Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Biden's Pro-American Present for Europe" video.

The other thing he talks about which is very rare for an American is that he recognizes that the rest of the Western World has had as one of its key foreign policies since WW2 is "What do the American's want us to do?" About a year into Trump's presidency it was leaked here in Australia that our Foreign Affairs Department (DFAT) was in unchartered waters. For the first time in decades they were having to think independently of America. The problem was its been so long since any Australian government has actually had to think for itself that NOBODY knew how to write policy outside of the "What do the American's want?" framework. What America is yet to accept is that a lot of countries have now had 4-6 years of thinking for themselves outside the "What do the American's want?" framework.
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I'm Australian but went to college in America. I wished our government here would have a similar attitude. We also got stuck in that Reaganomic/Thatcherism neoliberal globalist B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. It has been devastating to our industries. There's a string of economic leaders from BOTH SIDES of our politics and they are HATED FOR IT.
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@TheAngelOfDeath01 Ouch! I'm an Australian so I see Brexit from the outside looking in. Initially it looks stupid and to some extent still looks epically stupid. Although there are some starting to wonder if its not bad as Europe has some very serious issues. The most stupid and ridiculous aspect of Brexit and its a lesson for everyone. If you get what you wish for you better have plans on what to do with it. The most obvious person who has NEVER BEEN held to account over the whole Brexit fiasco is NIGEL FARAGE. How crap of a person is he to set Brexit in motion and once he gets what he campaigned for just walks away to leave others to clean it up? Currently he trapes around the world asking people TO PAY to hear him speak. I think the subtitle to his life is "Here's how I screwed my country over. Now please pay me money to tell you how fantastic I am!"
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@TheAngelOfDeath01 Its not just the Torries its pretty much the entire Western Democratic political system. Its just that the Torries are doing it a bit worse than others right now. Even the Left wing parties aren't that left anymore. If you think about British Labor, Australian Labor and any of the other Leftist parties they are mainly full of lawyers, and other professionals who just lean left on social issues. Sorry this is a long reply/comment. You are dead right it goes back to Reagan & Thatcher, but its worse than you think. I'm actually an Australian engineer but I went to college in America where they don't have a Left at all. They just have one of their right wing parties not as far right as the other. A few years ago I started looking into economics because I got fed up with clowns with economics degrees interfering in engineering projects. When I mean interfering I mean billion dollar interference too, not just million dollar simple stuff. One of the things I found out is that ALL ECONOMICS CURRICULIUMS have at their core the same neoliberal economic ideology. In case you didn't know - what started as Reaganomics and Thatcherism is now called neoliberalism. Its all centred around Milton Freidman's "Greed is good" and "Corporations have no other responsibility than to deliver profits to their owners & shareholders."_ That's driven this incredible 45+ year wage stagnation that's highlighted by Branco Milanovic's famous "Elephant Graph." BECAUSE even the left leaning parties are full of people who did the same economics classes with the same ideology AND all the central banks are run by people who also learnt the same economics, we now have this insanity where there is almost NOTHING NEW in economic thinking. They all know there's something wroing but they can't conceive of any solutions other than interest rates and deregulation. If you don't know who Mark Blyth is then you need to start there. He's one of a lose collection of maverick economist or people associated with economics who's trying to bring this to light. He's coined the term "Angrynomics." What he's saying in a nutshell is we should have had a system UPGRADE after 2008. Instead what we got was a reboot and patch. The result of that are system glitches like Brexit and the current energy crisis which I can tell you as an engineer who has learnt about economics is about to crash the entire global economy and it has NOTHING to do with climate change or the war in Ukraine. But that's another very long comment Here's Marks intro to Angrynomics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY Here's to longer explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE
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@warfarenotwarfair5655 The snarky anti-American attitude isn't towards you or the American people its aimed at the American government and in particular unelected American bureaucrats who do stuff around the world. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. So I love America and the people and the culture. BUT when it comes to understanding the rest of the world Americans are very poorly educated. Do you ever bother to ask what it is that people don't like about America? Australia has exactly the same problem with respect to the Pacific Island nations. We treat them the same way America treats Mexico and the rest of central and south America - LIKE CRAP. We interfere in their governments and use their people as cheap labor AND THEY DON'T LIKE IT. We spend lots of money in those countries. It never seems to do anything other than fuel corruption which annoys Australians, so we complain about it and tell them not to be snarky as they're wasting our money. This snarky attitude isn't about you or any other American in general. Its about the attitude of your government, which just like mine is run by unelected manipulative self righteous a-holes. Did you or any American ever vote for people like Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Miller or John Bolton? How about John Yoo? He was the Lawyer who told Bush and Cheney they could torture people so long as they called it "enhanced interrogation techniques." He was the guy who approved all the stuff at places like Abu Ghraib. You know the stuff other Americans went to jail for. Did you or any American ever vote for him? Do you ever hold any of those people accountable? Its not about you.
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