Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Estonia's Election: A Victory for Europe and Ukraine?" video.

@sri33333 "Do you realise that Estonia is a small country" Russian speakers are a big enough minority that finding teachers shouldn't be a big problem. It hasn't been a problem for Estonia until now. "Do you really want to compare us with Turkey with its 85 million people?" Your original point, which I responded to, only said that there shouldn't be any obligation to arrange teaching in any non-official language. That point didn't mention size which is a different point entirely so using Turkey as an example seemed perfectly reasonable. Furthermore, in my comment I did mention that e.g. the number of the speakers of the minority language is one factor in determining how reasonable is to expect for the government to arrange schooling in that language. I think Russian speakers a big enough minority in Estonia that arranging Russian language schooling shouldn't be a problem. Estonia has managed until now and I don't see a reason to change that. "and also quite poor" I don't think you can count Estonia as poor anymore. As an example, its real GDP per capita is already (somewhat) higher than that of Spain and Portugal.
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Refugees are a type of migrants.
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"the US has given more aid to Ukraine than all of Europe?" To my knowledge, the figures are for aid that has been decided/announce, only some of which has already been delivered. I'm not sure if the order would change if only aid that has already been given would be counted. Maybe I'm a bit pedantic for focusing on your precise wording but it's still important to note that there can often be significant delay before the aid makes its way to Ukraine. Also note that there is a great deal of uncertainty of how to value military aid. It's not an easy task for an accountant to decide how to value e.g. a Bradley donated by the US or a T-72 donated by Poland (or something). But in any case, that doesn't significantly change the big picture which is that in absolute terms the US makes up a large portion of the aid.
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@coops1992 "Not really" What's your justification for that claim? By "more" OP obviously meant in absolute terms. Unless the absolute amounts are wrong it's not correct to reply "not really". "their support per GDP is pretty pathetic" What counts as "pathetic" is subjective but I don't think that wording is justified here. Their support per GDP might be lower than that of the countries with highest per GDP figures but I think it would be strange to call all but the highest per GDP figures "pathetic". Europe (which here means the EU, the other European NATO countries, and Switzerland) has a higher GDP than the US so by that logic the average European contribution is even more "pathetic" and only a few countries have made non-pathetic contributions.
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@intervrt People's Parties and People's Republics are not related.
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@intervrt They are related in the sense that usually People's Republic implies (claimed or real) socialist ideology, though there are exceptions like the Donbass people's republics. People's Parties, however, tend to more often be center-right than socialist.
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I don't think ending the war would have as big of an impact on the cost of living as you believe. Even after the war ends relations with Russia are likely difficult and hydrocarbon imports from there won't resume quickly.
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@aidanquiett668 "Whats with all the ceremonial government leaders in Europe?" In the US that might not happen on the federal level but there are plenty of cities with ceremonial mayors and where the actual governing is done by city managers or some other position like that.
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@_MrMoney How much of that job is just representation and ceremonies rather than actually helping the president with substantial decisions? In any case, the vice president is both symbolically and de facto subordinate to the president.
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@XzaroX "If US Suddenly decided to ban Mexican immigrants [...] there would be an outrage." The US already severely restricts immigration from Mexico. The reason there is so much illegal immigration from Mexico is because for the vast majority of them legal immigration is impossible. On that front the US doesn't seem that different to begin with. (Spanish language schooling might be another matter.)
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@sri33333 "Government should not be obligated to finance schools in languages that are not official language of the country." I strongly disagree with you here. Governments should also have an obligation to treat national minorities well rather than ignore them. This should also include schooling in their language (though of course this depends on a variety of factors like the number of speakers of the minority language). Do you think that e.g. the Turkish government has no obligation to provide Turkish language schools?
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@helengolovina4597 Russian speaking Estonians pay taxes just like everyone else. It's not unreasonable to expect that they would also get government services funded by taxes like schooling for children.
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You could also word that as "I was got" if you wanted to avoid the tautophony.
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A refugee is a type of migrant (excluding maybe internal refugees).
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@peterebel7899 Don't put words into my mouth. I never claimed that anyone wouldn't be worth thinking about nor did I claim that this is voluntary. My only point was just that the word "migrant" also applies, not more.
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@peterebel7899 Temporary migrants are still migrants. Also, many refugees never go back but that doesn't mean they aren't refugees.
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@peterebel7899 I don't have a comment on the discussion on this topic in the UK. I'm only saying the term "migrant" applies (even if it might be bit inspecific), not any more than that.
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@peterebel7899 You can say that TLDR should be more specific but saying that the term "migrant" isn't correct is going too far because the terms just means "a person who moves from one place to another".
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Probably not the Turkish one.
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But "refugees" is a subset of "migrants" (at least if you exclude internal refugees).
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Many of those people were born in Estonia and have never been to Russia.
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No.
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"Why don't they speak Estonian? Is it a very hard language to master? Like Chinese?" I think you're exaggerating the difficulty differences between different languages.
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