Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Angela Merkel lays out vision to unify European Union in parliamentary address | DW News" video.

  1.  @RubiaStorm  Russia is quite dependent on European money for its oil and gas. Without it, the poorly-diversified Russian economy would grind to a halt before you can say when. Do you have other half truths to share? How about the dependence of China on Europe? Trade is a two-way street.
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  2.  @RubiaStorm  You certainly didn't bother to mention that it's mutual dependence, but it's good that we've now established that the dependency is pretty much balanced and favours neither side -- in oil and gas. In high-tech products, however, Russia is unilaterally dependent on the EU. Vice-versa, nope, not at all. Suppression, you say? Russia is being sanctioned by the EU for its shenanigans in Crimea and East Ukraine. If that weren't the case, Russia would literally have gotten away with murder. But Russia is counter-sanctioning the EU, so isn't that Russian counter-suppression? You conveniently left that out. Be specific, which EU countries and which war crimes? I don't care for the US and the UK, since despite them being part of your so-called "West", as a EU voter I have no influence whatsoever on their behaviour.
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  3.  @mikefay5698  Don't upvote your own posts. It's self-glorification.
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  4.  @geoeconomics3067  Yes it does. The EU is a union of democratic states. If you're not democratic, you've got no business being in the EU.
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  5.  @chaospilot2142  Nuclear energy qualifies as clean energy these days.
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  6.  I C  AH, another American who doesn't know the meaning of liberal. Try looking it up. Pay close attention to classic liberalism. FYI, that's the international meaning of the word. You Yanks have twisted its meaning.
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