Comments by "Alex" (@Alex-df4lt) on "Into Europe" channel.

@dirkgonthier101 Eastern EU citizen here. I disagree. Future of the EU is in close cooperation with Americans, Brits, Canadians, Australians not totalitarian countries like Russia or China. Seeding divisions between the US and EU is Russian agenda and those who pursue such policy fell for it. Own EU path policy won't ever gain my support. Nordstream 2 is just a small drop in reasons why.
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@skyrask1948 He is right. There is a small and insignificant number of pro Russian nationalists in Slovakia who would love to leave NATO, EU just to have a pro Russian dictator installed as they also hate democracy. The major problem is everyone else around them is aware of the plot.
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@za.monolit Comment sections are very misleading. Go to see Tucker's interview with Orban and you would get impression all Americans love Mr. Orban due to all the praise he gets there. While Western EU tends to be quite socialist and anti-American, Eastern EU is the opposite.
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@AlexC-ou4ju Western EU countries are definitely very pro Russian/Chinese and want to disentangle themselves from Americans politically.
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@haltdieklappe7972 You seem to be conflating close partnership with submission. Americans are a lot more culturally compatible to be closer partners than Russians.
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Germany is naive. Germany being increasingly dependent on Russian gas is a huge problem as Russian government uses energy as a political weapon. Germans are too blind to see this through. The main political goal of Russian government is disintegration of the EU and Germany is inadvertently participating in the plot.
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@dirkgonthier101 I feel we have much more in common with Americans or Brits than with Russians or Chinese. The former group are democratic countries who value freedom like us. That makes us natural allies. Russia and China are totalitarian countries that seek to subvert our democracy and disintegrate the EU so they can control individual states. Trading with them on equal footing like with democratic countries is extremely counterproductive. When dealing with totalitarian ideology one must not stand idle just because not being targeted yet. Totalitarian countries should be facing tariffs and sanctions, not free trade. Those who oppose standing up to them usually don't value freedom and have totalitarian mindset themselves. We must not be fooled by them. Nordstream 2 makes Germany extremely undependable. EU army or closer integration is completely out of question with Germany acting like that. I fully support American policy on Nordstream 2. Russia wants to have direct leverage on Germany to divide EU and US. Germans are playing the less smart partner in the Russia-German energy partnership. Germany is not to be trusted politically unless it changes its course.
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@timurermolenko2013 Czechia. Western EU is basically American democrats. Eastern EU is more conservative.
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@dirkgonthier101 Sure, everyone is entitled own opinion. Unfortunately yours means Germany is not trustworthy for eastern EU members (and not just them, who was spying on Angela...). I was trying to explain why. We see politics differently and these differences are irreconcilable.
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@GigaChadlovesandcares Turkey will not leave NATO on it's own. Erdogan's agenda is to sabotage it from inside.
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In live in eastern EU and consider EU army and EU in general undependable in military matters. I'm a realist not a dreamer. The EU's foreign policy should be close cooperation with the US.
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@za.monolit If you think US didn't lose the Afghan war that's fine, we respect your opinion. But the rest of the world thinks otherwise. Evacuation was a big mess and unwillingness of Afghans to fight Taliban showed we should have left long ago. I guess American political elites knew what would follow, but nobody was willing to take the risk until sleepy Joe came as he doesn't care about reelection.
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@za.monolit In layman terms Taliban ruled Afghanistan before US intervened and returned before it could complete withdrawal. That counts as a waste of lives, time, money and a strategic defeat. I think Americans need to reflect on what went wrong, why we in Eastern EU were successful while Afghanistan is an utter failure with Iraq not far behind. We have a duty to promote democracy in the world, but I believe the methods must be different. Authoritarian countries should be facing tariffs and economic sanctions, while democratic countries should make free trade agreements. It must not pay off to be a dictatorship in trade.
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@looseygoosey1349 Another European here. It's mostly Western EU countries who want close relationship with Russia while Eastern EU countries see Russia as a threat. I see US and EU as natural allies long term even if the relationship cools down at times.
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@erin-tn2sd They don't need to invade the EU. Just subvert and undermine it to make it collapse.
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@erin-tn2sd Russia did invade Ukraine, Georgia and pledged to support Belarus militarily in the event of a revolution. It is trying to undermine NATO and as part of that plot a limited military action against Baltic countries is conceivable with goal to carve out Russian speaking territory. Democracy is a prerequisite of freedom. Democracy in turn requires people to believe in it, defend it against internal threats and possible external military threats. If people are not willing to defend it, even die for it you are in final stage of democratic society before it dies. Along with it freedom and prosperity is lost as well. Russian government sees the EU as an ideological enemy as liberal democracy is a threat to long term power of Kremlin elites. They even designated Czechia, the country I live in as enemy of Russia along with US, because they know we have a duty to promote liberal democracy in the world and that includes both Belarus and Russia.
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That's exactly the reason why an EU army is a waste of money and totally undependable. They are unwilling to defend freedom. Americans didn't let Russia bully them and there was no war. War starts only if the aggressor has a chance to get away with it. Weaker side never starts a war.
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That's what Russia is telling everyone so they can have a free hand.
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Who told you that?
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An outright war between major powers is never going to happen. There is too little to gain and too much to lose. Provocations and economic cold war for sure. As a European I think NATO should include Australia, South Korea, Japan if they are interested. It shouldn't be restricted to US/Europe but include democratic countries interested in joining.
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@AlexC-ou4ju That's not what I hear from most enthusiastic EU supporters. Germany wants more Russian gas, less dependency on US and France seems to hate Anglophone countries as well. Under such circumstances common EU army or foreign policy is out of question. It is dictatorships who benefit from divisions between democratic countries.
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