Comments by "Rune of Svalbard" (@vladimirofsvalbard9477) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

Europe has no choice. I can only imagine how much worse shape Europe would be in if the US began withholding funding for foreign militaries and research and development. People can tout Europe all they want, but life would be considerably harder if many of those countries had to budget for those items.
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Good luck with that. Inflation would get worse simply trying to budget those military funds the US pays for.
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One thing that irritates me is that people pretend that this entire conflict was unprovoked. Both NATO and Russia have massive ambitions; politics as usual. NATO formed a coup against Kiev in 2014 and Russia wants back political control of Ukraine.
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Europe has nowhere to go. The US has major leverage over Europe considering that we pay massive amounts of money to maintain their militaries and invest in research and development.
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@saslykasxy9331 Perhaps the USA shouldn't have formed a coup against Kiev in the first place? Just a thought! We've put ourselves in this situation and for what? Ukraine serves no other purpose (other than) to serve as a pincer move against subjugating Russia. As time goes on, the Obama Administration's legacy ages like milk.
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@Sodomis666 Too many people are taking my statements too personally. The fact is that most EU nations don't properly budget for their own military expenditures. Thus, if the US were to stop subsidies, it would create a larger deficit and higher inflation in return. Europe can do what it wants, but not without cost.
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@Traul1983 You're jumping ahead too many spaces. Ukraine was under full political control of the Russian Federation. Say what you want about who should be controlling it; it hasn't been a true sovereign country for hundreds of years. Russia will want a firm agreement that Ukraine will never join NATO (AND) that NATO will end interference in affairs concerning ex-iron curtain nations. To a large extent, none of this would have happened without the Kiev coup in 2014.
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@evulclown You're entirely forgetting that Ukraine has a massive population in the east that has been attempting to annex itself to Russia since 2004. Russia had political control in Kiev before the Revolution of Dignity. They simply want it back. People need to understand the ambitions of both sides.
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@evulclown I agree that this is a Russia problem to solve. Therefore NATO should not be interfering in foreign elections to try and push Ukraine into their ranks. Besides, I don't see any actual reason that NATO needs Ukraine; other than to box Russia in for eventual subjugation. Russia wants it for it's agriculture and ports. Both of which are non-essential in the grand scale of the EU or US imports. I've heard that the Ukrainians have NIH funded labs, but other than that it seems to be a big power grab by international corporations imo. Blackrock already owns a substantial portion of the infrastructure contracts for rebuilding it. I think they're planning on turning it into a strip mall.
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People think they're being smart with the word oligarchy, but it really has nothing to do with who is currently President. Inequalities widen largely for one reason; massive trade deficits (primarily stemming from constraints pertaining to the deficit). if your debts outperform your productivity; then prices rise and wages stagnate. Essentially forcing more wealth upwards and less wealth downwards. As long as the debit bubble grows larger; asset prices will be propped up and more Americans will be left behind. Therefore they cannot compete in order to raise overall GDP.
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@ Stop talking like Russia? Alright so what's your recommendation; raise taxes about 10% in the EU? Europe gets a ton of subsidies from the US; primarily military. That's a budget they don't have to personally account for.
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@MrBoroman2 Not really; this has nothing to do with Russia. It all has to do with the number of US securities being held in Europe, as well as the subsidies that the US provides. Could you imagine if the US dropped their EU military budget?
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@luckduvell I'm not sure if you're trolling or something else. It would be pretty insane to dispute US subsidies within NATO countries. Norway's defense is almost entirely subsidized by the United States for the last 70 odd years; Norway Supplementary Defense Cooperation Agreement (SDCA) We have a similar relationships with most NATO countries; largely Germany, France, and Romania. This allows European government to push expenditures elsewhere that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to.
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@piergiorgioscollo7163 It is true and I've already addressed it below. You can easily research the Norway Supplementary Defense Cooperation Agreement or any other NATO based programs the US maintains and continues to fund. The information of the world is at people's fingertips; all of this is verifiable.
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@luckduvell Sure thing bud.
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I think you should spend less time watching mainstream media. The entire idea of a bromance between Putin and Trump is a fiction created by media gaslighting.
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People need to stop associating (reality) with kissing Russian's behind. If any deal is going to be made (Russia will want TWO key things). One, that Ukraine doesn't join NATO. Two, that the US stop interfering in Ukrainian affairs. If anyone is going to be objective about this topic, they can't ignore the fact that the US (at the very least) interfered in the Ukrainian elections that gave rise to this conflict. Russia had full political control of Ukraine before 2014, that was until the US formed a coup against the leading administration. This entire conflict is about ambitions between the US and Russia. It would be nice if folks quit acting like NATO is doing this out of their moral compass.
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Pretty easy to predict when the Biden Admin was doing everything it could to provoke further military action in eastern Ukraine. Looking back it was glaringly obvious in my opinion that they wanted the war to start.
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Who ever said that US expects free access to foreign markets? If anything, the US expects heavy tariffs anywhere they want to do business. The entire idea of a tariff is the relieve trade imbalances and unfair practices.
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Well, context is important. Most people are ignoring that Ukraine is a deeply divided nation (citizen-wise). When Yanukovich lost the election in 2014 (largely due to NATO forming a coup in Kiev). It grew massive dissidence in eastern Ukraine that sparked a series of skirmishes between paramilitary/militia pro-Russian Ukrainians and the new Zelensky Administration; largely in the Donbass region. Keep in mind that Russia has maintained into posture thru proxy for 8 years that this happened. Russia wants back political control of Ukraine and a promise that they will not join NATO.
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Well, this needs to be an objective and realistic plan. A lot of people didn't even know where Ukraine was before 2022. The first things that Russia is going to want is a firm deal that (not only will Ukraine not join NATO) but that the US will cease it's government involvement in the ex-iron curtain nations. The war in Ukraine would probably never have happened if the US hadn't formed a coup against Kiev in 2014. Russia had political control of Ukraine before that; the US afterwards. They probably want it back.
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@madult I do, because it's essential to their current survival. What are you going to do; have the EU dump all their US treasury bonds? Europe is extremely dependent on US aid thru NATO and currency stability lies within the large sum of t-bonds held in London, Paris, and Berlin. No way around that unless Europe decides to re-navigate their budget and become self sufficient on defense and backs their currency with something other than US securities.
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