The speaker, Dr. Sarah Paine, argues that the post-WWII world order is collapsing because the United States has abandoned the international norms it once upheld. She explains that this 'rules-based order' was what maintained stability, and its breakdown is forcing other nations, particularly in Europe, to rapidly form new alliances and institutions for security, technology, and finance, effectively decoupling from American systems. The video uses maps and graphics to show the formation of a Nordic-Baltic bloc and discusses their efforts in remilitarization, building spaceports, and creating independent payment systems to boycott American influence.
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The world order that emerged from WW2 is under pressure...
Military historian Dr Sarah Paine warns that growing tensions between nations could put the world on a path towards another Cold War, with the risk of nuclear conflict.
She argues that America’s current approach is alienating allies and reshaping the global order, leaving future generations to face the consequences.
The consequences of today’s decisions could shape the world our children inherit.
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Transcript
The United States is, it's it's gone rogue. The existential threat that this is posing has led to the most rapid institution building, in Europe. You said the post World War two world is collapsing, and we are now going into a second good war that could end in nuclear war. What is it that's collapsing? The rules based order was always based on norms of following them. And The US legal order was based on norms of everyone more or less following them. If everyone decided to just do whatever on a given day, there aren't enough policemen ever to enforce that. It would just be mayhem. Now The United States is pulling out of this order. The existential threat that this is posing has led to the most rapid institution building, in Europe. It's incredibly fast. You've got the Baltic eight Nordic countries. Right? You good Finland, Sweden, Norway, and then Denmark. And then you get the Baltic, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and then Iceland's part of Latvia, rank Lithuania, and then Iceland's part of this as well. They've been organizing all sorts of security things together. There's remilitarization going on. There's also work on spaceports all over the place. Britain is, since the sixties, tier spaceports, so has Norway, Sweden. Britain's gonna build a new one up in the Shetland Islands, and it's because you all are gonna be launching your own satellite system. And I think also you all are sick of our credit card payment systems. You're gonna do that locally. There's an app that's been put out. Apparently, if in Europe, you wanna buy stuff, your app will tell you immediately whether a product is American or no, so you don't have to buy that product. It's called the b word boycott, which is happening to America right now as a result of doing all of this. And you've seen prime minister Carney of Canada traveling everywhere, organizing the middle powers. That'll be the new world order. And The United States is... It's gone rogue. As America, we are on the right side of two world wars. Made an incredibly positive contribution in many, many ways. And what we're doing now is so negative and is profoundly negative for the futures of our children.
