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

  1.  @davesbibliotheca6107  That's a long time ago and not relevant to today's world and let's be blunt about this, the US didn't help Europe out of the goodness of there heart, in fact they didn't even want to be involved for a time, they got involved because the risk of the Nazis taking over the UK and the Soviet Union would very likely escalate the war into something worse than what happened, in other words, the Nazis likely would have gone after the US directly once it consolidates in the UK and Russia. It was in the interest of the US to intervene before the war escalated that it would directly impact the US. The truth is, Europeans are being kept weak because of NATO and because of a lack of need in building a strong military, basically, if the US is willing to protect them, why bother themselves doing it and I do think it's high time EU countries band together on military and forign policy matters by pooling resources together, they've got more than enough resources to do it, especially once you get rid of waste and duplication. But don't get me wrong, I don't think we should scrap NATO, but I do think the EU countries need to build up a much bigger voice in a lot of these areas when the US is becoming more erratic and polarised, the irony is, it's probably in US interest that the EU does this because the US is showing many signs of what we saw in Europe 100 years ago and many Americans will say it will never happen there, but seriously, look at the infighting among the democrats and Republicans and among the voters when it comes to elections, the signs are showing that things are becoming radicalised and that's dangerous, especially for Americans and a lot of this is thanks to the right wing and much of the right wing press that's radicalising the people, with enough push, that can escalate into something dangerous if history is any indicator.
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  2. There are a few problems I see that's turning against the US, 1 is political deadlock when it comes to support of Ukraine, 2 is what most of the world sees as US unconditional support of Israel, regardless of what Israel does, 3 is US policy on China, which doesn't always line up with other countries interest around the world and 4, the US is showing poor leadership at a time when it really needs to be doing better with everything that's going on, throw in the idea that Trump could win the election, and it's easy to see why trust in the US is declining. This might not be alarming for the US for the time being, but if this trend continues, it will likely have a negative impact on US power around the world and will push other regions around the world to change tactics on who they see as friends, Europeans for instance are not as hostile on China like the US is one example. With all that said, the likes of the EU and US will likely remain allies, but I suspect the EU will do more in its own interest, even if it hurts US interest, especially when it comes to China which is far more a US problem then European problem, being the US sees China as a risk to its own power, whereas the EU could see this as an opportunity to take advantage off by playing them off each other if the US continues with its own self-interest policies. Either way, the US isn't doing its self any favours, a Trump in the White House again could be enough to damage relations with a lot of allies around the world and that would weaken the US position around the world whiles other powers will likely build new allies whiles rebalancing existing ones and honestly, this might be needed, the EU countries will get there act together and likely form an EU military, and a lot of other policies in the EU and other powers around the world could change, many of those policies not being too friendly with US interest. The truth is, the political divide among the Democrats and Republicans are doing a lot of damage to the US and it's image around the world, it's also making the US far less of a reliable partner, unless the US gets it's act together there, it could end up meaning slow decline, something that if it did happen, we probably wouldn't notice it for decades to come.
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