Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "European Diplomats See Trump As "Laughing Stock"" video.

Trump was never going to sort out wealth inequality, he probably doesn't enough know what poverty means considering how rich he is, you want inequality to get sorted out, countries need to elect leaders that have actually been in poverty so they know what it's like otherwise why would they care and so far, Trump seems to be giving more to the rich elites whiles taking away from the poor and average as expected.
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That's saying a lot, me being from the UK as well and I have to wonder which is the biggest laughing stock, Trump or the UK Conservative Party when it comes to Brexit, I suspect they are both in competition with each other to be the biggest laughing stock around the world but unfortunately, this is no laughing matter because it could be quite damaging to both countries for different reasons.
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Eastern Europe are still developing countries in the EU but likely over the next 2 or so decades they will catch up to western standard and be better off thanks to being in the EU, as for Russia, they have energy and natural resources that the west needs until we find and start using alternative energy so not much will change in the short term but in the long run, Russia will need to stop relying on natural resources or it's going to hit their economy hard. In any case, all EU members should be considered important, big or small to the EU and to it's other members over say other countries like Russia and as for Brexit, I suspect the UK is likely going to find it's self isolated from the EU and likely isolated from the US as well, the US showed a big interest in the UK because the UK had influence in the EU, leaving the EU, the US is likely going to show less interest in the UK with the exception of using the UK for military matters, politically, the UK is already weaker and thats before we have left the EU, economically, well that depends on what deal the EU is willing to give us.
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The irony is that the EU and US need to be working together more and create stronger bonds because power is quickly shifting towards Asia over the coming decades, if we want to protect western interests around the world, we need a strong EU and US working together otherwise a lot of the laws, rules and regulations are going to come from Asia, Trump is doing his best to divide the western world at a time we can't really afford it and all westerners could pay the price for that.
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The thing is, Trump is only in power for 4 or 8 years so assuming the Americans don't go crazy and elect someone even worse after Trump, the damage he can do is quite limited, Brexit on the other hand is much longer term damage and I suspect once the UK is out of the EU, it's unlikely the EU will let us back in for at least 2 or 3 decade, personally I think even if the EU was to let the UK stay in the EU, the damage is already done that we might not be on the same terms and would have a lot of bridges to repair with others in the EU, all I'm seeing with the UK now is damage control in how to limit the mess we've got ourselves in. You know what's really funny about all this, the Brexit Referendum was meant to sort out the divide of the Conservative Party, what it's ended up doing is making it 10 times worse for them, I do kind of like the irony of all that.
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All that Brexit has done is gain more support for the EU project among the EU countries, Trump and Putin are helping that even more, if the EU plays it's cards right over the next 10 years, it could gain the most out of all this, Trump, Brexit and Putin are the gift that keep giving to the EU and to think, those 3 factors wanted to break the EU up, how wrong that went, what makes this even funnier is that I'm sensing more of a pro EU vibe from the UK population thanks to how bad Brexit and the Conservative government is handling it, wouldn't it be funny if over the next few years that Brexit turns much of the UK public in more support of the EU.
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It wouldn't surprise me but I do sometimes wonder where Trump fits into it when he seems more then happy to see the EU fall, in any case, the US will need a strong EU, the EU will likely need to integrate more going forward especially the Eurozone, some might not like this but if the west want to protect western values and interest, the EU and US needs to be strong and work together as they are both the big power houses in the west, power is quickly shifting towards Asia and the EU or the US on there own are not powerful enough to protect western interest on their own going forward, both the EU and US together might not be enough with how Asia is developing.
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I don't sense the EU wants to lead the free world even though they are capable of doing so, as for some of the issues some are saying about the EU, well most of them are short term, the demise of the EU has been talked about for decades and it never happens, it just gets stronger, Brexit is likely to make it stronger because the UK was really holding it back, in any case, thanks to Trump, it looks like political alliances are changing around the world and it doesn't look good for the US especially with the EU and Asia looking closer towards each other, the US was forgiven with George W Bush but I think Trump is the last straw for many around the world and I suspect the ones to benefit the most from this is going to be the EU and China.
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Financially the UK have helped in the EU but it wasn't what I meant by holding it back, the UK have held the EU back when it comes to integration which in turn has made it less effective to benefit all it's members, something ironically many in the UK keeps complaining about, we should also remember that a big chunk of the money that goes into the EU from the UK ends up back into the UK so we are not putting in as much as some would like us to believe.
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The irony is, smaller governments are much more likely to bend to the wishes of corporations then bigger governments, if hard Brexit happens, the UK government will have to bend over backwards just to try and keep many businesses in the UK, especially if given company trades a lot with the rest of the EU, in other words, you need big governments like the EU and US to face down corporations because the smaller ones are less likely to do it because the market of the country isn't big enough of a threat to businesses to take much note of it, the EU and US are, also, the EU is much tougher on businesses then the US, the US does need to do more, so does the EU as well, but they are kind of limited by the given powers the members countries have given them, also, they have to be realistics, they can't hit down on them too hard otherwise it might end up kicking off a trade war, in the end, the US needs to do more if you want the EU to ramp things up.
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Russia is still a young democracy and are still finding their feet so pitfalls were to be expected, I think it would be in the interest of both the EU and Russia to work more closely together because they can achieve more working together then being rivals, it would always likely improve the quality of life for Russians if the two worked closely together. On the plus side, as the EU shows how it's helping to modernise the eastern EU members, that will put pressure on other eastern European countries including Russia to learn from that and that will likely benefit them all.
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The funny thing is, many people like to think things can't get any worse and how bad can he really be, but the reality is, it can always get much worse as we are seeing with Trump, what should worry the American people is that Trump won't sort out what needs sorting out in the US which is mostly inequality, because of that, it increases the chances that someone worse than Trump can get power because the public gets more reckless the more desperate they get, but we do have a silver lining, with whats going on with Trumps America and with Brexit in the UK, a lot in EU countries like France will of seen what a mess the UK and US have got himself into and are not following the populist movement, same could happen in the US once Trump gets the boot, as for the UK, it's hard to judge with that because the damage of Brexit is more longer term, in any case, current and future leaders need to start listening to the public and start sorting out inequality before it gets worse.
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I've notice that how they seem to be keeping a low profile but boy will they come out of there hole if the public demands another referendum on Brexit, thats the last thing hard leavers would want because there is a fair chance that people would vote to remain in the EU the longer Brexit goes on and it's worse for them because the lies that were told to get us into this mess are not likely to work a second time round, in fact, those lies are more likely to help the remain side.
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The real problem with Russia is the centralized and authoritarian rule which can work well with competent leaders but history has shown us time and time again that it's only a matter of time before a bad leader is running the show that makes a mess of it all. Democracy is a better system but even thats got flaws because that system is only as effective as people turning up to vote and actually getting the facts on what they are voting for, what we are seeing in the western world is that too much of the population is manipulated by the media and politicians and it's not doing democracy any favors. As for Russia, I would like to see them work closer with the EU and not see them as a rival, both Russia and the EU would benefit a lot out of that, so far, the quality of living for all the eastern members that joined the EU has skyrocketed from what it was before being in the EU. As for oil, I think it's in Russia's interest to get off that dependency because it's not really doing Russia any favors by relying too much on oil, gas and nature resources, the need for oil and gas is a short term thing that Europeans are quickly working to get around. In the end, I suspect over the next 100 years that pretty much all of Europe including Russia will be modernised as well as most of Asia and the American continents which leaves the Middle East and Africa as the last ones to develop, Middle East because religion will hold back progress and Africa because the poverty is so bad that it would take a lot of work to develop them, in any case I think the world will develop and will get much closer together because the more we advance with technological progress, the more dangerous we are to each other especially with how divided the world is.
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I take it you agree with the EU aspect of it but not with Trump?
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The problem for Trump is that he's a joke to even a lot of Americans, Europeans and probably many others don't like Trump mainly because he's not competent enough to be president, you usually have to be a moderate and work with world leaders otherwise you will get little to nothing done, this is the problem he's got in the US, he's trying to do things but keeps getting over ruled by judges and the Senate and thats because he comes across as a bit of a fanatic and not a moderate and that doesn't work too well in a democracy, also, we all know he was trying to run the White House like he runs his business, well businesses are run more or less like a dictatorship is run. In the end, Trump will likely be a lame duck that doesn't really achieve anything. I also find it funny how Trump keeps going onto these rallies to whip up Americans into a frenzy but most of the time he's preaching to the converted but if you look closely, it's clear what he was trying to do, he was trying to turn the American people against the system from the mass media to the judges to the Senate and so on, he was systematically trying to turn the American people against all these and what should worry the American people is that if he was a lot more popular and say won with a landslide and had more charisma, he could of been a serious threat to American democracy because we all know the average person isn't that rational when it comes to politics and are easy to manipulate, so Trump tried to turn the American people against the system for his own ends, Hitler did the same thing but he had charisma and lucky for the Americans that don't see it, Trump is a bit of a lame duck and can't do much without the system over ruling him because he doesn't have enough support of the public to put real pressure on the system to break it and gain more power for himself and the party, I always find it amusing how quick we are to forget lesson that history teaches us.
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On their own that would be true in Europe, but in the EU not so much and if it's a problem for the EU then it's a problem for the US as well, but in truth, the EU and US are the biggest economic blocks in the world that are able to protect western values around the world and with how quickly power is shifting towards Asia, the EU and US will need to be strong and need to work together if they want to protect their interest otherwise, laws, regulations could end up being written by China. The UK is going to be a prime example of how weak European countries would be without the EU on the world stage if the UK goes for hard Brexit, the reality is, European countries on there own are too small and have to stick together if they want to protect their interest.
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The Germans get a lot of stick thats not deserved now because of things that happened in the past, we see it from the Brits and the Greeks, part of it is to do with jealousy of how successful Germany became even thought they lost the war and the irony is, Germany is trying to only help those countries to do reforms that are really needed for them. In any case, what happened a year or so ago in Germany with the immigration thing would of wiped out most governments when the next election comes, with Merkel, it looks like she's still going to win quite easily which says a lot about the current German government and the trust the Germans have in them which seems like quite a lot.
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The media is always manipulative, thats nothing new for any country really, anyway, personally when I look at whats going on in the UK and the US and other places, I would pick Germany anytime and thats coming from a Brit, Germany seems stable, they are not as irrational like the UK and US are, the economy is doing fine and it's looking like Merkel will win the next election. As for the media, yeah they are very manipulative, but in Germany it's nowhere near as bad like it is in the US and UK.
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