Comments by "Golag Is watching you" (@golagiswatchingyou2966) on "EU Made Simple" channel.

I think a federal EU is inevitable but it will only last if it both represents the people's interests and is able to act better, faster and stronger than any individual member state.
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@gplaneg don't we all Speak English as a second language at this point? Its not about creating a single language superstate and forcing everyone to speak the same language or have the same culture, its about political, economical and national security interests being secured for the interests of memberstates themselves, we are stronger together, thats it.
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From a pragmatic standpoint it's stupid to develop two different fighter aircraft for Europe, after all the USA develops one singular aircraft to become it's future main aircraft and either experiments with the next potential model or maintains lower production levels for older models like the F-16 or F-22 As for why, it's mainly to do with political and economic interests because if the two projects were to merge it could very well produce a superior aircraft and be more cheaply produced but then some military companies would have to merge some of their factories producing some of those parts, some would be bought out or have to merge whole production lines, people would have to be fired or be asked to move to another country to work on the project and test in the field, not to mention the potential loss of intelectual property and technology transfers. That being said I think with the war in Ukraine and seeing just how dominant the USA is in military fighter aircrafts and the economic costs and political issues around developing a new fighter program, I do believe eventually one side is going to make greater progress and show more potential for all sides that the other just becomes uncompetitive and will either stall and join or scrap the whole project to begin with and stay with the USA but in so doing they will lose out on domestic production. In my view I think the FCAS project has a better chance at winning out, simply due to the economic and political instability in the UK, the higher funds and scale of industry in the EU and Airbus and how two members of the tempest project are also part of the EU which means they likely would have more interests in staying in Europe then going with the UK and other foreign nations (Japan and Korea had some interests in the project but aren't clear on where they are going) The sooner one side wins over the other the better, hopefully they can speed up to something like 2035 or even 2030 if they worked together.
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I don't think the people in charge of the EU would want a swiss system, it's too democratic for them 😅
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why exactly? how are men being appointed based on their gender? it's a company, if they don't hire based on competency they will lose out by a company that does, this law ironically does exactly what you claim men are doing by forcing companies to hire woman based on their gender via the law, this is institutional sexism. also why would their be 50% woman on the boards already? based on what logic? what if nobody else wanted to apply but men? what if the area they are hiring only has 30% woman? no job distribution by gender can ever be 50/50% equal split because we aren't machines being equally divided we are human beings that work and act on an individual basis. this is such a weird and frankly childish level of argumentation it's embarrassing
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@transexualbanana8270 probably not that severe, just replace certain leaders and make it easier to push new policy through.
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2:39 how? boost economic growth? by having more women instead of men? if anything you now need a lot more functions just to fit the gender quota, if anything this will be harmfull for economic growth as many companies might just decide to leave to not deal with another piece of regulations. improve competitiveness? by not hiring based on merrit and instead having the government force people in based on their sex? that's not how the economy works. tackle demographic challenges, by having less woman embracing motherhood and raising families and instead being part of a corporate structure to fix a gender quota?
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@miguelpadeiro762 you misunderstand, it's not an official language, it's a working language, which we already use in the EU as well as French, German, Polish and Spanish if im not mitaken. English is simply the most effective language across the EU, since nearly everyone has English as a second language, it is also the offical language used for Ireland which is also in the EU. everyday people in their national borders should still use their native language but as a EU institution and as a tool for pan-european projects or national security issues, conducting it in English is simply the most practical. how can you defend the core values of Europe if you can't agree on a working language?
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@Robert_2001 economically it's probably nessisary, for military projects it could aid NATO and being reliant on another power for defence which could change in the near or far future is setting yourself up to be divided or abandoned in the future. You can take up a passive ideology if you want but the future is made by those more pro-active and many people want to do so, hell the pandemic and current Russia-Ukraine war shows just how weak we are divided and how we have much more potential united. A Federation of European nation states does not mean cultures and languages will be erased, in fact I expect them to be better defended and supported compared to being isolated.
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Im from the Netherlands and I fully support Trump.
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Problem is some companies would probably get the smaller stick in terms of producing the actual plane but perhaps some deal for compensation can go a long way, right now going into conflict over it is seen as the beter option but with more players into the project, potentially there be less tension because causing too much of an issue on small things could lead to a competitor taking that main roll from you.
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why should we fix gender imbalance? is there some great benefit to everything being 50/50% equal? if I hire a company to do construction work, I would be very surpised if they are all woman and worry for their health in such a job sector.
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It kind of won't, it will just be two aircraft that are less capable, more expensive and less flexible then the US F-35 or even their newest model. The most innovation in this market comes from having the capital, the industrial scale and the know how to make something that can compete with the US market, there is enough competition between Europe, China, Russia and the USA already, we don't need competition between Europe and Europe that will just backfire on quantity and quality.
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doubt
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@richardthomson4693 I'm not sure if France went out of the eurofighter just because it was not compatable with their aircraft carrier which is also weird because you could just make a variant for such purposes, the F-35 comes in different variants as well, probably more politically motivated rather then pragmatically motivated. nations getting F-35's is not an indication that they aren't interested in building their own fighter, simply the war in Ukraine makes it wiser to get something that's modern and actually done already now then to develop something 9-15 years down the line when you might need it now, it's not mutually exclusive. France and Germany already work on multiple goals together, Euro-drone I believe, Euro-tank as well, no reason they can't work with each other, thought there are issues for sure. USA does not want many plans of the F-35 to fall in other people's hands, if you make a deal for F-35 a lot of the secrets are kept in US hands and by US personal, trainers and engineers, that's a major issue for military hardware imports, there is a good video by Perun on youtube that goes into the whole process you probably would enjoy it. not sure how good the Tempest is going to be or if it's going to get started, UK does not look so fresh right now, Japan might pullout or focus on their own project, Sweden might be considering their options, basically both sides aren't very sure on what to do but I think in the end the FCAS program will be put forward simply because it's best for everyone, more funds and more talent to be poured into it compared to the Tempest, could be wrong but in terms of scale and economic power France and Germany have more to offer then the UK, Italy or Sweden combined.
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based on what evidence? people pick different jobs at different gender balances, men dominate construction workers and many other jobs, are we going to implement a gender quota for them too? no? only for the top levels of corporate companies? why? people are being hired based on their qualifications if anything this now will reduce woman being hired in these jobs as being seen as a quota hire and not based on merrit. a law like this will be harmfull for womans rights, is institutionally sexist and discriminatory and the law can only get worse, this is perhaps the worst piece of legitslation in the EU right now. my own country of the Netherlands has done something quite like this and it's very shameful towards woman and harmful towards men, this is sexist and irrational, nothing good will come from it.
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@Micha-qv5uf 1. You are naive if you think this won't be expanded upon to other jobs regardless of differences 2. Please point me the last piece of law passed forcing companies to hire only men to fit a male quota enforced by the government, good luck. Some jobs are dominated by woman, hell where I work 80% of the work force are woman, should they be forced to get fired to fit a gender quota? I sure wonder what feminists groups would say if that were to happen.
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@Micha-qv5uf you are projecting, you aren't making any arguments and refuse to adress my real arguments, then try and gaslight me saying I don't adress your arguments of which there are non. You make a claim without evidence, present it as true, I challenge those claim with my own arguments which you refuse to adress, this level of conversation, gaslighting and frankly insult throwing says more about you then it does about me.
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this is a horrible piece of legislation that basically institutionalizes sexism and makes a mockery out of woman, it will discriminate against men, put woman in positions of power that are not earned by merrit and make every woman who is hired due to this policy be seen as merely a diversity hire for a function she could not gain otherwise even if she was qualified, it also must be asked if most woman even want to work at these top levels because it means giving up a lot of freedom and other choices woman have. who is this bill even for? is it for woman in general to get a unfair headstart over men? is it for feminists groups to gain easier access to powerful positions for political and financial gain? this is horrible for woman's rights and a blow to the legitimacy of the EU, I felt immense shame when my own government of the Netherlands passed something like this last year I believe and to see it being enforced potentially across the EU? it's very sad and depressing, esspecially for woman who actually want to be seen as equal to men.
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@TheBenj30 Japan has zero experience in building their own fighter jet and actually are/were planning their own domestic fighter jet which seems unlikely now to go through. As for the UK, their main experience is with the Eurofighter, same as Germany and Italy, Sweden's Grippen is a less developed but cheaper aircraft compared to the Eurofighter. Tempest and FCAS have different goals in mind, Tempest is mostly just a new fighter aircraft, where as FCAS is a whole new system of multiple side projects to become intergrated with it, the scale of the project is much bigger and thus will take more time. Speaking of scale, the economies of FCAS and the EU are much larger then the UK or Japan, Italy is also part of the EU same as Sweden but they alone are not as big as the rest combined and also create friction with in-fighting and production issues and the scale of production growth is different. Once both projects are done, production for FCAS can scale up much more then Tempest, granted Tempest might take the place of Rafale as being a good choice for cost to quality for third world countries that does have a lot of potential profits for the project if that's their aim. Ideally I wished FCAS won over Tempest and we all just focused on one project for cheaper and better quality for all but perhaps that's only possible next development cycle. Of course maybe im wrong and FCAS will scale down and do more in-fighting over the next few years but same could be said for Tempest, we have to wait and see.
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@fly_lord that's already being threatened while being under national sovereignty, the integrity of the nation is already being influenced and changed by the cultural, migration and economic forces beyond our borders, from refugees from the middle-east and africa, to economic powers like the USA and China or directly via military force of nations like Russia. the idea of national sovereignty made sense in the 19th and 20th century when the world was much bigger and insulated, today our problems are global and can't be dealt with on small national scale of European countries, how can Estonia build an army to protect it's borders without NATO? how can Italy or Greece deal with migrant flows without aid and support from other member states? how can we deal collectively with aging populations and economic stagnation without working together on some level?
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@Robert_2001 the thing is you don't really have national Sovereignty because you are influenced by other much larger nations, cultures have also changed and with the waves of immigration and refugees going on the world it's unlikely to remain anyone's homeland in the near future. The EU was always a political project because its goal was to prevent war between nation states, via economic means at first and then politically directly. The EU right now is a bit of a mess and can really only go two ways, desolve or evolve.
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There is little hope for Germany, the current government is very authoritarian and Germany barely is a democracy or liberal. AFD has to win to break apart this authoritarian cartel of insane far leftist thugs in power.
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this is literally a conspiracy theory, that men are somehow conspiring against woman to not hire a certain amount of woman based on what exactly? sexism? so how do you solve it? by making a very sexist piece of legitslation of course! now all woman hired will be quota hires and men applying for the same job will have a lower chance at getting the job based on their sex, congrats! btw how does this piece of law take into account men who transition? because in Germany you can just say on your ID card that you identify as a woman so now you as a trans men have an advantage over other men for the same job. horray for sexism!
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@RektedbyPaler that's my question because there is no benefit in doing so, except perhaps lowering woman's standing in society from being equal to men to being a quota fill.
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it's horrible, it will make Europe less competitive, hire woman based on sex not merrit and will harm woman's rights by being viewed as just another diversity hire to fix their ''gender quota's''
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You people are delusional in the extreme. The Grune are more extreme than literal communists in the 1940s. AFD aren't even far right, led by a woman, lesbian married to an indian. Plz for the love of god get educated and get out of this insane bubble you're in.
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if Ukraine had nukes there would not have been any Russian invasion, get real.
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Merkel did a worse job, plus she started the idea of destroying their nuclear power plants.
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You people are the true threat facing Europe and the west at large today. Removing your voice and right to vote would be a public good for the west as a whole. Literal 1984, slave mentality.
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@5Siver don't look at people, look at institutional systems of electing people, you can have 1-8 bad leaders in a row but if the system can remove them and be replaced by a better person then that's democracy working if you had 1 leader and he happened to be good/bad like say a Putin then your stuck with that leader for a very long time and they won't leave without a fight. people should be replacable systems should remain constant.
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@Klote3241 this has the same energy as "if Trump is elected il move to Canada" I doubt you would move, hell I live in the Netherlands and the more religieus eastern Europeans would be more stabalizing for the EU as a whole, western Europe is very far left and looney, I hope we become less atheist because it's a very corrupting and harmful effect on society. Perhaps we can return to actual conservativism of actual western values like free speech, democracy and national identity with our European identity.
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@Klote3241 Atheist voters don't prefer personal freedom at all, Poland and Hungary are probably more free then the Netherlands, our government ban everything and don't want more personal freedom, it's one of the reasons im thinking of leaving the Netherlands, it's less free now then it was 10-20 years ago and getting worse. Idk what you are talking about, I want a federal EU because I hope it will become more free due to nations like Poland and other nations, not nations like France, Germany or the Netherlands.
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@Klote3241 not forming a federation would solve what exactly? Nothing, just makes things worse for everyone.
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@Klote3241 free speech and democracy are more important than LGBTQ and abortion rights, as someone who lives in the Netherlands I can say that I don't feel represented by my own government and often think they only exist to take more rights and freedoms away.
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@Klote3241 remember when our government locked everyone up during covid and send police and police dogs to bite and attack people protesting against government sanitary fascism? I do. Not so much in eastern Europe.
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AFD is not even far right...
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@grafity1749it's not even far right.
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stop spreading fake news that Trump wanted to get the USA out of NATO, it was never going to happen and in fact Trump tried to make NATO stronger and pay their 2% which btw many nations are now doing, after Russia invaded Ukraine, so look who was right and look who was wrong.
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@EUMadeSimple you honestly expect me to take the Washington post serieusly and from Micheal Bolton no less? how can you claim ''Trump says x'' when it's literally someone else saying it? that's like having someone being accused of being a pedo and your evidence is that someone else says he's a pedo, this is not real journalism and it makes you and your channel look bad, take from that what you will im just giving free advice here. here is another tip, perhaps focus more on a person's actions instead of what other people or himself said, Trump was the one who wanted members to pay their fair share, thus making NATO stronger in the process, Trump had more sanctions on Russia than Biden did before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, this myth that Trump was somehow anti NATO is fake news and it has to end because it makes people distrust the media even more than they already do.
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Immigration could be done by the EU but healthcare seems unlikely but that's just me, idk how it would work out.
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@EUMadeSimple if they can't mention how or point to data, it's made up.
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