Comments by "" (@ericsaxon5736) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. It is not Ridya, it is Riyadh pronounced Rhee Ya Dh. How is the VisualPolitik quality control, failing this badly, at something this easy?
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  2. The European Union is a Democratic Republic. As such, a Hegemony of a single political ideology is unhealthy as it becomes an echo chamber and tyranny of its own. Poland is healthy for a Democratic Europe, as it presents a differing point of view other than Leftist ideologues, that neglects its NATO obligations. We have the same issue here in the U.S. and personally I would lean towards the left camp, nevertheless I realize that in order for a healthy Democracy we must also maintain a strong right camp to balance us out in our national discourse. We need moderate left and moderate right, that's why the U.S. succeeds. We don't need Psychotic Left or Psychotic Right to take over and we need to remind ourselves of that on a regular basis.
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  3. Once you kneel, it takes much less effort to Kow-Tow than it does to stand up.
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  4. But the Brexiteers promised... so much, much more. Say it ain't so Boris, say it ain't so.
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  5. 6:50 He was not determined to hold the Olympics and Japan didn't insist on holding them. Either do your research or don't post the Olympic Committee propaganda. The IOC told Japan the following "Either hold the Olympics in 2021 or you won't be holding them at all." The reason for this was that the IOC already took the bribes to hold the 2024 Olympics and they decided that Japan was going to be out a bunch of $$ and not them. They told Japan to hold the games or pound sand, no refunds, no delays, no rescheduling. Stop shilling for the IOC, VisualPolitik. The IOC are scum and you shouldn't tarnish someone's reputation with 'fake news.'
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  6. Germany suffers from the same problem that the US and the UK and France does. The problem: The world has increased their standard of living, so people aren't desperate to get into Germany to be sneered at or have people be bigoted against them, when they can find somewhere else to live. Poles no longer want to work in Germany for exploitation wages. The standard of living in Poland is high enough back home that you aren't going to work in Germany for exploitation wages the way you did in the 1980s and 1990s. And Germans haven't come to grips with this, so they still offer $2/hr to Polish workers while paying $5/hr to German workers (not actual amounts, just demonstrating the differences.) Well, when you can earn $4/hr back in Poland, why would you go to Germany to work for $2/hr and have some German bigot sneering at you all day. The same is starting to happen in France and the UK and the US. Eventually, the standard of living gets better in origin countries and they see no reason to deal with bigots in another country. And if you treat people like garbage, the only ones who stay, are the desperate and who can't leave, like refugees. And anyone else, with a solid exit plan, heads for the doors to the neighboring countries that don't have a culture of unpleasantness.
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  7. Poland is going to enjoy more economic growth than it has had for the last 30 years, and the last 30 years have seen monstrous growth. Things are looking rosy because of the Ukrainian tragedy. The EU (Germany and France) will be assisting in further military infrastructure growth, military bases will be cropping up like mushrooms after a rain, and many French, German, English and American service men, will be spending their hard earned Euros and $ in Poland. I mean we know what military bases do for local economies here is the U.S. which is why Senators and Congressmen fight tooth and nail over military bases in their districts. And Putin just gifted Poland with a giant bag of money. Add to this the Ukrainian refugees, who are now in Poland and will never go back because apparently traveling from Ukraine into Poland "was like traveling 30 years into the future," per one Youtuber. Poland's Economy has just got a steroid shot that will make them stronger and wealthier for decades to come.
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  8. 3 regions, 3 ethnicities, should be allowed to become 3 independent States. Let the Serbs join Serbia, the Croats join Croatia and the Bosniaks can become a Bosnia that is neither Serbian nor Croatian.
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  9. 6:26 Qing is not pronounced Kwing Empire it was the Ching Empire.
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  10. I was noticing it from looking at the video that it looked more South Asian than African but clearly had some African elements among its population.
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  11. The people of Ecuador deserve exactly what they vote for, as do the people of all nations across the world... vote wisely and carefully. Should you vote for a Socialist Revolution similar to Venezuela, stay in Ecuador and don't show up on our Southern border. Remember this, you deserve exactly what you vote for.
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  12. I think one or three more points were missed. Perun describes these points on his channel. #5 If S Korea ever gets into a shooting match with N Korea, they will now have twice as many factories producing equipment their own military can use. #6 Twice as many factories and twice as many militarys means twice as many arsenals to draw from. #7 Twice as many munition sources and munition producers to draw from. #8 S Korean arms aren't allowed to be sold within the EU but Polish arms do not have such restrictions as they are both a part of the EU and NATO, thus opening up Korean arms sales to the European market. #9 Twice as many countries producing weapons and sharing specifications means twice as many R&D teams creating improvements and sharing data. #10 And its not like S Korea is getting friendly with Russia or Poland is getting friendly with China and N Korea, so both parties have all the reason in the world to keep each other's secrets safe. :D
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  13.  @primeoil4758  Sure, go ahead and stuff Bolivars or Yuan in your mattress for a rainy day. The other 95% of the world will use the Dollar and its brainchild, the Euro Dollar. Just because you wish for something to be true, doesn't mean it will come true.
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  14.  @mrwsystems  I believe the riots occurred because Jews were allowed to celebrate their High Holy Days and Arabs were told to flock off when they wished to celebrate Ramadan. As a matter of fact, I remember Israeli politicians having the police to turn of the Muslim call to prayer speakers during Ramadan because he wanted to give a speech in front of the Wailing Wall. We can add to this the fact that Israelis are legally allowed to steal (I mean confiscate) private property of Arabs based on Israeli law. I read all of what I said in an article by a Jewish man. Apparently Bibi incited the riots intentionally, in order to then use said riots to terrorize Israelis into keeping him in power 2 years ago. I guess if someone came over to your home, took your home from you, slapped you around a few times, told you you aren't allowed to go to temple, then that would be 'ok' as long as they're in charge of the country, right? And you wouldn't riot because that would, as you say 'Arab stupidity' or would that then be 'Jewish stupidity?' I suppose as long as someone else is in charge, you and your family, don't have human rights, you're just a second class dogs, to be disposed of at the whim of those with guns and political power. You are also 100% right. Nothing happens from thin air. Everything has precedence.
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  15. 0:27 The United States recognized Ukraine's independence on December 25, 1991, when President George H.W. Bush announced the decision in an address to the nation regarding the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Russia recognized Ukraine's independence on December 5, 1994, when the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances were signed. Notice how the most powerful nation in the region gets to decide who's Independence does or does not get recognized? Yeah, I noticed that, too. Apparently, might made right. The U.S. had the might to force Russia to accept the will of Ukrainian secessionists, in 1994. Anyone who thought, that was going to last, obviously failed their World History classes. If you looked at your calendar it is not 1991 bur rather it is now 2022. Russia might have accepted the strong arm tactics of the West in 1991. But did anyone actually think it would last? Does anyone here think Taiwan's Independence will stand the test of time? I ask because I am forced to listen to CNN nonsense at home by people who refuse to read history books.
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  16. About as blessed as black people were to be in the Confederacy.
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  17.  @SotonSam  We live in a weird world just a 100 years later. Two former rival Naval Empires, now walking hand in hand saying, "I'll watch your back and you watch mine."
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  18. Pretty sure Napoleon entered Moskwa and took it. There simply was no one there and the French had to turn around and retreat when they realized that the Russian scorched earth policy included their own capital. But you got most of it right, so thumbs up.
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  19. Imagine two different worlds with no trade or exchange of ideas between them. A US world and a Europe world. In which one of these worlds would you be sitting behind a computer, watching VisualPolitik on the internet, drinking a coffee ordered from an app and wondering when they will cure cancer? And in which one of these world would you be reading a newspaper by candle light? You talk about quality of life but seem to have completely forgotten that quality of life is primarily based on technological innovation.
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  20. If the only thing needed for promotion is longevity, then your best talent will never rise to make you more profitable. And if the only people who are being promoted are the ones at work 16 hours, well, they're not finding a spouse, having kids, or creating the next generation of Japanese people. Japan is failing because its government is unable to handle the corporations. Want corporations to grow and become more productive, pass a law that punishes any company where their non-management employees work more than 40 hours a week and punish them with extreme fines. I guarantee, that corporations and their management will get really innovative once they know they can't blackmail their employees into working more than 40 hours a week. At which point they'll terminate unproductive and useless managers, CEOs, etc... (Forced innovation would do wonders for Japan's future.)
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  21. Anyone who has seen all the videos on this channel has already seen the video. :) As for being Democratic, they were Democratic before they found Texas Tea.
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  22.  @Fantastika  "The internet was created by France and the UK, not smelly americans" Is that right? Well, shucks, I'm so glad to have learned that. Where did you get your education? The University of Fantasy or the Reeducation Center of Hogwarts?
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  23. As you so aptly said, nobody helped them the last time. So why would they depend on the Western European countries of the EU to help them in the future? Germany, France, Spain and Italy are trying to build an Eastern Shield for themselves, while they spend their money on month long vacations, Cafes and importing second-class laborers from the 3rd world.
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  24.  @theforsakeen177  The EU is a free trade zone for Europeans but there are huge protectionist barriers for goods outside of the EU especially for military goods when France and Germany currently have the local market cornered. The U.S. doesn't have tariffs if you want to sell CA wines in NY or TX but try competing against French wines in the EU and you're going to pay through the nose. There is a reason why there are BMW plants in the United States and Ford plants in Germany. If you want to sell your goods in each other's continent, your goods need to be produced locally, or you will pay for it. So BMWs are built in Alabama and Fords are built in Cologne (Koln.)
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  25. Access is not the same thing as availability. Internet might be available to 100% of the population, access only belongs to those with hardware and the $s to access it. This is where the nuances of English as a first language, come into play. So do you have evidence that more than 10% of the population has access, as in "money, hardware, and basic user knowledge?"
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  26. So theft is punished by the removal of a hand, and this is bad because...? I mean if the Sultanate provides you with a home, a car, healthcare and retirement, I'll assume they provide you with enough to eat, and to pay for utilities. So the only theft I can think off, would be theft with the intent of self-enrichment, like defrauding your neighbors, grand theft auto, theft of natural resources, theft of luxuries, theft of things you don't need to live, etc... Again, this punishment is bad because...? I'm more outraged by Wall-Street bankers, mutual fund managers, and all sorts of other scum, get to walk away with $1 billion without doing any jail time, than I am with their hand being cut off. Why the fuck isn't the UN condemning the U.S. government for allowing these swine to rob the elderly and the uneducated with impunity? As for some woman whoring herself out for $3,000 a day, what the fuck did she think she was going to be doing? Playing patty-cakes and shopping? $3,000 a day is $21,000 a week or $1.1 million a year. You are a professional whore, you went there to screw for money. Spare me the false outrage.
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  27.  @luk4aaaa  Old reference. Probably made most famous on the tv show "Beverly Hillbillies" although it was used before. They use the term in the opening theme of that show. :D
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  28. 80% approval is not unusual, when you've been terrorized by mobsters and human traffickers most of your life. Imagine living under a cartel, and all of a sudden, the cartel members start disappearing. Yeah, you might not be happy about your cousin, going missing. But let's be honest, that cousin terrified you and your family and you're kinda glad he's no longer a stain on the family name. And funny how you've mentioned all these executions but haven't actually stated how many of them were innocent. Because it doesn't sound like anyone in the Philippines thinks they were innocent. Sounds more like the local neighborhoods are all polled, and the guys everyone knows 'have it coming' get what they 'had coming.'
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  29. I will say this, I've noticed that I have now heard the Russian or Soviet (not sure) anthem more times in the last year than I have the US anthem. I am unsure as to how comfortable I am with this. :D LOL
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  30.  @duXieduX  The United States of America. We the Republic are not very Democratic. 2 of our last 3 Presidents didn't even win the largest amount of votes to become President. Both W and Trump lost the popular vote. We are NOT a Democratic country, We are a Republic, governed by highly effective Oligarchs. Hope you understand my meaning now.
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  31.  @TheDarkever  LOL, we're not a Democratic country, we only play one on tv. We've got entire segments of our population who are not allowed to vote because their 'voting/polling places' mysteriously close the day before. A city of 1,000,000 and a county of 100,000 will have exactly the same number of polling booths and voting machines, etc... So calling us a Democratic country for much longer, is worthy of a LOL.
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  32. 10:46 "The United States did not declare war during its involvement in Vietnam, although the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized the escalation and use of military force in the Vietnam War without a formal declaration of war." If you need a U.S. Historian, send me a message and hire me, don't just make up shix. The U.S. had several non-war, wars. Peacekeeping operations, interventions, etc...
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  33.  @Eric-jh5mp  Even inherited wealth is earned through hard work because someone had to WORK HARD to create the wealth before it was inherited. And when heirs to large fortunes stop working, they squander their wealth and go into poverty. So even maintaining wealth is work.
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  34. Not sure draining aquifers is something that can be ignored. I'd be a lot more concerned about draining the Dead Sea into a Dead Puddle as that appears to be more like unsustainable resource exhaustion, rather than efficiency.
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  35. I'm glad they are discussing Mearshimer's videos, ONE MASSIVE point to be remined of is that, the video in question "Why Ukraine is the West's Fault" is SIX years old, that's right 2016. As in, he's not some guy who started saying this stuff 4 months ago in 2022, this is a video from 2016. So when someone is spewing nonsense about it being wrong about 2022 or Russian propaganda, just remember, this is an American professor and an America political analyst's opinion, that was not formed based on the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. And he predicted the stupidity, greed, posturing and false promises of NATO to Ukraine. And he also informed everyone how and why it would force Putin to do exactly what he is doing. This is a guy who made his analysis known, during President Obama's term in office, not Trump's or Biden's.
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  36. Peru suffers not from foreign mining interests but rather it suffers from Peruvians. Foreign mining operations pay 47% of their profits in taxes. That's not the problem in Peru. The Peruvians don't spend the taxes they receive correctly and don't reinvest in their country by building roads, power grids, schools, and other necessities for the prosperity of a nation. That's the problem in Peru. So again, Peru suffers from Peruvian failure to reinvest correctly.
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  37. Your coworkers have COVID addled brains who forgot what it was like to live behind the Iron Curtain. I'm 44, I was born and raised in Raciborz/Ratibor Poland, a former German city. Eastern Germany didn't have it better. As a matter of fact even Western Germany didn't have it as good as they do today. Life has gotten at least 3 times better and easier since 1990 in Europe and 4-5 times better in Eastern Germany and Eastern Europe.
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  38. 7:18 Thanks for the explanation on War Crimes, I didn't know VisualPolitik was now shilling for Israel. Here are some other War Crimes you failed to mention. Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property Unlawful deportation, confinement or transfer Settlement of occupied territory Deportation of inhabitants of occupied territory I hate having Israeli mouthpieces preach War Crimes about one side while conveniently whitewashing the War Crimes committed by the other side, on a daily basis. I love that you guys think talking about missile attacks that happened between May 10th and 15th matter, when you conveniently forgot that in April at the beginning of Ramadan (Muslim Christmas) Israeli cops walked into the al-Aqsa Mosque and cut power to their 'prayer speakers' so that some Israeli politician could do a political speech at the expense of someone else's Holy Day. (BTW, this would be like the Mayor of New York having the power cut to a Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, just so that he could do a political speech in the area.) And when the Palestinians got rightfully mad at having their religious rights attacked, the Israeli police decided to open fire using stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. And this is what sparked the conflict that unfolded and escalated in May. After 2 years of peace, the Israeli POLICE came and INTENTIONALLY provoked the Palestinians, in APRIL, and then then I have to listen to Israel playing the victim a month after they incited the conflict and started the fire. So please spare me your made up War Crime outrage, VisualPolitik. Either cover the entire conflict or keep the accusations to a nice neutral ZERO.
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  39. 0:45 I didn't know that the British military tradition brought much joy to the history of mankind. Something about throwing rocks and glass houses, and all that...
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  40. A steadily shrinking population sounds terrible until you realize that Egypt went from 12.7 million in 1917 to 94 million in 2017 and 104 currently. And then imagine that they're about to go to a war with Ethiopia who's population has grown just as much if not more. Now the cause of this soon to be war of extermination... water. And VP is talking about how we in Europe and North America need more people? LOL
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  41.  @valerievankerckhove9325  You went to hiking after a train ride for only $10. Fantastic. How was your train powered? Rainbows and the beating of butterfly wings? Or perhaps natural gas/oil brought in by ship, through an ocean lane, protected by a navy that uses the latest and greatest technologies? Was a USN Carrier fleet keeping the shipping lanes open and pirates suppressed so that you could only pay $10 for your traveling expense? Or was perhaps someone else forced to pay for the subsidies that allowed you to travel on the cheap? I think it is very quaint when people imply that they do everything on the cheap by using 'simple means and methods,' without taking into account the the complex background systems that allow for them to have 'simple means and methods.' The rest, I honestly don't have time to dissect or analyze, since I'd have to write a dissertation on macro economics and that would take hours. Besides, I don't think you honestly think good urban planning or lowered transportation costs are naturally that low without someone or some government paying for it after having squeezed taxes out of some corporation. :)
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  42. The question is, are the people in the country who are not producing oil, actually producing anything of true value to other countries? Colombia has other things it can produce, extract and export but would that make their products desirable at a reasonable price?
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  43.  Mr Wonder  Never heard of a church promoting anyone to strap on a suicide vest to murder women and children in a Shia Mosque. I know that some Salafist Mosques, do exactly that.
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  44. You spent $300 on a M-16 and we spent $3,000 on a bayonet. Our military spending is greater than yours. So we must have a better military... LOL How much was Afghanistan spending on its military again? Its not how much you spend but how you spend it and the skills and will, you possess to use what you paid for. If half the money disappears into the pockets of bureaucrats looking to send their children to school in London and Boston... I wouldn't start bragging about military spending.
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  45.  @CMDRSloma  Yup. France is a bad partner because of lack of diplomatic tact by our Presidents as well as their thirst for an Empire and a return of French dominance over Europe. Germany, was simply allied because it was occupied rather than a willing ally. They've made the best of a bad situation but it was not like they had a choice. It was either be allied with the U.S. or be permanently carved up into 4 countries by the English and the French, thirsty for vengeance in 1945. So self-preservation, nothing more. Poland and any other country however is not any different. Charles De Gaule - "No nation has friends only interests." Currently Poland's interests intersect with ours but 30 years from now things can change. Israel was our bestie for 70 years and now they're getting in bed with China.
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  46. 1:10 Almost, you could say, the very Sparta of the XXI Century. Now let us show you how Keeps can help you defend against Helots. (Not hair loss, but Helots, the Spartan slaves.) Very clever VP, making Hair Loss and Helots sound the same. LOL
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  47.  @davinnicode  If you went to school, educated yourself and tried hard and got zero rewards for it, it was hell. If you showed up to work drunk, slept for 2 hours and drank tea for more hours 2 hours and did mindless work any highschool dropout could do for 4 hours, and still got paid well, then it was heaven. So essentially it was slavery for the smart + talented + hard working and paradise if you were dumb + lazy + willing to inform.
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  48.  @Opinionated-By54nder  You can't even write a sentence with spell check and yet you call other people 'fools?' Go back and complete 3rd grade first before you decide to debate me. Besides, what does Biden have to do with the fact that the United States is NOT a Democracy? And what does Biden have to do with the fact that Trump became President without winning more votes than Hillary? Absolutely nothing. Now grow up.
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  49.  @MaxRuso  Huh?
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  50.  @THE-X-Force  Tell me what aggression caused every expansion of NATO since 1991. Otherwise, spew that propaganda in someone else's ear. As for Crimea, the Russians could legitimately claim that Ukraine illegally annexed Crimea in 1991. As a matter of fact, Russia could legitimately claim that all territory held under Ukraine SSR was simply an administrative area, and all territory acquired since 1654 was illegally annexed by Ukraine in 1991. And in your own words, Crimea regardless of its status in the past, IS Russian? And Dobas IS Russian? And Eastern Ukraine IS Russian. If the only legitimacy needed to hold land, is what the US and Western Europe say, then there will definitively be a nuclear war, either in Ukraine or in Taiwan, another territory I'm not amused being taxed over.
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