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Bluntly: Can aid to #Ukraine in itself pose a threat to #Taiwan? Why do so many Republicans not want to keep aid flowing to a country that is confronting and bleeding one of the greatest threats to the United States and global stability, Vladimir Putin's #Russia? In this video we tell you.
Roaring 20s, more like "War"ing 20s
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Slava 🇹🇼
The US needs to draft Biden voters
Give Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine. $300 Billion will buy a lot of weapons.
That would destroy the Western financial institutions. That's the main reason the EU and US haven't touched that money. The moment the West does that, it would signify to most nations, rightly or wrongly, that if you run afoul of one particular group of nations, they will take your investments away from you. That would alienate the majority of the global community that doesn't abide by Western standards (remember, most nations are still friendly to Russia), and take away the one chip the Western world still holds over an increasingly developed and politically independent Global South (hate the term, but it represents most of the non-aligned powers in the world). China and Russia are actively developing a financial system as a rival to the Western one, and all they need is for other nations to feel like their money isn't safe to swoop in as the alternative. Again, that's why the West isn't touching the Russian money they have in their banks. It's a self-defeating move.
Crazy tall
That's Russian money lend or invested in EU financial coffers. Not EU money, take away that money,
1.Russians sue anyways tarnishing EU reliability image on world stage,
2.seize EUropean assets as worth more
3.Make Chinese currency as proffered for authoritarian regime
4.Create lack of trust for sovereign countries to park their surpluses in euro
@@Vivaporius An alternative is to give Ukraine the interest earned by investing the frozen funds. The seed capital is left untouched, but Ukraine gets financial support from it.
@@arcticfoxsa An average person on CZcams comment section is trying to devise tactic for world leaders to implement? You should admit what you dont know before making such an absurd suggestion
How the hell does this chanel get things soooo wrong? It is a super tiny minority in the house that is holding up the aid, not a growing concensus...
They sadly appear to be like the American media, create a greater dichotomy for click bait.
I'm sorry to have to disagree with you, but support for Ukraine, and more broadly, NATO, has been dropping in Republican Congressional ranks for some time now. Under Trump, Republicans have become more sympathetic to Putin, who Trump openly admires, as well as other authoritarian strongmen. In the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell is one of the few leading Republicans who continues to openly support Ukraine. The vote on aid is coming up shortly, so expect to see half or more of Republicans vote no.
@@ak8233 I guess we will have to see who votes for what, and then vote out the ones who are behaving in an undesirable way.
This is not true AT ALL.
Go to ANY republican channel.
Or even leftwing channels that aernt raging leftists and ask about ukriane aid.
It has very very little support in the republican party.
And very minimal support among democrats.
Even the BBC and CNN are filled with angry comments anytime they talk about ukriane aid.
American's are angry, and they see money that they need, going to a foreign country and it makes them even angrier
@@ak8233 support is dropping among Americans because they can’t afford food, gas or homes so compared to that most Americans don’t give a dam about Ukraine..
War never stops, it just changes forms.
Of course, it never stops because humans exist.
The weapons needed by Ukraine are, for the most part, different than those wanted by Taiwan.
Taiwan builds the chips, but the equipment that they use is from the Netherlands. Intel just bought one.
Some of it is, but that is not the point, not even a little bit of it.
Thats meaningless. Much of us compoments for their advance tech is from china. The more important part is whos designing the final product. If you can make a microchips or jet engines you can likely design anything else
@@nton8057Europe and the US have the know-how and capital to produce pretty much anything anyone else is producing. We have the highest human capital in the world by quite a distance. All the fancy stuff coming out of China is built on stolen IP, they haven't innovated anything on their own. Our biggest problem is that of cost efficiency. We can't push down the prices far enough for it to make financial sense. This is at least in part because our economies aren't balanced, and we are lacking a lot of blue collar workers.
@@nton8057 China does not design the high-end chips. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, etc. are all US companies. US designs the chips. Netherlands and Germany build the tools. Taiwan fabricates. China mines the raw metals that are processed into the chips.
The lithography tech is american hence why the block
I'm sure Uncle Sam can afford to give away another billion dollars in weapons to Ukraine like we did the taliban.
“even the earthquake did not stop China’s attempt at intimidation”?Wait, what? How are these two related? And then a quote about aircraft and vessels “hours before earthquake”? You know that earthquake are impossible to predict, right?
I'm from the EU. And well... I feel like EU's relation with the USA is cooling down. I suppose it's time for the EU to stand strong, to unite. We've got election coming up as well. Those won't be a circus like the American elections.
US has drank the orange man kool aid
I am finding myself agreeing with Macron more and more. We need a united EU army. We can't be at the mercy of the clown that the US may or may not elect.
Visual politics is right wing they hate Europe live trump notice they don't say republicans refusing to agree to fund Ukraine they ate truly biased never ever see them critize trump or praise Europe 😎👍
@@dustintacohands1107Trump never said he’d stop giving aid to Ukraine, the dude has literally no coherent policy on the issue.
@@innosam123 ooohhh YyyeaaaHH
Japan and Australia too should help Taiwan.
After what Japan did in world war 2 which country could trust them
@@satarou7286 They must cooperate, times are changing.
@@dragosstanciu9866Japan haven't even acknowledged the war crimes they committed untill today. How do you expects them to change?
They already do
Japan is either the number two or number three contributor, overall, to Ukraine, so they VERY MUCH are contributing. They will be there for Taiwan, as well, as that is actually their neck of the woods, so to speak, and they have a SERIOUSLY vested interest there. The Kiril Islands belonged to Japan and Russia stole those, so Japan is well aware of the drill.
Are you suggesting,if China captures Taiwan they would be capable to produce chips at TSMC? LOL
lets capture that technology and we unlock that perk like a video game
That's how it happens. Employees at TSMC factory may be forced to work with guns, so this technology will be gained by China
Tsmc isn't doing so well in America either...
As an American, I will always support Ukraine’s fight for freedom and independence. 🇺🇦
Same
Thank you! 🇺🇸🇺🇦❤
NAFO, NATO and Ukraine is DEFEATED by orcs armed with shovels and dishwashers.
"Russians armed with Shovels"
"Russia is defeated in Ukraine"
"Russians ran out of missiles."
"Russians orcs"
"Russians stripping dishwashers"
The Western propaganda can't keep a lid on it any more.
NAFO, NATO and Ukraine DEFEATED by orcs armed with shovels and dishwashers.
I would too if that was an option. Sadly they have to choose between being in Russia's pocket or the west. Surely being in the EU is much better than the Russian federation in almost every way, but its neither independence nor freedom, particularly considering the staggering debt they will be in to the west should they win the war. And I'm not talking about moral debt here. Those aid packages we keep "giving" them are not a free buffet, most of those are actually loans. Not to mention the fact that Ukrainians will have to radically change their attitude towards the LQGTB movement, middle eastern immigration, and the male/female role in society. I don't exactly see the common Ukrainian cheering at the Pride parade, and i don't see the west accepting anything but a total cultural conversation giving how they "saved" Ukraine from Russia.
So you are supporting a dictator and a genocidal regime, mind you it's been orchestrated by one of your citizens , victoria nuland, for the sole sake of destabilizing the European economy and currency
Conflict in Asia, Europe and Middle East???
Sounds like WW3!!!
The training of English soldiers in World War II took 22 months (2 years), the training of French soldiers took 4 years, so they decided to surrender Paris without a fight and continue training in Algeria. This is nonsense, you watch a podcast with a military man and he says in modern warfare you cannot learn military skills, drones are hunting for you, artillery is leveling everything to the ground, and you just pray that you are not hit by shrapnel, when you go on an assault you will not accurately look for the target, you just know that there is an enemy sitting in that landing, you fire a burst there in the hope that you will hit him first, and the most important skill is to fall face first into the ground.
this video missed the most important question:
Who told you Taiwan wants to fight China?
I love how Trump thinks the best thing for the US is to give a middle finger to global politics. Doesn't he understand that the US is such an economic powerhouse exactly because of their superpower status and influence on global politics?
The U.S. is no longer a super power and basically only was one for maybe 20 years. The world has gone back to what it had always been prior to the world wars last century. A world when the U.S. is just one of many different powers in the world. The world is going to have to solve its own problems and we don’t have enough money or power to solve it for them…
All that studied military history kinda knew that the 2023 offensive would up EXACTLY like Kursk. Letting the enemy fortify and then fortify some more and lets give em another month is a sure recepie for 100% failiure. And Ukraine didnt even have a real airforce. What moron thought that was good idea?
Taiwan wants Ukraine to win and they make no secret of it. "(Taiwan) Ambassador (to the US) says if Russia is allowed to take over sovereign nation, China may try to do same." If Ukraine loses because its ally US withholds support, it sends China a message that Taiwan is fair game and US support for it won't last either.
Ukraine has never been US ally.
@@profriday wrong
@@litchips so we can just verify this from Vicky "Fuck the EU" Nuland? LOL
@@wesleylee6575We already supplied them with tens of billions of dollars in weapons. We don't do it for random countries.
@@litchips Read up "The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022", nothing is for free
Why would you even create a video on this topic, Ukraine is at war, Taiwan is not. Obviously this makes Ukraine the priority.
Because Taiwan is important, Ukraine... no. Before the war, Ukraine was just a corrupt, third world country... probably the poorest in Europe(?).
Cuz that's the hot topic of discussion among American politicians and therefore American society. Go figure
"A shot in the foot for US interests.". Kind of like how it would have been for the invasion of Poland in 1939 if the US had supplied aid? Because we all know how seaking "Peace in our time" and isolationism worked out for the US then 🤣
That's not the reason why the US support dried up. You're imagining things
I agree with you. It’s the first visual politics video I’d call out as poorly researched.
@@oe5580 totally. Which makes it surprising and frustrating
They need to make videos because their funds has dried up.
@@cashewnuttel9054 lol
@@cashewnuttel9054 increasingly turn itself into a propaganda channel
I still think that if Ukraine could somehow convince Trump that supporting them would be in his interest or the US', he could easily be flipped once elected
When were the "numerous occasions" when Trump "promised" to end aid to Ukraine?
I do not believe he has. I think he has hinted broadly at doing so, deliberately and deceptively, for tactical and strategic reasons. The world has taken the bait (including even, somewhat to my surprise, VP-En) in spectacularly dull- and lazy-minded fashion.
we can help both countries. The resources are not the problem. Political will is the problem.
Taiwan should have developed the indigenous arms industry. Especially the mobile arms and artillery for defense. Extend the draft service period to at least two years as South Korea is doing.
Taiwan has no chance of winning militarily so their strategy is to just have US army to help
@@baha3alshamari152 China is a professional procrastinator in starting a war with Taiwan.
If we dont defend Ukraine Europe will pivot east strategically out of necessity. If that happens our pool of allies to help us with Taiwan will be small. We need our allies more than we need artillery batteries that wont be used in the pacific. Because land wars in asia are like arsenic for european armies
European armies include the US im talking about the style of military not the actual continent.
No, there is no pivkt east. Putin wants to recreate the rus empire, whjch means retaking east europe
Yes, we don't defend Ukraine, then surely they will pivot to China, being friendly to an authoritarian dictatorship will never backfire
Russia's GDP is smaller than that of Italy. What Europe lacks in defending itself is commitment rather than capability.
@@profriday yes, if Americans pack up and leave tomorrow, most wise European politicians will be hugely relieved. Guess what, you Americans won't leave.
@@wesleylee6575 European politicians feel jittery on Trump's pro-Russian comment. They don't want US to leave.
Wanna bet.
America should honored its treaties of defense. No politics are change that and up until Trump no politics dead the fact that Taiwan is worried we won’t back them up is a direct result of Trump ceding US leadership.
But the problem is people here on CZcams will get angry and scream "imperialism".
Oh, sunshine, which treaty of defense in relation to Taiwan to honour? LOL
Who made the US world leaders anyways please tell me?
All nations have a right to pursue their self interests and they do not always align with other nations.
I can't stand self righteousness and hypocrisy! The so called World leader can't even come up with an effective 2 state solution for Palestine and Israel, it turns a blind eye to the almost 35,000 dead Palestinians to appease or powerful Jewish lobby!
The US has no treaty of defense in case of Taiwan, nor does it for Ukraine. Misinformation or deliberate?
Hey commenters, how many of you think that the May 9th march for Russia will have no tanks like last year?
My bet is that they're not even gonna be able to bring out that T-34 again
This channel is political biased
0:35: ⚔️ Escalation of conflict in Ukraine sparks fears of a new Cold War era with Western support in question.
3:27: ⚔️ Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2023 faced challenges, leading to attrition and no clear victory.
6:30: ⚔️ Taiwan increases military spending in response to growing threat, marking a significant policy shift.
09:22: ⚔️ Potential impact of Ukraine conflict on Taiwan's defense capabilities and aid delays
12:26: 💥 Potential consequences of Trump-friendly congressmen blocking aid to Ukraine and the impact on US relations with Europe and autocracies.
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The difference in theaters is key. The Ukraine conflict is a land war (read US Army/Air Force) while a potential Taiwan conflict would be a Navy/Air Force/Marine-focused theater. The US has the *ability* to handle two simultaneous wars, but do we have the appetite and political will? The second question is also key here, and I honestly think neither candidate can inspire change here. My country's politics are in a state of upheaval that happens every five decades or so and indecisiveness coupled with weak foreign policy is the result. At the end of the day, simple geographic isolation from most wars overseas makes the Americas (both North and South) focus inward, even if it doesn't always make geopolitical or economic sense.
TL;DR - The US will muck about until the very last minute to take any serious action, just like World War II.
Yes mate. The United States is so inactive that it has started the most military conflicts outside its territory in the last 70 years. American soldiers are currently occupying part of Syria.
When Japanese Empire decided to expand southward, she neutralized Pearl Harbor first.
If China wants to take Taiwan by force, she has to neutralize American bases in Okinawa and Guam first.
It’s easy for others to think the U.S. is responsible for defending the world when we have to borrow money each shut down. We need to focus on our own country and rebuilding our economy. If we were to go to war, our nation isn’t prepared and our economy would suffer. We’re spending money that could be strengthening our foundations rather than weakening ourselves by giving out what we can’t easily replace. Js…
Come on now, US may have some quibbles, but eventually they will do what they need to.
Absolutely shaming themselves. I am pissed
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else" - Winston Churchill (probably)
For us in EU Ukraine is the number one to support, if US backstabs Ukraine, then we need to stop supporting USA. I don’t trust US at all, their indirect support of Russia is sad.
So why doesn't the EU support Ukraine on its own?
@@dosa2990 who egg Zelensky, the clown in guise of politician, on to fight the Russia by falsely promise him that US will admit Ukraine into NATO?
Yeah let's not forget that the US is essentially violating the Budapest memorandum they signed for Ukraine.
If you Europeans want to fight Russia than do it… you have done it plenty of times in the past without any U.S. involvement…
The short answer to this is no the long answer is also no
Taiwan is more important. The rest of Europe should pull their weight.
Not true, if Ukraine falls to Russian army then China will then invade Taiwan. So to stop the Taiwan invasion we need to help Ukraine win against Russia, simple as that. Ukraine first.
Slava 🇹🇼 Heroyam TAIWANese 🦾
Taiwan builds almost all of the world's western-designed advanced microchips. If China takes their chip foundries, they instantly get billions of dollars worth of military R&D that took years to develop. On top of suddenly advancing their military tech, they immediately deny the west the ability to replenish their stockpiles of smart weapons and high-tech replacement parts. Those chips won't just effect the military but every civilian use of advanced chips. You can say goodbye to new phones, cars, computers, appliances, etc for years. Every industrialized country not strongly tied to Washington would have to come under Chinese hegemony to avoid their industries being crippled.
I’ve always believed that only people who support freedom for all people… deserve it for themselves.
But not everyone who deserves something actually gets it.
So why does Ukraine want crimea
Nyeh... I like supporting prosperity more than freedom.
It is worth noting that freedom is frequently confused with license. “Freedom means always choosing the good, which is a challenge in today's world that must be met with courage and resolve.”
@@shafsteryellow Why does Russia want Crimea?
Only because all of us (even the US, which still invested more than most, but still not enough to have full arsenals for a real war! I mean most western countries would run out of missiles, artillery shells etc. within a month or two in a real war!) did allow our militaries to decline and the arms industry (which needs orders in order to make a profit and keep production facilities open and staff employed!)
Oh yeah totally a far comparison, brits got 22 weeks of training, they weren't invaded, how long did Poland train, if they can hold a gun n charge they were sent as you'd as 14, very common place
The USA are currently losing the war against Russia, was not to be expected otherwise.
Imho looks more that the us has a 3 way war preparation problem instead of the usual 2 war preparation, china, Russia and the middle east. Considering this it's no wonder the us demans Europe to do more.
In all of this in my mind is how to get raw resources. A lot of it comes from china, middle east & Russia.
Africa is also becoming a resource problem.
Considering the tensions around the world something has to give and the cracks are already visible.
yeah, demands Europe to buy more weapons from US not actually develop its own. F35 programme is designed to drain the military budget of European states as a protection fee to avoid another competition like Typhoon jet to challenge F16.
This video screams, "Europe can't defend for itself without US despite being significally richer than Asia."
I've never seen Asians throw tantrum as severe as Europeans due to lack of US support.
Weirdly, Josh doesn't appear to consider Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar etc. autocracies that must be swept away and democracies established.
The Saudis may actually be an ally here against Iran, but I get what you are saying, nonetheless. It would be another enemy of our enemy thing, kind of like the USSR in WWII.
You want the gulf states to have the Iraq treatement? Aren't the citizens living in safety and prosperity? Did the people there demand a regime change?
@@NoMadKidthey can’t voice their opinion of wanting democracy because the middle east is a dictatorship area. No prosperity unless you are willing to exploit others for money in those countries. Grow up, they want democracy.
Ukraine takes precedence here, with the catastrophic chain effect that could follow... if ruzzia wins !
Nah nothing would happen 😅 if it took Russia 2 years and only barely managed a stalemate with Ukraine then what can they even do against nato? Tho only ones pocketing lot of money here are the military industries and we the people have to pay for it
@@Chaos_rider_666 You are right Russia lost 50% of their army equipment that took the Soviets like 80 years to build that stockpile so there is no chance Russia can recover from that at least not for like 20 years by then Russian population will be like 70 million and Europe will be like 800 million so just end of the ropes for Russia. They might try something with NATO but would get crushed to dust.
@@Chaos_rider_666 I'd rather we the people pay for keeping the steppe horde at bay, than PAY FOR IT... in another way !
@@DacianRider don't get me wrong I'm in no way supporting Russian all I'm saying is the media is just trying to make Russia like some big powerhouse that can threaten US or EU but in reality it's just a paper tiger Even if we assume Russia takes over Ukraine then what? The minute they touch Poland soil the nato forces will obliterate pudin's whole country so he won't dare to do that and it's too expensive to colonize Ukraine especially with their pathetic economy they will sign a treaty to keep Ukraine neutral and leave that's all will happen 🤷🏻
Slava 🇹🇼
The Israeli Iron Dome system is also a natively developed and supplied capability. Part of the challenge for Ukraine is they are relying on munitions and platforms supplied by donors, and any restriction on that supply renders those systems less effective.
It was necessary to depend on donors in the beginning of the war but it has become increasingly clear that Ukraine will need to urgently develop its own native supply, firstly compatible munitions for the donated platforms they now have, and then develop other systems to deal with the gaps, as a way to wrest some control over its military capability and resources.
As their success in drone technology shows, Ukraine has been doing this, and I believe they will start supplying themselves with compatible munitions to end their dependence on external generosity, and to provide themselves with the means to win.
The USA has an army that is designed to fight on two fronts so confronting the Russians and the Chinese with the help of their allies would be no problem.
Mhm i recall the Western Romans saying something similar before they disappeared.
On paper yes, but in reality no. The US military across the board is woefully inadequate to confront even one adversary at the moment. It's way under strength in terms of personnel and it's stockpiles of many critical supplies are badly depleted and outdated.
As for those "allies", the UK's armed forces are on the brink of being declared combat ineffective, Germany's military isn't even a shadow of what it once was, most of central Europe wouldn't last a day against one of their own neighbors, let alone Russia and France's attention is in Africa.
This "alliance" is not as strong as you think it is. Putin, Xi the tubby in North Korea and whatever the f*ck his name is in Iran know this very well which is why they're f*cking around. They're not the least bit afraid or they wouldn't be doing it.
@@hughjass1044 valid narrative, it's actually even evident
...and eastern African, and the sahel region, and the middle east, and western Africa, and Kosovo (again)
But what if their allies won't help, like in Iraq?
As an American my current biggest governmental concern is that we are already spending well above our means. We dont have any money to spend, just keeping what we have built maintained is out of our budget.
Our healthcare industry is in shambles, our military can't maintain its personnel numbers or equipment and or infrastructure is in drastic need of overhual. But sure lets send billions of dollars to conflicts around the globe.
As a European your comment demonstrates the short sight of the american voter. Despite all that you said America is still the n1 economy, military strength etc.. the leader of the free world. All of this is possible because the US influence be it militarily, culturally or economically is worldwide. When Russia China or others destroy and conquer US allies like EU or Taiwan all the above mentioned influence starts decreasing along with the prosperity that comes with it. Prosperity for the West and the developed world has been possible because of NATO and US power. Take that away and we will be going back in time in terms of quality of life.
Actions have consequences as the above video mentioned if Taiwan falls to China, the technology sector will be disrupted and immensely hurt worldwide. Imagine all the high tech for the next 20 years coming from the CCP. If Russia takes Ukraine they will start going after other EU countries ( NATO is hugely reliant on US power ) . What good does it do for the US to abandon their allies? The world right now is interconnected, you CANNOT be an isolated country and expect prosperity..
US dollar is a hard currency. US can keep printing money to meet its needs. Ukraine does not matter to US dollar supremacy, but Taiwan does.
I tend to agree in general. What changed my mind on Ukraine is how the outbreak shifted the stance of other western countries, galvanizing them to unite against russia but importantly also take a stronger stance against China, and the surprising support from other Asian countries to Ukraine, including Taiwan and particularly Japan.
90% of the money sent to ukraine from old weapons and gear from the 80s and 90s, is being spent in the united states, the money stays in the US... Healthcare, are you communist, i thought you where capitalists, what are you talking about healthcare for?
@@legatilegions8055 My concern with health care is more in a regulatory focus, the way things are right now aren't working but the details on how to fix them are too far out of my area of expertise as well as being too much for simple youtube comments section.
My main point is that we don't have the money to deal with other nations problems, and we have lots of more important legislative items to work on than aid packages considering we have not managed to pass a real budget for years.
Taiwan needs to be our priority at this point.
It needs to be ONE of our priorities. Not THE priority.
Slava TSMC 🇹🇼
To bad you are so one sided 🤷🏻♂️
This is my politically incorrect answer: if the US doesn’t defend Ukraine, it will never get the chance to even try to defend Taiwan.
Not everyone, but a plurality of people in Taiwan strongly doubt the US’s commitment to come to Taiwans aid. Furthermore, they look at the meat grinder reality of Ukraine and conclude they’ve not the stomach for it.
The fiercest defendants of Taiwanese independence are often the most detached from reality on the ground. President Tsai herself chose to place a big bet on a submarine program of dubious quality. The fact that her successor committed to continuing that program without at least a reassessment doesn’t augur well.
I believe the US should help Ukraine who is actually fighting the war now. Taiwan should definitely up its defense game to increase the cost of war while also maximizing outreach to China to make the prospect of war unpalatable.
how? young Taiwanese who scream for independence will run for cover as soon as the air-raids siren rings. If PLA takes over Taipei today, most Taiwanese will go back to work tomorrow, business as usual. Stop being delusional, negotiate a better deal while you still have chips in hand
@@wesleylee6575 What’s the point of negotiations when we see from Hong Kong that China is not one to honor deals made? Better keep making attack a unpalatable option and remain actually free.
@@wesleylee6575 Some of those who scream for independence might be delusional of what can be achieved currently
but the scenario you picture is even more dilutional, shoots will be fired in a hostiles takeover
even if what you dream become true, not even a single shoot is fired
The economic impact will be huge, the west especially US will pull the plug of Taiwan's semiconductor and Machine Tool industry, Korea, Japan, Singapore...will quickly eat up the market share
and current China just don't have enough High added value order and licensing for Taiwan (or lack incentive to do so with it's lower cost manpower and existing factory already hungry for orders)
Taiwan's economy will drop to rock bottom within 5-10 years, so protest will be wide spread (Hong Kong's protest seem trivial in comparison), which will need military crackdown to suppress
Business will NOT just be as usual
I'm Ukrainian, thank you for your words! We support Taiwan even though we can't claim it as a state, because russia has occupied some of our territory since 2014 and named it "independent republics". But people of Ukraine support Taiwan and its independence. Mainland China is a bad guy here
@@wesleylee6575 There is a good reason why both Napoleon and Hitler failed to put the boots on the British isles.
This video didn't age well
14:45 - YES absolutely! Continue to support Ukraine 🇺🇦
Taiwan is perfectly safe for the time being
Beijing may just be making empty threats as i said be4
The Houthi’s and Iranians and there other proxies have done way more to drain the allied inventories of the most important ammunition then Ukraine. Those Sm2/3/6s will be vital for China and pacific. Use so far has just been expensive, if it keeps going it will make a serious dent on stocks
Please have a Woman Narrator. Thank you.
Yes help ukreine
Nobody wins in war
The military industrial complex does
Like hell. Ukraine had 4-7 million starved to death the last time Russia prevailed, and that was LITERALLY just the beginning. Stop quoting absurdities, and start thinking for yourself, please.
Yeah there are... the side that won.
That's a bs blank statement that is easily refutable if you know even a little bit of history.
Trump supporters would strongly support Ukraine if Biden didn't want to.
I vote Ukraine....But..... Asian countries have to take respsonsability too and be primary main supportive state towards Taiwan: countries like S-Korea, Japan, Philipines, Vietnam, India, Singapore , Malasya, Indondsia have intresest, perhabs even more than the west to keep China in check
All except Japan are unreliable partners of the west.
Most of the "Asian countries" you listed are either communist, or Muslim, or even dictatorial like Singapore. Why should they suddenly become friends with America and help it contain China? While America supplies Israel with weapons for the war with the Palestinians, Muslim Asian countries will definitely not help the US. Vietnam is a communist country, just like China. Study this question buddy before you write nonsense.
A pipe dream unless a collective security organization like NATO be put into place in this region.
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We very clearly need Trump back but i hope he wont follow the fools that want to stop aid to ukraine. He hasnt said that he will and we cant leave another broken promise and abandon what can be seen as an ally.
There is no doubt Trump will abandon Ukraine. Trump and Putin have a bromance going. Trump even throw our own intelligence services under the bus. Just watch the Helsinki press conference
If Ukraine falls, Taiwan falls.
Then the Philippines 🇵🇭 will be next if two nations fall onto enemy nations.
@@philippeflores6672 well the U.S. has obviously already fallen to Russia.
Bravo Rusija the end Nato Usa England 😂😂😂😂
Question: "Why do so many Republicans not want to keep aid flowing to a country that is standing up to and draining one of the greatest threats to the United States and global stability, Valdamir Putin's Russia?"
Answer: "Because the Republican billionaires are in bed with the Russian billionaires!"
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Lmao because of Us help in war at the Ukraine Russian military completely rebuilt it self and objectively it’s stronger than it was before the invasion.
@@NoName-kv9zcPutin failed all his starting victory conditions. Russia's apparent GDP is being inflated by and wasted on munitions being destroyed in Ukraine, along with a horrifying percentage of the men needed to support the young and old. Those of military age with money and nous took any opportunity to leave before call-up. With figures indicating that 30% of the government's spending is on "defence" matters, the general welfare and infrastructure are not looking good.
Whatever happens now as far as "military strength" goes, Russia has lost the peace.
how is Ukraine a democracy?
😂😂Communism for sure😮😊
I agreed on securing the boarder and instead of supplying Ukraine with weapon bring Russia Ukraine to the table to stop the war good young men are dying on the battle field just because of nato stupid expansion
First American speaking sense
ukraine is losing the proxy war! they are facing much larger & stronger enemy. its hard to defeat stronger country with limited resources! they are losing everything for seek of NATO & EU membership its even worthy ? i dont understand why are they losing everything they had before thy get anything?
Ukraine was fine and doing well as a neutral state 1991-2014.
@@GroveErasmusthey wasn't. I have visited Ukraine 8 or 9 years ago for a gig. The economic situation, the infrastructure, standard of living comparing to Poland where I come from was staggering. Like a night and day. This trip opened my eyes to why Ukrainians want the same as us. Millions of Ukrainians that have visited or worked in Poland or those who fled the war after the Russian attack see it too. Beside of that, every country has the right to join any military alliance and economic organisation. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about
@@MrRootMusic thank you for your message.
You are the first ever pro-Ukraine person who is not going on personal attack and name calling.
Why do Donetsk and lLugansk want to be independent?
Why are the Ukraine bombing the people they claim to want to “liberate “ What if they don’t want to be liberated.
My country is in the top 25 on earth when it omes to pressand personal freedoms. Better than most EU countries.
A BRICS country, aligned with Russia.
Democracy does not guarantee wealth.
I’ve been to Russia many times. I loved it. People ate friendly, everything works, ghe streets are spotless clean, many of biggest cities are giant construction sites. Massive economic growth.
I’ve never seen any of the terrible propaganda the western press spits out.
Ukraine claims to have attacked Engels airbase, home of Russian strategic forces.
My daughter has a friend that lives close to the base. She was surprised to hear about the “attacks “ on fhe airbase. She doesn’t know about any stacks. So, the Ukraine feeds this kind of propaganda to the NAFO baboons.
The 500k in the beginning that where eager to fight, they are now all dead.
Ukraine is a prison. Why should men that are not interested n war be forced to stay?
@@MrRootMusic Russian never said no EU. They said no NATO. Ukraine could have been neutral and join EU.
That chance is now gone.
There will be no EU and no NATO for Ukraine.
09/2024 Ukraine unconditional surrender.
@@MrRootMusic if every country had the right to join a military alliance, does that count for Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan as well?
The Americans and lapdog Britain il
Carried out an illegal and unprovoked attack and invasion of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
FJB
i don't want russia to expand their influence and annex territories, but i also don't want billions of tax money get thrown into some money laundering scheme for politicians, the arms industry and all their cronies.
Then your in luck, because all the aid sent over is obsolete military gear and equipment we were getting rid of any ways.
Wasn't foreseen? The intelligence was near perfect. The problem was that leaders and a lot of average people just didn't believe it would happen.
Poorly researched
What they did to Hong Kong? Hong Kong was returned to China as per agreement, in case you lack historical knowledge. China did not invade Hong Kong.
China does not respect democracy in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is locked down now slowly freedoms taken away piece by piece
China agreed to leet Hong Kong be autonomous until later than they did
@@FeriqBV autonomy doesn't mean independent. They have a government that makes local legislation, but it's long past the hour and Hong Kong should be treated like the province of China that it is.
@@melvinbarnett1910 Except China violated that autonomy, thereby violating the Sino-British Joint Declaration treaty.
To wit: The Causeway Bay Books "disappearances", the 2020 National Security Law, disqualification of legislative candidates, and new requirements permitting only CCP-friendly candidates.
The Basic Law also expressed the "ultimate aim" of universal democratic elections for Hong Kong's chief executive. It's farcical to think that those elections will ever happen now.
For millennia China never was interested in conquering the world. They were nationalistic not imperialistic.
What's changed?
No thing, just trade around the world.
They have no interest to conquer the world today too
They haven't changed
Cut funding to Ukraine. We have to understand Russias security concerns
Us has achieved it's target in western Europe, separating Germany from a weakened Russia and creating tensions in the union, it will not follow a few useless baltics ... so it's time for the next one to come.
The U.S. doctrine says that chaos is better than geopolitical competitiveness ... there you go
I find it kind of funny that the world depends on Americans for almost everything then criticize the government for not giving out money hand over fist to countrys who have never given the united states anything. That money is the hard earned money of Americans for Americans not ukrainians, Israelis, or Taiwanese. Why dont the countries who actually share the same continent use the same enthusiasm of making all this media and criticism to actually fund ukraine themselves.
Europe needs to step up and handle their own problems. UGH gets me so mad... why waste US tax payer dollars... TF!
By helping Ukraine, the USA would create jobs and also protect an allie. Isn't that some that you think would be good?. Or do you stand with Speaker Johnsson and Trump?. I also agree that we in the EU can help more as well
@@johneriksson9356 Ukraine would have been better off by staying neutral, but it became a weapon for Washington to attack Russians instead
@@johneriksson9356it would create jobs but it would be net negative in tax income for the gov. You might as will sign a bill that will create 5 million new jobs in for shoveling holes in the ground. Europe should stand up for itself
Because they like the advantage they have. Their governments have to pay little to the military side, and most of the money goes to huge benefits for their citizens.
The USA has given 5 times more Europe. While promising much, Europe has delivered relatively little.
well, US military productions are several times higher than individual countries of Europe. A HUGE part of US gov spending is put into their military, some may argue even too much.
You might wanna recheck your numbers the latest ones. US hasent sent that much more of you look again you’ll see.
Also many counties have given more when it comes to % of gdp.
USA pays very little and is NOT big spender when it comes to Ukraine, USA is basically supporting Russia, and has never really supported Ukraine with anything but old weapons. USA is a weak and unreliable ally, if Trump comes to power we in EU needs to come to an understanding with China, that’s sad but US is useless as an ally. The current US policy makes me sick and disgusted. USA should NEVER tell EU to pay, because EU is paying. US with a very strong economy is NOT. Land of liberty and freedom, that’s just a joke..😢
@@dustintacohands1107 some countries yes. Europe has a gdp greater than the USA and I stand by the numbers 180 b to 36 b. They were reported w months ago. Much more has been promised, but not delivered.
@@Rotblattchinchilla12 that’s part of the problem. Germany has a completely hollow military, despite its size. The key show be the % of GDP.
Wait up, America needs to fix their military complex? America the ones who have donated the largest amount to Ukraine, the ones who while helping Ukraine also helped Israel, Taiwan, and others around the world? This is a Europe problem that affects America less than China taking over Taiwan would. We’re focusing on what could impact us more. Russia conquering Ukraine affects Europe more so Europe as a whole needs to follow the lead of France and Poland and get their military priorities inline. Typical European mindset “oh our continent is in a spiral blame the Americans”
Kind of years old to thev present
If all that money had gone to Latin American countries, there would be no migration crisis...
If all that money had gone to Latin American countries, then that money would go to mansions, sports cars, jets, trips to Paris, women.
@@cashewnuttel9054 well, despite your prejudice, that would still be better than weapons.
@@luanrg Hey, you can at least pretend to depose tyrants with weapons.
The only good things about what I mentioned are car and plane companies get more money, a few women get money, construction industry gets money, Paris gets money.
The world should forget about Ukraine all together, what will happen, will happen
The world should forget about Russia all together, what will happen, will happen @@ Vote blue to get dictatorship out of usa & terrorist republican out of Russia arms lock @@ vote BLUE ELECT JOE BIDEN & HARRIS IN 2024 @@@
Why isn't Europe stepping up to fill the void left by the US? After all, it's their neighborhood. Oh well, never mind. I was just being facetious. We all know why they're not stepping up.
They e been stepping up but come on without moral support from...
Europe is stepping up but America is richer than all the European economies combined and the American military and military industry is much larger than all European countries combined. Also, they have almost completely weaned themselves off Russian oil and gas depriving g Russia of much revenue. But they can only do so much. The US simply has much more capacity. And it's good for the US - as most of the aid money is spent in the US military industry.
@@dancoffey4293 America is richer than Norway?
@@cashewnuttel9054 America is way richer. Norway has 5.5 million people and a GDP of $580 billion. America has 330 million people and a GDP of $25 trillion. To put it in perspective, America spends almost $900 billion on defense alone.
@@dancoffey4293 Would you say India is richer because it has a GDP of $14 trillion, or China with its $35 trillion GDP?
As a leftist in the US, I’m always against war funding unless direct threats (CIA will always goat wasteful spending in war and War Industrial Complex). So I’m glad Ukraine funding is drying up, we need primary focus on US reinvesting in itself. No funding for Ukraine n no funding of Israel.
Yet, your ok with a war of imperialism carried out by Russia?
@@nobodyherepal3292 no sanctions was my preference, it’s not my business to be in another culture historical beef, besides Ukrainian ruling class put themselves in the predicament. When Maidan happened ruining Ukraine 90’s “mutual consistence” what did you expect to happen? I was told to “live with decisions you make.” NATO learned that lesson in the Balkans in the 90’s.
@@alex4863 pacifism only enables fascism.
I thought we learned that lesson by now, but apparently not.
@@nobodyherepal3292 no global leader is spreading global domination speeches stop the Hitler talking points.
@@nobodyherepal3292 Are you talking about fascism in Ukraine or Latvia
US is done
these are just totally ridiculous conclusions
Ya this turned into a preposterous pro-war propaganda channel real quick
West is soo week 😊
Year
In comparison to who exactly?
More like week leadership,if west wanted they can take down Russia with no problems Economy and Millitary are larger and stronger,but you can do so much if you Leaders are weak and delusional.
Meanwhile, Russia has a coup attempt not even a year ago, has had refineries bombed by modified Cessnas despite having the “best air defenses in the world”, and now is fighting ANOTHER rebel occupation of Belgorod in just the last year….
East is so year
I don’t mind the help but what citizens🇺🇸 get return ? 🇺🇦 should become apart of the United States government or fight they’re own war
The US with Trump will send aid to Ukraine. They are just asking for joe to make their borders safe
Safe from what? Unarmed civilians?
Can money buy man power?
All this warmongering could have been avoided by negotions. But hey lets have poor people dying for other countries interests
Taiwan is China if you don't know
Ukraine should immediately look for a peace treaty with Russia and try to get the best conditions possible, considering the situation: perpetual neutrality and recognize Russian annexations so far. Europe should drop sanctions as soon as possible and normalize political and economic relationships with Moscow.
Perpetual neutrality you mean perpetual submission?
With drone technology as kamikaze ones, this war isn't on the way to be finished. You are delusional.
Even if Zelensky accept the agreement Ukrainians will continue to fight.
So Russia just invade again after couple years.
That's why Putin don't want a quick victory because if the frontline collapses, the fight will continue in guerilla way.
No, Ukraine should get into NATO as soon as possible.
Stalemate 🤣🤣🤣🤣Russia clearly is winning
Russia is losing against a nation they border. Welcome to year 3 of this 3 day special needs operation.
It’s like rome, everyone is throwing money at conflict and hoping it works. Eventually it will fall.
Oh, those showels... 😂
What's Russia winning??? Land 😅😅😅 very expensive for square meter let me tell you, Russians will pay for that land for decades.
We sell land in Europe much cheaper without annoying anyone 😉
Brian, thanks, you can go back to drinking your beer and watching TV.
Ukraine is a lost cause tbh
Taiwan is not being threatened
You're lucky dislikes aren't visible
@@cristianbalan518 When did China attack someone again? It's not USA or west in wars forever and again acting like angels, hypocrats.
Then I guess absolutely nothing happened on August 4, 2022?
The gaslighting is strong with this one.
That’s hilarious to hear so and what makes you thank of that while we’re been intimidated by PRC for more than 70s years and the situation is increasingly intensified despite we’ve been buying a lot of sophisticated weapons from America but also relying on self-developing lethal defensive and offensive ones to get the strategic deterrence. Nevertheless we, Taiwan, still need both the USA & allies to co-defend China’s invasion!
Ucrain has no chance 😂
Ukraine must beg for peace and save what it can
As an American, i want to see the EU more involved, its European issues not an American issue, the combined EU Economy is similar if not slightly higher than that of the US and they have bearly helped
Poland spends almost 4% of its GDP on military and thus number in increasing, France is reignithing its military industry, Germany is finally waking up from its pacifistic stupor and recognising the threat from Russia. US citizens should follow the European situation more carefully than listening to Trump's lunacy.
@@MrRootMusic this only happened after Russian Invasion, only in the past 2 years. There is a video from 8 years ago Trump was speaking at UN I believe or the NATO Summit he is Admonishing the NATO countries that are not spending the agreed upon 2% and the German delegation is laughing and mocking him turns out he was right. SO yeah in the past 2 years they have started spending more. But that's not the point. Many Eastern European countries I've been stating that Russia has not changed and they will attempt to regain their territories back. And the Western European countries have been laughing them off
@@MrRootMusicexplain the "lunacy" I will await your detailed reply