Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Why Small Countries Are Getting Insanely Rich" video.
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“Do you think small countries will establish themselves as…”
The current situation where a large country, like the United States, spends its treasure to safeguard trade routes, for no tax, is an anomaly in history.
The day the US fails, due to debt crisis & internal political struggle from centralization of power [vs decentralization of power via Federalism] will be the end of the significance of small countries being able to be independent.
Then, the norm occurs, with Islamic Caliphates conquering, British & French & Russian Empires, Byzantine Empire, Roman Empire, various Chinese Empires, etc.
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@husniabdelqader6669 - “since you buy the Israeli narrative”
On the contrary, I read the Hamas Charter and buy their narrative.
Hamas is ok 👌🏽 with not waging war against non-Muslims, as long as Muslims are in charge, as per article 31. Hamas is most certainly an apartheid regime, at best. At worst, it is an advocacy of fast [war] or slow [apartheid] genocide. It is the most bigoted founding document 📃 in modern existence.
“Would you admit there are two sets of laws”
One for the nation of Israel 🇮🇱, one for the almost nation of Palestine 🇵🇸. Eventually, Palestine 🇵🇸 should administer their own laws.
“One for the Palestinians and another for the Jews”
Only in the territories of Palestine 🇵🇸 where Palestinians almost governs.
In Gaza, for example, Jews & Christians must live under Muslim rule (according to Hamas charter) while there is no such religious restriction in Israel 🇮🇱.
“Apartheid… Jim Crow”
Yes, people understand this perfectly.
In Arab countries, they put your religion on your identity documents and treat people differently under the law, depending on their religion. The territory of Palestine 🇵🇸 tries to do the same thing.
“why is this different?”
Israel 🇮🇱 does not tag people according to their religion & administer them differently, unlike the Apartheid Arab regimes.
“you’re just willingly ignorant”
When the Arabs conquered Palestine 🇵🇸, the Arab Invaders instituted a different set of laws for the conquered Palestinians [Christians & Jews & Muslims are differentiated under Sharia Law] than Israel 🇮🇱 [law is attempted to be implemented uniformly for Christians & Jews & Muslims, with Arabs given preferential treatment over Jews in areas like educational scholarships.] (full disclosure: personally, I disagree with any existing preferential treatment for majority groups in Palestine or minority groups in Israel.)
Jordan 🇯🇴 & Egypt 🇪🇬 gave Palestine 🇵🇸 back the land that they conquered, with the intention that Palestine 🇵🇸 would stand up a state. Palestine 🇵🇸 never stood up a state.
Instead, Palestine 🇵🇸 outsourced their military & tax collection to Israel 🇮🇱, in exchange for a check 💵, and a promise to negotiate borders, which never happened. (This was a perverse incentive, since Palestinians get money 💴 for the status-quo of not standing up a state.)
Palestine’s 🇵🇸 outsourcing results in different laws for their territories, as per the agreement the Palestinian Authority made with Israel 🇮🇱… Palestine 🇵🇸 apparently want laws of Egypt 🇪🇬 & Jordan 🇯🇴 , the UK 🇬🇧 administration, and Ottoman Empire before that. Palestine 🇵🇸 has a “tossed salad” 🥗 of laws, compared to Israel.
At some point, Palestine 🇵🇸 needs to stand up a state, and stop expecting Israel 🇮🇱 to help administer laws set up by foreign nations like Egypt 🇪🇬 & Jordan 🇯🇴 & UK 🇬🇧 & [non-existent] Ottoman Empire.
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@ArawnOfAnnwn -“ very generous way of looking at it”
Someone had to keep the roads between city-states open during the times of the Roman Empire. They were brutal, but people could travel safely. Then, the Byzantines did so, until the roads were unsafe from Islamic Raids, and city-states were Balkanized & they fell. It was the raids of traders in Central Asia, when they sacked the wrong caravan, that brought Genghis Khan to conquer from the East (his caravan was the wrong religion, when traveling across Islamic conquered Central Asia.) Then, Islamic Pirates would kidnap people on ships (off coast of Libya & Somalia), until Europeans built up large enough navies to keep the seaways safe. Now, the US is the primary force keeping the seaway open against Islamic Pirates (off coat of Yemen) & Chinese aggression in South East Asia (the Philippine Christmas Resupply Convoy was harassed, and Vietnamese fishing vessels had been sunk in the past.)
Sometimes, you have to look at things the way they are. The natural state of man is pretty brutal & viscous, when there was no one to protect them against sacking, kidnapping, slavery, and death. It traditionally took a pretty significant brutal order to allow people to live reasonably free when moving between locations. The US does not tax the world, for flying airplanes & sending ships around the seas - yet their blood & treasure largely makes it reasonably safe, today (after WW1 & WW2, where European forces are a shadow of what they used to be, with significant monies redirected into socialized programs for their populations from their former militaries.)
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@ReekieReels - “the architecture of American. Global Power projection… was handed to it by Britain”
The US did not want this role. The US disbanded their military after the revolution. The US wanted to be an isolationist nation, on the other side of the world.
It was the Islamic Pirating from the Barbary Nations in Northern Africa, that caused the US to institute a Standing Military. America is largely where it is at today, with their navy, because of Islamic Piracy. Sure, Americans learned from Britain, but had this standing navy seed not been forced upon them, there would have been no reasonable naval infrastructure for fighting during WW1.
The Brits paid off their war debt from WW2. There is no war debt reason for the UK to not have a stronger presence in the globe. With the US Deficit & Debt, the UK will likely need to step up again, sooner than later, until the US can control their budget.
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