Comments by "Luis Romero" (@LuisRomeroLopez) on "KALININGRAD, a Russian TROJAN HORSE in the heart of EUROPE? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

It would be kind of inocent to believe that all the russian army equipment and personel in Kalingrad is public.
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@nerdomania24 It's not like I was trying to contradict you. In general, don't take the comments in this thread too seriously - the original post was about a joke. 🙃
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@НиколайУльянкин-г6т >The USSR destroyed about 70-75% of the army of the Wehrmacht and their allies Well... Probably it would have help way more if the USSR didn't had being an indirect ally to Germany by signing a nonaggression pact that help Germany whorting the time of preparation for France and UK. Also: Probably a good chunk of "our European friends" (Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians, Romanians, Bulgarians, and maybe especially Hungarians, Polands, Ucranians and Rumanians) have a different and most recent memory of the URSS.
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Nadelwald Königsberg But democracies do tend to be more resilient than authoritarians regimes and with better life quality. That's even for kind of mathematical reasons: If decisions are concentrated in one person o group, it doesn't matter how smart that group or person is: even if they were genius they probably aren't going to have a perfect manage of something as complex and diverse as a national economy. And this is common among non democratic regimes: Success in one sector, but they seriously screw up another. Think in the USSR improving military but cracking the rest of the economy in long run, or Cuba improving some healthcare services while leaving behind other national industries, or Venezuela with great improvements again poverty but heavily mismanaging the production. Now imagine what happens when you have all the important decisions are concentrated in one person and, inevitably that person starts to get old. You also have the problem of, as people says, "putting all your eggs in the same basket". For example, after the assasination of Kennedy, do you think that the following political crisis was similar to the crisis that you might have in China or Russia if Xi or Putin died in a sudden accident? (Even some large companies have policies where no more than one or two board directors or key personel can travel together in the same helicopter or plane (you know, in case anything happens).) In the best of cases there would not be a severe crisis, but all national policies would have to be restructured to the personal taste of the new leader. And finally, the latter lead to another problem that is also present with the more absolute monarchies: If you don't have checks and balances, you only need ONE SINGLE INCOPENTENT to take office and all progress can be ruin in a few years; and even if the person doesn't have to be too incopetent, just be bad at an specific task (like economy, diplomacy, etc.) When you realize this, you get that when a non democratic nation or a dictatorship experience a mino gold age under one absolute leader, it was more likely to be a strike of luck.
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TheMadSlav But Russia under Stalin was the literal nazi colaborator that enabled nazis to start their expansion. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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TheMadSlav REALLY?!... So the whole planet just imagined the non aggression pact and partition of Poland? Maybe Stalin and Poland were inventions of your imagination all this time. 😆
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TheMadSlav But neither France nor the UK had a friendship treaty like Stalin (Molotov-Ribbentrop, and the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty, aka "German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship") and France and the UK just tried to appease Germany with the Sudetenland while they were arming, which they may have had time for, if someone didn't. he would have had an alliance with the Nazis for the partition of Poland. Do you think the planet imagined those treaties, or it might be just you the one who does not want to recognize them? 🤔
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TheMadSlav How is the same a treaty for cooperation and a treaty of an imposition to keep in check? Your problem is how obvious you're: As soon as you mention that you didn't want to take in consideration the "friendship" part, it become obvious that you were trying to protect your LIE. Probably because the Munich agreement is the only thing that Google show you when you tried to took for something equivalent to the "Soviet - German frienship and cooperation treaty". You're really bad lying... or you actually can't understand the difference and really think that the Berlin Conference was some sort of treaty of peace with Africa and the sanctions in Iran are some kind of US support to Iran. 😆
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@nerdomania24 "Grad" is an old russian word for city... Kalingrad is a city... "Grad" is "Graduate"... "Graduate from Kalingrad city"... Almost sure that there's has to be an overly elaborate joke there. 🤔
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And what about the difference between quality of life and income with Poland and the EU? Is there a considerable difference and do people in Kalingrad take it seriously?
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TheMadSlav Really? So what was the french - german FRIENDSHIP treaty? Or the british - german FRIENDSHIP treaty? Or th American - German FRIENSHIP gtreaty? Because the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty was literally know as "German–Soviet FRIENDSHIP treaty for COOPERATION and demarcation" by Molotv, Ribbentrop and others.
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TheMadSlav I don't even need to mention the "friendship" part obviously scares you. Already explained the Munich and the nava was to IMPOSE a SANCTION in Germany... which is literally the opposite to a cooperation and friendship, turning UK in nazi OPPOSITORS. You're scape is so clumsy that literally is like argue that he US supports and cooperates with the Quds force because of the Iran sanctions on Iran. XD
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@drunkensailor3736 It's me or "My Take" videos are being systematically promoted in the comment section of Visualpolitic. 🤔
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@coyote9943 Do you really think that the average Russian has the standard and quality of life that the average American? ... Really?
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@coyote9943 > that does not change the fact that both governments are doing the same shit Do you really believe this? I mean, has the US government passed malicious legislation against religious groups like Russia with Jehovah's Witnesses? Or passed a legislation to reverse the normalization of LGBT groups with the pretext of "protecting children"? Or journalists who have strongly criticized the president have been assassinated in the US like Politkovskaya? Or Snowden had the same fate that Litvinenko? Or did Clinton (who was president when Putin took power) changed the legislation to remain power until this day? There's only two possible explanations: You're seriously ignore what has happened in Russia and you don't see any problem in talk about what you ignore; or you're just lying. > US quality of life is degrading while Russian is getting better I guess that is imrpoving in Russia as long as you're not or Jehova Witnesses, muslim, journalist, have different political opinions to the president or you're a woman. 🤦‍♂️ Even before the covid, unemployment rates were dramatically different in both countries. Your "US quality of life is degrading" reminds me of conservatives predicting the end of Sweden or all Europe, or leftists predicting the end of capitalism. 🤦‍♂️
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@coyote9943 > the US do not assassinate journalists just make examples of them(Julian Assange) Assange is facing legal process, so imagine that in your mind there is no difference between an unsolved murderer and an arrest and a process in which media can freely report your status. Now both Assange and Litvinenko and Snowden exposed questionable government activities and obviously knew there would be repercussions. But there is also a LOT of difference in the activities they exhibited. > The US does not passe malicious legislation but still pratic them So... You can beat women with no legal repercussion in the US? Or is it illegal to portray a homosexual character on television? > So get off your high horse US government is very bad, maybe not for you but for many people they are pretty evil. If the protests that are happening in the US were happening in Russia, they would have been swept from day 1 even if they had been less violent. It doesn't matter how much you desire for things to be same in both countries, every indicator from Amnesty International, HRW, Reporters sans frontieres and others are pretty clear.
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@coyote9943 > you can try and convince me that the US is nice but Again... It doesn't matter how much you desire for things to be same in both countries, every indicator from Amnesty International, HRW, Reporters sans frontieres and others are pretty clear. Either you don't like data or you are so desperate to believe your own political opinions that you believe that there could be a worldwide coordinated conspiracy to make liberal democracies look better than dictatorships (Who would be so naive to believe that a democracy is better than a dictatorship, would you say, right?) > I experienced your democracy from depleted uranium If something is your experience, that is anecdotal data (or in other words: useless to prove something) Also: "Your democracy"? I'm not american. 😆 > "Afcours" not if you are average joe, but if you are one of the elites that run the country you can pretty much do whatever want But in Russia you can do that as an average Joe also... We can watch independent humans rights indicator: for anything bad you can find about the US, probaly is even worse in Russia in most of cases (but not all). > so yes it is better than Russia but way worse than any western country. Agree: the US has some pretty bad indicators for a developed country in many aspects (the fact that you can openly criticize the US within the US should tell you something in comparison with countries like China or Russia). To say that the US is the best country was never my point. BUT... From the moment you agree that "yes it is better than Russia", you finally understand what was wrong whit your original clain that "both governments are doing the same shit". You're welcome! 🙂
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@coyote9943 > but for how long that is my original post because the US government is constantly putting money where the rich benefits and average joe doesn't Vladimir Putin literally seized power in Russia by dividing the control of the country among trusted people... He created anoligarchy. Again: If something is bad in the US chances are that it will be worse your average dictatorship. > health care is a corporation, infrastructure schooling all get back seat for the military so again rich get richer This reads as if you had an almost communist reasoning (with the theory of exploitation or that the value of things is objective), or that economics is a zero-sum game (neither Marxist economics, nor the labor theory of value, Neither the idea of objective value, nor that economics is a zero-sum game is something many modern economists take seriously). For your simplification of the problem I'm almost sure that there are many aspects that you are not taking into account such as that we are delayed for the next long cycle of debt, that globalization has brought much less inequality to the world since the late 1990s (and that it has increased in the US). It may be for reasons such as the movement of capital and companies from the country to China, India, Brazil and Vietnam (we could say that the income was even socialized in favor of the world but not for the US)); Or that we could still be in an analogy to the industrial revolution (with the internet and automation) and (like in the last insutrial revolution) fixed capital exceeded circulating capital and we have to wait for the return on investment and thus circulating exceeding the fixed again.
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@coyote9943 Probably the loss (which should vary by region) inst proportionally as bad as the proportional loss of quality of life in Russia from 2014 to 2022. That's not to mention the reasons for each thing to happen.
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