Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1.  @theintrovertadventurer9640  - “don’t feel that having kids would make me happier” Statistically, the older people get, people with children maintain happiness, while people without children see happiness decline. One may then ask the question, why. Only the elderly with & without children can answer why that is the case, but the young don’t figure it out for themselves until it is too late to change the outcome. One must see children as being “along for the ride”, instead of children being a task.
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  2. Educating women to teach Islam to their children is essential. Teaching women to propagate their religion has nothing to do with empowerment of women, but rather to expansion of their religious framework in the continent of Africa.
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  3. Traditional Marriage is not a barrier, traditional marriage eliminates poverty. If they want more children, families who have children should be offered subsidies in nearly all social programs, and those without marriage & children should receive less benefits under those social programs
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  4. I think the content provider would have been better off to not claim the fantasy that Israel would lead it, since one nation does not truly lead NATO. Look how long the US had pushed other NATO countries to pay their proper amount of GDP for their own security! Even the US could not herd those cats! ROTFL!
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  5.  @RonsmooveTI  - transportation bottlenecks raise cost, and President Biden’s political party is against pipelines, so helping others nations is hard.
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  6. I honestly think Russia is done. The only reason the Soviets were effective in WW2 was the American support from their rear lines, and American tolerance of Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe
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  7. ⁠​⁠​⁠ @devotion240  “Ukraine’s pursuit of alliance with NATO countries” Maybe Russia should not have invaded & annexed portions of Ukraine when Ukraine was pursuing economic interests with The West… this was when Ukraine was divided & not interested in military alignment. Putin drove Ukraine Westward, when Putin could have incentivized Ukraine Eastward with reforms in Russia. Russia demonstrated there was no future but slavery, torture, and death in a Russian influenced Ukraine. Ukrainians who fiercely wanted independence of the East & West were pushed Westward by Putin.
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  8. And they can all pay their share of income taxes
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  9. 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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  10.  @iippo06  - “plenty of people in an urban environment with 5-10+ children” And the parents will likely have someone (from the 5-10+ children) to care for them, when they are aging, instead of paying $600/day in a nursing home to keep them alive. Totally cheap trade off.
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  11. The soft power of Korea is largely do to moral corruption in Western Media. Many students I know are looking for media to consume that is not contaminated with wicked moral behavior, which is a pandemic in The West. South Korean creatives had executed on this need for non-wicked entertainment… and has been largely successful!
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  12.  @bellanmn9208  - I already commented with a long list of minute & seconds through this video, with a variety of points. When the video author claimed DeSantis did something, many of the times it was outside of the legal jurisdiction of the Executive Branch. This video presenter just does not understand how the American legal system & American Separation of Powers works. Let’s pick 3: - DeSantis does not unilaterally have power to ban abortion - DeSantis does not unilaterally have power to reform gun laws - DeSantis does not have the legal ability to expel people This speaker is just so ignorant about the American legal system. No wonder the colonies separated themselves from European powers!
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  13.  @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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  14. Sri Lanka was victimized by China’s loan terms & conditions… China is doing this around the world.
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  15. “Iran… defense organization” It’s called Hezbollah, Syria, Houthis, Gaza, and more recently Iraq. The alliance forming is a natural result of Iranian influence growing in the Arab lands where Persians had been conquering & re-conquering for millennia
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  16. “Pandemic… death rate” This is more of a measure of health care than Prime Minister, President, Dictator, or King.
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  17.  @stefraivan - “used to say the same things about Vickings” [sic] But there was a decision to do something about it. “look how well behaved they have become” That is because an effort was made to Christianize Vikings & fight invading forces, simultaneously. Over time, this dual approach made the Vikings more homogeneous with greater Europe. Contrast this European proven methodology to unsuccessful current experiments… which appears to more approximate the situation experienced in Spain leading up to 1492.
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  18.  @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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  19. He did not expect Ukrainian men to run, he did not run… real man!
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  20. 8:08 - “1954… most logical way to send resources to Crimea is through Ukraine” This seems logical, but just because something is physically the case, is not the reason Kruschev moved Crimea to Ukraine. You really needed more information than what you provided, to explain a real documented reason for Crimea’s return to Ukraine.
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  21. The Arab Nations had historically been conquered by Persians & Ottomans… There is the potential for better historical bonds through ethnicity of the Arabs & Jews.
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  22. 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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  23. It takes time to build pipelines, so the natural gas from Russia is not going in huge quantities anywhere except where pipelines already exist… so reducing purchases from Europe directly impacts the Russian war treasury. New pipelines infrastructure will likely need Western technology, again, which is also embargoed.
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  24.  @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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  25.  @EGGP359  - Medicare, Medicaid, social security care are entitlement [or insurance] programs for the poor & elderly, and not income tax
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  26. “mocked the previous… President” - this means he knew what to avoid!!! 😂
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  27. There were significant problems in Biden policy: The executive orders for institutionalized racism through treating people differently depending on their perceived race or gender are highly unpopular. The refusal to meter the us southern border has accepted 170k of new illegal entities per month into nation while housing permitted are a fraction… creating huge inflation & lack of food on shelves
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  28.  @toastbuster9050 - this is filled with so many legally false claims that it was a horrible video. Fact checkers could never keep up with it. This video was a hate fest, and never addressed the real issues that Americans & Mexicans are struggling with.
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  29.  @hanschristianmontanopaz4978  - averages are made up of lots of single families. The economists basically care about lots of single cases, in aggregate.
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  30. Life is miserable in the US, post Trump, due to new liberal policies (high petrol prices, uncontrolled migration, sky rocketing deaths of minorities at the border, unprecedented racism promoted by the post-Trump President, uncontrolled killings of largely minorities in cities, uncontrolled movement of money from the treasury to the rich through tax rebates, etc.) No one hopes the UK will suffer the same road during post Boris year’s
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  31.  @ddoppster  - I cried when I went to the UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan. China 🇨🇳 & North Korea 🇰🇵 almost pushed the US 🇺🇸 off of the Peninsula half way though the 20th Century. China 🇨🇳 is a much more power force to be reconned with today.
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  32. And people start paying income tax
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  33. To think indigenous cultures were without problems before the introduction of the European indigenous peoples is a fantasy. Before the introduction of European indigenous, there were other more local indigenous peoples who subjugated the more immediate indigenous. Government structures must be fair in a region, for all peoples, regardless of origin. Once that is done, where the local federated group can have a say in the integration of extra-indigenous peoples, life is good.
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  34. Sometimes, education convinces & empowers indigenous groups to refuse integration It is better to facilitate self governance in a federated way, and extend benefit to voluntary affiliation All peoples of a society need benefit, not just educated/indoctrinated/brainwashed/bribed
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  35.  @Maybe-cg2tn  - I’ve helped raise hundreds of other people’s children, over the past few decades… even with my full time tech job, I’ve always found the parents far more difficult than the children ever were.
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  36. But Hollywood went woke & wicked… consumers turned far east to South Korea
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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39.  @darksector1389  - just another attempt at building the old Persian Empire again.
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  40.  @Cataclysm-08-36  - considering the Arabs conquered Morocco by the sword, I find it interesting that people from the Maghreb don’t seem to understand that the blood of the sons of Abraham [Arabs & Jews] is thicker than the former Jizyah payers of former conquests. Palestine’s refusal to recognize a state by a fellow son of Abraham & stand up their own state had been terribly compromised by aligning themselves with the Persians, who repeatedly conquered pieces of the Arab world over the millennia.
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  41.  @Thorsten_Wiegand  - “Russian gas as backfired/.. who would have guessed that one year ago” Previous US President Trump guessed it, warned Germany about military spending and the gas pipelines. It was honestly not too difficult to figure out. His wife is Eastern European. It was roughly the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Invasion of Ukraine from Russia. It is a sad thing when Americans know European History better than Europeans.
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  42. Fascism is historically illustrated by racial policies & government controlling the population through corporations. The current US President has been pushing illegal policies, treating people differently by the color of their skin & controlling free speech through internet social media. Sorry, the current Administration under US’s President Biden is Fascism.
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  43. Yep, blowing up the pipeline now would raise the costs of energy too much to the US, too quickly, and hurt both US & EU It is pretty dumb to think that blowing up a pipeline from Russia, before EU’s reserves are filled, is a good idea for anyone but Russia, who avoids the broken contract fees.
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  44.  @williamthebonquerer9181  - it is time for greater ties with The Commonwealth, as well as America.
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  45.  @devin5297 - “war criminals” Not sure what Hamas has to do with this. Videos touring a Hamas tunnel, previously holding Oct7 kidnapped women & babies under a hospital makes it pretty clear who committed war crimes.
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  46.  @andypeutherer4218  - Brexit was able to occur because there was voluntary joining by treaty by peer nations. When a treaty is formed with an aggressor nation, like China, where their purpose is to own ports & portions of nations to transport military,.. there is no Brexit
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  47. The US tried to stay out of WW2, it was never seen as an opportunity.
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  48.  @karankapoor2701  - the US wrote a blank check to fund the war for the next 12 months (ie end of 2023) The question is, can Ukraine push them out with what they have been supplied? If not, can other countries fill in the gaps?
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  49. The difference is that populists that voted for Trump were not looking for free handouts, just a job. These generate wealth. Populists appealing to those who want free handouts... those are the issues. These are a tax on the wealth, through the power of the government gun.
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  50. I find it odd that this whole video droned on and on without any mention to the Ustaše, where Croat Catholics & Muslims committed genocide against the other minorities, while trying to carve out their own independent state. There is a reason for such bad blood by the Serbs & Jews in this region… the bad blood can not be discounted by merely ignoring it.
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