And then they can use this economic edge to fund the measures keep countries that only care about defence at bay, without ruining oneself. ;)

Actually thanks to NATO my country, Italy, has to defend itself in the Mediterranean. After the Libyan War everything is fucked up in southern Italy, Italian companies lost all their investments in Tripolitania and now the country is half in full anarchy and half in Islamic Caliphate. Also thanks to EU (especially Germany) the Italian growth has collapsed and the unemployment has never been so high. When Italy wrongly decided to enter in the Eurozone the purchasing power of the Italian people collapsed too, with a stronger currency the Italians started to purchase foreing goods, weakening their economy even more. So kinda fuck you Germany, EU and NATO.

Despite the claims of EU overreach, without it, germany would just totally control the weaker post-ussr states

That's probably cause italy has an insane bureaucracy and terrible economic policies but sure, keep yelling "EU fault!!!"

Nazi Vampire Eating Babies Italy keeps fucking itself over, they tried and failed to compete with china over shitty products

*Poland* - Hey, ive seen that one

Poland : Americaaaa, pls help me if they do something

@@nieboniebieskie3502 America: Now son. You're scared of your own imagination. Dont forget your Mama France and Grandpa England always have you're back and wouldn't let anyone hurt you EVER. And if it makes you feel safer I'll check under your 1934 german non-aggression pact before you go to bed.

Are the Poles still anxious about Germany? Jeez, even without any other protecting power Poland really doesn't need to be afraid. Even if the majority of the Germans wanted to harm Poland (which they don't) I highly doubt Germany could even pull it off with the current state of their army. In fact, simply due to economic reasons wars between nations do not make sense in modern day and age. There's nothing to be gained and no political leader would benefit from declaring any kind of war. This would play out like German chancellor: 'Fellow Germans, I've declared war on Poland so get your guns and off to the eastern front!' German people: 'Yeah... *no*! Get lost! Next!'

@@7shinta7 Ypu have a strikingly similar belief we what people had in 1938

The collapse of the EU *is* a likely event though. The common market has caused the southern countries to fail as industry moves north. The southern countries are GOING to have banking collapses, which is going to take down the Euro as a currency. The UK is the only country that is positioned to get out of this half-way OK, as they have their own currency, are leaving the EU, and are going to get into a trade deal with USA / CAN / MEX once they are out of the EU.

@@p51mustang24 The USA is going to collapse before the EU.

@@p51mustang24 Just that industry is not moving north, but to asia instead. That is the reason why ship building and textiles and other industrioes are basically dead in Europe now. This fact is conviently ignored in this whole debate, especially given that this also happend to other western nations. Looking at you, US. So putting this at the EU side is....well, lets call it "not very well informed".

@@hansmaier7203 The USA isnt going to collapse, despite it's flaws. The EU is facing a population and banking crises that the USA is simply not facing. The EU baby boomers had 1 child each, while the USA boomers had 1.9. A minor problem for the USA, but a disaster for the EU. Also the USA finances most business via the stock market, while EU companies are tied to banks. The EU's banks are FARRRRR weaker than the USA's banks. With the boomer retirement just starting now, and continuing into the late 2020's, the EU is about to take a big hit. The migrants are not a replacement for the lack of children, and are simply and addition burden.

Germany is the only country in Europe that is still properly industrialized, and that is not likely to change for simple reasons of geography, but they are still going to get hammered by the massive reduction in workforce over the next 10 years due to boomer retirement.

War reparations from Germany would be more appropriate than the EU funds, but even if one can try to assess the material losses, it's difficult to calculate the value of six million citizens killed. And how to calculate the opportunity cost of living in a communist puppet state under the Soviet boot for 55 post-war years? Poland's "allies" left it to Stalin as spoils of war, which would not have happened if Germany hadn't started the war.

@@mioszduby2842 Ohh, you seem to forget that we germans also lost a big part of our population, were also occupied by the USSR and still payed war reperations and Eu funds to you. So stop blaming us for your corrupt government, which fucks the EU at every occasion and then complains about all the hostility against poland.

Heinrich mir grauts vor dir I simply observed that Poland should have been paid war reparations by Germany, rather than the EU funds. Poland received no war reparations from Germany (or from Russia) and no aid under the Marshall Plan. These decisions were made for Poland by the Soviets, because it did not exist as a sovereign country at the time. I don't like the idea of EU funds. They are a very effective system for wasting the taxpayer's money. Money is taken away from people who've earned it and given by the Eurocrats, who claim credit for this "generosity", to another group of bureaucrats on the national level, who then finance various more or less wasteful projects (often run by their buddies). And, of course, the net-beneficiary countries are constantly reminded how grateful they should be to the EU (or to net-payer countries). In reality, they would be better off if they didn't pay contributions to the EU and did not receive hand-outs in return. The EU should be a common market and nothing more. Unfortunately, it is heading towards becoming another Soviet Union , and it's bound to end very badly for everyone. The EU violates the membership treaties and encroaches on the sovereign powers of its members countries, such as Poland or Hungary. Hostility towards Poland results from anti-Polish propaganda or from intolerance of conservative values. The mainstream media have been overrun by people brainwashed with left-wing ideologies, so this is normal. I would be very worried if they praised Poland.

@@mioszduby2842 Ther are no war reparations to pay, no matter which way. Without the EU agricultural policy, which comes from France and is financed by the EU, your food would be significantly more expensive Practically all of your infrastructure is financed through the EU, comparable to that of Spain but even more And without Germany, as an investor and market, your industry would not be that far (yas it would have grown a little) The Ponische industry is more permissive for the Germans, like the Czech one , this time they a bit more Without the EU and with your current behavior, we will severely restrict our economic relationships and will no longer function as a transit country Let's see who is still obese with you And we will with military aggression from you we we will close the Baltic Sea With your current politics he forces you to isolate yourself And the United States is far away and you economics a tiny light, especially if you stand against Germany If you like it or not you are dependet on either Germany or Russia

@@mioszduby2842 i think poland would have been fucked either way, even when germany would not have started the war there would still have been a war between east and west and poland would have been one of the battlegrounds. Also the soviets already had set their eyes on poland, seeing how eager they were too split it up with the nazis, so they maybe would have attacked on their own

But that would be THE reason to invade them. Take control and provide cheap LEGO to every German Citizen. I like the idea. Let's call the military to prepare a plan for that :-).

@@klenkes74 i am in, where do i sign up, for doichland

.....but Denmark was invaded....!?

Danish - German war from 1864 ? At least every german should know about that war ... Still a good joke though.

....as there are assumed over hundred wars in the last thousand years - I was thinking of 2nd WW and nobody recalls them!

M7md sa3ed don't get me started on arable land

Aywa 😂😂😂😂

Egyptian mapping Finally I found another Egyptian in this channel . 3aaaash .

Egyptian mapping What is "mapping"

Oliverios I know I'm just jocking . And the Nile river is an example on why ancient Egypt was probably the most centralized country.

It can go quite interesting for both countries.The future will tell how both of them will act.

Vive la France.

Probably we'd get something that looks suspiciously similar to the EU before the big expansion.

I would like to see how France eats west Germany and returns the history of the Frank Empire, but if you want the existence of a German state, I hope that both your countries will die.

10 Hawell We have been separated for way too long ... one cannot « eat » the other, we need to cooperate. Our leaders understood that 50 years ago and it has worked pretty well to say the least. However, historically, Belgium and even the Netherlands should be part of France in my opinion. But I’m ok with the current situation. Every great nation is nostalgic about the past, the Turks want to revive the ottoman empire, the Iranians want to revive the persian empire, the british are nostalgic about the 19th century ...

Except for whatever Mjünikh is

SStyutgart

Before I liked this comment, it had exactly 69 likes 😂😂

Ah, yes, ßtuttgart

I mean it wasn't perfect by any means but at least he tried to actually say the actual German names and not the english names for German cities.

@@hildegardvonbingen9092 THIS! And this is also a reason for the high export rate because many firms specialize on making a specific high quality product which often times results in a market leading postion of these firms in their specific segment.

Diss & Dad navigable rivers aren’t as important as hey used to be however shipping kings is still the cheapest way to transport things so possessing navigable waterways allows the cost of transporting goods to be reduced and thus the price for the consumer is lower. This allows the consumer to keep more money in their pocket to spend on other things and generate other economic activity as well. In the modern era roads and rail are more efficient than they used to be but you still need to pay to build them and maintain them forever afterwards sheared rivers are free. Once you have a boat everything is much cheaper compared to vehicles or trains

Also the Guy acts AS If hamburg munich Cologne and Frankfurt got Something to say in the Overall politics

Not only that, 99% of this video is complete bullshit. It's a wonder he spelled Germany correctly. One example is Germanys position towards Nato. If there is something that Germany doesn't want then it is the further extension of Nato towards the East. He probably doesn't know anything about the reunification and Germanys relationship with Russia.

waterwayswere way more important in the past and since most of the heavy industry areas are quite old, the waterways were rather important in their forming

83 Million*

@@Timmmm1603 Ich denke nicht, dass das jetzt einen großen Unterschied macht.

Dude you cant find a place where you wont see a human for a kilometer theres no real landscape you could be in alone

83 million people, its a big, very powerful country, i dont understand what you are trying to say

That’s not even that much compared to all the space there is

As a German, I can tell you that his statement is correct. Inequality has exploded during the last 20 years and the situation is only getting worse. Our current government is totally incompetent and backwards economically. In my city the number of homeless and impoverished people is increasing every year, even though the country is getting wealthier.

@@hildegardvonbingen9092 At least the government in Berlin has a spark of humanity, while the rest of the country pushes austerity. Berlin is the first state to implement harsh restrictions on the real estate market and limit rents. Meanwhile, in cities like Hamburg...

@@hildegardvonbingen9092 they made mistakes in the past when they sold "social" living quarters to private companies. It happened all over Germany.

@@hildegardvonbingen9092 bullshit.

@@ASBlueful and those restrictions are cllearly working xD

VIESTURS MARTS Germans have always been in the same situation. Being the center of europe means that you are surrounded by major powers so they HAD to become one as well. It was do or die for them. Thats how old europe worked. Im not trying to justify WW2 because it was a truly unnecessary and stupid war.

Latvia reminds me of myself in science class in high school, i got stuck sitting between a guy and his girlfriend. They were always either arguing or acting like love sick puppies. Latvia is in the same position only instead of a pair of horny teens its more like being stuck between a pair of death row inmates who want to rape and murder eachother with Latvia stuck in between.

Don´t panic about Russia. Because the chinese dragon is behind the russian bear. So any western expansion would weaken the russian bear in his east and the red dragon is very hungry and well prepared to bite the bears but.

Xalxitz Sure, Germans loved Baltic people, that's why they annihilated all ethnic Prussians. Latvia was halfway to share this sad reality of Germanization, fortunately they survived :) And from what I know they tried to get rid of germanization in language, while establishing official Latvian language.

iwonnatube In the past Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had majority of today's Latvia, Poland and Lithuania used to be a very strong country.

true, eastern europe is already falling apart right now though.. those guys just can't understand what peace is.

I certanly hope that will be the case if everything goes south. Would also love to see France in that agreement

Eastern Europe is not really falling apart what your are seeing is the creation of Polish Bloc supported by the United States Intermarium 2.0 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Seas_Initiative en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermarium

john pardon how is eastern europe falling apart if it never was intact before... It is getting a bit (very tiny bit)better by the time. Would not say that about western europe.

Without France on side as well it can't achieve it's objective of neutralising Franco-German competition.

He called Donau Deneup though

Danube is the English name for the German word Donau.

he practises names beforehand I think.

Lol, dass ich dich hier finde :D

qualität setzt sich durch. spricht für Dich! ;) und für Shirovan (is this spelled correctly?)

German "luxury" industry is revered for quality but a bunch of countries easily make better stuff. They're rapidly becoming a mass retailer of cheap eastern goods. Their cars are shit. Not saying they don't sell a lot, though. I agree about the EU not being essential for their economy, it's mostly beneficial to a few investors and gamblers. The EU represents a minority of Germany's or France's trade agreements.

Most of the products made in Germany is NOT stuff you as a customer would buy directly. It's the little stuff, or, to put it differently, stuff which is needed for other stuff. Buy any high-quality electronic product in the world, and it is very likely that there is something from Germany in there. Not that the car industry is important, but this is the actual backbone of the German economy, those small companies which sell stuff you can't get anywhere else in the world on that level.

A little correction: NRW has 17.8 mio. inhabitants, which is less than a quarter obviously and the Eastern States incl. Berlin 16.5 mio., so that is not too far off. And I think the structural change you also mentionded both regions are still struggling with to some extent adds to the funcionality and validity of that comparison.

Berlin is usually not counted into Eastern Germany, because the majority of the City belonged to West Germany, so it naturally had a head start when the wall went down. And if you really want to compare, you need to compare more than just the GDP...unemployment numbers, debts, all this plays into having a complete picture of the situation.

swanpride Right, it is not a “new state” as such, but the report explicitly includes it in the comparison and I see a lot of statistics nowadays, which do that actually. True, the investigation of regional disparities didn't take up much space here, but if it had, those are the things that would need to be considered for sure.

hold on to your butts, the germans are on the march again

All of the ethnic Germans in those areas, minus Austria were purged after WW2. Ex. Danzig is thoroughly Polish

@@joe82076 There are so many Czechs with 'Hartmann' and 'Schmitt' as surnames, a whole country LARPing as slavs.

@@joe82076 not purged, merely displaced. In that area of the world, world 'purge' has different meaning - it was something that Germans themselves ethusiatically indulged themselves before and during WW II.

Hi I'm german let's dislike this

No ressources, are you sure? I thought it had tons of iron and coal...

it has a lot of iron. Coal came mainly from northern France. that's why Germany tried to invade France as quickly as possible in both world wars, because it needed that coal to sustain their war production

In 2015 Germany importet hundred percent of its iron ore. Brown coal is used only for power production (ca.12% of all power). And 89% of all hard coal for steel production in 2015 had to be importet.

Wouter Thats not accurate. Northern France coal reserves where tiny compared to Germany's Ruhr coal area. Even Today Germanys coal reserves are still in the top 10 of world biggest coal reserves. Germany invaded France as quickly as possible in world war 1 because France seemed to be the stronger enemy than Russia. And in the second world war it took 8 months after France declaration of war before Germany even acted and invaded France (see "Phoney War"). In the meantime Germany was busy mopping up Poland and invading Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium.

@Nolynox a) Those coal reserves are incredibly expensive to mine because they lie so deep underground, coal mining was so heavily subsidised that a large portion of the debt of germany can be attributed to it. b) Germany invaded France in WW1 quickly because it was seen as the weaker enemy. The plan was to rush France and secure the western border to be able to concentrate on Russia which had never been successfully invaded from the west. Weirdly it turned out to collapse quickly while the main forces of germany were still engaged against france in the west. c) The reason france was not invaded at first is the maginot line. France incredibly heavily reinforced its eastern border and it was seen as nearly impossible to invade it. Preparations had to be made beforehands. And Belgium and the Netherlands were invaded precisely for the invasion France to bypass the Maginot Line.

Agree

I also found that quite funny. Cheap river transport is a bonus but definitely not a root cause of German economic success, not even in the past. Russia and South America have plenty navigable rivers but I didn't notice it would turn them into the most advanced economies. The key to success of every nation (perhaps except some oil emirates) lies with it's people, their culture and morals and work ethics. Then education and research. Germans are excellent in all of those.

“Antiquated military considerations” BOY this aged like milk

Protestant work ethic is not applied on Germany due to its Lutheran roots. The work ethic is more important in Calvinist countries like US.

@@michaeldahora5316 Lutheranism is a form of a protestant reform movement from the Catholic Church.

The NATO did that

tim my boi, wait until you hear about how it was before the EU. we have food, freedom, money, democracy, peace. non of those where typical european before the EU.

You are forgeting the wars when yugoslavija broke up. And that happened because of EU wanted to expand east.

no thx i rather live in relative wealth :) also you are being melodramatic ..."slaves"? ...really?

KAWAII OBAMA amazing feat considering it didn't exist for most of that time ;)

Emo phase

greatest anime ever lol

that probably goes to japan. they rebranded from a nation that had committed some of the most brutal war crimes in history (we forget just how bad they were!) to moe kawaii anime weeaboo land

Shows how naive you are! They are the bully’s of the EU and in bed with China, once evil always evil

Idk I think Japan's is greater.

Do you currently live in Bulgaria?

who cares about bulgaria

People you twat

BALKAN union

@@fironfiron8843 Don't call them fat musicians. That is insulting. We are Europeans after all. But what you said is true. We didn't provoke the wars in the middle east and prefer stability over militarily dominance due to our econemy.

You should see the comments every time someone mentions Sweden. Some people REALLY hate that Sweden and Germany are both among the top countries in the world when it comes to social and economical success, and countries with liberal refugee policies. Their brains does not compute how that is possible when propaganda tells them otherwise.

@@erwinhun Aye... Sadly it's not a self-inflicted radicalisation. To be honest, our politicians have not been too clever in the way they decided to deal with conservative ideas - I am not saying the outrage is in any way justified but if some our own people feel disconnected, something needs to change. We need parties who are able to unite the people, may they follow liberal or conservative ideals. A lot of the criticism our far right here in Germany uses is not new and more importantly should have been addressed long before the refugee crisis. We need to find a compromise between liberal and conservative ideals because otherwise our rural areas will continue to fuel radical extremism and this will disrupt our society.

@@Arcaryon I definitely think the political environment/maturity is one part of it, but as an economist I can't help but also seeing a pattern where economical shocks (e.g. the debt crisis 2008) lead to social unrest. Historically we have seen revolutions and even the two world wars where severe shocks to the economy plays a major role in explaining why they happened. Davies' J-curve show that revolutions are the most likely after a steady long-term growth followed by a sharp decline in economic welfare, making groups of people feel threatened that they will lose what they have gained. I think we are seeing something similar, except in stable democracies it takes the shape of populism and anti-establishment. In combination with the effects of globalisation and an economy shifting from industry towards services where large groups in our society are losers from the development, I think we have a good recepie for what we are seeing today.

@@erwinhun Exactly my thoughts. It is incredible how little attention politics here in Europe have spend on improving the economy after the crisis. The target 2 statistics are enough prove so that even an amateur could understand what is still going wrong and yet, I don't see any attempts at really repairing the econemy. Everyone is so upset with growth here in Germany, that they have forgotten to adjust the loans and the state doesn't use the low interests effectively while for once it would be absolutley necessary to really combat the effects. The econemy is in my opinion the most important part of a nation, because (sadly) countries like China, or Saudi Arabia are the living prove that freedom and other western values while morally superior, don't buy houses or food. And yet, nothing is done to improve the intereueopan trade which would be so important to bring back the fragile balance and to improve all of the Unions issues... Now I won't date to make an analysis of the US for as a student, I like to stick to what I understand but where all this becomes dangerous, is when people who have a limited understanding of politics, are being manipulated into projecting their anger on minorities (Mexicans, Muslims whatever one may wanna call them) or on the other side of the spectrum (and recently, oddly enough on both sides) a deep mistrust in the state that leads to completely over boarding fundamental critique of the administration... Honestly I don't know what a lot of our politicians here are thinking, because while the issue here in Germany is limited, pur living conditions are significantly underwhelming, due to the previously mentioned loan dumping. This is how we got through the crisis and it was successful but it is constantly backfiring because our economy is still in crisis mode. Our car industry is far too protected to have to improve (even though insiders tell me otherwise) and I could make an endless list of governmental errors, not only here in Germany but in Italy, Spain, Britain or France, this list is extremly long and this decay must be stopped by all means, especially with China knocking at our door. Just one day ago, Italy agreed to a couple of programs from China. What's my issue with that? As a French minister put it, globalization has been understood falsely. Now I don't want to advocate outright protectionism but Italy will isolate itself with this position. My own country is famous for simular moves and this political dynamite. China won't allow fair trade, they haven't done so in the last few decades and other than the bully who shall not be named in Washington, they have no reason to force them to lower their guard one bit... And now back to Italy, Europe is a fragile alliance. If we were to make a trade deal with China, we should do it together. And only together. This is not only a deal for a bit of Russian gaz if you allow me the comparison - this will have longterm consequences and fear they will be negative... Well there are more than enough reasons why I am currently studying politics and international law... Things need to change. Not tomorrow, or the day after that - now. Or better, yesterday.

Jan Hurych which?

@@Bub994 Czech Republic.

Lol chill, are your people happy? Cuz that's what matters at the end

@@meanmachine2003 Yo I am happy. Until the buffer fills in I guess :-D

If germany actually wanted a buffer it wouldnt be czechia

Thüringen was an eastern state but its almost as storg as the western ones

Playlist Maker Yes, Sachsen and Thüringen are the „strongest“ former East German states (in a lot of factors). But Thüringen was a GDR State. ~Glo bus aus dem Freistaat Sachsen (Free State of Saxony/Germany)

@@globus3671 Interesting! Thank you!

@@playlistmaker6703 Actually, Thüringen doesn't even exist. It's a huge forest and 3 to 5 people live there.

@@Apodeipnon 🤣

Germany relies militarily on the USA because we really don't like the thought at getting militarily involved in anything. Of course, this doesn't stop Germany from selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, which is pouring more oil into a raging fire. And we're willing to support NATO troops as long as our own soldiers don't do any fighting. The USA and Britain are both very happy to do the fighting. And selling weapons to Saudi Arabia as well.

That is right. After all the current situation of having these sort of military proxies is quite cost-effective for Germany - even more than for most other states in Europe. However I would like to see more confident and consistent European strategies in International Relations, and I am not talking about giving up national foreign policy capacities, but creating a better platform and better institutions to help Europe figure out its problems communally such as Russia-relations or immigration. The former is a good example of how necessary diplomatic initiative such as for enabling the Minsk protocol is neither proactive nor prophylactic enough. And I find the developments in recent years have been quite revealing of the fact that there is a real need for new strategic outlooks as the old trans-Atlantic allies seem to become more and more war-weary and the world becomes ever more pluralised.

I have to agree and disagree.The EU should establish more of a we are a federation or confederation.This grey area is leading to a lot of problems and should be remedied.But to Say Nato should be lessoned and working with Russia should happen is a bad long term deal. Putin is not interested in having a strong EU. In fact he would more then likely want to use it to weaken the nations in it.See a video on the Russian mindset (CaspianReport did on this) to get the main points. An not relying on working with the US (unless I misread). That I disagree with. Though Germany putting more money into its army, or a EU army would be nice though. We Yanks could Use a hand in some areas. But right now we need to get Trump either out of office as soon as possible. He is but a taste of what Russia's answer to how he wants the west to be run. A fool who has no idea what he is doing, corrupt, and open to suggestion from someone he fears/respects (their president/czar).In fact Russia tried the same BS in France, Netherlands, Greece, and Germany to. Thankfully they caught on and did stuff to counter the Russian hackers.

The reliance on the USA removes the USA (the most powerful potential opponent) from being a disruptive force. With US support, Europe doesn't need to have a military that can oppose them, and ALSO doesn't need a military that can oppose lesser powers because that's how strong the US is. It's a very smart economic decision.

The thing is that the EU has still the upper hand in the conflict and will probably remain in that position. Russia is internally divided, economically strained, but neither the Russian elites nor seemingly anybody in power in the EU would like to see Russia integrated on any level in the EU in the loong mid-term (both in Eastern Europe as well as in the power centres), so we wouldn't expect many changes there. The disagreements and different foreign policy agendas are obvious, but this does not mean there cannot be better cooperation and that there are no common interests - and recent diplomatic debacles like in Ukraine or Syria demonstrate the lack of necessary cooperation and a firm European strategy. Furthermore Putin's era will end and what is going to become of Russia afterwards will to some degree depend on the European positions (Putin himself might even lead the way to that new era). Well, all the best for getting rid of Trump! Unfortunately, the American foreign policy model in the last two decades hasn't been particularly productive and at least to the german public the US does not seem to be an overly reliable partner and guide for international peacekeeping and development... I just watched Trump's announcement to cancel the Iran-agreement and his words on Korea - as if the development there had much to do with his diplomatic competence. The fact that European-Middle Eastern relations are still kind of dominated by US engagement and interests frankly pisses me off and Trump is not even the crucial issue there.

True, but they know that the UK needs a good deal more than the EU does. The EU holds all the cards in this "negotiation." Brexit was a hilariously short-sighted policy that never should have been put to a ballot.

I voted to stay in the EU but now we have to leave. I'm in favour of leaving and then making deals.

You can't make a deal without bargaining power. UK is the only side that seems to care about making deals to keep certain privileges. EU has much less to lose if they just cut them off. That's a bad bargaining position for the UK to be in.

That's a pretty ignorant thing to say. The UK has many thing the EU needs. First up is money. While Germany pays the most, the UK actually plays more per capita and now the EU has to fill that hole while the Germans aren't happy about paying for Greece and Spain so why should they want to pay vastly more? Then there is the fact that millions of EU citizens work in the UK while on the other side most UK citizens abroad live in retirement. Leaving the EU with a bad deal means that country's like Poland and Croatia will be hurt badly and they have expressed that. The UK is rich enough to float any losses on our economy and replace it. A tariff of 4.3% ain't gonna do anything in the long run but what it will do is further the divide within the EU. We are not Spain or Italy we are not reliant on the EU and that is the big problem here. The EU needs the UK otherwise Germany will actually have to use it's contingency plan.

@@mrdisco99 "that never should have been put to a ballot" - The very fact you and the EU think that, is why I voted to leave. Increased trade is not worth selling your democracy away.

I live in Thuringia :D

@@njbrx I lived there, twenty years ago.

Davega Lol

Poland on it’s own against USSR and Germany spontaneously without preparation.You could’ve talked about Netherlands,France etc basically any country bar the UK

Poland already lost Warsaw along with the bulk of its army to Germany before the Soviets join in though

Bullshit. Siege of Warsaw lasted from 8 to 28 September, for almost full timespan of the campaign despite being absolutely surrounded. While USSR joined Third Reich in 17 September.

Borlach Was Poland ready for an invasion?No.Every other country had time to atleast prepare but since Poland was first on Hitlers list they couldn’t.Also Poland is basically one big piece of flat land,not hard to invade is it...If they conquered a country with let’s say Switzerland’s geography that fast I’d be impressed but all they had to do is march east.

France is Germany’s wife

@@Anglo_Browza and poland is the child

Nooo!! It'll just make me feel sad to see poor Poland in a situation without hope.

Poland, despite the propaganda, ain't so rosy Absurd bureaucracy, very high emigration and a populist government ensure that future growth and change is difficult

*Prussia Gloria intensifying. (jk)

I disagree. I'm English, but love Poland. My girlfriend is Polish (from Silesia) and we visit often, we are hoping to invest in property in Krakow soonish. Poland has a bright future I think, I have faith in the new Polish generation! The cities are amazing and becoming more urbanised, the trade is great, prices are amazing relatively because they're not in the Euro which makes them an amazing tourist destination.

also ive just found a video from caspian report about geopolics of Poland from last year, apparently it was taken down for some copyright reason. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etyAos17v-DbhKs.html

Historically, that has been a big threat for Germany, while the majority of Czechia and Poland used to be Germany anyway

@@techsilver7761 true, but it is still funny

@@user-ht1vg5we2p becuse Poland Has no reason to attack germany Ukraine is the real enemy

Isak Mattisson Królewiec xD

Ah yes, enslaved prussia

@@maxmustermann7521 Prussia became enslaved when the Germans arrived in the 13th century.

Well. Germany got a head start by the US via the Marshall plan. The US was afraid of more communist influence if they don't build a strong capitalist Germany. So the pumped in lots of money and psy ops (led by the CIA, afaik). So the "Wirtschaftswunder" was not out of self-empowerment but massively pushed by the US. Most Germans do not know that and think it was self-empowered. Another help of course was, that the old machines and so on were taken away by the winner nations. So when they decided to empower the industry again Germany got the new better machines instead of the old ones. When I visited the US in the early 90s, I saw some of the machines of Germany still working in a work shop in New Jersey. I don't want to make the effort my grand parents and parents put into their (and lastly my own) lives small. Of course it was hard work. But hard work and money always pays more than only hard work. And the money came (in the years directly after WWII) mostly from the USA.

Roland Thomas Lichti that is partly true, Germany recieved much less than Great Britain or france of the Marshall Plan and still dominated Europe 10 years later and have in mind it was completly destroyed and many men where either dead or imprisoned so its still pretty impressive

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#/media/File:Marshall_Plan.svg

Germany holds a Geographic advantage. It's a distant 2nd to the USA in terms of geography. The rest of the world combined can't hold a candle to the USA's geography though. The USA has half of the worlds navigable rivers, 2nd largest oil reserves, immense minerals, vast farmland (which is connected to the navigable rivers for transport).

Germany per capita is much richer than all those countries france, uk and japan are about the same france has big unemployment and japan and uks economies are not that good either. Italy is poorer and spain is poorer than italy

We're actually making a video on that! We're not caspianreport, and not advertising really, but hey, we saw this comment.

Yas Mahn that's easy, the French like to surrender, it's in their blood

They try to have a strong German buffer state between the west and the East, but not too powerful.

@@iraqilobster2925 You must know a lot about history man. :)

no, no one can.

I didn't notice but damn that's hilarious xD

It was deleted by KZfaq.

How so?

could you set it on privat and share with us the link else you can upload it on different hoster. Btw. Your pronunciation with German name was on point.Chapeau!

Oh no, is there any way to watch it? Can I see it on patreon once I subscribe?

Very strange. I remember you mentioned so nationalistic movements there and the comment section must have been, well on fire? Shame it went down. Any chance to see it on idk vimeo?

fe maritime interests basically

fe disunited Europe is the name of the British game

The geopolitics of Lucifer himself.

Unfathomable at the moment

fe FUCK THERESA RACIST WHITE SUPERMACIST MAY

The Isar is a tributary of the Danube...

andraip There are no merchant vessels on the Isar... Munich has no harbor.

but there is no river traffic on the Isar. So no you cant transport goods via the Isar from Munich to the Danube

Im Sommer an der Isar saufennn

@@HingerlAlois mit 7 Promille im Kessel im Eisbach liegend kann man mich durchaus als vollbeladenen Supertanker bezeichnen

Yes comrade, and we would never *sharpens dagger* backstab you.

Of course comrade neither would we *starts producing tanks*

@@Man-O-Little-Tan That is great, finally a reliable partner *Hans get the JU 87 G1*

@@zentralratderfliesentischb660 oh of course i look forward to our further interactions. *prepares invasion force*

vf fa grow up

Hah.............hah.............hah..............

xD

Funny..

analysis is clearly not accurate. for this like. but the common economic space in Europe will exist until the markets for products in Asia and Africa run out. As soon as the capital will rest against the flow (and it will rest). single space immediately smashed to pieces

As if there had been no wealth and trade before the E.U. was founded. What makes wars between the European states including Russia impossible nowadays is a serious lack of cannon fodder.

Norway? is this a real country?

He's refering to Norge.

ahh North Sweden

Agree that will be interesting

Northwest Kalmar might be more accurate. North Sweden is just Sapmi.