Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "How AUKUS Could Actually be GOOD for Macron - TLDR News" video.

  1. This deal plays nicely into the hands of the Europeans that want a single European army and more political integration because it's a wake-up call to get your act together or get pushed aside and I think the best way to do it is for some members to go ahead on their own like Germany, France, Italy and Spain because at the moment, it's not possible to get all EU members onboard but if a few go ahead with it, more will likely join up at a later date, in the end, do like they did with the Euro so you don't need all members to agree on to sign up. The irony is, it's probably what the US wants, a more useful EU that can help to contain China and not so many individual EU members doing their own thing which keeps them weak in a lot of political matters. In fact, we only have to look at the EU on economic matters, because we speak more as one, we can actually stand up for ourselves on economics, it's high time we Europeans do the same on political matters, especially with a rising China and a US that isn't going anywhere and is only going to be bigger going forward, so the choice is clear for us Europeans, do we want to stand up for ourselves or do we want to be pushed aside? if we get pushed aside, that could be costly politically, economically and socially. As for the deal with the US, UK, Aus, it was bad form from them and especially from the US, after all, why wasn't Canada and Japan not included? Especially Japan considering the region and really, the EU, Japan and Canada should have been consulted on this, by them not being, it could divide the west which is exactly what China wants. Also, forget countries like Denmark, if we keep listening to them, Europe is going to get weaker and pushed aside, if we really want to protect our interest, we're going to have to work much closer together on both political and economic matters, otherwise, China and the US will play games with us. Basically, stop letting some members stop progress in areas where some members want to move forward, do like we did with the Euro and other things and lets those members that want to integrate to do so.
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