Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "How Europe is creating its own military-industrial complex" video.

  1. "Long term guarantees of sales" Sounds like European forever-war.
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  2.  @bob_greene  Risk, in which we're pawns and not players.
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  3. When did an arms race ever end well? Have Europe already forgotten the world wars? How about understand and respect our neighbors?
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  4.  @richdobbs6595  Admittedly an oversimplification. I just have an awful feeling that Europe is being propped up and sacrificed to escalate US proxy war with Russia.
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  5. 1:26 "Putin rues Soviet collapse as demise of 'historical Russia'" Reuters, Dec 12, 2021 This is a secondary source, an interpretation of a sentence from the Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, April 25, 2005 The full speech is publicly available online and findable by search. The full sentence is: "Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century." In context, there is no sign of hostility towards Europe, rather of European solidarity. From the same speech: "Above all else Russia was, is and will, of course, be a major European power. Achieved through much suffering by European culture, the ideals of freedom, human rights, justice and democracy have for many centuries been our society's determining values. For three centuries, we – together with the other European nations – passed hand in hand through reforms of Enlightenment, the difficulties of emerging parliamentarism, municipal and judiciary branches, and the establishment of similar legal systems. Step by step, we moved together toward recognizing and extending human rights, toward universal and equal suffrage, toward understanding the need to look after the weak and the impoverished, toward women's emancipation, and other social gains. I repeat we did this together, sometimes behind and sometimes ahead of European standards."
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