Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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5:15 - “deal Trump made with Taliban”
You mischaracterized the cease fire /peace agreement between the US and Taliban. I don’t know if it’s due to ignorance or just have an axe to grind with the former U.S. Republican President.
All wars must come to an end with a political arrangement between the parties.
The Taliban ran Afghanistan before the invasion, they hosted & protected Al Qaida [who attacked the US repeatedly, during Clinton & Bush years.] The Taliban was at war with the US during the Obama & Trump years.
The Taliban agreed during the Trump years that they would not host/protect terrorist organizations belligerent to the U.S. & would cease attacks against the U.S.
In cooperation with The Taliban meeting certain hard metrics, the US would not attack the Taliban & withdraw soldiers from Afghanistan. This was a reasonable agreement.
During the Biden years, he decided to ignore the part of the agreement where the Taliban was obligated to meet their metrics, and decided to cut & run… even though The Taliban held up their end of the agreement to not attack the U.S. & not willingly host terrorist organizations hostile to the U.S.
Why Democrat Biden cut & run, not holding the Taliban to the rest of the signed agreement, when the son of the Afghan President was a Democrat community organizer for Candidate Biden, is puzzling to me.
Biden did not force the Taliban to uphold their agreement, so it should be no surprise the Taliban are not holding up any other international norms. Biden cleared the road for which the Taliban would continue to travel during his Administration.
If you are going to tell the story, you should tell a more complete story, with all it’s odd twists & turns.
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@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 - “Putin did drive Ukraine eastward… selling oil and gas”
But that was too little, too late.
Ukraine had already been working with several exploration companies, where Ukraine would have been supplying their own oil and gas.
What is better? Harvest your own oil & gas, or pay Russia for it? Clearly, paying Russia was not enough.
“EU deal that would have required Ukraine to raise prices by at least 100%”
That is speculation. The EU deal would have opened up new markets for Ukraine’s existing grain products, oil/gas products which were under exploration, and Ukraine had been working to become a Hydrogen Exporter to Europe. This would have caused inflation, due to the immense number of jobs & cash flowing to Ukraine, but the standard of living would have raised for everyone!
“U.S/NATO regime change outfits”
I am sorry to tell you, but large bureaucratic organizations don’t change courses quickly, it takes immense pressure to make them change course. Something like an invasion of a nation & committing genocide. Invading Georgia did not cause a response, because of limited Russian intervention. Invading Ukraine in 2014 did not cause a response, because of limited Russian intervention. Invading Ukraine again in 2022 caused real support from western nations.
“… commenced their work in Ukraine”
Unfortunately, Russia
- invaded Ukraine regions in 2014 with gas/oil exploration
- created killing fields of civilians in occupied Ukraine territories
- deported children from Ukraine into Russia
- castrated POW’s, to limit new children to be born in Ukraine
- depopulated nearly all males from 18-60 in Russian Occupied Donbas by ensuring they would all be killed in the meat waves against fellow Ukrainians
- mined the Ukrainian dam circa 2022 which provided water for grain production, so Russia could starve Ukrainians again like the original Holodomor
- later blew up the Ukrainian dam in 2023, the water store for Hydrogen cracking
- possibly just mined the nuclear plant, where Hydrogen would be produced for Europe
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@surajitmondal823 - it really depends on what the fundamentals are that the group[s] conserve.
If they conserve fundamental Modern/Western Values, then all is good in the world.
If the conserve Social Darwinistic values, that drove Europe into WW2, there is a serious issue that may bite others, especially minorities.
If they conserve non-Western values (ie slaving because they are of the wrong ethnicity or religion, like was done in the Balkans of Europe, Caucuses of Asia, or coasts of Africa, for over 1300 years), that is serious problem that may bite The West (that problem did not start getting thrown off until invading slavers were kicked out of the Western European continent 1492, it took several hundred years for Western Europeans to figure out that slaving was bad for them to do as was done to them, and slaving did not completely get thrown off the world until WW1 brought legalized slavery all to an end.)
The Communists still commit genocide by ethnicity in countries like China, as they did in Soviet times (ie Holodomor of Ukraine, Famine of Ethiopia, etc.)… Communists still slave, through work camps & concentration camps like former Soviets & North Korea & Cuba, sending laborers & military & doctors to kill & help others in exchange for hard currency to their sponsoring socialist government (while keeping family home so they don’t flee) like North Korea & Cuba & China.
That was not long ago for some of these, and fairly isolated to only a few nations today.
This has been a painful process to get here, and now we can talk to people around the world, instantaneously! 😀
Fundamentals are an important thing to conserve, when it is the bedrock of Western/Modern Civilization. It took us a long time to get here, with a lot of stumbling along the way. We live in a special time, never similarly experienced before in the history of the world. The fundamentals for where we are must not be lost.
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Universal health care sux because only known treatments are paid for.. if you need a different treatment plan, you are on your own or traveling to another nation.
In the US, the poor & ages get universal health care, the middle class pays for it, the upper middle & rich pay for new health care options that gets invented, and everyone who is brought to a hospital gets serviced, regardless of ability to pay.
I pay a lot of money in premiums, which I seldom use, with family members paying 100% for other treatments that insurance does not cover. If I was in a universal health care system, new taxes would still go to the same system that I seldom use, and a lot of the treatments that we purchase would be outlawed… so many in the US are quite happy with not having universal health care.
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@richardacevedo280 - “Is it time to limit the effort or totally pull out…”
I spent some time in Eastern Europe, as well.
Families in a Eastern Europe, who lost in wars against Russia, emigrate and fight along side other countries against Russia. This occurred for generations (ie Korean War, Vietnam, etc.) Support for delivering blank checks to Ukraine, from countries like the US, come from these generations of expatriates who are part of the political systems. Traditionally, they have been more conservative, fighting against the Communists, but it conservative politicians abandon them in their time of need, they may float to the politicians helping their homeland, and this is a very dumb political move to cede a massive voter base to progressives, and progressives want to write blank checks to capture this voter base.
Also, counties like The Ukraine have intrinsic value. They were the ones who built much of the tank, nuclear, and naval infrastructure for the Soviet Union. If The West wants that skill set to return to Russia, that is up to them, but if The West wants those skills, and the lower cost labor, then full NATO support is likely a much better option.
Then, there is the need for a food exporter. Whichever side controls the food exports from Ukraine, wields a lot of soft power around the world.
There are also precious minerals in the Ukraine, which Eastern & Western chip industries need to operate with, which are not readily found elsewhere.
Coal and Steel reserves are significant, and steel is important for ships, tanks, and general construction. Wherever these pieces of Ukraine show up, after the war, has the potential to become fairly rich. The same areas have natural gas reserves, so new smelters can be done with gas, in the future.
Ukraine also has some of the largest natural gas storage on the continent of Europe. Wherever Ukraine lands after the war, will control European land based energy storage systems.
Ukraine was seen as a future a Hydrogen partner for Europe, so wherever Ukraine lands after the war will help control a future energy supply for Europe.
Basically, Ukraine is a key to Central Europe, foreign nations tried to control them for thousands of years, and it is in The West’s best interest to have a free Ukraine instead of being enslaved to an antagonistic Russia controlling it.
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The world hoped Russia would become more than they did, after they liberated themselves from the Communists, who slaughtered sizable civilian populations across two continents.
To be quite frank with you, Russia has a population problem. Killing hundreds of thousands in an Eastern European war is doing nothing for the population problem Russia has, and has weakened Russia.
Russia has squandered it’s military equipment & ammunition, slowly saved up since WW2, it is disappearing by the day, and the means of production to replace it fast enough does not exist on Russia’s 2x continents.
Cheap fossil fuels to India does not make an alliance.
Cheap fossil fuels to China (who can get fossil fuels from any other nation) & Russia outsourcing their production to China does not make Russia stronger.
Once China is satisfied with how weak need Russia becomes, China might take back some of the land China ceded to Russia via treaty.
At that point in time, Japan might take back their islands.
Other European countries may take back their naval base, as well.
Ukraine is likely to take back Crimea, denying Russia of another port… the Ukrainian port which Russia stole their sole aircraft carrier from. (Russia got many of their strategic bombers & missiles from Ukraine, after Western Powers made Ukraine concede them to Russia, for a lousy piece of paper that Russia & US & UK signed for the guarantee of Ukrainian borders.)
In the end, and I don’t know why, Russia spanning 2 continents has nothing but people willing to die for their motherland, when the motherland can not even provide toilets & washing machines for their peoples spanning 2 continents. Stolen or coerced nuclear, naval, aerial, and missile technology is the only difference between Russia of 2020’s and Russia of 1800’s.
What a disaster for Russian peoples. They were capable of so much more, but how many have already died in the Ukrainian meat grinder.
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When trade routes become unsafe, civilization disintegrates.
If you think that the airline industry, shipping industry, tourist industries, relocating jobs, visiting families, mail, etc. are remotely possible without overseas bases & hard power… you would be sorely mistaken.
The US completely disbanded their military after the Revolutionary War… and it was the Islamic Slave Traders of Africa & Middle East who created a need for a standing military of the US, due to piracy. It was only after the US helped end of WW1 that Islamic Slave Trade was legally eradicated [with revival of multinational slave trade in lawless areas after the US Obama Administration in countries like Libya, Syria, Iraq, etc. through organizations like the Islamic State.)
Properly wielded Hard Power disrupts the most wicked of human behavior, while Hard Power restraint permits wicked behavior.
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@jacqueslee2592 - “born into economically struggling families”
I understand that.
“did not have a good family role model”
I grew up next to a railroad, literally on the wrong side of the tracks. Substance abuse in my family. Physical abuse. Mental abuse. Divorce. I hear ya.
“wouldn’t want to repeat that experience for my child”
I recognized my situation, and in the end I found resources on radio & in college to help me repent from bad behaviors & mentor me towards better behaviors. Now, I mentor other young adults, so hundreds won’t have the same experiences that I did, as a child.
How did you find a way to change, so you will not emulate what was modeled to you throughout your childhood?
“bad career choice”
I know a young man who immigrated to the US, learned English in High School, graduated HS, is on his third career change, starting in a bakery, then aircraft mechanic school, now real estate.
Have you considered doing a career change? You can do it!
“… what a young man needs in his prime”
You can do it. I know you can. If the circle of people you are in believe you need those things, you need a new circle of friends. Once you have a new circle of friends, not looking to physical things, you will find that there are a ton of young ladies around who are desperate to find a nice young man!
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Your comment was thoughtful and intriguing.
I would suggest to you, that your last sentence is less than congruous with the rest of your comment.
Russia, formerly with a GDP of South Korea, is not able to conquer the U.S., since Russia can not project hard or soft power like the U.S. Russia can no longer take over a neighboring nation, like Ukraine, even though Ukraine is fighting entirely with their own soldiers.
China is interesting. The world hoped for so much more than what they had become. Largely, it was the US who kept China from extinguishing Korean Culture, with early Chinese occupation of Western Koreans [inland from their peninsula], then the Red takeover & subsequent Chinese propped up puppet dictatorships of North Korea, and finally with a million Chinese soldiers being beaten back to the current border of South Korea.
The imperialism & genocide of people & cultures by nations like Russia & China [through the power of the gun] is less preferable to people making their own decisions via influence by soft power.
The US has demonstrated their willingness to preserve peoples, vs destroying them (like Russia & China.) There are cultures in the US which are highly destructive [like woke culture], but the US is also a protector of various minority cultures both domestic & foreign [as long as they can maintain their cultures through their own due diligence.]
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The first 3 minutes of this video was complete trash… waste of time.
7:30 - You also mischaracterize the racism of the woke movement. Woke movement promotes racism as normal & teaches people that it is normal to be racist, then treats people differently according to the color of their skin.
8:30 - Parental rights act does not delay sex education. There is nothing about “don’t say gay” in the law, at all.
10:30 - you mischaracterize Disney using the money of parents spending money for their children’s entertainment to groom children for sexual exploitation.
11:07 - ESG criteria is terrible, since it forces investments to be made in money losing opportunities
11:16 - DeSantis does not have power to ban abortion
12:00 - carrying firearms has always been a constitutional right, until recently, where illegal gun assaults & deaths started rising
13:00 - the US does not turn a blind eye to illegal immigration, illegal immigrants can’t legally work and there are a whole bunch of other consequences. Also, an executive does not have the ability to unilaterally increase penalties under the law, like you incorrectly said he did.
13:57 - trump is pro-immigration, Trump is anti-illegal immigration, where illegal immigration is funding the mafias in Mexico, causing unbelievable killing of innocent people in Mexico, as well as kidnapping of Mexican children. Trump set the framework for people to come into the US legally, bypassing the drug cartels, via MPP protocols, denying former slave holding Democrats the ability to deny a another class of people in the US borders of Equal Protection… this time, the unequal & unprotected class are Illegal Aliens, not slaves from Africa, not indentured servants from Europe.
16:00 - the Federal Government under President Biden’s policy is to treat illegal immigrants like cattle. The Federal Government has been illegally flying illegal immigrants to other states around the nation, as well as shipped illegal immigrants by bus & train. DeSantis merely is sending people to where they want to go, instead of being dumped where they don’t want to go by Democrat Biden.
18:00 - DeSantis is wrong on Ukraine.
18:31 - It is very clear leftist prosecutors have treated Trump differently from other former Presidents.
19:15 - blaming Red Communists for stomping on Hong Kong on another without evidence is ridiculous.
20:10 - DeSantis does not have the legal ability to expel people! Where are you getting your information from???
20:54 - solve Ukraine in 24 hours with a phone call… Trump did the last time, when he threatened to hit Moscow and the massive Russian invasion did not happen on his watch.
I have NEVER seen such a poorly researched video from your channel!
It makes me wonder if there is any truth to your other videos!
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@tnickknight - “America has way more than enough of it’s own crude”
But Democrat Biden blocked the Keystone XL, which was supposed to pipe US crude to refineries in the South.
“He [Biden] cares more about Americans, stable genius”
Which is why Democrat Biden screwed the energy producers in North West US.
Now that the illiberal Democrat screwed the Democrats in the North West US, and the native Americans who were earning money on the US energy production, no one can trust that a permit from the US government will not be revoked.
This is not stable, but ripped any sense of stability out of the regulatory agency, so US energy will limp along until there are guarantees that an unstable President, like Biden, will not arbitrarily rip the rug out from under them.
It is just another example of the corrupt #BidenCrimeFamily, looking for a kick back, instead of caring about their liberal North West states, their liberal northern neighbor of Canada, and their liberal European neighbors on the other side of the pond.
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“humanism… religion… ethnocentrism”
At the heart of Ethnocentrism is family… extended family… grandparents… marriages… blood…
There is shared responsibility where people are willing to self-sacrifice to share with their own “flesh and blood” with extended family of Ethnocentrism.
Faith traditions which exalt care for & voluntary inclusions others of other ethnicity & religion (ie Jesus’s teaching on The Good Samaritan, Jesus’s Great Commission, historical account of Pentecost, etc.) had been historically tied to bringing Europe together, ending huge issues with Viking raids across Europe, East Asia, North Africa, and Western Middle East.
Humanism, where people are expected to care for all others, for the sake of their genetic makeup as humans, is just another take on Ethnocentrism, expanding the same old blood lines a little wider, brushing over other concerns, discounting the supernatural experiences many have. Greed is a competing factor, which struggles against humanism. We’ll see how it eventually works out.
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Hi @lenny5774 -
“Your sarcasm towards my quote ‘Appointed by God’ “
No sarcasm, it was a legitimate question for a claim you made.
“Leviticus is a system of barbaric…”
You need to be more inclusive and be less judgmental towards that group of people.
“Muslims and Christian’s called each other heathens since… Jesus Christ”
Islam came about over a half millennium later, so your assertion is clearly incorrect.
“They won’t collaborate running any country”
Happens in the US, all day long, since liberals around Detroit imported people from the Middle East to diversify their workforce, since liberals felt there were too many people of color working the assembly lines.
“Neither religion will allow it”
Well, assesses that incorrect assertion.
“Quran and the Bible are both filled with contradictions on how to treat each other”
The Quran was written down over a half millennium after The Bible was written, so there is no reference to Muslims or Islam in The Bible.
Your assertion is clearly faulty.
“Both religious have a longer history of brutality than benevolence”
Loving your Enemy, Hospitals 🏥, Schools 🏫, The basis for the Scientific Method, Multi-branches government with division of power, and ultimately Western Civilization are rooted in Christianity ✝️.
In the 20th century, ~100 million civilians died at the hands of Atheistic Communists in 100 years - nothing of that brutality could ever be compared.
“Seminaries… Darwin’s time”
Darwin, a person of privilege, went to university to become a doctor, like family members before him, but but dropped out and went to seminary. Darwin was a theologian.
When you read Genesis 1, you will notice that the ordering of creatures in Darwin’s evolutionary tree looks very similar to the ordering of creature listed in the text.
“Timeline of the Bible to Jesus…”
Darwin did not write of Jesus, he was becoming his own prophet, for his own profit.
“Crusades were the design of colonialism”
Colonialism was not an activity by the European ethnicities at this time, rather Europeans from The Iberian Peninsula, the Balkans, and Caucuses were being enslaved by Muslims during that time.
The colonialism was being done by the Arabs & Persians, and Moors… committing genocide across the Middle East, North Africa, and Into Central Asia.
“Christians felt they had a right to be there, anyone else be damn”
You missed the fact that there was no issues with Christians making pilgrimages there, mostly for a millennium. They did not care who were in charge. After the crusades, Christians did not care who was in command as well.
All Christians cared about was safety of their person in travel. Personal safety, and not being slaved is not too much to ask.
“Not covet thy neighbor’s ass”
Perhaps read around the whole section, and it becomes clearer:
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” - Exodus 20:17 NKJV
It seems pretty applicable today, with all the Adultery and Divorce we have today, not to mention transportation theft like car jacking & scooter hijacking’s most recently.
Just because you and I think we know things does not mean we can’t have a civil conversation. I think we did ok 👌
Best wishes to you!
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Hi @lenny5774 -
I am glad you are “anointed by God” - maybe you can tell us what prophet anointed you & how your life has been different since you have been anointed/separated onto God’s work?
“do wrong, God will forgive you”
This is where compassion is: when one admits to God the wrongs and repents [turns away from their wrong behavior], one can be forgiven. This is not corrupt, it is personal, between an individual & God.
“The Crusades”
People have made pilgrimage to religious sites for a thousand years, interfering with those pilgrims creates risks with the governments they originate from. Ultimately, when Jerusalem was conquered and pilgrims were abused, instead of being protected, negotiation with the conqueror failed because the conquer refused to honor the Muslim tax on unbelievers [Jizya] for safe passage, and the Crusades began with governments from Europe going to liberate Jerusalem & guarantee the safety of their citizens. It was successful, with Pilgrims having free access to Jerusalem to this very day.
“No such thing as evolution”
The Bible is silent on evolution, although Darwin was educated in a Christian seminary and modeled Evolution on Genesis 1
“Religion… second most polarizing”
It does not need to be, if people merely speak respectfully & without judging others. Those who act judgmental create a problem with dialog.
“Where in The Bible are the Commandments for running a country?”
There was only one set of commandments for running a specific country in The Middle East, listed in Leviticus for the first people to return to their ancestral homeland [but they refused to go], repeated again in Deuteronomy [the second giving of The Law] to the next generation who would return to their ancestral homeland. Those laws applied to a group of people in a particular land for a particular time.
Christianity does not have a legal framework for government, unlike religions like Islam. No chopping off hands for stealing, burning down your house for not showing up for prayers at the designated prayer area, etc.
Christianity has a framework for personal interaction with others, where principles for personal interactions can be extruded to benefit larger societies, like: love one another, love your neighbor, your neighbor is a person who may be of a different religion & ethnicity, etc.
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Just because France employs worker in Morocco & French is the language of commerce in Morocco since French Colonization… it does not mean there is not also a special relationship with Spain, as the relationship between US & Mexico is special.
Morocco is closer to being a border country with Spain, than Morocco is with France.
The Moors from Morocco invaded Spain, not long after Morocco was conquered by the Arabs & Islamized. On 1492, Spain officially threw off the yoke of the invading Moors.
Later, central Morocco became a protectorate of France, while the North of Morocco and Western Sahara became protectorates of Spain.
This seems key to understanding Spain’s recognition of West Sahara becoming part of Morocco… Spain used to administer it, there is a good relationship between Spain & Morocco, some Spanish cities remain in Morocco, and if natural gas is found in West Sahara… Spain has those historical relationships with Morocco (and the pipeline) to make future gas harvesting flow to Europe. Also, Morocco has a huge undersea power cable to Spain. Also Morocco has the opportunity to create green hydrogen via solar and ship it to Europe via Spain’s undersea pipeline.
Morocco has historic ties that pre-date & post-date French colonialism… even if French is the main language of commerce in Morocco.
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Cuz the Jones Act really does not matter.
Any country can ship directly to Puerto Rico, but their ports are not big enough to receive massive container ships from around the world. The Jones Act does not change that.
Only high cost from the US to PR or High sale value cargo to the US from PR cargo is covered by Jones Act.
Whenever there is a natural disaster, the US President waves the act during that emergency, anyway.
If China wanted, they could easily acquire a whole port in PR, by offering them construction & dredging, with a payback at 8%, which PR may fail to pay, and it would become Chinese territory for 100 years. The Jones Act limits colonization from other players like China, by limiting foreign options to exploit PR ports from shipping to the mainland U.S.
In essence, the Jones Act offers PR to build their own maritime fleet for transportation, which would be cheaper than US mainland shipping because of their cheap taxes… if only Puerto Rico would decide to execute on it & start undercutting mainland US shipping.
If PR is ever to become an independent nation, they need their own maritime fleet, which the Jones Act protects them to build, before independence.
If PR ever wants to become independent, they will need a Coast Guard / Navy, and the Jones Act is helping to facilitate building a merchant marine which could be conscripted after their independence.
I am not sure why PR does not use the Jones Act to their fiscal benefit… to eventually become independent.
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This video was a far-left hit piece, by using all kinds of tropes & left wing charged language.
If the video maker was trying to be centrist, accusations using charged language would have not been used, and just explaining the facts without identifying left & right would have been used.
I did find it interesting that Israel lacked a written constitution, but instead relies upon some kind of basic law scheme, which is basically a progressive constitution.
Is it right to have a judicial branch, which can override the parliament passing laws, which in effect has the responsibility to pass central laws which have the power of a constitution?
That does not seem to rightly abide by traditional Democratic Balance of Power. I wish there was more detail on how central laws with “constitutional authority are passed in Israel. Maybe, it is quite reasonable.
Should the government [with infinite money 💴 supply], be able to force legal proceedings against any citizen [with limited financial means] , to prove they broke the law, where they can’t make their case over 3 years???
That does not seem to be right, by any stretch of the imagination. This is well beyond the bounds of of any Democratic governmental system, and is more akin to Soviet “show me the man, I’ll show you the crime” authoritarianism.
This video just seems alarmist and pro-Authoritarian.
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Trump did a lot of terrific reforms, but he did not have the expertise of The Left, which took over buildings & disrupting judicial appointments, just months earlier.
In the case of The Leftists, the proxies went to jail for short periods of time, because the proxies had several levels of indirection, these proxies were “useful idiots”, and were not able to [or compromised government was unwilling to] directly trace back formerly treasonous activities [stopping appointment of government official in the judicial branch] to an individual, so their violence kept the hands of leftists in power quite clean.
Trump attempting to direct protests, fell victim to those he could not control: registered Democrat family carrying a civil war rebel flag, global warming animal ski wearing dude who leads occult prayers while carrying a spear everywhere, militia with x-military trans activist who formerly protected BLM rioters, Antifa & BLM rioter who called days earlier to storm the Whitehouse & rip Trump from his chair while organizing a leftist rally wearing Trump hats, and many others just looking for a riot… these types were also charged (some convicted) of storming the legislature building.
Trump made the mistake of having a rally & telling them to peaceably make themselves known.
Dumb move… Trump should never have directed anything to the protesters, even to do something “peaceably”, and even tried directing them to “go home peacefully”
Sure, leftists direct protesters through speeches & media to “get in their faces” and “never give them peace”… but seldom tell them to do anything “now”.
Trump may have a high price to pay for making the mistake, thinking that only his supporters, who would follow his directions, would be in DC at that time. Dumb move.
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Hi @shelbysycamore637 -
“being single and not having children doesn’t put a burden on the tax base”
When you are elderly; fall down, and break an ankle — you will be stuck in a nursing home at $600/day… that is absorbed by the tax payer.
Children collect their parents from the nursing home to take them back to their own homes, to care & feed them, the same way parents cared & feed their children.
“having children takes more resources”
Children are an investment, money is a representation of human work, those children will get jobs, work, and create wealth.
“worker shortage… immigrants”
Those immigrants will have children, because they are likely not infected with the mental disease of socialism that many western people are infected with [self hatred mixed with fear of children & wealth]
In the end, the savings of short-cutting children [who eat relatively little food, require relatively little living space, whose language & culture learning is fast] with immigrants [who require greater living space, language & culture learning is slower, and must also learn & gain credentials in the destination nation] is really bogus.
I know several excellent dentists, who are immigrants, who can not get their credentials moved, and they are sidelined. This is a huge shame for learned immigrants in our community.
The amount of public services for immigrants, regarding health care, housing, food, education… is not well counted, as it is hidden in many other social programs, both public & private.
I help mainstream immigrants, so I have a clue… amazing people, disadvantaged in so many ways, by various legal barriers, set up to make them slaves to those who want to import them.
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Hi @fransmith3255 - “children are expensive to raise everywhere, probably even more in the US where there is no free healthcare”
In the US, they have federal tax credits per child, health care is free for children in many states, and college is free in states like Georgia for high performing students… so children don’t need to be a significant burden beyond the first boy & first girl (from a 1 bedroom home to a 3 bedroom home.)
“Are you going to arbitrarily tax or reduce tax on family attitudes?”
If people do not marry, their senior care taxes should be the highest. A discount should be given, for marriage.
If a family does not have children, raise their taxes necessary to care for elderly (because they have no one to care for them in the future), reduce elderly care tax for those who have children (because they have children to care for them to some degree, in the future)
Tax differences should be escrowed, it becomes a “use” tax, because they did not contribute to the community & must pay for the use of others to care for them.
These higher tax rates will encourage people to make more realistic social contract arrangements, by ensuring people understand there is a cost to their decision.
Having just spent months driving 12 hours each direction, to spend 1-2 weeks at a clip to care for my mother, children do what they must for their parents. I know many people who traveled long distances to care for aging parents. The alternative of The State caring for our parents is more expensive & less humane… the same way it is more expensive & less humane when the state must care for children.
“Money certainly is important to people here, but it isn’t the main issue”
It will become an increasingly important issue, as there are fewer younger people to care for the elderly. This is the time to deal with it, by taxing & escrowing the money for the future... a similar way children are an investment for the future for society.
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@user-jt3dw6vv4x - “so all…”
No, refugees & immigrants.
Few refugees are Christians, now a days— The West typically does not rescue them.
Many students are from Syria, Iraq, Egypt.
They have a variety of religious backgrounds.
In their countries, people who do wicked behavior are thrown from buildings & stoned. These are not Christian commandments.
You should be more aware of immigrant cultures and less bigoted against Western faith traditions which built Western Civilization (but now requires refugees & immigrants to survive.)
They will grow up in The West, bring an alternative less wicked culture with them, and bring some other aspects which the modern West no longer considers acceptable.
But that is ok, because the modern west is killing themselves through their own wicked behavior, and fewer will exist in the next generation, except proselytizing (like the Christians before them.)
Ironically, The East is more appealing to refugees & immigrants, in many ways, because The West alienates them through destructive wicked behavior.
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@delvon86 - “Europeans who took Palestine”
Europeans created Palestine by committed genocide of Jews in 70 A.D. The Muslims allowed Jews to return. There had been Jews in diaspora for over 1000 years, and once the Jews living there got a state, they could invite their long lost family members back.
LOL!!!
The Arabs took Palestine, when Palestinians refused to stand up a state and Palestinians hosted Fascist WW2 loser allies of Hitler from the Balkans as fighters, paid for by the surrounding Arab Nations, to keep Israel from standing up… and then Jordan annexed The West Bank while Egypt annexed Gaza!!!
ROTFL!!!
It is time for people to leave their racist ideologies behind, Palestine to cease being belligerent to Israel (ending military hostilities to a recognized UN state is a pre-requisite to being formally recognized according to the UN charter), and decide to stand up their own state.
It is up to Palestine, not anyone else.
The only reason it has not happened is because of corruption in the Palestinian warlords, who want their cut of the war money, at the hands of dead Palestinian children. It is a shame.
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@davidford3115 - The Turks exported all of the Armenians around WW1… to dug holes in the desert, to the bottom of wells, to the bottom of the Black Sea. Turks gave promises to the Kurds, to get their help.
Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran all have Kurdish populations. They were all against partitioning for the Kurds.
Saddam “poisoned the well” between the Sunni & Kurdish populations. If they played their cards right, Iraq would not basically be. Satellite country of Iran.
Minority Sunni’s, locked out of jobs, are still suicide bombing Majority Shia controlled government facilities.
People made decisions with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, people tried their best, and things are still working through it all.
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@Noxcho-li8pn - “the Kurds don’t know what they want”
In Kurds have been historically known for a few thousand years, partnering with the Assyrians to rule an empire, partnering with Babylon to rule an empire, partnering with the Persians to rule an empire. They were historically seen as the spoiler, required for any ethnic minority to rule. It is all in “The Book” [as Mohammed (PBUH) called it.]
The Kurds negotiated with the Turks during the fall of the Ottoman Empire for their own state, but they did not get it. Kurds stretch from Turkey 🇹🇷 in the North to Syria 🇸🇾 & Iraq 🇮🇶 & Iran 🇮🇷 going West to East.
The Kurds would be needed to hold modern day Iraq together, with the Arabs to form a majority, but Saddam Hussein screwed up and tried to rule it all with his own religio-ethnic Sunni-Arab group… and today’s Iraq 🇮🇶 effectively has Kurdistan partitioned, on their way to becoming a state, some day.
“Fight amongst themselves”
Like the Arabs don’t? ROTFL! 😂
Civil wars in Syria 🇸🇾, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Iraq 🇮🇶, Yemen 🇾🇪, Libya 🇱🇾
Wars between nations: Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦& Yemen 🇾🇪, Palestine 🇵🇸 & Israel 🇮🇱
The reason for it… the Arabs are not a homogeneous group.
- Arabs came from the Arabian Peninsula, invaded Mesopotamia
- Arabs slaved people who were not part of their own religion, and now Muslims only slave the remaining (ie Yazidi)
- When no one is left to slave, they fight against themselves in their own historical ethnic groups.
The Kurds want their own nation, and they don’t fight themselves to get it… unlike the Arabs who annexed pieces of Palestine 🇵🇸
“besides Sunnis nobody should rule the Middle East”
In Iraq 🇮🇶, the Shiite are the majority, so Majority should not rule? 😂
In Lebanon 🇱🇧, the Shiites hold the majority of illegal military power, so they should not rule?
This type of thinking 💭 that only Sunnis or only a single religion should rule a nation is what got people killed, over and over again, for thousands of years in the Middle East.
Ruling by one’s religion, because one thinks their religion ruling by the power of the gun/sword over all others is superior, will only perpetuate the wars there.
It is a shame. It really is.
The only reason the Middle East has any modern things is because The West has figured out that Religion should not rule, but all citizens, regardless of their religion, should be treated equally under the law.
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@cashewnuttel9054 - humanity is a mixed bag. Some would, some would not, usually a minority stands up and fights.
For 600 years, Arabs & Jews lived in the Middle East around Jerusalem… under the rule of a non-Arab and non-Jewish ethnicity. They were effectively ruled by Aliens 👽
Palestine 🇵🇸 just needed to stand up a government, the same way Jordan 🇯🇴, Syria 🇸🇾, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Iraq 🇮🇶, Turkey 🇹🇷, and Israel 🇮🇱, and as many others also did… they were all part of the same occupation.
Had it not been for the US 🇺🇸 entering the world wars, Palestine 🇵🇸 would never have had the opportunity to stand up their own nation, even though they refuse to for 75 years.
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@NickSteffen - “charge Medicare below list price… still making a profit”
Ummm… no… not necessarily.
Many health care providers provide services to Medicare recipients where they do not make a profit, then they admit a large enough number of other customers to make up the difference.
There are a some unscrupulous providers, looking to scam the system, by charging things they did not do, in order to make up the difference. I have family members where they noticed this, and stopped using those doctors.
Many doctors stop working, because the government Medicare & Medicaid cuts are too great & they just can’t make the ends meet.
We lost older doctors like this, who were Frank with us about why they left the profession.
We watched younger doctors decide to go into medical real estate types of business, so they could pay back their medical schooling loans.
We occasionally go to other doctors, who only take cash, because they don’t want to deal with the headaches of Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Insurance, with all of their regulations… they give a rock bottom price, can make ends meet, and take care of our problems & problems from friends.
Doctors are people, too.
Hospitals are often just facility owners with doctors being contractors. The older the facility, the higher the cost. The closer to urban centers, the higher the taxes. I just watched another hospital start closing, on the news, tonight.
The reality of making ends meet applies to everyone,
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@bloodwargaming3662 - “why no industries like Mexico?”
An aggregate of factors.
[BLOOD] - “not about taxes”
Incorrect. Taxes are an important factor.
Taxes buy some things:
- security for industry
- security for workers
- security for customers
- infrastructure for industry (power, heat, water, transportation)
- infrastructure to educate workers
- infrastructure to allow worker movement
When taxes are not successfully buying those things, the business must spend a portion of it’s profit providing those things, which is in effect an indirect tax on their existence in that nation or location .
Mexico has locality advantages to Columbia: close to the US market, where goods can quickly & easily move to market via road, rail, plane, and water.
A country needs a people who willingly pay taxes, to support infrastructure for their children & their own jobs (businesses.)
A people who desire others to pay taxes & provide them services is an immoral people.
Ethical businesses can not survive with immoral workforce or surrounded by immoral community or government.
Ethical governments can not survive with immoral citizenry, surrounded by immoral businesses.
Government is not someone else, it is us.
Business is not someone else, it is us.
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@markpukey8 - thank you for the complement in the copy paste!
“You keep imagining…”
That Australia built & shipped Hydrogen to Japan, New Zealand & Canada are building hydrogen export facilities, Georgia [in the US] had successfully run existing generation facilities on 20% H2 mixed with NG, Japan opens 10 MegaWatt Hydrogen Plant, Japan has 160 hydrogen filling stations, etc.
“is more expensive…”
Spot energy prices rise to be more expensive than the energy produced by burning hydrogen, so if hydrogen was only used during peaks - it would be acceptable to existing markets today, allowing NG to be used for non-peak times. Once production is done in mass quantities, it will get cheaper.
“there’s a reason we’re not doing it right now”
Europe cited Ukraine as a future Hydrogen partner… so yes, there is a reason: Germany decided to partner with the belligerent nation that would invade Europe’s perspective H2 partner, Ukraine, not just once, but twice.
The reason is: stupidity. Maybe that was too harsh: self hatred & suicide. Pay the wolf to kill the chicken who was about to lay the proverbial ‘golden eggs’ for Europe.
“help Germany and Europe next month”
They could have started injecting low percentages of hydrogen into existing NG pipelines. It sux Germany was so unprepared after Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia, Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, and now 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Japan can import H2. Oh well.
Germany is now accelerating investments into Hydrogen. New liquid LNG ports will be able process H2 as: synthetic LNG, Green Ammonia, with reasonably simple adaptations.
Transport of hydrogen into Germany by sea will likely happen via liquified synthetic LNG or green ammonia at these ports.
H2 will eventually replace NG.
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@markpukey8 - “expect to store that hydrogen?”
Hydrogen can be stored using six different methods and phenomena:
(1) high-pressure gas cylinders (up to 800 bar)
(2) liquid hydrogen in cryogenic tanks (at 21 K)
(3) adsorbed hydrogen on materials with a large specific surface area (at T<100 K)
(4) absorbed on interstitial sites in a host metal (at ambient pressure and temperature)
(5) chemically bonded in covalent and ionic compounds (at ambient pressure)
(6) through oxidation of reactive metals, e.g. Li, Na, Mg, Al, Zn with water.
The most common storage systems are high-pressure gas cylinders with a maximum pressure of 20 MPa (200 bar). New lightweight composite cylinders have been developed which are able to withstand pressures up to 80 MPa (800 bar) and therefore the hydrogen gas can reach a volumetric density of 36 kg.m(-3), approximately half as much as in its liquid state.
When mixed with natural gas, the same old natural gas storage facilities can be used.
“you will lose most of your hydrogen in transit”
Hydrogen is being mixed into Natural Gas in low percentages, today, in existing pipelines & equipment.
Hydrogen is being shipped across oceans, to nations like Japan.
“How much do you consider acceptable losses”
Whatever is necessary to not require blood gas from Russia, colored with the blood of Europeans.
Use small H2 percentages at first in existing natural gas lines. Infrastructure can be updated, as higher percentages of H2 are added to existing Natural Gas lines. Eventually, all the infrastructure can be replaced, decades from now.
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“reliance on fossil fuels is a liability”
Actually, a single supplier is the liability.
Fossil fuels has shown it’s resilience, since there are multiple suppliers, if those who are dependent upon them have multiple ways to receive the energy.
Solar cells, predominantly coming from one national manufacturing nation, is now highlighted as an incredible risk.
Batteries, predominantly coming from one national manufacturing nation, is now highlighted as an incredible risk.
The dependency on renewables, like solar & wind, on Natural Gas… is also now highlighted as an incredible risk.
Better for Europe to be investing in Natural Gas, hydrogen production to replace it, and European H2 to fill the renewable gaps.
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@evilsimeon - “1/3rd energy density and requires energy to produce it”
Yep. Many renewables outside Hydro don’t have a way to store their power for any period of time, making them inherently unreliable & less valuable.
What makes energy valuable is the ability to store it until it is needed. The sunlight is available about half the time & not truly valued.
How much energy does it take to cut trees, split wood, stack wood, and move it to to be burned? It is not a terribly efficient process. Wood is still used as a renewable energy source, largely because it is local.
Sure, H2 can be a carrier of energy, but it can be 100% used in Europe, by Europe, for Europe, making Europe energy independent. H2 can be local. H2 can be made more portable than wood, by storing in portable tanks. H2 is more easily transported in pipes. H2 usage basically creates clouds, to rain somewhere else.
Efficiency is is not as important when it becomes unavailable. Civilizations need reliable & portable ways of storing energy, for later harvesting, more than they need efficient ways.
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@maritaschweizer1117 - “for America it is better to have 30 small countries to negotiate with”
No, this is actually more difficult, having to maintain separate treaties & rules for every nation.
In some ways, the EU’s bureaucracy does make it more difficult for other nations to create arrangements with them… multi-hundred or multi-thousand page documents to comply with, on a national level, for foreign nations.
The EU bureaucracy kept the UK from negotiating simple arrangements with their former Common Wealth nations… and US. The UK making arrangements with peer nations, where government structures are historically similar, can simplify things.
The UK, with emancipation of the Common Wealth, created stable peer nations. Those stable peer nations were Balkanized when the UK joined the EU.
Many European nations did not have such durable & substantial international relationships post WW2.
Had the UK & EU been able to negotiate special conditions where nations could form agreements with former & historic associated states, it could have benefitted the entire EU.
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@hasinabegum1038 - “what Islamist terrorists”
Geneva Convention declares militants are not to mix civilian with military… to suppress civilian casualties.
Terrorism is violence against civilians to cause governmental change.
Hamas places military detention centers under hospitals, controls for launching rockets in Mosques, rocket launchers in children’s scouting centers, etc.
Hamas went into a neighboring nation, decapitated babies, raped women, killed men, abducted survivors, and these were all civilians ranging from a music festival to the homes of individuals.
The charter of Hamas declares themselves the “Islamic Resistance Movement”, linking their professed written name with their repeated actions clearly declares them Islamic Terrorists.
Terrorists have been controlling Palestine for years, and the Palestinians have suffered for it.
It is time to give Palestine the opportunity to stand up a state, instead of Turks & Arabs & Persians encouraging them to fight the wars they are too cowardly to fight.
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1:00 - “highest GDP to debt ratio”
This is a nightmare, you are right.
They have to stop spending like a drunken sailor, but Democrats in Congress traditionally drive this, and US voters are addicted to government services.
3:30 - [US Presidents speak on debt]
The US found out during the Trump administration that when Trump did not spend the money allocated by Congress, Democrats sued President Trump for not spending what Congress budgeted.
It was the craziest thing I have ever seen, in my lifetime!
5:43 - “white house continued to raise the debt ceiling”
This is not the role of the White House or President.
6:35 - “debt ceiling… serves no function except to generate political tension”
This is completely false. It is through the debt ceiling mechanism that the US congress has been able to force deals to constrain spending by other members of Congress.
The reason the President is needed, is because the President is the leader of a major political party, in this case the Democrat Party [which is addicted to uncontrolled spending], and the President must tell his political party members to fall in line & vote for the debt control measure, otherwise they vote against the debt control measure to bring home $$$ pork 💵 to their constituents.
6:54 - “Republican Gephardt… Gephardt rule”
This was a nightmare, as you suggested.
7:46 - “White House addicted to debt”
Once again, the White House is not the driver, Congress is the driver
Usually, if the opposing party is in control of congress, there are 2 paths:
1. Congress drive spending to make the White House look bad (ie Democrat Congress under Republican Trump… resulting in a 1 term President when his voting base did not come out to support him)
2. Congress drives less spending and can make the President look good (ie Republican Congress during Democrat Clinton… extending him to 2x terms during scandals)
8:40 - “checks written by the White House”
You really don’t understand how this works in America. The White House does not really control the spending.
11:25 - “social security… funds projected to run out… take out more and more debt”
They will merely increase the payroll tax or facilitate more illegal aliens so illegal aliens must steal social security numbers to work & therefore pay into the system & not get that money out when they retire. This is how Democrat President Biden’s policy is buoying Social Security.
14:20 - “pensions will have to financed with debt”
No, previous debt from other departments must be paid back, and those departments must start paying back their borrowing from Social Security… so the social spending will come to a halt pretty quickly before there is a default.
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@HedgehogZone - how many of the patent files were retrieved & saved by the US for Germany, when Germany was shipping fragile patent books to Poland & holes in the ground!
When the US figured out what was done, with the books that were falling apart, the US understood the value of them, separated non-concluded parents, microfilmed them at close to 3,000 a day, and the films were handed over to the German patent office, re-created in the 1950’s, for gratis.
The US restored to Germany the patent wealth of that generation, in a way which the Socialist Germans of WW2 did not care for them, of their own volition.
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@mcnally211 - “Chechens… cannon fodder”
Right now, Putin is sending to the front lines other ethnicities with Chechens killing those who retreat, so once again, Chechens are serving a role in killing other less-ethnic Russians.
If Putin can kill off some of those Chechen soldiers in this conflict, that would reduce his risks of having to deal again with them. So yes, cannon fodder for Putin, as well.
It has nothing to do with Chechen performance, but the risk of non-ethnic Russians to Putin’s Russia with Putin’s support base in Moscow & Saint Petersburg.
“Ukraine… marching on Moscow”
Ukraine does not want Moscow. Ukraine wants Muscovite’s to leave.
“Bakhmut”
If it falls, it will be with devastating losses to Russia. At that point, a flattened city will be acquired, known for supplying salt.
Tens of thousands of Non-ethnic Russians dead for salt. Maybe a hundred thousand dead non-ethnic Russians for salt. Putin thinks this is a good trade. Apparently, Putin does not believe the Prisoners, Eastern Asian Conscripts, and Chechens from the Caucuses are even worth their weight in salt.
Yep. Cannon fodder.
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@tarik6990 - “There is no such thing as a ‘racial group’ when it comes to the Ustase [sic]”
If you would have said there is no such thing as a racial group, I would have agreed with you, but with the Ustaša, Croats of different faith groups (Muslim & Catholic) were historically bundled together by alliance & by blood 🩸. The Serbs & Gypsies were not. We will talk about how this “Croat” ethnic group came into existence.
I am well aware that the National Socialists of Germany considered Slavs as inferior. The Muslim Croats of the Balkans were different, selectively bred by Ottomans for almost 700 years, from the Balkan Croat peasantry. Serbs were running the state since they were the majority & fought for the Allies in WW1. The Ustaša provided Hitler with former unselects & selected [Muslim] “Croats” from the Balkans, needed to secure the Balkans through an ethnic Croat insurgency. The Croats were formerly ruled by / as the Ottomans, and formerly allied with the losing Germany 🇩🇪 of WW1.
https://youtu.be/7VffNtUxScs
“Read about the Bosniaks (Muslims) who helped shelter and save Jews during World War II… also read about the Sarajevo Haggadah”
There are good people everywhere, who were doing the right thing, in difficult times.
People who do the right thing during difficult times are certainly to be celebrated, but we fall into repeated patterns when we ignore the butchers of the past.
There were significant quantities of Croat Partisans & Serbian rebels at the time, fighting against Germany.
“Situation in Bosnia TODAY”
Actually, it makes a very clear understanding of how WW1 & WW2 & Today’s ethnic conflicts evolved.
We know the Ottomans slaved the Slavs of the Balkans, to be Janissaries. A percentage of Balkan children were taken (only the highest quality children), converted to Islam ☪️, fought in Ottoman armies against infidels, and survivors returned to the Balkans as administrators of the Muslim regime. When they returned home to the Balkans, the other looked like them (same ethnicity), but they were of the economic class of the slavers. The administrative positions open to the Muslims offered wealth, in contrast to the peasantry who provided a percentage of their children (only the finest were selected) as slave payments to the Ottoman occupiers of the Balkans.
This group of wealthy [Muslim] surviving slaves and [largely non-Muslim] victims of occupation who breed a percentage of their children to be selected [superior] slaves were of common ethnicity. This group, of former WW1 German Allies, now becoming WW2 Allies, would eventually form the core of the “Croat” Ustaša. Those who did not join the Ustaša were persecuted.
They fought with Germany during WW1,
fought again with Germany during WW2, and
fought against the Serbs in the 1990’s.
This, in no way, gives the Serbs a pass for the atrocities they committed, but it is clear that the distrust between ethnicities were only bottled up under Tito, and never healed.
Interestingly enough, National Socialists of Germany did not invent the concentration camp, neither did the Ustaša, but they learned it from the [Muslim] Young Turks of failing Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide of WW1… in the quests for Turks to make an ethnically pure state of Turkey. They inspired Hitler. Hitler said the end of the 1939 Obersalzberg Speech, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"
While we had the genocides of WW1, WW2, the “Croats” of former Ottoman Balkans, and we still have ethnic tensions which led to the breakup of Yugoslavia after WW2, along similar lines to religio-ethnic lines of WW1 & WW2.
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@gregorytheblackkitten9422 - “you seem to be very knowledgeable about this”
I know a little bit about this since the Americas was “discovered” by Spain on the same year they gained their independence from the Moors.
Just because people toggle between colonizers and colonies, like Spain & Morocco, does not mean the cultural bounds disappear.
In the same way, the UK & US still have strong cultural bounds, even though the UK largely colonized them (and Spain and France), yet the US helped bail the UK (and Spain and France) out of two world wars.
“where are you from?”
I am from The American Colonies, but don’t start thinking that most Americans are like me, my ethnicity is not Western European.
The separation from ethnicity helps me see things more clearly for what they really are, without bigotry or personal hard feelings or guilt / self hatred. Things are what they are, we have to get over them, appreciate the lessons learned, and continue:.. no earthly civilization past had figured this much stuff (go to the moon, wired communication, wireless communication, going to Mars, sending craft able to communicate with us from outside the solar system, etc.)
Forgiveness of people towards each other offers opportunities for the future.
Repentance & Forgiveness drives Restoration & Reward for all parties in all relationships… from personal to national levels.
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@yurichtube1162 - “Western Sahara… Morocco… Algeria is pissed”
Algeria was conquered & colonized by the Ottoman Empire, Morocco & West Sahara were not… Algeria has no reason to be pissed.
I know people whose family were killed by government thugs In Morocco, and they were not revolutionaries, just merely religious non-conformists.
“EU are snakes who can’t be trusted… overthrow Algerian leadership”
Like Russia, who:
- sent soldiers into Ukrainian territory last decade, violating RU/UK/US international treaty with Ukraine
- invading Ukraine again this decade violating RU/UK/US international treaty with Ukraine
While the EU looks for political change when a problem is seen, RU looks for colonization when a problem is seen.
“0 trust here”
There is negative trust of Russian imperialists…
While NATO was waning, repeated invasions & colonization of Ukraine by Russia just made NATO relevant, for the first time since the Cold War.
In the case of Algeria, there has been no example of EU colonizing anyone, since it’s instantiation. Nations have to go through an application process, and nations can leave (ie Brexit.)
It is silly for Algeria to have any recent historical concern regarding the EU, in relation to what is happening with RU
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“Do you think… it is reasonable to bring such radical groups into the government?”
This was broken wide open, as soon as liberal parties made it illegal for people suffering from various mental illness to voluntarily seek psychological help from the medical community… effectively forcing them on a train where the only legal “help” for them was medical experimentation, chemical castration, amputation of organs… where humans arriving at the final destination incur remarkable rates of suicide or survivors attempts to revert their bodies back but find it is relatively impossible to undue the damage that money hungry medical experts had encouraged down this road to ruin.
Interestingly enough, the surrounding Arab nations, Sunni & Shia, may actually agree with the new government of Israel on some of these issues, calling into question the survival of Liberal politics in the greater Middle East. The irony of Islamic & Jewish cooperation, on a broad scale, because of human rights violations by Liberal Fascists. The irony of it all.
And now, radicals on the Left had forced this on humanity, reminiscent of the experimentation of Fascists of Nazi era Germany, and now center right people have to make a deal with those with unsavory national ideological goals to help basic human rights causes, combatting pure evil on a human spectrum?
Sorry, this ship 🚢, regarding radical groups being welcomed into the government by unsavory liberals on the left, had sailed long ago.
Making suicidal people have only one legal medical option, resulting in higher rates of suicide, while getting rich on money extracted from them through genital mutilation, is about as radical as it gets… and the left had already made their deal with the devil.
Choice should always be available in medical communities, never forcing experimentation & irreversible surgeries as the only option for the mentally challenged.
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Hi @katrinoy1 -
“Do you forget the Vietnam War?”
Not at all. There was a peace agreement that was won by the US, during the Nixon Administration.
During the next Ford Administration, the lying North Vietnamese started invading the South again, and a liberal US Democrat controlled congress decided they would not pass a spending bill to send air support to the South… South Vietnam fell to the invaders, the US took unbelievable quantities of refugees, there was genocide which took place in the South at the hands of the merciless Communists (as what typically happens with Communist invasions & revolutions.)
Now a days, the survivors of the CCP’s involvement in Vietnam suffer at China’s hands.
Vietnamese women are taken as breeding stock for Chinese men, since the Communists facilitated the killing of their own Chinese women for decades under the inhumane 1 child policy.
Vietnamese men are lured to work in Chinese factories, but they have to pay multiple middlemen months of wages up front to work & have their passports taken as they work as indentured servants to their Chinese overlords.
Vietnamese fishing boats, who sail in their own international waters, are attacked by Chinese boats, Vietnamese boats are sunk, Vietnamese fishermen are killed.
“Taiwan will face the same fate”
Unfortunately for the Communists, people have figured that out. If people of Taiwan look at the evil China has committed against Vietnam, they will be less likely to go quietly.
“Taiwan will be reborn as a great CCP…”
Breeding stock & Slave population for the Communists, because they have so mismanaged their mainland, and must find more victims for their meat grinder.
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@katrinoy1 - “Taiwan’s unification”
That would be great, if the CCP dissolved, and Taiwan took over the dictatorial oligarchy in control of China today!
“same ethnicity”
Much of the East of China, nearby the Korean border, are actually ethnic Koreans.
The CCP is generally controlled by the Han Chinese, exterminating other ethnicities in China.
The Red Communist revolution, with their genocidal “great leap forward” to kill civilians they did not want, did not kill off all of the non-Han Chinese.
There is plenty of Han Chinese exterminations occurring, today.
Taiwan has other ethnicities on their island.
“same language”
The first action of the CCP was to change the language of the mainland Chinese.
Subtle changes in the language were instituted, to facilitate the brainwashing of the Chinese, at the hands of the genocidal Han controlled CCP… like the removal of Heart from the character for Love — the CCP’s Chinese version of Love is Heartless
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@keinjuan - “China basically stands alone… no option but to build their own”
That is because they steal military technology from Russia 🇷🇺 and US 🇺🇸- so no one trusts them.
They would purchase a couple items from Russia 🇷🇺, then disassemble & build something themselves, never making additional purchases from Russia 🇷🇺
Honestly, China 🇨🇳 has done this for a long time in civilian technology, so of course they do this with military technology.
I remember a friend buying an Chinese iPhone knockoff, which looked identical, came with 2 SIM cards instead of 1, sported a camera with 4x the resolution, and had identical icons on the touch screen… the plastic touch screen was not well secured, when you clicked an icon, it brought up text versions of 2G phone menus, the photo quality was crap, and we never had a need for the spare SIM card.
Anyone doing any manufacturing business with China 🇨🇳 gets a terrible consequence of getting your junk backwards engineered, losing your technology, and then having them duplicate it without having to spend any in the R&D investment to pay back.
Would I WANT to buy a product from them, where any maintenance must go back to them where they effectively have no R&D?
Nope. When there is a software bug, or enhancement needed to handle a slightly smaller incoming missile, I want to go back to the original R&D developer - not the knock-off
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