Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "" video.

  1. Nation building is fine as long as it's done from within, what the outside help should be doing is helping to guide them, stabilize the region and help to improve living standards, that in the longer run should keep out many of the fanatical elements whiles stabilizing the region. The problem with the US at least, they are good at invading a country but not very good at nation building, in a lot of cases, they end up making a mess and there's also the aspect of self-interest, you get the impression that with the US at least, they don't do it for the interest of the country in question but for what the US can get out of it and I think that is a big part of the problem in why it's so difficult to stabilize countries, the motives are wrong.
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  2.  @trekkienzl2862  The US was a very different country back then, also they knew it was in the US interest to have a stable Europe, after all, two world wars happened in a short space of time, you could only imagine what a third world war would be like when we had the atomic bomb. The US did help a lot in keeping Europe stable at the time and help Germany and Japan to rebuild but we should remember that most of the work was done by it's own people, they were highly educated, hence why the rebuilding process happened so fast, the know how was already there, the US just helped on that. But in truth, what's really been keeping the peace in Europe isn't the US or NATO, it's the EU, that makes it almost impossible for EU countries to go to war with each other without it harming themselves and that all started out with the Coal and Steal Community to share resources and went on from there to the EEC and then EU of today. But I do find it ironic that the countries that lost the war are some of the most peaceful in the world whiles the US and UK tend to be some of the most hostile. As for the US, the EU and US was close as long as they saw Russia as a threat with the Soviet Union, but since the downfall of that, both the EU and US have been drifting apart and even more so the last 2 decades, that is playing right into the hands of what China wants, a divided west and if the west really wants to stand up to China, the EU and US are going to have to stand together but unfortunately, Trump and now Biden seems to be dividing the west, this could very likely push the Europeans to go it alone and do things that are not in America's interest which is exactly what China wants but it's what the US is pushing with short-sightedness.
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