Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "" video.

  1. The Dems disappointed the Europe with their pusillanimous, “support,” for Ukraine, which was slow in coming and came with far too many restraints, forcing Ukraine to fight with one arm tied behind their back. Since European security is as much at issue as Ukraine’s in this war, Europe was already questioning America’s loyalty to its own purported ideology. Now, we’ve seen an outright betrayal of America’s allies in Europe and the Five Eyes nations. With China offering to step into the breach, and the possibility of making a deal that includes them withdrawing their support for Moscow’s invasion plans, the answer to this dilemma seems obvious to me. Europe AND the Five Eyes nations should act as one, making a set of new trade deals with China, in return for European security guarantees; which come in the form of Putin withdrawing from Ukraine, which is now in the interests of all parties concerned. It might even be possible to reach a deal on Taiwan, setting an agreed date to hand over the territory, in a similar fashion to Hong Kong, providing migration guarantees to the Taiwanese people and their industries. Too brutal? A betrayal of our principles? Perhaps . . . Or is it simply a recognition of the harsh realities of geopolitics and a resolution not to get caught in the crossfire between two unreliable superpowers; only one of which can at least be relied upon to act in accord with its own interests and is therefore consistent. You can deal with a consistent, reliable nation, even if you don’t support their politics. And, if Taiwan’s fall will become increasingly inevitable, as America’s economy shrinks and the dollar destabilises, leaving the Euro or the Chinese Yuan as the new, “stable currency,” maybe we have the opportunity to save lives, the dignity of a peoples, and to place caveats in their system of governance, which prevent them from falling into total autocracy? Especially if China is so reliant on European, Canadian, Austral Asian and British good faith? Putin’s economy is close to meltdown anyway, after all. He is already dipping into pension funds and slowing the production of oil. It would only take a small push from China to send them into full crisis, thus relieving Europe of a massive economic and security burden. Or replacing its security burdens with new ones, perhaps? But at least this will be shared, globally. And a prosperous Europe, with an urgently needed injection of young Taiwanese families, rebalancing the demographics of the aging populations of so many nations, means prosperous trade for all.
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