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Some on the Left Hate NATO… here’s why – TLDR News
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Some on the left of the political aisle aren’t happy about the rising prominence of NATO. They might not side with Putin, but they’re not exactly happy. So in this video we unpack why there’s a hated of NATO and if it’s really justified.
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@RR-us2kp
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Biggest mistake was letting US join a European alliance. A warmonger that profits from war is never going to support peace AS WE CAN SEE in Ukraine and Palestine
@correctrper2941
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
bro really just called biden left of center lmao
@GamesTube80
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
As a Brazilian I also hate NATO. They are just like Soviet union and nazi expansion
@90stroll86
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
some not many
@user-vv6gj8fq7n
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Isnt a weapons laundering justifying taxation scheme to enrich banks lawyers corrupt politicians to rip off hard working civillian populations me thinks so a war pig qith lipstick
@nehuen9333
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
I hate it because its the biggets military alliance that dominates and oppreses the world for its own benefit, and if you were from the nations that dont benefit from the giagantic US military, you would hate it too, simple
@drewjeers815
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Very lopsided view of things I must say.
Then I'll add that just because a country seems to have made its own choice doesn't mean another country did not push it to.
@apuestasfutbol
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
I would say the right in US are opposed to NATO?
@generalbiscuits2490
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
I agreed with werheim Westerners' imperialism against the global south and resources.
@pk-wo3lh
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Hearing about NATO too often makes me feel like dead weight.
@multipleleekisms
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
The nominal left be like "America/NATO bad no matter what" and "Russia good no matter what" despite all evidence to the contrary.
The brain rot amongst these people is remarkable to me, and it seems to always be the same people that try to convince everyone that every one really was a traitor in Stalin's USSR. These people clutch their pearls about things like Ukraines far-right, pick on Western transgressions, yet completely ignore or give a pass to the often far more provocative and straight up diabolical transgressions that Russia has done in recent history. I consider myself part of this "left" and I think these people are either willfully ignorant or just grifting online. Nobody put a proverbial gun to any country to force them to join NATO, unlike the former Warsaw Pact.
@Lukas-lw4eg
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
7:27 I do believe that NATO is lead by USA, promotes capitalism and causes tension … yet I still fully support it XD I am simply pro-capitalism
@christianolsson2898
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Here's you.
You got a conflict with your neighbor.
Some US reporter does a 15minute "documentary" on the injustice your neighbor is suffering from your policies regarding your own space.
NATO sends you a letter of "surrender or get bombed".
NATO really just wants to flex and send their soldiers for some live-training and proceeds to bomb you with depleted uranium shells for 3 months straight all while spewing propaganda on how it was YOU who antagonized your neighbor to the point where the neighbor felt threatened and needed "some" help convincing you how YOUR ways regarding YOUR space is wrong.
NATO writes history about how they saved your neighbor and how you're trying to play the victim JUST because they HAD to bomb you for 3 months straight.
Turns out NATO isn't a country, NATO isn't even a nation or a government. NATO is in fact a war-company that holds zero accountability and responsibility for their actions and as such can never be fought against.
We had the Mongol Empire, the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the Russian Empire etc. NATO Is simple aspiring to go down as histories latest empire with one catch, they're really businessmen selling coups, military, weapons and more!
NATO is by far the worst creation in recent history since Nazi Germany.
@zinnsoldat6493
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
NATO is a blessing for Europe, no wars between European countries since 1945
@paulaharte9384
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Im far left and i can confirm that I indeed hate nato and the us government
@adamwnt
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
if anything NATO didn't expand quickly enough and far enough, Georgia and Ukraine are the testimony of that.
@erikvan9582
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
An year later after february 24th 2022 leftists:"All the worlds democracies should join NATO,we are also spending very little on the millitary,beer it up and make us be able to fight five wars at once"
@shyamdubey9842
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
I hate NATO…. because you're NATO member Malta makes my time loss money loss…..
@sorzin2289
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
In order to expand and sustain capitalism war must be waged abroad and the working class must be suppressed at home. As a Socialist, anarchist and worker I oppose NATO for that reason.
@pwnd331
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
"If you believe"? what the truth? you listed 3 ways the left feels about NATO that are straight facts.
1. they are led by the US in every imaginable way
2. literally invented to fight anything thats not capitalism
3. its the worlds largest military alliance, who like to expand, and like to send their military in 3rd party countries to help overthrow goverments or just after, so yeah it does cause tension
none of these are contentious
"if you truly believe" its
1. focused on security
2. protect countries
Yes also! these are facts too, but they do not superseed or negate everything you said before. also I do love a military that is "focused on security", surely it will always be focused and not be overly aggresive right?
@pwnd331
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
"arent the left in support of organizations that foster peace"??!!?! didnt NATO send their military to kill people in Libya? reasoning "crimes against humanity" ? Wow, yeah sounds like a solid legit reason. that the kind of reasoning for military involvement from a organization thats 100% about fostering peace and not just sending their military against any person they personally dislike. arent there crimes against humanity happening in the us or china? why doesnt nato go after them eh?
@jonathonletts8972
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
I can destroy this vid with one word..Cuba.
@jonathonletts8972
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Of course…youtube doesn't have the 1997 NY times article where thousands of Americans want nato disbanded…or when Bush said Iran was a threat in 2008 and laughed.
@robertgutierrez7453
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
All lies. NATO wasn't supposed to expand to eastern europe as we know the soviet union dissolved in 1991, therefore, NATO already served its purpose during the Cold War. NATO and Russia agreed that neither side would be the aggressor during the 1990s and beyond and that preserved some tranquility among nations at the time. Since 9/11 up to now…NATO has been the agreessor and warmonger toppling legitimate governments like in Iraq and in Libya under the pretext of spreading democracy worldwide. All this is a blatant lie, and furthermore NATO has harassed Russia for a long time in expanding into eastern Europe and also pressuring Ukraine to join NATO. Now the jig is up and most people with functioning neurons knows why Russia went to war in Ukraine simply because NATO started this conflict. Because NATO has destabilized the world and made it less secure and free, then it is warranted that NATO must be abolished permanently, and the member nations must abolish and dissolve the organization entirely!
@ghostofronaldreagan172
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Anyone who opposes NATO is either an authoritarian or an idiot. NATO was formed so that we never have to deal with another Hitler, ever again.
Trump wanted to pull US out of NATO to benefit Putin but blue collar conservatives are too high on his farts to realize it.
@stironeceno
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
A NATO like should ONLY include Europeans States for European defenses and for European interests .
@unixway
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Some people just hate terroists, so definetly they can't tolerate North Atlantic Terrorist Organization!
@waqarahmad-gm2rc
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
heres why, iraq, libya, afghanistan, eastward expansion, a dictatorship led by america, being led by a country known for regime change and economic opportunists who go to war and put sanctions for their own interest, proxy wars, i can go on
@BS-bd4xo
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
I might be a socialist, but I'm more neutral, and sometimes quite positive about nato. They have done quite a few atrocities tho, and should be criticized for that. But those usually have something to do with US's flaws.
@Hairysteed
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
If Russia is concerned about the "aggressive" NATO closing in on their western border, Sweden, Swizerland and Austria must be downright scrared crapless since they're COMPLETELY SURROUNDED by NATO… and they don't even have their own nuclear deterrent! 😜
@IhatteDogs
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
NATO AND PEACE 🤣🤣🤣
@kudowazzupman1878
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Far Left = Communists.
@Jitrovic
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
NATO maked my uncle go boom I no like it
@Worldaffairslover
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
I think those that are against Nato should have to fight if war breaks out.
@TheLeksilijum
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
I don't understand how someone can say that the countries join NATO through the support of their population… Governments that join NATO are in best cases left center, and always pro capitalist. France, for example, left NATO in the 60s and then Sarkozy rejoined NATO without a referendum allegedly backed by the parliament. Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson also said recently that if they decide to join NATO there will be no referendum because the people are apparently unable to make such a decision because they don't know military secrets… I think that when people vote a government (which is usually between 50 and 60 percent of adults with voting rights in Europe…) even if the government gets a majority vote of 50+ percent which rarely happens, it still means that the governments are established with less than a third of adults with voting rights' support. That's highly undemocratic, and referendums are in my opinion extremely important in these cases, we have to stop treating citizens as ignorant herd that doesn't know what's good for it.
@VTrucker777
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Still ask why hate NATO?
How your reaction if a group of nations dictate how to run your already independent country?
That exacrly what nato did to Indonesia
You can kiss my middle finger
Indonesia is still to this day not independent
@abdallahelkholy6710
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
NATO is bad
@johnlaudenslager706
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Well, NATO isn't a wholly international organization, and it is military, so no surprise it doesn't please some leftists. Might be more pleasing if NATO morphed into the military arm of the UN with the mission to enforce national borders and sovereignty everywhere.
@idranardone4500
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
I HATE NATO
I HATE NATO
I HATE NATO
I HATE NATO
I HATE NATO
I LOVE RUSSIA
I LOVE RUSSIA
I LOVE RUSSIA
I LOVE RUSSIA
I LOVE RUSSIA
@datacollector345
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Some no all hate nato
@88marome
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Democracy and Capitalism are opposites, you can't truly have both at the same time. Work under capitalism is slavery run by dictators called CEO's. You can't have democracy in such a system, the workers have no say unless capitalism is heavily regulated by socialist policies! Membership in these unions really need to stop focusing on gdp and instead focus on well being.
@mindfulskills
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Here in the States the NATO haters are mostly right wingers who see Putin as the savior of white supremacy against the dark tide of sub-humans and homosexuals threatening to engulf them. This is why they support Trump's servile relationship with Putin and his efforts to undermine NATO.
@Nash15118
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
When the leader of the nato organization blew up the pipeline which is very important for another nato member because you don’t want them to stray away
…. You know it’s gone
@MrAndrew941
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
War in Ukraine was going to happen regardless of NATO, NATO is just a easy excuse for Russia, if it wasn’t for the structure of NATO Ukraine wouldn’t be getting anyway near the support it’s getting. Russia is it’s own problem same with China
@nightmarerageyt2224
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
nato is evil and so are the people who support it
@johnc4224
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Why: because the left don't understand how bad communism is.
@Paul-ks2fv
February 10, 2024 at 10:56 pm
The problem i have with this podcast is that he rightly initially states « some people on the far left ». Then very quickly uses the left which gives the impression that left of centre european politics is by and large against nato. I also think that this hides an issue that i have with a lot of these individuals. I believe( no actual proof) the attitude the far left has is in no way an intellectual one its based on them historically aligning themselves with the soviet union ( 1980 s rose tinted glasses) and not looking at russia becoming a pure capitalist ( beyond anything in theUSA) and more recently a a post capitalist state with one man and his cronies owning the entire state( effectively going back to medieval royalist society) which i similarly view modern china to be.