The Tragical History of NATO, the Atlantic Dr Faustus. History LIVE
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- In this video I do history live and explain the tragical history of NATO (like "The Tragical History of Dr Faustus") since 1949 and especially since the end of the Cold War in 1990.
Join me LIVE or share your comments later to discuss whether the world would be a better place with no NATO.
The NATO Summit in July 2024 marks 75 years of the history of the Atlantic Alliance. NATO claims to be the "greatest alliance in history", but its history is tragic, and increasingly aggressive. Now it aims to expand to the Indo-Pacific. Emmanuel Todd, Defeat of the West describes NATO as trapped by nihilism and provides a brilliant narrative of how over the last 35 years NATO and the USA have fallen into the Ukraine trap.
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Thanks for this interesting video. As Italian in love with Late Antiquity, NATO Alliance reminds me that wonderful late-roman source known as Notitia Dignitatum, depicting the Late Roman Army as huge, magnificent, invincible bastion against the incoming "barbaricum", but actually, when the document was forced to face the reality of the V century, it showed clearly that all those legions, auxilia, numeri, cohorts, with their magnificent shields, were just paper soldiers and beautiful drawings, and on 476 AD after 80 years, there was nothing and nobody able to stop Odovacer. Just paper soldiers to please a bureaucracy feeling the entire system of power on which it was sitting was crumbling down.
Thank you. What a brilliant historical comparison! It is odd that the US likes to compare itself to Athens, not the bloated military of the late Western Roman empire. As you say, it is a much better comparison.
@@theburningarchive Thanks for your kind words. Just one example to show the Late Roman military situation so close to the current case of NATO: the ancient sources say that one day in the diocese of Spain it was discovered the case of a group of officers regularly receiving money from the State for the salary of a legion that in reality had no longer existed for years!!! There were only a few staff officers receiving the payments, but there were no more soldiers! On the map of the Notitia Dignitatum, the legion was still there, but in reality there were only very few officers on the field, who were just .. scoundrels!
@@theburningarchive in a sense, the comparision to Athens, makes Sense, as far as the stealing of the Deli treasury is concerned
Thank you for the walk through critical moments in post WW2 history.
thanks
Thank you - I am living in Copenhagen and in grief because my country is so warmongering.
Thank you for sharing that. I visited your beautiful city 5 years ago. It is a sadness I feel about my own country too... johnmenadue.com/the-west-has-lost-the-will-for-peace/
If one looks over the centuries, it seems every few generations with few exceptions, Europeans crave war, and in recent centuries that craving repeatedly gets directed toward Russia
Empathy from Melbourne Australia to you. What are we going to do with these sycophantic fools who have been foisted on us to run the lands we live on? And turn us into missile bases to attack (called 'defense') places we have nothing against?
Hello, thank you, I m a poet and philosopher from Russia, writing epics in a kind of "Phaustus" of today, very interested in your vision, hope this channel will become famous!
Thank you so much. I am delighted you have found my channel and I would love to ehar some of your comments on my other videos on Russian history and culture.
Wow, almost 2 hours. I watched the first 30 minutes live, and I will be sure to catch the rest. It’s a slow burn, but thanks for your work. There’s much to digest here. Cheers.
Thanks. Still experimenting with the live vs edited recording formats.
I didn't know of Dr Faustus until I heard the Holy Spirit say to me that "Donald Trump was like Faustus, and I looked him up... Then I understood.
Thanks for doing this show. It's my first time hearing you. I subscribed
thank you
Your programs are enlightening and thought provoking. Thank you.
Thank you
Re Soviet Union and a Marshall Plan. And "kicking a peace-loving enemy in the teeth when it was down on its knees." Two words: Jeff Sachs
Yes, at least he shows remorse. Interestingly Graham Allison of Thucydided Trap fame was involved in the 'Soviet Marshall Plan' idea. I need to do another video on Soviet collapse I think. It is such an extraordinary story.
@@theburningarchive That would make a great video. Yes regarding Prof Sachs I mention him not as a condemnation, but to point out that he is a living participant & witness to that history. And he's doing a great job telling the truth about it.
Thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowlege and peculiar insight. I'm from Uruguay, and if I met Mr.Devil , I would trade my soul in exchange for time to witness the implosion of the angloamerican empire, and to see what comes next
Thank you, wonderful to have viewers in Uruguay. It is looking like you may not need to trade your soul. I will do more on American themes soon.
Excellent work. Errata: 1955 is not the first expansion of NATO. 1952: accession of Greece and Turkey. Let's not forget the original announced battlefield of the Cold War.
Excellent. Thanks for the correction. Indeed and it was even on one of my map timelines! An oversight on my part - thanks for correcting
Greate video, please keep up with the long formats.
Maybe I'm not used to your MO, but after 15' still no substance... I loved your video on Todd's book, but here you're making a loooooong warm-up.
Now 16'+ and it's kinda starting 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
But it's 💪🏻 after that slow start. Thank you.
thanks, still experimenting with the live vs recorded formats but this is a good reminder.
Another good outing. Thanks. I'd counter that NATO was never really a defensive alliance. But that's too much to argue in the comment section.
Have been wondering if you could explain the origin of the name for your channel?
You know that is a great idea. I did explain it in my book a few years ao.amzn.to/3RVqL9E - but now might be a good time to share the story with the YT viewers. Thanks for suggesting it, and I agree with you on NATO's 'defensive alliance'.
I subscribed at once after seeing, you on the "Social Media Alliance". I really like what you are doing and will share it with others. One request - a list of the main books/authors that you mention as you talk today. FYI, I'm in South Africa.
Thank you. I will do that. Thanks for the suggestion and the subscription.
Like your videos but I don't have 2 hours to watch this one. Starting at 1990 when things got real interesting.
Yes, it got a bit out of hand. I think I might do a more disciplined shortened version soon. I keep experimenting with formats. Thanks for the feedback
1:01:17 Greetings from Moscow
Rational clarity
Thanks and спасибо. Delighted to have an audience in Moscow.
tanks from brazil
great to hear from Brazil. I want to do some videos on South America before too long.
Great stuff 🇦🇺
thanks
Excellent video but one small note. A basic Internet search at the time of Barak's election showed that both his parents and stepfather worked for the Agency / State Department and his first job was for an Agency front journal.
Yes I understand. I was largely presenting Todd's views and he does not get into the details of Obama's story. I am going to stay away from that topic for the time being though. Thanks for sharing
Boston is here
Welcome, Boston
Thanks for this excellent overview and analysis. German ambitions in Ukraine as described at 1:34:00 can be summed up as Aldification... although you (the public) loose any influence in decisions you get to shop a slightly better quality at lesser cost
I love that term! thank you
Emanuel Todd gives symptomatic description. The etiology shed light on by Mikhael Khazin and Saveliev. One from economic stand point, another from pure biology of ongoing brain evolution.
Comparatively, this channel provides objective analysis, but still in pro Western mindset.
Thanks I will explore their writing and report back. Thanks Sophia.
Interesting you mention Thomas Mann and Christopher Marlowe as authors who contributed to the Faust legend, but not Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who's contribution is considered to be the most significant to this German legend (Urfaust, Faust 1 and Faust 2).
You are right, and I am glad you did. I think I was worried I was overdoing the literary allusions.
Exactly! Goethes "Faust" is of obligatory consumption of every german-speaking literature-nerd , doesn´t matter if you take the book or the theater piece. In my times it was also a part of the school planning.
As an descendant of germans, educated un german schools, I felt initially like you. But I must confess I has not the slightest clue it was Marlowe who first wrote the story down.
Faust is goethe, but you can switch to alister crawly too. Black Misa, upside down on a cross a frog. You are not stranger to magia. But you are too far away from keys of magia. It is story from check republic.
It's not so much transfering power for decency. The point of living for me and many others historically is to serve and align with our highest being (decency). Serving egoic lives (power) is not evolutionary, it's delusional.
True. This is the theme of so many great stories after all.
01:07:07 would be worth mentioning that NATO - Ucraine Charta has been signed in 1997 in Madrid. Same year Brezinskys book on the "democratic bridgehead" has been published.
good point
Good video! I think you explain the situation in Europe and Japan well. Faustian and wannabe Faustian.
Thank you
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Smoke going up forever
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„To make sense“ of us foreign policy isnt that difficult, actually. It is what it seems to be and what they say it is.
That is the scariest thought of all
Wrong about who prepped Maidan . US not Germany.
Germany/EU certainly played a role in the free trade deal.... I think there are better more detailed accounts of events in 2013/14 .... But I am going to steer clear of that topic on the channel for the time being.
Everybody is telling their own version of history skipping parts they don’t care about and amplifying parts they want. I’m amused how casually you mention Chechen war and Bombing of Serbia without giving any details of what was happening, how civilians were killed and bombed.
Yes, true. Those two events do need more attention.... so many videos to make! Thanks for noticing that. It is a very good point
About as tragic as the Massacre of Peterloo 1819 WHICH WAS ALSO TO PROTECT THE RICH !
Indeed, and Shelley wrote this great poem, England in 1819 in response that is strangely fitting in a time of Biden and Zelensky.
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,-mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;
An army, whom liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless-a book sealed;
A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed-
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.
@@theburningarchive brawo esencja doskonała
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Archive the source of money that funded federal reserve, please. Reason for Russian revolution and Taiwan conflict.
Follow the money!
You all are talking nonsense. NATO is created by NORVAY...to protect its oil industry from Russia. All key people in nato are from Norway.
You must change your medication.
@@danield.7359 and incest is wide spread...been there
Russia's never threatened the west.
I recommend you read one of the books I cited in the video.