Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "EU Is DYING. ASEAN is THRIVING. An Autopsy by German and Malaysian Scholars. | U. Guérot u0026 J. Pang" video.

  1. Not for nothing was Nato's expansion eastwards over the decades occurring in close harmony with EU membership. Either the EU has been played like a fiddle by the neocons, both US and European, or it has been a willing partner. Either way it has been culpable in engineering its own downfall.
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  2. This programme provides the perfect example of why discussion and continuing 'the dialectic' is SO important. It also demonstrates why 'some' are SO keen to ensure that it no longer happens. I encourage everyone to look at who those 'some' are.
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  3. Cool. So your succinct thoughts then?
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  4. A state's actions can always be separated from those of its people for obvious reasons, but just out of interest were you pleased when the UK electorate voted to leave the EU or devastated?
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  5. Not an argument for unlimited, unfettered immigration you understand, but even the EU policy of 'free movement' itself could arguably be called an ethnocentric racist policy designed to undermine the prospects of immigration from outside the EU.
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  6. John Pang, a very wise man, at the very end there hits the bullseye. It's the dualists whom we've allowed to dominate and concentrate this situation thereby, I suspect entirely intentionally, killing the debate. False dichotomies abound and those of us who are remotely intellectually curious need to call these people out as soon as we see or hear them spout their propaganda.
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  7. 'Ul-ree-ka-ka-kaah' is a great and learned guest for sure but she, just as the EU still does today and always has done, have both posited 'not enough EU' as the answer to its failure. Its failure stems from 1990 when it decided to ostensibly become a political project partially informed by its economics rather than the economic project partially informed by its politics that it had previously been. It tried to run LONG before it had learnt to walk viewing both the prosperous periods of relative calm and every and any crisis as opportunities to increase and centralise its power. Not for nothing did it fear, denigrate and detest referenda that potentially challenged its ratcheting, seemingly inexorable trajectory.
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