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We touched on the nuclear debate in Germany very briefly in this episode, but the topic is gaining momentum:
This text by Ulrich Kuhn sheds some more light: thebulletin.org/2024/03/germany-debates-nuclear-we…
Especially this part is ehkm interesting ;) "One such proposal suggests a “Eurobomb,” with the nuclear command-and-control suitcase constantly “roaming” between EU capitals. Another recommends that Europeans immediately buy 1,000 “nonactive” US strategic warheads and missiles in conjunction with Germany revoking its membership in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, also known as the ban treaty. (Germany never signed the treaty.)"
Whereas Britain is developing its new, sovereign (of the US) nuclear warhead:
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-developing-new-sov…
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We present the background for all that noise in the episode below.
btw. Thanks for all the applications for the narrator gig - we'll review all of them and get in touch with all the applicants regardless of the decision
Would you like to be a narrator of Good Times Bad Times? Actually, we might be looking for one.
It would be great to have a voice actor do the job, who actually knows the channel and likes it. Obviously, we are looking for people with experience in this field and proper hardware (mic, etc.)
Anyone interested, please send us an email titled "GTBT Narrator [Your name]" and attach a sample of your recording of the following text. E-mail address: [email protected]
It is the intro from our "Geopolitics 2024" episode:
"For two years, Europe has been plunged into the biggest war in 80 years between the continent's two largest countries. On 7 October, Israel and the Gaza Strip went up in flames, and the whole Middle East is on the verge of exploding. In Africa, one government after another is falling, taken over by putschists backed by, among others, Russian proxies. In South America, Venezuela is preparing to invade its much smaller neighbour. And all this is overshadowed by the vision of a major war in the Pacific in defence of Taiwan, involving the two most powerful states of this century - the United States of America and the People's Republic of China. How, after, a dozen years, did we go from a relatively peaceful time, when the main problem was to find the straw hut where the leader of a certain terrorist group was hiding, to a situation of international chaos, with several peripheral wars and the real prospect of a world war? What is the state of the world in 2024 and why is it the way it is? Welcome to the Twenties Report"
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Also, to answer a potential question about why we are changing the channel voice, it is basically a workload type of thing. I'm currently narrating two channels (PL and EN), writing scripts, researching, managing a small team of people & a couple of channels, supervising visuals, etc.
I want to delegate what is possible to delegate to spend more time of what matters the most - the quality of the script. Meanwhile, e.g. a 40min script to narrate is quite exhausting for me to record, to be honest.
Possibly I will narrate videos from time to time, as I do enjoy it, but a helping hand from someone with a great voice would be great.
Cheers
Hey, under our recent video, I noticed quite a pushback against AI-generated footage.
Are you against using it? What are the motives - purely visual (ugly), or ethical?
About 9 years ago, the US declassified the targets in a potential Nuclear War against the Warsaw Pact states. Dozens of them were to be dropped on Poland.
60 years were enough to turn the "to-be-annihilated country" into one of the most committed US allies in Europe.
The moral? Don't get too attached to the world as we know it today, because it could turn upside down in our lifetime.
here is the doc: nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclea…
P.S- a couple of these nuclear bombing sites are a few kilometers from where I live now
"Nobody knows the exact timeline of Russia's madness, but we know Ukraine is buying us time and paying for it with blood. If Ukraine wins, Russia's expansionism will be halted. If not, we will be wishing we had used the bought time more efficiently." - Gabrielius Landsbergis; Lithuania's MFA. twitter.com/GLandsbergis/status/174937482602683606…
"We are running out of time. There's a window now that might last one, two, maybe three years. We don't know what will happen with Russia in three years time" - Eirik Kristoffersen; Norwegian Chief of Defence. www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/vi-har-darlig-tid/8085520…
X/ @Gerashchenko_en : One of the largest rallies in Russian Federation since the beginning of the full-scale war against Ukraine is currently taking place in Bashkortostan. It is being dispersed by special forces.
more here: twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/174754048549161…
This 6MLN Twitter thread is a valuable complement to our point made in the video below.
twitter.com/FRHoffmann1/status/1746589423251403236
"In this thread, I will explain why we are much closer to war with 🇷🇺 than most people realize and why our time window for rearmament is shorter than many believe. In my opinion, we have at best 2-3 years to re-establish deterrence vis-à-vis 🇷🇺. Here's why 👇 1/20"
The perception of the Baltic people (as below), which may actually find themselves in existential danger, is a sign that Pax Americana is the default state for many allies.
The decisions that we'll see taken in 2024 will either help maintain it or see it questioned more and more.
We will look at the state of world affairs in this year's final episode, which will be released after Christmas (there will be one more before that).
17% of Germans would be ready to defend the fatherland with a gun in hand in the case of war. How many would be ready to defend the Baltics in the name of NATO cohesion, given they have the capabilities (they don't)? Poles, Finns, or Romanians won't be willing to do it either, busy preparing their own defense and unwilling to face Russian without enough strategic depth. More on that in our latest material, and also next week.
Tl-;dr - The US leaving Ukraine is a straight path to NATO facing an existential threat.
www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/umfrage--nur-17-p…
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