Comments by "Golag Is watching you" (@golagiswatchingyou2966) on "Is America in Decline?" video.
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9:01 as a European citizen the conclusion of Europe being weak is kinda weird, we are largely industrialized nations with access to modern weaponry within it nations that have presence in Africa, small groups in the middle east and are on the frontlines against Russia, the overal population of Europe is larger than the USA's despite being much smaller and with potentially new members joining the EU we still have room to grow if we wanted to.
that being said you are very correct in saying we are disunited and don't have a single cohesive ideology, culture, language or single federal government structure to run everything, we don't have the same advantages the USA has in terms of land, no native problems, easy defendable borders or lack of real enemies like the USA but when I look at Russia for example I don't see a new rising power or world power, I see a nation that's very corrupt, some of the worst demografics in all of Europe and huge internal problems, the only thing Russia has going for it is it's huge land mass, resources and military which are the only things keeping the nation together, in fact i would put Russia up on the list of nations most likely to fall apart in the coming years and either becoming a closer trading partner towards Europe or China, perhaps both.
what Europe is lacking the most though is stable birthrates, a federalized form of government that works for all nation states, a single military and taxation system and a more innovative economy that's less regulated like it is today and while it's not sure if it can develop those things in the coming years or decades saying it's nothing and does not matter does not seem accurate to me, it's divided for sure, a distant 3-4th on the world stage as a whole but compared to some other nations it has a lot going well for it.
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@PlatosGooncave plz watch this romanian who speaks russian on the subject of Russia
https://youtu.be/Kesrrj450JI
Not sure who this blogger is so can't give my take on him but your partly right, Russia has lots of resources, food, land to grow food on and is likely to benefit from climate change in the long run, all of these things are true, Russia also has one of the most abortions in the world, highest alcoholism, most m.......s and mosques in all of Europe, their demografics are terrible but at least their government is trying to do something about it, which is not always the case with most of Europe like Germany.
As for Putin's regime, it's realy not that popular and has many problems that makes a stable Russian government difficult, esspecialy when Putin can no longer rule which is likely to be pretty soon since he has Parkinson's disease.
Russia does have a lot of potential if it could solve it's problems within and solidify positive relations with China and Europe and no those relationships, even with China are not great, you can look up Caspian Report on that geo-political relationship.
As for Europe many of Russia's former USSR nations dislike Russia, even Belarus has issues with Russia, Ukraine might even join NATO and the EU over time.
Russia like most of Europe for that matter is in a difficult spot, it can try and cling to it's former empire and try and maintain it with a strong military while everything else falls apart, pray that climate change will give a massive boom to their economy or it can try and improve it's relations with the west and be a stronger block against China or become a second junior partner with China against the west but this might not be in their interest.
Russia is not in a very good spot right now but it might if it plays it's cards right and benefits from climate change but even then I doubt they will be able to maintain their current power forever, they aren't weak but they are stagnating the same as everyone else.
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@Inquiring well he is partly right, Airbus for example is now the nummer 1 airplane producer of the world, having beaten US Boeing.
Europe produces a lot of chemicals, laboratory supplies, measurement equipment, computer chips, ships, food, a lot of things.
However we aren't very far in AI technology, automation, innovation in new fields, we don't have any major software or electronics companies like Google or Apple, all we have is Nokia and Alcatel which is not much and these are big fields of the future, we also don't pull a lot of billionairs or millionairs to invest in our countries due to our high tax rate for the rich sure they want to expand into the EU single market but it's not as big or easy like China, we are like a distant 3th or 4th in that regard.
Europe has to change, perhaps learn from Both the USA and China on how to draw in more innovation and make it's own software giant like the USA has, perhaps the same way we created Airbus.
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