Comments by "Geoff Lepper" (@geofflepper3207) on "How the West can outlast China u0026 Russia: Historian Niall Ferguson | DW News" video.

  1. ​ @namenameson9065  You're missing the point. The point is that there was no wave of NATO countries increasing defence spending while Trump was president.
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  2. I think that you mean European NATO countries and not the EU as obviously the EU very much stands on its own when it comes to economics. And European NATO countries have never stood on their own - quite the opposite. When NATO was started shortly after WW2 European NATO countries were still very weak and struggling to get over the devastation and cost of WW2.
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  3. ​ @stephenhill545  What a bizarre and racist comment. So you're saying that Britain in the 1800s and the United States in the 1950s should not have been taken seriously because they had high fertility rates? Ridiculous.
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  4. That's pretty vague.
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  5. Or it could be Brics members China and India going to war with each other again or it could be China taking advantage of Russia's struggles in Ukraine by deciding it's a great time to invade Eastern Russia to take back the territory China says Russia stole in the 1800s or it could be a complete collapse of South Africa or it could be another revolution in Iran as people get fed up with the elderly religious extremists who have been running the country for close to half a century or it could be the Russian and Chinese governments realizing that their demographic decline makes it impossible for them to replace the G7 as being the most powerful countries in the world. Lots of possibilities. I'm not sure what the countries in Brics have in common other than being on the outside of the G7.
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