George Friedman: "Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe" | Talks at Google
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe. A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years) with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe, this provocative work examines ‘flashpoints’—unique geopolitical hotspots where tensions have erupted throughout history—and why conflict is due to emerge again. “There is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8-Ball.” —The New York Times Magazine With uncanny accuracy, George Friedman has forecasted coming trends in global politics, technology, population, and culture. Now, in Flashpoints, he focuses on the continent that was the cultural and power nexus of the world for five-hundred years: Europe. Analyzing the historical fault lines that have existed for centuries within the borderlands of Europe and Russia--which have been the hotbed of numerous catastrophic wars--Friedman walks readers through the flashpoints that are smoldering once again. The modern-day European Union was crafted in large part to minimize these built-in geopolitical tensions, but as Friedman shows with a mix of fascinating history and provocative cultural analysis, that design is failing. Flashpoints is George Friedman’s most timely book, delivering an unflinching forecast for the coming years. About the author: George Friedman is the Chairman and founder of Stratfor, the world's leading private intelligence company. He is frequently called upon as a media expert in intelligence and international geopolitics, and is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Next Decade and The Next 100 Years. He lives in Austin, Texas. This Authors at Google talk was hosted by Boris Debic.
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George Friedman sounds as the Biblical Snake seducing Eve, But he seduces Europe to fall apart and the USA to fight with Russia in the Ukraine by European hands. He is the Biblical Snake.
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Transform humanity relationships to nature yes kill all the Gaelic and destroy there Brehon law
So all the Apple trees of the world are free to be cut down
Mozart comes from the theft of Gaelic and Greek pagan culture re ordained into a new wonder threw the Austrians
Conquered nature
Yea are saying
Killed the Gaelic 5000 year old kings
Killed the Druids
Killed the Brehons burnt the 8,000 year old law books
That protected nature in many ways
Because Europeans is based off a perpetual civil war dynamic forged in Julius Caesar civil war against Rome Carthage and Gaul
A Christian fascistic nationalism whose single political fiction is to wage endless civil war
No?
Europeans are so violent because they have all these starving Gaelic people in Britain and Ireland to bribe into there armies for almost nothing and then to wage war over the agrarian classes that they care little for and achieve glory for themselves like a sports game with really no risks to there own system that was Europe until napoleon
The Erie Canal Irish won that war for the union
East Britain helps the Germans by holding down the Gaelic
That's the only reason
And killing about 1,000,000 of us when there barely was any of us before that -
Another factor could be that in Europe there are many different languages in 2 different main branches (latin and german), we cannot even understand each others :|
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This is a surprisingly good talk. I agree with a lot of what George Friedman says here.
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This speaker is ignoring some very important realities. The EU was originally conceived to ethnically mongrelize the population with Asians and Africans. He is quite misleading in certain cases.
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The Soviet Union fell in 1991 and the EU's Maastricht treaty was signed in 1993. Friedman's ideas are interesting, but a quick fact check would be nice...
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It is really a strange view to talk about Europe as one single entity
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I disagree. Mr. Friedman forget the armament of Hitler by nearly exclusively british and american investors. The Britons had another plan than the U.S. The Britons wanted to see Germany on the ground. Not the Nazis! Germany as a country. (Look the Chamberlain -Coup in Munich and its real reasons).They feared the economic rise of Germany again. They always historically behave in its foreign policy that somone of the continent is clashing with another. During 1938 till the end of WW II, there have been more than 2 dozen clandestine peace deals offering from Germans. The Britons (Churchill) betrayed them all!!! Because they thought to maintain their Empire for ever. First in the twenties, they told Polen to go against Soviet Union. That didn't work. Then they looked for another, that could do the job to destroy the Soviet Union. It was Germany. Hitler was a helpful vehicle, because he was a fanatic enemy of the Soviets too. He never could start WW II without the money from Prescott Bush, Dallas Brothers a.s.o. But America itself had another, different treaty with Stalin. They wanted divide Europe in two parts of their one influence. East and West. And now it can be understand why the war was going on and on, till the two, Eisenhower and Stalin, had their prey by getting closer with their armies in Berlin!! These cruel plans led to 100 Million of dead people!!! And it led also to the overall influence of the U.S. that overtook after the WW II the Empire-Status of the Britons. Peace was desired also from the European countries after suffered 2 WW! Clear, Washington and Moscow were the real powers behind, no doubt, but we feared all the time during cold war, that it could happen again. Not! because we, the Europan people wanted war against each other, we feared that Washington and Moscow loose the control. And now, again, we are threatened a third time!. But this time it's the U.S. with the NATO, in which we are allies, but the power of starting a war, ( by false flag as notorious usually the Americans do), against Russia. And we know now very well our history, but we know today also what the American strategic intentions are. Stop this horrifying play with the fire. This time, it would be the worst war of all. And this time, America too, has to fear a nuclear strike on its own God's Country. Be aware!
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Jews and Zionism at its very best, the Greater Israhell project is now on a back burner and the sheep are beginning to wake up!
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Fick Dich Du kranker Wichser. Putim macht Euch bald flach
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So, all Friedman knows is that France and Germany failed to conquer Russia. Friedman does not know his European history when he neglects to mentioned that the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth for centuries controlled the Ukraine, and even occupied Moscow for a few years in 1609. The Russians even made a movie about that recently with the title '1612'. Even Smolensk remained under Polish rule for over 100 hundred years. It is important to know this history to put things into perspective.Central and Eastern Europe rely on NATO. They fear an increasingly desperate Germany forming yet another 1939 type short term alliance with a Russia wanting to re-emerge as a dominant power. Friedman also forgets to mention that in 1920 the Poles saved Europe, at least a weaken Germany post WW1, from a Bolshevik invasion. The Poles know the Russian threat only too well and resent how Churchill and Roosevelt failed to heed their warnings before the Yalta Agreement. There are really two Europes. One that enjoyed the post war economic boom, and another that suffered economic repression and political oppression under Soviet imposed communist systems. The Eastern half is only too aware of the Russian threat and have now become distrustful of Western Europe, particularly Germany. This divide could become more pronounced if Brexit occurs and Hungary have a referendum against taking refugees. Eastern and Central Europe are treated as second class and often vilified by Western Europeans who don't even bother to read the histories of these nations. The Germans in particular, but also the Brits have this very negative thing about the Poles. Very loud German individuals writing articles and Utube crap claiming that the Poles started WW11 as well as allegedly murdered two million ethnic Germans during 1945 to 1947, and who demand the regained Polish territories of Silesia and Pomerania, ain't helping matters any.Basically, America should leave the military affairs of Western Europe to France and England, and instead continue to bolster the military capability of the former East Block, who resent interference from Brussels. There is a new dawn in Europe and that is the other Central and Eastern Europe. I was at the World Trade fair in Shanghai during 2010 and saw first hand the massive effort these nations are undertaking to also forge major trade deals with that other giant East of the Russian Federation - namely China. Interesting, the high quality Polish WW11 TV series "Days of Honour" about the Polish resistance to both the German invaders and subsequent communist government, which is only shown in Scotland and Italy, is being screened on Chinese Television. Watch this space as another part of Europe takes the lead in preserving Europe and its legacy against a potential Russian invasion.
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I think it is really dangerous and false to describe the Americans as innocent babies .. they are really not! But this seems to be the mainstream american view. Try to get the whole picture to solve the problem. All this is not a developement for the people. We should not be a part of it. No soldier should die in the interest of global powers. Let us stop being hysterical and see people as they are. They do not want war, they are just afraid and have no other ideas how to solve this mess. To give you another point of view:
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Wherever a George Friedman video is posted, the neo-Nazi anti-semites soon follow.
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A lot of this is very interesting and accurate, but some of it extremely patchy: the foundation of the EU was largely German via Konrad Adenauer, not the French, who had no idea what they were doing, though they didn't know it! That's why you need to be very careful to remain open-minded when listening to Friedman. You need to check up on other sources. He's very insightful about Europeans, but not so insightful about Americans. :)
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no.....you fear the thought of loosing control of your personal freedoms
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George has a habit of laughing to make his audience less scared
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As we see from history, war also happens, when someone comes along, and says: I`M THE GREATEST FUCKER HERE! I`M GONNA STAY THE GREATEST FUCKER HERE!! AND YOU LITTLE DIPSHITS WOULD DIE WITHOUT ME!!! (The United States of America) -
jew wisfull thinking,...stupid bush like cunt
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Very poor vision of reality. I will not buy any George Fredman book
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