 no, I think the words your looking for are "da ser". You are not allowed to ask question.
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@dirkstrauss8818 it is not me you should be concerned about, its the Russian tanks that now have little to stop them invading Germany. Your only consolation is that Putin is more concerned with regaining control of former USSR territory and satellite States. Germany will be low down on his list of conquests, unless provoked by the EU. Russia will certainly not wait for the EU to organise its military into a federal force. He will certainly neutralise that threat before it has a chance to develope. After all, an unarmed EU is harmless. An EU with its own army is still mostly harmless. I suspect that Putin's next move will be the invasion of Belarus.
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@dirkstrauss8818 and I am sure you are an apologist for Putin.
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@Null Pointer the countries that did best after WWIi were those who did not have the cost of supporting their military, or the cost of military R&D. That's at least a 3% year on year boost to their economies. Germany quickly discovered that the quickest war to world domination is through economic power, rather than wasteful military power. A lesson lost on the US and until recently Russia, but also well understood by Japan. It is only after economy power has been established, that government thoughts turn to military development. A classic test case is the parallel development of North and South Korea. The contrast cannot be greater, the south is prosperous and has a global significance economy. The north is poor and only significant from the point of view of being armed to the teeth. The us is now in significant debt, having squandered much of its post WWII wealth on fighting little wars that it inevitably losses. Some may have spotted the anomaly if China, but China's military build up has gone hand in hand with the growth of its economy and it's military has not be challenged by war, so it's resources have just accumulated over time. It's fate would be different if it had been involved in a war with Russia, but then so too would the fate of the world.
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@Null Pointer it is true that those who spend a significant amount on their military, sooner or later feel the need to use it, so as to justify the cost. In fact an economic downturn often precipitates a rise in militarism. This is because governments tend to hide their economic failures with belligerents.
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