Joe Biden's "Secret" Plan: the Indo-Pacific Strategy (2022).

it is extraordinary that in 2022 joe biden published a strategy for world domination let's call it what it is okay joe biden had a strategy for world domination and it was published as a pdf on the internet for all to see for these enemies in china to see for zamasu russia to see four journalists and members of the general public to see now generally when countries have a strategy for the domination of a particular region or domination of a continent or domination of the whole world they will not actually publish it most periods in the history of the united states of america the president has not published his grand strategy if he had one and sometimes presidents united states have engaged in before with really no strategy at all hmm what was donald trump's strategy in iran what was donald trump's strategy in afghanistan what was donald trump's strategy for israel now if you get outside of that what was donald trump's strategy for the future of north africa i mean like you can i can imagine there are probably these you know foreign policy wonks sitting there in the state department sitting there in the nsa sitting there at the cia sitting there at the pentagon they're actively involved in ongoing wars in north africa during the four years of the trump presidency like uh what what's this guy gonna do next what is the strategy here generally speaking a strategy of this kind will be secret it will be covert it will be implicit in the actions of a country so i don't go into this at great length but you may or may not know that right now france is engaged in quite a number of ongoing wars in north africa quite a few different offensives quite a few different armed interventions in north africa that france is engaged in what is france's strategy perhaps an exam it's an exaggeration to say nobody knows all right but there isn't a simple pdf you can download that's going to tell you what that strategy is to a very large extent it is secret now i think the british government is another very good example of this can anyone make a list of how many war and insurgencies ongoing around the world the british government is engaged and there's there's no strategy now so we're looking at here the the prospect of or the reality of joe biden stating openly what no other president would say openly or you can regard this as a kind of quote-unquote false flag operation i i know it's an overused term i know it's associated with conspiracy theorists but you know what if in this document joe biden is telling you the exact opposite of what he's actually going to do have you heard of this guy vladimir putin have heard about this in case you think false flag operations don't work in case you think misinformation put out by governments about military operations don't work this guy vladimir putin maybe you've heard him he managed to deceive the whole world into thinking he was just having peaceful military exercises right next to the border of ukraine right right up until the day he invaded now joe biden didn't believe it joe biden was the one voice saying no this this is an armed invasion of ukraine these are preparations for this is war materiel for these are munitions for ordinance for an upcoming imminent invasion of ukraine the director of the united nations didn't believe joe biden right up until the day of the invasion you had the [ __ ] director of the united states no no no no no come on come on these are just military exercises listen to putin believe putin it's perfectly credible he's having these peaceful exercises right on the ukrainian board there's no come on there's nothing to be concerned about that's a professional career politician foreign policy expert who was fooled who was taken in by this right until the troops crossed the line right until the red hot bullets were ready to fly okay he wasn't the only one right prime minister of france oh sorry i should say president of france the prime minister of germany the leaders of i think every single european country did not take joe biden's warning seriously and it wasn't even a warning joe biden just stated as a matter of fact again and again and again within the next few weeks the vladimir putin is going to invade history from memory he said it for about a month and a half it wasn't you know but he was saying within a few weeks he didn't know exactly the date but he said yes you know before we get to the middle of march there's going to be this invasion nobody wanted to hear it so if you think if you think lying is not a viable strategy we've just lived through seeing how incredibly effective how devastating in times of both peace and war a simple lie can be to your enemies now you know great comment from the audience do you want to give me what kiss says quote there is no exercise or maneuver for which you need 200 000 troops well i just say briefly without getting near this in great detail you know to me the great joke is that the the tangible evidence joe biden was working with is simply satellite photography to some extent we still use airplanes rather than satellites it's really it's the same thing in terms of looking at it on a table whether the photograph was taken by an airplane or a satellite it's aerial star it's overhead photography so it's very different from relying on a handwritten note from a spy 200 years ago you have someone who's infiltrated the enemy's side and who's telling you look this is what people are talking about in this army camp interpreting rumor and innuendo you're looking at a photograph of war material you're looking at exactly where it's being transported to and where it's being transported from it's generally what you're talking about very palpable hard facts now those facts are still open to interpretation but yes it is just ludicrous it is just laughable that joel biden was the one lone voice of reason leading up to russia's invasion of ukraine now all evidence to this point indicates that xi jinping that the elite level of the chinese communist party that they were also fooled that they did not know about this so now maybe in the next you know maybe the next 10 years or something more information will come out indicating that no there actually was a knowledge at the elite level the chinese government about what china was going to do next but at this time all evidence is that the government of china did not know about and did not agree to supporting uh putin shall we say escalating the conflict in ukraine because the conflict had already existed since 2014. it wasn't really a new war or new invasion but it was certainly a sudden uh escalation of hostility so if you think about the foreign policy implications of putin managing to cement this strategic agreement with china which is partly an economic agreement it's partly a trade agreement it's probably an investment agreement like it's there were many facets to the cooperation between russia and china he managed to lock that down and then go shake hands with xi jinping in beijing at the olympics and then days later you know go to war you think lying isn't effective in politics so look we have two possibilities here you know one is that joe biden has put his cards on the table for everyone to see exactly what his strategy is frankly for world domination and another is that this is a lie and actually what joe biden is going to do is the exact opposite what camel harris is going to do is the exact opposite is that this is an attempt to manipulate various world leaders now i don't think it was intentional that this document was buried by the news about the war in ukraine like i don't think you know they intentionally released at a time when it would be ignored by the mainstream media i think this was published as soon as they could agree on all the details and publish it it would have made sense for it to be published say a few months earlier even just one month earlier it would have made more of an impact but i can tell you melissa and i we've listened to the communist party of china's response to this oh this had a big impact in china and i certainly you know elite level of government in india other countries in asia will have received this message and they will be taking it very very seriously and how they will respond to it one way or another time will tell joe biden has said again and again from alpha to omega that he will not in any way militarily engage the russians that could also be a lie right he's capable of doing the same kind of trickery putin's been doing i just keep that in mind all right joe biden could say there's no way he's going to escalate this conflict there's no way he's going to escalate this conflict and then one day he pushes the buttons and missiles launched at a silos god and i just want to emphasize asymmetrical warfare is an option on the table various things will come to mind when i say asymmetrical warfare for you probably the first image that comes to mind if you're into politics if you're into you know political science everyone say probably the first damage comes to mind is responding through guerrilla warfare or covert ops that's not the only kind of asymmetrical warfare there is you can respond to russia invading ukraine by instead conquering belarus that's asymmetrical you don't fight on the same front you don't right it's an option you can say oh well you know we support the democratically elected government of belarus that was snuffed out and kicked out by the current corrupt regime i don't remember that that's that's hasn't been in the news for a few months now but there was this tear-jerking headline-grabbing story about belarusian democracy being choked out of existence by the horrible government they've got there well it's not too late to have a military intervention in belarus in the name of democracy right joe biden can do that tomorrow he can do it anytime and he can wait until public horror at what russia is doing in ukraine is so great that nobody is going to mind if he even uses nuclear war nuclear arms to settle this like he can wait until it reaches a point you can lie this is politics it's politics baby you can you know you want to talk about asymmetrical warfare russia has a number of weaknesses on their frontier really great asymmetrical response joe biden could do right now mongolia mongolia has an enormous undefended border with russia there is no buffer state mongolia has an enormous undefeated border with the people's republic of china with communist china mongolia has for years wanted to be in a military alliance with both japan and the united states that want to be a democracy on the pro-democracy team because america was in the totally hypocritical position of trying to maintain a military alliance with china a strategic alliance with china again in large part economic america has always stepped back and to my knowledge they've always told japan to step back i remember abe shinzo uh briefly talked about getting into an alliance with mongolia and right away everyone including most obviously most loudly china said no no no no if you if you set foot in mongolia there will be hell to pay well right now would be a great time for america to sign a treaty with mongolia and if you had just one detachment of the u.s marine corps in mongolia it's your purely symbolic presence setting up a tiny base with a little airplane landing strip doing training exercises for the mongolian military that would still be sufficient to say look guys when you color in the map this country is on the american side and guess what we can fill it up with missiles that you know we can fill it up with whatever we want this would be a thorn in the side of russia and a thorn the side of communist china simultaneously and this will cost america nothing i'm sorry you know you wasted trillions on afghanistan military alliance with mongolia cost you a few bucks this would be a bargain basement devastating move this is asymmetrical warfare and what are you going to say i mean again for the american people come and get it what do you want you want to conquer mongolia you want to do that too really bro okay so now you want to extend war in ukraine to being a war for the conquest of uh mongolia and if so you can imagine how that would escalate because in case you didn't know actually deep down inside russia and china hate each other deeply and if russia is invading mongolia the chinese are going to respond by saying no you don't and they're going to try to invade mongolia also you will seriously that would be the end of the russian chinese alliance that would be the end of it they would immediately become bitter blood enemies in case you didn't know from china's perspective mongolia has the same status as taiwan it used to be a part of china and now it's a breakaway state from the chinese the elite level the chinese communist party that is their perspective and by the way that's not totally fictional i mean historically you can get you know it's not you know it's not it's not as ridiculous as i don't know it's not as ridiculous as claiming that you know italy used to be a borough of new york city or something there are real historical reasons for why the chinese would would feel that way and see it though okay asymmetrical warfare all right just give you a third example what country is the closest to japan when you think about japan's borders what is the closest foreign country to japan many of you will say uh korea some of you might think taiwan get down to those funny islands in the south some of you might think the philippines oh gee what's what's the closest and obviously some people might guess mainland china and all of those guesses would be wrong the country with the closest international frontier to japan is russia and they are at war right now literally russia and japan never signed a peace treaty they still have disputed territories the border was never settled okay there is still on paper an ongoing war between russia and japan that's a weakness that's a weakness america can exploit right asymmetrical war oh you invade ukraine well we have a legal pretext to invade and conquer a portion of siberia basically however you want to put it we can conquer sackland island we can conquer the four smaller islands the japanese call them the kuril islands and say the greater karafuto area we can we can cut off a piece of russia right now if you're a cheapskate let's say america doesn't even bother occupying it all right you could just set off missiles and blow up the oil rigs devastating to russia you just destroy the roads with missile devastation you destroy the electricity though right the point is if you want to do it cheap if you want to do it low cost there are options and you can oh oh i'm sorry we never recognized this as russian territory we're not invading russia it's asymmetrical warfare you know the same way russia refused to recognize that crimea is legally a part of ukraine we didn't recognize this [ __ ] island north of japan as a legitimate part of russian territory and guess what you guys never signed a treaty at the end of world war ii that would make it a legitimate part of russia rather than japan so okay asymmetrical warfare and if you want to you can use nukes in any of these conflicts all right uh jewelbot got options [Laughter] um all right i'm going to close out the part of the video we're talking about ukraine in a sense this is only an allegory for what i really want to get into which is joe biden's secret strategy for world domination the good and the bad of it it's really important that you don't demonize the opposite side in politics if the other side that you're struggling against were entirely evil it would be easy to overcome recognizing that your opponents are a mix of good and evil recognizing that the strategy you disagree with has advantages as well as disadvantages is crucial to having a mature nuanced useful political mindset all right if you want to change the world you have to start with a profound acceptance that what the other side is offering is in some ways good even if what you are preoccupied with is the evil all right you know when you're up against an enemy that is entirely evil or if you think of them as entirely evil then there is no onus upon you to actually come up with a better idea with a better model for how to run a country or a better way to organize the continent you're talking about whatever the geopolitical situation is you know when you recognize hmm like i hate these guys these people are my enemy but some things they they're doing really work like there's some things that are effective there's some things that are good about their regime their republic their their empire whatever it is were criticized you know hmm as soon as you recognize that now there's an onus on you to do better so okay well what's my idea for how this country should be ruled or how this region should be governed whatever it is what's my idea that's really better than what they've already got george w bush was an incredibly stupid man if you're trying to make a list of the stupidest presidents of the united states in history i know today everyone's going to say it's donald trump there's an argument george w bush was really stupider than donald trump but it's it's tough it's tough race to the bottom the bottom ten stupidest presidents in his united states some of the early guys some of the guys who were alive you know the founding fathers some of those guys were really stupid too when you when you get into this all right um george w bush had the mentality that saddam hussein was a terrible dictator that his government was a terrible regime that it was all evil and that therefore the only thing he needed to do was to liberate these people from the evil regime and whatever political arrangements ensued would be better a nuanced mature perspective an analysis that's actually useful has to begin by recognizing there are some things saddam hussein is doing right there are some ways in which his regime works there are some ways in which it's good and we have to really understand that because if we destroy that regime if we just oppose it effectively right then you're pulling out those linchpins i shouldn't usually just clothes pins if you imagine laundry hanging in the wind right you have laundry and you're pulling out some clothespins here there are some things that hold this society together and you're removing them and you better have something better to replace this you better be able to rush out and put in your own clothes there was none of this mentality there was there was no mature nuanced understanding on george w bush's side right this was just the idiocy of thinking you could destroy the saddam hussein regime and then whatever eventuated really with no effort on the american side at all would be better right now again saddam hussein terrible person terrible regime like but i think you can see why it's really important to appreciate what those regimes are doing right so obviously one strength of the saddam hussein regime is that it completely suppressed the conflict between sunni and shiite within iraq right and as soon as you pulled out those clothespins you basically got a low-level civil war for the extent to which the shini spread me the sunni or the shiite side would control the capital city you know the region of our region it's a little different it's not the same up in kurdistan the kurdish area but generally we're talking about the most important parts of iraq there was a struggle partly a political struggle but partly an armed struggle for who was going to control the fate of the country would it be sunni or shiite right now and that involves iran iran and its proxy armies and its support for one side or the other another example would be the oil industry which is kind of important in iraq you know saddam was saying he had effective control over the oil industry as soon as the americans got involved in effect nobody had control over the olympia industry it devolved into a kind of gangsterism or warlordism all right kind of okay kind of a big deal and i've said this in in earlier videos you can there's a real option a real option i think explored in in the donald trump presidency you know nothing came of it there is an option to embrace the putin regime and say okay some things about this are evil some things about this could work out for the best long-term um i would compare that to here's here's a topical comparison for you who who was ruling spain during world war ii what was the government of spain during world war ii hmm yeah it was a fascist dictatorship that was also america's ally and that continued after world war ii right now some of you may not believe me you might think oh no that's not true spain was ruled by the phalanges regime there's there's some political science vocabulary and they were allied with the nazis if you look into it if you do the reading know in fact you know from their perspective their their alliance secret alliance was with the british and then indirectly from the british to the americans you know because the british americans were on the same side throughout world war ii but but the british began the war much earlier the united states enters world war two much later than england so from their perspective and from the perspective of the the dictator himself franco that was the strategic alliance he made and he very much assumed spain was arming itself to fight against the germans uh now i know surface level that's not obvious in world war ii but that is what really happened i've researched it never an essay about it and that is what explains the strange fact that after world war ii ends america is in no way asking for spain to make a transition to democracy there's no punishment put on spain this way there's no forcing them to you know no no forcing to change government in the way that america forced italy to change its government right the united states and western powers they basically forced italy to become a a normal democracy what do you want to say a parliamentary style democracy this didn't happen okay there is a completely machiavellian perspective to be had that you can embrace russia 100 and i think i've already outlined for you there's also a completely machiavellian perspective you say hey this is our opportunity to go into mongolia heavy this is our opportunity to go into northern japan heavy even this is our opportunity to stand up in front of the japanese people stand up in front of the japanese parliament the diet and say japan rip up your constitution and write a new one you guys committed to never having an army ever again well those days are passed you need an army now you need an army forever you need to be prepared to go to war with russia your closest neighbor a country you're still at war with you still have a border dispute with some results i mean america you know saying this could be the opportunity to re-arm to re-militarize japan as never before in a context where that makes sense this can be the opportunity for joe biden or camel harris to go to berlin and say people of germany you have a pacifist constitution you have basically an anti-military constitution not quite as extreme as japan's commitment to not having any army ever again well guess what those days are over all right you need to write an amendment to your constitution you need to have a real army that's capable of real military intervention not this [ __ ] you're doing right now with with ukraine you need to be ready to fight the russians now and forever this is a turning point in history because these are you know like they're both machiavellian embracing russia would be machiavellian opposing russian mankind i heard a brilliant insight from a real specialist in israel an israeli guy who used to be uh in military intelligence and now he's a journalist but this is just the kind of insight that true experts have that an outsider an amateur wouldn't have it's it's not really secret but who else would know this he said oh no what israel is doing right now is they're taking advantage of basically the russia's new status as a pariah nation they're taking advantage of it to massively expand israeli operations within syria this is really covert ops it's really military policy that that until now or for several years until now uh israel had remained somewhat aloof and distant from syria because the russian army was there and the attitude was okay we don't want to fight against the russians we don't want to cause friction with russia we want to kind of respect russia's sphere of influence and russia is doing its thing to stabilize the region and and the conflict right but now israel has to change that oh okay now we can go in and we can ultimately i'm sorry it's involves killing people now they have the attitude they can kill as many russians as they need to to bring about their own policy goals in in syria so that's that's the kind of change that see it's asymmetrical israel is not going to respond to this by deploying tanks to the donbass in ukraine israel is not going to respond to this by directly sending in paratroopers to kiev but there are other fronts for the russian empire that are that are very much um so guys i'm now going to pause that's kind of the end of the ukraine russia portion of this they might get mentioned but we're going to move on to joe biden's grand strategy for planet earth planet america this is a great time to make a comment if you want me to actually read and respond to it it's also a great time to hit the thumbs up button uh we have 39 people in the audience i appreciate you being here there's no advanced warning this is a saturday thank you for taking the time to think about politics think about the future of democracy think about ongoing wars and some hypothetical wars soon to come i mean really we've gone back into an era of cold war politics and although we've been talking so much about russia the other great cold war right now is china and the difference is in 2022 russia and china are on the same side whereas back in 1971 and 1972 russia and china were bitter enemies they were on opposite sides of the cold war some of you may not know that some of you may be tired of hearing me say it um but anyway we've got 39 people in the audience if we could have 39 thumbs up that'll be great it will help more people join the conversation anyone's welcome to comment i think you have to subscribe to the channel for 10 minutes so if it's your first time ever seeing this channel you can hit subscribe and actually before we talk for 10 minutes you can you can join it and make a big comment also so babe melissa my girlfriend is just off camera here is it it's a good moment for the the audience to say whatever's on their mind is there anything on your mind you want to chat with it is an exhaustive and exhausting conversation it's all right there's no no obligation yeah i mean the other the other big overarching topic here is just the the absence of democracy in american foreign policy um i made a very brief video a couple days okay sorry um do you mentioned another cold war this is now a new do you really think that there was a stop to the cold war this this kind of political yes yeah good question my answer is is actually yes i think there was a sincere period of american russian cooperation and you could say that it ended the moment putin came into power but i would say it probably ended a couple years after putin came into power because when putin first came into power there was still some western um optimism about vladimir putin i think you can actually see western optimism about russia displayed graphically if you look up the exchange rate of the russian ruble to the u.s dollar and decade by decade year by year how the value of the russian ruble keeps declining and by the way it just declined dramatically again so i quote that you i don't have the numbers memorized okay so at this point you know one u.s dollar is worth 40 russian rubles and then things get worse and it's 60 russian removal then it's 80 russian rules and now one u.s dollar will buy you more than 100 russian rubles it is it is just a coincidence um but western optimism western really here meaning america plus western europe optimism about russia it's got more s'mores but no i i think the reason why i'd say that so confident was just that i was alive at that time um you know prior to vladimir putin taking over the the government of russia there was real optimism that you know that russia would become a normal country you know that this was something and uh sir another sign of that i remember this around say 1995 western universities used to be full of russian people coming over to study in canada in the united states and so on as never before i do not know how many americans want to study in russia there was this brief period when the russian secret archives including their intelligence archives militaries were open to western scholars western researchers and historians going and looking at what had been secret just a few years before about how communism actually worked and secret killings they could have so no there was i think a legitimate period of of positivity when you could say the cold war was over and look i used to live in laos i used to live in cambodia you know it would have been in places like that where you felt most dramatically the end of that cold war because like up until a certain point there was a struggle between the russians and the americans for who would influence these countries the most and then it just stopped you know so that i mean i just say if you're in these peripheral spaces that had been contested in the cold war that in the cold war people were struggling to influence there you would have felt most dramatically when it when it stopped um yeah and i think i think it can be asked you know yeah you know now if you live in any of those places including athens greece what you're aware of is very much the cold war between china and the western world to what extent does china control thailand to what extent does china control cambodia allows et cetera but even to what extent does china control the perez harbor in greece compared to what that that's the major conflict but yeah there's a little bit with russia too there's a little bit of that kind of tension i mean so this is what we're getting into now we're moving beyond the ukraine front lines to get into uh you know get into really global domination um the whole the whole rest of the world um [Music] i was just gonna mention the other big theme here is the question to what extent uh there's any democracy at all when it comes to foreign policy and elite level uh geopolitics so you want to see that yeah well i was just thinking you've been talking about this madman leader and a lot of people are calling putin yes referring to him as a madman uh it's it's just really true that when we were living through the trump presidency i think everybody was on the edge of their seat or kind of biting their nails what terrible decision is donald trump going to be in charge of um and it turns out that you know um more of the uh maybe it's because i'm living through it right now but it does seem to me that currently this is this is taking hold of people in a way that nothing during the trump presidency did yeah this invasion of ukraine is is really uh capturing people's attention um more so than trump's brief uh yes right right right um so you know it's it's just it's just you know still it's it wants to emphasize that we have no democratic process in this like right we do not have a choice in choosing whether we will uh engage in a military conflict so let me give some smaller examples that are ongoing right now like today this week so it has been proposed that america could be in a strategic partnership with a military alliance with finland why don't you have a [ __ ] vote on that united it is states so i've set out for you guys a number of options you know asymmetrical warfare that's that's another way you can put nuclear missiles in finland if you want to fill up fill up finland with missile silos you know canada still is we still have missiles in canada that are aimed at russia from the cold war we still got them how many is the secret we don't know um but you know obviously finland is more strategically located if you want again put one detachment of the us marine corps in finland okay isn't that a decision the american people could make you know and i think it would be very interesting to put it to a direct vote a direct referendum in the united states america do you want to accept mongolia a treaty with mongolia a partnership with mongolia and again it's not a war like right now mongolia doesn't have a war but it entails that if in future mongolia has certain kinds of problems you're gonna you're gonna back up mongolia and a lot of people in america they've barely heard of mongolia they've heard of it in jokes on south park the tv show south park used to make a lot of jokes about mongolia building the city wall to keep up the mongolians so you know some of you know what i'm talking about but like mongolia americans would wake up and think about oh okay this is a decision to make and you know what if americans said no if americans made the decision you know what mongolia doesn't deserve our protection they don't deserve to be in this alliance with us or what have you then later on they would be able to think about reflect on the consequences of that you know they'd be able to hear their political leaders saying like you know maybe just a few years down the road the the conflict with china is getting worse and there were people in the senate or people in congress pointing the finger and saying look you guys made the wrong decision about mongolia i told you this was a crucial strategic partnership and we should we should put boots on the ground in mongolia and now look you know and american people would be involved you know you know something involved i'm not saying these people are brilliant i'm not saying they're intelligent not you know but you'd start to get an escalating level of political education escalating level of political involvement and a moral commitment to dealing with the outcomes of the wars that are ongoing as opposed to feeling that there is this technocratic class in washington dc there is this elite level of government that you can't see and can't touch and can't understand and they're taking care of everything for you they're making the decisions on your behalf and it has nothing to do with you and you don't you don't deal with consequences so yeah i'm just reading this i mean melissa is is raising the very general question of well you know why don't the american people have any say and whether or not we go to both russia and symmetrically in case you hadn't noticed the people of russia have no say in whether or not russia goes to war exactly yes a lot of what i'm seeing online is that nobody in russia is supporting this war and uh in the united states everybody is saying stop the war it's it's 2022. it's current year why are we having war still as though there haven't been military conflicts going on for the past 20 years we've all just been going to the shopping mall right you know but that disengagement is part of what makes it so sickening and what is the alternative okay so if we don't want war are we just going to let russia take ukraine you know what is the option here in action yeah right well no you know and look i just say like i'm actually open to the whole range of possibilities but i'd feel differently about it if there were a vote on it like i mean you know you could have a vote and hypothetically the american people decide you know what ukraine always was part of russia i'm like you could have a vote where the american people said hey you know let let them become a province of russia that that could you know right now in 2022 i don't believe that would happen at all i think way more than 50 of americans would say no we should we should fight for the future of of ukrainian democracy whether that's wise or foolish you know if my point being if there were more democracy um you would get this escalating level of public engagement public responsibility and political education you know right now why should americans educate themselves so one of the examples melissa referred to very briefly was in there for half a sentence was donald trump kind of sort of starting a war with iran now i remember the mood in america at that time politically you know even the right wing in america was just so exhausted and so fed up with the war in afghanistan the war against isis the war in syria and like the low-level civil war within iraq they were just like no nobody on the left nobody in the right nobody in the center nobody wanted to start a new war with iran well donald trump did and guess what you have a system of government where just one man makes all those decisions you know like a king as an elected monarch i just want to mention some of you may have seen the video some of you may have played it in the background while washing the dishes and not gotten the point because you didn't actually see the text that was on screen but i have a two minute long video that makes this argument i believe powerfully and somewhat artistically it's a slightly surreal slightly dyestic uh video if you don't know what dataism is you can google that too but this video in two minutes makes the point i think powerfully the american people have never voted on the beginning or ending of any war there has never been a direct vote there has never been a referendum on whether or not america should start a war or whether america should finish a war should end a war that's excuse no that's not how the vietnam war started it's none of the vietnam war ended that's not how world war ii started it's not world war ii ended and these were debates the american people were capable of of producing it korean war like what the [ __ ] was america's objective in korea and you know i'm not saying that i'm not saying that of an isolationist perspective but like the very simple and fundamental questions of what is the objective of the war like america quit halfway through in case you didn't know half of korea today is north korea do you have a vote about that do you have a vote should we just give up should we just let half of korea be this horrible communist dictatorship what sense does that make at one point during the war america had conquered all of korea by the way and then china entered and it's a long story an enormous number of deaths good luck i don't know still to this day can you get an honest estimate of how many chinese died in the korean war and by the way a lot of people don't know that a lot of people think that the united states and china have never directly fought each other in a war there's never been direct conflict or they think it's never happened in the 20th century or something there's never been a direct case of the us army and the chinese army going face to face that's exactly what happened in the korean war the for the most part americans weren't fighting koreans they're fighting the chinese no offense to the north koreans but they were outnumbered by the chinese to a tremendous extent and it was it was chinese men dying and it was chinese airplanes getting shot down the north koreans didn't have air force and this other kind of this kind of war material and chinese people died of starvation in that war too by the way classic maoists you know [Laughter] maoist economic management great to have you guys all here if you have a second please hit the thumbs up button i'm now going to take the time and read and respond to your comments if it's a good time to make a comment but say if you hit thumbs up it helps more people join the conversation while it's going on help people find the video six months from now and six years from now also and this is a video that will be fascinating for me to go back and listen to five years from now whether or not i mean so this is 2022. imagine watching this video in 2027. i'm being honest i can't imagine that in 2027 i'm gonna watch this video and think i was wrong wow i sure was misguided i sure was naive i maybe maybe in 2027 i don't think saying that i wish i could tell you i feel that in this video i'm taking a risk we're years from now in the future i'll look back and regret the political position that is truly inconceivable this is one of the advantages to being a nihilist i don't believe in anything now that i'm going to cease to believe in later so it's it's pretty hard for me to uh hard for me to see that that kind of that kind of future regret looking back at it but yeah the underlying issue here is that what russia china and the united states have in common is that their foreign policy is decided by just one man that there really is no democracy certainly no direct democracy involved the united states elects donald trump and then for four years everything in foreign policy everything in international relations can be decided by one man in one moment and it can be someone as crazy as as donald trump i mean now in this case you know so as i say this comes back to the first thing i said in the video joe biden has published his strategy sincerely or insincerely this this could be a formal misinformation campaign this could be telling you the exact opposite of what he wants to do but nevertheless it's causing an impact so joe biden is apparently overtly telling you what his strategy is but whatever he decides to do nobody else is involved it's just joe biden and people he hand picks to be his advisors people who are not elected people or the unelected assistance of the eop the executive office of the president and he rules like a roman emperor for four years that's it you know congress i think congress has anything to [ __ ] do with it oh reading your comments now guys yeah so wicked energy says i mean this is a nuanced problem in understanding china's position in 2022 quote the chinese just brought up how they were victims of colonialism when blamed for not sanctioning russia so yeah i mean it's a propaganda nightmare for the chinese because the chinese have justified their own foreign policy domestic policy and so on by saying that they don't invade anyone they're not trying to expand you know like the land that they acquired during the qing dynasty they intend to hold on to which includes you know xinjiang uh places like that you know they're going to hold on to tibet they're going to hold on to but they're not invading anybody they're not expanding in any direction this comes up a lot with the border border conflict between china and india china says hey we're not imperialists we're not trying to expand we're just trying to hold on to what we've already had for at least a century blah blah blah um so it is true a huge rationalization of chinese communism is that it is fundamentally anti-imperialist rather than imperialist now that's a transparent fiction that is a fiction that is very easy to see through it's a it's a fiction that it's very easy to perceive it as fictional uh put it that way um and this situation with russian imperialism i don't know how you can call it anything else but russia really reestablishing this grander empire more overtly than before that puts the chinese propaganda discourse into it into a difficult situation now without digressing into it in great length uh to make a list of the smaller uh russian imperialist projects from the post-1989 period this includes includes nagorno-karabakh how many of these can we do from memory without googling it includes quite a number of the central asian states the turkmenistan the greater turkmenistan region you know there's special arrangements with that the special eurasian economic union uh it includes transnistria the transinistrian republic being carved off from moldova which by the way is adjacent to and has a land border with ukraine it's right there this is another you know so and again i'm not i'm sorry and there's also this small part of georgia that russia uh carved off so yes south ossetia not not north ossetia south of city right so there you go from memory south ossetia nagorno-karabakh the central asian republics is one other uh the former moldovan region of trenton austria so russia has a track record this way and i am not saying this to demonize the russians um each one of those the russian perspective is coherent like it's not madness it's not um and look at a map why exactly is guam part of the united states of america great minds think of like uh google maps google it guam oops okay i have a typo there anyway guys if you don't know what guam is or where guam is guam is a territory of the united states of america indeed you could google uh unincorporated well it's too long anyway that's too much to get into but if you look at the outer territories if you look at the guano islands ruled by the united states of america there are a lot of very strange remote islands um that are part of the united states of america northern mariana islands and so on um legal status northern last i heard uh they were an unincorporated territory of the united states yes so officially northern mariana islands became part of the united states in 1986 um just put in that quote so the united states has its own history ongoing history this way sorry hey how about hawaii yeah it's an earlier period it's not it's not the 1980s the annexation of hawaii and the places america has annexed they are not rational in the same way that the creation of transnistra is rational or the sothosetia conflict like again i'm not okay it comes back to what i said earlier probably the most important point i can make in this video is that you should not view the other side as entirely evil you have to look at it as a mix of good and evil and see what it is they're doing right what is they're doing successfully or effectively and then when you do that it puts an onus on you to really innovate to really offer something better from your perspective what is your solution for the future of trans and easter egg may sound stupid but it's a real issue what's your what's your solution for the future of central asia do you want the work do you want france and germany to to start ruling and stabilizing predominantly muslim central asia do you think they can do a better job than the russians do already and i'm sorry uh can i list them off from memory from in turkmenistan kazakhstan tajikistan there you go turkmenistan in that area do you want a more aggressive american policy or french policy or german do you want do you want to play that stabilizing role in central asia that the russians currently are are playing can you do that better than russia or do you want to pull out those clothes pins you know sorry like you imagine laundry drying do you want to pull out those stabilizing clothes and replace them with nothing because if so you're going to get a situation like isis i can tell you exactly who will take over central asia it's going to be a combination of drug dealing organized crime like drug gangs and muslim fundamentalists you know uh guerilla armies or say terrorist group that's that's who can take over if you remove that strong stabilizing hand of you know of the nominally secular nominally democratic you know states that currently rule central asia working hand in glove with the russian empire that's the reality of what's going on in central asia 2022. so again it's not all bad it's bad but it's a mix of good and evil and you have to understand that in in a nuanced and sophisticated way um that was a long answer to a short comment and why i am asking your comments now guys 41 people in the audience great to have you here if you have a second hit the thumbs up because it'd be great if we had 41 thumbs up also okay so i think this is a mistake also um an anonymous commenter says quote russia is broke they have the gdp of florida their nukes need updating okay in terms of military strategy just looking at the military you're dead wrong but russia has the most effective fighting force in the world and they just proved it in syria they just kicked everyone's asses in syria with a tiny budget so you're talking about the the effectiveness per dollar of the military the russians are the best in the world they're an incredibly impressive army on every level now in terms of the poverty of that army and the poverty of russia as a whole what do you think your quality of life would be like if you were a soldier in the russian army the answer is terrible like just the quality of food and shelter and your quality of life if you bore a career soldier russia a further question what do you think your quality of life would be as a mercenary working for the russians directly or indirectly because they they do also employ these mercenary groups and to my knowledge many of the many of the men who join those mercenary groups they're russian soldiers who want a higher quality of life better pay you know that's exactly why they end up in those groups uh so the poverty is real but it doesn't mean what you what you think it means and sorry you know i just mentioned syria as an example i know haven't you noticed they conquered ukraine in about a day and a half uh no they have a tremendously effective army and it's ridiculous to underestimate them on that on that front and by the way you know i was talking about mongolia before i have no doubt that that russia could conquer mongolia and that's exactly what china is afraid of and china would counter it you know then you'd get into a war with with china if you spur the the russians to occupy or even extend their power uh into mongolia and that that that conflict goes on even with the question of who controls the railroad corporations whenever the russians increase their presence in the mongolian railroads the chinese say hey hey you know they can they can escalate from their side too they're very they're very concerned about that the chinese and they have historical reasons to be as i say on a deep level the chinese and the russians hate each other um but they are currently united by their shared opposition to joe biden and interestingly they're united in a way they were not under donald trump just a short time ago so again sorry some more kind of ignorance they just think some of these comments are ignorant but they're worth responding to from the same um anonymous commenter quote the people who are most dangerous with nuclear weapons are islamic fundamentalists who are happy to give up their lives for a free trip to heaven and 72 versions close so you are incorrect and this was a major factor in the war with isis the muslim fundamentalists take very seriously their commitment to never using chemical weapons so you will notice even though they're tremendously brutal muslim fundamentalists don't engage in torture they will never disfigure the corpse of an enemy who's already killed they have a series of religious principles they keep in warfare so by the way for example they will sexually enslave a woman but they will not rape her until they've gone through the procedure of enslaving her i know this may sound ridiculous but it's a religious code of honor those guys take that very seriously and the whole isis phenomenon start to finish you saw they fought by those rules so this kind of use of the chemical and biological weapons and so on is off the table for them so in many ways actually muslim fundamentalists are the easiest enemy to deal with their faith makes them predictable and it limits what they're willing to do in war they fight by a by a code of honor um so that's again obviously i'm not saying this to insult you but you are really incorrect and it shows that you haven't been reading really serious non-fiction about politics in the last few years because you you should know this um no and as bad as the struggle against isis was in in many ways that was never the concern that was never the problem isis was fighting for a traditional and indeed medieval notion of of government um it was not anything not any way come in contact with this kind of nuclear nuclear threat superpower thing was not their objective and no it's it's much more plausible that for example north korea would use nuclear weapons to make a point than you know isis or any of those muslim fundamentalist groups uh anyway yeah so i mean obviously i'm here talking about the the heart of the muslim world geographically if you get into muslims who are in japan or the philippines or muslims who are in africa maybe there are some muslim fundamentalist groups that are exceptions to this rule because they're highly eccentric muslim cult groups or something but no um i i mention this because it's it's instructive interesting uh comment from a greek member of the audience quote the prime minister of greece took the initiative and sent military equipment into ukraine a decision that was ruled unconstitutional he and he insinuated that if turkey makes a move america and nato support greece so uh welcome to the crowd uh constantia seems the same name as as constantine um welcome to the crowd i'm happy to have another greek in the audience i've been to greece recently i care a lot about greek politics and i care a lot about the conflict in greece and turkey that seemingly no one else talks about now again you are incorrect oh and there's another comment from you uh constantia also says quote however that wasn't the case in cyprus right so constantia i have said again and again on this youtube channel that nato must be abolished and replaced with a new treaty or a new clique whatever you want to say and the reason is turkey nato was founded on the premise that both turkey and greece would be members and you could say that this was based on the idealistic american assumption that if turkey and greece were together in nato peace and brotherhood would emerge between that the problems would disappear and you know that that was stupid and wrong but not completely crazy because you might say well greece and turkey are both terrified of war with the soviet union at that time or so you know put them together in this alliance and it'll work out obviously from an american perspective you could have that attitude towards cyprus it's totally false it's totally immoral it's also wrong it didn't work but that was the american perspective nato is a turkey centered alliance all right the cuban missile crisis happened because america had placed missiles in turkey aimed at russia right the early period of nato you know up to and including jfk's presidency john kennedy's presidency and the cuban missile crisis it was all about turkey now that may sound crazy but if you look at a map and you also have to think about this in politics very often the focus of your political activity um what we call in english the bellwether sorry i'm aware many people in the audience english is not your your your first language the bellwether or the watershed it's the part that you can change it's the part that's variable right that may be of decisive importance you know if you ask the question well why was turkey so important and not france france is going to support the united states anyway nobody has to do anything there's no real concern that france is going to support the soviet union there's no there's no two ways about it france can't play both sides you know france's commitment is obvious you know france is working um france was working hand in glove with the united states during world war ii and then and by the way the very morally disturbing transition to the vietnam war if you want to look at what france and the cia were doing together in those years whoa so frank france you know there's no reason for nato to be used to uh jockey france into position or like that's not what you're disputing so in the same way like in in elections very often you know politicians are focused on a minority in the population who could vote for either party who could vote they're the the watershed they're the bellwether they're the part that can that can change so partly just due to geography partly due to a variety of military factors it's a good place to put missiles if you want them to be able to strike st petersburg and moscow for many reasons turkey was seen to be of tremendous military importance at that time and now you might think okay fine but that's the 1950s and 1960s isn't that completely crazy when you get to the 1970s no turkey only increased in value because the united states chose to make an enemy out of india i've made other videos talking about that 1971 the united states becomes an enemy of india it's completely stupid it's completely crazy the united states enters into an alliance with china which is simultaneously an alliance against india and an alliance against russia incredibly stupid i have no excuse for that well that makes turkey even more important right so i'm sorry the reality is that basically right up to say donald trump america has been insanely pro-turkey they've been catering to turkey um they've been trying to keep turkey in the pro-american alliance as much as possible and that that is really the reason for the creation of nato you know if turkey wasn't there like what do you think what's controversial like oh you think i mean west germany today is just germany do you think west germany was not going to support america anyway tell you about the period time when germany was divided hmm well i'm not really sure what side we're on here like most of these countries don't have a choice they're desperate to be in that alliance you know um so you know the fulcrum of nato was turkey and now i'm for me it's very easy to say today in 2022 that makes no sense it's strategically dumb it's pragmatically counterproductive and it's totally immoral that's my perspective it's not joe biden's perspective joe biden is still pro-turkey and that comes that's in the strategy so yeah um anyway uh it's sad it's sickening it's evil it's wrong but if you were really following what happened in the war in syria the whole thing was a dance with turkey right and naturally enough i mean syria used to be a part of turkey like of course of course it's turkey's problem why is it america's problem why should washington dc rule over syria it's ridiculous of course but you know if you want to know what's happening in libya okay turkey is a player france is a player you know egypt is a player turkey is a is a big important power in many many many of these of these conflicts and you know i feel that turkey is really america's enemy certainly right now in 2022 and we're stuck with a cold war mentality i don't think it made sense in the 1950s or 1960s but even if you if you do if you accept that this made sense in the 1950s and 1960s we should admit that it makes no sense today and so for from my perspective the solution is to completely dissolve nato and start a new a new treaty and right now would be a great time to do it i mean if joe biden did that now everyone would sign up because everyone is united by both i mean put it this way everyone is united by anti-russia animus right now in a way that they were not united just six months ago by anti-china animus you know some countries are anti-china australia is very anti-china many are not you know many countries are they feel they can work with china make the best of it and again i understand why there's a lot there's a lot to like about china there is i mean again it's not all bad it's not all it's not all evil and okay sorry i know this is a long answer to a short question but it's i mean it's deep and i don't i feel not a lot of people know what i know sadly about about politics what if i try to argue against my physician on on turkey right now america supports turkey and america for years supported turkey in building an oil pipeline that would supply oil to western europe uh to compensate for the reduction of russian oil exports a reduction or cessation of russian launch that's america's grand strategy short term with turkey so they're saying to turkey hey if you're on our side if you stay in the pro-american camp the pro-nato camp you can make millions of dollars out of oil money you know this can be your strategic role so there is an argument and that is joe biden's position joe biden is pro-turkey joe biden feels that turkey is crucial to his anti-russia policy um he probably feels positively about the role turkey is playing in syria and north africa probably you know or feels more positive but he feels that it's fine to let turkey do its own thing there um [Music] so you know joe biden is in effect pro turkey so far could change and joe biden doesn't care about the future of democracy in turkey apparently nobody cares about the future of democracy in greece or cyprus which i think is a totally immoral excusable position i care but apparently you know joe biden doesn't and donald trump didn't either and the prime minister of england doesn't i have no idea i have no idea how the british and french and german sleep with themselves at night when the situation in cyprus is what it is it's so utterly immoral to me but that's carried on for decades and i mean greece itself situation is not that much better than cyprus um they really are in a perpetual state of war with turkey um you could you can call it a cold war all right so i'm just taking a moment to read your comments now guys so again a stupid comment but one worth reading out quote now we have feminism perhaps the young women will be conscripted to fight the next war close quote well right now allegedly about 15 percent of the armed combatants in ukraine are female so i'm sorry but you're just out of date we obviously we had women fighting in you know iraq afghanistan and so on but i mean israel i believe israel still has the highest percentage of women you know in in combat you know actually in active military duty of any power but if not you know no no i mean women women are fighting in war as as never before and ukraine itself is a showcase quote from long time viewer do you want to give me the kiss uh asking is obfuscation always necessary and effective i mean look sorry it's a good question all right shout out to abkhazia yeah i'm kenzie oh melissa says she was trying to add up kazzy out of the list um look is this strategy obfuscation like we don't know we do not know um so yeah anyways fine okay so here so uh constantina sorry i pronounced your name constantina uh comments we're all over the story we've known about this for years quote they have already agreed to use the nato base in alexandropoli for potential missiles you are talking to two of the people on earth who considered moving to alexandropoli permanently because of the opening of that base right that's how that's how pro-war we are and how anti-turkey we are it's on we knew about that back when the announcement was made we went to athens and look i'll be honest with you right now it's still a good idea for us we you know whether you think of it as opening a language school there because we could we could teach english we could teach chinese we could have someone teaching russian we could have a great language institute in alexandropoli and if you want to we can be involved in tourism to some extent also we can open a vegan gym i don't i'm just being honest i don't really want to run a vegan restaurant we could have a gym there or something we can go build an an empire in alexandropoli but alexandropoli it it partly it's the tourism ministry but it's partly a military town now and it'll be expanding but i was in droplet that's a that's a real temptation but we we seriously looked at buying a home in alexandria we really consider this it's colder than you think let's look it up right now it's not it's not that hot that's the disappointment oh i can't even get i can't even get a current temperature reading out of google it shows okay here we go uh so currently eight degrees centigrade give you that in fahrenheit for those of you 46 fahrenheit eight there's see it's not it's not that hot it's not cambodia you know what i'm saying anyway yeah not not hating on alexandropoli but yeah yeah alexandropoli this was this major strategic move by the united states that really matters and i'm sure the political elite and turkey know about it too but it's ridiculous you know we can't admit to ourselves like we meaning americans i'm canadian but you know we can't admit to ourselves that turkey really is our enemy just get over it and you know sorry england also if you don't know sir you're talking about alexandropoly you must be aware england has an enormous military base on the island of cyprus it's been there continuously for a hundred years i'm sorry roughly a hundred years approximately hundred years but you know you know england should be involved they should be showing a lot of uh initiative in that conflict and they're and they're not so fine so great as i said i think this is ending the the ukraine part of the discussion because we have so much more to talk about with u.s foreign policy but wicked energy asks quote thoughts on russian mistakes and you train tanks getting stuck in the mud running out of fuel um etc so i've got to tell you what energy i see that as 100 uh propaganda maybe this is a good transition i see a lot of [ __ ] in the newspapers that reflects the fundamental fact that when you have a strategy you don't talk about it publicly like normally in foreign policy peace or war even in times of peace your strategy is exactly what you don't publish what you don't tell anyone about and um you know there are these newspaper stories about how how amazingly effective shoulder-mounted anti-tank missiles are [Laughter] let me tell you something the missiles that are really effective are not in the newspapers that way that's a propaganda that's that is complete [ __ ] you know like oh yeah we have these amazing stinger missiles we have these amazing yeah really you know this is so there is there's just outright silly propaganda in in in the newspapers and you know tanks running out of gas in the mud [Laughter] look the reality is russia conquered ukraine in about a day or a day and a half and um you know if they wanted to they could have already completely demolished the capital city they could have already completely burned kiev to the ground are you kidding yourself i assume it's just that if you for humanitarian reasons they haven't done so they're in a position to just set up um artillery and and have artillery shells incendiary shells raining down on ukraine and the city could be completely demolished you know so you know the russians won the war and they won the war so rapidly that most of western europe was left in a state of stunned disbelief and you know you know some tanks somewhere ran out of gas you know it's totally possible that their orders were this is normal in war this was already normal in world war ii it's totally possible their orders were headed this bearing until you run out of gas and then set up tank to set up camp there that's normal it takes you a lot of gas and then we'll send trucks to give you new fuel if and when we want to move you but those could have been the orders to begin with just proceed you know proceed by so many degrees north by northwest um until you run out of gas normal anymore but but yes i also have heard some of these ridiculous stories in the newspaper about you know the tremendous victory is being won by the ukrainian side yeah right you know right now which which army is occupying odessa okay like take a look at oh you you know the news is admitting today that ukraine no longer has any access to the ocean so you have no more access to the harbor in odessa who who won the war let's get real but look you know um the issue with greece that's obviously the future for ukraine i mean if ukraine is going to have a future independent from russia it would be a future integrated with greece period that has to be their connection to the outside world you know um in terms of maritime traffic most obviously but also economically and culturally really you'd be proposing a kind of greco a ukrainian alliance integration which by the way in some ways the greeks would hate in case you haven't heard the greeks hate the macedonians the greeks hate the slavs generally it's it's basically just racism it's also partly religious rivalry so you know melissa's smiling you gotta no i don't know maybe some some anything with this but you know they they don't get along easily but that obviously that's what ukraine needs and it's probably what the greeks have to accept would be um partly a strategic alliance but also a cultural and economic alliance that really really brings them together and obviously from my perspective all these people have to give up their religion and become atheists i think it's just a joke but you know ukraine has its own independent church the ukrainian orthodox church and greece has an orthodox church and they don't get along so that's a that's a problem yeah this ain't cnn you will not get this level of honesty about politics on cnn so look um certainly a segue from from ukraine america is saying in this document that they are 100 in an alliance with india against china are they are they really what if that's a false flag what if that's a holo boast within just the last few days the people of the world have been asking why does india support russia just a few months ago we were hearing all this drum beating about how india and america were now allies as never before against china i would not say this was received with rapturous applause within india the people of india deeply hate and resent america not that surprising because america was a military opponent of india's from 1971 to 2021 you know who was india's supporter and ally from 1971 to 2021 actually started a little bit earlier than that russia all right and the alliance and military cooperation between india and russia continued through the end of communism follow the berlin wall however you want to put it right it has basically been a continuous partnership continuous cooperation 1971 2021 and the indians are saying loud and clear right now they want their cooperation with russia to continue in 2022 and for the foreseeable future so here is one striking respect in which this whole document the official secret strategy of joe biden can be maybe complete [ __ ] it may be completely misleading it may be that the alliance between the united states and india is more seeming than real now you know given the declaration of what's called the quad the quadrilateral alliance how we want to put it um given the the declaration of that um would it be unreasonable to expect india to be saying loudly and clearly that russia's invasion of ukraine is wrong and that india supports nato india supports united states america and india sports western european powers like germany and france in opposing russia's illegal and immoral expansion conquering various parts of ukraine why would that be unreasonable why would that be surprising now i'm going to be real with you today japan is also not a very enthusiastic supporter of the united states of america i my overall feeling is japan is frankly kind of dragging its feet japan a very good example japan is very happy to do business with iran japan and iran have much more positive relations much more positive cooperation much more economic involvement than america wants them and basically right up until 2022 japan was trying to do the same thing with russia they were trying to have as much positive cooperation as possible make as much money as possible if we're being all the way honest england the city of london england deeply embedded in the russian economy and russian economy was deeply embedded in the city of lotus another now you know it may seem like the total amount of money russia has to offer isn't that great let me tell you something downtown london the city of london it counts for a lot goes a long way russian millionaire money goes away cyprus also by the way talking about cyprus russians have a big impact on the economy of cyprus this is another example so you know it's not enormous the russian economy but it can feel huge whether you're in london whether you're in cyprus or whether you are whether you're in japan so you know the fact that india is not on america's side in ukraine in opposing russia you can ask the question does that extend does that expose the extent to which this whole document is a kind of disinformation campaign is a kind of intentional uh fraud a kind of intentional deception but so far is this you know okay another a very different interpretation what if this is completely earnest but it is as we say aspirational what if this is joe biden saying that the position he aspires to be in is having a totally positive alliance with india or india and america on the same side and together they're opposing china very different now what this whole document avoids doing is saying that america is on the side of democracy and that it's opposing tyranny why would that be hard to say why would it be difficult to describe america's agenda under joe biden as being pro-democracy anti-communism anti-dictatorship anti-tyranny why is that well it's it's real funny when you look at the list of allies the list of alliances that america either actually has or that they are claiming they have again on a huge scale to what extent is america's military partnership with india just smoke screen to what extent is it [ __ ] to what extent is it not really a viable alliance right now warren ukraine exposes this that it may be a phony or hollow or unreliable alliance well you know also prominent on the list here is vietnam again this isn't saying aspirationally in the future hypothetically we'd like to be in an alliance with vietnam against china it's seeing that it's already now an accomplished fact right so i ask you i don't know and i think this is top secret i think really nobody in this audience can i think you don't know how close are vietnam the united states to what extent are vietnam the united states right now in a military partnership in a strategic partner to what extent do they have a treaty or commitment kamala harris went there in person why why did camilla harris go to vietnam what document did the vietnamese government sign or what did they just say verbally and seal with a handshake with camel harris what was the commitment made but you said some of these things are secret the promises america has made to taiwan are totally secret nobody knows and nobody knows if they count for it you know whereas the promises america and england made to ukraine were overt they were written on paper and guess what they counted for nothing you know neither england nor america kept their side of the bargain when ukraine signed that agreement to get rid of their nuclear arms in response to assurances that their territory would never be taken away from them someone in the audience know the exact year that agreement was that was in the in the 1990s after uh when communism was falling apart the denuclearization of ukraine uh involved this complex treaty in which the british and the americans said they would basically back up ukrainian territorial sovereignty and the russians said well they don't want any terror they don't want to take away any land from ukraine so it was no problem for them they signed it also since then in russia things changed but at that time russia was happy to make that commitment i assume it was sincere just for the people who were in in charge in russia that time they didn't think they they didn't think they wanted to conquer crimea so hand it over um perhaps the most telling paragraph in this document that is full of studiously opaque and misleading baffle gab is the list of america's military alliances in two tiers two levels it's very significant to pay attention to which names are in the second tier instead of the first year the lower tier instead of the top tier and it's very significant to think about the countries that are not named at all that are just omitted from this list okay so this is overtly joe biden's grand strategy we are deepening our five regional treaty alliances with australia japan south korea the philippines and thailand end of list not india india is not in that list india is not in the list of countries they have a treaty alliance with who else is not in that list taiwan are you telling me the united states does not have a treaty alliance with taiwan really that's interesting that's now i'm going to read you the the tier 2 list the lower tier list right it's great to have 50 people in the audience if you have a second please hit the thumbs up button some of you been here for a whole hour some of you just arrived but it helps more people discover the video both while i'm recording it we can join in the conversation later please take a moment to hit the thumbs up and guys here's here's the lower tier list okay india indonesia malaysia mongolia if you've been watching since the beginning i warned you i told you mongolia was important right new zealand singapore taiwan vietnam and the pacific islands unnamed unspecified uh pacific islands now why would the philippines be in the top tier list right and why would taiwan be in the lower tier list the lots of countries here that aren't mentioned at all how about brunei sultan of brunei is reading this and he's got to worry which side is he on why does he not have a treaty alliance with america right there are a lot of countries big and small how about nepal if you're in nepal right and you say whoa whoa whoa whoa mongolia is on this list but not nepal why okay that matters it matters to america it matters to china it matters to nepal it matters to india why isn't nepal on the list so again there are two tiers here the first are treaty alliances it is completely surreal to say there's no treaty alliance with taiwan what is america's status with taiwan if not a treaty alliance right so my point is this is [ __ ] but it's [ __ ] that matters politically how can you say you don't have a treaty alliance with anyone and conversely how can you say that you do have a treaty alliance with the philippines like what is the definition of treaty alliance here right now again i'm not saying there's no paperwork between america and the philippines but that's pretty weird that's pretty weird what definition you know south korea i think is self-explanatory not all of these okay sorry thailand thailand what is the alliance you have with thailand exactly you know i'm just raising i'm not saying there is no answer this question but this is telling you the mentality of of the biden presidency what if right now you are a part of the government in laos or cambodia you're not on the list at all what's cambodia's status what's the status of loss there are a whole lot of countries that are gonna have to ask themselves these these tough questions okay but the top tier is a treaty alliance which is apparently something taiwan doesn't have with the united states america but the philippines does the lower tier is simply described as countries that america has a regional partnership with these are regional partners so that means nothing that means whatever the [ __ ] you want to say it means so there's no treaty with india india is only on the lower tier list of a regional partner right read it again real quick india indonesia malaysia so let's just stop those first three so you've been saying all this stuff about how you're in a military alliance with india against china no you're not your relationship with india is just as shaky as your relationship with malaysia and indonesia so what malaysia and indonesia are about 99 muslim i'm sorry you can look maybe it's down to 98 or 97 at this point okay what what the [ __ ] what really do you think is the political relationship to the united states and malaysia political relations between united states and indonesia like are you kidding me you think the united states has a positive relationship than it is and how does it compare to the philippines by the way the government of the philippines is actively involved in slaughtering muslims on a weekly basis if you didn't know there's an ongoing low-level civil war within the philippines basically to suppress the muslim population there like how do you think malaysia and indonesia feels about the american military presence in the philippines and that really and you got india on the same level of partnership as as malaysia and indonesia oh oh hey during the war in afghanistan do you remember malaysia and indonesia supporting the united states of america huh huh oh hey right the [ __ ] now right now in ukraine or what's what's malaysia been doing in ukraine what is the position malaysia and indonesia have taken against the russians and what do you think they're going to do in the week's ed really so those countries are on the same tier as india and i've already been asked the question what what is india going to do my answer is i think india is trying to sustain the partnership the cooperation they've had with russia really since before 1971 but 1971 was a turn point where it became much more important because indian united states became enemies okay so this level we have again india indonesia malaysia mongolia mongolia very interesting uh political chess board okay new zealand singapore taiwan vietnam and the pacific islands what's gonna happen in the next five years and again joe biden has had the luxury of saying that his agenda is to be pro-democracy and anti-dictatorship pro-democracy anti-communism pro-democracy anti-tyranny this document does not say that this document says loud and clear that joe biden is anti-china and that he is willing to support and he is willing to get into bed with any other country that is anti-china no matter how despicable is vietnam a democracy how democratic really is malaysia indonesia the philippines really so it's not about being pro-democracy that's a choice that's the choice joe biden made right and now we're all going to deal with the consequences for the next 10 years 20 years whatever it proves to be certain certainly i mean i think the next president at states after joe biden will also be a democrat now i don't think joe biden is going to run for a second term of office just because of his old age but whether it's kamala harris or someone else i think we're going to see joe biden's joe biden's legacy continue on now you know quote through our diplomatic engagement foreign assistance and work with regional organizations the united states will be a partner in strengthening democratic institutions the rule of law and accountable democratic governance close quote hong kong what are you gonna do nothing myanmar what are you gonna do nothing right is there a lot of big questions here now look again i'm i'm also open to talking about countries like nepal nepal has significant amount of democracy i'm iran and there are a lot of countries iran is partly democratic like they do have elections and they have newspapers that can talk about politics i mean there are a lot of these countries that are in that are somewhat democratic or it's more nuanced okay but myanmar and hong kong these are really clear tests for american foreign policy and frankly the taiwan versus communist china uh which by the way i'll get there hashtag spoilers this document takes the most immoral position the most hypocritical position on taiwan possible joe biden didn't have to do that there's no pressure on okay um so you know here is a sentence that matters a great deal to everyone every country i've just listed off this document including even in indonesia malaysia quote in particular we will build support for rules-based approaches to the maritime domain including in the south china sea and east chassis so it's clear as mud there were a few other passages that say the same thing without any greater specificity or clarity but this basically means they're going to fight against china's claim to the south china sea china's claim to control the south china sea the so-called nine-dash line uh map which is also referred to as the seven dash line map and the 11-line map it's all the same app but china's claims to the south china sea displayed on a map with some number of dashes in the line so crucially yeah now again on a very separate page it completely vaguely states that america is in this partnership to support the rise of india and india's regional leadership and that they've formed this alliance called the quad which exists obviously i'm rephrasing to oppose china's government pardon me to oppose china's dominance and to support an increased role for india all right interesting but this may really be disinformation this may really be just what america wants china to hear and there may not be any underlying reality to the supposed alliance with india quote the united states will continue to stand up for democracy in burma working closely with allies and partners to press the burmese military to provide for a return to democracy including through credible implementation of the five-point consensus i interpret that to mean america is going to do nothing for me anymore i think that is a polite way of saying it and it is interesting that you would declare this openly in a so-called strategy of this kind most shockingly this document states with no pressure in the american government to do this that the united states of america supports the one china policy which is to say that they support the notion that taiwan is not now and never will be an independent country that china is pardoning that taiwan is just a province of china the one china policy means that you do not recognize taiwanese sovereignty you do not recognize that taiwan is now or could be or should be in the future a separate country that taiwan is just a an eccentric province of communist china i have no idea why he said that nobody forced him into a corner to do so i need to quote the text it just states bluntly out of the blue that the united states of america still supports one china policy uh on top one okay i'll get hold on search the pdf here and get the exact word here we go quote so melissa if you want to look it's on page 13. the top of page 13. [Music] we quote we will also work with partners inside and outside of the region to maintain peace and stability in the taiwan strait including by supporting taiwan's self-defense capabilities to ensure an environment in which taiwan's future is determined peacefully in accordance with the wishes and best interests of taiwan's people why didn't you use the word democracy i don't know why didn't you use the word communism too this is anti-communism i continue quote as we do so our approach remains consistent with our one china policy and our long-standing commitments under the taiwan relations act the three joint communiques and the six assurances so that is a totally bizarre i have no idea why in the year 2022 joe biden or anyone else would say they support the one china policy i don't do you who the hell would support the one china policy i think it would have been much better to say the exact opposite to say the one child with the one china policy is a fossil that should be put in the museum and it should have no significance should have no meaning in politics today that taiwan already is an independent country and that everyone should recognize that and everyone support should support taiwan in its struggle against chinese communist dictatorship given that the whole document's major thesis is that america is now and forever in the future part of this grand world spy spanning anti-china alliance an anti-china alliance that is so important apparently that russia is just a footnote to a footnote in it and there's no interest in russia in this document and there could be i mean i know i know even though the title is that it's the the indo-pacific one still you could have you could have several paragraphs in there or you could have a major thesis about how russia fits into that because guess what you know russia also controls a significant part of the pacific coastline casey didn't know russia goes all the wasting it controls part of northern japan as has been mentioned you know well russia is a pacific power too russia is there at the end of pacific and russia has its own policy in myanmar and cambodia and everywhere else they're very much a palpable um presence so you know joe biden's thesis here is that the immediate future of the united states of america is a struggle against china period and that they're willing to be allies with vietnam and they're willing to ignore the lack of democracy in myanmar frankly the lack of democracy in places like the philippines and numerous other partners they don't care about anything else they're willing to work with anyone who will join their their anti-china alliance and russia is a footnote to a footnote in this in this grand strategy maybe it's all [ __ ] in a sense i kind of hope so but sadly i uh i suspect that this really is earnestly enough joe biden's strategy and also it states his aspirations that it's an aspirational document this is what he wants his relationship with india to be it's what he wants the relationship with vietnam to be so on and so forth and it's possible that some of the countries who are slated in this that it's actually trying to excite their jealousy what you're trying to say to nepal look if you want to if you want to be on the same level you have to step up you have to make an effort to justify being a strategic partner in the united states you know it's possible there's some some jiggery pokery uh going on that way okay guys i'm gonna wrap it up but right now is a great time to make a comment that i'll actually read and respond to now is a great time to the thumbs up button by all means share the link with any share the link to this video with any friends or family you have who will be horrified to hear this because it is it is horrifying it is uh melissa if you want to if you want to add anything if you want to you know object you may you may do so um let me just ask whether you were japanese or burmese or iranian or any other nationality you know if you're looking at this from the outside why should japan support the united states if the united states is not going to unambiguously support democracy in taiwan why would that be too much to ask from the united states why would that be too much as back especially given that it doesn't cost america anything you know i mean conquering afghanistan cost you a lot of money for the debt it's unfathomable how much money obama wasted in afghanistan and by the way i'm saying obama because if you look at the budget totals obama spent vastly more money than george w bush did in that sample unbelievable okay well you know it cost you nothing why can't you have an america that stands up for democracy in myanmar in hong kong in mongolia in taiwan and if the united states of america doesn't stand up for any of these things what then what is this alliance were supporting and why because there would be advantages to getting along with china or supporting china to some extent including obviously economic advantage there's a lot of money involved what what is it that you're asking the allies uh to support now look i care a lot about politics in thailand i used to talk about it more on channel thailand has a very tenuous and difficult relationship to democracy i think it's fair to say thailand is a country that struggles to sustain democracy why can't america have a really strident passionate position on democracy in thailand you know i it wouldn't cost them anything where you know they say hey we support the democracy you have now we want you to be even more democratic we want you to improve and and move in that direction and instead you know america has this very cagey detached and distant attitude towards thailand when it has repeatedly lapsed in and out of periods of military dictatorship of having at least formally no democracy at all so joe biden has taken up a position that is both impolitic and unstrategic it's both immoral and ineffective i don't think he's playing to win and he's also not playing to be right like morally you know it's it's a very strange position he's adopted i have no reason to think japan will really support america in this i have no reason to think india will really support america in this and you have to ask from the japanese perspective or the indian perspective what's in it for us what's in it for me why should we now let's come back to turkey where was turkey mentioned in this document i think i can check right now i think turkey is not mentioned even once i think turkey's name does not appear in this document you are expecting right now i'm just doing a search you are expecting the turks nope turkey's name does not appear neither as an adjective nor is now you were expecting the church to support the american empire u.s foreign policy what's in it for them you know the so obviously we can give a complex answer we started to trace that but this is this is the deal in america is going around the world to these junkets and they're saying sign up now to support this unfortunately it kind of it raises some really difficult questions and it doesn't provide the answers precisely answers should be giving instead you get a lot of baffle gab about how america is gonna support a free and open economy in asia well you know if i lose the ability to trade with china and i lose the ability to trade with russia and to have investment both ways the china russia that's not actually a free and open economy like if you ask a country like laos cambodia thailand to cut off trade with china that's not afraid of economy that's a pro-american embargo an anti-china embargo that will have devastating serious effects on the on the local economy for any of those countries but china is a huge percentage of the world's economy but it's a huge percentage of thailand's economy it's an even bigger percentage of thailand's economy right uh you know now the vietnamese may be down for it the vietnamese intensely hate china there's a deep you know slightly racist hatred uh between the vietnamese and chinese it runs deep there's a lot of real animosity there guess who else the vietnamese hate the americans i mean so you know you're trying to entice the vietnamese into supporting this in the name of this very vague notion you know free trade in the south pacific meaning uh trade with america well that is simply not very convincing uh a case so yeah it's strange i think that joe biden oh i can argue against miss but i'll read your comments in a second guys if you want to make a comment now if you want to give it a thumbs up now it's a good time um i will argue against my position and say the sense in which joe biden is right but obviously my first and most fundamental reaction to this is to look at the extent to which the ways in which joe biden is is um as i say both morally and strategically this seems to me a step in the wrong direction i think i think he's undermining um what were maybe some of the good ideas uh that were unveiled in the first few months of his presidency no mention of saudi arabia i could just check how does saudi arabia fit into this one of the most powerful countries in the world no mention of iran i'll just search i think iran might get a brief mention in there as being part of the problem let me just check no so the whole document no mention of saudi arabia no mention of iran um [Music] you know the name of thailand appears three times by contrast not at all mentioned saudi arabia and a single mention of iran you know of course those matter you know i know but you know but iran matters i'm sorry but specifically trade trade between iran and everyone in this part of the world matters but you know no iran i mean sorry in this okay let me just say this from donald trump's perspective iran is more important in the asian policy than china you know and you know from an american perspective how much more important is china than iran you know they're both major major foreign policy priorities or concerns and you know certainly also you know i think it's conspicuous to what extent is north korea just uh ignored you know um i will i will quote you what it says about north korea [Laughter] isn't this cynical it's not well written by the way the quality of writing is poor quote the covet 19 pandemic continues to inflict a painful human and economic toll across the region the democratic people's republic of korea dprk that means north korea that means communist north korea continues to expand its illicit nuclear weapons and missile programs indo-pacific governments grapple with natural disasters resource scarcity internal conflict governance challenges so dprk north korea has just mentioned here in passing as one of the problems in the region we then have later this is page 13 same page i was quoting earlier quote as the dprk continues to develop destabilizing nuclear and missile programs we will continue to seek sustained and serious dialogue with the goal of the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula and addressing its ongoing human rights violations and improving the lives and livelihoods of the north korean people at the same time we are strengthening extended deterrence and coordination with south korea rok and japan to respond to north korean uh provocations remaining prepared to deter and if necessary defeat any agree any aggression towards the united states and our allies while bolstering counter proliferation efforts throughout the region so you have a shrinking of the north korean problem to being nuclear missiles the problem with north korea is democracy with the lack of demand right like you know why not say that why not say we support taiwan because it's a democracy we support japan because of democracy in the future we want north korea to be a democracy just like japan just like taiwan like that's that's your agenda why do you pretend that your role is purely this crisis management defensive role of saying well we're going to manage the hostility of the dprk of north korea you know so yeah i think that's a fundamentally covered thing what do you say i just find it interesting that they say they will work with a wide set of actors including all the vessels and manage crisis okay a good one let's add that no you're right it's it's a great quote to lift again page 13 while reinforcing extended deterrence against nuclear and ballistic missile systems and other emerging threats to strategic stability the united states will seek to work with a wide set of actors including our rivals to prevent and manage crises so the myth being prevented the lie being prevented to you is that now in 2022 america is going to be able to cooperate with russia and america is going to be able to cooperate with china to suppress north korean belligerence that's not true you [ __ ] kidding me kidding me sorry but you know mail that to 1995 i mean it was true at one point you know if you go back far enough that was true that russia china and america were all on the same side and managing the insanity of the north korean dictatorship but today yeah this is this is a fantasy and it's also again it's strategically inept it's also just totally immoral now this is not back in the old days these called the five-party talks right i think so the five parties were china america uh russia south korea north korea five-party talks those those days are gone okay so quote from alec in the audience alex a long time viewer of the channel quote i guess they can say they think china and taiwan should eventually be one country but not until both sides are democracies question mark they could say that they never say that now alec what if i repeat your statement and i replace the word taiwan with hong kong hong kong used to be a democracy china snuffed out democracy in hong kong to some extent gradually to some extent suddenly over recent years you know if you've been reading the news in the last 10 20 years you will have heard about this process uh as i said i was in hong kong when they had just had the handover ceremonies so many years ago when i was when i was a boy um anyway i saw the fireworks on the ground the ashes of the fireworks was still on the ground from the handover ceremonies when i was there i wasn't there for the the festivities it was there right after the handover ceremony said taking place when hong kong became part of chinese uh jurisdiction um what if you were instead saying that china and hong kong should eventually be one country but not not until both are democracies that would be a very powerful statement for america to make you could make that an american federal law or a policy or you could state it in the treaty you could write a treaty with taiwan say look we we support you eventually becoming part of china but only this but guys it's [ __ ] and this is 2022. it would ho here's a different perspective alex sorry i'm not saying this to assault insult you i'm just here's a contrasting perspective what if america's policy was that really taiwan and japan should be part of the same country that there should be a federal government uniting the democracies of east asia japan taiwan samoa throwing a few of the pacific islands should have a pacific democratic federal union for their mutual defense and economic benefit that you should have an eu of each specific south pacific tonga not enough people talk about the politics of tonga you know for real you know obviously you know australia could be part of it or australia could be it could be out of it be an interesting question but you know why why would you want taiwan to be part of the same country as communist china instead it could be in the past it was it could be part of a union of some kind with japan that'd be better for everyone by the way i actually almost broke down weeping when i saw this in taiwan i was alone at that time i just i just mean physically melissa wasn't standing there with me but i remember i was walking down the street there so i'd have to really remember when this was and there was this small office set into a wall and so in taiwan anything can be a political party that's true in many countries but many political movements in taiwan register as a political party i'd assume their tax benefits or something i don't know that but you know so instead of just being like in america there might be a pac there might be a political action committee there might be registered they'll actually register as a party but there was this political organization and it was this organization and what they were arguing for was honesty about the fact that what is in taiwan's interest is to embrace the united states of america and embrace japan to say openly the situation of taiwan is that we are in an alliance with america and japan not china and evidently it was founded by military veterans um you know again i was there i was literally reading their propaganda i was staying there looking at and they they put openly they had the flag of taiwan the flag of japan to fly the united states together and said like something like we are we are brothers or we are one brother like we have to recognize this is our current situation and this is what is in our interest like and it was a real argument because it was saying stop hating america stop hating japan and within taiwan there's a lot of there's a lot of hatred against both i remember sorry i'd say i almost wept because it was very moving to see what they were saying and you know what i'm just someone who's very involved in politics and it really was saying let's get rid of all this propaganda let's get rid of all these lies let's work with the reality situation as it is so you know um [Music] i i just don't see i just don't see any sense to the one china policy whatsoever in the year 2022. we can debate did it make sense in 1955 or 1965 uh probably i would i would say no to that also but certainly today i mean regardless whether or not if we did the research and thought about it hypothetically what would your position be in 1965 different question but today no there's there's just no there's just no point um in talking about a a one china policy for taiwan um even though i know i mean i've lived with the culture enough i feel the the gravitas that chineseness has uh for the taiwanese people and you know i feel also the intensity of their emotions about japan uh which are truly ambivalent you know they have they feel a powerful sense of attraction toward japan and they also feel repulsion there's both okay uh irrelevant question but perfectly the reason why someone asked my opinion on the drug war i've done so many videos on that sorry i i just don't want to search now and get you the link but i have done many videos talking about drug policy in america in europe even in asia actually talking about um illegal drugs and and what political policy should be so i have made many many videos talking about that at length and in depth if you look around for them on the channel okay so guys um i end the video by returning to some of the major late motifs in brief you know um i made this two-minute long video on the channel if you didn't see it before i'd encourage you to see it for the first time and [Laughter] i'll stick with that error i'd encourage you to see it now whether you're seeing it for the first time or whether you're seeing it uh for the second time and think about the very simple message that i'm that i'm putting across here um [Music] wouldn't the world be a different place if the united states of america could say we have democracy and you don't wouldn't the world be a different place if the united states could say hey right or wrong we started the invasion of afghanistan because the american people voted in a referendum they had some kind of direct democracy some kind of decision-making process they say look the american people voted to begin the war in afghanistan and then maybe five years later or maybe 10 years later they had another vote to end the war in afghanistan we have democracy and this is how decisions are made in the united states of america that's not the situation america is in okay the reality is that while donald trump was president of the united states the decision to start a war or the decision to end a war was entirely in the power of just one man one man who had all the powers of a king for the period he was elected to serve in office for four years call it an electoral dictatorship or an electoral monarchy and it was terrifying right and we look across the ocean to russia and we can only say sympathetically we understand that you are in this situation now too the russian people did not have a referendum they did not have a vote they did not have any democracy about whether or not to invade the ukraine or whatever is going to happen next they have no power for what happened in the past and what happened next so it's really sort of sad the extent to which there is a mirror-like similarity between the semi-democracy of the united states and the pseudo-democracy of china and the deeply corrupt democracy of russia because they do have some elections they do have some voting they do have some capacity for the newspapers to criticize the people in power some not enough but they have some and as i say this is even true when you look at iran iran and egypt to give examples those are countries that have some democracy when you look into it it's interesting to kind of evaluate how much or how how little democracy uh there is now again that video it's only two minutes long it very briefly indicates to you that the last time this this issue was taken seriously the issue of whether or not americans should directly vote in referendums to decide the beginnings and endings of wars whether or not the you know the most fateful decisions in foreign policy should be decided through direct democracy it was the period from world war one through to the beginning of world war ii and i think it's fair to say that americans were terrified by the possibility that there were enough nazis within the united states of america that america would not have entered world war ii if you had this kind of direct democracy that's a complete fiction it's a complete delusion uh you know as year after year went by with adolf hitler leading up to start of world war ii i mean long before you know hitler invades uh the czech republic you know american sympathy for american tolerance for and the american willingness to placate uh hitler it was going down and down i think it's true if you look at polls kind of the day hitler when hitler is just first coming into power i think there there were at that time americans who said look they still could remember world war one and they just don't want to get involved in another war in europe um to call this pacifism is misleading to call it isolationism is misleading i think there is no truth at all to the notion that americans would not have voted to go to war even once that war involved the czech republic but certainly once the war involved england france etc of course of course americans would have voted to to enter into world war ii so i think that is ridiculous however i think that really is the ghost haunting american politics is the awareness because there were i mean america is a country predominantly of immigrants a tiny percentage of the country as the indigenous people and if you were living in manhattan at that time you would have really seen that there were a lot of italians and those italians still had sympathies for and supported to some extent mussolini in italy right this is very palpable that there were nazis and there were fascists to some extent there were spaniards and possibly hispanic people from south america too who sympathized or supported fascism in spain and there were also a lot of people who opposed fascism in spain and supported democracy in spain or anarchism in spain or communism in spain it's a very divisive civil war the spanish civil war but nevertheless spain fascism in spain there were these strong feelings i i can i can really understand that people living through that time may have had an exaggerated awareness of the minority of americans who were vocally pro-fascists in general again whether that's italy or spain and of the minority of americans who were specifically pro-german uh pro-nazi willing to i i get that i think that has shocked america for 50 years into refusing to think seriously about the role of democracy in questions of of war and peace questions of alliances and questions of actual invasion but i can tell you about a whole bunch of wars that never would have happened if you just had this amendment to the constitution so that people would vote in a referendum before invading another country before occupying another country before beginning outright war okay and there are even more wars that would have ended earlier that wouldn't have gone on for 20 years that would have ended earlier even if americans would have voted to start it they would have also after five years or something voted to stop it say okay enough already america invaded conquered and ruled haiti why nobody in america today can tell you why america's history of military incursions into haiti no one can explain now conversely sorry just to give an example that's juxtaposed look at cuba very next door why hasn't america invaded cuba why hasn't america got rid of communism in cuba and created democracy there like both both examples are observed like the fact that america did conquer haiti and the fact america didn't conquer cuba i mean still today right now in 2022 how about a war to liberate cuba you know why not if you voted for it what percentage of americans would support that the american conquest of the philippines why who in america would have voted for that most absurd totally immoral war totally pointless nothing to win everything to lose why did america conquer the philippines what was the point and you know it may well be like if you get into reading the private letters of politicians at the time there could have been american politicians who wanted the philippines to become a permanent part of the united states the way hawaii has why did america conquer and annex hawaii in that case it was more annexation than conquest i i'm i'm being transparent here america did not conquer hawaii in the same sense that america conquered haiti in the same sense america conquered uh the philippines it's not a fair comparison nevertheless the annexation of hawaii eventually leading to the statehood of hawaii who in their right mind would have voted for that and if you think that didn't matter if you think that didn't have political consequences for example in world war ii it really did it really matters it's not a minor footnote in this united states america these are questions americans could have voted on directly and imagine how much safer you would have felt during the presidency of donald trump if you knew that he could not start a war with iran without first putting it to a plebiscite without first putting it to a referendum without first having a direct vote so more democracy within the united states of america it will not in a simplistic sense mean world peace it won't okay it will mean escalating levels of political education within the united states escalating levels of political engagement and it will mean more mobilization of people more motivation for people to know and understand and care about the wars that you have and i think it will result in americans fighting different wars