Daniel Balan

@Leo Gura Leo don't listen to the ungrateful, your videos are perfect, for me personally the longer the video the more glued to the screen I am. Your work is unparalleled, underpaid and groosly under-appreciated. I love listening to you, you are my favorite person from the internet to listen to.

All the leftists on this forum: " But thats western imperialist propaganda", "The sanctions that the capitalists have imposed on Cuba are responsible for the poverty", "Socialism would work if the western corrupt imperialists wouldn't sanction to rubbles all socialist regimes". " the Western imperialism and collonialism that the west has done for the last millennium is responsible for the success of capitalism" To all the leftists on this forum, please, stop parroting old soviet propaganda. All you have in your heads is the word "imperialism". Thats leftism and socialism in a nutshell, always scapegoating and blaming the "West" for all your dirt poor systems of governance.

Happy holidays!

You talk about that as if it were done out of charity. Of course Europeans and Americans do business, there is perfectly fine to do business, but don't talk like you do anything for free, because you aren't doing anything for free.

If buying tons of oil from Russia, If building lots of new huge pipelines to buy gas from Russia isn't fostering trust, I don't think anything is. Europe behaved decent to Russia, it all came crashing down when Ukraine wanted to export the liberal democracy to its territory and Russia felt threatened that if liberal democracy succeeded in Ukriane, it will also spill into Russia. That's the only reason they are now committing genocide in Ukraine, to teach them a lesson that if you are a neighbour of Russia, you don't get to choose your government framework independently, you choose your government framework that Russia allows you to have. All this NATO expansion is just Russian gaslighting, the NATO expansion happened precisely because the countries that joined after the cold war knew that they would have the fate of today's Ukraine if they wouldn't have joined NATO while Russia was still weak.

I was talking about Iraq.

They controlled the markets for their own profit, the US doesn't give a damn about Europe! And what you did with your military in the aforementioned regions you did for your own benefit, you didn't wage stupid wars for Europe, you waged them for your own benefit.

I'd love to see such a video!

@Hello1 I am also like that! I never celebrate Christmas, or Easter or anything related to Christianity. I abhor Christianity. I don't care about what other people do or about their rituals. I like to celebrate my birthday as a way to thank the earth for allowing me to have lived another year. I also celebrate my girlfriend's birthday as a sign of respect and care for her, I bring her flowers and gifts and a big birthday cake. I also celebrate Halloween for 2 reasons, one is that this pisses all my Christian neighbours, I am the only atheist in my village, and I love to hear their lamentations and hate towards me for being different, and the second reason is because I like to say a thank you to the earth for allowing me to grow food in my garden, it is like a Thanksgiving for me the Halloween holiday, and because I love pumpkins. But Christmas or Easter I don't celebrate because these holidays are just motives to extract as much money from me as possible.

Europe's biggest mistake was thinking that once the cold war ended, they wouldn't need to have a strong military because Russia will be friendly to them.

Also, what dirty work did America do for Europe? Throughout the 90's, the 2000's and 2010's with what did America help with Europe militarily? Russia was weak, and all the other internal conflicts were settled in the second world war! Once the cold war was over only Europe was dragged into the US's stupid wars, Europe didn't wage war on anybody since the end of the cold war. The Iraq war was America's business, Europe helped to be helped back when Russia will invade. And now when the Russians are strong again, guess what America does, almost says out loud in their national security documents that Europe is the enemy, not Russia. And in case the Russians strike Europe I bet that America will let Europe bleed dry, wow thanks, you really did the dirty work for us. Guess the Europeans should have never helped you with anything since you only care about screwing your allies.

The only reason being, that if they didn't send their militaries to the middle east, the US wouldn't have helped in case Russia strikes Europe, all of Europe knew there weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Also, France, Germany and others didn't participate at all. The UK sent the most troops.

Also, the Europeans have neglected their militaries because unlike China and Russia and the US, they are no longer interested in imperial conquest, the European Union is a stage green form of government, stage green no longer wants to imperialy conquer other states, the same way Russia, China and the US do! And regarding wars in Europe, regarding Poland and France being afraid of Germany, this is a joke, Germany is a stage green country by all measurements, stage green doesn't invade its neighbours, only stage red/blue and to some extents stage orange.

The IMF, the world bank and other financial institutions, and capitalism itself ain't no empire tool that wants to economically exploit developing countries like Eastern Europe. What do you expect, free money for your "sovereign" politicians to steal, politicians that have been modelled after the soviet school system? The soviet school system politicians now in Europe call themselves "sovereignist" and guess which politicians they hate the most? The liberal young politicians that have been modelled the liberal democracy school. This means your "empire" narative is bullshit and frankly just Russian propaganda. I'm done talking with you on that subject, the west is not at war with anybody at the moment, yet Russia is waging its imperialist war in Ukraine and China is about to invade Taiwan because Taiwan is proving that liberal democracy is more effective and provides better results than a backward retarded dictatorship. This much is clear. And America is almost de facto out of the west because of Donal Trump, Donald Trump's America is not the west, it is closer ideologically to Russia than Europe, if that mf invades Venezuela is because he is a greedy devil that in an imperialist fashion, wants someone else's oil. That is imperial behaviour, the IMF and World Bank and western capital is what made developing countries break free from the Soviet imperialism, freezing in time for 50 years half of Europe is the biggest deed of Imperialism. 2. If I were the leader of Eastern Europe I'd make sure that above all, the rule of law should be in pristine condition, something that is totally absent in both China and Russia and as of late the US. So Rule of Law, independent judiciary system, politics to have 0 involvement in justice, strong courts that severely punish corruption and so on. This is what makes a country sovereign, not the utter corruption that happens in both Russia and China. In China you are only punished by the law if you don't have connections to the communist party, what sovereignity is that? That is a joke, not sovereignity. I will make sure I cut all Russian gas until Russia becomes a liberal democracy. Putin's gas is cheap? That gas is the most expensive gas on the planet, people pay with their freedoms for it, pay with their lives even, because if you are not friends with the corrupt elites that have permission from Putin to do whatever they want, those elites can litteraly kill you if you annoy them and pay no legal price whatsoever. If the Luigi guy killed a ceo that had beef with Putin and Luigi had connections to Putin's loyalists he would be hailed as a "patriot", no legal punishment would be applied to him in a county governed in a system like the Russian one. The biggest mistake Europeans made is being energy dependent on Russia, had Europe cut ties with Russia all together since they started invading their neighbours in the 90's, now Ukraine wouldn't have been ethnically genocided by the Russians. Europe feed this war machine, all the way back from the 90's. The fact that you don't see that speaks volumes about your pro-imperialist agenda. You talk non stop about the so called "economic imperialism of the west" but in reality you are just gaslighting us by making us looking away from the real imperialism that is done by both Russia and China combined. If Russia and China aren't imperialists, why tf are they trying their hardest to colonize the minds of Westerners via TikTok with endless Russian propaganda? I've never seen the west trying to do the same in Russia or China! Hell, the west doesn't even try to colonize with propaganda even their own citizens, in the last 5 years I've been only exposed to narratives such as these you spread yourself, only 1 in 1000 people talk like I do nowadays, everyone's mind has been sieged by the cognitive war that the Russians and the Chinese do in order to conquer the minds of the western population, and the result of this conquest will show up in elections because the Russians and the Chinese have a Trojan horse party or candidate in every western country, those Trojan horses then must destroy western liberal democracies. If that is not imperial behaviour, I don't think anything is.

My theory is this: All of these Russian narratives are full of bullshit, falsehood and downright evil. They need to paint the west as some imperialist greedy thief to then justify their own Russian collonial imperialism so that they can colonize eastern Europe once again with their corruption, backwardness, theft and dictatorship. Russia is the biggest imperialist, they just want to turn eastern Europe into an ideological buffer so that Russia itself is shielded by phisical buffer territories from liberalism. The western "imperialism" is just business. They give the developing countries something, the developing countries give something back. I don't see anything wrong in that, the book fails to mention that the domestic politiclal class from each eastern European country, that was forged in the soviet system btw, is what did the theft and that made some countries have worst outcomes.