Fucker namedropping Thucydides and Vaclav Havel... I already liked Carney. Now I respect him.

"Nostalgia is not a strategy."

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Its huge and he said what everyone's thinking. But i think the reason people werent saying it was because they dont believe the second part of his statement. I think they dont believe we(democratic countries) CAN build a new democratic rules based order.

Fingers crossed that the US gets a sane leader in soon. Mentally I'm thinking the biggest problem democratic countries need to solve is a way to insulate against information warfare and manipulated narratives.

This is one of those speeches that's going to be a thing people study and read deep into, because it perfectly captures this moment in history and the generalized sentiment of the massive shift in the world today.

Now its said aloud - now what? On thiis very moment there would be momentum to actually accomplish things, but as trump always chickens out, the momentum will mellow out unless things are done now.

Boot hungary off the EU and take Canada into the bloc. Create EU armed forces and simplify/unify taxation across the EU. EU should be more united than now.

Where things go wrong are when bigger EU nations have their own interests come into play to fuck it up for the rest of us. Like Germany swallowing everything coming from the US (because of car exports) or from Russia (because of gas import). There are challenges, but for 20 years I dont think EU has accomplished much in practical sense but more regulation upon regulation. I dont think that's a winner strategy.

Leaving this up since it didn’t get flagged earlier. That said, in the future, please upload videos about national politics or geopolitics to c/polticalvideos