Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Could AMERICAN GAS prevent EUROPE from FREEZING in WINTER? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. The Baltic States know first-hand not to trust the Russian Bear (who happens to be geriatric).
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  2.  @networkgeekstuff9090  I find myself wondering why Greenpeace is not a suspect for the Nrodstream pipe incident. They have MUCH to gain from putting it out of commission.
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  3. Yeah, that continent hasn't always had the brightest of leadership in the last 3 centuries. I blame the rampant nepotism and in-breeding.
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  4.  @wamingo  Yeah, wisdom looks like foolishness to the stupid. As I recall, that is an ancient proverb.
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  5. Their own fault for not making use of their own resources.
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  6.  @iamaloafofbread8926  And yet Germany went to war with the Soviet Union in WW2 over the gas and Oil deposits in Eastern Europe. Look up "Bessarabia".
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  7.  @hkchan1339  There used to be many more, but the Germans have over time become very resentful of the US presence. We were actually being nice when we shut down ones like Sembach AB.
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  8. Only tell half the story huh? You realize that most of the fuel in American reactors are from the disassembled Soviet nuclear arsenal? Then you also have the retired American nuclear weapons that have not been repurposed into newer systems. Also, Australia and Canada have uranium deposits. And that does not include the fact that the US has not mined its own in decades.
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  9.  @johnmuthan286  Didn't watch any of the videos discussing this have you? The EU set a goal of 95% of winter consumption in storage by November. They reached 98% at the beginning of September.
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  10.  @dersven4122  You would be speaking German or Russian if not for the US. You laugh, but it is the painful laugh of a child who knows they have been caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
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  11. Indeed. I think Winston Churchill said something to that effect as well.
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  12.  @johnmuthan286  Europe has only itself to blame for prostrating themselves before Putin and making themselves slavishly dependent on his cheap energy. Also, the War in Ukraine is solely Russia's fault, not the US. Or have you forgotten what happened to Georgia in 2008 over South Ossetia?
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  13. Europe has their own coal and gas deposits, but they refuse to exploit them. Not the US's fault that Europe is suffering from a bad case of "not in my backyard!"
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  14. You cannot possibly consider that eco-terrorism could be to blame?
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  15. Oh Putin's was all about gas and oil. Just look at the assessed oil deposits off the coast of Crimea. Or the gas fields under the Donbas. Or the Coal fields in Donbas.
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  16. Except nobody is talking about eco-terrorism being a real possibility.
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  17. I agree. Too much American blood and treasure has been squandered on those spoiled children in Europe who are not mature enough to fix their own problems.
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  18. Why? Cheap energy is the mother's milk of a thriving economy. All of the above is the best option, though I prefer the investment in nuclear power.
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  19.  @graham1034  You realize that the US has not had to mine uranium for decades because our power plants are running off the uranium and plutonium from dismantled nuclear bombs?
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  20. Thorium reactors are overhyped. The US Navy experimented with them on the USS Seawolf and found they NEVER produced the predicted output. There is a reason why Admiral Hyman G. Rickover rejected Thorium reactors in favor of water moderated Uranium and Plutonium reactors.
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  21. Evil capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than any other economic system. Hate it all you want, but profits are what drives innovation and technological advancement.
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  22.  @108chapin  Funny how she lives in a nice warm home and expects the rest of the world to live in misery.
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  23. Because the Russians veto every attempt to build a pipeline across the Caspian Sea. Moscow doesn't want its former subjects to enjoy independence.
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  24. Yeah, you would think after two world wars and almost a century of peace under the US's defense umbrella, they would learn not to bite the hand that feeds them.
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  25. They did it to themselves, so they have only themselves to blame. Of course, it also helped Putin that Angela Merkel was a member of the East Germany Communist Youth League. Once a Commie, always a commie.
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  26. Okay wise guy, how many wars has the US pulled European power out from? How many messes have irresponsible Europeans created that we have had to clean up? You are just pissed that the US is the responsible parent telling you when you are wrong.
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  27.  @rhythmicmusicswap4173  Yeah, keep up the petulant child act. You deserve to live under the bootheel of Putin, begging for his mercy. Incidentally, it is entirely possible that eco-terrorist sabotaged the pipeline, but you Anglophobes automatically blame the US and UK because you have unhinged derangement against anything English or American.
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  28.  @anastasiab9506  Wow, parroting Putin's talking points about Ukrainians not even existing by applying it to the Baltic States? You really are a Bolshevik. Lithuania, one of the Baltic States was part of the great commonwealth of Eastern Europe. But ignore the historical documentation all you want; it doesn't make your delusional fantasies true.
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  29.  @coderentity2079  Which is more apt to energy blackmail? Depending on Russia or trusting the Spanish?
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  30.  @johnmuthan286  You keep telling yourself that. Truth is that your freedoms and liberty is protected by American hegemony. Don't believe me? Just ask the Baltic States and the Polish who lived under Russian Hegemony. Oh, and tell me, when was the last time the British, Canadians, Australians, Japanese, or South Koreans felt like they were being extorted by the US? Yeah, that's what I thought.
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  31. Indeed. I could see the Canadians simply building the infrastructure to pipe their excess supplies to American facilities rather than build their own.
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  32.  @johnmuthan286  Your myopia is blinding you to other possibilities. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -Sherlock Holems by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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  33. Africa's problems have always been with their own leadership. Before the mad scramble for Africa, the tribes were fighting each other and selling their fellow Africans into slavery (typically the Arab Slave Trade). And when the European power left, it once again reverted to those very same bush wars. Don't blame outsiders for the sins of the locals.
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  34.  @bachelor3846  Can't possibly consider that it was done by eco-terrorists?
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  35. Can't possibly consider that maybe the Greenies might have the motivation to blow up a gas pipeline?
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  36.  @johnmuthan286  Wow, completely off base. The Franking boom was a result of $100 a barrel oil. Franking stops being affordable when oil drops to about $50 a barrel. Interestingly, that is also the price where Russian oil breaks even. You want to know who is the biggest rival to franking? Look no further than the gulf states. The slowdown of the franking boom is to their benefit. Most of the anti-fracking campaigns were financed by the gulf oil states.
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  37.  @ThePoopsmith-12345  What do you think helped to bring about that innovation in fracking? High oil costs in the wake of 9/11 helped to accelerate that development.
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  38. Because of their infestation of militant greenies.
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  39.  @azz2  That I can get fully onboard with!
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  40. Fear over carbon emissions is a joke, and a bad one at that. The amount of carbon on the planet hasn't changed in 5 billion years. It was here when the planet formed, it will be here when the planet becomes burnt to a crisp by the Sun.
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