Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "How Europe and the USA's relationship is changing" video.
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I think with everything going on in Ukraine, relations with the EU and US are going to get stronger on a number of fronts, military, economy, foreign policy and probably in areas of democracy, because clearly, western standards are being undermine by Russia and a rising China as well as the authoritarian governments around the world.
For all the differences the EU and US have, they share a lot more in common and with how the world is changing, they are likely going to need each other in the coming decades as I don't think either one of them on their own can compete with a rising China, but together they can, especially because that will bring a lot more countries closer to them.
The UK might be the odd one out, it's not in the EU which makes them less relevant and useful for the US or EU, they are also showing a lot of the traits like braking international treaties, basically, they are undermining the international rule based economy that the US had a big part in creating with now the EU and US maintaining and because of that, many countries like Russia, China and many authoritarian governments are thinking, if the UK can brake these rules, why can't they do the same? The EU and US needs to be firmer with the UK on that before things unravel.
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