@instituteofartandideas: Will Europe ever become a military power? Yanis Varoufakis examines the strategic missteps that have shaped Europe over recent decades and the precarious position it now faces as U.S. foreign policy shifts and a more conflict-prone global order takes shape.

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minecraft_face
Minecraft Face :
Subsidizing Spain, Italy and Greece plus unchecked rampant immigration from 3rd world countries has destroyed Europe.
2026-01-13 05:00:33
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pretzeljr0
Blackbeardjr :
Agreed. Europe has become a joke and the laughing stock of the world.
2026-01-12 23:15:58
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visitkoreaofficial
VisitKoreaOfficial :
Yanis overlooks a key point: without economic unity, political unity is almost impossible. We can clearly see this in the case of the African Union. The AU prioritized political declarations and institutional symbolism before building real economic integration. As a result, economic unity among African states remains weak, fragmented, and largely ineffective. Today, most African countries do not experience tangible economic benefits from the African Union, and the organization increasingly feels like a political body without clear, enforceable economic goals. By contrast, the European Union followed the opposite path. Economic integration came first, through shared markets, trade rules, and financial solidarity—before deeper political coordination. For Eastern European countries in particular, meaningful political development would have been nearly impossible without economic convergence and a shared destiny with the wealthier Western European states. This economic unity created stability, incentives, and institutional trust, which later allowed political integration to progress. In short, economics is not secondary to politics in regional integration,it is the foundation. Without shared economic interests and material benefits, political unity remains fragile, symbolic, and unsustainable.
2026-01-13 19:57:31
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spacecowboy32
user9140309154787 :
Trump see the EU as fools. He's not wrong.
2026-01-13 02:35:17
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puteolana
puteolana1902 :
european union was never an equal union of states. it was a mechanism to take advantage of small/weak countries and make them lose all of their production and make them import from big/wealthy states
2026-01-15 21:46:17
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ludimilojko882
LudiMilojko :
The biggest mistake of Europe is to align with a country on the other side of the ocean, while antagonizing the country RIGHT ON THEIR DOORSTEP.
2026-01-13 13:22:49
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kptludwik
kptludwik :
It should be fiscal union. Like the US dollar. Alabama is running a deficit, which is covered by NY state. In euro zone Greece had to borrow euro to cover their deficit, while Germany controlled the cost
2026-01-13 20:53:51
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ownurlove
Ttz :
can you name any popular apps. operating systems from Europe? even Chinese apps, people can name some, such as tiktok, WeChat, rednot. but I can not name one from Europe. USA has apple, google, Microsoft, Netflix, China has Huawei, Tencent, Baidu, but Europe has nothing.
2026-01-13 23:44:00
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zurich476
zurich269 :
Yes Trump hates the EU. 1. They don't see him as royalty 2. he hates equality and liberation of people 3. they reject his business gymnastics.
2026-01-13 18:26:22
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ggg2152ggg
ggg2152ggg :
Europe killed themselves in two world wars and literally never recovered or even tried
2026-01-13 12:02:57
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porschecanada1
PorscheCanada :
Europe is Silicon valley of laws and talkers/writers. Can't do anything else anymore
2026-01-13 05:24:04
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ds583839
🎐 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗫𝗘𝗡 ☆ :
Europe is already of no importance to anyone who matters.
2026-01-14 11:15:34
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user32010396
tanky123 :
i think this is also bad anaysis. he always presents moment of crisis as oportunity, but dont explain for what and how it should have been handled. same as he doesn't say why is monetar unity bad.
2026-01-13 12:51:33
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vincebono0
Vincebono :
Little to no investment in anything was the main problem, not the creation of the Euro itself. There is little to no innovation in Europe at the Federal level. There should be a space industry, AI industry EV industry...none of that has eventuated, so Europe stagnates. It needs some sort of military complex, as it cannot rely on the US any longer. Plus it cannot be antagonistic towards Russia without the military to back it up. The Euro is not the main problem.
2026-01-14 12:37:50
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marcimpens
marcimpens :
The EU should seek to remain fully neutral rather that favoring warmongers
2026-01-14 04:01:35
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terryberry479
terryberry :
It’s was all planned against the European people
2026-01-14 12:27:57
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sjfbsg75
SJFBSG75 :
We have multiple cultures in Europe obviously, multiculturalism has never worked in any city in the world so how the hell was it going to work bring a whole continent together.
2026-01-14 14:25:15
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darkodrasky
Darko :
Sadly, these are facts.
2026-01-14 07:28:12
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mr.cafrovic
Mr Cafrovic :
I’m voting for Mera25, yanis is a financial genius
2026-01-14 16:57:35
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bluebull115
bluebull :
One day we will be free of European dictatorship
2026-01-14 15:44:17
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kb799812
kb :
The biggest error of Europe was thinking they could destroy Russia. Now that they have failed dismally, they have no Plan B.
2026-01-13 10:23:00
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samuel.sholem.sch
Samuel "Sholem" Schwarzbard :
EU slowly but steadly becomes USSR
2026-01-13 05:09:38
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boredintexas49
boredintexas :
Europe decided to go the way of California and try to make everything about liberal and social justice. this was their actual true downfall. instead of being for trade, innovation and energy, they chose to be woke
2026-01-13 13:51:17
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chuitey539
chuitey539 :
Then Trump decides to take Greenland and fixes the problem
2026-01-13 03:22:10
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storiesintheshadows
Storiesintheshadows :
Europe will be collapse in ten years.
2026-01-13 08:28:45
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