Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Gravitas: Small Pacific Nations reject China's deal" video.

@vish2553 That's a false narrative, Finland, Norway, and Sweden wasn't European colonial power like Spain, the UK, France, Russia, and the Netherlands.
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@nedkelly9688 Australian development assistance has delivered in Solomon Islands including 1. Completion of the Coral Sea Cable in 2020; a submarine fibre optic telecommunications cable linking Honiara to Sydney, delivering faster more reliable internet connectivity to the Solomon Islands. Australia majority funded the project committing $200 million. 2. Significant progress on the Tina River Hydropower Development Project. A step closer to providing clean energy to Honiara. Australia was the largest grant financier with an investment of $28.4 million. 3. A key vehicle for promoting economic recovery and increasing employment will be Australia's new 10-year $250 million Solomon Islands Infrastructure Program (SIIP) , which will complement $2 billion Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP).
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@daniby9894 Portugal's colonial efforts are different since Brazil and Portugal formed Lusophone Commonwealth. Lusophone Commonwealth's integration has progressed deeper than the CANZUK initiative e.g. Lusophone citizenship and defense cooperation protocol. The relationship between the rising power of Brazil and the smaller Portugal mirrors the relationship between the larger USA and the smaller UK. Brazil is the leading Lusophone Commonwealth with Portugal being the deputy in the relationship. Russia and China are NOT the only groups reverting back to historical empires.
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@k.k.c8670 Your narrative is wrong. From GPAS__2021 pdf Pension (mandated nanny state saving funds) vs GDP ratio for 2021 Five Eyes/Five Passport Group, Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member, Nordic model), Australia's mandated large-scale savings started in the1980s under the Labor government. Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member, Nordic model) United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member, Nordic model) United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5% (I don't have data for NZ) Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results Large-scale mandated savings funds enable the government to issue government bonds and large-scale bond buyer markets! EU Finland, $279 billion, 104.3% (Nordic model) France, $166 billion, 6.5% Germany, $548 billion, 14.5% Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%, (Nordic model) Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS The EU lacks strategic savings coordination. Non-EU, Europe Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3% (Nordic model) North America Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9% South America Brazil, $195 billion,14.3% Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member) East Asia, South East Asia China, $285 billion, 1.9% Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3% Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member) South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0% Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member) South-Central Asia India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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@undeadaxolotl8584 Mexico is ethnically diverse. Population (est.) Indigenous, 26 million (2015) White, 56 million (2010) Unclassified (most likely Mestizos): 37 million. Your argument is inherently racist since you advocated racial segregation.
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@jonathanodude6660 You can't read. Again, Finland, Norway, and Sweden is NOT European colonial power like Spain, the UK, France, and Russia. Spain, the UK, France, and Russia formed large empires. Spain wasn't involved in the central Asian continent. Spain was a minor player in the African continent. Spain is part of PIIGS and it's nearly bankrupt and badly governed nearly like any other Latin American country. Finland is not European colonial power like Spain, the UK, France, and Russia since it's the loser against the Russian empire. Finland is subjugated by Sweden and Russia. Sweden is not European colonial power like Spain, the UK, France, and Russia since it's the loser against the Russian empire i.e. Sweden lost Finland to the Russian empire! Not including the Viking era, Norway is not European colonial power like Spain, the UK, France, and Russia since it didn't have colonies outside its national borders! The Nordic model combines nanny state socialism and capitalism.
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@poweredbynato6313 You stated, "Now India is getting compensation from the west." The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is a strategic security dialogue and it has nothing to do with India's British East India Company issues.
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@CalleseAlaVerga >Those islands are colonies of the west Most of the Pacific island's population's ethnic mix hardly changed from the pre-European colony era.
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@poweredbynato6313 Your "A investment is compensation" argument is FALSE.
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@poweredbynato6313 >Time will tell if your government is too corrup My government is Australian i.e. one of The Quad. Your assumption is flawed.
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@dula7882 Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen is partly of aboriginal Paiwan descent.
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@k.k.c8670 I stated "Finland, Norway, and Sweden", NOT Denmark. You can't read.
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@k.k.c8670 Finland, Norway, and Sweden is NOT European colonial power like Spain, the UK, France, and Russia. Spain, the UK, France, and Russia formed large empires. Spain wasn't involved in the central Asian continent. Spain was a minor player in the African continent. Spain is part of PIIGS and it's nearly bankrupt and badly governed nearly like any other Latin American country. Finland is not European colonial power like Spain, the UK, France, and Russia since it's the loser against the Russian empire. Finland is subjugated by Sweden and Russia. Sweden is not European colonial power like Spain, the UK, France, and Russia since it's the loser against the Russian empire i.e. Sweden lost Finland to the Russian empire! Not including the Viking era, Norway is not European colonial power like Spain, the UK, France, and Russia since it didn't have colonies outside its national borders! The Nordic model combines nanny state socialism and capitalism. You are wrong.
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India and Pakistan were part of the Islamic Mughal empire. Maratha Empire replaced the Mughal empire. The Maratha Empire soon allied with the British East India Company (based in the Bengal Presidency) against Mysore in the Anglo-Mysore Wars. After the British East India Company had suffered defeat against Mysore in the first two Anglo-Mysore Wars, the Maratha cavalry assisted the British in the last two Anglo-Mysore Wars from 1790 onwards, eventually helping the British conquer Mysore in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799. After the British East India Company's conquest, however, the Marathas launched frequent raids in Mysore to plunder the region, which they justified as compensation for past losses to Tipu Sultan. Around 1775, the relationship between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire degraded into a hot war, which started by the British East India Company intervening in a succession struggle in Pune. British East India Company is a powerful company like a megacorp Facebook that attempted to fight (large-scale economic warfare) against the Australian government.
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@k.k.c8670 Your narrative is garbage.
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@selievisa519 1. China under Xi Jinping has rebooted Imperial China's belt-n-road with arguments about historical territories. 2. Brazil and Portugal formed Lusophone Commonwealth. CANZUK group has slower integration progress. 3. Russian Federation under Putin has argued for Russian Empire's historical territories.
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@schoolofgrowthhacking FYI, Ireland was part of the PIIGS. Both the EU and UK bailed out Ireland. UK's Loans to Ireland Act 2010 (c. 41) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act allows HM Treasury to loan up to £3,250 million (£3.25 billion; €3,835 million/€3.84 billion) to Ireland. EU gave €67.5bn loans to Ireland. Ireland didn't have large-scale nanny state pension funds (state-mandated savings) to bail itself out.
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@schoolofgrowthhacking From GPAS__2021 pdf Pension (mandated nanny state saving funds) vs GDP ratio for 2021 Five Eyes/Five Passport Group, Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member, Nordic model), Australia's mandated large-scale savings started in the1980s under the Labor government. Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member, Nordic model) United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member, Nordic model) United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5% (I don't have data for NZ) Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results Large-scale mandated savings funds enable the government to issue government bonds and large-scale bond buyer markets! EU Finland, $279 billion, 104.3% (Nordic model) France, $166 billion, 6.5% Germany, $548 billion, 14.5% Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS (needs EU bailout). Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%, (Nordic model) Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS (needs EU and UK bailout). Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS The EU lacks strategic savings coordination. Non-EU, Europe Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3% (Nordic model) North America Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9% South America Brazil, $195 billion,14.3% Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member) East Asia, South East Asia China, $285 billion, 1.9% Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3% Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member) South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0% Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member) South-Central Asia India, $184 billion, 7.1% -----
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@poweredbynato6313 UK is not part of "The Quad" and the British East India Company has been dismantled by UK's government. Japan, Australia, and United States have nothing to do with the British East India Company's authoritarian behavior in India. Don't stereotype the west.
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@simongross3122 The British private entities copied Islamic Caliphates' slave trade.
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@efemzyekun900 Your generalization for the entire Europe amounts to racist rhetoric from you. GTFO.
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@simongross3122 EfemzyEkun has Nigeria's nationalism and victimhood. Fools like EfemzyEkun haven't realized Australia's large-scale nanny state mandatory savings funds started in the 1980s. Australia adopted the British maritime mercantilism culture. Countries like Nigeria are badly governed. Nigeria was independent since October 1st, 1960. In 1885, British claims to a West African sphere of influence received recognition from other European nations at the Berlin Conference. The following year, it chartered the Royal Niger Company under the leadership of Sir George Taubman Goldie. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the company had vastly succeeded in subjugating the independent southern kingdoms along the Niger River, the British conquered Benin in 1897, and, in the Anglo-Aro War (1901–1902), defeated other opponents. The defeat of these states opened up the Niger area to British rule. In 1900, the company's territory came under the direct control of the British government and established the Southern Nigeria Protectorate as a British protectorate and part of the British Empire, the foremost world power at the time. Before British colonization, at the beginning of the 19th century, Usman dan Fodio led a successful jihad against the Hausa Kingdoms founding the centralised Sokoto Caliphate. The empire with Arabic as its official language grew rapidly under his rule and that of his descendants, who sent out invading armies in every direction. The vast landlocked empire connected the east with the western Sudan region and made inroads down south conquering parts of the Oyo Empire (modern-day Kwara), and advanced towards the Yoruba heartland of Ibadan, to reach the Atlantic Ocean. The territory controlled by the empire included much of modern-day northern and central Nigeria. The sultan sent out emirs to establish a suzerainty over the conquered territories and promote Islamic civilization, the emirs in turn became increasingly rich and powerful through trade and slavery. By the 1890s, the largest slave population in the world, about two million, was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto Caliphate. The use of slave labour was extensive, especially in agriculture.
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@undeadaxolotl8584 >The British were definitely worse than the Spanish; the fact that most Mexicans still have Native American ancestry proves this. That's a false narrative for the USA, the British only have 13 original colonies and the rest are from French, Spanish, and Russian colonies. After the US war of independence, the US engaged in kicking the European colonial powers out of North America. Canada (with UK aid) managed to push back against the US's Monroe doctrine. US's "kicked the European colonial powers out of North America" Monroe doctrine has nothing to do with India's British East India Company situation.
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@poweredbynato6313 You stated, "Now India is getting compensation from the west" which is bullshit!
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@poweredbynato6313 >Work at making your own wealth... That's a red herring. The subject is NOT about me.
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