Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "How Israel Strengthens Macron's Case for 'Strategic Autonomy'" video.

  1. Over the last 2 decades, the US has become less predictable, not as reliable and more hostile. It would be smart for Europeans to start building more on its forign policy and military capabilities through the EU if they really want to look after their own interest, more so as Europe and America are diverging away from each other in some areas, in other words, what's in their interest, doesn't means it's in your interest. Some European countries, mostly countries like the UK and many eastern EU countries really need to wake up and see the situation for what it is, which is basically, keep the US as friends, but don't count on them for your own security and interest, the only ones that can do that are Europeans themselves, and if they really want to be credible at that, they need to pool resources through the EU and that is only going to be more the case as the US continues to grow and China becomes more of a power, basically, if Europeans want any credible chance of competing, they are going to need to pool far more resources together, the alternative is that we'll just get pushed aside, which will have negative impacts on European countries when it comes to political, economic and social interest, it will be harder to protect them from outside pressure, but through the EU, we can, especially if the EU continues to expand with more countries, which will likely be needed long term. Also, let's be honest with ourselves, Europeans don't need to spend more as such on the military, what it needs to do is pool resources together to get rid of a lot of the waste and duplication, you would have a far more effective military without needing to go crazy on the spending, the budget as it is, is fine already, if that resource was allocated properly, basically, the real weakness isn't the budget, it's having 27 EU militaries, with all the waste and duplication that gives, that's where the real problem is, not the spending as the US wants us to think, I mean seriously, does anyone think Russia or China would be a threat to the EU countries if the EU countries pooled their resources together? The military won't be as big as the US, but it would still be massive compared to what the individual countries can offer, because at the end of the day, the EU doesn't need to police the world as the US wants to do and that is a lot more expensive to do, all the EU needs to do is secure its own boarders, which the current budget is more then enough if pooled together.
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