Seems like a nice guy too

Great program. Very easy to listen to AND understand. One comment piqued my interest about human condition not wanting to commit suicide/ inialation. What about pilot terrorists in 911 and kamakizi s in ww2? Granted not the entire population but some groups think they're justified for the greater good. Not everyone thinks like us.

He’s an Imperialist from a country that still thinks it’s important while being flooded by cheap labour

@@rufflesnbritches9441 That is just it...some groups. Individuals who are “trained” up to suicide or kamikaze. They didn’t just walk in off the streets and volunteer for the positions. I don’t believe that most soldiers, of any type, believe they are going to die at any time. They may have the mindset of possible death and will suicide rather than risk torture or imprisonment, but living is something most must hold close. This is a dreadfully simple explanation. A very general one. There are always exceptions.

For most ppl ur comment would seem somehow contradictory

He appears to be very much a neo-con in his US foreign policy outlook

From Wikipedia: In 2003, Roberts wrote: "For Churchill, apotheosis came in 1940; for Tony Blair, it will come when Iraq is successfully invaded and hundreds of weapons of mass destruction are unearthed from where they have been hidden by Saddam's henchmen." Make of that what you will.

He’s a Churchill fan what did you expect from a War Monger He should clear off to Ukrainian and do the ordinary person a favour

If people like him didn't have the American empire to cheerlead for they would have to do some soul-searching about their own society. The British Empire got consumed by America so this is literally all they have left.

All times create horrible men.

Just about everything he said is 100% a lie but people just swallow this propaganda up like candy! 🤦‍♂️

Canada has not made 2% and doesn’t plan to anytime soon (not even if the Cons win the next election). I wonder what JD Vance et al would do about that?

Excluding UK and Greece, Europe and Canada dilly dallied for too long. One or two years do not undo _decades_ of under investment. Decades. Some members - big ones - are nearly five decades of under two per cent - nearer to one per cent in many years. That two per cent was based on a Russia behaving in ways in no longer does. The Kremlin is far worse now. We're back in the Cold War. In Europe Poland realises this. Lithuania too. What Europe fails to realise is it is incapable of aiding the US if the balloon goes up in Taiwan or Korea (and it likely Japan because the Norks will certainly fire missiles on US bases there). Britain may be able pitch in, but its military is hobbled. And let's not forget the Middle East. Europe needs to shoulder its burden _on its own_ poste haste. It's no longer a toddler or teen. It far surpasses Russia in population, wealth, and technological know-how, yet it remains dependent _by choice_ because it shirks its defence duties in favour of social spending and growing bureaucracies. Many of Europe's defence ministers, especially Germany's, have been rubbish. They have been antagonistic of the military and they let it wither. This was deliberate. Either increase the taxes on the people or shift social spending to defence. Europe's big problem is Putin captured both of Germany's major political parties, SDP and CDU, and Germany has done nothing to root out the connivers. It was Schroeder and Merkel who were cozy with Putin. And they weren't the only Germans in his pocket.

Mearsheimer ignores that Ukraine is a soverein state and that the signatory powers of the Budapest memorandum promised to defend its sovereignty in exchange for Ukraine renouncing voluntary its nuclear arms, that it inherited from the Soviet Union. Russia back than agreed to acknowledge Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity in exchange for being handed over all Ukrainian atomic bombs, making Russia the only successor state of the Soviet Union with nuclear arms, although the Soviet Union had stationed these arms in more than one republic (besides Ukraine, also Kazakhstan had more than 1000 nuclear warheads, but made a similar deal)

In fact, he totally affirms Mearsheimer's point later on, accepting that the Russian army's size as well as strategy does not fit the idea that he wanted to take over Ukraine.

@@dangin8811 Exactly. Who knows what Putin was thinking when he launched that invasion in 2022 but with a force of less than 200,000 men he clearly never intended to occupy all of Ukraine. Roberts's claim that Putin is eyeing Lithuania - a NATO country that currently has over 1,200 allied troops posted there as part of the Enhanced Forward Presence -- is utterly baseless. That would mean nuclear war and Putin knows it. Sad to say, the Russian president strikes me as immeasurably shrewder than most Western political leaders or analysts.

@@dangin8811 Unfortunately, Putin continues to say that he wants to take over Ukraine.

Putin believed Ukraine would break easily, surrender and accept a Russian takeover. that would not take an occupying force of millions. it was yet another miscalculation based on a limited and deeply flawed outlook on the outside world and how it has evolved. Ukrainians do not view themselves as Russian, without a culture or sense of nation. Putin does not understand, or simply does not accept this reality.

@@dangin8811 A more understandable point is that because of the reactions of Ukraine and USA to his invasion of Crimea and Biden's capitulation in Afghanistan Putin planned and funded an uncontested invasion. Notice that Mearsheimer habitually finds some American action or inaction to blame for every conflict and usually must take even that out of context - expansion of NATO is to blame for Putin's plans even though every new country begged to be given protection from Russia.

Our GDP has shrunk as a proportion of world GDP from a third to a quarter, we have a lot of debt and poverty, The idea of American involvement is so people can stand on their own. Europe now can do that, so we should ration our resources. Everything you said is spot on. I was not a huge fan of this interview.

There are tons of atheist's who are moral and tons of Christians who are immoral. People are good or bad wholly based on who they are, no what made up cult they believe in, or not. What has changed is that people are less educated and have no critical thinking, reasoning, or logic skills. When you teach people what to think, instead of how to think, this is what happens.

Listening comprehension is vital here, Lord Roberts specifically said it's peanuts compared to the rest of the US military budget, period.

You are a well informed and critically thinker. The hypocrisy is staggering and makes a moral peaceful person disgusting .

Germany did not invade Russia in 1914, actually it was the other way around. Actually Tsarist Russia was the first major power to mobilize in WWI and the first battles all took part on German and Austrian soil. 1920 Russia attacked the newly created Poland (and failed) 1939 The Soviet Union allied with Nazi Germany to destroy Poland 1939 The Soviet Union attacked Finland 1940 The Soviet Union attacked Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (annexing them fully) and Romania (annexing parts of it) Stalin destroyed all the buffer states, without his actions from 1939 to 1941 the Soviet Union wouldn't even have a border with Nazi Germany, where a war could start.

@briangarrett2427 I think Vietnam was mentioned a bit unless I misremember. The English subtitles transcript might help you find when.

Mearsheimer believes in deterrence when it is in line with key strategic interests. For example, replace Ukraine with Taiwan and Mearsheimer would advocate for complete and unrelenting support with US boots on the ground. Blood and Treasure to protect our key strategic interests. In this example it’s preventing China from creating a larger sphere of influence in the South China Sea. The main reason it’s such a different situation is that China is a true competitor to the US and Russia is not even remotely close.

Please explain

Is he ?

….he’s way more knowledgeable than Tucker Carlson dude…..thats your partisan political isolationist position speaking.

I apologize for my ignorance. Who is Gonzalo Lurra? Thank you in advance.

I was going to say something similar. Its the incorrect framing in rhetorical trope. The stance is ‘stop bleeding us dry and taking advantage of us. Its part of our corrupt governments operations to abuse the apparent necessity of foreign power projection

Thirty four trillion dollars.

In for a penny, in for a pound. We can’t back down, it’s too late. We have to find a way as the reputation of everything that we hold sacred is at stake. I opine, anyway

У співвідношенні до ВВП маленька Естонія допомогла Україні відносно свого ВВП в 3,8 разів більше ніж США (1,26% Естонія проти 0,33% США). Країни Балтії дали найбільшу допомогу відносно ВВП - кожна більше 1%, Данія 0,51% , Польша 0,68%, Нідерланди й Фінляндія 0,44%, Велика Британія 0,37% Абсолютний лідер в грошовому еквіваленті допомоги - США, половина з якої -військова допомога, в неї пораховано всі витрати викликані цією війною, наприклад, вартість сучасного озброєння для НАТО на заміну старому, що надали члени НАТО Україні. На другому місці Німеччина, потім Велика Британія. Євросоюз надав трохи менше допомоги ніж США. Всі європейські країни включно з Великою Британією - більше ніж США. Більша частина всієї допомоги - цільова на невійськові потреби. Допомагали не лише США і європейці: Канада, Японія, Австралія, Південна Корея, Тайвань, Нова Зеландія... Більша частина - на невійськові потреби.

The UN is paying aliens to invade -- and destroy -- America. Trump has vowed to deport them. The enemy of the deep state will do everything in his power to reverse the damage; obviously. They cut monthly checks more than double to these invaders what I got when I was on disability, an American tax payer. Scary stuff.

Didn't he say 1 million in the best year?

The second Gulf War resulted from a massive intelligence failure regarding Saddam's chemical and biological WMDs. In the crucial 2003 Bush war cabinet meeting, convened to decide whether or not to invade Iraq, the President, who was uneasy about the WMD issue, asked CIA Director, George Tenet, a holdover from the Clinton Administration, how sure he was about Iraq's allegedly huge stockpile of WMDs, Tenet arose, slammed his fist on the table, and shouted, "It's a slam dunk, Mr. President!" The Tenet CIA's analysis was supported by the intelligence services of virtually every Western nation including Israel's vaunted Mossad. (We may never know if the Mossad's opinion was disengenuous or not. After all, Israel was understandably the country that felt most threatened by the rogue regime in Baghdad, and had to have been the most gratified to see that threat neutralized by a war in which the Israelis would not have to directly participate) In the final analysis, Saddam proved to be his own worst enemy. He had masterfully created the persuasive illusion that he actually possessed the WMD, in his mind, the next best deterrence to invasion other than nuclear weapons. (He had no nukes because Israel had previously destroyed his nascent nuclear weapon production facilities) Saddam erroneously believed that his convincing but faked stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons would persuade the West to leave him be, the porcupine defense as he saw it. That self deceptive miscalculation proved to be his downfall. The proof of the Coalition's belief in Sadam's WMD capability was the extraordinary lengths to which the invasion forces went in order to protect themselves with cumbersome chemical warfare suits and vehicle protective systems that greatly hindered their combat effectiveness. In the initial phase of the war, the Coalition forces suffered more from debilitating heat casualties than from enemy bullets. So, this gives the lie to the oft-repeated claim by historical revisionists and Leftist anti-Bush politicians at the time, that Saddam's WMDs were a specious hoax concocted to justify a regime change invasion of Iraq by "Bush, The War Monger". Regardless of the causus belli, we can argue endlessly about whether the Iraqi people are better off without Sadam and the Baathists. There is no question that the Gulf Wars dramatically changed the balance of power in the Middle East in ways unforseen by the antagonists, for good or for ill. Iran and Syria's influence have been strengthened, but the burgeoning cooperation among the Sunni Arab nations with Israel is probably a beneficial outcome as well.

Yes or no. I have watched another video in which a former CIA talked about this - USA also gets benefits as a kind of “demilitarized” budget spent among Europe countries can kind of avoid wars. His argument (the former CIA) was that previous in Europe there have been a hell lot of wars, you may seen it as some sort of defense budget for world peace lol But obviously when there’s are evil bullies rise up it’s really a bad choice. I guess ppl really bought into the idea of the end of history and thought after wwll no one wanna have another ww. I don’t think previously certain countries think RU and CN as threat.

​​@@siuwong4588 there are pros and cons but the US no longer benefits from the arrangment and Europe has had 70 years to get it together. It is time they stand on their own two feet.

Sorry my friend sensible people in Europe want nothing to do with America's mad wars.

After all, reason's only purpose is to provide us with rationalisations

"Wrong" = with which I disagree. This sums up the modern world.

He is a man of the establishment, no thinking outside the box.

We already knew that…nice rhetoric instead of a logical argument.

What are the right conclusions?

We literally gave them to him And then the UN ran sanctions on him in the subsequent years post Desert Storm Hussain was tried and hanged by Iraqi courts for his killing of over 200 people by chemical agents The disaster of the Iraq war was the political generals putzing around there for over a decade after Shock and Awe. We basically wanted it to be a democracy without enforcing it

He is committed to the Tory platform of achieving zero seats in the next election.

@douglasx6915 Unfortunately, as an understatement, China's not been a good neighbor to many of its neighbors, India, Indochina, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, at least since Xi Jinping came to power. Second, China's in a credit bubble, an incredibly high male:female ratio, and has decreasing respect for property rights. It's like they're undoing Deng Xiaoping's efforts that brought prosperity to China, and believe that prosperity will last without free markets.

Its so boring.His knowledge of affairs in Europe is childlike.Thats why Britain is an American vassal state and Russia is a great power

pfffffff he looks absolutely secure to me and many other sane readers, who also agree on his position on terrorist ground like Hamas that initiated brutally the current conflict on Oct 7th. As to ppl living there, they should do more than the Israelis to eliminate their kidnapper-oppressor Hamas. Outsiders opposing Isreal on this matter are just kind simpletons, to say in the least rude way.

Or perhaps he just happens to have views on that subject that are different from yours. I did hear him give various arguments for them in the video. 🤔

Jewish blind spot

@MagnusElpron Stateless, really? Also, you didn't understand the ratio argument, but that's alright since lots of Westerners despise math they commonly misinterpret statistics. The job of a military is to hit military targets - therefore the success in terms of accuracy of the military is measured in a ratio of military targets hit to total targets, including civilians. It's the same with American cops not being racist because their methods do jail criminals and get drivers with drugs with maximum probability, it just so happens a certain demographic really likes gangs, homicides, and drugs.

​@@gatocanada69That's what happens with covert socialists in America, blaming the successful out of envy, still believing in the labor theory of value. They say they're antiracist by becoming racists themselves haha.