Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "Can Europe Join the BRICS and Destroy the Dollar’s Hegemony? | @visualeconomiken" video.

  1. You guys are insane for thinking the guy who brags about threatening Putin that he would bomb the s out of Moscow if he invaded Ukraine is going to give Putin everything he wants. If you had listened to Trump when he told you to do your job and contribute your NATO minimums to defense, Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine. If you had listened to Trump when he warned you not to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that Russia needed so they could invade Ukraine without the Ukrainians being able to bomb the Nord Stream 1 and cut off Europe from all Russian energy, you could have avoided the invasion. He even threatened to leave NATO to warn you to protect yourselves in case the next US president was somebody whom Putin would not respect, but you were too smart for that. You can't count on America to always have cowboys at the Resolute Desk, especially since American presidents haven't sent treaties to the Senate for Ratification since the middle of the last century, which means they have zero binding legal authority. If Europe intends to seize the position of global reserve currency, it had better be prepared to take the responsibility as world police that comes with it. The British Pound was the Global Reserve Currency during the Pax Britannia, when the UK could forcibly end the global slave trade with military and economic pressure. They lost this in the 30s, and America took over and got stuck with the obligation to protect global free trade. Europe won't even take the lead to protect Europe from Russia, let alone provide military escorts in the Bab-El-Mandeb Strait. Americans resent having to protect you as much as you resent us for having to protecting you. If you want a better position from which to push even more protectionist tariffs on America, pay for your own territorial defense for a change.
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