Youtube comments of rejvaik (@rejvaik00).

  1. Remember the first and only rule of the world of geopolitics: "There are no permanent allies in the world of geopolitics only permanent national interests, and national capabilities both real, and perceived"
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  2. I'll never forget what my own grandfather told me: "A child wants, a fool begs, an impatient one buys, but a man makes" Mass respect to you Grandpa woody 👍
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  3. "Armies don't start wars politicians do" Unless you are the imperial japanese army which literally disobeyed orders and attacked the Chinese eventually that conflict would turn into a section of WW2
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  4. This is pretty big as Israel hasn't officially declared war since 1983
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  5. Napoleon: "Even I was dumb enough to create a war on two fronts but 5 fronts? Hell I'm not THAT dumb"
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  6. "Neutrality is often an option to take in a world of conflict but many people confuse neutrality with pacifism Staying neutral in a conflict means above all standing alone. Having no enemies also means having no friends which means you have a lot of potential enemies, for which you have to prepare Countries which maintain neutrality have some of the most well maintained and well-prepared militaries in their neighborhood, allowing them to also feel safe in that neighborhood against any one who might act capriciously Neutrality is also NOT a lack of aggression, during WW2 the Swiss shot down both Germans and American planes which violated their airspace Neutrality does not simply mean remaining out of a conflict it means seeing everyone as a potential threat to yourself and preparing for such, because neutral countries that don't.....get Belgiumed" - Kraut, America's Foreign Entanglement
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  7. Russia in 1500 We have to keep aggressively expanding to secure warm water ports Russia in 1914 The sick man of Europe is weakened we need those warm water ports Russia in 2014 NATO? In Ukraine? We can't allow that, we need that warm water port Russia in 2019 Nevermind the Artic thawed out we all good
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  8. Sounds like India has got some ways to go, good luck I'll be rooting for you guys,👍🇺🇲
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  9. Belarus: I'm going to annex Russia Putin: what was that? Belarus: uh I mean I will be the puppet nation of Russia Putin: that's what I thought you said
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  10. An interesting tidbit is that when the Three Gorges Dam was being constructed in the late 1990s the Chinese government invited over a bunch of Western inspectors for an appraisal on the structure's quality The inspectors gave their verdict that there were severe foundational problems with the dam that were likely going to cause structural and integrity issues that would undermine the entirety of the overall structure and possible complete failure in the decades to come and they suggested halting construction to deal with them before construction was too far advanced and at that point where the issue couldn't be solved But this was dismissed by the CCP as nothing more than a racist tirade by the Western world trying to keep the Chinese underdeveloped and submissive to foreign influence and they proceeded with the continuation of the construction regardless Well it looks like time has proven those inspectors right, and if you ever need proof of the structural integrity problems suffering the Three Gorges Dam you can look at the viral satellite photos of before and after that show how the Dam has literally moved with all that weight of the water being forced upon it 😬 I only hope it doesn't collapse causing a flood of biblical proportions and take out literal millions of Chinese as a result
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  11. Military realist reasoning > political correctness and ideological narratives
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  12. A lot of manufacturing is actually moved to Mexico too so Mexico is also gaining from China's loss
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  13. You got to admit that even though the American involvement in Afghanistan was pointless the fact that 20 years of American involvement did not lead to the same number of casualties that Putin has experienced in Ukraine in a mere two weeks is a striking difference ======Edit: Do NOT go into the reply thread you have been warned it's messy in there=========
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  14. This was also the last time Saddam's Iraq would be allied with the US
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  15. Billionaire: "Wipe them out...all of them" Palpatine: "Ya know, I like this guy 👍"
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  16. Countries of the world: "Climate change is killing us!" Netherlands: "Ahem! Allow me to introduce myself"
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  17. Stalin: I'm from Georgia sweet Georgia and the history books unfold muh As a messed up mothafucka bent in the mind
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  18. Remember when Cenk was all about spouting off concerning workers Rights but then he went and prevented his own employees from forming a union Peppridge Farms remembers
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  19. He can't cover Azerbaijan as he currently lives there and his nations laws don't allow him to criticize the Azerbaijani government
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  20. Spain: Hold my black book
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  21. There's nothing sad about it. Puyi was a horrible person
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  22. Honestly the entire idea of golden visas or golden passports should be illegal the mere fact that you can bypass a vetting process to accepting a citizen into your country because that citizen makes a significant financial donation is ripe for abuse
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  23. When militarism is strictly used as an individual means of self motivation it doesn't bother me Like if you're so militant that you get up at 5:30 a.m. everyday your bed is made your breakfast is done and then you hit the gym all before you even make it into work at 7:00 a.m. that's a very impressive means of self-motivation
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  24. "A great tactician creates plans. A good tactician recognizes the soundness of a plan presented on him. A fair tactician must see the plan succeed before offering approval. Those with no tactical ability at all may never understand or accept it. Nor will such people understand or accept the tactician"
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  25. Netherlands: "It's over ocean we have the low ground!" Ocean: "You underestimate my power!" Netherlands: "Don't try it!"
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  26.  @adarshpandey8023  yea I'm going to disagree Because any military ship of any nation may move through an EEZ without asking that government to do so as long as they move through quickly and keep a very straight nondeviating course Also an example of the US listening to the requests of other nations regarding its navy, was the government of New Zealand's flat refusal to let a US nuclear powered ship dock in any New Zealand port The US had to go through 20 years of negotiation with the government of New Zealand to finally reach an agreement with allowing US nuclear ships access
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  27. This dude ain't leaving X he's just going to have his account and not post on it until years later when everyone forgets that he made this claim
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  28. Runaway liberalism at its finest lol. Darn kids make us classical liberals so disappointed..😒
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  29. Help he's in an infinite loop
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  30. Me: Wow! Damn Putin has really aged in that thumbnail Watches video Me: damnit I'm an idiot 🤦
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  31. There is no debate she was guilty and caught red-handed by the investigation. But the legends of her cruelty of course will be exaggerated as time passes
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  32. While trump does indeed deserve his criticisms. Those that dislike him are exceptionally eager to promote that idea. In their minds he can do no right at all. So these individuals have to also be cautiously dealt with. As it stands Anti-trump rhetoric is insanely popular and there are many who will take that stance merely to promote themselves and their livelihood. Please let yourself always err on the side of caution when dealing with these people. And be on the lookout for their counterparts; those individuals who believe trump can do no wrong.
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  33.  @mariano98ify  didn't know anything? Nah. That's no excuse for how he behaved in his adult life and during his time as "emperor" of Manshukuko. The simple fact that he boiled alive a new born baby because his wife cheated on him means he deserves the deepest circle of hell. He was very much aware of his actions
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  34. I also can't deny I really love realism and romanticism in art and those mosaics which I understand are nothing but propaganda are also pretty damn amazing in terms of pure aesthetics
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  35. Fun fact Morocco is the oldest ally of the United States Morocco was the very first nation to recognize the Americans and their independence from the UK in 1777 And formal diplomatic ties were first established in 1786 These ties were later greatly expanded upon and codified in 1836 So yeah dont F with Morocco
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  36. That's disgusting, all of you guys booing are so blinded by hate you won't let a person pay respect to the dead Shame on you
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  37. "He who sheds blood with me will forever be my brother"
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  38. Yeah it wouldn't matter if the Russians are "failing" or "holding back" of their Air Force operations in Ukraine the point is they shouldn't even be in Ukraine in the first place!!
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  39. 3 things for context: 1) To understand the scope of the disaster if the 3 gorges dam ever failed; The entirety of the population of the United States is about 380 millon and Canada is about 30 million, meaning a death toll of 400+ million to put into perspective is like wiping every single person in the US and nearly all of that in Canada off the face of the Earth 2) Needless destruction of civilian infrastructure is today considered a war crime; Civilian infrastructure such as dams can no longer be targeted by militaries unless very specific circumstances allow for it such as if the dam was being used as a base of operations in command and control for the adversary in question And even then a competent military commander would recognize the threat of the potential dam and be very precise in their targeting to limit the structural damage 3) Whoever ordered the complete destruction on the dam would be the newest mass murderer in history; A 400 million loss of life would make the Austrian painter and the Soviet crime boss, and the Chinese communist leader be regulated to water droplets in the newest ocean of blood and the conflict from that would surpass WW2 as the deadliest conflict in the history of mankind
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  40. EU: "Greece cannot be destroyed Turkey, son of Ottoman, by any show of force we here possess. It must be taken deep into the IMF and cast back into the fiery debts from which it came. One of you must do this"
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  41. As much as I commend the 2011 Arab spring and the brave actions of its people who were completely right to demand for better governance and not totalitarianism I sadly think it largely failed Most of the the individuals who were ousted were replaced by those who were more or less the same And I think it's because those governmental institutions of the same nations were not yet strong enough to allow for such a radical change in governing style and they collapsed once again back into corruption and incompetency
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  42. Zanzibar: "Aww shit here we go again..."
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  43. And just like that, all the conspiracy theories about restrictions being placed on the freedom of movement for all people by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proven true
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  44. Unless the institutions which governs Argentina are radically altered it doesn't matter who they put in the seat of the presidency I only hope that whoever has the presidency of Argentina recognizes this fact and try their best to promote governmental institutions which are more resistant to corruption and promoting better financial responsibility
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  45. 100 years later Turkey just can't stop persecuting Armenians
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  46. You know you've screwed up economically when even the liberal side of political news such as visual politik is criticising you
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  47. When your nation is so authoritarian you can't celebrate Halloween
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  48. Unless the institutions which governs Argentina are radically altered it doesn't matter who they put in the seat of the presidency I only hope that whoever has the presidency of Argentina recognizes this fact and try their best to promote governmental institutions which are more resistant to corruption and promoting better financial responsibility
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  49. "Who else but Bismarck?"
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  50. Agreed, let's hope they never get used because there is legitimate fear of Russia getting so pressed into a corner they just might use short range tactical strikes AKA city flatteners, just to try and reduce the pressure
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  51. Getting real Martha vineyard vibes with this one Everything is perfectly fine and all these policies are perfectly fine until the negative consequences finally begin to affect the elite only then do they realize
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  52. "Jack you're a classic megalomaniac, you haven't mentioned me once in your entire battle rap" - Hannibal Lecter
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  53. Poland as well, Poland's Siedlec Desert is also expanding
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  54. It's always those that cry fascist and nazchi the loudest who end up doing the most of the same tatics they claim to hate
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  55. "Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away..."
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  56. Only active in piracy for 2 years but has achieved historical immortality some 300 years after his birth. Simply amazing
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  57.  @historiculgeomocule5569  without any question Mao Zedong was much worse. About 14 million times worse in terms of death toll. But Puyi still is a terrible person and it was a very sad way to end the imperial Chinese government.
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  58. Romania is also suffering from desertification with the expansion of the Oltenian
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  59. Canada has sadly long cozied up to the separatist movement of the Sikhs for a very long time spanning decades much to the annoyance of India Even accepting the Canadian citizenship of former violent members of the movement that had criminal pasts or suspected of such in India And this is despite Canada who once had their own separatist movement they violently had to put down, Quebec Which you don't see India trying to champion the cause of the Quebecois What India did was wrong but it does have an explanation, if only the idiotic of the Trudeau family could have recognized this fact. Because the cozying of the Sikhs and their separatists cause even goes back to Justin Trudeau's father
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  60. Was not expecting both a South rise again joke and a reference for the King Cotton policy of 1800s revamped for the modern day and the international markets 😅 Great video
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  61.  @TheReaper569  nope Pakistan and it's military did the same thing disobeying orders from it's central command They did that about 3 times now if I remember correctly 🤔
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  62. You know I want to believe this meme but the fact is that China has dominated Vietnam for over a thousand years
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  63. I've said it before I'll say it again if anything Taiwan needs to look at South Korea with how to make sure their military readiness is prepared because Taiwan has an issue in trying to recruit career soldiers Most people in Taiwan HATE the idea of career soldering and they only go through the mandatory 6 months of conscription period and they they never touch a pistol or rifle again in their lives and persue a civilian career Taiwan has mandatory conscription but that conscription period last for only 6 months Taiwan should make that at a minimum one year but in my personal opinion I'd make it 2 years because you cannot train everybody in logistics and weapons and procedures in 6 months and expect them to retain it all and then use it in the event of the national emergency
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  64. The UN security council needs to make india a permanet member to counter balance china
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  65. Possibly the most honourable deed of an absolute monarch
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  66.  @mariano98ify  I can chill he's now dead which means he can't continue his behaviour. But he had chances to change and develop empathy he just never took them. Such as with his wet nurse, she actually did check and correct his behaviour a few times he just never continued to heed her wisdom as he aged. He only ever practiced at humanist behaviour when in his late years. Polarising or not he is history and as such deserves to be remembered. I highly recommend you read his autobiography as it is one of the few times we actually get a chance to read about the life of a Chinese emperor directly from said Chinese emperor.
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  67. Who would have thought that getting mugged was all it would take to slowly change her views
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  68. Getting some eerie vibes and remembering the disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow"
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  69. Take Crimea back it is rightfully yours
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  70. Never forget that in the 1990s the Chinese government hired a bunch of European and American inspectors to do quality assurance on how the three gorges dam was undergoing its construction And when they pointed out the flaws the Chinese just called it racist and dismissed it and now the three gorgeous dam has been proven to be shifting due to the faulty foundation it was built upon because they dismissed the advice of the foreigners
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  71. Arabia be like: and I never left Going strong since 600 AD baby!
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  72.  @JeroenDoes  hahahaha you win the internet today
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  73. This is true even when they got the HIMARS system a lot of capabilities were restricted or removed from the ukrainians accessing them for both security reasons should the equipment ever get captured by the Russians as well as for practical reasons because NATO doesn't exactly want to share all of their capabilities and capacities with a non-NATO Ally
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  74. And other nations don't want to step up to fill the gap
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  75. Egypt is also currently under a dictatorship via El Sisi so it's going to be far harder to attract people to it
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  76. Afghanistan is not a graveyard of empires, it's a graveyard of Afghans
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  77. It's greed but it's also a form of PTSD The generation that survived the Cultural revolution and the great famine of China have horrid memories of the event and as such they have been conditioned to take literally everything that is ever offered Because they have been in dire situations before
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  78.  @manius1222  I disagree that was hilarious 🤣
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  79. As long as you continue to get supplies from NATO members Ukraine will continue to put up a fight Once NATO or the majority of United States and its allies back off their support to Ukraine, Ukraine is going to have a much harder time staying a nation on the map
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  80.  @A1stardan  that's not enough to cover up his failings which were pretty severe and very dumb
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  81. "You fail to plan, you plan to fail" - Bismarck probably idk
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  82. I was able to recognize the dangers of Facebook in 2004 so I am glad that other people are finally waking up to these dangers and I'm really glad they're doing the best they can to mitigate them by refusing to participate I only wish it took not as long for the mainstream of people to recognize to these same dangers as well
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  83.  @billybobwombat2231  That's a shame, sadly Romania and Poland's deserts are not natural but a result of bad policy from the communist governments and a lack of proper response from successor governments afterwards Only France, Serbia, and Spain have natural deserts that I know of France is partially fortunate in that it's desert is not in the mainland but in Corsica, the Agriates, but even so it's also expanding Serbia has the oldest known desert in Europe the Deliblato which yes is also beginning to show signs of expansion
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  84. The Fins have not been helping the pkk the Fins have been helping the YPG the YPG is not considered a terror group except for two countries that consider it to be one the Turkish government and the government of Qatar And yes the ypg was formed as a break off organization of the pkk and they do have some affiliation but they are not the pkk So turkey is stretching the truth a little bit
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  85. Putin: "I'll make my own European Union with Blackjack and Hookers!"
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  86. And we have a reason why the Russians thought that because that's what happened in Crimea the Russians took Crimea without firing a shot so the ego of the Russian military was stroked hard they thought they could do something similar and take the rest of Ukraine with ease
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  87. you just stumbled upon a common saying it's called "the generals are always fighting the last war"
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  88. Venezuela - Columbia, US - Mexico, India - Bangladesh, China - North Korea, Haiti - Dominican Republic Border issues never cease around the world...
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  89.  @lif3andthings763  yeah no, the Arab/Ottoman colonies in Africa were likewise built upon slavery With the Zanzibari Sultanate not abolishing slavery until 1897 And the Ottomans didn't abolish slavery at all until the collapse of the empire in 1918 Curiously enough though, afterwards successor state of the ottomans, the Republic of Turkey, didn't explicitly ban slavery until the late 1960s, and the Omani Sultanate which had dominated Zanzibar for 200 years didn't abolish slavery until 1970
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  90. While true, it also means that were the PLA find themselves in a state of loosing any military conflict because of their vastly inexperienced and ineffective military forces they would undoubtedly resort to use of tactical nuclear weapons to help bridge the gap Because the CCP is scared for it's survival and it would rather burn itself and it's foe instead of being ousted as the rulers of China
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  91. it's not weird in the slightest that the Vietnamese are cooperating with the US it would be weird if the Vietnamese were cooperating with the Chinese because the Chinese have had a collective dominance of over 1,000 years of Vietnamese history seriously look up how many times the Chinese have ruled over Vietnam and you'll find out that way back like in 600 AD they've had 500 and 300 years of unbroken periods of Chinese dominance it's ridiculous
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  92.  @pkingpumpkin  they are called americo-liberians not African Americans. And unfortunately the civil war resulted in Charles Taylor gaining power.
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  93. It's a truth of life but sadly an unfortunate one that evil men can sometimes fight for good causes Taking down aparteid was a good thing, everything else after that the ANC did not so much
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  94. I wish this was more widely known in the US
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  95. He's been doing this for a long time. He even once worked for the Private intelligence gathering agency that Hungarian-American geopolitical analyst George Friedman founded So he's perfected his skills
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  96.  @cSwDamian  politics does work that way and it's the reason why NATO at-large has recognized that they stand to benefit by supporting Ukraine Keep in mind they're not supporting Ukraine because of humanitarian or moral reasons but instead by reasons of mutual benefit and geopolitics
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  97.  @dariomladenovski6481  that's quite common to be honest, most nations downplay their atrocities
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  98. Damn Zelinsky scored marrying a babe like that for a wife! Mass respect 🤜 brotha You and Ukraine are gonna make it through this, I'll be rooting for you both and the Ukrainian people Were I younger and could speak the language I'd join as a foreign volunteer but sadly I'm old now and too broken I'm sure I'd only get in the way of the defending Ukrainians
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  99. Well that is a good thing and I commend Japan for doing that Japan is also 70 years too late to this party Japan has never kept up with its military readiness and training to do an expeditionary force that would come to the defense of Taiwan on top of that Japan has barely any military industrial complex that can supply its forces meaning one or two government contractors and those government contractors are strictly limited to supply only just the Japanese forces meaning there is no competition for those contractors and therefore they have no incentive to innovate and give the Japanese soldiers and the Japanese military better equipment that has been tested by militaries around the world
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  100. Vietnam has never been warm with China Vietnam has a past history of being dominated by China for a collective of over a thousand years Granted those 1,000 years were broken with interruptions and rebellions but China would always establish domination again the longest time that China had dominated over Vietnam was a period of about 500 years from 43AD to 544 China with then dominate Vietnam again for about 300 years from 602 to 905
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  101. Gotta admit that part about the Russians loosing more soldiers in the first month of the Ukrainian war than they did of the 20 years of American involvement in Afghanistan was hilarious
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  102. Quality over quantity will always be the better option but on a rare occasion sometimes quantity has a value of its own that can match quality And that's basically Russia's game plan right now play the long game of quantity and a war of attrition in hopes of winning because indeed every resource from manpower and material, to troop morale and public/ international support has a timer
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  103. What's interesting is Japan has extremely strict gun laws so this was not a lone wolf attack by a random person who turned out to be just a pissed off Japanese citizen that just really didn't like shinzo Abe This is definitely something larger
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  104. "You get what you effing deserve"
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  105.  @TheReaper569  also so did the Russians they disobeyed orders from Boris Yeltsin and fired upon the government buildings in Moscow in the late 1990s And the current situation in the region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia, military forces there began disobeying the central government and starting a violent conflict that has the potential to turn into a civil war
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  106.  @technosaurus3805  seeing as how the Portuguese actually bought the land of Macau rather than got it through conquest I am also surprised that it was forced to give it up But again if you don't have a military to defend your claims you might of well not have them at all, and Portugal was in no way able to resist the full enormity of the CCP regime and it's military
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  107. It's been a long time coming but yes I finally hope Sweden and Finland will join the NATO alliance Because as we have all seen if you are not protected under article 5 you are on your own and while you probably can push Russia back Finland in the event of an invasion You'd rather not be invaded in the first place and would need some sort of deterrent to prevent Russia from looking at you with their expansionist eyes
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  108. Geezus poor guy loving and doting mother dead, and abandoned by his father no wonder he went they way he did
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  109.  @fishcane1  especially with that NAFTA in place, and if Mexico can really capitalize on this chance providing it can really help cut down on the poverty and by extension the crime As poverty is what creates crime in the first place
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  110. I'd like to think it was something equivalent to that of Count Dooku's last thoughts in the Novelization for Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover: "Treachery is the way of the Sith"
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  111.  @fluoroantimonictippedcruis1537  good for you paying attention to details Chris Chappel has previously mentioned in his videos You're absolutely correct, it's why the US sails around the CCP's claims in the South China Sea in a zigzag pattern rather than a hastily straight forward pattern during their freedom of navigation missions
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  112. They tried so hard and got so far But in the end it doesn't even matter
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  113.  @exp8all  glad to hear it to 247 million is not quite 60 billion but it's something All of Europe will need to step up because this affects Europe the most
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  114. That's true only the federal circuit like the 9th and the 3rd Courts who over see multiple states and of course the supreme court can set precedent But since the US supreme Court sees less than 3% of all cases presented to it most of the things that are seen by court and become precedent and become laws usually done by the federal circuit courts
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  115. He has done it before
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  116.  @eonjustingeneral7073  sure. I wish this account of black American racism against indigenous African communities was more widely known. Here are a few sources to get you started: Slaves to Racism: An Unbroken Chain from America to Liberia Johnston, Harry Hamilton; Stapf, Otto (1906). Liberia, Volume I. Hutchinson & Co. ISBN 1-143-31505-7. "Global Impacts of White Racism: Americo-Liberians" by Feagan, Joe R. "Christian Community and the Development of an Americo-Liberian Identity, 1824–1878" by Wegmann, Andrew N. Jesse N. Mongrue M. Ed (2011). Liberia-America's Footprint in Africa: Making the Cultural, Social, and Political Connections. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1462021642 I also recommend that you find books on the Liberian Pepper Coast, the American Colonization Society, the True Whig Party, the indigenous Kru and Grebo people
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  117. You got a source for this claim?
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  118. You'd be ousted as a "foreigner trying to break Japanese tradition" Japan hates it when they receive any and all criticism especially when it comes from abroad
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  119.  @Doping1234  it did defend itself that I don't deny but it didn't take any proactive measures to do a better job of defending itself, such as refusing to allow the maginot line to extend into its territory and refusing to allow the stationing of foreign troops in its borders along that same maginot line Jointly exercising with the military of its allies to develop cohesion and combat readiness, and increasing, rather than decreasing, it's overall standing army size
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  120.  @fren183  Turkey and Oman: "Yeah we're just gonna silently sneak away from the African colonizer table and hope no one notices us"
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  121. Also so did Mustafa Kamal Attaturk refusing the orders given to him by the sultan after the ottoman defeat in WW1 and sparking the conflict to lead to Turkish independence
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  122. Plot twist: "the debt ceiling" is just the name for the horrible death metal album that congress has recorded and set to release to the public but they keep adjusting the release date to hide their shame
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  123. The defeat in Ukraine would mean that NATO now physically borders Russia it would mean that aggressive military action to remove a nation from existing is allowed by the international community, and would be looked as inspiration for many other nations who want territory China and Taiwan, China and India, China and Bhutan, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Ethiopia and Egypt, Morocco and Algeria It would also mean then a lot of nations would lose faith in the ability to be protected by fellow NATO members and would likely seek alternatives
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  124. Also the Chinese has virtually ZERO experience with trying to organize and undergo the logistics of an amphibious landing, one of the most difficult militarily maneuvers to organize Which is why I'm certain that the first strike of any physical violence or military attacks done to Taiwan will be from a ranged attack, via missiles or artillery
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  125. Took a long time to get there though, Mexico in particular still dealing with many issues
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  126. If India would just see that Russia is an enemy and not a friend because they are literally helping China by training the PLA then India could be more prepared The sooner that India denounces Russia and finds better allies the better I know India has looked towards Israel and that's a step in the right direction, purchasing arms and armaments from them but India is going to have to do a lot better than that
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  127. 🎶 "As I climb onto your back," 🎶 🎶 "I will promise not to sting" 🎶 🎶 "I will tell you what you want to hear, " 🎶 🎶 "And not mean anything!" 🎶 🎶 "Then I'll treat you like a dog" 🎶 🎶 "As I shoot my venom in!" 🎶 🎶 "Cause you knew all along I am a scorpion!" 🎶 - Megadeth, 2005
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  128. "I bid you stand, men of the West!"
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  129. I'm really glad you brought up the Imperial Japan starting the catalyst that would be eventually World War II where the Japanese soldiers deliberately went against the orders and attack that rail station when you were discussing false flags
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  130. This horrible event had more deaths than the Russians did in WW2 😳 The Russians suffered 20 million deaths but THIS resulted in over 45 million deaths! To illustrate Imagine if the entire Canadian population was just simply gone in an instant! That's some scary comparison
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  131. I don't disagree but unlike Taiwan, China has no regards towards its military losses. They will literally throw their own soldiers' lives away like they were nothing if that's what would be needed to secure Taiwan Because the CCP thinks that millions of Chinese combat deaths are nothing when we have multiple cities with over 20 million in population
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  132. The first East Asian Cardinal of the Catholic church was also Korean ============EDIT=================== Sorry but I misremembered Tien Ken Sin who was actually Chinese and now I just failed my school report......FUCK!!!
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  133. As I've said many times in the past I'm not too concerned about nuclear weapons being used in warfare I'm more concerned about nuclear weapons being proliferated around the world because they're the only means of preventing conventional military strikes in your country And as a result of everyone getting them the chances of accidental detonation increase such as the 1961 Goldsboro incident in the US Information declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came close to detonating, with three of the four required triggering mechanisms having activated "Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, "Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch." And I said, "Great." He said, "Not great. It's on arm."
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  134. Mel Fisher was also a HUGE inspiration to another budding marine biologist whom you may have heard of named Stephen Hillenburg
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  135. The Polish have been the only NATO nation in Europe to successfully see the Russians for what they truly are and they have never stopped with their military readiness And the Polish are the most enthusiastic of having the Americans assist them in the defense of their Nation I think they want a permanent base station there with American staff in it and I think they were planning to call it fort Trump
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  136.  @jaydee6268  it's already past tense dominat- ed
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  137. It's basically a form of PTSD manifesting itself because those individuals were the survivors of some of the worst periods in Chinese history the cultural revolution and the Great leap forward Those two events were so bad people were starving so much that there was a documented cases of cannibalism of the recently deceased
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  138. I agree great documentary and in terms of pure death toll it's much worse But just because it's worse doesn't mean it removes the significance surrounding the evil of either event Both are horrible horrible events as a result of terrible government policies and I only hope that they are never forgotten or defended
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  139. "To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best" - Darth Treia
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  140.  @bobbobbinson1841  Yeah no. The western world has done exceptionally well at celebrating and promoting foreigners and the foreign culture. China on the other hand does not. It is infamous for its denial of services to foreigners and it's own non-Han ethnic groups just look at the current situation for the Uyghurs, and the Manchus in the past. It only allows 3 foreign films a year to be seen in its entirety for god sake. No matter how long you reside in the country even if you marry a Chinese citizen if you are foreign you will never have the ability to gain social standing. You cannot be apart in their government, you can't run for mayor, you can't be a police officer, you can't have your religious practices be respected, you are openly discouraged from using your native language, and you cannot serve in their military meanwhile you can do all of this and more in the US. You will also never gain citizenship they only have Jus Sanguinis not Jus Soli. Unlike in the United States where once born on US soil you are automatically a citizen regardless of the status of your parents. And the application of Jus Sanguinis is very restricted to racial discrimination. If you do not look Chinese even though you had a Chinese parent you are not a Chinese citizen. An example is if a Black individual married a Chinese individual and their child had been born with black skin, nope you are denied citizenship of the Chinese nation. I can list more than just this but if you don't get it now that the West is actually promoting world cultures while the Chinese government is doing the opposite then no amount of words I will write us going to convince you.
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  141. That's geopolitics for you
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  142.  @fluoroantimonictippedcruis1537  the host of YouTube Channel China Uncensored
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  143. Basically the American Marcus Aurelius it's really sad he never got a chance to put it to use And we can only wonder at what might have been
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  144. That's such a shame, if the balkanites could just fucking unite under a single national identity like Germany did in the 1870s they could have been a major power
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  145. Surprised the Rohingya aren't focusing more anger at Aang San Syu Chi and her refusal to speak out against the Rohingya genocide and ethnic cleansing
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  146.  @TheAbsol7448  A navy that's had no combat experience since 1940 and I'm sorry buddy but it it's not that powerful if it's not combat hardened and combat tested it's not that powerful it has a capacity to be so, the potential of the Japanese Navy to be a powerful one is there Japan has the ability to produce quality products but they are extremely expensive and it takes time and unfortunately Japan is only now shifting to militarizing themselves had a later period than when other countries around Asia have already done so
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  147.  @prequelanimations539  no they really don't care China did nothing but throw wave after wave of men and material to overwhelm the US in Korea and they did the same thing in the Sino-Vietnamese border conflict in the 1970s (the last battle the PLA fought in) The CCP will not care, they are desperate to toss away lives if it means they can stay in power
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  148. Because of paternal instinct When you are a parent you truly do want to try to make the best for your child But since the fact that Marcus Aurelius had attempted to use his friends as advisors for his son after his death is an indication that he was aware of his son's faults and tried one last time to provide wisdom for his son
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  149. ​ @trevorgough2286 very recently the Indian government assassinated a Canadian citizen who was a Sikh and also a Kalisitan secessionist advocate
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  150. Canada offers safe harbor and doesn't recognize a group of Skihs as a criminal group who advocate for a secessionist movement within India called Kalisitan where a large number of Sikhs who want the revive the idea of an independent Sikh nation free from the influence of New Delhi In addition Canada also allows for the free movement of many Kashmiris who also prefer independence from both India and Pakistan Even though India claims that much of existing Kashmir has already legally joined India
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  151. The US stands with India! 🇮🇳🤝🇺🇸
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  152. Please make sure to send it to Erdogan as well
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  153. I'd say that it was very successful, it lasted over 500 years before the republic fell and the empire rose
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  154. That is not true at all Ukraine never had the ability to utilize those nuclear weapons all they had was physical control they never had any launching capability the codes and the orders to do so were kept within the Kremlin and the Soviet Union and the inheritor nation russia Ukraine's government already realized this in the 1990s which is why they negotiated to have those returned to Russia because there was no way that the Ukrainian government could utilize them as a means of preventing any type of conventional invasion
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  155. Exactly in fact the Muslim brotherhood arose from opposition to Attaturk's reforms and modernization of the Turkish nation
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  156.  @Doping1234  look again at my comment you are confusing pacifism and neutrality "Neutrality is not a lack of aggression" If you want to train with another nation to better your chances of your military own forces which are strictly kept within the borders of your nation to defend the home nation yes that still is a neutral act
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  157.  @benjaminlamptey1867  yeah No to the first and No to the second Even today the Turkish government doesn't reach the international minimum standards for combating Human Trafficking and is both a source and transit destination for trafficking victims When the ottoman was empire collapsing, it still was incapable of and banishing the practice of slavery in the entirety of its holdings The Successor state, The republic of Turkey became a homogeneous ethno-state for Turks only. One that forcibly removed most of it's minorities, including any Afro-Turkish descendants of slaves. Now the Afro-Turkish are a minority of minorities, numbering less than 1,200 in the entirety of Turkey Meaning that there is no large community of slave descendants within Turkey to demand any form of compensation from the government Curiously enough though the Turkish government never passed any legislation to explicitly ban slavery until the late 1960s There's only one nation in the Arab world to have explicitly apologized for the Arab slave trade and ironically enough it was Libya, when Gaddafi formally apologized to the entirety of the continent
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  158. If Brazil had stayed a monarchy I'd think it would be far better off today Pedro II was a modern day equivalent of Marcus Aurelius
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  159. Agreed, the number of Secessionist ideas coming from Cebu alone is alarming Philippines can barely hang on to its 9000 islands let alone trying to unite Manila with another nations capital The only way these nations will unite is through force
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  160.  @busyguy8266  much more than you might have guessed. Tell me are you at all familiar with the history of the island of Zanzibar?
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  161. He's just missing planes flying overhead
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  162. THIS ☝️
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  163.  @Seele2015au  you can't praise a dictatorship just because they have a female head of state
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  164.  @HamsterSauce  lol sorry didn't mean to call you out just I was wondering why a dictator would worry about sewer covers😂 It seems so random
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  165. I completely disagree with myth 2 foreign investors are leaving China because they learned the hard way that they can't get their money just like foreign investors are leaving Russia
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  166. Yes sadly Russia has had nothing but authoritarianism as it's leadership for a very long time it's going to be a while before it breaks out of that cycle And with authoritarianism only ever becoming more popular around the world, even in places you wouldn't expect like Canada, it will be a long time coming for Russia to break free
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  167. If what Russia says is true about these drones that only further illustrates their own incompetence As their air defenses are garbage for being unable to detect drones launched all the way from Ukraine some 300 miles crossing Russian territory and to make it to Moscow 🤣
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  168. No they got him. He was hit twice, shoulder and elbow
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  169.  @gastonestbon5439  sorry I meant to type Saddam's Iraq
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  170.  @DaveSCameron  Certainly, in the case of Romania for example the government there has known about the expansion of the man-made desert called the Oltenian since 1989 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oltenian_Sahara
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  171.  @allencummings7564  Argentina: "One does not simply borrow from the IMF, its bank loans are guarded by more than just credit bureaus, there is bureaucracy there that does not sleep, and the great eye of the debtors is forever watchful. It is a barren wasteland riddled with politics, bureaucrats, and dust. The very air you breathe is a mind numbing fume. Not with 0% interest rates should you do this, it is folly"
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  172. You need a navy to defend your "claims" Portugal and its navy is lackluster
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  173. Hey Oman tell us what happened to Zanzibar in the 60s🤔 🇹🇿
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  174. There actually is a precedent to this Not with the Mormons being recruited as spies by the military but the Mormons actually did find themselves in high demand by the US military for certain extremely high skill positions such as running military hospitals and field surgeons during the Vietnam war
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  175. Toussaint Louverture rolling in his grave with how the leaders of Haiti have treated their own
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  176. 16:53 He DID WHAT?!! TO A NEWBORN BABY?! OH HELL NO! Whatever sympathies, reasons, or excuses you would want to make up for Puyi's behaviour they are completely destroyed by this act alone. His Humanity is completely revoked.
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  177. Up until 1650 Cromwell was pretty justified in his actions after the business in Ireland however not at all
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  178. If anything this year should be called the uproaring 20s
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  179. They are there: Abraham Lincoln, Charles De Gaulle, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hallie Selassie, Narendra Modi, Margaret Thatcher, to name a few
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  180. Oh it's 100% that the Mainland Chinese will invade the only thing is when? And I say the Chinese will invade Taiwan when they are 100% sure that the US will not respond at all, or not respond fast enough Which is why I also say have a permanent US military base on the island of Taiwan as a means of deterrence
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  181. I'm surprised you haven't Saudi Arabia has been at war with rebels in Yemen for a while now going on about 10 years I think It's basically Saudi Arabia's Vietnam
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  182. Ok I'm going to tell you that the US will unilaterally participate in the defense of Ukraine w/o seeing as they have done exercises in the nation of Ukraine in the past But yes the US cannot legally call upon NATO allies to force them to defend a Non-NATO nation
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  183. Pretty sure if anyone is playing foreign games with ethiopia it's egypt Remember ethiopia is the source of the nile and egypt is heavily dependent upon the nile Ethiopia has been wanting to damn up parts of the source of the nile to generate hydroelectric power much to Egypt's disdain as it will cause less water flow downstream
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  184.  @aoki6332  yeah and Russian ego was at the Apex of its height when they took Crimea without firing a single shot that's why they thought the rest of conquering Ukraine would be extremely easy
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  185. Caesar: exists Brutus: I'm about to end this whole man's career
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  186. Visual politik I feel I should remind you that any form of a blockade is seen as an act of War by international law meaning no China will not blockade the Taiwanese island And expect them and the rest of the world to negotiate
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  187. Yeah I commented something similar it's a collective of 1,000 years of dominance over Vietnam by china with the longest unbroken period of lasting about 500 years Thankfully the last time China dominated Vietnam was back in the 1400s during the Ming dynasty
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  188. I'm not surprised Peru has had a very weird history of its internal politics such as when President Fujimori was running the country
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  189. the border with Finland and Russia is already closed I don't know what they can do lol 🤣
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  190. You know your country is better when people stand outside in the rain and snow for hours to begin the process of legally immigrating into your country I'm just saying that you are not going to see the same thing at the Chinese embassy in Washington DC
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  191. In every tragedy there is always deniers from those who deny Russia's actions currently in Ukraine, to those who deny China and their actions in Xinjiang
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  192. Possible, I mean they could claim they had no knowledge and would try to return the assets and funds which I did hear they were trying to do just that in regarding towards a piece of property that they bought they were trying to return it to FTX, the business itself
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  193. A 8-7 decision is a very close one indeed I never would have guessed it would be that close
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  194.  @blackwolf-sf1dy  yeah they never made it to Africa but they sure did colonize and brutally massacre the natives in America when they got to Alaska and explorers of the Russians even pushed all the way down even into California But yeah Africa has a very short memory it's seems
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  195. Definitely read "Why nations fail" and "Guns Germs and Steel"
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  196.  @benjaminlamptey1867  sure be in denial all you want but yes both Omani and Ottoman slave trades were very inhumane The clove plantations in stone town alone are more than enough proof of this Also regardless if it was simply a castrated slave to guard the Ottoman Harem or a slave to become a tailor to the Ottoman royal family, the fact that it was still a slave should send alarm bells off in your head that THIS IS WRONG. Don't try to take the position of defending the practice of slavery because "well at least it wasn't as bad as _______" Arabia and it's slave trade went on longer than the West, and often the West had to step in with the point of a gun to force a change in slavery policy after the west abolished it's practices. Such examples bing as with King Kosoko, and Hammoud bin Mohammed Both of these leaders ALLOWED slavery and only stopped when forced to do so The Ethiopians were the ones that suffered the most from the Ottomans, the Kenyans and Somalis suffered from the Omani Sultanate And no the Omani Sultanate has never formally acknowledged the abuses of its 200 year reign over the Africans in Zanzibar, read the text of the 1970 royal decree by Qaboos bin Said Al-Said There virtually zero Africans in Oman fighting for recognition for historical crimes as it's still an absolute monarchy
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  197. And once Russia and the US militarize the region it will become "international waters" with that rationale enforced by the point of a gun
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  198.  @bobbobbinson1841  you strawmaned yourself m8.
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  199. Who are you! And what have you done with Shivran?!! Lol
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  200. Argentina: "One does not simply borrow from the IMF, its bank loans are guarded by more than just credit bureaus, there is bureaucracy there that does not sleep, and the great eye of the debtors is forever watchful. It is a barren wasteland riddled with politics, bureaucrats, and dust. The very air you breathe is a mind numbing fume. Not with 0% interest rates should you do this, it is folly"
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  201.  Heather Larson  this ☝️ Claims mean nothing if you have no ability to enforce them
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  202. Well just don't look into the history of Zanzibar and the Oman sultanate.... Or the Zanzibar revolution
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  203. Libya the real life battle of the 5 armies
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  204. And yet we often demonize the entire bloodline and the descendants for the sins of just one 🤔
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  205. Mansa Musa: "look at me I'm a real life King Midas" Jakob Fugger: "hmpf amateur"
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  206.  @muscularcatholicism mate im not downplaying his accomplishments in his later life im just amazed that he had to experience that so early in his life
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  207. I've heard of someone who also went into a trance and claimed who also heard the word of God Went on to found it in the deserts of Arabia
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  208. "My son the very day you were born the hills of Rome whispered the name..... Commodus" "My child, I watched with pride as you grew into a weapon, of righteousness." "Remember our line had always ruled with wisdom and strength, and I know that you will show restraint when exercising your great power." "But the truest victory my son is stirring the hearts of your people, I tell you this because when my days are gone, you shall be emperor" - Marcus Aurelius World of Rome, Wrath of the Lich king Gladiator
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  209.  @augistry5439  yep that's downplay alright, which is indeed a form of denial and as I said many nations do it just like Turkey downplays the horrors of Armenians, India down plays the authoritarianism of their first female PM Indira Gandhi Guatemala downplays the 1980 mayan genocide And the US downplays civilian casualties suffered from the Iraq war
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  210. I wonder if Russia's actions towards Ukraine will start changing the minds of the Indian government because back in the day India sided with the Soviets and those cultural ties between the two Nations are still pretty strong
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  211. India still simping for the Soviets even 70 years later
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  212. The war will end when: 1) either Russia can pull something off similar to how they did in the winter war with Finland where they had just sheer numbers and they completely overwhelmed the defending force despite performing exceptionally poorly 2) Ukraine uses all of its Western supplied high quality weapons, intelligence, and armaments to bloody the face and nose of Russia so much that Russia just concedes and leaves I'm hoping it's the latter and not the former
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  213. sort of, it's also a problem rooted in both Japanese culture and Japanese demography Japan is extremely proud of their homogeneous and monoculture that they refuse any and all attempts to change it, even when these changes would improve society as a whole
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  214. Cue mozart's lacrimosa
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  215.  @deanzaZZR  which is why I say again if Taiwan wants to keep itself afloat it needs to increase it's ability to retain the career soldiers it has and increase it's ability to gain more
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  216. The destruction of the Amazon rainforest so Brazil can become an economic powerhouse and fulfill it's economic potential is like burning the Mona Lisa to heat a 2000sq ft building
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  217. In addition to the obvious porn joke It was found that adding a HUD for soldiers and treatment of combat like a video game was really unpopular.
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  218. KICK TURKEY OUT OF NATO!!!!
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  219. There's a legacy of imperialism even from amongst Africans themselves such as the continuing hostility towards Eritrea by Ethiopia and Somalia and unrecognized Somaliland Not to mention many indigenous African groups are wanting to remove the historical legacies of the Arab conquest across literally all of North Africa and instead bring back their own traditional non Arabic languages and practices There's even historical legacies of imperialism perpetrated by the Arab nations in East Africa too such as the Sultanate of Oman who used to rule most of Kenya So the idea of Imperialism being strictly "Western" is garbage if you're gonna fight it you need to fight it in all it's forms including the current Russian one
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  220.    there is no link to pc and climate change. What I wrote was it is better to be realistic than force a narrative. The top brass of the military is doing just that, they are planning rather than denying
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  221. I certainly hope not, as whoever gave the order to target the dam for destruction would become the newest person with the highest deaths in a military conflict ever recorded in the history of mankind And that's a sobering thought 😬
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  222. At least the infrastructure will be of higher quality than the Chinese led projects in Africa
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  223. Very much agreed, I think the biggest lesson I've learned is: "In the world of geopolitics there are no allies only nations and national interests" And now I no longer care what a politician does when it's perceived by their constituents to be controversial because I understand that all the world is a stage and we are not the only ones on it
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  224.  @DaveSCameron  if anything he should have talked about the expanding deserts in Poland and Romania which were not natural but a result of bad government policy
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  225.  @rolong4444  China: did somebody say African neocolonialism? Here's a money loan from us....don't read the fine print btw 😉
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  226. No kidding! the ancient kings of egypt would be rolling in their graves if they knew that Egypt is now a net importer of food
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  227.  @TheReaper569  no just trying to illustrate to you how commonplace it is and it's not an exception at all, nor is it a rule of any kind this isn't a numbers game buddy where I have to show you more and more examples to break your statement because what I said isn't a competition or a contest and you don't need to see it as such, it's just history But I will give even more examples of conflicts being started by militaries rather than politicians from around the world simply to show a non bias America did it when Commadore Matthew C. Perry disobeyed orders and forcefully opened up the nation of japan by firing his ship's cannon upon the capital city As well as Mustafa Kamal Attaturk refusing to carry out orders from the Ottoman Sultan for the enforcement of the Allied Treaty upon the ottomans following the their defeat in WW1, he instead sparked a conflict that lead to Turkish independence Alexander Khodakovsy left service of the Ukrainian government to help lead the 2014 pro Russian rebels for the ongoing war in Donbas
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  228. Well unless you physically went to Africa to try and find him it wouldn't matter if 10 million people posted a #
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  229. You don't want that. Hallie Selassie was an absolute monarch and his story of his rise to power and disposal of the former empress was not a good one.
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  230. Now this is a well versed and thoughtful thread. Well done gentlemen. I enjoyed reading these comments
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  231. I highly doubt Oman and Tanzania are "friends"🤣🤣🤣
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  232. Iran: Attacks Saudi oil refinery America: kills Iranian general Iran: NOOOOOOOOOO you weren't supposed to fight back reeeeeeee
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  233.  @emre05x  I didn't say anything about Turkey being in the right or in the wrong when designating YPG a terror group I said facts and I had to say them twice because you still weren't listening An now I'm giving up any and all further conversation because you don't want to listen you want to argue And no one has ever won an argument on the Internet or ever changed a person's mind on the internet Take care buddy 👍
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  234.  @emre05x  in my comment I explicitly said: they are affiliated but one is designated a terror group one is not and it is only Turkey and Qatar that considers the YPG to be a terror group so no, Turkey is the one "stretching the truth"
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  235.  @secretname4190  but the EU has to be unanimous to accept new members just like NATO and you can imagine that certain Nations that also have secession movements Like Spain, and their problem child of Catalonia, would be very hesitant to welcome in a new member
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  236. Maybe now sure but in the past ever since Indira Gandhi in they were formally allied with the USSR Indira Gandhi made the switch from the non-aligned nations, which India had been a part of since the 1950s, to the Soviet Union during her tenure in the 70s and looking back at the 70s political climate in India it made sense at the time Because the 70s were a chaotic time in India, with the Pakistanis (who were an ally of the United States at the time) doing war crimes in Bangladesh and India sending in their own military forces to stop the Pakistanis which caused the Pakistanis to ask for the US to intervene which the US almost did, they sent task force 74 into Indian waters as a means to flex, although "officially "they were there to enforce the ceasefire and assist the Pakistani withdrawal from Bangladesh And not only that but the US and their inconsistent policy regarding Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh left a nasty taste in the many mouths of the Indian government As a result of that the Indians stayed with the soviets right up until 1991 and the fall of the Soviet Union And it's that legacy of Soviet-Indian alliance still persists in the modern day which is what Peter said is why the US government can't ever formally ally with India they can only ever partner in some issues
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  237.  @tbeller80  no not yet, the Emperor and the Praetorian guard didn't really start bullying the senate into compliance until around the time of Nero
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  238. He literally faced off against facist soldiers in ww2 im not surprised
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  239.  @satoshiketchump  agreed, also would love to see a video of the last Heshemite kings of Arabia before the Saudis kicked them out and Saudi Arabia became its own nation
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  240. I think Putin would rather the leader of the Wagner group and the leader of the ministry of defense battle against each other so they don't focus their attention on Putin himself directly
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  241. Remember everyone wanted the Afghanistan war to end but NO ONE wanted that withdrawal to be such a cluster fk The blame for such a disaster of an evacuation can be legitimate criticism on the current US administration
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  242. Russia looses 39,000 soldiers in a 6 month period of activity in Ukraine US 2,448 soldiers in a 20 year period of activity on Afghanistan "Number 2" military in the world everybody 😂
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  243. Mexico was a great country until pri turned a blind eye and helped create the pax mafiosa And ever since then Mexico has had difficulty trying to dismantle that 80 year policy
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  244. Visual politic you are effectively forgetting a problem with the quad India loves Russia
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  245. I hope the entire practice gets turned illegal golden passports and golden visas do not attract investment that is worth the severe security risk
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  246.  @live_free_or_perish  it already happened the US has been supplying weapons to the Vietnamese since 2012
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  247. 🇺🇲 to 🇲🇦 ---> "We've also got you fam, you were the first nation in the world to recognize the US and our independence in 1777"
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  248. Honestly NATO just needs to get rid of that unanimous clause for accepting new members hungry offers nothing to nato and turkey offers nothing to nato either in fact turkey has fought against fellow NATO members Greece and still to this day wants to remove Greece from the map
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  249.  @enzocarneiro6748  correct as a taxpayer you do have a say in how you want your government to spend your money And that's the entire point of democracy you discuss negotiate and compromise how you want your nation's resources to be allocated
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  250. And they say Americans and their healthcare system is bad
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  251. Yeah I CANNOT stress enough how bad it is that a brand new A1C who had less than 2 years of service which is basically an E-3 rank had access to TOP SECRET military classification material and yet still refused to see the gravity of what he was in charge of safe guarding You better damn well know that policies on issue of security clearances are gonna be rewritten, as a result. And I gotta mention that even though the A1C failed, and yes ultimate responsibility is on his dumbass, any security incident of a TOP SECRET goes straight up to the BASE COMMANDER 😬 and in this case even higher And he also distributes punishments on down on the chain as well, meaning the Wing Commander, the Group Commander, and Squadron commander all will have on their records of failure to oversight and control of classified materials And for Squadron commanders in particular that can be potentially career ending, yeah they wouldn't be facing prison time but they might have to be forced to resign their commission or a receive a potential Letter of Admonishment And in the officer corps an LOA means you will almost NEVER be able to promote up again
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  252. Basically Merkle did the equivalent of "Peace for our time" and it failed horribly
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  253. Blessed be Praise Cernunnos!
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  254.  @monsieurpasta4922  buddy this is just a reference to the Engineer character from Team Fortress 2
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  255. I don't know Putin playing a dangerous game with this one because the last time he tried to deal with attacking the pensioners it didn't go so well As pensioners are pretty much the core of Putin's base of power
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  256. Wow! That's eye opening!😮That's the equivalent of Jews saying they liked the prosecution/genocide under Hitler. You know you really done fucked up when a persecuted group WANTS the return of thier tyrant😰
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  257. North Koreans literally dodge gunfire to escape a dictatorship and it's style of communist ideology University students: but that wasn't real communism Me: 🤦
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  258. Always remember: "In the world of geopolitics there are no permanent set of morals and no permanent allies, only permanent national interests"
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  259. You gotta hand it to the Vietnamese, they fought against France, US, China and Cambodia all within a century and won?!
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  260. No there are actual dam busting munitions that have been utilized specifically for the destruction of dams that can pierce down to 30 meters And given the poor construction quality of the 3 gorges I'm not sure if even that would be needed Luckily we have since put in the rules when conducting warfare that you cannot needlessly target civilian infrastructure it is a war crime if you do so
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  261. I won't disagree that there's not problems with the American style of the defense industry but if you live in a democracy you are footing the bill regardless of every time you pay your taxes And that footing the bill isn't specific to the defense industry it applies to literally everything the government gets involved in
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  262. Oh ffs, the US doesn't need Oil from other countries. It has 36 Billion barrels in proven reserves. It also the capacity to increase its domestic production tenfold. For example the US currently has an oil field in Alaska (Prudhoe Oil field) that is bigger than entire British Isles. The US also has untapped offshore resources in California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Maine, Florida and Guam. The reason why it doesn't exploit these is because the residents of these states/ territories don't want the harmful effects of the environmental impact. So to maintain this strong American concern for America's environment, the US looks to trade to secure it's oil needs and it has an abundance of options of oil nations to trade with. Mexico, Norway, Canada, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait just to name a few. I'm telling you this to end that bullshit and actually put some truth to your "memes"
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  263. You are correct 😞
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  264. I don't know I don't think the having a nuclear weapons is deterrent and guarantee of safety anymore as much as people think Because we keep finding the examples of Nations who are nuclear weapons capable still attacking each other such as India and Pakistan as well as China and India
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  265. Russia is using very dated means of both conducting warfare and securing territory
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  266.  @CB0408  yes. Goa was such a problem at the time it almost single-handedly destroyed the United Nations as an international organisation.
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  267. Oman empire Tanzania: 😠😡😠
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  268. I too will be cautiously optimistic, I want Mexico to improve but my god to be so infatuated with the previous administration you willingly let him rule through you? Then what is even the point of welcoming the "first woman" in the head of state position to Mexico? If she is going to be successful she will have to draw some lines in the sand and not let Amlo step over them
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  269. Poltava is what he's referring to most likely yeah Sweden took such a pounding from that and I know that it's an over used joke from WW2 yada yada yada but this time it's actually relevant the invading Swedes didn't plan well for the Russian winter as they launched the offensive to both invade Russia and capture Moscow in the fall, and the Russians do what they do best: scorched earth and hit and run tactics as the invading enemy suffers from the weather And it was BAD! 1708-1709 was one of the coldest winters ever recorded at the time, they were severely weakened as a result and when spring finally came the Russian army met the Swedes at Poltava and defeated them quite soundly they never again were the dominant power of northern Europe, instead Russia took that title and held onto it from the 18th 19th and 20th centuries
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  270. Peter secretly for the New Zealand tourism board 😂 I mean damn that there is so picturesque
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  271. Same thing with the javelin and stinger missiles just SHREDDED through the Russian forces 😳
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  272. I caution doing business with Cuba because we already fell for a similar trap Where of doing business with the Chinese will cause them to ultimately abandon their authoritarian regime and communist government, which never happened There's no reason to repeat the same mistake again
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  273. It's a lot harder to get people to agree to policy when the population of the country is 30 times that of Denmark
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  274. The Vatican actually doesn't really play that big of a role in geopolitics anymore The rising numbers of atheism and non catholic led faith groups have significantly risen than they were back in the day
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  275.  @Danielle_1234  then he ain't leaving then ain't he? So don't sensationalize and post clickbaits titles in the in the thumbnail of your freaking video It's dishonest
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  276. And Scipio was an even better general by using the Uno reverse card to bring Carthage to its knees
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  277. "Fear the old man in a profession where the men often die young"
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  278. "You fail to plan, you plan to fail" - Bismarck probably idk
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  279. Cromwell's actions prior to 1650 were justified after that not at all
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  280. "My son the very day you were born the hills of Rome whispered the name..... Commodus" "My child, I watched with pride as you grew into a weapon, of righteousness." "Remember our line had always ruled with wisdom and strength, and I know that you will show restraint when exercising your great power." "But the truest victory my son is stirring the hearts of your people, I tell you this because when my days are gone, you shall be emperor" - Marcus Aurelius World of Rome, Wrath of the Lich king Gladiator
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  281. And with the civilian population having zero access to firearms or any training that's very unlikely Unless the military joins in on the protests that's literally the only way there will ever be governmental change in China
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  282. Basically the rest of California is used to clean up the messes started by LA and the Bay Area
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  283. 🇺🇸 🤝 🇮🇳
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  284. Turkey: "someone said something about hurting Armenians? I brought my own soldiers to help"
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  285. "You play stupid games you win stupid prizes"
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  286.  @Donkeyearsa  whoa now hang on if that never happened we never would have gotten the legendary R. E. Lemmy and the classic Full Metal Jacket movie
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  287. Might want to take a look at Pakistan and its infamous ISI
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  288. No in a real fair world you would have Libya's Kalifa Haftar, Saudi Arabia 's Prince bin Salman, Russia's Igor Girkin, Egypt's El Sisi, Russia's Wagner commander Pergozin, Turkey's Erdogan, China's Xi Jinping, and Israel's Netenyahu all be facing charges
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  289. I think so because they got rid of Simon Whistler
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  290. USA stands with Morocco! 🇺🇲🤝🇲🇦 We've had diplomatic relations since 1777 you were the first country to recognize us and we've been allies since 1836 The US and the Muslim world of the Maghreb have been linked since the beginning of the US's story
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  291. Until Japan starts accepting foreigners into a society and its labor force it will never start overcoming it's shrinking population The United States and its own population is shrinking but they keep accepting foreigners into the fold to replenish itself that's why I even though their birth rate is also on the decline their population has grown and grown rapidly
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  292. You got to make some concessions when you are in negotiations with the opposition segments of the government
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  293. I'm pretty sure there were divisions between the Hutu and the tutsi before colonization but without a doubt the colonization inflamed that process
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  294. Brazil's just as culpable as any other nation regarding this And perhaps more so because Brazil is responsible for destroying the rain forest some of the largest ecosystems on earth that could help battle the climate issue
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  295. Remember the old saying: "everyone hates the soldier until the enemy is at the gates" And that was the path that the majority, but not every nation, of Europe took, prioritizing social programs, welfare, healthcare, education and neglecting defense spending as well as military combat readiness Because it was believed the US will always come to the defense. which is still true, but to maintain that alliance for as long as we have over 70+ years has been pretty pricey Now the US is just basically saying: "look you have got to step up, and if you want to stay out of NATO and maintain a form of Neutrality that's your own choice but if you do you'll be facing any aggressor nation alone"
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  296. For reference the entire US population is estimated at 330 million Meaning the Chinese nation has more people in poverty than everyone in existence on the US
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  297. If you ever wanted to see a police state achieve it's completion here you go delivered in real time as well
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  298. Well that's what happens when you think you can build a structure that doesn't take mother nature into account Interestingly enough there is a video that shows an Old bridge built during the Imperial era of China that survived a massive flooding whereas a modern bridge that was a few kilometres downstream was completely and utterly destroyed
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  299. It's also pretty dangerous because the last time Putin try to go after the pensions it did not work so well the citizens responded and even though Putin is a dictator he actually had to cave and back down And now he's going for them directly by raising the military draft age it will be interesting to see what happens
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  300. Most dictators do
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  301. @synthsun7662 Yeah they did they had colonies in California and Hawaii they were a permanent station of military forts for Imperial Russia, like Fort Ross Not to mention that they crossed the sea and colonized nearly all of Alaska through a brutal form of conquest that would rival Cortez and the Mexica
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  302.  @dannyzero692  don't forget Swaziland it's still an absolute monarchy
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  303. And Mexico don't want them Less than 1% of the total population in Mexico is foreign born, they are not welcoming to those migrants and those fleeing persecution Which is a sad state to see, but it's the reality Geopolitics are also in play here as this issues is a stick that Mexico can use to poke at the US because anytime US and Mexico disagree on something Mexico can feign ignorance at those people who travel across their land and up to the border It's a good and effective way to make the US squirm and influence it in some aspects hoping to try to bend the US the way Mexico would like it to
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  304. How the hell Ted Wheeler has a job is beyond me
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  305. Zimbabwe: who are you? Sudan: I'm you but better
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  306. So... Iran is just going to ignore the Chinese persecution of Uyghur Muslims? Move over Pakistan there's a new sellout in the Muslim world 🤦
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  307.  @ramazankapar5988  well seeing as Turkey is a NATO member and participates in exercises with US forces in Europe and western Asia that's a very strange want to have there.
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  308.  @leodarksam6230  Netherlands has been historically called the low country it's a pun
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  309. Low ground*
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  310.  @jamesbryant8133  we should just take the ocean and push it somewhere else
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  311.  @shafthespaceegg  Not any more, there's now a concept of universal jurisdiction that's become commonplace within the international community Where grave acts of massive death can be punished via laws of whatever nation decides to move forward with the prosecution You can see this practiced with Igor Girkin who was convicted by the Dutch government for his actions concerning the downing of flight MH-17 despite the fact that technically Igor's actions took place on Ukrainian soil and was subject to Ukraine's laws
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  312. Wrong, ants have been fighting wars, and taking slaves longer than humans
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  313. "I'm proud to be lebanese until I go back to Lebanon where suddenly I'm very Canadian"
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  314. Back when the Ottomans were in control of the area they still had problems. Just research the 3 Pasha's and how much that region suffered under management of the ottoman empire.
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  315.  @DB-nu6yb  I highly agree. You can't try to fake a claim of offense just to hide history simply because it doesn't match your views. It's unethical and it teaches bad intellectual habits.
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  316. Russia still fought a civil war in Chechnya to prevent the chechens from gaining independence and leaving the Russian Federation despite Russia having nuclear missiles
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  317. Through passion I gain strength...
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  318.  Brother Opaque  I believe his mother was of the Gola tribe and his father was an americo-liberian. there's better biographical videos and books that can tell you about this the infamous POS than I can
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  319. Too bad the black American settlers that were returned to Liberia were seen as foreigners. And the native Liberians treated them with such hostility it led to civil wars
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  320. EU: "Greece cannot be destroyed Turkey, son of Ottoman, by any show of force we here possess. It must be taken deep into the IMF and cast back into the fiery debts from which it came. One of you must do this"
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  321. And no one talks about the Arab genocide in Tanzania in 1964
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  322.  @luischirinogalvez6006  much earlier than that my friend, the seat of the Oman sultanate was moved to Zanzibar in the 1600s
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  323.  @emre05x  you're obviously not listening so I'm just going to stop wasting words with you
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  324.  @bwarre2884  trust me India received a lot of condemnation from their own citizenry and abroad when they fired upon the Golden Temple of the Sikhs with military artillery And they had a race riot in the style of Rodney King afterwards where violence against Sikhs was justified in the eyes of many Indians because the Sikhs assassinated the Indian prime minister for vengeance to the Golden Temple It was a messy period and the unwanted ghosts of that sadly still haunt Indians and Sikhs to this day even though the 1980s was 50 years ago
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  325. I recommend a great 3 series of videos by the YouTuber Kraut for a nice introduction on Turkey They are a little long though about an hour each but they are such well made
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  326. That's true but it looks like it's still worked I'm not going to weigh in because I'm not Scottish so it's not my decision to make but it looks like it can be done
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  327. Yeah we even gave them stinger missiles back in the beginning stages of the war we don't even make stinger missiles anymore we haven't been since 2011 and even those are considered last generation but to the Ukrainians they are "high tech" and doing amazing damage to the Russian forces 😳
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  328. Bro Aussie already smart enough to move voting day to a freaking Saturday versus a Tuesday as it is in the United States you guys already doing better than US
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  329. Pretty sure the rail segment of the bridge is not repaired yet
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  330. I bet that ship that registered in the foreign country to avoid US taxes is wishing they didn't register in that country now 🤣
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  331. Well it took over 26 years to bring a trial for the perpetrators of the Bosnian genocide, who then killed themselves to escape punishment, so I can't say I'm surprised
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  332. Very good quote
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  333.  @СтефанВ-н4и  He killed an innocent woman the wife of the archduke he is not a hero for that act alone
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  334. Benjamin Harrison walked so that Teddy Roosevelt could run
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  335.  @sandyhall8456  lol I ain't no 13 year old boy on the internet or a 20 year old female with a glass case in place of a spine I can see context 😁
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  336.  @johnsaunders2109  here let me fix that for you: "Don't bother trying to debate with an American Han Chinese" There you go 😉
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  337.  @tbeller80  no, the dictators like Sulla, and all the way untill Caesar did indeed bully the senate But Agustus became a member of it, he didn't abolish it's authority, he just took office of all positions, Tribune of the People, Consul, and Dictator, making his power almost absolute
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  338.  @somethinglikethat2176  nope, Augustus called himself princeps meaning he saw himself as a MEMBER of the senate
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  339. Seeing what all the nations of Yugoslavia have devolved into.. suddenly uniting to a single national identity doesn't now seem so bad
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  340. I get that, but I have to say let's not be too optimistic when China was going through a literal famine suffering from the great leap forward And people were digging up corpses to eat because thats how bad they were starving the regime still didn't collapse and people still didn't protest I want the CCP to fall but it will only ever truly fall if the military joins in on the protest
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  341. This annexation is about as real as me being the emperor of North Pole which I just completed the vote tally 14 seconds ago and there was no one currently living in the North Pole so only one person was needed to cast a vote and that was me, so all hail your new North Poliean emperor!
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  342.  @astrosherlock374  and this is why I disagree if they were in it for the long game and the decades that you mentioned they would not be engaging in this wolf warrior diplomacy instead they would have adopted what Din Xiaoping recommended: "Bide your time and hide your strength" except when xi jinping came into power he said no, now's the time for aggressive posturing and rhetoric
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  343. Just put your videos on your own website then advertise your website here on YouTube and any other social media
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  344. Not only that but China's water quality across the entire nation has dipped tremendously where most water quality is either at 3 or higher Type 4 water quality is strictly irrigation only Type 5 is useless
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  345.  @benjamintaheny450  no it's really the poverty that creates the crime When you and your society at large don't have sufficient access to thing that are essential such as safety, food, shelter, and water you have to turn to any other methods to secure those items because they are necessary for you to live
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  346. Fun fact the nation of Chile is larger than the US state of Texas
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  347. You know censorship and copyright laws have gone too far when they start going for ridiculous crap like this
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  348.  Kitty Cat Mexico is considering doing something similar on its border with Guatemala
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  349. Still 90s India government was much better than the 80s government of Indira Gandhi Shudders that authoritarianism was a hard pill to swallow
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  350.  @vihreelinja4743  no they did not you can't force another country to invade another country
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  351. I am so glad that the United States of the 1970s was able to plan ahead and create and adopt a new weapon to counter the Soviets cuz who would have guessed that 50 years later it would absolutely be needed
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  352. I just hope that the "prediction" or rather speculation is a better word actually now that I think about it, from Peter Zeihan remains pure speculation He mentioned that there is possibility in the event of Russia doing so badly in Ukraine would actually try and showcase they have the ability to fight on Even despite the poorly trained, poorly equipped, and poorly motivated soldiers, the Russian government might actually allow for the use of strategic nuclear payloads basically City flatteners Because then that'd be the only way that Russia could attempt to level the playing field in terms of military performance now I find it extremely unlikely like 99.9% unlikely it would ever happen but there's always a chance, we never know dictatorships like Putin's do not follow rational and reasonable thought
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  353. While this is a great idea sadly not a lot of countries recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC, and that includes the United States as well as China So in essence this is kind of more symbolic gesture than a practical one
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  354. Junta is pronounced as "Hoon-tah" FFS! Not "June-tah"
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  355.  @realtalk6195  I disagree Japan already has blood on their hands it's better to take the pragmatic approach and sell their weapons overseas so they can get the better research for development of those same weapons and they can actually start making a profit again because the Japanese economy has been stagnant for decades
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  356. Bring back Simon Whistler!
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  357. Thank you mean Turkish president as Erdogan has his reelection coming up
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  358. I got to admit Israeli fascism is something I never thought I'd ever hear 😬
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  359. Unless South Korea as well as Japan start relaxing their immigration laws and they start having their society be more open and welcoming to the idea of immigrants into their fold they're not going to start recovering and becoming more prosperous the United States has already recognized this and even though the United States has a dwindling population amongst its births it's actually growing as a nation because it allows for immigration to make up for it And it's Society regularly welcomes the idea and is receptive to immigration
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  360. That's better than Taiwan which forces a mere 6 months
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  361. USA stands with Morocco! 🇺🇲🤝🇲🇦 You were the first nation in the world to recognize our independence in 1777 and we've been formal allies since 1836
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  362. The US stands with Morocco! 🇲🇦🤝🇺🇲 We've had diplomatic relations since 1777 And been allies since 1836
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  363. I sincerely hope so the Soviet Union fell because of economic mismanagement that was going to be the only way that a 70-year-long authoritarian regime collapsed because they were also nuclear weapons capable so they weren't going to be ever foreign conquered and then occupied and then given the ability to hold free elections like the American occupation of Japan following World War II
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  364. I'm not surprised, he did indeed point out flaws in the nations who simply take advantage of the protection that NATO offers, like Albania and Romania But yes he didn't do a good job in trying to be diplomatic in selling the idea to those same NATO members hey please increase your own defense spending, and I think that's just because his lack of experience in trying to be diplomatic There's actually a quote from Kraut a YouTuber who offered up many insights on topics like this that I reference: "If you've ever wondered why American military spending is so high it's because the US has to jump in for allies at their own expense who themselves don't meet their own commitments"
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  365. 🎶 "2 minutes to midnight! The hand that threatens dooom!" 🎶 - Iron Maiden
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  366.  @davidford3115  there's nothing to do with my point the point is Russia has been under an authoritarianism for far too long and it's really damaged their state, their collective psyche and their citizenry and there's nothing wrong with wishing that they end their cycle of authoritarianism you don't get to defend Russia being an authoritarian regime just because authoritarianism is the longest form of government that mankind has ever had
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  367.  @davidford3115 that's not breaking any bubble authoritarianism has always been the norm for most of mankind's history democracy is one of the newest interms of relative forms of government done by a culture because different cultures encountered it at different times
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  368.  @TheRenofox  yes it does, that previous suffering has manifested into an extreme distrust and a selfish mentality in the survivors of the event "If I can't have it no one can" because during those times that was the prevailing attitude what caused them to survive It's still not a good mentality to have, but it's why you only see it in the older generations of Chinese, most other Chinese don't like them
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  369. I think it's really weird that the Manchurian braids is seen as nothing but condemnation in China the very source of the hairstyle
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  370. What's interesting is Japan has extremely strict gun laws so this was not a lone wolf attack by a random person who turned out to be just a pissed off Japanese citizen that just really didn't like shinzo Abe This is definitely something larger
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  371. If I had to guess amongst the 4 I'd say: 90% false flag 7% NRA 2% random 1% Ukrainian government
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  372.  @obsidianjane4413  no they cannot the federal level of government courts always overrules any other court ruling if they wish to do so Its why the supreme court is at the federal level and why the federal circuit courts are also at the federal level
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  373. "Hey look buddy I'm an engineer, and that means I solve problems."
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  374. Well to be honest the Wagner group had impressive combat feats in its African operations But they were facing against untrained poorly equipped non NATO armed rebels And that's convincing enough to many a leader in Africa, but yes hopefully they and Africa at large will wake up to the reality that when Russia is facing an opponent with modern weaponry and full NATO support they are not going to perform well and subsequently drop them as a security guarantor
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  375. Well nationalism is the belief that your country not only exists but it has an inherent right to exist So it makes sense that the fervor of that belief could rival those of a religious beliefs And you can have competing nationalist ideas existing in one nation probably the two most common competing nationalism ideas we see discussed the most often are the nationalist idea of state of Palestine and the nationalist idea of the state of Israel Even in the united states there's still competing nationalism ideas From those more well known and infamous such as who want the CSA to be revived, to others less well known but still advocating a secessionist movement such as Independent Puerto Rico
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  376. In the matter of transiting nations for asylum sometimes it is indeed needed for individuals to finally find a friendly nation Probably the best example of this is N. Korea where those individuals who do want to be granted asylum and repatriated to S. Korea have to travel across hostile China to either Mongolia or Thailand before their asylum request will be granted Now I'm not saying that this happens everywhere and with everyone but I am saying it is a real thing So just keep it in mind, because there are nations who are refusing Venezuelans because they are overwhelmed such as Colombia Again just something to consider, but yes those individuals who claim to come here with nothing but the clothes on their backs and yet they who are complaining about being given something for free that's a problem
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  377. In the matter of transiting nations for asylum sometimes it is indeed needed for individuals to finally find a friendly nation Probably the best example of this is N. Korea where those individuals who do want to be granted asylum and repatriated to S. Korea have to travel across hostile China to either Mongolia or Thailand before their asylum request will be granted Now I'm not saying that this happens everywhere and with everyone but I am saying it is a real thing So just keep it in mind, because there are nations who are refusing Venezuelans because they are overwhelmed such as Colombia Again just something to consider, but yes those individuals who claim to come here with nothing but the clothes on their backs and yet they who are complaining about being given something for free that's a problem
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  378. Buddy EVERY nation has skeletons in its closet What you need to do is expect and anticipate them so you can better fight against it At least in the democracy of Australia the voices calling into question the treatment on Timor Leste can be heard and expressed and add pressure to form a change of policy
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  379.  @yaz2928  I couldn't have said it better myself "In the world of geopolitics there are no permanent set of morals and no permanent allies, only permanent national interests" If Australia wants to improve its standing with East Timor it will have to align itself with their interests not against them
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  380. the only exception to Nations on their borders they have not angered is North Korea and China already does have an alliance with North Korea where on paper they say they will come to defense of the North Koreans should the North Koreans ever be attacked
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  381. Well they're not in the best position to make one they have angered every single one of their direct neighbors on their border so they can't form an alliances with any of the bordering Nations And as he said later on in the video there's other nations they can try to, such as Iran, but if they do they'll immediately lose some of the friends they've already made through all the economic benefits Also Nations around the world recognize that China doesn't a strong and combat ready military force that can provide that necessary security The Chinese have never practiced at expeditionary forces and logistics
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  382. Indeed... however it has been shown that secularism is declining rapidly in Turkey. What will happen to the nation? This remains to be seen
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  383.  @matthewkottler5553  look you and I both know that it's stupid, but the CCP does not care in regards towards human life that's what I'm trying to convey to you if the CCP is desperate enough they will March their soldiers as if they were a slave army two certain death if that meant they could take Taiwan so it is very much relevant because I see the CCP getting more and more desperate
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  384.  @NoName-sb9tp  I know it's a joke lol as I said it would be the most strange if Vietnam shifted to being supportive of everything and all Chinese
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  385. Yeah man... dyslexia is a bitch...
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  386. The US kept warning Europe: hey we are going to focus on Asia you better step up and start participating in defense because we have a much more dangerous adversary But Europe largely (Not Finland, Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) put it's fingers in it's ears and didn't want to hear it, they knew that militaries are expensive and they wanted to rather spend that money on social programs and educating their citizens Not to mention that if they stopped funding those people would be angry for loosing those and no politician wanted to risk it, at least until it was "ok" to finally do so and that was the Ukraine conflict
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  387. I couldn't have said it better myself that is 100% correct
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  388. That's still not a good thing you shouldn't send all of your capacity to another country Don't get me wrong I am glad Denmark is helping out the ukrainians but at the same time you would be foolish to send all of what you have and are left with nothing
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  389. Europeans have been in Africa for millennia, though it was mostly in the north Africa in lands that border the Mediterranean
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  390. I fully agree, I think the common phrase "graveyard of empires" needs be changed to "graveyard of Afghans" 😔
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  391. There's also deserts in Poland such as the Siedlec Desert
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  392. Can't deny Putin's ability to use the more subtle methods. Most dictators just either remove presidental term limits like with Xi Jinping or just continually increase their length like Idi Armin. But Putin however tries to make it look legitimate by attempting to removing the president's ability to name nominations and instead give it to the parliament who will make the presidential nomination themselves. On paper it sounds like it's going in a step in the right direction but Putin is nothing if not uncanny in his ability to plan for the long term. As Darth Sidious would have said, "Impressive"
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  393. They've always been that way, the only thing to stop a showcase of force is a fearful deterrent of a stronger force to be used in retaliation
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  394.  @FictionHubZA  that's an absolute monarchy that's down in Swaziland not a constitutional monarchy like I was suggesting
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  395. Sort of.... Israel does that, but then again Israel has a population of about 7 million, Egypt by contrast has a population of 100 million which is significantly higher and therefore harder to provide by desalination alone Also desalination produces a very highly concentrated saltwater brine, which can be an environmental hazard
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  396. Pretty sure that if anyone would use covert operations to disrupt this it would be China not the US or the CIA The US isn't entirely dependent on trade through SE Asia Pacific region, unlike China, it only just patrols the area With freedom of navigation exercises to keep the route open for others But I don't think the SE Asia nations of the Malay archipelago will ever unite, even if they were culturally homogeneous. It's the same concept as Nasser's idea of "Pan Arabia" Where the entire Arab Speaking world would unite into a single country and you can see how badly that failed
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  397.  @emmetcoyne6436  😉
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  398. More like Armenians over reliance on Russia
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  399. What did you expect? Resources are limited and our wants are endless Conflict is inevitable
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  400.  @no5829  basically in the post 2022 world if you didn't join NATO you are on your own to deal with any aggressor nation Good luck with that
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  401.  @dianeconti7602  he is misinformed but partially correct. Currently (as of September 2019) the US state department has rated the entire nation of Turkey as a level 2 (increased caution) travel advisory. Specific Areas within Turkey are listed as a level 3 (Reconsider Travel) these include: Batman, Bingol, Bitlis, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hakkari, Hatay, Kilis, Mardin, Sanliurfa, Siirt, Sirnak, Tunceli, and Van And Level 4 (Do not travel) exists as well for the Turkish borders of Iraq and Syria. Source: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/turkey-travel-advisory.html
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  402. My scenario; The result of the referendum will be favorable to Catalonia and unfavorable to Madrid. Madrid will then dispute the result, declare it illegal, imprison activists and participaters. Catalonia will no doubt respond with an increased desire of seccession and national pride. Violence will now be seen as a means to uphold Catalonia's process to succession after the legal route to statehood fails. Pro-Catalonia supporters will find a target that carries symbolic meaning and its destruction will help eradicate said symbol of oppression. Madrid will no doubt respond with extremely forceful measures if said target was successfully destroyed. With violence erupting international attention will focus briefly on the area. Madrid and the government of Spain will use this attention to try and appeal to the UN security council and the EU to not recognize Catalonia as a nation. Meanwhile violence is increasing. Remeniscent of the Spanish civil war, with some commenters no doubt making the same comparison. Catalonia will be persuing its own method towards international recognition, likely citing claims as an unjustly conquered ethinic group with a distinct culture and language seperate from the rest of the Spanish people. Possibly appealing to that of a colonial status, with its people attempting to remove the powers of its colonial masters. The international community likely not wanting any more violence erupting in europe, from anyother competing Nationalist/Seccessionist ideals and a swift end to the conflict, will side with Madrid and provide economic assistance over military assistance. The businesses and tourism in the region of Catalonia are decimated after the violence began. And what few residents/ international travelers remain uneasy in the region. Governments around the world issue travel warnings to the region. Commenters begin to question the status of the EU once again, after Britan attempts to leave and spain is tearing at the seams. French troops are sent to the border to deal with refugees fleeing the region. Madrid is successful in supressing the violence and seccession movement. But the idea of independence remains in the mind of Catalonians. Madrid will now govern the region with a more militarized force to minimize chances of repeated violence. Much to the dismay of catalonians who now solidfy their beliefs for independence. And no doubt will reattempt seccession as a justified response to the increased mistreament of spanish forces.
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  403.  @icyknightmare4592  I agree there would not be a Western retaliation strike But there would be a coalition response as the entirety of the world would be willing and motivated to isolate the Russian government
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  404. I hope you get back Crimea
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  405. I had a feeling that Russia was going to try to push for South and try to reinforce transnistria and the Moldova issue
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  406. I caution everyone singing the praises of Singapore and nations around the world wanting to emulate it, a lot of freedoms had to be given up by the citizens of Singapore to ensure that it continues to exist as a nation, and it's very much an authoritarian government
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  407. The current Russian flag is from the days of just before the time of Catherine the Great in 1696 While current the Belarusian flag is actually very recent having been designed in 1991. Belarus used to have flag similar to the current Russian federation flag with horizontal white stripes on both the top and bottom with a red stripe in the middle that white-red-white flag was adopted by the Belarusian government in 1918
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  408. Here is some context for landlocked nations with navies: "The Declaration recognising the Right to a Flag of States having no Sea-coast (French: Déclaration portant reconnaissance du droit au pavillon des Etats dépourvus de littoral) is a 1921 multilateral treatywhich legally recognised that a land-locked statecould be a maritime flag state; that is, that a land-locked state could register ships and sail them on the sea under its own flag. As of 2013, the Declaration has been ratified by over 50 states, and international law recognises the right of any state to sail ships on the sea under its own flag. Today, land-locked states which have merchant vessel fleets include Austria, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Hungary, Laos, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Moldova, Paraguay, Slovakia and Switzerland, though of these, only Ethiopia, Laos, and Mongolia have no river/sea port from which the high sea can be reached."
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  409. The skies split apart and the god of war stepped through
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  410. Badum tiss
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  411.  @marpagapal3312  I already stated that exact fact. Portugal never used force to obtain Macau. But the Portuguese government did indeed face pressure from the CCP and the UN to return the land to the CCP. I honestly disagree with this and I do consider that Macau should have indeed stayed with Portugal My own sentiments aside however, the Portuguese government failed to negotiate with the Chinese government a similar lease agreement to Hong Kong and it's 99 year lease with the British, who also under the Margaret Thatcher administration likewise failed in negotiating with Deng Xiaoping of extending the 99 year Hong Kong lease. So yes Macau was forced to return to Chinese control under diplomatic pressure by both the UN decolonisation committee and the Chinese government, all this despite the fact that Portugal never used force to gain control over the land.
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  412. Since the US changed its recognition to the city of Jerusalem as the capital I believe a few other countries have followed suit and relocated their respective embassies from Tel Aviv
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  413. Uhhhh might want to read up on the Oman sultanate and Zanzibar there buddy...
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  414. Uhh I don't know about the title as "peace broker" the Omari Sultanate used to have its seat of power in Zanzibar and regularly participated in the slave trade and subjugation of Africans untill the 1960s
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  415.  @Isometrix116  which claims are you referring to? The Outer space treaty? or the one regarding the CCP's claims in the South China sea and how EEZs function? The latter is where the first commenter under the OP was misinformed
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  416. Very excellent answers to these questions. You are very well read and have very well researched these topics. I look forward to seeing your next video.
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  417. Same here. He never ceases to amaze
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  418. Peter looks funny wearing those Ozzy Osbourne glasses 😅
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  419. I just hope you Finns don't make the cultural and social mistakes that Sweden did, a once peaceful place now suffering from gang warfare
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  420.  @thomassalvi2104  while I may not agree with what you said I'll defend to the death your right to say it
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  421.  @Chris-ji4iu  I also think that you might have some opposition from Environmental groups, they might argue that increase river shipping traffic would lead to some manner of increased river pollution 🤷
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  422. Im not going to cry for Navalny, he to his dying breath supported the Crimean annexation Granted he didn't support the current war in Ukraine but still Just being opposed to Putin is not enough
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  423. the Switzerland is finally starting to question its historical neutrality and see that it no longer needs it it's starting to recognize that it's surrounded on all sides by NATO and NATO will never allow a hostile force to push through their territory in an effort to conquer Switzerland so Switzerland doesn't need its neutrality to secure its own borders anymore NATO will already do that for it Switzerland also recognizing that it's neutrality is more often than not abused by authoritarian regimes to gain access to the wider Western world and they're hoping to clamp down on that and slowly they are starting to do so as they have participated in international economic penalties on the Russians for their misbehavior in Ukraine
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  424. Lol 😂 somethings never change
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  425. Well there is an interview from a PLA Air force officer who defected to the US named Yao Cheng He gave an interview with Radio Free Asia on January 8th this year, and he did discuss how they would drain fuel and use it to cook with Is that a good enough source?
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  426. There's no "rediscovery" The US already has had an industry that mass produces hundreds of thousands of Adobe bricks for constructing purposes, they've had it for years in fact. Just not many homeowners choose to make their homes from it
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  427. 15:43 I think you're wrong on this account, The American public would GLADLY lay down their lives to protect Taiwan
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  428.  @СтефанВ-н4и  doesn't matter he killed an innocent with his attempt to kill a different person, for that he is damned in my eyes and he always will be Had he only struck down the archduke i might be a bit more understanding, but unbeknownst to his future assassin, the archduke was very sympathetic to the cause this young man supported and was attempting reformative action It just goes to show that all of WW1 beginning, middle and end was very much a tragedy
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  429.  @xxxxxJAYMILLZxxxxxxx  well also remember that the US is the US so it makes sense that they would prioritize their own history with lots of details and quickly gloss over the history of others, and every nation does this Meaning if you want better detailed accounts of history you'll have to look elsewhere that what is the bare minimum of mandatory schooling, typically higher education such as college or university
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  430. Yersinia Pestis: "Now you will all dance to my tune!!!" Danse Macabre begins playing World: "why do I suddenly hear boss music?"
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  431. That seems fitting he's a pretty mediocre actor
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  432. Never EVER use the genealogy services. I don't mean that it wasn't great the bastard got justice but now the family of the disgusting bastard will forever be judged by society for sins that they had nothing to do with
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  433.  @Evzone1821  yes she was, morons will tell you that she was empress but she wasn't "head of state" as if there's a difference lol🤣
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  434. The world of Christendom was already split long before the reformation with the Orthodox and the Catholics
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  435. Lol you mispronounced that Spanish ship so badly Simon 😂
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  436. The movie Captain Ron has taken somewhat a bit of inspiration from Mel Fisher, even though the character on the movie isn't a treasure hunter
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  437.  @sandyhall8456  thems fighting words lol 🤣
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  438. 3000 years later and his name is remembered that's the most amazing
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  439. Well.... the circumstances were more dire 🤔 The historical issue came with a near guarantee of death. And from that? YES! do whatever you can With our current issue and a fairly high rate of survival....it's more difficult to convince the entire population to commit to mandated sanitary practices As they view it as an attack on their personal freedoms, moreso than a means of disease/death prevention
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  440. And much like the name Adolf of the 20th century, the name Oliver saw a huge plummet in usage from the 17th century onwards only being revived in usage after 200 years in the 19th century
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  441. Porfirio Diaz, the epitome of a national Mexican folk hero living long enough to become the dictator villain
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  442.  @inesolujic2534  I know hence that's why it's sad 😭😭😭 I'd rather have loved to call myself Yugoslav than Croatian
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  443.  @aamaravel2493  you laugh but he was though, he was very conservative and a former member of the whig part
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  444. This is the equivalent of the US loosing an entire multimillion dollar aircraft carrier and then denying it happened and imprisoning anyone who questioned the narrative
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  445. I agree mankind is if nothing not adaptable
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  446. The further you get away from Chicago the better illinois can be
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  447. Are Hindus more welcoming towards Pagans? We also worship multiple gods. Cause I'll move to India to escape the "heretic judgement" by the monotheists
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  448. So these folks get called "protestors" but the Jan 6 folks get called "rioters"? Don't get me wrong I hate both actions of them disrupting the gov and trespassing but seriously the bias is blatant
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  449. Bitchute
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  450.  @BillPurkayastha  I'd be more concerned on what you gonna see happening under the Taliban regime than worry about America
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  451.  Kunal  the US has completely rescinded its support of Pakistan once it finally became clear to the US intelligence organizations that Pakistan was training the enemies that the US was fighting in both Afghanistan and Iraq So the US will never again support Pakistan
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  452. I just don't get why India Allied themselves with the Communists of the Soviet Union despite the fact that the Indian government has hated communists for decades I mean the naxalites are complete sons of Beeches and have been using terror tactics in eastern India for also decades They are also still the largest terror group in the world Numbering over 20 thousand
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  453. If that's not the biggest irony of the century then I don't know what is 😅
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  454. Wow I am not surprised that the guy that replaced Benjamin netanyahu barely lasted a year and then now he himself is getting replaced less than a year later
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  455. I'm just wondering why fellow Muslims attacked the city of Mecca in the 1970s that to me is completely baffling
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  456.  @aryansinghrana1990  Pak - Pashtunistan
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  457.  @aryansinghrana1990  Ethiopia - Eritrea
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  458. Proof that you don't need diversity hires or workplace gender ratios instead focus on getting the most qualified individual in the position
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  459. America: I'll be damned if I do (stay in Afghanistan) and I'll be damned if I don't
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  460. "One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter" The IRA were greatly loved by a significant portion of the Irish population at one point even though they committed acts of terrorism
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  461.  @effsixteenblock50  yeah that's kinda what I was mentioning, the person who it the recipient of the encrypted message needs to know in advance what key to use So how do you tell them what key to use if you don't know and you can't send an encrypted message over the OTP because you don't know what is the key
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  462. Hold up there though, in the very early phases of the United States trying to create special forces units and the United kingdom doing the same with the SAS they went to the military jails to recruit
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  463. "Et tu Jake?"
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  464. "All warfare is based on deception" Well done Ukraine 🙂👍
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  465. This is going to be a difficult time for the Russian citizens because Russia does not allow a freedom of assembly unlike in places such as the US so I can only imagine the harshness of the response from Russian law enforcement these protesters will receive
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  466. Yeah after 2006 it went all down hill especially with the pos ancient aliens bullshit
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  467. Marcus Aurelius was better there's a reason why Aurelian was named after him Also Aurelian never was a part of the era of the "good emperors"
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  468.  @Fenniks-  Octavius: exists Livia: "I'm about to end this man's whole career"
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  469. Bizarrely the legacy of Gorbachev will be one where he's hated in his own country but loved everywhere else especially in the West and in the NATO countries Funny how fate works that way
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  470.  @prophetsnake  re-read the comments netanyahu is in there
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  471. Never forget that Prince MBS signed off on the killing and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi Keep that in mind when you try to praise the policies of Saudi Arabia
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  472. In most maps it's Persian Gulf, but then again nearly everything has multiple names depending on who is talking about it
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  473. "Best" in massive air quotes Switzerland gets away with not suffering from many issues of modern democracy because of two reasons the first is its population, and second is because of its difficulty in attaining citizenship Switzerland is able to practice a style of direct democracy because of the low population it has, very similar to Iceland in that regard Much of Switzerland is very rural and undeveloped given its geography, so it amounts to a low population density Switzerland is also notoriously hard to access, it doesn't accept refugees, it doesn't allow jus soli, and it doesn't allow for automatic citizenship just because you have long term residency either The citizens of Switzerland have to vote to include you and your application for Swiss citizenship for consideration
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  474. Okay I've got to admit that cathedral where the floor is made of melted down weapons is pretty badass that truly I can't deny 👌
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  475.  @kazeryu4834  again yeah I can understand that it's like those people that admire the uniforms and other memorabilia of the third Reich for aesthetic reasons, like Ozzy Osbourne He's got a huge collection of that stuff and it's just aesthetically pleasing to him and his wife Sharon who is also jewish doesn't care because she knows he's not a 3rd Reich resurgency advocate it's hard to really admire the aesthetics because the negative history surrounding them is barely 70 years ago
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  476. In the case of new Caledonia specifically that was a a dumb move for the independence wanting people to boycott the referendum and not participate
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  477. Please use paragraphs to break apart this comment I can't read it when it's all jumbled together like this
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  478. Poland is surprisingly the most enthusiastic European nation that wants to ally itself with the Americans and NATO at large They even are discussing plans to have an overseas American EUCOM base built in their nation
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  479. Yeah pretty much that was revealed when the Chinese government commented on the Russian anniversary of Vladivostok The CCP said that "Vladivostok was once a Chinese city and it should be returned"
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  480. ☝️
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  481. I mean look what happened to the guy that tried to read structure the company Nissan the Japanese government betrayed him Japan does not want any foreigners involved in any aspect of their government and it really shows because they refuse any and all immigration into their Nation their entire nation is both stagnating and declining
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  482.  @davidjoelsson4929  your arrogance into such a willingness to defend societal prejudices and exclusion from any foreign element of a nation is just mind-blowing despite the fact that we're supposed to be in this age of welcoming and acceptance
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  483.  @marianomedina07  I hope he can deliver, it's hard to fight against an entrenched system of corruption sometimes it can take decades Heck Argentina took over 50 years to free itself from dictator military rule since the GOU first took power away from the civilian government in 1943 I'm hopeful for you Argentina but also cautious
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  484.  @trillmoney263  military strength is only one aspect of power I agree and it's not the catch all to rate which nation is superior but Turkey is the strongest non nuclear power of the NATO alliance
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  485. In terms of military strength Turkey is stronger than Saudi Arabia
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  486. That's not true the US moves its assets to where there's the most infrastructure to support its troops which is why most of it's overseas troops are in Europe and Asia you're not going to find a lot of US troops in South America and Africa
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  487.  @dezmoto  yes that would work to learn how to use a rifle sure and that might work for a militia maybe but it not enough to get them to use the more sophisticated equipment such as artillery guns, diesel powered submarines, and top of the line communications equipment Taiwan really needs to offer some kind of incentives to get volunteers to sign on as careers soldiers, or they need to force a temporary career soldier into their ranks for far longer than 6 months And I say if they want to go the 2nd option of conscription make it at a minimum of 2 years
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  488. Have to say it's extremely funny that the first thing everybody does to a politician that they don't like is bring up a comparison to the Germans of World War II And it's even more funny to see this being done outside of the English-speaking world
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  489. I'm going to tell you right now that ALL defense contactors and arms suppliers share engineering, designers, manufacturing, and logistical across multiple international borders The US asks the Italian government to make their standard issue M9 pistol for example So no the US isn't the only supplier and there's already a use of locally (In this case European originated) material Like the Belgium government Makin the SCAR rifle that the US army uses
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  490.  @Doping1234  ok we are shifting from a discussion of neutrality into one more of discussing alliances which we can talk about that's fine Because what you're mentioning is a symptom of what is known as Entanglement Theory, whereby a nation in conflict is roped into ever increasing conflicts be the geopolitics through the alliances they maintain
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  491.  @Tespri  I can't really weigh in on if that's one of the causes or not but it is very frightening to see authoritarianism rising and again rising in the supposedly free western world and within Western nations themselves
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  492.  @davidford3115  I never said you were defending Russia but I am saying you're detracting from the points that I've been making by trying to say authoritarianism is the longest form of government that mankind has ever had which again I'm not disagreeing with you but it's pointless to my conversation
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  493. It has been said by john oliver that the crown prince of the thai royal family was not viewed favorably by his people. It will be interesting to see how this affects the thai history when he ascends the throne.
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  494. 'Special military landing' that was perfect dude 😅
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  495. His little girlfriend that ran his research company was seen in New York now presumably she was cooperating with authorities in order to receive preferential treatment or a lighter sentencing but we still don't know All we do know is that she is not in the Bahamas she did not run away to Dubai, UAE or some nation that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the United States no she was seen in New York
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  496. The college students of 1940 in UC Berkeley California we're calling for peace with the Nachis they were even protesting and holding up signs demanding and end to war
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  497. There's a legacy of imperialism even from amongst Africans themselves such as the continuing hostility towards Eritrea by Ethiopia and Somalia and unrecognized Somaliland Not to mention many indigenous African groups are wanting to remove the historical legacies of the Arab conquest across literally all of North Africa and instead bring back their own traditional non Arabic languages and practices There's even historical legacies of imperialism perpetrated by the Arab nations in East Africa too such as the Sultanate of Oman who used to rule most of Kenya So the idea of Imperialism being strictly "Western" is garbage if you're gonna fight it you need to fight it in all it's forms
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  498. Russia right now just going to Africa and saying: "Hey guys remember that I never invaded nor colonized you, (I wanted to but I never got past Constantinople) So go ahead and support me regarding removing Ukraine from the map because even though I am also a colonizer just as much as the West, I mean I took pieces of Imperial China and I still hold them today like Vladivostok, And I even had colonies in America for 68 years through Alaska, and military forts in California and Hawaii, I never colonized you specifically So be my friend you massive UN voting block of the largest number of nations on a single continent😊"
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  499. Hey India at least you got your sanctions lifted, your rival pakistan hasn't had them lifted
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  500.  @nikolatasev4948  no nationalism is nothing to do with culture but good comment nonetheless
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  501. "Communism? Sorry tried it, didn't work and we have 500 million corpses to prove it"
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  502. Yep it's either barter or primal physical might (or the threat there of) to gain what you want when money is gone
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  503. Love him or hate him this man is a living piece of history. It's fascinating nonetheless
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  504. One of them technically did.
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  505. He could be an orphan?
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  506.  @StickyFinguz  well then you need to go out and look at it more because it's people like Martha from Martha's vineyard that are doing that same thing
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  507.  @StickyFinguz  you misunderstood my comment I am referring to the individuals who constantly deny a problem until it affects them It never stated this unfortunate gentleman was one of those individuals who constantly deny problems until it affects them But because of the notoriety he did have it will undoubtedly cause those others who are trying to preach down to us to begin to see some semblance of reason enter their statements
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  508. I am more concerned about the concept of a "mature minor" 😳 I hope to God that idea never gains traction, there no such thing, we don't need minors being given the ability and legal thumbs up to make life decisions We have a law that specifically says when adulthood begins
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  509. It's basically the Canadian residential school system all over again but now expanded to include everyone
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  510. I did not realize that the 9th circuit courts was the source of all this homeless crap because that ruling is completely bull There is no god-given rights to set up a camp and a tent anywhere you want because you self identify as homeless
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  511. Russia: "Hey Africa! Ally with me I have no history of slavery or colonialism (coughs in Africa) so you can work with me no problem" Africa: "Sure sounds great, fk those European, Turkish and Arab nations that colonized and enslaved me!" Russia: "Hehehe excellent" 😈
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  512. As much as I want the Russian monarchy restored, I don't want Putin to be the one who restored it
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  513. In the words of a famous Japanese man "Let them fight"
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  514. China has territorial disputes of every single one of its neighbors and has pissed them all off most pissed right now is India and it thinks it could form a NATO style military alliance? 😂 Should China form a NATO military style alliance with Russia I just hope it causes the Indians to finally switch sides from supporting the Soviets into either being non-aligned or India decides to join with the West
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  515.  @ramazankapar5988  well basing all your judgement of a culture for a nation just by actions of the government for said nation, is low hanging fruit imo. I enjoy studying Turkish history and the culture that was built around it. From the Hittites, to Osman the I, to Atatürk. And I don't want to condemn the people who live in the country in its entirety. Has Turkey reached the point where it's citizens must share blame for every failure of its government? I really don't think so. will that change in the future? I don't know, because it's not up to me to dictate how the people of Turkey want to choose their path forward, it's up to the Turks.
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  516.  @Superlegalyutube  Trained personnel need to know how to use the technology, if Taiwan doesn't increase its service period past 6 months, Or try to actively recruit for career-long military individuals that technology advantage will be useless
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  517. I agree, but the current population of Taiwan don't want to actively participate in developing a state of military readiness They simply just do a mandatory conscription service of merely a few months then don't continue after I think it's unwise for the Taiwanese government to not be more assertive in its conscription lengthening it's service period, I'd suggest 1 year, and also in trying to gain more military career commited recruits
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  518. I hope that they raise the mandatory conscription service period for Taiwan, a few months of service is not enough to become fully trained and ready There's stories of mandated conscripts not even practicing firing throughout the length of their service for crying out loud I'm seriously considering about emigrating to Taiwan to join it's military forces
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  519.  @EndOfSmallSanctuary97  oh I agree, strangely enough it was the college campus in California calling for peace with the third Reich in 1940 Kraut made a very good video on separating Pacifism and Neutrality
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  520. 150 years ago the same thing was happening with cables for the telegraph.with nations arguing over them The more things change the more they stay the same hehehehe
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  521. As China uncensored called it a president combined with a dictator a "presitator"
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  522. "There are no allies in geopolitics only nations and national interests"
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  523. International community: "Huh? Cyber weapons? They Can cripple your economy and shutdown your infastructure while also stealing highly sensitive data? And they do this without bullets or loss of life? They are also easy to produce and can be given to almost any group? Oh well, then no need to regulate this or ban them, carry on everybody."
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  524. When you look at pictures of Dugin it's so uncanny to see a resemblance to Rasputin🤔
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  525. Afghanistan is not a graveyard of empires it's a graveyard of Afghans
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  526.  @ishtiaquealamin6147  Low quality bait Adds nothing to the conversation and is a distraction utilizing a classic "whataboutism"
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  527.  @shafthespaceegg  I mean we are just speculating at this point we really don't know what would happen educated guesses is all we can toss back and forth the only clear thing that is a well known is that it is a war crime to deliberately target civilian infrastructure What becomes afterwards to the perpetrator is anyone's guess, hell it took 30 years just to begin prosecution for war crimes against Pinochet's Chile and he ended up getting away with it by dying of old age
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  528.  @yangch03  I already commented this in a follow up but you are right Loudly displaying their plans and capabilities for the Taiwan island is a great way to have a means of deterrence, and they accomplish that w/o the use of nukes
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  529.  @richdobbs6595  if it's not significant then why did you make a comment about it?
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  530. Yep during the 1950s NK was in the lead of being a better nation but once the 60s came SK took off and left NK in the dust
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  531. Oman: "Yes, also with a little bit of cloves spice please" 😉 "My slave plantations in Zanzibar should still be there"
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  532.  @benjaminlamptey1867  also YES turkey is involved in Africa it's a NATO alliance member and it participated in the NATO-led coalition into Libya during the unlawful downfall of Gaddafi's government
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  533. I'm not defending Trump but I'll say that flip flops on policies during campaigning are very common
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  534. "If you've ever wondered why US military spending is so high it's because the US has to jump in for allies at their own expense for the same allies who do not meet their own commitments" - Kraut, America's Problem with Foreign Entanglements
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  535. In poland's case that's fine because 100 years ago it only just returned to the map
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  536. The Highlanders of Lesotho remind me alot about the Highlanders of Scotland for some reason 🤔
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  537.  @bobbobbinson1841  also China will NEVER allow foreigners to gain any social standing in Chinese society.
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  538. "Economics is the study of finite resources against mankind's endless wants" - My university economics professor, Mr. Sebas
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  539. One of the best quotes on how politics works
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  540.  @billybobwombat2231  I said that they were man-made a result of poor policy decisions but they are there The only European nations with natural deserts are Serbia France and Spain Poland and Romania sadly are suffering from poor governmental policy when it comes to their own artificially created desert
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  541.  @DaveSCameron  no it has not, it was created in the 1960s and has been slowly expanding ever since
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  542. Uhh Spain already has deserts
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  543.  @Kameeho  again so intriguing. I recall a female British citizen trying to return to the UK after pledging fealty to a terrorist group but I don't recall the outcome, of that. However it's interesting to see it again repeated but in Norway of all places was something I least expected
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  544. This is really fascinating. I'm going to hold off judgement right now but I'm intrigued. Can you link to a non bias source?
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  545. The only reason the DPRK exists today is because of the CCP, the 3.3 million strong invasion force prepared to take Taiwan was diverted to the Korean pinesnsula. The term "costly" was putting it mildly, 800,000 Chinese casualties according to the records of the DoD
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  546. I do hope Pakistan fails I want independence to be seen for the Baloch people they have nothing in common with Pakistan much like East Pakistan or as we know it today Bangladesh had nothing in common with its West Pakistan
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  547. I prefer De Vaca
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  548. Oaxaca (pronounced as wah-ACK-ah) is the native homeland of the Otomi. A very proud indigenous tribal group with a history of mercenary warriors. They opposed the Mexica (later renamed Aztec) when they arrived in the valley of Mexico and continued to resist Mexica dominance unto the Spanish arrival.
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  549. If Brazil can figure out it's issues then sure maybe, but land mass, and a large population doesn't make a superpower
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  550. "I don't need your civil war" "It feeds the rich while it buries the poor" "Your power hungry sellin' soldiers" "In a human grocery store" "Ain't that fresh" "I don't need your civil war" "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no" "Whaz so civil bout war any way?" - Guns N Roses 1991
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  551. "I don't need your civil war" "It feeds the rich while it buries the poor" "Your power hungry sellin' soldiers" "In a human grocery store" "Ain't that fresh" "I don't need your civil war" "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no" "Whaz so civil bout war any way?" - Guns N Roses 1991
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  552. Spain: my powers have doubled since last time we met
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  553. Not me I'm still getting pwnd on star craft 🤣
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  554. No. At the end of the day you need food to eat first only then can you spare agricultural land for export crops That's why nations really try their best to grow their own food (if geography allows) and of they can't do that then they import food
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  555. Count Dooku: hey me too mate
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  556. Brazil still on the cusp. It's the most powerful nation in all of South America despite all its recent issues
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  557. Preach brother
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  558. "I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Russian federation!"
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  559.  Brother Opaque  yes they are still there, though they are not as powerful or as numerous as they were prior to 1905 when the Liberian government finally started to allow the mixing of cultures The book Slaves to Racism: An Unbroken Chain from America to Liberia published in 2008 by Benjamin Dennis, a Liberian professor, explains the historical injustices far better than I ever could in a simple comment
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  560. Yep as soon as the ottomans were getting ready to leave the Balkans those same groups started fighting amongst themselves, despite having lived peacefully for centuries, before the ottomans were even gone They did this so that each group could attempt to claim more for themselves once the ottomans finally did leave
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  561. When the Russian Navy has very little combat experience and discipline amongst it's ranks a lot of things can happen
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  562.  @twokool4skool129  IDENTIFY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE JIM!!!
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  563. Not only that to make a solar panel you need to melt down a large amount of quartz into a specific mould And to get a temperature that high the manufacturing company typically uses fossil fuels
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  564.  @PeachDragon_  First and foremost security. The Italian peninsula and surrounding islands has a previous history of allying with the US to help secure it's maritime trade even before italy was united into a single country The Barbary wars for example of 1801 had the Kingdom of Sicily ally itself to the US from a shared interest by both countries in putting an end to the disruption of trade on the Mediterranean Sea caused by the corsairs And that historical tradition of security alliance is still visible even today; The Italian government has cooperated with the United States in the formulation of defense, security, and peacekeeping policies. Under longstanding bilateral agreements flowing from NATO membership, Italy hosts important U.S. military forces at Vicenza and Livorno (army); Aviano (air force); and Sigonella, Gaeta, and Naples—home port for the U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet. The United States has about 11,500 military personnel stationed in Italy. Italy hosts the NATO Defense College in Rome. Italy is a leading partner in counterterrorism efforts, being a founding member of both the EU, NATO, the United States and Italy cooperate in the United Nations, in various regional organizations, and bilaterally for peace, prosperity, and security.
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  565.  @cheezoncrack1  No, I first had it told to me by Shirvan of Caspian Report in one of his older videos The quote itself however is from Lord Palmerston from a speech he gave to the British parliament in 1848
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  566.  @PeachDragon_  that's because the interest of the United States and Italy do still align
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  567. So basically China has pissed off every single neighboring country, then it pissed off the world with this current health issue
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  568. The same reason why modern Russia and modern Turkey refuse to acknowledge both Stalin and Jamail Pasha as scum I suppose
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  569. Now spain do the same thing with catalonia ¡Viva madrid!
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  570. It's a paraphrase from the original quote: "You may not be interested in war but war is very much interested in you"
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  571. Oh now this is interesting I never knew that Turkey didn't sign the UN Convention for the Sea Geopolitics about to get very interesting very soon
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  572. Pretty sure that to combat this Putin will just instruct Belarus to close the river from flowing into Ukraine preventing the 1000+ Km for Ukrainian use Then afterwards it's now a contest of wills Will Ukraine blink first when it loses its water supply from Russia? Or will Russia blink first when it loses its water supply to Crimea?
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  573. Fact: the sultan of Oman used to be located in Zanzibar which was used as a foothold for the Arab slave trade of Africans
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  574. Russia and China as a couple: Russia: "Hey China want to team up?" China: "Sure fuck the US right?" Russia: "Hell yeah!" Both sign a treaty 5 minutes later China: "So......now that we're a team you want to give me Vladivostok?" Russia: "WTF! NO! Your not taking ANY of my territory" China: "Well fine then be that way, I thought you were cool" 1 month later Russia: China? Why are you here in the artic? You're over 1000 miles from the Artic Circle stay out of my space. China: "haven't you heard I'm a near Artic nation now" Russia: WHAT?! You can't just make up labels and a classifications, that doesn't make any sense! You being a near Artic nation is as pointless and ridiculous as the concept of "gender fluid"! 2 months later Russia: "AGAIN CHINA?!? WHY ARE YOU HERE IN TAJIKISTAN?!?!" China: "I'm building a military base" Russia: "Yea FOR YOU not for the Tajik. these are my former Soviet nations in MY sphere of influence!!" China: (mumbled in breath) a tiny diminished sphere of influence Russia: "I heard that! THAT'S IT!!! No amount of hatred of the US can fix this we are through this alliance is over!!!" China: "Fine I never wanted you anyway I just wanted your natural gas, we kinda pissed off Australia and stopped buying coal and now we're freezing"
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  575. Also I found more: the Finish government has promised to build infrastructure in the region that the YPG is active in and defends collectively called "Rojava" but they didn't promise money to the YPG directly According to Suomen Kuvalehti magazine, Finland is planning on giving the autonomous region support for developing government and rebuilding infrastructure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Rojava
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  576. I found a few things about Finland and it's issues of the YPG Sweden has hosted Syrian political figures affiliated with the YPG in a show of support for its political project in northeast Syria And they halted an arms sale in 2019 to Turkey when Turkey attacked the YPG in Syria (As a side note it is only Turkey who considers YPG to be a terror group and affiliated with the PKK The YPG is not on the terror list by the US)
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  577. Nasser: I want a pan Arabian civilization state World: Nah you get nation states instead UK: I want a pan Anglo civilization state World: bitch what did I just say!
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  578. Let us hope that Romania will take NATO more seriously than Turkey does currently
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  579. Nah he's in his 60s already at most he's got 30 years left of life and 15 left of that to continue working in politics
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  580. They said the same thing about the Castro's of Cuba both Fidel and Raúl, now they are gone
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  581. Those reunification talks between Belarus and Russia tell a different story
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  582. Why does Caspian Report never talk about Azerbaijan? 😭😭😭
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  583. Entirely loans. This is obstinate to other groups of nations such as the G7 who forgave trillions of dollars of debt owed to them by many poor nations
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  584. "Im sorry to say that beloved author and journalist, Mikhail Zygr died last night from a mysterious bullet shapped headwound. I' will personally lead the investigation into this tragedy and remind our people that justice will be handed down" - President Putin
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  585.  @Rob_F8F  no I'd say modern style communications and globalization are the result of the dominant global power whoever that might be Don't get me wrong buddy I'm glad the dominant global power is the US, but at the same time yes I recognize some of the less savory tactics they took to get there
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  586. Gotta be aggressive if you want to be the dominant global power, and there WILL always be a dominant global power Just lucky the US did all that before there was modern style communications and globalization, otherwise yes it probably would have suffered a multinational military coalition to help cease it's aggressive posturing
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  587.  @NachDeaDSilenT  that seems so arbitrary
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  588. For once some good news
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  589. OMG..... I am so sick of misinformed folks talking about the Chinese Great Wall as a failure If you want some nuance let me tell you: The first construction of the Chinese Great Wall was done in 220 BC, the Mongolian invasion of China was in 1220 AD meaning for over 1000 years the wall did it's damn job And further let me add that when the Mongols invaded there were 2 kingdoms that were inheritors of the Great wall, the Jin and the Xi Xia The Jin maintained, expanded, manned, and patrolled their segments of the wall and repelled many attempts at breech by the Mongolians, the Kingdom of Xi Xia did not
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  590. We will watch as a PZ slowly looses his 800k+ subscribers 😂
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  591.  @krakhedd  yes the Japanese bombing is the only exception and it's because the US was the sole monopoly of the nuclear weapon But other than that everything I've said is the current doctrine for all nuclear powers
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  592. Yeah I largely agree as well the nukes are only ever good for is one thing and that is once you have them you prevent your nation from ever being invaded by a foreign military through conventional means That's the only thing nukes do you can't use them on anyone else for if used you face a massive fear of reprisal but if you just have them then you never need fear a D-Day style invasion in your country that's the only good thing nukes ever bring
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  593.  @thomassalvi2104  again I don't agree with what you said but I will defend to the death your right to say it, anybody can be criticized as long as it's kept civil and objective to a point Your criticism is there, it's a little more subjective and less objective but sometimes even subjective criticism is allowed You don't like Peter Zeihan and that's fine
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  594. Winner take all is a disgusting voting policy I hope it dies out across more democracies
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  595. Yeah separation and Independence and secession movements are always messy and when it comes to the United Kingdom specifically you only need to look at how Ireland gained its independence to see how messy it would be
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  596.  @semtexstu3686  Ireland: hold my 🍺
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  597. No that is very much a different beast altogether this is large scale automotive manufacturing it cannot be compared to the five years of research that went into the very first iPhone before it released market into 2007 this is an already established company and an established product
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  598. Well this dude just throw out his channel to hide his content mostly behind the paywall and give everyone else a few glimpses once every 7 days but I guess if that's what he wants to do his business he can but it looks crazy to me
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  599. He's not defending the Russian position he's just telling you where the Russians are coming from The Russians will never ever stop wanting to advance further West until they have control of those territories which comprise most of the great European plain he's simply saying that you just can't break them of that medieval mindset without something majorly happening in the Russian government
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  600. Post WW2 Germany like Japan maintained a strict pacifism policy as a penance for the sufferings from the war and it was an okay policy it made ethical and historical sense for the time but it's now been over 80 years that policy is no longer needed even Switzerland is also questioning its historical neutrality because Switzerland now no longer needs neutrality as it's surrounded on all sides by NATO members and those NATO members will never allow a hostile foreign military to push through their own territories in an effort to conquer Switzerland so Switzerland doesn't even need its own military neutrality anymore and it is attempting to align itself more with the West and NATO
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  601. The 5 Eyes are also a part of the larger group known as the "Anglo sphere" also sometimes called CANZUSUK that is made up of former British colonies + the British mainland that also forms most of the English speaking world
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  602. Nah that's Kansas a bunch of scientists found out that it is literally flatter than a pancake
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  603.  @larrycox7169  it used to be 2.2 billion Catholics worldwide so yeah that's a significant drop
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  604.  @ZeCroiSSanT950  If it did it would only be a very minor one Israel has stated that itself has the final say on all the holy sites within it's territory Which is not an uncommon policy, that's also reflected in Saudi Arabia and Turkey In the example of Turkey, they did the same thing when it came to the Hagia Sofia and returned it to a place of worship despite calls to the contrary particularly from Greece Turkey basically said: "My soil, my building, my rules"
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  605. Cubans as individual citizens love the American culture it's the Cuban state however that is the difficulty they just hate the US government and it's institutions And this isn't a self loathing thing that Americans themselves do nor is it a political partisan style split disagreement, it's a foundational hatred on the style of an ideological difference, similar to what the USSR was And until that barrier is overcome it's going to be awhile before there's ever a normalizing a relationship with the Cuban state Luckily the Cuban state, like most communist countries has largely failed to bring the citizens of Cuba the prosperity they have desired and therefore is a bit more receptive to finally negotiating all these decades later
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  606.  @ron88303  No the word legitimate very much still relevant to war it's the reason why Russia won't keep the territories which "voted" to join the Russian state when they are ultimately liberated by the Ukrainians
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  607. pretty much not since the 1700s has Moscow seen victory by legitimate means
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  608.  @GodKingx87  buddy it literally says I'm leaving in the thumbnail
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  609. No it wouldn't have been stopped because there was a genocide already happening in Europe in the 1990s the Bosnian genocide
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  610. I think it's really disingenuous to claim that these individuals are "helping" the planet by using Adobe/Mud brick materials for housing when the idea of Adobe brick housing has been around for thousands of years and already there's an industry within the US which makes hundreds of thousands of Adobe bricks enmasse.
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  611. Also the EU successfully implemented a right to repair legislation fairly recently that forces companies into compliance The US hasn't yet shifted it's priorities to begin the implementation of the law
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  612. He does say that he has older tractors he can use, but that's not the point John Deere is the largest manufacturer of industrial scale agricultural equipment in the US, they service millions of people with their products, which is why it's even more important than ever to hit back these companies and let the owners of equipment actually repair it
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  613. Taiwan needs a permanent US military presence on the island
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  614. I am too injured right now to volunteer for fighting for Ukraine against Russia, but I WILL fight for Taiwan if it comes to this Injuries be damned!
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  615. Yes there really is a taxi cab Mafia in South Africa and they don't take kindly to people coming in on their business and their turf
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  616.  @wallythetrooper9127  India can't be an "ally" to the US because India still supported the Soviet Union in the Cold War and today The greatly supports the Russians So policy negotiation between the two is still very much distrusting, but they do both see China as a threat
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  617. Oh man that story on the Disney trying to take legal action over the grave site of a dead 4-year-old man that really gets me mad I can't believe Disney would ever stoop that low There's very few things that make me seething mad but disrespecting the dead especially their burial sites is definitely one of them
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  618. You have got to stop pushing established titles they are a scam company
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  619. Well also the Vikings weren't really keen to start a colony so far away from the treasures and resources they found all over Europe and Central Asia They never really wanted to start an age of discovery
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  620. How good of a job did he do?
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  621. Thanks I will definitely add this to my list
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  622. Uhh...you DO know that rape is a systematic problem is nearly ALL US prison systems and instead of solving it you just make jokes about it worse off you condone it and give it a seal of approval as a fitting punishment 😳
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  623. Thanks for the recommendation
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  624. Geezus fukin Christ Calling anyone who disagreed with him his enemies that's disturbing on so many levels Not to mention rewriting the ideas of Marx to suit his own interests And wanting to have people die en mass so he could gain rise to political power Sorry you had to have this guy replace your monarchy Russia
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  625. They had a bell shaped bucket they would lower down by pulleys into the water. To whatever death they needed This would create an air pocket which normal men just dove down to reach they would surface for air in the bell then go back to salvaging
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  626. Because of the infamous "companies are individuals too" and the YouTube Vs Prager U court case Seeing as how you are not forced to use YouTube that means YouTube doesn't have to respect your rights of free speech, and if you want to make $$ on YouTube you better play by their rules
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  627. Liberalism in a nutshell: "wahmen can't be bad rulers at all! It's always the male historians that chronicle them as bad!"
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  628. Oh please Wu Zetian got nothing on china's Dajii
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  629. A tale of two Gandhis, (Yes I know Indira has no relationship) one liked by the international community and their native country and one less so
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  630. Atilla the Hun: I call myself the scourge of God! Nothing can stop me! No walls no armies Walls around Constantinople Atilla the hun: Uhh well even a scourge of God gets tired ya know
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  631. I know right I can't believe that Tippu Tip and King Kosoko would sell out their own people like that! Good job JQA!
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  632. I think they already did🤔
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  633. Agreed, marine salvage law is very clear on ownership rights when it comes to finding shipwrecks But the government will always attempt to collect a piece of anything, because if you literally find yourself a large amount of literal gold you didn't need to pay a tax on it And that's a huge loss of income as far as the government is concerned
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  634. Everyone in the Caribbean has at least heard of this man
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  635. It's sad. The Russian monarchy should be restored
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  636. "And Twitter! They offer up nothing of value and instead only further increase division among a racial line" - Nelson Mandela
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  637. And can you do queen Tamar of Georgia
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  638.  @sumanchatterjee6591  damn bro...you cold blooded
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  639. Yeah no doubt that fact he boiled alive a newborn baby was left out of his autobiography. Can't let the verifiers of history know that
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  640. Trotsky: "But you have heard of me"
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  641. I get the feeling that if he were around today he would hate Minecraft with a passion 🤣
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  642. Well at least use jumper cables
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  643. Surprised a non Italian was able to run a crime family of the Italian Mafia
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  644. "Aye that's the way to do it!" - Demo man, TF2
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  645. I hope Britain never again becomes a republic
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  646.  @inesolujic2534  yeah it's sad...I just wish the Balkans successfully united under a single national identity as Balkanites rather than all these nations that hate eachother
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  647. I'd guess that's because he's largely associated with the French speaking world and if you didn't speak French or interact with that part of the world he'd remain unknown
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  648. Maximus the first of Thrax He only became an emperor because of his powerful physique
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  649. "Archimedes no! Its filthy in there"
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  650. I'm amazed that the system of the Res Publica that the Romans launched in the ancient world lasted a pretty good 500 years before it became crashing down and replaced by an Empire Not many Republics would survive that long in the ancient world heck some of them don't even survive that long in the modern one
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  651. I'm pretty sure that the criticism isn't from his ancestry but of his political affiliation and policies He's a Tory Conservative and well.... They are not viewed that well amongst the general public Kinda like the US and their republicans
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  652. That kid unfortunately is going to have PTSD for a long time But what he did is very brave and heroic, I hope he recovers quickly
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  653. You want us something interesting the second largest Air Force in the world is actually the US Navy 😂
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  654. And sadly many of these countries have no other choice, because nations like the US are hesitant or unwilling to hand out foreign investment because of their authoritarianism, political instability, or refusal to adopt many democratic ideals Causing a lot of these nations to have to seek out foreign investment from less savory nations who will turn a blind eye to these human rights issues
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  655. India already took the world's most populated country from China
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  656. Serpentza already did a video discussing this and he's from SA
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  657. I really hope this issue causes the disgusting Chinese regime to fall
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  658. I'm not surprised Vietnam has had a collective of 1000 years being dominated by China So yeah that anger runs deep
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  659. This is true Japan's Showa Emperor announced Japanese surrender in August 15th of 45 via radio broadcast Russian/Soviets attacked the Kurils in August 18th of 1945 The fighting over the Kurils continued all the way to September 2 1945, when the Japanese surrender was formally signed during the surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri
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  660. I just hope this conflict in Ukraine will make the Indian government and by extension most of its citizens to renege on Indira Gandhi's policy and cease alliance with the Russians And at best renegotiate into alliances with the West or at least return to the traditional Indian stance of Non-aligned Because I tell you Indians russia is buddy buddy to China for now and China is salivating at any and all excuse to harass India It will only be a matter of time for Russia to praise an escalation of force by the Chinese towards the Indians
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  661. I never would have guessed the Taliban would try to be active in Sri Lanka of all places
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  662. Can't argue with that, hell Biden is an example of being in politics waaaaaay to long😂
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  663. Blame the liberals they forced the US military personnel to always fight with one hand behind their back so the enemy was never ever truly defeated all the enemy really had to do was just sit back and wait which something they are very good at doing
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  664.  @mitchrich6  I did use Facebook in 2004 I used it because we didn't have anybody in my friends circle that was on newgrounds yet so we're using Facebook as a means to communicate back and forth
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  665. Countries with a Vietnam like war: Russia in Afghanistan, US in both Vietnam and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia in Yemen
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  666. That right there was one of the scariest things I never thought I'd see in Canada of all places 😳 A democracy claiming to need emergency powers to remove a peaceful protest This confirms to me that the current leader of Canada is far too close to Authoritarianism
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  667. Remember when that saying that the Wuhan virius came from the lab was enough to get deplatformed and labeled as a conspiracy theory nutter? Now an entire year later the evidence is pointing in that direction
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  668. Just like the czechoslovakian region was inhabited of Germans and therefore it needed to be handed over to Germany 🤦 Anyone who approves this is continuing the idea of appeasement
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  669. Ok I'm going to tell you that the US will unilaterally participate in the defense of Ukraine w/o NATO seeing as they have done exercises in the nation of Ukraine in the past But yes the US cannot legally call upon NATO allies to force them to defend a Non-NATO nation
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  670.  @friedchicken4735  unfortunately India has already meddled in Sri Lankan affairs by supporting the Tamil tigers who were a terror group
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  671. Liberals are almost always the first to use violence
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  672. @Lisa Roothless it's not a dispute, as in both countries can't decide where to draw the border lines, it's just tension felt at the border Don't try to put words in my mouth Also if I was a Chinese troll why would I include the Chinese - North Korean border in the first place?
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  673. Japan doesn't accept migrants or refugees either
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  674.  @gobimble7817  India has maintained a good relationship with the Russians because back during the days of the Soviets and the cold war Pakistan, the mortal enemy of India, allied itself with the US And the US didn't separate itself from Pakistan until fairly recently And that legacy of Pakistan being allied with the US is still what makes India deeply suspicious of the Americans
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  675. Canada: "hey China you want some pointers on cultural genocide? I've got a legacy of a residential school system."
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  676. Food is food idgaf how it's prepared long as it's sanitary and tastes good These sound like the morons who demonize the idea of boiling lobster Sorry but lobster has a very short period on when it is still sanitary and can be cooked once it's killed that's why to have you have to store it live then kill it and cook it immediately
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  677. I hope this guy stays safe. The CCP does not tolerate this stuff and has a history of CCP agents kidnapping Chinese nationals in foreign countries and sending them back to China to be prosecuted with or without an extradition treaty. On top of that the CCP will often arrest and prosecute the family members of individuals that speak out against the them. I hope his family stays safe as well.
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  678. Bleed 'Em dry Brussels. They've already started to regret their stupid exit vote.
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  679.  @treesaremadeofwood2145  but how do you know what decryption key to use that's what I'm trying to understand How do you coordinate that in advance? And still somehow keep your keys secret? I think the limitation of the OTP is the key sharing
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  680. I've heard about those but aren't they kind of limited in scope because the decryption key has to already be pre given? And since the key can only be used once and then immediately discarded that means you would have to give a bunch of keys are in advance and then know which one to use for the transmission
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  681. I know there's been food incentives offered for surrender like when the American forces were taking different Pacific islands and the fanaticism of the Japanese defenders was extremely hard to break but as the weeks went by and the Japanese were holed up in their foxholes or caves that started to wane The us would employ learned Japanese speakers with megaphones to try and entice them to surrender and come out and receive some food and keep their lives so I do know at least food has been an incentive to encourage a hostile force into surrendering
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  682.  @scipioafricanus5871  Since he's missing the Air Force Good conduct Medal but he served a total of 6 years that means he got some sort of non-judicial punishment, disciplinary infraction, or Court martial offense during a 3-year period of his active duty service OR he served when the AF good conduct Medal was discontinued from 2006- 2009
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  683. @Scipio Africanus Judging from the picture 9:37 he has the following awards ranked in order from highest to lowest which start on the top row, and go from left to right: 1st row: Airforce Outstanding Unit Award, 2nd row: a service medal that I couldn't find, National Defense Service medal, GWOTS (Global War on Terror Service medal) 3rd row: Nuclear deterrence medal with the "N" meaning he had direct support, Airforce Longevity Service Medal, and lastly Airforce Training graduation ribbon
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  684.  @scipioafricanus5871  I don't think so because he's already made the rank of Captain in that photo Meaning he's been promoted twice
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  685.  @davidradtke160  yeah that's true, I won't argue But Russia has been boasting for decades about their capability and military readiness and for a long time the US and other military intelligence gathering agencies around the world believed it But now with this issue in Ukraine, the top of that lid has been blown off and the Russian incompetence and underperformance is plain for all to see They can't hide it any more
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  686.  @pulsatingsausageboy2076  well that would just explain his lack of the AF Good conduct Medal 😂
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  687.  @pulsatingsausageboy2076  why would I get one? Never been in the US military lol I'm here in Israel
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  688. Yo jake can you help a brotha out? What in the world is that ribbon placed at the 2nd row 1st from audience left in the 9:37 picture? I've looked everywhere and I can't find it
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  689. Don't give them any ideas now
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  690.  @StephenGillie  it's because New York is one of the largest cities in the United States ,about 9 million, so it kind of needs a little more industry and processing to deal with its wastewater and sewage
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  691. Russia sold EVERYTHING when the USSR collapsed hence why they didn't default as once they had all that new wealth from selling they immediately applied it towards any and all creditors
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  692. Why am I not surprised that the majority of the commenters leaving favorable comments towards Russia are seemingly from India or have at least Indian sounding names
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  693.  @aoki6332  what does that have to do with what I commented about Crimea?🤔
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  694. Strengths of the warthog it is a tank buster, and great for attacking ground targets Weaknesses of the warthog it needs to fly low and slow and not equipped for dogfighting So yes if you're going to deploy the warthog deploy it where you already have air superiority or make sure it's either escorted by fighters or have it can enter the attack zone quickly and egress just as quickly
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  695. The US will never share the secrets of nuclear weapons capability because that is violation of the nuclear proliferation treaty What the US would do is they would extend their coverage of protection to those same allied Nations
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  696.  @drexxler138  I would be extremely happy if India finally gave the middle finger to Russia the only reason India ever allied with Russia was because Pakistan allied with the US an alliance that the US has come to regret and I'm pretty sure they have nulled and voided by this time
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  697.  @dougcoombes8497  really? Huh color me surprised
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  698. Not that I'm disagreeing but I thought Israel was ranked number two in terms of military 🤔
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  699. Good it's about time Ukrainian's fought to take back Crimea
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  700. I'd use the term powerhouse pretty loosely Japan's military unfortunately is in the same situation as both the Chinese and Taiwan Japan unfortunately has no experience in military or combat since the 1940s a similar situation to China where they've had no military experience or combat since the 1970s with Vietnam and China lost that fight In Japan is also in a similar situation as Taiwan where Taiwan may have access to sort of high-tech enough military hardware but they don't have enough people trained into using it because they have a hard time in retaining military personnel and career soldiers
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  701. What's neat is there is a full scale replica of the original parthenon in the United States, it's in Nashville, Tennessee
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  702. Yeah the history of that building is a strange one it was destroyed and rebuilt several times And yes it was never associated as a temple during the classical Greek period of history, which is the period this video talks about, though it did later become a pagan temple to the Athena cults during the ancient time period of the Romans And then it later became a Church and was a site of holy Christian pilgrimage in 1048 Then it was a mosque, when greece was conquered by the Ottomans in the 1400s, and lastly then it just became a antiquity historical site, when greece finally got independence from Muslim rule in the 1830s
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  703. Unfortunately
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  704. Nope
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  705. Let's just hope that after this conflict is over every NATO member will unanimously agree to let Ukraine join looking at YOU Turkey, refusing to let Finland and Sweden join 🙄
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  706. I hope the UK monarchy stays strong for as long as British people can keep it
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  707. Same
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  708. 100 million soldiers
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  709. Man you are slow visual politic this was already discussed months ago
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  710.  @craigoutdoors30  I didn't mention the drugs because the drugs are actually minor, in the macro large scale Even if you made every single drug under the sun 100% legal the smuggling would continue because they'll just find something else to smuggle, most likely human trafficking So no it's not drugs, it's moreso a culture that revolves around promoting criminal activity especially in the South near the Mexican/Guatemalan border it's the gangs and the separatist movements that need focus. If you didn't know there are secessionist movements in the southern part of Mexico they want to break off and be their own Nation And in the northern part of Mexico they actually want to become a part of the US Both of these separatist movements are priority 1 when it comes to the issue of territorial sovereignty by the Mexican government
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  711.  @craigoutdoors30  I think you see my point, mexico needs to allow more of the foreign immigration into the country, and become naturalized But until they solve the organized criminal aspect and lawlessness of many parts of their territory those potential immigrants will head to the US and bring their talent there
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  712. I'd say Mexico needs to allow more foreigners and immigrants to enter its Nation the foreign element of Mexico is less than 1% of its total population contrast that with the US which is 10% of its entire population immigrants or foreigners
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  713.  @nerdlingeeksly5192  as I've said I'm glad it happened but yes sadly the Japanese will be playing second fiddle if they ever attempted to do military conflict with China
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  714. Never going to happen, oil is used in so many things not just in production of electricity You can try to offset the use of oil in electrical power generation but oil will still be used in manufacturing, and maintenance of infrastructure
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  715. But if you knew anything about Vietnamese history you would know that Vietnam has always seen China as the number one enemy Vietnam has been dominated by China for a collective period of 1000 years, the longest unbroken strain of Chinese dominance over Vietnam was a 500 year period And the last time China had domination over Vietnam was in the 1400s during the Ming dynasty So yeah Vietnam has never forgotten about that, it's why Vietnam doesn't see the Americans and their loss in the war on Vietnamese soil with any malice All that said Vietnam still is a communist nation with a 1 party government and their doing things very similar to what China does in their borders just they hate China so much that other nations have found that useful
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  716. If the new right side of Italy will just keep the damn Chinese Government out of southern Europe and Italy I would be happy
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  717. I'd rather freeze in winter and pay a slightly higher heating bill than capitulate to Putin I just hope that the politicians think the same because if they don't and the public finds out they will have a hard time trying to stay in office
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  718. Can't even pronounce Junta right 😂 A military "June-tah" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  719.  @stefanoberli5920  it's a possibility for sure
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  720. ​ @stefanoberli5920 I don't recommend a different system for Switzerland because it works for Switzerland exclusively But you can't have a Swiss style of direct democracy in the US for example due to sheer numbers 300 million estimated population makes it impossible
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  721.  @kazeryu4834  I understand I know that art is subjective and what I enjoy others may possibly not For instance I have never liked abstracts, and to be quite honest I have never liked many of the modern art styles as a whole especially post modernism Even artists that are often praised highly such as Pablo Picasso and his works have never appealed to me Although I did enjoy his early works when he was at the Spanish artist academy But all that said I do indeed feel like the Mona Lisa curse has been fulfilled and the bar has been lowered and we have really removed a lot of quality standards for how art is evaluated
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  722. So AMLO did the opposite of what he promised just to win the election hes a politician like all the others
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  723. ​ @LordFader you are correct, Aztec was a term the ruling Mexica empire were familiar with but they didn't use it to refer to themselves, their empire, or the other indigenous tribals That distinction was given to all the tribals in modern day Mexico by German explorer, anthropologist and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt long after the Spanish conquest And basically all of academia ran with it in the years since
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  724. I can understand why Mexico needs militarization it's been pretty lawless for many parts of its history but at the same time any militarization is not welcome amongst the population when it begins to go overboard It remains to be seen if Mexico has reached that point yet
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  725.  @realtalk6195  I flatly disagree on all three of those reasons Oh well you tried your best buddy but no one can change a mind over the internet
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  726. It's also untested none of the military staff have any combat experience and Japan can only source from the group of its own national industrial complex meaning it's military industrial complex can only sell to itself it's military industrial complex cannot sell to any other nations and they cannot take any other R&D aspects of military from any other nations contrast this with the United States which very frequently works with other military partners around the world and even invites military of other nations to develop their own and be able to sell their own hardware to the United States you can see this most clearly defined in the small arms that the United States uses the Belgian SCAR rifle, the Italian Beretta M9 pistol, the Israeli Uzi sub machine gun
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  727. Because humanitarian organizations cannot predict when there will be conflict in advance and they cannot force themselves into the sovereign territory of any nation which is currently suffering They must be invited into the nation and often the leaders of the nations who have their populations suffering will flatly refuse humanitarian assistance
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  728. Man VP missed this by mile next time you better research on your topic
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  729. Can grant brush his teeth or something cuz those things are yellow stained real bad
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  730.  @mykolakalnichenko530  that's correct, the Soviet Union never gave the Ukrainian government the means to independently launch those nuclear weapons All codes to commence a launch were kept within the capital Moscow and never given out to any of the Soviet satellite states Which again is the reason why the government ok Ukraine wanted to remove those missiles ASAP as soon as they got independence in 1991 and by 1994 it was done
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  731.  @nativepinoyviands  don't get me wrong I'm not cheering on the Chinese in 600AD for conquering Vietnam I only said what I did to help illustrate why the Vietnamese hate the Chinese so much and to try and shed some light on the myth of vietnamese "invincibility" Because the collective 1000 years of Chinese dominance is very much still remembered by the Vietnamese people but foreigners who discuss Vietnam never seem to talk about it
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  732.  @postit5725  but the Mongols didn't conqueror Vietnam the Chinese did And they did it both before and after the Mongols
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  733.  @Remus-z6y  I completely agree, even S. Korea has a minimum of 1 year if I remember correctly that's why even though I am rooting for Taiwan to win against the Chinese mainland I think they are going to have some issues Its very difficult for Taiwan to recruit career soldiers that go on to serve 10+ years
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  734. Yeah sadly emotional thinking nearly always overpowers rational thinking
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  735. Yeah the aussies pretty much side with whoever is the global dominant Naval power And as an contentinal sized island nation it makes geopolitical sense
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  736. That's the issue with Career politicians This is why we need term limits in congress
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  737. Literally everything about North Korea is a failure
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  738. It's a combination of both xenophobia and superiority complex
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  739.  @waliddjema5442  Yeah because the capital of Morocco isn't in the disputed territory of western Sahara it doesn't need an embassy, it's in Rabat which is a part of Morocco proper The US still supports the Kingdom of Morroco heavily: "On December 10, 2020, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would officially recognize Morocco's claims over Western Sahara, as a result of Morocco agreeing to normalize relations with Israel. Morocco annexed much of the territory in 1975." "The following day, the Trump administration moved forward with $1 billion in sales of drones and other precision-guided weapons." "On January 15, 2021, during a visit to the White House, King Mohammed VI awarded President Trump the Order of Muhammad, and Trump in return awarded the King with the Legion of Merit"
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  740. Because if they don't stop fighting Ukraine will be literally wiped off the map much how like Poland was for over a century untill after WW1 when it finally came back into existence again
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  741. Te amo tambíen 🇪🇸 (We love you too) 😘
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  742. Please post the link I'm genuinely curious 🤔
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  743. Just remember to keep your NATO commitments, looking at you Romania!
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  744. Bolsonaro: "I AM the Constitution" (Yes that's a literal quote)
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  745.  @abelsoo5465  semantics, if you don't let foreigners aquire the label of japanese and support the idea of "Japanese" evolving into being a nationality instead of an ethnicity then be forever doomed to decline as a nation Just ask Vitkor Orban of Hungary
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  746. ​ @piotrd.4850 this is true especially in somethings that the US doesn't even make anymore like stinger missiles The US hasn't made those since 2011, they were just sitting in stockpile ammo depots and we burned through a lot of those really fast when giving them to Ukraine
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  747.  @trillmoney263  you still didn't read it so I can't say anything more...🤷
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  748.  @trillmoney263  and.....you are not listening to me so I'm not saying it again🤦
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  749. Good job S. Korea there's just no making friends with North Korea they want to completely eradicate South Korea from the map so I'm glad there's a government in South Korea that recognizes this and just flatly refuses the ideals of unification into a single nation without the destruction of the North Korean regime
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  750. I can understand your reasoning but I would be hesitant to abandon the American world policeman and replace it with an alternative because that alternative might not be someone that is at least on principle freedom and democracy promoting And there will always will be a dominant World policeman whether it's Britain whether it's Russia whether it's China or the United States there will always be one, especially in the post WW2 world
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  751. Every winter the price of energy rises so I'm not surprised that after a lock down when demand is now rapidly rising and supply is show to catch and you combing all this with winter conditions Yeah it makes sense
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  752. This guy is only the same in that regard in than that he has not ever held any government office prior to running in a national-level election that's about the only thing they have in common Unlike the former US president, he is also formally educated in his field of Economics so by that alone he has already further away from Trump Not to mention he's not a populist spouting conservative thoughts or opinions But despite that, the institutions which run the government of Argentina are pretty ineffectual So even if he does come to power he will have significant challenges and it's possible that his outsider status might not be enough to get the changes he wants
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  753. General Kenobi James Ker-Lindsay!
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  754. Biden: I'm going to attack the US domestic oil industry! Its clean energy or nothing! Russia invades Ukraine and after being sanctioned their sales of gas to the US drops causing gas prices to skyrocket Biden: maybe I'll let US make it's own gas again
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  755. I'm planning to move to Israel I hope this gets resolved soon
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  756. You can commonly find them in places that have high concentrations of biodiversity
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  757.  @Jesus2030King  I will tell you right now that there is going to be someone who will not be happy that idea of a European Army primarily speaking English and that will be a source of contention amongst the other European nations who would supposedly make up this hypothetical army And if something like that is simple enough to cause dissension amongst the other Europeans who would supposedly make up this Army and they will not be feeling represented it goes to show that yes you're going to need a lot more to try and unify and create an army for defending a continent despite the fact that the continent is not unified into a singular nation
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  758. That will be hard to organize since you don't have a singular nation of "Europe" Not to mention the different languages, beliefs, laws, customs, traditions across the multiple countries which make up the entirety of Europe will likely conflict with other nations when attempting to create something similar to the nationwide operational scale of the US military which already is acting in the European continent Also the rivalry that will come about from other European countries when one nation is given singular command over the hypothetical army
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  759. I'd disagree that Putin utilizes Dugin as the foundation for his ideology, it's moreso Ivan Illyn than anything else Illyn is kinda like a weird blend of Christian values and faschiast rhetoric I'd recommend the YouTuber Kraut to learn more about Putin and his ideology specifically
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  760. Damn father nature is pissed 😂
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  761. You can blame China pretty severely infact China is now the world's largest polluting nation and that's not just in terms of mere carbon burning for the overall climate issue But it's also inclusive of China causing the world's largest desertification process, by ironically planting the world's largest artificial forest, and China is also the world's largest ocean exploiter and engaging in overfishing In fact it's so bad that China has overfished the immediate Waters off their country so dry that the Chinese government has fishing vessels illegally operating in the waters off of other nations in protected areas like the Galapagos islands
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  762. Yeah I commented something similar
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  763.  @sparc4ux  kind of weird that you promote the idea of exclusion and dislike of the intermixing of culture
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  764. Japan is never going to get out of it stagnation if it doesn't get rid of its non-immigration policy Japan unfortunately has been very homogenized and very strict in it's unwelcoming non-asians and non-japanese specifically into the Japanese nationality
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  765. I've been saying this for years solar panels are extremely inefficient and just a useless in combating pollution as your coal plants The same is said for your wind "farms" they still need to be oiled and painted and hauled to position using semitrucks and cranes running on massive amounts of diesel fuel, you then have to dig up the earth to lay down the numerous power cables from the turbines to run the power processing plant. And a typical wind farm has hundreds of turbines that all require constant maintenance. If you want your "clean energy" you need to invest in nuclear. Specifically Fusion or Thorium MSBR nuclear power plants.
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  766. More like Thorium MSBR nuclear power plant. They produce continuous power that is consistent so spikes or brownouts Also they don't meltdown
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  767. Viva madrid, viva el rey!
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  768. Lol Turkey and Greece already attacked eachother over Cyprus. Back in the 1970s the only 2 NATO nations to do so
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  769. This is some total BS and I'm glad Chris Chappel of China Uncensored made a response video Seriously don't fall for things like this
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  770.  @obsidianjane4413  understand that the federal is the law of the land they won a civil war to that cement that exact effect they can overrule any Court ruling if they choose to do But they often choose not to do so, that's why most times cases barely make it from district all the way to the federal level
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  771. "280$ million funds gone lost or stolen" It's basically the 9/11 victims relief fund all over again 🤦
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  772. Lol the Pharaoh be rolling in his grave if he learned Egypt is an importer of wheat
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  773. Too bad the polygraph test is horrible at lie detection You could hook it up to plants and it will give readings
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  774. Patrick that microphone joke was perfect! 😂 You need to do stand up
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  775. Wow ancient Pharos of Egypt would be spinning in their tombs if they knew Egypt is a now a Wheat importer
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  776. Iron curtain 2.0 coming soon after Ukraine is annexed
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  777. And terrible planning of storage which is why they lose much of that wheat to pests and rot
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  778. Fear of death and the unknown is natural, you are a human. You will do well As for the combat thing and taking a life, I can't give much advice except that be vigilant and trust in your training, you don't have to be deployed to Afghanistan to get into a situation. And when you find your in one remember that in that moment you're not fighting for your nation or your flag, you are fighting for your men who will be depending on you to see them to safety
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  779. ?
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  780.  @AtlanticBoii  no, I just use it when IKEA is brought up in conversation because it's funny 🤣
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  781. More like 1962 when China invaded India, and the Cuban missile crisis was happening
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  782. Don't be fooled Sisi is just as bad a dictator as Putin. just Sisi's saving grace right now is he hasn't attacked another nation just yet But it's possible the Nile river dispute with Ethiopia and Egypt might just turn into an armed conflict
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  783. @synthsun7662 yeah the forts in Hawaii didn't last too long, compared to the fort in California Basically Russia was asked by Kaumualiʻi to help him regain his kingdom of Kauai back from King Kamehameha the 1st and stage a rebellion as King Kamehameha was planning to conquer all the other islands and unite them into a single unified Hawaiian kingdom Yeah bet they didn't teach you about indigenous tribes killing each other either and how that unification for a single nation is always built upon blood Anyways later his son would also use attempt to use the fort to again stage a rebellion against king Kamehameha and would also fail
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  784. India even has steel manufacturing but the terror group the Naxilites is also active in the same area
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  785. Massive amounts of hard labor typically you want about 3200 calories
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  786. Yep pretty much you take away the ability to have money as a means of exchange you didn't solve the problem all you did was create a vacuum for something else to fill it And we all know nature abhors a vacuum If I can't use money to obtain what I need then I revert to the archaic system of barter or the even older system of primal physical might to obtain what I need
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  787. Too hot and too acidic, not even if a human would be standing on a venereal equivalent of Mt Everest would they be safe from atmospheric pressure, acidic climate, and thousands high temperatures
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  788. Holy shit!?!! he's still alive?!!
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  789. "They say that Evil prevails when good men fail to act, what they ought to just say is Evil prevails..."😭
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  790. I like how that one solider slips and falls into the leaves
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  791. Daaaaamn son shots fired
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  792. I doubt it, Korea is aggressive in promoting its machismo and traditional culture. If KJU really is dead it's more likely that a military general would take power But I'd really love to see a female dictator, it would finally shut down a talking point the radical feminists always like to throw out: "All dictatorships are run by men, hence men are evil" blah blah blah
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  793. Ana to me is just Tomi Lauren 2.0 She's pretty but needs to just shut up Also I have no idea why an Armenian would EVER want to be associated with anything called the Young Turks That name and the 3 pashas are very infamous in that cultural circle
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  794. "Well you see I voted that way because I thought the migrants would never come here, I thought they would stay down in the border areas where I didn't have to worry about it I thought I was forcing those horrible red states to become more tolerant like us"
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  795. I never would've guessed that quintessential of the woke companies would flee the "paradise" that they helped create
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  796. The thing is that these idiots don't know their own history Back in the 60s minority neighborhoods and black neighborhoods had to bring legal action to the city because they were BEGGING for law enforcement to come police their areas The police wouldn't enter those areas and the criminality in them reached a breaking point
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  797. Thankfully the federal level of government overrules State and municipal and since his crime is a federal level they can prosecute him in due time his crimes will not just disappear because the city refuses to prosecute him
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  798. A rare W for Lori Lightfoot
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  799. The YouTuber Polymatter already did a video on this subject years ago
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  800. Paradoxically humans tend to share more when there are less resources to go around
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  801. Wow it took you this long to realize Portland just what what would happen if you encouraged every and all drogas under the Sun to be used openly
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  802. California going to learn real fast they cannot force people to do business and they cannot force people to build construction in a place where crime is rampant and unpunished
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  803. Kind of strange to see TYT Ana of all people have something of a redemption arc 🤔
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  804. This is why nda's need to be made illegal because they promote bad business practices
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  805. Interesting how a woman was in charge of an authoritarian government for once
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  806. China said the same B S after loosing the fight against Vietnam in the 1970s 😂
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  807.  @CyrusJanssen  he's not zero buddy you got a very weird system of counting he's the first lol 😂
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  808.  @CyrusJanssen  you're counting it wrong bro it's not 0 1 2 it's 1 2 3
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  809.  @CyrusJanssen  that makes her the third lol 😂
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  810. Just a quick catch that I'm sure you can edit Nancy Pelosi is third in line to the presidency not the second
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  811. Great video and very informative as always.
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  812. ☝️
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  813. It would completely rewrite the alliance, because NATO was born out of a means to counter the Soviets and it allow for US troops to potentially be stationed at the Chinese border as Russia and China share a border And China has instigated border skirmishes with Russia in the past, they want Vladivostok
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  814. Wise words
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  815. Id imagine india would be open to the idea of joining NATO to serve as a deterent to the aggressive expansionist/influence policy of the CCP. Especially after the Doklam plateau standoff.
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  816.  @o7016-c7i  and for over 3000 years Egypt was the land known for an abundance in agricultural production and its food exports. This was a joke but clearly you didn't get it
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  817.  @apc9714  the Pharos of the ancient world are no doubt rolling in their tombs if they heard of Egypt is now an importer of food
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  818. Nothing, they just get a brand new leader from Putin's never ending pool of lackies trying to seek his favor They will however be very much reigned in and under control this time by the government of Russia, they will have want NO mistakes this time when it comes to Wagner But for sure that mutiny definitely ruined the image of the Kremlin in the international stage for a loooooooooong time to come 🤣
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  819. South Korea is refusing to allow the gap in their population to be filled via immigration Much like Japan this shows you how much prejudice is still in the nation, they dont want hyphenated Koreans
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  820. Always remember: "In the world of geopolitics there are no permanent set of morals and no permanent allies, only permanent national interests"
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  821. Basically FUCK YOU Deng Xiaoping for forcing the return of Hong Kong to the CCP at the point of a gun.
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  822. Huh who would have thought a photocopier would send panic throughout the Soviet Union?
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  823.  @Seija729  Iran shouldn't do business with either US or China in my opinion. They both have horrible records of mistreatment of Muslims
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  824. I ain't gonna agree with a dictatorship it's not Myanmar it's called Burma
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  825.  @darkknight2414  that's good to hear, I know India recently purchased weapons from Israel I don't know why Indira Gandhi ever decided to break India's non alignment 🤔
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  826. Man if that ever went through and China had a formal alliance with Pakistan anti-chinese sentiment in India is going to increase 1,000 fold 😂 And Indians do not care if they receive the quote "racist" label from the Chinese media they will happily force all Chinese out of the nation of India and honestly with what the Chinese have been doing I can't say I blame them I hate it when the Chinese abuse freedom of speech and freedom from discrimination laws in the United States and claim that every single time they're criticized it's a " racist" attack and then that forces the US government and it's law enforcement agencies to back off
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  827. That's really funny considering India allied itself with the Soviets and even today India still prefers to Ally itself with the Russians and they only did so because Pakistan allied itself with the US
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  828. Now do a vid on the catlan referendum in spain
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  829.  @sababugs1125  don't get me wrong I fully support this initiative as well as NATO expansion
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  830. 3 seas initiative aka NATO and American bases expansion.
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  831. Ethiopia needs to leave that tribalism identity behind or they won't be ever able to rise to prominence Id hate to see a similar Yugoslavia situation in Ethiopia
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  832. It's a little too late for that.
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  833. THIS is what is needed in the MSM a fucking sane objective telling of a story even if it is still evolving. Good work Caspian Report!!! Fuck the YT censorship and fuck the YT algorithm!!!!
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  834. The human race can never eliminate disease, it can only ever play catch-up
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  835. ITS PRONOUNCED SAI-AM NOT SEE-AM!!!!
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  836. Albukhshi hahahahaha XD
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  837. Idk shirvan I think you over estimate the Taiwanese military readiness They only have a mandatory conscription service of just 6 months!!! That's barely any time to begin training with highly advanced weapon systems gifted to them by the American forces Not only that but they also have difficulty in recruiting as very few Taiwanese want to be a part of the military as a career, most just simply do the mandatory conscription service then leave
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  838. I hope so, too often I see people defending the Chinese mainland government from genocide towards the Uyghurs like LeBron James Maybe the Taiwanese invasion would wake them up
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  839. I am also curious.
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  840. Agreed. I haven't watched TV in 12 years. Now you don't have to agree with everything he says but it is still fascinating nonetheless.
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  841.  @manfreds.6384  correct, now to us living in those democracies that would be seen as unacceptable from our modern lens But sometimes some Nations and the citizens who live there don't have quite the same access and resources to ensure that the tenants of democracy are always up held
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  842.  @crocket1338  he does somewhat have a point I mean Vietnam is a totalitarian one party state, but at the same time that's what it took in order to have the country be unified I mean the United States also did scumbag tactics in order to ensure it was unified, look at the Indian wars of the 1800s
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  843. Agreed. So the defense idea is to make it so that your nation's economy is so intermingled and connected with that of your neighbors that you couldn't persue military actions because it would cost your country more to go to war than it the spoils of victory would bring you. This is the reason for the EU existence. It is not a long-term strategy because each nation has separate interests and needs but it works in the short term.
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  844. Britannia intensifies
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  845. Informative as always well done Caspian report
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  846. I think visual politic made a video about that
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  847. China Uncensored already did multiple stories on this project
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  848. Shervan has said the same thing in this channel "There are no allies in geopolitics only nations and national interests"
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  849. It's the "Countdown to Extinction" https://youtu.be/-hk1LzKELoo
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  850. G.G. i know but ive become used to these videos done by guy with a central asian accent.
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  851. This is all wrong, WHERE IS SHIRVAN?!?!?!!?
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  852. I second this question
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  853. ​ @Umu_Eri it's not considered safe to use anymore as the Houthis in Yemen will attempt to attack anything that transits it And no one wants to be the one to take on the Houthis not because they can't defeat them but because of the high cost in material and resources to occupy and deal with the humanitarian crisis in post Houthi controlled Yemen So it's kind of a strange W for the Houthis they get to use their poverty as a shield from more powerful nations like the US from directly stopping them Instead the US has to defend ships transitioning the Suez canal and and stop Houthi controlled drones worth 20,000$ using rockets and missiles worth millions of dollars So the Houthis also get to inflict damage of an economic impact even when they fail
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  854. I hope India eventually chooses to remove its support from the Russian Nation
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  855. 9:04 I'm finally glad we could put name to face on the whole nazchi Ukraine narrative I knew it was just Russian propaganda that was being over exaggerated to try and justify the invasion and as well as turn public opinion against Ukraine Yes I am very much convinced Ukraine has a nachisn presence in its borders, nachism is an idea it can't die it's likely in almost everyone's borders It's not an excuse though to launch a invasion into a sovereign Nation
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  856. It would be a nice dream but it's unlikely
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  857. It wasn't for lack of trying though, various road blocks popped up which prevented the current members form accepting Ukraine such as the Cassette Scandal in 2000
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  858. It kinda already is, NATO forces keep guns and surveillance systems pointed at Kaliningrad daily
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  859. It may not be WW3 but without a doubt the cold war style mentality is back on 😳
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  860. Again better a French than a Chinese in Africa
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  861. I wish there were more Iranians that held your views
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  862. This
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  863.  @alirezaghasemi5618  you sir are a gentleman and a scholar. I wish you well in all that you do
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  864. Believe it or not Afghanistan was very close to being a modern democratic state back in the 1950s - 1960s the Afghan monarchy was still in power and the PM Darud Khan was the Afghan political heavyweight to lead the state in the transformation to a democratic constitutional monarchy But sadly it wasn't to last, many of the Afghan military officer forces were sent to the USSR to study bringing back to Afghanistan the ideals of Marxist theory and communist ideology While many of the intellectuals and economic theorists went to the US and the West to study, bringing back those ideas to Afghanistan These opposite side ideologies created friction Also the rural areas disliked the idea of loosing many of their conservative values, they saw the beginnings of the democratic transformation limited to just the cities and were very fearful of the encroachment upon their way of life Which is why another faction educated in Egypt wanted to bring an Islamist style of government to the Afghan nation. They were a political minority but they were the loudest Combine all these elements and a lost war/trade with Pakistan and the cracks began widening rapidly
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  865. The Afghan monarchy should be restored
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  866. I don't know Shirvan the UN has almost completely collapsed once before the issue was over Goa the Portuguese colony in India back in the 60s
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  867. The only time Afghanistan was "peaceful" and under a central authority is when the mongols ran it and it's because they were Brutal with a capital B You can't do that kind of brutality anymore which is a good thing But it helps illustrate the difficulties surrounding Afghanistan when governing it as a singular State instead of its collection of various tribal groups and their own semi- autonomy
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  868.  @bluegregory6239  yeah that was just me accidentally adding the population of Canada together with that of the United States and and then adding Canada a second time lol 🤣
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  869.  @jessekatie8985  I agree defensive maneuvers are far more defensive than offensive but I'm sorry international law is very much explicit and well known You cannot both knowingly and willingly (those are the key words there) target civilian infrastructure unless very specific circumstances are afforded to you And when those circumstances are present then it ceases to be a civilian target and becomes a legitimate military one Luckily this is all hypothetical and fiction, as let's both hope it doesn't happen But understand these 3 things were expressed to help illustrate the desperation of such an act and why it does it's job amazingly well as deterrence: Being a very loud signal from Taiwan to Beijing "to back the fk up and consider twice your actions bro"
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  870.  @nba2k922  I don't know what that is
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  871.  @ishtiaquealamin6147  well in this case what you attempted it is it's a change of topic using the play called a "holier-than-thou whataboutism" Where all attempts at discussion are shifted and refocused onto a new topic to present judgement and condemnation from afar that subject you brought up had nothing to do with the conversation
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  872.  @Fanta....  I mean that's what Mao was quoted as saying who would have thought he was more willing to let folks die then Thomas Malthus
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  873.  @user-sn1se8kh7z  I don't think China will ever invade Taiwan I think the China and by extension the CCP are very much cowards and they only would ever fight when they are 100% sure they can win So when they can't they just do posturing, those grey zone tactics, and puff up their chests to make them seem bigger than they really are
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  874.  @The-Elvensong  A small yes but mostly a resounding no, it is unlawful and unpardonable to both willingly and knowingly target civilian infrastructure when conducting wartime operations unless the conditions for targeting are astoundingly proven to have turned that civilian target into a military one China will definitely be at fault as an instigator for the hypothetical Sino - Taiwanese conflict, but if Taiwan did respond in kind and was successful in utilizing this plan then the condemnation would flip back on to themselves Something Taiwan is aware of, and that's why they use it as a means of deterrence Luckily for the rest of the world and all supporters of Taiwan, such as myself, it serves it's purpose best by acting as a deterrent, and it is a very VERY good deterrent that allows Taiwan to smugly say to a nation 50 times it's size: "Hey you CCP fks! We don't even need nukes and yet we can STILL retaliate and end more of ya than you can do to us!" And it does it's job amazingly well because it infuriates the CCP to no end that a weakness they have is so easily known and bragged about And anything that infuriates the CCP is a good thing
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  875. Great video 👍 But you are 14 years to late with this story, robotic where already hitting the battlefield as far back as 2007 in the US Army
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  876. Probably more accurate to say Ethiopia lurchers towards its second civil war
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  877.  @kasadam85  you can be in denial of you want but eventually every nation will have to face it's demons Don't matter if it's Turkey and their legacy of slavery as well as the Armenian Genocide Japan and unit 1071 Russia and it's Gulags Rwanda and it's genocide of Tutsi The US and it's Vietnam Mai Lai massacre Libya and it's warlord Khalifa Hafar Or Ethiopia and the Tigray rebels
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  878. Omani Sultanate intensifies: "Did someone say African colonies?" Kenya and Zanzibar: "Why do I suddenly hear boss music?"
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  879. Or the Omani Zanzibar sultanate
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  880.  @LucidFL  slaps hand on table thank you! finally someone with some fucking sense
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  881. Unlike the Iraq invasion, this Venezuelan invasion would be justified This is a joke people. As Venezuela hasn't threatened to attack US soil there's no need for the US to instigate a regime change. Not to mention that no one in Venezuela would welcome the US soldiers
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  882.  @HypnoticChronic1  neat! At least poles appreciate the help the US brings since you guys draw the borderline where NATO ends
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  883.  @HypnoticChronic1  there is? I thought the negotiations with the Polish government and the US Army Corps of Engineers was still were still ongoing 🤔
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  884. I hope poland will agree to host a permanent US military base
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  885. They going to need more than just one aircraft carrier to try and claim supremacy on the sea
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  886.  @jwhan2086  really? But I thought he was born in Korea? And emigrated to China. Shit I just lied on my school report fuck!
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  887. This needs to be on a T shirt
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  888. I think that the next war will be over the North and South pole as multiple nations will try to stake their claims, and since there is no indigenous people in the South pole there is no "moral argument" of stealing land. So everyone will be using as much of their military power to protect their own and contest other claims
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  889. I would love Ukraine in NATO we could finally drop Turkey as a result Turkey is NATO's problem child
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  890. Caspian Report, WION News, America Uncovered, and China Uncensored, are the best places to get an unbiased coverage of this story Great job fellas 👍
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  891. Hmmm....i don't know 🤷 Politics oftentimes muddies the waters in how we choose to perceive those locked inside its grip
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  892.  @rexx9496  my apologies that previous reply was for a different and less civil commenter trying to start an argument Yes you are correct, only Spain, France and Serbia have natural deserts in Europe I suppose what I should have said was that Poland and Romania are ALSO suffering from desertification from man-made deserts as a result of poor government environment policy
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  893. Also the oldest desert in Europe exists in Serbia the Deliblato
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  894. Spain, Poland, Romania, Serbia and France are all suffering from desertification in Europe
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  895. Well done video as always. One a separate note, I think you were very accurate in your video regarding the future of the EU. I see it becoming more polarised by regions than by Continental ties. I think the idea of multiple separate Regional Blocs to be more likely than continuing current EU integration. I say this of course as an outsider (i.e. Iceland) looking in But we will have to wait and see.
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  896. The US military already routinely exercises with the Vietnamese military and has since 2009
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  897. As did the Japanese, the Hungarians, the Indians and the Russians. That achievement isn't that unique
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  898.  @VyNguyen-nf4dc  uhh that is kinda a gross oversimplification. But still a very funny meme
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  899. It's because the US was once a historical denier of rights to those of darker skin for a large portion of its history. Currently the US has made greatly improved strides to remedy this historic wrong but in the eyes of the descendents of the former enslaved ancestors it is not enough. And many of these descendents feel it will never be enough, they have a more absolutist view of the historical injustice. The eye for the eye mentality. "Unless you all collectively suffer 400 years as I, and by extension my community have, I will never forget or forgive" These holders of this mentality also view every single slight, even if justified by the rest of society, against one member of their community as an attempt to restart the process of these injustices across the entirety of their community. Hence the current problem.
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  900. It's because the US was once a historical denier of rights to those of darker skin for a large portion of its history. Currently the US has made greatly improved strides to remedy this historic wrong but in the eyes of the descendents of the former enslaved ancestors it is not enough. And many of these descendents feel it will never be enough, they have a more absolutist view of the historical injustice. The eye for the eye mentality. "Unless you all collectively suffer 400 years as I, and by extension my community have, I will never forget or forgive" These holders of this mentality also view every single slight, even if justified by the rest of society, against one member of their community as an attempt to restart the process of these injustices across the entirety of their community. Hence the current problem.
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  901. "To enforce, one must have Force" - Robert Edwin House
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  902. You should see the separation of Bangladesh and India it will blow your mind 🤯
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  903. It's going to be a hard time going forward for them as literally none of the current Nations that form the traditional Kurdish Homeland: Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran want to willingly give up their international recognized borders to the Kurds On top of that the methods employed by many groups fighting for the so called Kurdistan cause are very questionable, PKK methods on civilians for example and the condemnation from the international community don't spell out wide support for a separate Kurdish nation Basically the Kurds have a lot of work ahead of them
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  904. I always understood that homo neaderthalis was killed off by homo sapiens? Can anyone else confirm?
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  905. The idea of recognition of the Golan heights carries alot of long term consequences, I hope the administration of the US realizes that before they make any decisions.
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  906. Wow two saudi throne changes in a decade
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  907. Yemen is to Saudi Arabia as vietnam was to US
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  908. No but the Ethiopian army still has issues with tribal and ethnic identities often overruling the authority of the central government Look at Tigray for example
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  909. Abbassid Empire: "Pssst hey Spain, when you want to gain political and religious points I got a deal for you." Spain: "really? tell me more." Abassid Empire: "you just go around questioning people and their beliefs, i call it an inquisiton" Spain: "Sounds good I gotta try it."
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  910. Ibn Ruschd should be remebered as a champion of women, not today's man hating feminists.
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  911. "I don't need your civil war" "It feeds the rich while it buries the poor" "Your power hungry sellin' soldiers" "In a human grocery store" "Ain't that fresh" "I don't need your civil war" "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no" "Whaz so civil bout war any way?" - Guns N Roses 1991
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  912. "I don't need your civil war" "It feeds the rich while it buries the poor" "Your power hungry sellin' soldiers" "In a human grocery store" "Ain't that fresh" "I don't need your civil war" "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no" "Whaz so civil bout war any way?" - Guns N Roses 1991
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  913. "I don't need your civil war" "It feeds the rich while it buries the poor" "Your power hungry sellin' soldiers" "In a human grocery store" "Ain't that fresh" "I don't need your civil war" "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no" "Whaz so civil bout war any way?" - Guns N Roses 1991
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  914. Another crazy idea that's doomed to fail but DAMN if it isn't ambitious.... I gotta respect that
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  915. I thought the Umayyads were the largest Islamic empire? Was it the Ottomans? Am I wrong?
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  916. Fuck YouTube! History is history wether you like it or not. You can't claim this to be offensive just so you can hide it behind a censorship wall!!!!
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  917. sumaridesfree i thought so wasnt the Umayyad's the largest?
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  918. Wasnt Persia conquered by Arabia around 600AD? Shortly after the birth of Islam?
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  919.  @numenorian1161  well that's sad to hear I hope that you and the sea recovers, we have similar issues regarding the glaciers here in Argentina
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  920.  @numenorian1161  well then how's the Uzbek cotton fields? Still vast I presume?
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  921. Hey there my Uzbek friend how's the pit to hell? Still on fire I hope?
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  922. Let's not let the Ukrainian crisis eclipse the similar situation the Yemenis are going through
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  923. Finland and sweden have been unofficially affiliated with NATO members and the US since they allow transit and host of NATO exercises The only thing that would change is it would be official
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  924. No. What he said was that in order to ensure that Egypt doesn't split into 3 different nations the current government of Egypt has adopted a policy that places national security and sovereignty as the top most priority. And it is doing this rather than raise the living standards of its population. It's a trade-off In order to be a country you have to ensure that you ARE a country, and this means enforcement of your borderlines and suppression of any movements that promote succession. Or you can spend all of your capital to ensure that your population is well cared for but now you have no means of effectively enforcing any of ideas of statehood and you can be challenged by a neighboring state. Policies like these swing back and forth all the time.
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  925. Egypt should have stayed with the monarchy
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  926. I'm more worried about the Sikhs and the Hindu's instead of the Pakistani's. They killed the prime minister back in the 80s and I'm worried that could be used to begin persecution on both sides all over again.
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  927. 🎶Talk of songs and lilting grace the sounds caress my ear🎶
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  928. Its the ONLY reason why NATO tolerates Turkey
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  929.  @Fummy007  sort of... See the thing is that most of the Arab nations are also part of international organisation the Muslim brotherhood and the Muslim brotherhood consistently demonizes the very existence of Israel on a daily basis So again that's why say normalizing very loosely
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  930. I'd use that term "normalizing" VERY loosely
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  931. Recall that Pakistani government was just as furious at the violation of sovereignty for the US covert ops team that killed bin Laden
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  932.  @aqschindjalili2024  would the US really come to the aid of Armenia, a non NATO member, with US and NATO coalition military forces to defend territory not internationally recognised since the 1990?s🤔 I suppose if the greater of Armenia, ie the territory outside of Nagorno-Karabok, was attacked then maybe 🤔
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  933.  @anngo4140  I'm surprised you never saw the Russo-Georgian war in 2008
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  934.  @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986  unfortunately Liberia set up a system of discrimination and land confiscation against the native Kru and Grebo that persisted until 1905 when it was legally halted Buy it still persisted culturally. Please read the book by Benjamin Dennis titled Slaves to Racism: An Unbroken Chain from America to Liberia published in 2008
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  935. Ethiopia will never be the powerhouse it desperately wants to be if it never deals with Eritrea and gets that all important sea access
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  936. A little late for that since Eritrea broke away... sadly
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  937. If only Ethiopia could deal with Eritrea and get that ever important sea access if would no doubt be the most strategically important nation in eastern Africa
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  938. Can you give updates on the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia concerning the Nile River?
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  939. Bob Cratchit uhh no the 1924 border treaty was settled with the border clearly explained and marked. It didn't matter if they are polish speaking they are part of Czechoslovakia, just like the German speaking Czech were NOT part of Germany
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  940. Right after Poland invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 with Nazi assistance Source; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Czechoslovak_border_conflicts
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  941. Don't you mean Constantinople?
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  942. Over 250,000 losses, thats a quarter of a million losses during the korean war by the PLA and the CCP let that sink in a bit. Edit Apparently the CCP does not like to look bad when it comes to its military strength so there is a disagreement between official CCP records of losses and contemporary 1958 western records of the PLA losses. Officially the CCP says 390,000 that is including all KIA, MIA/POW, WIA and lived, WIA and died, and any that died from sickness disease, and starvation. Now contempary records from that era place the number at 400,000 thats just KIA, an additional figure of 486,000 were said to be wounded. If true and thease statistics were treated like the CCP's accounting all the above criterion as "casualties" then the PLA sufferd a whopping 846,000 losses in the span of 3 years. Now Idk if thats true, idk who is more correct but both sides agree that well over 3 million PLA personnel were deployed to cross the yalu river by the CCP. The stalmate that exists today on the korean mainland was paved for by PLA soliders who employed a tactic of overwhelming sheer numbers to achieve their goal, and boy they achieved it alright. Thank you for reading this all to the end.
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  943.  @mongol_8112  bologna
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  944.  @wasimshaikh1665  if Russia would stop being an aggressor then NATO wouldn't be needed
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  945. When "diversity" isn't your strength
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  946. When diversity isn't your strength
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  947. I don't doubt it. Seeing as Turkey is a member of NATO it can call upon a multinational coalition force upon any nation it deems as a threat. Even if it's another NATO nation, which it did against Greece. It's borders are permanently secure from any conventional hostile military forces with what protection NATO provides. So yes I agree Turkey is without question the strongest Islamic majority country in the entire world
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  948. I think that the Showa was
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  949. "A sense of entitlement would also result in a destructive quest for an empire" This is the true horror that an entitled population will bring
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  950. Shirvan please do NOT have the sponsor of Established Titles in any of your videos They are not a legitimate company and they are a scam. None of what they sell is actually recognized by the government of the United Kingdom or by British Real Estate law Meaning no, you don't own 1 foot plot of land in scotland or wherever they claim you can buy it They are no different than scammers thinking about "selling" you a star
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  951.  @Bleckyyyy  trying to compare the US strike before the concept of Mutal Assured Destruction and deterrence to use is disingenuous and down right shows a severe lack of critical thinking The Japanese were the Aggressor in the WW2 conflict and the US needed a large show of force to break their fanatical will Thankfully, with the exception of Douglas McArthur, every US general and President has recognized the MAD doctrine and never used them nor threaten to use them as black mail in international policy The latter of which Russia is doing Instead the US has opened up into alliances of mutual benefit and will shelter nations under it's own umbrella of its nuclear arsenal to provide as another deterrent for those own nations to not need develop nuclear weapons as a guarantee of sovereignty
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  952.  @FOLIPE ANY use of nukes is a worldwide threat doesn't matter if it's against a NATO or non NATO country
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  953. The Algeria and Moroccan conflict is the equivalent of a quagmire that the United States was in during the Afghanistan conflict
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  954.  @James--Parker  I was referring to neutral but powerful military nations such as Switzerland who's military might is top notch and they likewise will be aggressive if needed Such as when during WW2 they shot down both Allied and Axis aircraft who violated their airspace Being neutral means standing alone, having no allies means having lots of potential enemies, for which you have to prepare
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  955. "Peace is not the absence of conflict and neutrality is not the absence of aggression"
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  956. also understand that every nation that calls itself in an ally to the UShas its own lobby group to put forth their interest to Washington as well
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  957. @Thys that's a little too one sided. There were various attempts at cultural blending and by 1905 the situation had greatly improved.
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  958.  @MasonGreenWeed  yep I posted like over half dozen examples of military forces refusing to listen to their central authority to the first commenter in this thread Hakan who just flatly refused to see how commonplace it is Oh well, that's the internet for you 😅 no matter what there's always someone who will disagree no matter what evidence you show them
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  959.  @overdose8329  wow 😳...those Tigray sure move fast who knew?
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  960.  @cybersaurus7967  that still doesn't change the fact that Russia is pushing towards transnistria As I said they de facto control the land there so if they want to take the south coastline then gain a reprieve in a Russian friendly land before pushing up from the south they will do so
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  961. I really want to explore Siberia and the Taiga
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  962. NOW! I understand why Duterte kept saying "Mr Obama you can go to hell" all those years ago. It's seen as a betrayal. It's similar to the reason why the Trump administration had to abandon it's Kurdish allies in Syria because Turkey labelled them a "terrorist group" and used it's NATO membership to tie the hands of the American government by basically saying "I'm your NATO ally you can't arm any group that I call hostile, you have to abandon them."
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  963. Sweden in 1809: Hahaha you're mine now Finland, you can't defeat me Finland: I know, but he can points to Russia Sweden: suddenly hears boss music hehehe I'm in danger
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  964. I've said it before, nuclear energy is a great investment as a single piece of material the size of a baby's first can potentially provide the same equivalent as an entire year of coal burning
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  965.  @vaultboy1469  I laugh too, because the German offensive against the Soviets (operation Barbarossa) in WW2 began in June 🤣 not during the winter
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  966. They still rioting at the moment
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  967. Because Americans rarely explore politics outside of their sphere of influence But when you do you'll find very interesting things. Like how Peru had a dispute with Japan who refused to extradite the Peruvian president Fujimori to face justice for his crimes
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  968. This is the best video used to discuss the Iranian government on YT
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  969. This is the only unbiased report for this. Well done
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  970. Here is some context for landlocked navies: "The Declaration recognising the Right to a Flag of States having no Sea-coast (French: Déclaration portant reconnaissance du droit au pavillon des Etats dépourvus de littoral) is a 1921 multilateral treatywhich legally recognised that a land-locked statecould be a maritime flag state; that is, that a land-locked state could register ships and sail them on the sea under its own flag. As of 2013, the Declaration has been ratified by over 50 states, and international law recognises the right of any state to sail ships on the sea under its own flag. Today, land-locked states which have merchant vessel fleets include Austria, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Hungary, Laos, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Moldova, Paraguay, Slovakia and Switzerland, though of these, only Ethiopia, Laos, and Mongolia have no river/sea port from which the high sea can be reached."
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  971. Here is some context for landlocked navies: The Declaration recognising the Right to a Flag of States having no Sea-coast (French: Déclaration portant reconnaissance du droit au pavillon des Etats dépourvus de littoral) is a 1921 multilateral treatywhich legally recognised that a land-locked statecould be a maritime flag state; that is, that a land-locked state could register ships and sail them on the sea under its own flag. As of 2013, the Declaration has been ratified by over 50 states, and international law recognises the right of any state to sail ships on the sea under its own flag. Today, land-locked states which have merchant vessel fleets include Austria, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Hungary, Laos, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Moldova, Paraguay, Slovakia and Switzerland, though of these, only Ethiopia, Laos, and Mongolia have no river/sea port from which the high sea can be reached.
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  972. Here is some context for landlocked navies: "The Declaration recognising the Right to a Flag of States having no Sea-coast (French: Déclaration portant reconnaissance du droit au pavillon des Etats dépourvus de littoral) is a 1921 multilateral treatywhich legally recognised that a land-locked statecould be a maritime flag state; that is, that a land-locked state could register ships and sail them on the sea under its own flag. As of 2013, the Declaration has been ratified by over 50 states, and international law recognises the right of any state to sail ships on the sea under its own flag. Today, land-locked states which have merchant vessel fleets include Austria, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Hungary, Laos, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Moldova, Paraguay, Slovakia and Switzerland, though of these, only Ethiopia, Laos, and Mongolia have no river/sea port from which the high sea can be reached."
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  973. Ethiopia wanting a navy really means that the Ethiopian government is still pissed at losing territory from the independence Eritrea gained in 1991. And it would gladly attempt to get it back from Eritrea and claim that sea access it once had, if by force, diplomacy, or even a 99 year lease like how the Chinese are doing. It still remains to be seen how this will come about. But one thing is for certain Ethiopia is indeed watching Eritrea closely.
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  974. Here is some context for landlocked nations with navies: "The Declaration recognising the Right to a Flag of States having no Sea-coast (French: Déclaration portant reconnaissance du droit au pavillon des Etats dépourvus de littoral) is a 1921 multilateral treatywhich legally recognised that a land-locked statecould be a maritime flag state; that is, that a land-locked state could register ships and sail them on the sea under its own flag. As of 2013, the Declaration has been ratified by over 50 states, and international law recognises the right of any state to sail ships on the sea under its own flag. Today, land-locked states which have merchant vessel fleets include Austria, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Hungary, Laos, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Moldova, Paraguay, Slovakia and Switzerland, though of these, only Ethiopia, Laos, and Mongolia have no river/sea port from which the high sea can be reached."
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  975. Watch out Eritrea! Ethiopia still hasn't forgotten about losing the sea access you gained back in 1991
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  976. It's about damn time good job Germany maybe next time when a US president such as Trump tells you before the United Nations that your over dependence on Russian (who is an enemy of NATO) supplied energy is a problem next time you just won't laugh at his face
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  977.  @nemesiszer0708  some of the AnCap ideas and policies are shared by neoliberalism particularly the economic policies. As a classical liberal I value the limits of government, but it must only operate within its defined borders. And yes there must be some industries that the government can be put in charge of and run in conjunction with private enterprises. I don't believe that the government needs to be the sole operator in said industry however.
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  978.  @nemesiszer0708  I'll help you. A classical liberal is a individual who rejects the ideas and policies of neoliberalism Some of the ideas promoted by neoliberalism include: 1)The freedom of movement of all people, across all borders of any nation without any checks or passes of any kind 2) the ability of an individual to self declare citizenry of any nation 3) the removal of government involvement in all economic policies 4) the restriction of government roles which forces it to operate only entirely to ensure the defense of the nation and maintain its own monopoly on violence
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  979. Portugal is a signer to the UN convention on the laws of the Sea it already recognizes the existence of international waters and of its already international determined boundaries I don't see how Portugal without a Navy of similar capabilities and the size of the US (who is not a signer to the UN convention on the laws of the sea btw) could try to claim ownership over international waters. We will indeed see how this works out for Portugal.
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  980. As an Israeli I had no idea my country wasn't a signer to the non proliferation treaty THAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED RIGHT NOW!
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  981.  SMM Productions  oh trust me the denial of the 1964 Arab genocide by the Zanzibari revolutionaries influences the minds of many of those who reside in middle Eastern nations
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  982. Oman: oh man I lost the territory of Zanzibar to the nation of Tanganyika now forming modern day Tanzania. Better make sure that no one ever hears about the subjugation and slavery I did to those Africans
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  983.  @Elmirgtr  Semantics. He can't make a video discussing Azerbaijani politics without putting his life in danger.
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  984.  @Elmirgtr   @Tortoise vs. Achilles  really? That's weird🤔 because I seem to recall Shirvan publishing a Q & A video on Jan 27 2017, here is the link: https://youtu.be/0LiIduq2ki0 where he answers a question at 16:01 about the safety of discussing Azerbaijani politics and criticism of the Azerbaijani government and he says and I quote: "That's a freedom and luxury we do not have"
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  985.  @alexvlaxos6620  😉
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  986.  @gomyas2519  just making sure that we follow the mantra for "never forget" 😉
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  987. Just don't look into the history of Zanzibar and Oman will be happy
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  988.  @rockym2931  if the 1960s weren't so recent I don't think it would matter as much
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  989.  @khalidimtiaz4627  I'm some aspects sure, I've preferred Mu'tazila to be honest
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  990.  @Grubnar  the Wahbi school is good start to begin exploring Ibadism But there's so much more than just this "third sect" You have Alevism, Mu'tazila, Muhakkima, Tasawwuf, Mu'attila, Karramiyya to name a few
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  991.  @mahfuzannan8270 so true 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  992.  Zahin Shahazad  no they are the Ibadis and they are the only Khawarij sect to reach dominance in a middle Eastern nation. Although to be fair the Ibadi movement does exist in Algeria and Tunisia but it is not as dominant as it is in Oman
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  993.  @mahfuzannan8270  I was just about to comment this. Although some consider Sufism as a sect as well not sure why 🤷
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  994. Just don't look into the history of the Oman sultanate and Zanzibar
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  995. There WILL NEVER be an alliance with Russia and China Their geopolitical interests are too dissimilar and they put each respective nation in each others crosshairs ESPECIALLY in concern to the Artic
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  996. Basically whoever can build the space elevator to the moon first the domain of space
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  997. But I thought "war never changes" A meme even told me it didn't
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  998. Again the terror program is just what Turkey says no other country except for Qatar considers the ypg to be a terror group not even the US And it's because the Turkish government has been fighting the Kurds since 1983 and turkey doesn't like Kurds at all across any Nation that's why they're being like they are
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  999. Yeah I'm sure that UK can pull this off if it really tried I know Spain is done something similar in regards towards immigration policy with Mexico
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  1000.  @HK-gm8pe  yeah I can understand your position on that, truly the only thing that they do is completely strategic They serve as deterrent to use which is why they've never really been used in a conflict outside of the closing days of WW2 The only reason why nations want them now is because once you are nuclear armed you never need to fear a conventional invasion from another Nation ever again And that is what makes them so attractive on a geopolitical scale: "I get this one weapon, and suddenly my borders are guaranteed to exist on the map" And in the entire history of nuclear weapons proliferation there's only been two Nations that gave them up South Africa and Ukraine In the case of South Africa they gave them up for less altruistic reasons they kind of gave them up for more racist reasons, as in the outgoing apartheid government didn't want a black majority African country to have nuclear weapons capability And in the case of Ukraine; Ukraine got their weapons as inheritance from their days in the Soviet Union but Ukraine had no capability of using those weapons because the codes for launch were kept exclusively by the Russian government The only thing Ukraine had was physical control to the launch site access, which is why in 1994 they agreed to return those weapons to Russia
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  1001. In the hypothetical situation of Russia using a nuke in this Ukraine conflict The instant that Russia uses a nuclear weapon they will get the entire condemnation from the rest of the world not even the Russian propagandists would be able to frame that event in a positive light
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  1002. I would only welcome a world conflict if it could be guaranteed to keep nuclear weapons off the table because China can't just genocide people in xinjiang and get away with it simply because they have nuclear weapons But since China is pretty desperate and their military does not have a lot of combat experience; (their last incursion was in 1979 against Vietnam and they failed spectacularly) so I don't imagine that the CCP would be as hesitant as other nuclear capable powers to keep the hands off the button in the event they started losing Still all that said we can't allow to be given into appeasement to an aggressor nation simply because that acting aggressor nation says: "hey I have nukes so you can't hurt me no matter how badly I behave" That's a view I have for all, no matter what nation that is. Be they: Russia, China, America, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc. because appeasement is not a permanent solver of conflict it merely delays and emboldens the offender
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  1003.  @dragosstanciu9866  I agree but openly expressing hostility towards the alliance organisation that is providing for your defense against a historical aggressor who has invaded occupied and annexed your nation to its own, will not be tolerated indefinitely. The US is trying to expand NATO into Kazakhstan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Hungary (a permanent base, as Hungary is already a NATO member) and Tajikistan specifically to side step The Turks. This already shows that the continued actions of the Turkish government towards NATO is beginning to see some strain. Again I sincerely hope that the Romanian government will not utilize NATO as a defensive blank check.
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  1004.  @dragosstanciu9866  I don't mean to forcibly modernize the Romanian military. Or meet a useless 2% GDP metric. What I mean is to not abuse the security guarantee that NATO provides to it members. Turkey and it's government has long been utilizing its NATO membership to facilitate Turkish acts of aggression and fall back on its NATO membership as an excuse. The Turkish government restricts NATO forces to select bases only. They refused to schedule or participate in NATO member exercises. They are openly hostile to Greece which is a fellow NATO member. They have even Invaded and fought and still currently occupy sovereign territory belonging to Greece (Cyprus). This is the only known time 2 NATO nations fought eachother. They also use the Turkish government definition of a Terrorist organisation, forcing the US to re prioritize it's NATO commitments and causing the US to abandon it's long Kurdish allies. They also help facilitate and openly encourage anti-american sentiment amongst Turkish citizens. The US has to swallow this shit sandwich because there is no other geographical location NATO can utilize to effectively counter Russian aggression centered around the black sea. I hope that the Romanian government will be able to avoid these pitfalls. And use it's NATO membership responsibly.
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  1005. It's because India sees Afghanistan as a stick to poke at Pakistan Much like how the Chinese use Pakistan to poke at India
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  1006. Shirvan please do a better job in selecting your sponsors I know you've pushed both Raid shadow legends and this Established titles which are less than reputable companie ESPECIALLY the latter
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  1007. If Afghanistan had it's monarchy restored it might have a chance to play a larger role on the world stage
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  1008. I don't, the Afghan government is using brutal tactics to force compliance from its populace
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  1009. Nah he's already in his 60s at most he's got 30 years left of life and maybe half of that to continue working in politics
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  1010. That's a steep decline from 90% 5 years ago. Putin is already in his 60s at most he's got only 30 years left to life, and maybe only half that to continue working in politics
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  1011. Because of the old verbage, "No king rules forever my son"
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  1012. Possible...but unlikely, I think something similar to what happened to the power grabs after Stalin's death is more likely to occur. With those individuals who were part of Putin's inner circle each making their own separate power moves.
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  1013. Me: Sees video title My dumb ass brain: 🎶 "Give me fuel! Give me fire! Give me that which I desire! UNH!" 🎶
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  1014. I'd rather France have influence in Africa than China any day
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  1015.  @eca3101  you thought that this would be another reply...... but it was I Dio!
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  1016.  @enlightedenlightment1065  but that's too long of a gap😭
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  1017. Why does Caspian Report never talk about Azerbaijan? 😭😭😭
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  1018. Turkey the only NATO ally currently under sanctions that right there is eye opening
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  1019.  @lotstolearn5350  what's that got to do with anything?
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  1020. @LMNO XYZ it all makes sense now! Caspian sea and Caspian Report!!!
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  1021. I'm just glad another country has stepped up and decided to invest in that money pit sick and tired of seeing US resources go to waste let another NATO Nation take over by all means go for it and who knows maybe they can turn it from a failed State into an actual respectful sovereign nation
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  1022.  @jankubiak324  build up your own military forces to counter Russia then you won't need to rely on foreign troops as a security deterrent
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  1023. @Trout Tnn that he is indeed. But this idea of US personnel permanently stationed in Poland was already an idea well received by the polish government long before Trump ever took office. The polish government have been wanting a permanent American presence ever since they joined NATO
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  1024. Caspianreport and war graphics are the two best video channels for discussion of this conflict and the context behind it
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  1025. China the aggressor of Asia, ambitious, devious, and land hungry. The 1962 border skirmish will be again brought out in peoples minds.
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  1026. @s1 no actually. Trump wants, and his predecessor Obama also wanted, to focus on the Pacific. Since Asia is where the US has all of its enemies
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  1027. He is right. America is starting to welcome the chance of easing its burden of world security. And it greatly supports the idea of an EU army to help with the security of NATO. America is also seeking to employ nearly all of its NATO forces in the borderline nations of Estonia, Poland, and Romania. Hungary as well but this is still in negotiations This is clear from the announcement of base closures and removal of American personal currently stationed in the UK. As of the time of this writting these base closures are currently scheduled for 2040.
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  1028. Stay safe Puerto Rico, and USVI.
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  1029. And in 30 years time there will be no WW2 vets
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  1030. It absolutely can
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  1031. Yes it is a genocide as they are taking children away from Ukraine relocating them and putting them in Russia that's called ethnic cleansing and it is considered a form of genocide as set by the standards of international law In fact the Russian government has been so brazen to widely announce this it was a major reason why Putin was given that ICC arrest warrant
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  1032. I also just want to mention that when China did this in the past when they tried to cover up an outbreak of another pathogen called SARS the scientific community found the culprit animal in 2 months It's been two years since the outbreak and we still haven't found the animal hmmm....🤔
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  1033. If I could wish an earthquake to affect only one person in Turkey it would be Erdogan Sadly that's not how nature works, my sympathies for the folks who suffered from this but my scorn for Erdogan as well and my hope he's suffering
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  1034. Not unless they unban Zidane and take him back 🤣
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  1035. I just think its interesting that despite being geopolitical enemies the US still attempted to provide Russia with intel to prevent the situation And then when it was refused made it public so people could hopefully get out themselves
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  1036. I keep forgetting that the already competent commander for Russia is missing and presumed ded siloviken and isn't shoigu the incompetent one
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  1037. Oh yeah China already proved that things like a cryptocurrency can be cracked or outright banned in their jurisdiction Goes to show you the real privacy provided by these things 🤣
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  1038. China was able to do it when they banned Bitcoin and they didn't use an AI But yes it goes to show you that government resources can be successful in this regard
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  1039. Yeah pretty much Biden has it in the bag when in comes to 2024 election and that's just me being objective You can say it's for better or for better or worse depending on your political leanings But it stands to the current political climate of where now Trump is now in jail and Desantis is not as well liked as he thinks he is outside of Florida So yeah pretty much Biden just has to not die of old age and he's president for another 4 years
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  1040.  @bwarre2884  I agree and I never justified what they did I only gave an explanation of why
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  1041.  @hhiippiittyy  you might want to recheck your history there buddy Quebec has used violence to further their cause for separation multiple times
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  1042.  @justnot8232  the willful or unwillful vigilance to take notice of gang development And the continuation of a leniency when it comes to law enforcement, punishment, and sentencing by gang perpetrators
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  1043. This is true but Germany did do colonization and atrocities prior to both WW1 and WW2 in Africa, specifically in modern day Namibia. It was the first genocide by the unified German Empire State and it went from 1904 and lasted 4 years
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  1044. But you're also part of the Nordic countries as well And to make it even more confusing, if one were to be technically correct (the best kind of correct) and exclusively refer to the Scandinavian peninsula it would include Finland and exclude Denmark
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  1045. Buddy, pretty sure this is a cultural thing like how the British pronounce Zebra "incorrectly" as Zebb - brah and not Zee - bruh
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  1046. I'm not so sure because the military had to lower the physical requirements for the millennial generation twice
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  1047. I'm pretty sure being born in 2000 doesn't make you a zoomer
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  1048. Free Balochistan! Free Ossetia! Try to not fear the white rooms!
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  1049. A suspension is the same implication at withdraw it means he doesn't want to follow or abide by the rules of the treaty it's pointless to argue semantics
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  1050. Cold War 2.0 baby
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  1051. There is no proper means of pronunciation it's a regional speech thing based on whatever accent you have while living in the United States with the same reason why people pronounce ask differently Folks like to pronounce it as "AXE" which to me sounds very wrong but again I just recognize it's a regional speech and accent thing
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  1052. I think that's actually pointless semantics it's about as pointless as Putin trying to claim his military invasion was a special military operation It doesn't matter if he "paused it" "stopped it" or "withdrew from it" the point of the matter is he doesn't want to follow the rules set by that treaty
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  1053. In English it's fine to pronounce it that way, just like how English pronounces Caesar wrong
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  1054. I mean this guy that's leading Wagner has no chance of successfully tearing down the head of state of Russia but I just admire his MASSIVE balls of steel to make the attempt Were he not a massive war criminal I would probably cheer on his efforts But in this regard I just hope they all battle each other and reduce their numbers fully so that they ukrainians can have an easier time defending their land It's not everyday that you get to see Caesar like event where he's crossing the Rubicon and "the die is cast"
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  1055. Kissinger competent?! DAFAUQ you smoking
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  1056.  @landontesar3070  which one? I'll post it for you that way you can see it in your reply notification even if you can't see them in the comment chain
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  1057.  @krakhedd  no it's correct, every nation that has nuclear weapons capability just has them simply as a deterrent for their use And as guarantee for border sovereignty, they will never be invaded by foreign hostile power as long as they have them, but at the same time they can never actually use them for fear of global reprisal Because these same powers recognize the instant that one nation utilizes that capability to strike, no matter what type of strike it is or how much they might try to "justify" it, they will be hated a hundred fold and denounced and condemned world wide Which is why enemies of nuclear power nations engage in unconventional warfare instead
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  1058. For the Love of Pete I dislike having to explain this over and over again but I will if I have to When it comes to Ukraine becoming their own Nation in 1991 and the concept of them having nuclear weapons the ukrainians did not ever at anytime have the ability to utilize those weapons that the Soviets placed in the nation what the ukrainians had when they gained independence from the Soviet Union was control over physical area of the silos in which they resided in they had no means to press the red button themselves any and all codes were kept in Moscow in the Kremlin and they were never released to the Ukrainian government when they gained independence and they were never released to the Ukrainian government when they were Soviet socialist republic And that's why Ukraine in 1994 was more than eager to get rid of those weapons because they wisely recognized their existence would be possibly be used as a justification by Russia to do a special military action to "recover" their lost technology the US happily agreed to assist Ukraine because the US just likes the idea of less and less countries having nuclear weapons and I don't blame them I completely agree with that view the less countries having them the better And Russia agreed because Russia just wanted their lost technology back and they even though don't like the US they still have the same pragmatic viewas the US: whereas the less countries that have nuclear weapons the easier it is for the Russians to exert influence over those exact same countries
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  1059. And they do
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  1060. Saudi Arabia is only a friend to the US because the US doesn't like Iran and because the US would like Saudi Arabia to continue its supplies into Europe that's pretty much it Former president Truman who was on death's door, went to Saudi Arabia to negotiate the deal that would first begin trade between the US and Saudi Arabia almost 70 years ago
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  1061. Plot twist that was actually Peter's wife in the background
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  1062. In the US sure, but the drug trade world wide existed long before the CIA ever got involved
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  1063. I hope this means italy will finally stop capitulating to the Chinese government
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  1064. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD KICK TURKEY OUT OF NATO!!!!
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  1065. I'm just like what Peter said I've never been against renewables but I've pointed out the issue many times if you want renewables to do their job to what fossil fuels do you need real estate you need hundreds of thousands of acres for solar panel farms or you need a massive giant wind towers 1000 ft high and multiples of them in an large area if you want them to ever be efficient in the generation and then after that you need to transmit everything that you've generated So I'm glad to see at least one company has figured out that that's the crux of problems they need to solve
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  1066. Non sunglasses Peter is weird looking lol 🤣
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  1067. Never forget the MBS sent a virus called Pegasus to the Phone of Jeff Bezos to black mail him and force him to give up a Saudi dissident Khashoggi who wrote for the Washington Post Later that poor man would be literally cut to pieces in the Saudi Consolate in Turkey on orders of MBS
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  1068.  @renaissance17  and that makes no sense I don't know why he slandered today yes he participated in slavery by owning many himself but at the same time he also fought against the expansion of slavery into new territories Jefferson spoke out against slavery as a whole he didn't like it but he did participate in it he also wisely recognized that slavery was going to be the next problem that the us would have to face and he tried to do his best to ensure the gradual restriction and removal of the institution because he knew that ever since the American revolution if the central government were to force slavery to be removed from the country it would spark a conflict or a civil war and lo and behold his prediction came true
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  1069. Maybe just don't use Twitter it serves no purpose
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  1070. I'm curious to see if environmental groups would oppose the repeal of the Jones act? 🤔
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  1071. I'm not surprised Russia withdrew from the Open Skies treaty
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  1072.  @dannyboy218  not my circus not my not my monkeys not going to weigh in that is Scotland and their decision
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  1073. I knew Moldova was the next target by Russia, I'm just surprised they doing this at the same time while still fighting in Ukraine
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  1074. Ar chas donv' yelo da ouez! Watch out France
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  1075. Even more reason why California is a hellhole full of jerks
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  1076.  @rui.craveiro  I never said it was a result of nature that the US built up road networks over rails But I am saying that because they did the rail network will need billions of dollars in infrastructure spending to bring it up to its potential And that's a tough sell for the US gov to its citizens
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  1077. It would be a good idea but it's not that effective in the United States as rail transport has been dwindling over the past century and the rail network of the United States is not built up to the same effect as the road Network that already exists in the United States
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  1078. Non sunglasses Peter is weird looking lol 😂
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  1079.  @w8stral  nice comeback 👍
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  1080.  @hometown1474  it's "abundant" yes but not all lithium deposits are equal and not all deposits contain a high concentration of lithium either there's different qualities in lithium and even if you find the lithium you still need to process it before it's used in manufacturing
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  1081. You forgot another reason Peter Tesla and their anti-consumer and anti-right to repair tactics no one is going to want to buy a Tesla if it cost them over $500 to change a brake light because they don't have access to do any sort of maintenance on their own vehicle that they paid as you said luxury prices for
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  1082. I'm sorry PZ but I feel like you've got the wrong impression on ESG it's the equivalent of China's social credit score but for the moment it's just applied to companies The problem is is all of us can recognize the writing on the wall but if companies which largely dictate a lot of our rights these days we'll start to see these guys pushing this ESG on the individual And you've already seen it happen with PayPal withdrawing money from your account without notice if you say something "rude" things or that time in the Amazon Alexa locked the man out of his house for allegedly saying something inappropriate None of this should ever be applicable to the person under any circumstances
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  1083. Kurofune intensifies
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  1084. I don't know why but for some reason PZ's eyes look super large in the video for some reason 🤔
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  1085. I just have to let you know mr. Zeihan That the United States has not withdrawn from the Middle East, and the United States can't withdraw from the Middle East completely it's part of CENTCOM meaning there is an area of responsibility for the United States military to operate in the Middle East from now until the fall of the US as a nation
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  1086. Well I say careful! we already fell into the trap that if we give business with the Chinese they will eventually drop their communist government and a popular uprising will turn them to democracy And that never happened despite all the inclusion of the Chinese into the world stage
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  1087. I mean you're catching him in his part 3 of a hypothetical scenario buddy he already said all the stuff of what is known and unknown a few videos ago There's no reason to discredit him or laugh at him because of what he saying I mean it's hypothetical scenario discussion there's not much to it educated guesses is all that's in play
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  1088. No they don't need to go nuclear themselves just they need to go and join NATO asap once the war ends and then by extension they'll be under the United States' and NATO nuclear armed members' (France and Britain) umbrella
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  1089. I mean you're right but you're thinking logically and often dictators like Putin don't think logically when they are backed into a corner The possibility of a nuclear threat is there because it will always be there but I do think it's unlikely What's ironic is that the simple fact that Russia has nukes is the one and only reason why the United States and NATO members haven't sent in conventional forces boots-on-the-ground style to assist Ukraine directly If they did they'd be crushing Russia and Ukraine would be free of Russian forces in its territory already, so essentially nukes are saving Putin's ass 🤣 They are the one thing that's preventing a much stronger response from the West to the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict
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  1090.  @grzegorzkapica7930  in that hypothetical scenario of a new nation inheriting Russian nukes it's much better to do what Ukraine did when they gained independence in 1991 in two years since that event in 1993 they brokered a deal to give all those weapons back to the successor state of the Soviet Union, Russia They did not want them in their country anymore and again they were pretty much useless to the Ukrainians as they could not launch them and they cannot use them as a means of deterrence And they did not want to ever be placed under any international sanctions or face an international coalition led army because they attempted to sell them to other states
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  1091.  @grzegorzkapica7930  Yes but that's still an international crime the trade of weapons-grade nuclear material is controlled down to the gram But yes if you are a tin-pot dictator and you want to try your hand at making some money you can certainly make the attempt at selling that type of stuff but you again will find yourself placed on a list and you will become a target
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  1092.  @grzegorzkapica7930  Also not to mention selling those types of weapons is an international crime and your hypothetical country and its current leader would be placed at the top of the list to be hunted down and destroyed or removed from power And further since you can't actually operate any of those weapons that you inherited as a hypothetical breakaway Nation from Russia you don't have any means of deterrence from US coalition led army or a special forces strike team coming in to take out that leader that's trying to broker the sale of the weapon
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  1093.  @grzegorzkapica7930  Unlikely yes, but still a possibility as you said The fail-safes that are built into those mechanisms are top-notch and just because you've purchased the weapon and brought it over to your new country doesn't mean it's going to operate perfectly Especially if you don't have the know-how documentation that was kept in the Kremlin and didn't come included in your purchase
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  1094. The same thing as what that happened in Ukraine in 1991 when it gained independence the new nations will inherit the physical access to that arsenal Russia or rather more correctly the Soviet Union has never given out any of its codes or procedures for launch to any of the satellite nations when it was a conglomeration of the Soviet republics Meaning even if Russia today collapsed and new nations were born out of it none of them can independently launch any of those weapons All they can do it just maintain physical control to the sites that have access to them
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  1095. It wouldn't be a "checkmate" but it would finally end overt boots-on-the-ground style of actual warfare in Ukraine by the Russians Which still is a very good thing and I agree and I think Ukraine also agrees that once this war ends they will b-line it to the NATO membership line faster than Usain bolt running on a giant griddle covered in butter Meaning that once they're in NATO Russia can't do anything overtly and they will have to just do covert and subversion tactics which hey I'm all for battling them in the covert and subversion space because it's less damaging that way
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  1096. He's not saying that they will he's just presenting a hypothetical scenario But that is what Russia wants, Russia wants a vast control of annexed territory that covers up the majority of the European plain because they feel it's the only way to be secure and it's completely stupid it's obsolete medieval way of thinking but it's Russia's way of thinking And so they keep pushing for it regardless of how many times they fail at it Russia and it's predecessor state the Soviet Union has done nothing but poorly in every single war it's had had since the 1980s From 80s Afghanistan to 1996 Chechnya to 2008 Georgia and now to 2022 Ukraine
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  1097. It's not a argument that's a good one it's just an argument that Russia themselves makes No one is agreeing with Russia and their 18th century style of security through conquest and annexation
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  1098.  @PaulVerhoeven2  you are correct yet it must be said there's many spectrums of pacifism Japan obviously felt they needed more penance than most because they suffered those two nuclear explosions so Japan never wanted fully capable military industrial complex to sell its weapons around the world and even to this day despite Japan's attempts at rearming and rewriting it's constitution for the creation of a proper military, the industrial complex behind that same Japanese military is relatively small and it has no real means of trying to further improve itself because it legally only has one customer, and that is the Japanese government The Germans found themselves split in half in following WW2 with that same half in the east literally pointing guns in their faces So I'm not surprised that Germany at the time despite their policy of pacifism and foreign non-intervention still used their capital and engineering prowess to help other nations in military armament and development. With such companies as Krupp and HK
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  1099. They didn't do as much as the US though, it took them a while to finally start sending weapons and the armaments for those weapons Instead Germany was sending pillows and helmets to the Ukrainians
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  1100. So according to the logic of the left within the US all of India is "waycist" because they need an ID to vote
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  1101. I don't think you're gonna say that regarding how France does it's elections In fact you'll feel quite at home
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  1102.  @tonywilson4713  my facts are straight they were very specific to the point because they had to omit for the sake of brevity and yes there is a fine if you don't give any reason at all, that's why I said what I said I simply didn't want to do a giant comment but I'm glad you did
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  1103. The only downside Aussie has is that you force voters to vote and if they do not they are fined This means that candidates will have to work less hard to win votes Now some voters mitigate this because they simply "mark" the ballot with any kind of illegible mark and that then counts as them voting and thus they avoid the fine
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  1104. It will also have to climb out of centuries of Arab colonialism as well The Arabs were the first foreign power to conquer much of the continent and they have held influence there for millennia much to the detriment of the native Africans
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  1105.  @utubefuku7132  lol I'm just surprised that it's been a century and yet King Cotton is still being somewhat used lol
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  1106.  @libraryofpangea7018  true but sometimes the government is not allowing even the citizens to do such examples of moral support such as that some nations making it illegal to go and fight for the flag of Ukraine Making it an even more confusing mess
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  1107.  @leperabbot3343  I don't disagree but American politics and foreign policy has shifted greatly over the decades and basically anything is possible at this point
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  1108.  @bighands69  again we are only speculating we don't know exactly what would These are educated guesses
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  1109.  @adeveloper6653  indeed it does but it would border it more so
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  1110.  @Alexandra-zp3gr  indeed it does you also forgot Norway in that list but if Ukraine falls it would border it moreso than it already does
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  1111. Lol 😂 that was the best thing ever about crypto If it's not a scam it's a pyramid scheme
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  1112. He's subscribed to a private intelligence gathering agency And he also has connections from when he used to work himself at a private intelligence agency that was founded by Hungarian-American geopolitical analyst George Friedman Remember money and influence can get you information often faster and more detailed compared to us plebs
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  1113. I mean California shot themselves in the foot too many times what's surprising is only now it begins to bleed
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  1114. Pretty much every former Soviet nation allied to the West/NATO or nation that was attacked by Russia in the past is trying to eliminate OR significantly reduce the population of Russians in their own borders And I can understand why, Russian government keeps using a large population of Russians living in a foreign nation as a casus belli for intervention
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  1115. So basically they found a cache of buried Nirvana albums?
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  1116. PZ every time you make these outdoor videos a freaking plane never fails to fly over 🤣
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  1117. @guru47pi  no it never did subsist on facts and reality government heads were being morons for decades you just didn't see it in the day to day in 1977 when I was working unless your job was a government job it was just harder to catch government Representatives acting stupid because there was no internet back then you didn't have 24-hour real-time access to everything every single government position and the people in them were doing And you didn't have the ability to see drafted legislation go through its process before it published in real time and before it's even voted on to get your opinion on it And again trying to balance the wants and needs of a competing population of 300 million people makes those failures of that government much easier to see to an outsider looking in
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  1118. Thank God! Welcome aboard Finland! Finally a NATO member that can pull it's own weight! Now come on Sweden! We need you next! Heck kick out turkey, those assholes have been abusing their NATO membership for decades
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  1119. Lauri Torni smiling down from heaven at all of Finland and the US finally formally united as allies
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  1120. Everyone always forgets the legislature branch and it's votes that stand in opposition to the current sitting president So yeah Milei better learn how to negotiate rather quick or he's going to be another unsuccessful Argentine president
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  1121. Peter got those Ozzy Osbourne glasses 🕶️ Looking good bro 😎
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  1122. Must be a regional speech thing, since Bush was from Texas and Peter is from Iowa 🤷
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  1123.  @ron88303  the illegitimacy from that stems from the fact the Russians very much like to downplay or sometimes completely negate the assistance that they got from the West involving them fighting the Axis and the Germans They also very much like to hide, downplay or ignore the fact that they were once allied with the Germans in the outbreak of the War in 1939 That's where the illegitimacy finds itself into the Russian mindset
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  1124. Because the government of California heavily taxes and regulates that industry
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  1125. Don't forget about the fact China has a secret military base in Tajikistan already right in Russia's backyard
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  1126. All social media is tbh
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  1127. Yep I commented something similar
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  1128. "Better" is putting it mildly The genetic code of so few buffalo left when their population started rising to a recovery means that the species has been so inbred they could rival a Habsburg noble
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  1129. Who ever is saying 2020 can't get any worse needs to stop it!!!!!!
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  1130. Just as soon as, Christina de Kirchner is arrested as well as Kim Jong Un is arrested for his crimes against humanity
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  1131.  @rogerhewitt8084  😘😚💨💕😏
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  1132. "_War is a merchant's delight, it always as been and always will be"_
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  1133.  @williamzk9083  no buddy I'm saying that they would not like Uber drivers coming into their turf the taxi cab Mafia is something to be feared in South Africa They are no joke
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  1134. I'm so glad I switched off discord to gilded
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  1135. It's easier for a government to penalize products of a country when that country is literally sending soldiers to your borders The Chinese-Indian standoffs in Doklam and elsewhere have allowed the Indian government to see first hand what a threat the Chinese are The US sadly doesn't have literal Chinese soldiers on their borders so it's far harder for the American government and population as a whole to recognize their insidious economic policies when compared to the overt literal military policy China has done to India
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  1136. If only Trump succeeded in banning Tiktok He got shot down by a San Francisco judge who blocked it citing "free speech" To that judge I say: "Are you a moron?! You don't even have free speech on the freaking platform!!!" India bans Tiktok and nobody bats an eye for crying out loud!!!
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  1137. Please stop using established titles as a sponsor they are a scam company and they skirt around British real estate law because what they sell is not an actual product You cannot own a small plot of land measured in a few feet and then try to enter the British nobility that loophole has been closed by British lawmakers for years But they word their policy so vaguely that they can't be fined under British real estate law They're about as dumb as the idiots that say that they can sell you a star
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  1138.  @zadock6370  yes although I don't think Blockbuster was ever a world company with a global reach it was all over the United States 25 years ago and even today there are still a few holdouts of Blockbuster left they are not gone completely They operate in places where internet service is extremely difficult or non-existent because infrastructure is not available places such as Alaska
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  1139.  @girlbuu9403  as I said there's a blockbuster up in Alaska too
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  1140. Blockbuster still is alive it's up in Alaska where movie rentals and DVD rentals still persist because in the Alaska it's really hard to create infrastructure that can do internet streaming
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  1141. Don't worry 2024 is what Disney and Mickey mouse finally expires despite being over a fukin century of ownership
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  1142. yeah I'd say it's probably because everybody that tunes into Fox legitimately knows what they're getting they're biases right there right in front Which is actually perfectly fine according to the rules and regulations in the Society of Journalistic Ethics as long as your bias is directly upfront and stated you can have your bias and still be an ethical news source and that's what Fox News is and the people that are on that side already feel alienated and ostracized so they just naturally will gravitate towards media that reflects those feelings
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  1143. I will NEVER use the meta verse they can't force you to use it!
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  1144. Yep I've learned real quick that critics don't always know what is good I mean look at Star Wars it has never done good with the critics or academy awards it only has an Oscar and that's just for editing Despite the fact that it's a massive and once well beloved franchise And then when you look at the "critics" that tried to praise all the new Star Wars movies that Disney has turned out their goddamn awful and rejected by the audience
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  1145. Also the Vikings weren't really keen to start an age of discovery Navigation devices at sea either weren't invented or they weren't commonly used and restricted to the specific culture; (granted by 900ad the Arabs already had been using the Kamal for over 300 years which let them calculate their latitude and sail out of sight of land) (Polynesians used a unique system of sticks tied into various positions by thread to map out ocean currents and islands that one could reach if they followed those same currents) Norsemen, however relied heavily upon the stars for navigation and did a system of island hopping, staying insight of land and traveling from island to island Secondly, Why settle all these colonies so far away from Europe and Central Asia where the Vikings figured all the spoils and treasure was? The would be colonies had poor soil, resources are scarce and the travel towards them is difficult, making them just not worth it Only criminals or the most desperate would even consider it
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  1146. I thought the video title said voodoo doctor 🤣
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  1147. No I don't think any Americans are saying that just they don't like Woodrow Wilson that was probably one of the worst and most racist presidents the US has ever had I mean you can say whatever you want about Donald Trump but it's on record that Trump has said he does not stand for and has denounced white supremacist movements and if you want to believe that's a lie fine But Woodrow Wilson was one of the worst in that regard he openly opposed the women's rights movements and women's right to vote and any feminist movements in general as well as his meeting with the KKK in the White House and even went and tried to push more of the kkk's propaganda and message throughout his personal life
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  1148. Yerushalayim Shel Zahav that was the perfect song to play at the end of Schindler's list
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  1149. And yet ANOTHER failing by California, couldn't even give capital justice for a known serial killer with damning evidence but instead taxed their own citizens expense to care for him for 50 years 🤣🤣
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  1150. He is the epitome of evil.... Writes hit songs for Guns N Roses 🤣🤣
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  1151. Andrew Johnson Andrew Jackson had already left the presidency a good while ago, in the late 1830s Funny enough Andrew Jackson was also prepared to go to War over the much larger question of Federal law overruling State law and States Rights to disregard Federal law or a State right to secede This was regarding South Carolina who was trying to circumnavigate tariffs imposed by the government of Washington DC on the Southern US states and was threatening with secession in 1832 a good 30 years before the US civil war At the time however when South Carolina was threatening none of the other US states in the south backed up South Carolina And the crisis was averted by Jackson's administration passing both the "Force Bill" (which allowed for use of US military force if states attempted nullification and refused to pay tariffs) and Henry Clay's "Tariff Bill of 1833" (which reduced the tariffs to rates set earlier in 1816) Sadly though the crisis and War itself was avoided the idea of Nullification and States Rights were propelled into the national discourse and discussion And were later the reason why South Carolina again threatened and then followed through with the threat of secession being the first US state to do so
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  1152. He was sold into "indentured servantude"
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  1153. I wonder would Lenin be viewed less favorably in russia had stalin died instead?🤔 And lenin was the one to lead the Russians in ww2? Would they still have suffered 20 million deaths?
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  1154. Very true, I still hopes he burns in hell that teen Killing an innocent by the way of the wife of the archduke.... Unforgivable
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  1155. This is why teens shouldn't be involved in politics Often they become both radical and violent
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  1156. Well remember Hitler thought that German speaking Austrians were "allies" in his sick perverted world view So I am not surprised at his disdain for the young teenager As for me I also dislike the teen but for different reasons 1) I hated at how he became so obsessed with politics that he was radicalised 2) I hated how he willingly and openly used and justified violence to secure his conviction in his political beliefs 3) Most damning of all IMO was he killed an innocent, the archduke's wife Sophie
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  1157. Possible...🤔 But Harvey DID kill that police officer that is a fact And that alone should ruin him, and give him life in prison which he only escaped by his own death
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  1158. Most likely to avoid harsher punishment
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  1159. Yeah it happens... It's rare but it does happen
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  1160. Don't get me wrong I'm happy he was caught but I'm concerned about the abuse of the Genealogy system used to catch him
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  1161.  @lucianjones4727  it doesn't, but it's common to assume so since many vocal conservatives are very quick to defend the American right of arms ownership Honestly just having any self preservation instinct or self defense item should be maintained no matter what your circumstances or politics.
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  1162. 🎶 Il y a une meson en Orleans 🎶 🎶 Qui se sousnomme le Soleil Levant 🎶 🎶 Et ele fu la ruine de maint garsilleurs 🎶 🎶 Dont fui aussi partant.... 🎶
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  1163. Levasseur: "My treasure? It's right where I left it. It's yours if you can find it, but you'll have to search the whole world"
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  1164. Olivier "the Buzzard" Levasseur: "My treasure? It's right where I left it. It's yours if you can find it, but you'll have to search the whole world"
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  1165. Olivier "the Buzzard" Levasseur: "My treasure? It's right where I left it. It's yours if you can find it, but you'll have to search the whole world"
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  1166. "Richest" not likely, but she did become very successful meaning she never got imprisoned or suffered punishment and she made it to retirement But she's tied with Henry Avery a likewise notorious pirate that was just as successful and retired from the pirate lifestyle
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  1167. Oda: "You think I didn't do any research? Ha! I did it all before Wikipedia articles!
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  1168. Nikita Khrushchev the jester who supplanted the "king" of the USSR
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  1169. The missiles in Turkey were already outdated and scheduled to be demolished just this was never acted upon prior to the JFK administration
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  1170. Yeah it was che who started it, he convinced Castro who at first flatly refused to accept the Soviet missiles. Xtra Credit YouTube channel does a much better job at explaining the entire situation
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  1171. How to survive stalin's purge of the military? Galaxy brain 🧠 Zhukov: Be so good at your job that if he purges you he loses the war
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  1172. There were 2 Emperess of China Wu Zetian and Ci'Xi Dowager
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  1173.  @malleableconcrete  I agree stop with these morons using long dead individuals from 1500 years ago to prove or disprove a political opinion
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  1174.  @vexthegreat9167  judging past historical figures by modern standards is both a fallacy and a sign of poor understanding and education.
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  1175. Just mention the Lasah revolt of 1720 to really get the Chinese angry
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  1176. Why does everyone forget about Ci'Xi Dowager?!
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  1177. Ci'Xi Dowager: excuse me WTF?!
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  1178. That's almost 1000 years later
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  1179.  @TheSleepyowlet  unfortunately we keep doing it
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  1180.  @Seele2015au  twitter morons never seem to have gotten that memo 🤣 (Sorry this was broken into two comments)
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  1181. Wu Zetian: who are you? Ci'Xi Dowager: I'm you, but better
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  1182. Wu Zetian got nothing on china's Daji
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  1183. "Oh I have an idea" 😏 "Woman...." 🤨 "Why not write down a formal protest?" 😏 "Don't you dare!" 😠 "You can nail it to his door...." 😏 "Don't you fucking dare!" 😡 "Like a Protestant! 😋
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  1184. If only the Muslim equivalent of the Protestant reformation was as successful 😭😭😭 Sad time during the inquisition of Ibn Hinbal
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  1185. I am glad Spain was able to return to its constitutional monarchy in peace no violence or governmental disarray after Franco's death which is probably the only good thing he left the nation of Spain
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  1186. Same, in contrast at least Alfred Nobel showed sincere regret when he invented dynamite And tried his best to distance himself from the destructive substance and chose to leave a positive legacy by creating the Nobel prize for scientific and academic achievements Literally praying to God that he hopes his Nobel prize would help undo the stain on his soul
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  1187. I think it's weird they're called "freedom units" when they're originating from the British Empire 😆 For the all talk of the US wanting to separate themselves from the UK during the American revolution they sure loved the British government's system of weights and measures
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  1188. I still blame him he set the standard for the horrible trends of media in his life But at the same time I do admit I admire his self-made resilient nature and can do attitude, it takes guts to come to a brand-new county not even speaking the language and having barely any money and yet still making a living is very impressive, there's a reason why so many people still do it even today when they immigrate to the US Especially back then when the very idea of government safety nets and social security were not even a thing
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  1189. You must remember that politics is about timing, had Lincoln said some the more "passionate" things that Adams had said he wouldn't have made it to the position of power he needed to finally enact the measures necessary to bring about the death of slavery
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  1190. Basically he's in the club with Jimmy Carter and William H. Taft A much better career post presidency
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  1191. Agreed, the only reason why governments attempt to interfere is because it's a HUGE income for them as he said in the Spanish government example hundreds of millions of dollars in gold and all that the Spanish government had to do was put pen to paper
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  1192. "Freed" is pretty subjective here as many of the slaves were once again forced to work the dangerous and deadly sugar factories albiet at a meagre wage supplied to them, and because of this they heavily resented Louverture for it. Also in the aftermath of becoming an independent state in 1804 the Hatian government under the orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines committed genocide by killing all of the white French Creoles on the island every man, woman, and child. Only sparing women who agreed to forced marriage to non white men. The killings were applied even to the Creoles who fought with them against the French and were overall sympathetic. He was quoted as saying, "For our declaration of independence, we should have the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for a pen"
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  1193. Burn in hell Robespierre
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  1194. 🎶 Il y a une meson en Orleans 🎶 🎶 Qui se sousnomme le Soleil Levant 🎶 🎶 Et ele fu la ruine de maint garsilleurs 🎶 🎶 Dont fui aussi partant.... 🎶
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  1195. Augustus begins the pax Romana "Huh....well I guess we take those" - Augustus Ceasar
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  1196. Marcus Aurelius is better
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  1197. 1st Stalin? Uhhh no Stalin takes after Ivan not the other way around 🤣
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  1198. @jshowa o agreed you have to be fair and willing to allow all aspects of a story be talked about But i think Washington's good actions far outshines his bad ones Just like Nelson Mandela, where he advocated for child soldiers by the ANC which is unforgivable but at the same time Mandela helped end a regime And those good actions outshine his bad ones despite his failures
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  1199.  @bsjeffrey  hmmm..... Interesting
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  1200.  @bsjeffrey  is that the one on income tax?
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  1201. Has there ever been an amendment that was passed by congress but refused by the States in the ratification process?🤔
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  1202. I agree, it's far better to reveal the faults of a man to help humanize him I respect MLK jr more knowing that he struggled with adultery all his life despite him claiming to be a man of God and also his unknowingly use of plagerism on his theological dissertation And I also respect Mandela more because he suffered consequences for having advocated for the use of scumbag terror tactics such as child soldiers in resisting the S. African regime And yet once he got out of prison he rescinded his support for such tactics and helped bridge the gap as best he could between the two groups w/o violence Presenting these faults helps with the idea that men even good ones, can struggle. It the dumbfuks that think 1 fault is more than enough to simply erase all the success they gained in their life
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  1203.  @vulpes7079  indeed I bet it tastes funny in their mouth It's like the Kenyans talking about the Sultanate of Oman 😅
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  1204. A British person telling the story of the heroics of an American revolutionary Hehehe 😉
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  1205. Agreed the founding of any nation is written in blood
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  1206. Basically the same thing as the Chinese Communist party
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  1207. There's no doubt about that
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  1208. If only the Japanese occupation killed Kim ill sung If only that ww1 allied marksman took the shot at a stranded German soldier
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  1209. Then do one on Queen Tamar
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  1210. Father Amorth: "who are we?" The necessary evil Father Amorth: "And why are we necessary?" To purge the world of evil worse than man Father Amorth: "And why are we ordained by god to take up this unholy task?" Because no one else will Father Amorth: "And its fucking fun!" AMEN
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  1211. Get ad block browser and don't use the YouTube app
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  1212. "Fear the old man in a profession where the men often die young"
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  1213.  @armedwithwings3953  hey when you're a full time athlete you gonna look good 😉
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  1214.  @armedwithwings3953  yeah, still it's an impressive feat of stamina and endurance training even if it would be boring to watch The Japanese likewise had a boring endurance training in which they would practice archery for 10+ hours straight it's called Kyudo I think
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  1215.  @armedwithwings3953  nope, he would dodge until his opponents would become exhausted and give up
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  1216.  @armedwithwings3953  Melankomas
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  1217. The greatest boxer who ever lived likewise never threw a punch
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  1218.  @anonuser4806  unless you are wait for it the Mongols "We're the exception" Cue the Mongoltage
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  1219. Better match up would be Kefka v Lovecraft
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  1220. When did we start pronouncing behemoth as "bay- hey- moth"
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  1221. Vespasian > Aurelian
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  1222. And the only member of Chinggus Khan's inner circle to peacefully retire
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  1223.  @antimatter4733  Allow me to be as civil as I can through text It's not not attack on you but I'm genuine curious if you have this information regarding the long-term complications of our current issue. I would very much like to read it and gain a better understanding of it You don't have to confuse me with the rest of the people you've been chatting with the comments. I've seen some of them and they are rude where it's not warranted or needed I'm more than happy to be respectful and civil, and let evidence speaks for itself rather than me speaking on behalf of the evidence But YES, the individual in the historical issue was definitely in a more dire situation regarding health than compared today as they were still learning of medical sciences NO, you don't need any % of the world population to die to effectively combat a health issue provided your measures are effective YES, people are unfortunately taking advantage of this to promote selfish political policy rather than humanitarianism. The mere fact that borders are closed across the world is without a doubt in my mind making all those individuals and policy makers who dislike migration across national borders: India - Bangladesh Haiti - Dominican Republic China - North Korea US - Mexico Mexico - Guatemala Do the crab rave dance, thanks for reading I look forward to your reply
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  1224. Well....his circumstances were more dire You are highly likely to survive our current issue Whereas in his it was a near guarantee of death
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  1225. Ehhhh.... it's pretty disingenuous to compare the current issue with that the historical one Especially since the survival rate of the historical issue was 20% Meanwhile the survival rate of our current issue is much higher around 90% It's this understanding that these individuals utilize to explain away their mistrust of a mask mandate
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  1226. Correct there are many different dialects and languages spoken in the Semitic world
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  1227. I never would have guessed it would be an ancient Japanese clan symbol designed to symbolically represent dragon scales
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  1228. So....once unified basically the Japanese government descended into a religious intolerant, internationally isolated, military dictatorship in all but name? 🤔 I don't know if I should congratulate the three great unifiers or condemn them? I'm really conflicted
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  1229. The greatest Prussian to have existed. I am proud of my Prussian heritage
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  1230. It's a disgrace what you did to your own people Your daddy beat you like a dog and now your evil - Rasputin to Stalin
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  1231. Are you threatening me comrade?
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  1232. "You're the man of steel? I spit kryptonite!" - Rasputin to Stalin
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  1233. "Cool moustache, Wario " - Rasputin to Stalin
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  1234. The Umayyad caliphate was extremely racist. Only Arabs were allowed to have power and influence. This policy was reversed by the Abbasids
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  1235. I spit on the grave of this king who butchered my fellow Pagans and destroyed the equivalent of the Pagan temple of Jerusalem But then I nod in respect of his military and fighting prowess
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  1236.  @htoodoh5770  In England Oliver was a common medieval name, however it became rare after the 17th century because of the military commander Oliver Cromwell, who ruled the country following the civil war. The name was revived in the 19th century, perhaps in part due to the title character in Charles Dickens' novel 'Oliver Twist' (1838), which was about a poor orphan living on the streets of London.
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  1237. Everytime I hear the phrase "black people can't be racist" I send them this
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  1238. Justice is just a dream if it has no means of enforcement.
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  1239. September 11th horrible day in Chile
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  1240. It's understandable, most nations just talk about their own history, I'm not surprised you also weren't taught the history of Ethiopia It's up to you, the individual to sate your own curiosity to explore history outside of your own nation
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  1241.  @garybrown2039  Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází
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  1242.  @garybrown2039 in addition his foundation has prospered into millions of followers around the world and in many ways rivals the big 3 of the monotheistic Abrahamic traditions
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  1243.  @garybrown2039  sadly he was executed by firing squad...but his name does live on as does his religious teachings and texts
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  1244.  @סולובורן  Oof Well good luck, don't let a Maghreb hear that S-word hahaha 🤣
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  1245. Maghreb, Sephardic or Ashkenazi?
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  1246.  @ouroborosnagyok9306  not even close to what France had back in the day And there's still far worse prisons being operated in China, Brazil, Honduras, and Liberia
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  1247. Careful buddy.... TR absolutely can be criticized especially in regards towards his eagerness to engage in hostilities abroad Regarding the Caribbean nations and how TR was a king in all but name, disregarding their own systems of government to get what he wanted Probably the best example of this was the various "Banana Republics" with TR approving the use of military force to overthrow nations for the benefit of an American fruit company
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  1248. It needs to be said that Imperial Japan had the US listed as the Enemy #2 only Russia was the number one enemy since 1922. It also need to be said that Roosevelt did have Intelligence of the Pearl Harbor attack but he needed to sacrifice in order quell the rampant pacifism after the "war to end all wars" and push the nation towards battle. It's exceptionally deceitful and it should be remembered but Roosevelt did see further ahead with the state of the world.
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  1249. Hey hey don't include Benedict Arnold in that group Benedict Arnold actually is beloved in the US up to a point he was instrumental in some battles of the American revolutionary War to the fact that his leg got blown off and Americans recovered his leg and they built a shrine for it that shrine still stands today
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  1250. It is time for the world to learn about Tippu Tip and the collaboration of Zanzibar and the Arab slavers
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  1251. I'm pretty sure he's also the only ever speaker of the house that was ever sworn into the presidency
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  1252. I feel bad for the guy...his upbringing was difficult to say the least. But he did make his own decision. It's a shame
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  1253. Yet as impossible for it to seem, he really did improve his quality of life. He found what he had always wanted, a wife, children, house and social acceptance. It seems completely asinine to attempt something like this today but in the end James Dresnok got what he wanted he just walked a very peculiar path to get it. I don't recommend others imitate his actions however. The DPRK in 1960 is far different than what it is today
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  1254. I'm a soldier, I haven't slept in 5 years and I have eye bags under my eyes. I haven't seen for myself but so I was told. I am a soldier and I don't have a head, they took it off with their boots. Yo-yo-yo, the commander shouts, commander's mouth is torn open because of the grenade... White wool, red wool does not heal the soldier. I'm a soldier, an immature boy of war. I'm a soldier, mom, tend to my wounds. I'm a soldier, a soldier of a godforsaken country. I'm a hero, tell me of which novel?
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  1255. DW is well enough I like to get mine from a blend of sources: DW, WION, Gravitas, RTÉ News, NTD news, TLDR News, America Uncovered, France 24, Sky News Australia, VICE, Channel 4 news, China Uncensored, just to name a few
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  1256. Every single NATO member has to unanimously agree to add on Ukraine that's why And trying to get multiple leaders if nations to agree on anything is extremely difficult, much less something as complex and serious as a military defensive alliance
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  1257. You can't join NATO when you're in the middle of a conflict and also if you want to join NATO every single member of NATO needs to unanimously approve that country into joining
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  1258. I'm hopeful for change as a result of this but Iran has a past record of shutting down protests that have been far worse than this not to mention Iran has an iron grip over its military and a pretty darn good domestic surveillance system it's going to be difficult for any protest in Iran to succeed in bringing governmental change but we will see what happens I am very hopeful it would be nice to have Iran return to women wearing short mini skirts in public So yeah I am cautionary hopeful but not optimistic
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  1259. the thing is if you fight the police the police just arrest you and then send you off to the front line in Ukraine anyway they're not putting any men that resisted in jail like what happened in the United States when people resisted to go to Vietnam Nope you go to the front lines, as your punishment
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  1260. Yes, in the UK it's weird but when a former PM leaves, in the manner Truss did, they vote in a new one but only those of the departing PM's party are casting votes
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  1261. Lol 🤣 India already battling its own circles within circles amongst it's own domestic political groups much less to care about the ancestry of a person who now runs a government abroad
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  1262. Pretty sure that's not a suggestion of racism in the slightest As he was already being in consideration for the PM at least 3 times but just failed to gain party votes Your casual accusation would hold more weight if he was barred from ever being an MP or PM in the first place on account of his ancestry
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  1263. DAMNIT 2020 STOP GETTING WORSE!!!!!!
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  1264.  @mwanikimwaniki6801  agreed
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  1265. Rip Rhodesia
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  1266. Watch SJWs and liberals say this is the US's fault for no reason but a skewered understanding of the history of Africa restricted to Atlantic slave trade 🤦
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  1267. always hated modern art the finger butt thing just sealed it
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  1268. "To worship my country as a God is to bring ruin upon it" Radbrinath Tagore
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  1269.  @omniyambot9876  okay 👍
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  1270. Russia hates NATO so much they want it to revert to it's 1994 borders 😂
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  1271. "Support the open and civil exchange of views, even views they find repugnant." -Code of Ethics, Society of Professional Journalists
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  1272.  @justin-time5880  ☝️ this China doesn't have the ability toe go toe with any nation in the West but they still have the ability to use nuclear weapons and you have to unfortunately begrudgingly respect that and I'm sorry but there is no Nation that wants to risk China going all batshit crazy as soon as a War begins to look lost for China and using even a single small city sized tactical nuclear weapon because it is literally the only way they can keep pace with the military developments of the Western allied nations it's a sad reality but the fact remains is once you have nuclear weapons you never need fear being invaded by a foreign country ever again through conventional military means and it's that fact of reality is why so many authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships style governments around the world want these weapons so they can continue their mass of carnage within their own borders and guarantee their own survival
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  1273.  @CantusTropus  again I agree but that's you and me being rational and these people running these totalitarian and authoritarian regimes they do not care about being rational if they cared about being rational they wouldn't be invading another sovereign Nation in the case of Russia and Ukraine or committing literal genocide in the case of China and the Uyghurs They care only about survival and if backed into a corner because the threat of a military defeat at the hands of their most hated enemy the allied West they absolutely would resort to a nuclear weapon use
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  1274.  @mastermax2792  I don't know exactly how you could forced a government who is promoting a Genocide to answer for their crimes peacefully But of course the Chinese people would decide their own government even after losing a military conflict, the age of colonization is over Never would the international community allow China to disappear form the map merely because they were committing genocide and lost a war to keep their regime in power
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  1275. I can partially agree but at the same time a large conflict is sometimes necessary to halt an even greater evil And the fact that a literal holocaust like event is happening in China right now in Xinjiang is at least in my personal opinion what makes the idea of use of force open as a means to halt the process And I can guarantee you that if China wasn't a nuclear weapons power they would have already suffered from a UN military coalition put together to invade the Chinese and halt the genocide
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  1276. To Russia Syria was basically a Afghanistan do-over of the Russians fighting in the Western Asian nations and well...sadly it looks like they succeeded this time As Assad has largely come out on top, and he's already receiving back into the fold of many a nation in the international world stage, even amongst his fellow Western Asian nations
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  1277. China Uncensored already made a video pointing out that most export controls to China are being approved by the department of commerce so exactly how effective is this again?
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  1278. You keep making these videos that make the Chinese Communist Party look bad and even patreon will turn on you So watch out for that on the future, best thing to do with the be to create your own website and have entirely replace your Patreon
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  1279. Careful Vietnam maybe "killing" China now but I temper that praise to Vietnam for doing so As Vietnam themselves are also a one-party totalitarian communist country that much like China regularly quashes all descent Granted they don't have as much as a global reach is China does and they don't have a highly sophisticated monitoring system with a social credit score And much like China and their lie flat and let it rot movement the Vietnamese citizenry also express that type of apathy as a means of expressing their descent towards the Vietnamese government
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  1280. Do it! Russia do it! It will be the worst mistake you ever made It will make the invasion of Ukraine and its failure seem trivial in comparison when you attack a NATO member directly And then the full might of the west finally gets to remove Putin from this world
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  1281. I am not siding with China but the history of Tibet being crushed in rebellion by the Chinese goes back well over 300 years all the way to the 1600s And China has conquered Tibet at least 4 times In a way Tibet is in the position that Ireland was in regards to the British empire being that it was a land that was very close to an empire and therefore subjugated and Incorporated into that empire for about 200 years But the identity of the Irish was never fully destroyed much like the identity of Tibetans And that's why Irish and the Tibetans continued to fight against their overlords And while Ireland has won and is now at least existing on the map separate to the UK, Tibet has yet to begin this process or gather and success But I do hope they win, because yes I would hate to see tibetan identity obliterated from the face of the earth
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  1282. Me! What do I win?
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  1283. It's ironic because the pakistanis were arming all of those militants to go into Afghanistan the fight the US and now that they finished those same militants don't care about things like international borders and as you said they are entering into any Nation they deem fit
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  1284. I'll tell you Now usually when a state fails it means it means there is no central authority that can effectively govern the entirety of the nation and it has descended into factionalism Where at that point it's basically a free for all as each side fights to be the next central authority and when that happens it typically invites militant groups to participate in the conflict as well, and they don't have to be state groups either But let's say that a certain nation was fighting against a non-state militant actor and now this non state actor has moved across international borders into the current failed State and then gains rapid success in the factional infighting and is well on their way to being the next government in power if a nation that doesn't like the idea of a non state militant actor becoming a government they will likely intervene and escalate the conflict causing a runaway effect on continuous violence as there's now another new player in the free for all ring That's why nobody likes the idea of failed States and nobody especially likes failed States when they border that failed State and they will do typically anything to ensure the status quo is maintained even if the status quo is not a good one
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  1285. when not if China runs out of water they will undoubtedly put boots on the ground and go full aggressive military action towards any neighboring countries to secure control of the water sources
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  1286.  @shafuimcoming5151  as is everyones list but thanks for not answering the question What is it?
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  1287.  @fmhumlae6697  what is it?
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  1288. what's the FATF? 🤔
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  1289. "The politician who needs the help of a religion to govern is nothing but an idiot!" - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founding father of the Turkish Republic
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  1290. Ar chaz doñv 'yelo da ouez!
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  1291.  @maxdragneel6  that's not false because the only ones that benefit from a secessionist advocate of Kalisitan no longer being amongst the world of living is India The issue is so unique and internal to India that kalistan being independent doesn't affect anybody but India It's just like we have no definitive proof that the Wagner mercenary leader was killed by the Russian state but because his brief rebellion was unique to Russia it's highly likely
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  1292. Well good job buddy now it's not a secret anymore
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  1293.  @Wrv_1313  glad to hear 👍
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  1294. No but they do have very close border it's literally 2.4 miles away from the border of the United States to Russia through the islands in Alaska called the Diomedes And in winter you can walk across the ice bridge that often forms between them although I wouldn't recommend it since that's not a legal border crossing zone and you'll be arrested
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  1295.  @illman8876  Güey ☺️
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  1296. Exempt from overtime?! WHAT! that should be a felony offense holy cow, I never knew that
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  1297.  @Primevalspartan1982  Kansas is surprisingly growing maybe try there, but don't look around Wichita or the South side of Kansas instead try the north and east side close to Kansas City but not Kansas City directly cause that's in Missouri for some fkin reason
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  1298. Yeah... not hiring ex Yakuza is going to push those people who want to rehabilitate back into a life of crime
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  1299. Maybe NOW India will realize that Russia is not an ally as they are doing joint military exercises with the Chinese
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  1300. I wonder why the government of India is supporting the Russians at the UN Security council regarding Ukraine?🤔
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  1301. Man I would not want to be in this guy's shoes he has a serious mess to deal with
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  1302. Basically all Communist nations only take the lowest risk China will never directly engage in combat unless it is absolutely sure of a victory Instead it will go to the brink and escalate then back down It does this in the hopes that the line gets moved ever so slightly back so they can continue to be the aggressor and suffer no consequences
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  1303.  @darkhorseman8263  uhh I'm going to say that no. I don't think Aang San Syu Kyi is at the beck and call of the military leash because 1) she had been under house arrest for over 30 years at the hands of Burmese military forces 2) She has easily expressed her condemnation during the events of 8-8-88 which were instigated by Burma's military I truly think that Aang San Syu Kyi is in a similar situation to Mohandas Gandhi. A person fighting for freedom and being an inspiration to others, while at the same time being a human with faults such as a closet racist. This is most evident when in 2019 she represented Burma at the International Court of Justice to defended her government's actions against the accusation of genocide concerning the Rohingya This isn't to say that she isn't a great person for standing up to injustice but she is limiting her view of justice to just that of the Burmese population. And not supporting the minorities who have been living in Burma for generations It's a valid criticism and I don't believe that she can continually hide behind the idea of the "military made me do it" forever
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  1304. I've been thinking about trying to join the Indian military forces for some time now would you be willing to accept a former US Marine?
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  1305. I've been musing on joining the Indian military forces for a while now, so as to help combat China directly would you be willing to accept a former US Marine?
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  1306. What you gonna do India? Canada had those two michaels kidnapped but they basically had to do a prisoner exchange, and give back the Huawei CFO. You gonna do something similar? Or you gonna send in a strike team?
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  1307.  @Geekwithnonumnum  well I'd like to believe that but unfortunately India sided with Russia at the UN Security council regarding the issue of Ukraine
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  1308. What Khan said is complete Bullshit, the west has largely cut off all ties to Pakistan except for the essential ones such as embassy staff because of Pakistan's ongoing assistance to fund and train terror groups world wide. No one likes Pakistan The West and especially the US trust the nation of India 10x more than the words of Pakistan. The only thing keeping the relationship between India and the Western block/NATO back is the pro russian cultural ties India still maintains with the former USSR
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  1309. Yes YouTube absolutely the fk does. It's shameful because YouTube is blocked in China, why the company would defend an authoritarian regime that blocks it is beyond me
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  1310. At long last it begins now China will see what it's like to interfere in the politics of the Middle East I guarantee you the Taliban will take no slight however small on-the-nose they are already planning to get back at China for this and they know that the best way they can do so is by appealing to uyghurs who are fellow Muslims who have lived in terrible squalor under the Chinese government
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  1311. This won't really change much because the United States still has CENTCOMM as an area of responsibility
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  1312. I'm telling you that if just India, Russia and the US all joined in alliance we would have a world triumvirate
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  1313.  @nm9864  yeah I don't think she's going to be remembered for that more so her authoritarianism at the expense of Indians and their democracy system later on in her political career
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  1314. Just please be a better female leader of India than Indira Gandhi
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  1315. If it hasn't been made clear to India yet the US has changed its stance since 1950s on the nation of Pakistan and sees the nation as an enemy
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  1316. Wow! First Gorbachev and now Elizabeth II I am highly surprised RIP 😔
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  1317. Never forget that the Canadian government keeps voting against the recognition of Palestine as a state Yet the meme is that they are for human rights and minorities.....🤦
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  1318.  @emphatic5580  I never said you were the definition of anything but yes India has had a terrible terror problem with a violent communist group called the Naxalites that's fact I just was asking a question what prompted the alliance with a communist nation, the Soviet Union, when your own country was and in many ways still is, suffering from a communist terror group
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  1319.  @Jenvlogs404  every bond is political Eventually the government of India will have to make it's choice Trying to play both sides nets you nothing look at Afghanistan for proof of that Afghanistan government tried to educate their military officers in the Soviet Union and they tried to educate their bureaucrats in the US and all it did was create factionalism and infighting which caused the collapse of the monarchy and a string of strong man regimes
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  1320.  @MrPoornakumar  I never did separate them India will have to go through whatever process it wants to pick a long term ally and it will be India's citizens and their government leaders that choose But they WILL have to eventually that's all I'm saying And they can't do both in the long term sadly
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  1321.  @MrPoornakumar  no it's for the people of India to choose but they will have to choose eventually
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  1322. You're going to have to choose very soon India between friendship with Russia who by the way just created and alliance with China Or pick the United States who has China as public enemy number one right now
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  1323.  @stx7951  welp I'm convinced. Can't let our grandmas not be happy..... else we suffer the consequences....😳
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  1324. If only ukraine had joined NATO prior to 2014 it might still have had Crimea today
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  1325. 🤔
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  1326. "What I remember of the fall of freedom to protest is...how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Canadian republic, Trudeau the prime minister of Canada discreetly had legions of riot police forces secretly moved to the capital Ottawa to put down a peaceful trucker protest. We all knew what was about to happen what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts any traitorous thoughts? Possibly, but no one said anything, not when the order came down, now when we marched over the protesters. Not a word" -501st Precinct Journal
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  1327.  @dev786ish  and the US has completely renounced all previous alliance agreements with Pakistan Like India they see Pakistan as for what it is, a failed nation where non-muslims are forever not welcome
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  1328.  @dev786ish  the weapons you got from Russia were still soviet era and it was such a problem that your government actually went and purchased arms from Israel a major US ally and you've been building ties with israel ever since
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  1329.  @dev786ish  and the US has never invaded India, they forced the UK after WW2 to abandon all colonial holdings so you could actually have independence Not even during the 1971 indo-pak war did the US deploy troops to Indian soil
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  1330.  @dev786ish  and in regards towards nuclear weapons who do you think helped Pakistan (your enemy) get their nuclear weapons in the first place? The Chinese Ergo the Chinese forced you to gain nuclear weapons just so you could keep abreast of Pakistan
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  1331.  @dev786ish  China a strategic ally? Buddy they pushed you out of a segment of Kashmir which is your sovereign territory and they sponsor terror groups in Kashmir, Eastern India (Naxilites) They have Nepal's government in their hand, and they are threatening Bhutan with the same border encroachment tactics that India suffers from China is NOT India's ally in anything, and on top of all that Russia supports the actions China is taking against you I hope you and your nation will eventually reason that you might need to rethink who you want to ally with, Vietnam would be a better strategic partner in that regard
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  1332.  @JustAPokemonCommentingOnVideos  I don't understand how you are supporting a nation which also supports China you know the country that invaded you in 1962 and also has border disputes with you on the daily basis
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  1333.  @dev786ish  I fail to see how this is a "backstab" to Ukraine since Ukraine isn't a NATO country the US can't legally send their troops there
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  1334.  @ravirana2001  I question the quality of friends India likes to keep especially in regards to Russia an authoritarian regime sharply contrasting the democratic system of the Indian nation
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  1335. A bunch of dumbasses that just decided to ruin a painting for no reason They could have done a much better job I just going out and chatting it up with people but no they had to resort to vandalism just to get their message out and their message isn't nothing that we've already heard
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  1336. The OIC is as about as useless as the UN in protecting the rights of Muslims and other faith groups
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  1337.  @adamtharpe1305  I know that, I'm not even a Trump supporter and guess what you will still respect the dead and toss aside your politics to have humanity
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  1338. India already built a border wall between it and Bangladesh
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  1339. 1962 China invaded India while the entire world panicked and was distracted over the Cuban missile crisis Never forget
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  1340. Not many people explore history outside their own world view Just like they don't know about the terror attack in 2003 in the capital of Saudi Arabia
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  1341.  @Freestyler4130  if a NATO country follows the US in defense of Ukraine it will also be a result of a unilateral decision
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  1342. You can't get mad at just the phrase "pbuh" used by itself it's not a picture of him for crying out loud! God the fanaticism of some people 🤦
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  1343.  @SeattlePioneer  I agree India has done well, all things considered as a nation thats only existed as Dominion in '47 and full independence in 1950 but you can't ignore and downplay the issues it has had previously And I hope it continues to do well, but if it wants to try and continue to placate both the West by being against China and the East by being Pro- Russia that's a policy that can't be sustainable it's going to have to make a choice
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  1344. Really? Is that why you had race riots in the 1980s against the Sikhs? Is that why you supported the terror group The Tamil tigers? Is that why you had Indira Gandhi become extremely authoritarian later on in her political career? Don't self mythologize India has issues just like any other Nation
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  1345. I agree, I hope India creates a military expeditionary force so can actually send its military abroad to help deal with crises and help promote Indian government's image in the global war on terror India has potential it's true but when discussing the Indian military it is sadly lacking as India doesn't even have an overseas military base, contrast that with the US, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China
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  1346. Who do you root for when the Taliban and the Chinese Communist Party square off against each other?🤔
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  1347. That's the biggest lie I've ever heard from the Taliban
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  1348. I really hope so, the Baloch people need independence!!! Freedom for Balochistan! freedom from Pakistan!!!
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  1349.  @AyushR167  great see you later maybe next time when you learn to listen then we can have a conversation 👍
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  1350.  @AyushR167  I am aware of many things you on the other hand are refusing to listen and reflect upon anything that I say even though I have kept it objective and factual the entirety and so I'm not going to waste the time
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  1351.  @AyushR167  I don't know why you don't seem to understand that China is in Kashmir they invaded it in 1962 and they have never left if you want to do some weird mental gymnastics where you say that Aksai Chin isn't a part of Kashmir but is ladakh then fine, stretch the definition if that's what makes you feel better, but the point still stands that it is your territory THEY KILLED 7000 INDIANS to obtain And it is part of Chinese controlled Kashmir to this day Why you keep failing to recognize this point I will never know I also will never know why you seem to also fail to remember that it was the United States who responded to Neru's request to help And it was they who sent an aircraft carrier en route to the region, knowing the Americans were coming is what caused the Chinese to finally do a unilateral ceasefire and yet Russia, your ally stood by and did nothing Even retroactively when Indira Gandhi finally made the alliance with the Soviets formal Russia still to this day has done nothing and has never commented on the fact nor given condemnation of China's actions
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  1352.  @AyushR167  China does claim kashmir if they didn't want it they wouldn't have invaded and they wouldn't still be there today And Russia gave a thumbs up to the Chinese invasion of kashmir did you seem to forget that part China and Russia are colluding and Russia will pick China and they will cut it out India in a heartbeat Russia has never once condemned China's actions towards India in regards to Nepal the border skirmishes the invasion of Kashmir the Chinese and their investments of the belt and Road initiative in Sri Lanka Russia has not once condemned their actions despite the fact that all of those have had a negative impact towards India
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  1353.  @AyushR167  right.... and yet China has invaded both Russia and India China even openly declares that it is proper owner and wants sovereign territory of rightful Indian (Kashmir) and Russian (Vladivostok) and it says it's open to using military force to reclaim said territory These nations are not friends no matter what they may say on the paper none of them joint military exercise, share intelligence, work with international enforcement or mutual cultural exchanges India better realize this quick or it will soon find itself at the mercy of Chinese economic and military power from Russian supplied gas
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  1354.  @AyushR167  if you say so why you cheer for a nation that cheers when you're attacked I don't know
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  1355. It's your chance to shine India Russia is applauding everything China does will you continue to side with Russia despite the fact that they clap every time China has border skirmishes with you?
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  1356. And just like the third Reich, they are getting away with genocide 😔
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  1357.  Kitty Cat  I just answered to another comment regarding this fact I never said it's a dispute Neither China North Korea is arguing about the location of the border line I said that there is tension, as China does not like North Koreans crossing the border into China and they are not sympathetic to North Korean nationals meaning they deport any and all they find
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  1358.  @jrc2946  yea I know blame auto correct on that one 🤣
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  1359.  @Kncperseus  but the Chinese HATES when North Koreans cross the border though?🤔
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  1360. Get this idiot out of office! "Ar chas doñv 'yelo da ouez"
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  1361. Title is kinda click bait, Ukraine is NOT a part of NATO so any conflict in Ukraine if other nations did decide to respond it would be unilaterally not from the NATO coalition
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  1362.  @jrobertsoneff  any military of any Nation can sail into any EEZ at any time unannounced so long as they keep a steady non-deviating course to quickly exit the EEZ and they do not remain in the area for an extended period of time If they fail at these measures then it will trigger some sort of response typically an outcry of condemnation
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  1363. I feel like the Norman Greenbaum's song "spirit in the sky" should be the perfect go to song for any military aircraft carrying out combat operations
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  1364. Never forget India that it was Pakistan who created the Taliban and pointed them towards Afghan soil
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  1365.  @myview5840  tell that to Pakistan who created the Taliban and pointed them towards Afghan soil Why? Because a stable Afghanistan is a threat to Pakistani security interests, Afghanistan and Pakistan share a border, the Durran line, which the border line cuts in half the historic lands of the Pashtuns The Pashtuns themselves have more close cultural ties with Afghanistan and refuse to learn to speak Urdu (the national language of Pakistan) or recognise the authority of the Pakistani central government they'd prefer independence or Afghan annexation To keep the region under Pakistani control Pakistan have been working to undermine and destabilise Afghanistan at every opportunity Because they fear they could loose a significant amount of sovereign territory if Afghanistan were to assert itself and take charge of the situation Especially since the Pakistani government faces off against 3 separatist movements; independent Balochistan, independent Pashtunistan, and independent Kashmir The US knew nothing of this, they just saw: "Oh USSR in Afghanistan? well that means we must participate in this region's geopolitical issue to counter them"
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  1366. What's interesting is Japan has extremely strict gun laws so this was not a lone wolf attack by a random person who turned out to be just a pissed off Japanese citizen that just really didn't like shinzo Abe This is definitely something larger
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  1367.  @deed2157  that just furthers illustrates how extreme the control of guns is in Japan the sheer fact the criminal could not get a gun other than making one himself Point proven
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  1368.  @deed2157  I never said it was it was merely irrelevant to the point I was making
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  1369.  @deed2157  doesn't change what I said
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  1370. What's interesting is Japan has extremely strict gun laws so this was not a lone wolf attack by a random person who turned out to be just a pissed off Japanese citizen that just really didn't like shinzo Abe This is definitely something larger
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  1371. There never was any "cooperation" China always breaks its promises on everything when will people understand this China has polluted 80% of its national groundwater and you can't blame any of that on "foreign influence" because China considers it's water to be a state secret and doesn't allow foreigners to have access to it So what makes you think China is going to try to agree in climate response when they can't do anything in protecting their own environment
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  1372. I don't think they had much of a choice in the matter
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  1373.  @richardweiss3931  no they didn't the only reason my nation ever sided with the Soviet Union was because of Indira Gandhi breaking our traditional non-aligned movement during the Cold War and she chose Russia or again the Soviet Union rather because Pakistan had chosen itself to be allied with the United States and there is no way in hell my nation of India will ever Ally itself on the same side as Pakistan Russia never ever came to the rescue of India and they won't because Russia likes China too damn much and China uses Pakistan as a stick to poke at India
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  1374. I hope India takes the place of Russia and turns the G7 back into the G8 and I hope India eventually starts to break away from their historical ties with Russia because Russia right now is cheering on the Chinese in every aspect and the Chinese have guns pointed down range at Indians Why India praises Russia even though Russia praises the Chinese and the Chinese literally attack fellow Indians I don't know
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  1375.  @rosackoh1959  oh I don't doubt it, which is why I'm surprised the Indian government still supports the Russians, But the Chinese will 100% backstab Russia no matter how friendly it seems on the surface they want Vladivostok back and they want it back badly
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  1376.  @elenadonets5325  since when is Brazil in 100 counties?
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  1377. Sorry Kim's sister better luck next time
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  1378. Without any armament the civil population of Hong Kong won't stand a chance. It's a shame to see democracy die, but civilians that have no military training, no access to any private messaging, no ability to move and gather without being monitored, and can at best only be armed with bricks, metal rods, and baseball bats are in a pathetic state to defend their democratic way of life
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  1379.  @tominnis8353  again nothing but a symbolic condemnation, even if the CCP blatantly and publicly violated the 1997 agreement, tomorrow Hong Kong wouldn't revert back to UK control.
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  1380. The UK has no military forces to combat against the violation of the 1997 treaty It goes to show, that at the fundamental level if you want to claim something you better have force to back it up, and the evil CCP has that military force It can violate the 1997 treaty at will and experience little to no consequences, because the UK can do nothing, they can condemn it sure, but that means little to the CCP, and it would only be a symbolic condemnation at best
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  1381. Ethiopia where ethnicity and religion are more divisive than India
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  1382. The UN cannot send in UN forces into any nation unless invited
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  1383. Still won't solve the internal divisions ethiopia faces Where tribal identity is more highly valued than national identity And the 3 main ethnic groups Oromo, Amharic, and Tigray all have their own distinct languages and religious traditions
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  1384. Basically NK is broke again and wants free $ in the form of "humanitarian aid"
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  1385. All the international support in the world didn't save Hong Kong before and it won't save it now Only a show of force will make sure the CCP leaves HK alone for good
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  1386. Gee it's almost like not letting border guards battle human trafficking because it's "racist" leads to long term consequences
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  1387.  @treesaremadeofwood2145  but didn't the Verona project find significant weaknesses in OTP because the ciphers they used was based on natural existing languages?
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  1388.  @treesaremadeofwood2145  okay, I guess that would solve that problem it seems a little rudimentary but that would technically make it so both parties would be able to coordinate which key to use I guess the only other issue would be just the sheer volume of keys you would need on reserve for your decryption because if you're going to be receiving multiple messages you would need hundreds if not thousands of keys on reserve and since you can only use them one time so you would need all those keys stored in storage and then brought out used and then immediately discarded That does seem pretty wasteful and pretty tedious however
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  1389. Take me with you! I am not going past Windows 10 operating system Windows 11 has completely turned me off I want to go to Linux when windows 10 ceases it's support in 2025 But I don't know the first thing about Linux and how to install it or what to do for customization
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  1390. Gonna have to wait for the price to go down a lil bit more but other than that I'm very interested in getting one of these
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  1391. I mean vpns can be blocked by people that own Minecraft servers for crying outloud they are not all that good and never assume a vpn is a one size fits all You need to shop around and you need to look at their privacy policy to understand what it is they can do and offer
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  1392. Only to the towers you could still get a internet connection via any Wi-Fi because that's just a separate antenna system searching for Wi-Fi signal so if you don't have a SIM card you won't get a direct internet connection like a data and you won't be able to make/receive incoming and outgoing calls
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  1393.  @jaybee9269  yeah it was sorry I couldn't spell it correctly 😂 but yes he was a recruit under those circumstances where he was I'm giving the option to either go to jail or serve in the military
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  1394. "The profligate's morale is in the shitter"
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  1395. I've got a few tears because Russia has instituted mandatory conscription so some people are being forced to fight regardless but I have no tears for the Russian government
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  1396. It's going to be a long hard Road to do all the rebuilding in the aftermath of this but that's probably when I will head back over and try to help I'm a certified electrician and contractor so I'll try to help with the rebuilding of buildings and homes And if I like it I might stay and maybe open up a restaurant
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  1397. China hates Russia and they want Vladivostok as well as other Russian held territory in the Russian Far East
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  1398. 9:37 Damn son that's a very small ribbon rack for 6 years of service lol 😂
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  1399.  @rogerwilco5918  Damn Skippy! Even a better performance than I could have imagined I clap for you 👏
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  1400. I got to say I think it's pretty ironic that a faschsidst regime is having a parade to celebrate the defeat of another faschsidst regime 🤣
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  1401. There actually are a lot of parade-like events that are being done by the active duty US military, mostly they are being done by the Honor Guard who's sole focus is nothing but Parades, Retirements, Funerals, Promotions, etc. but it can and often does go further than that the USAF for instance likes to put on Air Shows where they will designate a base or sometimes even a civilian or private airstrip to be the host of the airshow, and they will have active duty military forces show off their aircraft and pilots
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  1402. buddy you don't understand he was flushing down his internal passport that allows him to travel between territories within the Russian federation there are two passports in Russia one that goes international one that goes in between within the actual country I know shocking right not a lot of countries allow freedom of movement within their own borders
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  1403. Oh great it's the Edward Snowden question all over again
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  1404. It was the internal passport the Russian federation does not allow freedom of movements within its own borders unlike Nations such as the United States you need an internal passport to go between different Oblasts
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  1405. Hard to do an investigation with the war still literally raging on
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  1406. Jake please do not fall for that trap of "oh Ukraine had nuclear weapons" because it's more nuanced than that Ukraine did NOT have the weapons capability, at no time could they ever launch a strike, being first, or retaliation All the all codes and processes were kept strictly within the Soviet Union and the Kremlin and we're never given to the Ukrainians even when they were a satellite state What the government of Ukraine did have in 1991 when they found themselves independent was they had physical control over access to those weapons that's it and that's why the ukrainians were so eager to get rid of them because they feared a potential justification from the Russian federation of "recovering" their lost assets through a military force or operation
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  1407. A million Russian men's ives are about to be extinguished.... oh man the Jedi really going to feel this one 😅
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  1408.  @StephenGillie  and I agree yeah you need to do some sort of process to get the sewage to turn back into fertilizer and North Korea is so poor they have no means of doing so
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  1409.  @StephenGillie  that's not true at all even the city of New York recycles it's human waste and sewage and turns it into fertilizer It's just New York city has an industrial complex designed to do entirely that clean it up and not just dump literal raw sewage out in there for the crops to grow instead they go through an entire process where they turn the from sewage into something called "cake" and then they bring it hauled in semi trucks to the farm fields There's even a real quick 15 minute documentary on this process
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  1410. Are you sure he's brought up fertilizers before now there's a huge shortage of them and how even phosphate fertilizers and nitrogen fertilizers are in high demand worldwide
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  1411. Get these ads out of the video please they force us to watch two prior to the video and 2 at the end Please we don't need more interruptions in the video itself
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  1412. Yeah that sounds about right the moment any nuclear weapon is used in warfare the entire world is going to take notice and they will do some extreme condemnation and it could be as you say, a use of the nuclear strike even a small tactical one would be more than enough to justify direct military intervention
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  1413. Holodomor 2.0
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  1414. Good I hope they take back the entirety of Crimea
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  1415. Zelinsky Yoda: "Fought well you have my old enemy" Dooku Putin: "This is just the beginning!"
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  1416. Frankly I'm surprised Ireland wasn't in NATO already if I had to guess probably the only reason they weren't in NATO was that the shared border up in Northern Ireland and the conflict not entirely being resolved yet
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  1417. No it's a pretty rare to allowed Nations to develop their own nuclear weapons capability for when they do it's a real major misstep to the geopolitics of the world and the security council and I'm in agreement Nations should not need to keep developing their own personal stock pile of the nuclear weapons as the only means of the guaranteeing their territorial sovereignty and I say this because the more Nations that have nuclear weapons the higher chances for not attacks but instead nuclear weapons mishaps such as the Goldsboro incident in North Carolina in the 1960s That incident where a B-52 stratofortress aircraft carrying two 3–4-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process Information declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came close to detonating, with three of the four required triggering mechanisms having activated. Lt. Jack ReVelle, the bomb disposal expert responsible for disarming the device recalled the moment the second bomb's switch was found: "Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant [Earl Smith] say, 'Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch.' And I said, 'Great.' He said, "Not great. It's on arm."
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  1418. This guy is the equivalent of Yuppie Don who quit the Italian-American Mafia publicly back in the 1990s For those who don't know law enforcement agencies for a very long time officially denied the existence of the Mafia
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  1419. Never forget that the current dictators of both Hungary and Turkey, Orban and Erdogan, are also an apologists for Russia despite being NATO members 🤦
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  1420. "You will die! "When I say "You will die!" Back to the front!" -Metallica
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  1421. "You will die! "When I say "You will die!" Back to the front!" -Metallica
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  1422. You know it's odd I've never heard Putin's voice before 🤔 It was always overdubbed with someone translating
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  1423. Now I hope it stays just a meme too But there is always a chance that a dictator like Putin might be willing to do the unthinkable to stay in power And allow for usage of not something like ICBMS but rather a smaller scale strategic use of short-medium range small sized payloads that can flatten a city Heck there's even a modern day precedent of a dictator using weapons of mass destruction to stay in power in a modern day military conflict/battle space and that happened with Syria under Assad and the chemical weapon usage
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  1424. They wouldn't employ icbms they would employ smaller scale Likely strategic nuclear weapons those being short-medium range with small sized payloads aka city flatteners stuff that you can just haul on a truck have it set up close enough to a target and make it extremely difficult to shoot down once launched just because of how close in proximity it would be Still very equally terrifying
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  1425. Looks like the Russians took notes from the Afghanistan military forces 🤣🤣
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  1426.  @polishonion459  it's a minor conflict but it does as you say have the potential to turn into something larger but even if the balance of power shifts and a bunch of countries start to reinvest in their militaries it still doesn't push them into a conflict necessarily At present it is just a minor conflict
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  1427. I just hope that Putin doesn't take after the to idea of Stalin where they literally threw bodies after bodies to overwhelm the enemy by sheer numbers and it's reflective WW2 had Russia with the worst casualties of any participant over 20 million deaths let's hope something like that is never repeated even for a minor conflict such as this
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  1428. Jake if Russia does go full retyard and uses a small scale tactical nuclear weapon You are going back into the Airforce, and infact a lot of people are going to go back into service as it will then be game on, And an entire multinational military coalition not seen since the first Iraq war to liberate Kuwait will created to take down the Russian government Because there's no way that Russia could use a weapon like that in warfare and expect to not receive a universal condemnation
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  1429.  @jmolofsson  yeah that's BS because the Americans have been telling the Germans hey you're too entangled into Russian supplied energy get out there will be a conflict and you will be unable to participate fully in the economic penalties on Russia because of how entangled you are without hurting yourselves in fact when Trump did it he was laughed at by the German delegation at the United Nations but it's not just Trump Obama said that this was a weakness and his predecessor Bush Junior even said it was a weakness that could be exploited by the Russians
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  1430. "You will die when I say you will die" "Back to the front!" -Metallica
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  1431. Somehow I had a feeling that a car bomb was going to be claimed by an organization whose name is very similar to the IRA Now it's the RNA I wonder if they'll be getting tips and training in Ireland 😂
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  1432. Hi Jake great video Just a quick nitpick Jake regarding your take on Switzerland, it's great that Switzerland is trying to break out of neutrality because it's unnecessary Some of the more vocal dissenters of the Swiss Neutrality will claim they are essentially freeloading because they are effectively surrounded by NATO Meaning they will never ever be invaded by a hostile foreign force because that force will have to cross through NATO to get to Switzerland Which while is true but a little bit insulting to Switzerland Yet regarding Swiss weapons, once a country purchases weapons from Switzerland they're not the property of Switzerland anymore so those countries that purchase those weapons can give them to other countries if they ever wished It's possible however if Switzerland disapproved of who was being given the weapons that Switzerland wouldn't resupply that previous buyer but that hasn't been applied consistently by the Swiss government Victory for Ukraine!
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  1433. Sorry Jake but I disagree with you on "keeping Russians inside Russia", there is enough people that don't support the war but they have been bullied and intimidated into silence and they have or are in the process of fleeing And it's those people who I think need to be accepted, so I recommend: "Keep Russian war supporters inside Russia"
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  1434. You don't need to censor "castration" it's not a banned word
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  1435. God damn everyone wants to harp on the US and their war misconduct but they got nothing on Russia Holy shit destroying places of worship in a battlefield is a fkin Warcrime and they're just doing it with absolutely no regard
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  1436. If Russia is indeed "winning" in Ukraine then they are surely paying a heavy price for it Which is fitting as the last time Russia invaded another sovereign Nation barely 30 years old whilst claiming to "de-nachify" it, the nation was Finland and it was the Winter War And technically yes, the Russians under Stalin did "win" the conflict with Finland who unfortunately lost territory by the end of the conflict it is true But the extremely heavy price and blood spilt by the the Russian soldiers made that victory taste like nothing but ash And the entire world condemned the actions of the Russians making them a pariah
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  1437. China is helping russia by both propaganda and information war however Its been spreading pro russian stories ever since day 1 of the invasion And even when the US warned that a Russian citizens invasion of Ukraine was imminent China said it was the US being alarmist and trying to "reignite" cold war tensions
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  1438. Gee it's almost like when the West and America pulls out of the region other wannabe powerful countries that also have expeditionary military forces come in to place a claim in the newly created power vaccum China is doing this now by hosting talks with the Taliban and sending the PLA into Afghanistan
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  1439. Search up Kraut and his 3 part video series on Turkey
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  1440. Yeah I can see that, I mean W. Germany had to foot the bill to E. Germany and their economic development after reunification and it's a scar that still hasn't healed properly Where even to this day it's exploited in German politics, and you can even see it reflected in the political party divide as political party memberships still roughly follow the old E. German/ W. German borders And N. Korea is in a far worse state than E. Germany was, so it would be a far draining project to the government of S. Korea
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  1441. You lost control over a portion of your city, you need to resign and give up your position of authority as mayor. An honourable individual would leave with dignity
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  1442. "Weregild"
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  1443. Caligula is a pretty tragic story, he was abused physically and shexually by the previous ruler of Rome, the paranoid Tiberius Tiberius was known to give out punishments of execution for some of the stupidest reasons and sadly his mistreatment towards little Caligula is what turned the young boy into a monster in the shape of a man Luckily Caligula at least got his vengeance towards Tiberius by having him killed with the help of the praetorian guard, but because of the upbringing he had suffered he would unleash that upon the rest of the Romans
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  1444. Lol did the map accidentally include Australia? I didn't see that 😂 I have to rewind
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  1445. The man. the legend. All hail Diocletian the king and emperor of cabbages!!!
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  1446. Agreed
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  1447. Its ok he didn't live to adulthood
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  1448.  @smegmadiver22  yes they do! lol😂 it's what I've been trying to tell you, The DoD is the largest federal level government employer, with well over a million employees, that includes all 5 military service branches (300,000+ are in the US Air Force alone) and their civilian-hire GS agents And how it operates is indicative of how the entirety of the federal level of government will operate And because the DoD also disseminates the information it gathers to other departments, branches, and levels of government on a daily basis it NEEDS to ensure clear and concise information by utilizing a single language to do so! Your site you chose to glean information from isn't correct because whoever maintains it or created it in the first place isn't familiar with the standards dictated by the DoD, or the demands placed on government in ensuring information is spread around government offices as quickly and accurately as possible
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  1449.  @smegmadiver22  yes there IS an official language at the federal level 😂 all government publications; including but not limited to; memos, operating instructions, military work manuals, inventory forms, engineering blueprints, even classified documents, at the federal level are drafted and must be drafted IN ENGLISH Every single email from joint chiefs of staff, the secretary of state, the secretary of energy, secretary of the interior, even civilian-hire GS employees that send information to multiple departments even ones outside of the DoD must have command of fluency in, and must draft all their publications in English In addition every single Military service member are federal employees THEY MUST SPEAK IN ENGLISH at all times when they are tasked with their respective day to day duty assignments OR at all times in a deployed environment The one exception are cryptographic linguist students, who are subjected to 8 months of schooling in Monterey bay California. They are HIGHLY encouraged to utilize their assigned language in as many instances as possible to gain a fluency of their language as fast as possible to pass the 8 month course Only when they are off duty or on leave can they speak another language Your site information is incorrect
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  1450.  @smegmadiver22  yes the US DOES have an official language it is the language that all government operations municipal, state, and federal must be carried out in and it is English Those 3 levels can then choose to translate their operations if they want but they do not have to You can't be a soldier, a postal worker, a senator, a president, a congressman, or any other type of government employee at municipal, state, or federal level if you do not have fluency in English If you don't then you must obtain it, or the position will be denied to you, living in Puerto Rico I learned that the national guardsmen had to conduct all their drills/military operations/medical screenings/ recruitment processes in English even though Spanish is their mother tongue and the majority of the island uses Spanish Because the national guardsmen had to communicate with their counterparts in the US mainland on a daily basis
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  1451. Because the US official language isn't Spanish it's English which is not a Latin based language English is a Germanic language
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  1452.  @GingeryGinger  "Byddwn Yma hyd ddiwedd amser.... a bydd yr iaith Gymraeg yn fyw!" https://youtu.be/fkBQAvAFjus
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  1453.  @GingeryGinger  Ry'n no yma o hyd
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  1454.  @GingeryGinger  Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth
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  1455.  @GingeryGinger  it didn't, Latin did not enter in the Anglo-Saxon English language until the Norman conquest
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  1456. No it was not English has and always will be at Germanic language it was a Germanic language for over a thousand years it only started becoming influenced by Latin when the Normans conquered England and brought with them Latin words
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  1457.  @dglade47  if it wasn't for Marcus Aurelius and his military campaigns there would be no peace within Rome Irelian is overrated Marcus Aurelius and his four other contemporary good emperors are the actual best emperors of Rome
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  1458.  @dglade47  sorry but yes that's exactly what we was talking about and yes he is less important than the era of the five good emperors especially Marcus Aurelius
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  1459.  @dglade47  but he pales in comparison to Marcus Aurelius as well as the remaining 4 good emperors So I don't know what to tell ya 🤷
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  1460. He's outclassed by the era of the good emperors though especially Marcus Aurelius who Aurelian was named after
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  1461. When you can survive an assassination you get enjoy the credit
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  1462. Good geese bad dog!
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  1463. "A true man plants trees all while knowing full well he will never live to sit beneath their shade"
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  1464. Yep
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  1465. Lol just wait till you get into the history of ancient china 🤣 They make Rome look like a puddle when it comes to the ocean of death
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  1466. Geese > Dogs FACTS!
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  1467. Gorbachev will forever be hated in Russia but loved in the west
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  1468. Ehhh.... Kinda he still supported the annexation of Crimea in 2014 though
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  1469.  @The_Prophet...  yes but in the long term it might serve a purpose, when Putin will try to go into exile, if he ever gets removed from power, knowing that there's a warrant for his arrest will severely restrict his options Also there's supposed to be a BRICS summit in S. Africa soon, and S. Africa does recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC so if Putin decided to attend in person there's a slim chance he might face arrest but seeing the current political climate in S. Africa I doubt it
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  1470.  @building-F  and yet somehow Erdogan has stayed in office despite his failures surrounding the Turkish economy So I don't think democracy is good at removing the inept
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  1471. I was not surprised in the least you don't get the ability to humiliate Putin like that and then expect to live well into your 80s
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  1472. A lot of missed details in this video, next time do better visual politic or else your credibility will take a larger hit
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  1473.  @elgrandjefe4661  yes it absolutely does Because first of all it was a boast in 1957 by Khrushchev who said that his long-range missiles were capable of hitting targets even when in fact they were not so the United States acted upon his bost in 1957 as well as the sputnik launch in 1957 to install those missiles in Turkey And they did so by a demand of the Turkish government who was also at NATO member and wanted assurances from the United States that they could offer protection to the Turkish people from the Russians who again turkey believed the 1957 boast that Khrushchev gave So yes it absolutely does Don't try this what about or if positions were reversed crap because it's not going to work
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  1474. No buddy those missiles were already in the process of being decomissioned and removed by the US government The Soviet Union escalated the issue
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  1475.  @niclasjohansson4333  again no, I recommend you watch Extra Credits YouTube video on the subject it's the best I've seen discussing the topic and covering all the perspectives Che Guevara convinced Castro to accept the missiles, Castro wanted a mutual defense treaty again to not appear weak
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  1476. No, the US was already in the process of decomissioning those missiles and removing them Kruschev escalated the conflict in an attempt to booster his own power within the Soviet Union
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  1477. I think Putin would only ever go to jail if he ever leaves the jurisdiction of his Nation and any of his allied nations And that's a rapidly shortening list, heck he's not even welcome in South Africa anymore and they are supposed to be BRICS partners
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  1478. Remember when the United Nations and the Germans specifically laughed at president Trump when he warned them specifically of an over-reliance upon energy produced by a hostile Nation intent on expansionist policies?
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  1479. Never forget that Prince MBS signed off on the killing and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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  1480.  @Ruder6163  it's because Jamal was as you said was also reporting on the massacres the Saudis were doing in Yemen And was a sharp critic of the Saudi Royal family before his death
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  1481. You know it's odd this is the first time I've actually heard Putin's voice 🤔 I've never heard his voice before it was always an overdubbing and someone translating it
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  1482. If only Europe would do the same thing to the Chinese like they're doing to Russians right now refusing to allow them to gain jobs in their country Because China doesn't allow foreigners to gain jobs in their country and when they do they are very demeaning or very specific such as teaching English
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  1483.  @craigoutdoors30  I have never said or anywhere suggested the adaptation of the US Constitution by The Mexican government Honestly I think that's pretty stupid but I do think Mexico would benefit greatly if it allowed for foreigners to easily settle into their population and become dual citizens or naturalized citizens
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  1484.  @jesusdueas7145  unfortunately I can't read or understand your incredibly long comment, it's filled with a bunch of spelling errors and it doesn't have any breaks in its paragraphs So I don't know the point you are trying to make. I suggest rewriting it
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  1485. I agree you can't be a good person and be a good politician because a good politician has to make the dirty underhanded back room deals you cannot escape those situations
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  1486. China is just hoping they can buy some influence in the ME because they are extremely worried that their strict governance on the Muslim Uyghurs will spark a Muslim nation to sympathize with the Uyghur plight and now China will become the subject of jihadist extremist activity So China is essentially saying: "Hey guys look at me and my money! Don't you all like my money? Here take it do business with me, not the West you hate them right? I do too. They are horrible to Muslims but don't look at my own activity in Xinjiang. Don't look at me rewriting the Quran and banning Ramadan. Take all this money instead! Now that we friends help me with security amongst my own Islamic population"
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  1487.  @luisgutierrez8047  I'm tired of saying the same thing that have been saying over and over again for the fourth time now in this thread so I'm not responding to any more replies but I'll sum my points up again: 1) good thing for Japan 2) a little late for Japan but better late than never 3) military forces lack combat experience 4) severely reduced military industrial complex 5) potential to gain experience but will require significant investments into military complex 6) Japan will have to rely heavily upon allies
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  1488.  @bladeofmiquella1887  both Japan and China are actually an equal footing from the lack of military combat readiness And they're inability to equip their militaries because Japan has two government contractors and those government contractors are restricted to only selling to Japan the only leg up is Japan has the ability to call on allies and I've said this for the third time now I'm just pointing out limitations that Japan will have to overcome in their military why does everyone think I'm saying oh Japan is useless?
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  1489.  @ThatGuy-bz2in  you can't do "war games" that would last for months China attempted to do these war games after Pelosi landed and they only lasted a couple days and they cost Chinese military hundreds of thousands of dollars in operating costs Sorry but no China has no ability to circumnavigate international law when it comes to attempting to blockade the Taiwanese island If they attempt to blockade Taiwan it's an act of war and then there is now justification for Japan the US and its allies to come in there and push them away and let Taiwan have its ability to open its ports once more
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  1490. They did almost immediately when the US pulled out, and they got slammed so badly! but China pulled a Russia Winter War out of their ass and sent literal wave after wave of men towards the Vietnamese forces and even though they vietnamese we're killing then by the thousands they just couldn't keep up The Vietnamese forces had to cede over some territory to the CCP
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  1491. We will watch their career with great interest
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  1492. Never forget that the US interfered in the 1996 election of Boris Yeltsin because they believed Yeltsin when they said the Communists could come back in power in Russia Yet once Yeltsin got his power secured he snubbed the US and started campaigning against NATO expansion before deciding upon his successor Putin
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  1493.  @shchenka5973  I get why Germans are so hesitant to do anything militarily I mean the last two world wars put so much blame on them and that was only barely a century ago But still at the same time the world would be more forgiving to the Germans if they acted with haste and solidarity in showing their ability to fight with everything they have in defense of Ukraine and I don't know why the politicians who run Germany don't recognize this fact
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  1494. What did you expect West Germany? You were separated for 60 years! Did you think that you could recover in a mere 20?🤣🤣 Oh no no no you still have 40 years of support to former East Germany to go!
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  1495.  @justinsutton5005  it's not restricted to American it's any language that has a strong Spanish influence
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  1496.  @Sergio_Loureiro  I know, the Portuguese get a pass
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  1497.  @atilaneves76  nope
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  1498. ​ @ironie69 yeah they are foreigners because Switzerland hasn't given them that chance to become citizens Much like how Kuwait also has a very high foreigner population
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  1499.  @patricelauverjon3177  buddy we are now so far off topic I don't even know what you are trying to say
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  1500.  @patricelauverjon3177  again, they do! that's the NATO military committee The crate, negotiate, and draft policies to be passed around to all NATO members
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  1501. They do, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe aka SACEUR, who is the head of all NATO forces in Europe the office of which is located in Belgium
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  1502. I'm pretty sure they already did
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  1503. The Sultanate of Oman did something similar too after their slavery operations were finally stopped along the Kenyan coast
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  1504.  @lauravergot9995  do you have a specific list of this? Because I made sure to include a specific example in my comment, but you're just being general and just saying oh there's plenty of countries out there still not paying back world war I and world war II debts Can you be a little more specific and tell us which ones exactly are still struggling to pay back this debt supposedly that came from the Americans?
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  1505. I mean the United Kingdom was reduced to rubble in world war II and yet they recovered and paid off all their foreign debt in 2002 from the Americans and the Lend-Lease act So I really don't see how something similar couldn't happen in Ukraine by the time this war is over
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  1506. I dunno visual politic I think the "success" the us is having in S. Korea is less of a result of Biden and moreso because of the S. Koreans voting in a conservative president who sees both China and N. Korea as what they are; enemies And not to waste time on pointless symbolic tree planting ceremonies in hopes of reunification
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  1507. There has already been many anti-war protests in Russia and they all have led to jail time and arrest so Russians do know that they are at War
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  1508. @Bessie Hillum huh?
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  1509. I fail to see how since you get the protection from conventional military forces across over a dozen nations willing and legally bound to come to your defense should the worst happen
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  1510. I agree 👍
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  1511. Don't forget about the Tibetans and the Yemenis and their slow recover
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  1512. That would suck for Ukraine to sacrifice a large amount of its sovereign territory just be given a the protection of NATO towards russian aggression
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  1513. I'd rather have the support of a dozen different militaries to come to my aid through NATO than face russia alone were I the leader of georgia or Ukraine Because seeing as how russia has invaded both nations multiple times it's the only guarantee I could have to stay an independent nation and not be swallowed up by the Russian government looking to expand
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  1514. You gonna try and remove Ukraine from the map?! You no different than those who removed Poland from the map
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  1515. Xi jinping has had zero wins with governing China except for his own person benefiting from it not the nation itself
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  1516.  @valleyshrew  you misunderstand I didn't say it was a fascist country what I said was I'm surprised to see elements of a fascist movement and ideology being there in the first place especially since the ethnicity was a victim of the horrors undertaken by a similar type of movement
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  1517.  @ronkobi  it's just so surreal, the entirety of Israel as a nation came to be because the ethnicity was the victim of fascism and the world united in the belief that state for Jews should exist And now it's done like a 180 turn with the state attempting to be exclusively for Jews and espousing a rhetoric similar to what they were a victim of
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  1518. Why do I feel that computing forever would greatly disagree with this analysis by visual politik🤔
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  1519. That is also not true Vietnam has been China's beeeotch for over a collective of a thousand years the longest time that Vietnam was under the Dominion of China uninterrupted was about 500 years and that was from 43AD–544 But later China would put down that uprising and resume domination over it for another 300 years from 602–905
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  1520.  @andia968  that's good, just like Iran kicked out Iraq for using chemical weapons in the 1980s
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  1521.  @postit5725  but the Chinese conquered Vietnam 4 times
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  1522. And yet they're failing in that prosperity because they don't allow immigrants into their country Or if they do allow them it's severely restricted and the immigrants that do come into that country are typically ostracized for not being part of the ethnic homogeneous group
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  1523. A lot of people forget that time in the 1990s when belarus nearly annexed Russia lol 😂
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  1524. It sounds like a good idea 🤔 but I don't think the West has much influence in Belarus as a nation Contrast that with Ukraine which has been building up influence with the West since 2004 when they allowed NATO members to exercise on their soil
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  1525.  @victorialazareva  I know I wanted to see if this guy would give me false information and it looks like he did
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  1526.  Thisis Gettinboring  oh well if they are in Turkey then I guess they didn't change much from Belarus 😂
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  1527. The which side of Cyprus the Turkish or the Greek side?
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  1528. Hey don't forget that time China literally just redefined the definition of a nuclear disaster and nuclear safety regulations When they had a French made and designed nuclear reactor begin to have issues
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  1529.  @zjeee  yes I already know that the Taiwanese straight only has calm seas a few months out of the year to launch an amphibious invasion I already know that an amphibious invasion is the one of the most logistical difficult invasions to pull off and the CCP and the pla have never practiced it But those aren't enough to deter the CCP in perpetuity and eventually they will bring military forces on the island the lack of combat readiness the Taiwanese government is not addressing is biting them in the foot
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  1530. Actually only 20k casualties in a war that lasted 20 years is pretty good in terms of military performance The issue was the lack of political successes the US had to help win the hearts and minds of the Afghans to defend their nation with the US's assistance
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  1531. Brewet dindan yew an dud uhel Leun a fae hag a lorc'hentez Hon eus bewet lent hag uvel E pad kantvedoù a vezh Dre hor c'hoadoù hag hol lanneier Awel an Ankoù ra he reuz C'hwezhañ a ra eus ar Reter Bez'zo lod a devo keuz Rag ma tarzh an deiz higortozet Ha ma tihun ar bobl a-bezh Eus Menez Are d'an Naoned Ar chas doñv yelo da ouez.
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  1532. Tread carefully Macron for if you continue to fuk up Ar chas doñv yelo da ouez.
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  1533.  @JeremiaszCzeresniowiecki  again it just boggles the mind why would a traditionalist that supports the independence of Poland ever side with Russia?🤷 I just so off-putting, it's like Mexicans advocating for the return of the French in Mexico
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  1534.  @JeremiaszCzeresniowiecki  that is so weird 🤯
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  1535.  @JeremiaszCzeresniowiecki  again that's just so strange you would think traditionalists would always view Russia as nothing but an eternal enemy I mean especially in Poland you know which doesn't have that great of a history with Russia
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  1536. That's very surprising I never would have guessed the traditionalists and conservative sides of French politics would be supportive of the Russians 🤔 You would think it would be the left and their nostalgic Rose tinted glasses for communism But I guess times have changed 🤷
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  1537. I'm not sure I can't find sources for that but I have found sources of Le pen saying that they wanted to be removed from NATO? And any nation that does withdraw from NATO does I guess benefit Putin so 🤷
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  1538. That's good
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  1539. "On election day if you can't get the voting populace to at least like you make it so they at least prefer you than the alternative" - CGP Grey
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  1540. Well one of the benefits you have in the UK is you don't use a first-past-the-post voting system so you will never have a 2 party system as the sole government Obviously you have 2 parties that are more dominant than others Labour, Tories, but you still have other parties in the actual MP seats like the SNP for example This doesn't happen at all in the US And also you have an easier time making changes to the government than the US Because the US has a codified constitution Your system just simply allows for parliament to vote on making a change and it then it's done
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  1541. No popularity ebbs and flows with current events
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  1542. Can I extend a suggestion? Perhaps if you are more receptive to a nuclear industry and you use this chance to be given American Nuclear submarine secrets you might expand that idea to the Australian domestic sector, and include the idea of Nuclear electricity generation plants And greatly reduce the power and the influence China has over you all as they want your coal
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  1543.  @ilect1690  how in the world did you misread my comment thinking that pipelines are means to extract hydrocarbons? 🤦 And I know the keystone wouldn't have been finished now the point is the cancellation of it was to send a message to the oil companies and the oil industry in general That this administration does not like you and does not want you to continue to make your product in the amounts that it was making previously Again how are you misreading and misunderstanding my comments?
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  1544. It's funny that everyone is praising biden for the reduction in gas prices now But that's only because he authorized use of the national strategic reserves to offset the lack of supply Instead of allowing more of resource exploitation like the canceling of the keystone pipeline and not allowing federal permits to be issued to extraction companies
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  1545. Bring back Simon! #simononvisualpolitk
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  1546. Man I hope Europe really stays United in it's ability to give Russia the middle finger and not give it any more money in exchange for energy These protests demanding to give money to an aggressor and dictator in exchange just to have cheaper electric bills is very telling of how far we have drifted in terms of setting our priorities
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  1547.  @PerryKobalt  well the youth are not in charge of making the policy and law decisions so the youth can disagree all they want but until the youth replace the old generation of policymakers in Japan what I said is true
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  1548.  @waliddjema5442  wait I'm confused are you you saying that you don't like it the US supports Morocco or you do? Because US support predates the Trump administration by over a century
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  1549. Arab?! Keep that nonsense away
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  1550. Caspian report already covered this story You gotta do better visual politic
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  1551.  @cracksmoker1506  2 centuries of Moroccan friendship vs only 20 years with Iraq? Seems disingenuous and extremely manipulative to try and compare the two, IMO Not to mention the fact that Iraq was headed by a genocidal dictator who used Chemical weapons on Iranian civilians in the Iran-Iraq war and did mass killings of the Shia majority and Kurdish minority in Iraq simply because he hated their faith. The latter group he also held hostage their children to force them into compliance I'd truly love there to be a Muslim unity that transcends state borders and nations and will always come to the aid of fellow Muslims but sadly that doesn't happen otherwise we'd have the Muslim world declaring a jihad on both China and Burma right now for killing our Uyghur and Rohingya Muslim brothers No sorry but the US will remain committed to it's Ally Morocco and it will keep it's centuries ongoing diplomatic relations
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  1552.  @cracksmoker1506  sorry but history doesn't lie the US has had constant communication, and the majority of it positive, with a Muslim majority nation since the US's independence and inception Wether you want to admit it or not
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  1553. the Chad Simon Vs the Virgin Grant
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  1554. "I find your lack of Whistler disturbing" - Darth Vader, probably
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  1555. It's a pitch that Ukraine as well as much of the allied world has greatly seen success I bet the entire Ukrainian government is just drooling at the mouth saying give me give me please for the love of God give me Lend lease to me in a World War II style, I'll pay for it 70 years later That last bit is because the United Kingdom finally paid back the United States for the Lend-Lease WWII material in 2002
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  1556.  @jugadug  how would you find them?
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  1557.  @jugadug  that's exactly why I posed the question and mentioned Guido. Who would you look to to say should lead the Venezuelans in how they deal with this?
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  1558.  @jugadug  sure that sounds great but there's a problem.... 1) with no means of arms, or materiel the people of Venezuela can't fight properly against the enforcers of the regime 2) With such a dire economic situation how can the will of the Venezuelan people be accurately collected and focused into making a choice? Are you going to track down every single refugee from Venezuela and ask them to vote? Will you only speak to the opposition leader Juan Guido and make him decide? Guido is recognized by the US as the legitimate Venezuelan government so it's possible to say he speaks for all opposing Venezuelans to Maduro 🤔 But does he really have the entire will of the opposition behind him? "The romantic image of the people storming the palace to replace the king is mostly a fantasy. The people only storm the palace when the Army let's them. The people thereby didn't replace the king the court replaced the king."
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  1559. Well you can either remove the regime by force OR you can economically and diplomatically starve the regime out Those are your two options pick one And btw the clock's ticking....
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  1560. If you ever need the proof of what a police state looks like utilizing 21st century technology to do so, look at China And sadly much of that technology was willingly sold to China by delusional businesses thinking that business with the Chinese government will lead to their democratic evolution
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  1561. US coming to save the day with the marshall plan 2.0
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  1562.  @JuanJoseMárquez-b5j  again I disagree because Black Rock keeps getting exposed as the scumbag that they are so no not a lot of foreign investment is coming into China if they were then Black Rock wouldn't be as hard into advertising saying "please invest!" and sticking with China
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  1563. It doesn't help that Corbyn went out to eat pizza with a prominent denier of the Bosnian g cide
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  1564. How to make infinite electricity: play Welsh nationalist song Yma o hyd on a loop over some headphones attached to Maggie thatcher's coffin
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  1565.  @davidjoelsson4929  and you are extremely nihilistic and depressive
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  1566. Again it sounds like a great idea but how would you force the Russians into compliance?
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  1567. I mean it sounds like a good idea but how would you enforce the Russian government into compliance?
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  1568. I mean it sounds like a good idea to force Russia to pay for the damages of the war but how would you enforce that for the Russian government to actually comply?
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  1569. How would you force the Russian government into compliance to pay the bill for rebuilding Ukraine? That's the million dollar question
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  1570. Wow thats a huge blunder in editing 😂 3 million howitzers? hahahahah
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  1571. Japan should have never used the Fukushima disaster to go off on a anti nuclear energy campaign
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  1572. Turkey has been nothing but a burden on NATO they refuse to comply with any sort of NATO joint exercises they deliberately refuse to allow us personnel safety within the borders of their Nation they restrict any and all us personnel and sorties only to bases there has been demonstrations and killings of us personnel stationed in Turkey because of the anti-American and anti NATO sentiment yeah turkey is not a great NATO Ally I hope they become expelled from the organization and the alliance as a whole
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  1573. Yep I'm in agreement it's just now the politics and economics have unfortunately eclipsed the sportsmanship attitude the Olympics was supposed to represent and as for me personally I think it's just better they end all together they are doing nothing but bankrupting cities or if not bankruptcy adding an enormous debt pile two Nations that are already struggling
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  1574. Gee it's almost like the Olympics have become pointless ever since they bankrupted one of the major cities in Canada in the 1970s Seriously the Olympics do not Foster anything in camaraderie and sportsmanship all they ever do is promote nothing but financial criminality and the ever-increasing pressure and stress upon the individual athletes to take more and more risks with their own health and longevity to shave fractions of seconds off of their times in their corresponding events
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  1575. Meh, Simon Whistler of War graphics did it better
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  1576. I understood this reference 😁
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  1577.  @kspraveen86  sadly it's true let's hope this issue can be remedied
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  1578.  @F.R.E.D.D2986  let's hope so
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  1579.  @misterpinkandyellow74  yes all of Europe does, and what's more they already recognize this As an example they failed to meet a promised commitment of 1million shells to Ukraine and delivered only 350,000 A roadblock for that order was being that all military equipment needed to be manufactured in the home country of whomever in Europe decided to send aid They've since attempted to correct this, but bureaucracy is slow to progress That's called stepping up
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  1580.  @ludwig-alice  oh but I do think that the collective Europe could match the US, they just don't want to Militaries are expensive and they don't want to eat the cost of one If you ever wondered why US military spending is so high it's because the US has to step in at it's own expense to cover allies who themselves don't meet their own commitments All I'm doing is cheering on the collective Europe slowly getting closer to meeting their commitments even incremental progress is still progress
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  1581. I can imagine the reason why there's not much international support for domestic opposition to the Putin regime is because the largest opposition leader Alexei navalny also supports the idea of invading Ukraine
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  1582. Russia falling would be nice yes but honestly I'd love to see all authoritarian leaders and totalitarian style one party governments fall Singapore Vietnam Eritrea Qatar Belarus China I could go on and list a lot more
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  1583. General Kenobi James Ker-Lindsay!
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  1584. Chechnya is basically Russia's Texas Always talking about secession and even once fought a war about it
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  1585. That's also the deadliest school shooting in world history Not even the US has ever suffered any school shooting that bad where 300 children were killed in one instance
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  1586. Bring back Simon!!!!!
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  1587. The American government kept warning the Germans for a long time of their overdependence upon natural gas supplied by the government of Russia
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  1588. So freaking sad I need to use AD BLOCKER for a news channel God damn these ads Good video btw
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  1589. For reference it was the non-strategic nuclear weapons that got put on high alert in the Russian armed forces those are the nuclear weapons that range with yields from anywhere to one to 30 kilo tons Not your icbms with over 300 kilotons and can travel thousands of miles and strike Nations like France, US, or Germany No the non-strategic weapons typically have ranges of anywhere between 15 to 500 miles Do not misunderstand non-strategic are still deadly and City destroying both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were with yields of five to 20 kilotons in destructive power
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  1590. If the EU thinks it can force it's members to pay for an EU military force it's dreaming the US already struggles with trying to get its European allies to maintain a competent military state of readiness
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  1591.  @TheUnatuber  it's funny because the famous American accents like the Southern Belle and Southern Drawl are actually based on the wealthy high-class British who came from London and settled in those areas of the United States
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  1592. He said "Duo" but he's British so his accent is a little hard to understand sometimes
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  1593.  @lupelostra  yeah Argentina had a large influx of Italians and Germans so naturally they were pretty sympathetic to the German cause of world war 2 So declared war on Germany in the Twilight years of the conflict But still I gotta say the speed at which any political discussion devolves and immediately begins to reference the Austrian painter is a hilarious phenomenon to see
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  1594.  @_danicalifornia  see ya next time read the conversation
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  1595.  @_danicalifornia  you won't read so I don't know what to tell you
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  1596.  @_danicalifornia  no you didn't read my response correct you need to respond to the other guy
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  1597.  @_danicalifornia   did you not read my comment? I said I don't believe those ministries should disappear, you need to be responding to the other comment in this thread
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  1598.  @tomasulisestraini1745  in my personal opinion I think eliminating ministries is the wrong way to go I think he needs to build up ministries but he needs to make them able to withstand the pressures of corruption, financial irresponsiblity and inefficiency It remains to be seen if he can achieve such a goal
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  1599. Not at all the guy is formally educated and is an economist Trump never had any formal education not to mention that he was a right wing populist
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  1600. I think it's a ai voice 🤔
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  1601. While this is a good thing for Japan it also unfortunately means Japan has to catch up with at least 70 years of non-aggression or pacifism or whatever you want to call it but 70 years of non-military focus has put Japan severely behind and their entire military industrial complex behind will Japan be able to be up to the task of revitalizing their military industrial complex we will soon see
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  1602. Agreed the potential of nuclear power is just too great in comparison to all other sources of power A nuclear material the size of a human fist can outproduce an entire years worth of a coal plant
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  1603. 1945 we said never again and 50 years later in 1995 we still were unable to keep the promise
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  1604. I've said it before I'll say it again if you're going to live in another country as a refugee you need to follow their laws Refusal to do so means you loose your refugee status
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  1605. No you're correct and your opinion is backed by the host country law even if they are refugee or an asylum seeker if they break the laws of their host country or refuse to assimilate and understand the laws of the host country the host country can revoke their asylum or refugee status at any time as punishment
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  1606. YOU'RE NOT SIMON!! #BRINGBACKDADDYSIMONWHISTLER
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  1607.  @eirikarnesen9691  no it's not what you said at all I said a concentration to biodiversity You can still find concentration the biodiversity is in the locations you mentioned even if the concentration of biodiversity is extremely old Reading comprehension buddy
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  1608.  @eirikarnesen9691  actually you're wrong it really is the ones that have the most concentrations of biodiversity deserts are nothing more than the left over remains of a once massive large concentration of biodiversity
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  1609. Bologna! Allowing more nations to repeat the mistakes of others simply because "well they did it first!" is the most asinine justification I've ever heard The destruction of the Amazon rainforest for Brazil simply to allow it to achieve it's "economic potential" is like burning the Mona Lisa to heat a 2000sq ft building
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  1610. "'Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist this is elementary common sense if you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help out that of the other". "Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present onein practice; 'He who is not with me is against me'." You might think that quote came from George W. Bush, Dick Cheney or some other (insert here) disliked authoritarian figure, but it's actually a quote from George Orwell and what's more it's objectively true The context in which George Orwell says this was in the outbreak of the second world war. During its first year a wave of pacifist sentiment swept Britain, during which protests and town hall debates where many figures argued for peace with the Nachizs. Orwell took it upon himself to travel from town hall to town hall to debate the case for war with Hitler and it was during those days and during those debates that he made that statement The anti-war movements finally went silent once German bombs started dropping on London, at least in Britain In 1940 however there were students in the US protesting for peace with Hitler in California's own Berkeley college, probably not something they'll mention on campus these days The public debate on foreign conflict and military conflict mostly goes in One singular direction: 1) That is if the military intervention fails or is built on very faulty justification those who commanded it will be held to account 2) However, if a military intervention succeeds or is built on a very solid justification those who opposed it will not be put into a position of responsibility For example: Take British member of Parliament Jeremy Corbin, who opposed the 1990 intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo, including retroactively And even goes out to eat pizza with those who still today deny the Bosnian genocide (Marcus Papadopoulos) by Serbian forces However you will be hard-pressed to find anyone questioning him on this outside of the Bosnian media Henry Kissinger is notorious for his attempts to needlessly prolong the Vietnam War and his attempts to undermine Chilean democracy through support of Pinochet's coup You will however barely see Kissinger held to account or criticized for his actions of the Bangladesh genocide of 1971 Where the Pakistani army murdered hundreds of thousands of people and Kissinger gave the crimes his seal of approval through diplomatic silence and congratulated his Pakistani allies at how "well" they supposedly managed the situation The genocide itself didn't stop until India conducted a military intervention against the Pakistani army something that Kissinger condemned" Kraut, - America's Foreign Entanglements
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  1611.  @louisbeerreviews8964  ☝️
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  1612.  @Thehokage36  imposter! I am his dad
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  1613. The Chinese military surpassing the US? Not yet, and not for a while in fact The Chinese pla has not seen combat since 1970 in a skirmish with Vietnam other than that the only thing they've done is attack civilians of their own home country they have no experience in engaging with a battle hardened combat Force They only very recently have implemented and expeditionary military force outside of their borders in three countries the first being Djibouti the second being Tajikistan and the newest is Afghanistan They also still need to develop the logistics for running supplies material and personnel to all three of those expeditionary bases and they need to try and develop from scratch their own methods to engage in counter-terror tactics especially now that they want to participate greater in Afghanistan as the US withdrawals
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  1614. FUKIN GE! Next time don't fire your engineers who did all your innovative ideas and use morons with a MBA that drove your company into the ground!😡
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  1615.  @tvnatinto actually YES! those Nations never experienced what China went through during those two events they are without a doubt the single biggest loss of life ever seen suffered by a single nation in modern history There's a reason why Mao is the greatest criminal of all time, his body count is the largest of any authoritarian leader
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  1616. It's also hard to escape social security payments in the US as well the only one that I know of is if you are an inherent to the Amish Faith you do not have to pay social security Thats the only exception I am aware of
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  1617.  @renstimpy9313  No! Even if you hate the CCP and want the Chinese regime to fall for once this is not something you NOT should celebrate nor wish to happen because the Three gorges dam failure would result in a loss of hundreds of MILLIONS of lives estimates are around 400 million casualties it would be a biblical flood and apocalyptic in style It would be the newest deadliest event to result in human loss of life in recorded history even eclipsing WW2
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  1618. Someone posted that it will be a disaster of epic proportions if the Three gorges dam ever failed And they aren't kidding but epic is a gross understatement If it ever fails it will likely result in an estimated 400 million casualties For context the entirety of ever man woman and child of the population in the US is estimated to be around 330 million according last census data And Canada's population census estimate was around 30 million Meaning having the three gorges dam fail is like wiping the slate clean of everyone living in the US and Canada combined! The 3 gorges dam failure event would now be the newest greatest loss of life in the recorded history of mankind and it would even overtake WW2 military and civilian casualties
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  1619. "The attempt on my life has left me emotionally scarred and delusional but I assure you my resolve has NEVER been stronger!" "In order to ensure the PRC's security and the party's continuing dominance and stability the society will be reorganized with the rebirth of the Chinese empire!"
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  1620. Basically China is pissed that Russia is doing what China already does to foreign companies In China you must have a Chinese citizen to represent all legal matters and that must be made partner to the business All daily necessities like the saws and forklifts he mentioned must be of Chinese manufacturer unless specified otherwise Chinese government gets first dibs on any and all research and development Russia now giving that same treatment to China and they pissed 😂
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  1621. Yeah without a doubt the loss of life would be too great for even the CCP to manage the outrage with all their authoritarian oppression because potentially hundreds of millions of people would be unfortunately killed in the disaster For context the entirety of the population of the United States is estimated to be around 330 million imagine in the disaster that killed about a hundred million people, there is nothing that any authoritarian regime could do to prevent the outrage as a result of that large of a crisis
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  1622. For context the current entirety of the population of the United States is about 330 million people Meaning IF this Dam failed and IF the result of that failure killed about four hundred million people that is the equivalent of literally everyone in the United States every single, man, woman, and child just gone Meaning that one single disaster would be now the single greatest loss of life in human history, more loss of life than WW1 and WW2 combined and remember the singular largest suffer from WW2 was 20 million casualties in the USSR
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  1623. The pla hasn't seen combat since 1979 when they invaded Vietnam and they got their butts kicked by the Vietnamese The pla does have border skirmishes with India but the Indians trounce them every time and that's when they're not allowed to carry firearms on the line of actual control
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  1624.  @Bk6346  it's not bull crap! it's a result of that stupid autocorrect where the dumb "S" on Americas was dropped! because I already knew that Brazil was involved hence why I said "Americas" in the text to speech
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  1625. The Soviet Union had to import grain just to fed it's people, I'm not surprised that the Communist party of China has to do the same
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  1626. There is none, the government of China regularly takes property from residents and doesn't provide compensation Because the CCP owns all the land and all the buildings on it, so you are not entitled to compensation because it was never yours Your compensation was being able to use the land and the building at the hands of the benevolent CCP
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  1627. ​ @friedrichjunzt knowing the CCP they don't usually make things official like officially in China's Constitution they have equal rights to women minorities freedom of speech and practice of religion it's written in their constitution you can go and look at it But the CCP doesn't provide any of these things to their citizens
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  1628. Be careful sometimes the body can heal itself even after a vasectomy and you might think that you're shooting blanks when you're really not
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  1629. Those Chinese students were brought up in China with the mentality of "If you can cheat, cheat" and now they finding out that most of the West doesn't like it
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  1630. You can still levy blame to China in that regard they're the world's largest polluter in all aspects But what really made this more tragic than what it should have been was the Chinese government deliberately opening up the spillways so that way the Beijing area the capital city wouldn't flood but the surrounding areas would
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  1631. You are correct much of it is untreated raw sewage, the Chinese system doesn't have that great of drainage nor sewers and the raw sewage very often seeps into the streets when floods like this happen In fact china's misuse of it's underground water aquifers has led to many of them to become completely unusable, and that doesn't mean just you can't drink it, It means that the water is so bad you couldn't use it even industrial or irrigation purposes
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  1632. Yeah that round counter is fucking ridiculous
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  1633. I made a comment saying something similar 😅
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  1634. I got to tell you every time you keep saying the RAF, I keep getting confused and keep thinking it's the British Royal Air Force And I'm thinking "what? the British are fighting with the Ukrainians now?" 😂
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  1635. You made me spit out my drink 😂
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  1636.  @sparc4ux  how interesting that voter choice to be prejudice and exclusive is respected in Japan but not in the West
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  1637.  @sparc4ux  ain't going to be nothing left to preserve, the new generations of Japanese aren't being born The only nation that's in the worst position right now than Japan is Korea, where they have badly lost on birth rates
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  1638. 99% PAIN! And 1% you'll remember this meme
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  1639. Maybe have Aussies sell it to the Japanese instead
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  1640. freestyla85 article 155 is going to happen, catalonia failed to recieve UN or EU recognition and international support for its independence.There are no governments ready to supply catalonia with forces and economic assistance. The Guarda civil and the spanish military will forcibly restore order to a rebel provence. Catalonians must expect martial law and a loss of economic revenue to soon follow. And a period of unease and unrest as the invocation of article 155 will no doubt cause many protests and even possibly have some pro catalonian groups turn to violence and terrorism
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  1641. Viva madrid, viva el rey!
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  1642. rafael mens viva madrid!
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  1643.  @flibber123  Europe needs NATO but NATO doesn't need Turkey. Turkey needs to be kicked out of it.
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  1644. Only in certain states But the majority is that once you are determined to not have any legal right to that child you can walk away
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  1645. the only way Ukraine is never going to experience this issue from Russia again is if Ukraine bloody's Russia's nose so badly that Russia hates the sight of their own blood And finally backs off otherwise Russia will never leave Ukraine alone they will just wait it out 10 20 30 50 years but they'll be back
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  1646. Yeah they're withdrawing because even though they successfully won the full legal suit against China regarding the South China Sea and the 9 dash line the Chinese continue to violate their territorial sovereignty So the Philippines basically said well you're useless and they are withdrawing
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  1647. DAMN! wow, that's uhhh interesting to say the least can I ask what they were indicted and charged for? I want to research this. I know the ICC has more Ls than Ws when it comes to international law enforcement I mean you only need to look at the Philippines successfully winning a legal case against China regarding their sovereignty and the 9 dash line and China immediately ignoring it and suffering nothing as a result but this one has caught my interest as instead of a nation it's merely 6 people but they still managed to be acquitted
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  1648. I wonder if Putin ever watches these 🤔
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  1649.  @ahtheh  no buddy it really has been conquered before
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  1650. Afghanistan was conquered three times lol
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  1651. Putin is also really crafty when he pitched the idea to go to war with Ukraine he made sure to record himself and every single one of his government ministers voicing their opinion and it's all recorded on tape of every single one of those government ministers unanimously agreeing with war with Ukraine There by Putin tied their fate to his
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  1652. Or the Pakistani intelligence either
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  1653.  @seancarroll9849  yeah it would be intuitive to put NRA or random as higher the only reason I hesitate is due to the fact that they (Russian government) came up with the evidence on the spot "solving" the crime in 48 hours that's pretty indicative of a false flag But it can't be ruled out entirely that's for sure, however I do know that many terror and revolutionary groups like to claim attacks that are similar to this because it's such an amazing PR opportunity for those groups Just to get their prestige and their name out there, because it's likely that no one was aware of the group prior to this And he NRA is probably being investigated by countless international intelligence agencies like the CIA to see if it's possible to gain them training or maybe even armaments or even just share with them some intelligence
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  1654. I think the resistance is probably the second most likely but I really think the most likely is the false flag given how fast the quote unquote "evidence" was found as the culprit by the Russian government
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  1655. The same reason why the Chinese Communist Party hasn't been ousted in a coup yet
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  1656. Russia: "Winter you have betrayed me!" Winter: "I never really was on your side" flicks cigarette
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  1657.  @emilsinclair4190  it's not far too early to say that Germany was on the wrong and did the exact same that Neville Chamberlain did Thinking that giving into the authoritarian demands of the Russians was going to guarantee peace
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  1658. Honestly the thing that I think most of us are surprised about is how long it took for the retaliation from Putin to come Wager commander Pergozin did his mutiny in June and took all the way to August before anything happened and this is what he was going in and out and back and forth between Moscow, St Petersburg, and Belarus multiple times
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  1659. Well Putin is in his 60s at most he has maybe another 10 years in his position because there's no way the Russian governments will let him rule on well into his 80s or 90s So in both of our lifetimes we will see a very similar thing that happened to Stalin when he died and there was a transfer of power and a race to claim it
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  1660. It would be nice but there's no way to guarantee the elections will be free and fair Not even when the very first president of the newly state of Russia Boris Yeltsin was elected where the elections considered free and fair Sad to say Russia has a poor record and had zero integrity from it's government institutions and it has zero policies in place to ensure that it's elections are not tampered with
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  1661. Damn video needed only to be 10 seconds long
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  1662. Why the fuck Greece wanted to adopt the euro is beyond me. Denmark didn't and it is still doing good with its economy
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  1663. Thank you you know every single time I see masterworks being promoted by a bunch of different YouTubers from caspianreport all the way to China uncensored I'm reminded of when those same YouTubers used to promote Established Titles, you know the company that was a giant scam where you never owned a plot of land in Scotland but you paid a high price for a bunch of paper
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  1664. This is the only time ill say it but thank you jesus for selma hayek and her magnificent breasts
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  1665. yes but they are colorblind, like a lactose intolerent cheese maker
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  1666.  @mmouser2800  yeah I did chris chappel and the China Uncensored teams have been doing a great job at exposing the evils of the Chinese government and their propaganda machine they use in foreign countries for over 10 years here on youtube He's definitely earned his positive reputation, but hey stans are gonna be stans you want to fall for a thing like this it's your right to do so
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  1667. 2020 Wuhan virus exists Bill gates: I told you so!
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  1668. It's because he's British
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  1669. For accurately is why after we have shown themselves to be scam artists we don't put them in prison?
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  1670. I heard from UEG that SBF is now in one of the worst prisons in the world, before he's being extradited to the US He's in the bahamanian prison known as Fox Hill Fox Hill is notorious for having inmates end up losing their lives under mysterious circumstances and it not being investigated In addition to lack of investigation of inmate life ending events, Fox Hill is also known for being infested with rats, prisoners are crowded in the cells that often hold twice more than what they've been designed to hold, a severe lack of medical and hygiene staff, prisoners are forced to defecate in buckets, and grape is so common that it has its own AIDS epidemic So if SBF suffers an epstein-like event I'm just going to say that at Fox Hill bahamanian prison it's likely it would never be investigated Remember this man owes billions of dollars to people in very high governmental or influential positions and when you owe billions of dollars to someone the rules of the game change severely
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  1671. I keep getting Blackstone and blackrock confused 🤔 there's no relation is there?
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  1672. California also struggles in terms of energy pricing because it is not connected to any of the oil delivery pipelines in the united States California fears for both an oil pipeline spill and an offshore drilling spill so they dont want it and used their environmental conservation laws to prevent one being built Which is fine i guess but remember you gotta take the pros with the cons For an absolute control of oil spills down to zero chance you California residents pay very high price of transportation Instead California gets nearly all of its oil from the Sea shipped in by use of the nation of Saudi Arabia and even though Saudi Oil is less than 10% of total oil used by the entire nation of the US in California its nearly all of what the state uses So if theres any disruption in Saudi supply California feels it extremely hard in the short term
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  1673. California also struggles in terms of energy pricing because it is not connected to any of the cross-state oil delivery pipelines in the united States California fears for both an oil pipeline spill and an offshore drilling spill so they dont want it and used their environmental conservation laws to prevent one being built Which is fine i guess but remember you gotta take the pros with the cons For an absolute control of oil spills down to zero chance you California residents pay very high price of transportation Instead California gets nearly all of its oil from the Sea shipped in by use of the nation of Saudi Arabia and even though Saudi Oil is less than 10% of total oil used by the entire nation of the US in California its nearly all of what the state uses So if theres any disruption in Saudi supply California feels it extremely hard in the short term
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  1674. I'm curious how often do you get called "Quisling" by your fellow Norwegians just for speaking out?
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  1675. Lol 🤣 I'm guessing this is both a facetious comment and a joke
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  1676. I agree Bjorn there needs to be people to sit down and start talking regarding the Russio-Ukraine conflict but sometimes some people won't sit down and talk untill you've bloodied them enough Russia and it's government, which as you said is run by dictator Putin, is unfortunately in the latter category They will NOT come to the negotiating table untill they are exhausted on the battlefield And that's the case for the majority of authoritarian regimes
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  1677. Bjorn please let you books be translated to English
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  1678. yeah there is no such thing as "green" or "renewable energy" every energy piece that harvests from solar or wind or geothermal etc. requires some sort of maintenance and upkeep that requires either the mining of a rare Earth mineral resource such as Cobalt, lithium, palladium Or requires an oil based product, such as the lubricant for the bearings in the blades of a wind turbine, or even the oil based paint that is used to paint the outside of the same wind turbine tower to prevent it from rusting
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  1679. 🎶 What is wealth! 🎶 🎶 Baby don't spend me! 🎶 🎶 Don't spend me! 🎶 🎶 No more! 🎶
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  1680. You know the propaganda we consume is bad when the comment section is filled with people blaming NATO for Russia's actions of invading Ukraine....twice! Russia's actions are unacceptable! And should Ukraine disappear from the map and become annexed Russia will have the very problem it complained about NATO soldiers on its borders
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  1681. It will not be World War 3 but it is the Cold War renewed and it has officially started
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  1682.  @catherineshaw1122  I think it's stupid because then Russia will be in the exact situation they claimed to not want in the first place: NATO troops on their borders as NATO borders the non NATO member of Ukraine
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  1683. Scariest words: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
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  1684. " War Politics..... Politics never changes" - Fallout New Vegas Narrator
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  1685. That's surprising given India's current state of hatred towards China and I completely agree with India and it being justified in its hatred towards China. They took away your rightful territory in Kashmir and they continuously "invade" you via border skirmishes such as the Doklam plateau you would think a documentary depicting the horrors of the evil that China has committed upon its own citizens would be more than willing to be shown in India 🤔
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  1686. Pretty damn close He's got a combat operations patch that's really fucking badass
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  1687. What's a PlayStation vet?
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  1688.  @scopaestheesia  or lack thereof lol. I mean how delusional do you have to be to think a fucking video game represents reality 🤣
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  1689.  @scopaestheesia  oh so that's what a PlayStation vet means
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  1690. Yeah the BBC looking pretty bad right now with that horrible revisionist propaganda on WW1
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  1691. "Life is like this dark tunnel, you can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel but if you keep moving you'll arrive at a better place" - Gen. Iroh, Avatar the Last Air Bender
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  1692. "Step right up! Step right up! Go ahead and Spin the wheel to figure out who will be the next to experience the great sensation that's sweeping of protesting nations! " "who will it be next?" Previous Winners selected: US Thailand Russia Belarus Uganda Ethiopia India Be sure to keep score at home folks! Nations in protest around the world!!!
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  1693. Leave her Johnny leave her, Oh leave her Johnny leave her, For the voyage is done, And the winds don't blow, And it's time for us to leave her... Farewell and godspeed you brave men😔
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  1694. Oh my goodness this is just sad it's like a staring through a historical window into life in the Soviet Union and their immensely small flats
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  1695.  @AtlanticBoii  https://youtu.be/HowXEBisrkI
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  1696. The fact that the u.s. is wanting to push for a ceasefire and a DMZ rather than just helping Ukraine push the Russians completely out of Ukrainian territory Means there's been noticeable enough decrease in support for Ukraine in the Russian - Ukrainian War on the left which is surprising to say the least
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  1697. US Government: yeah you can riot in the middle of the lock down because a well documented career criminal was killed Also US government: we greatly condemn these rioters in Europe for refusing to obey the lock downs
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  1698. And yet these African nations allow the Wagner group into their land to put down rebellion no. 23 this month in exchange for access to gold mines and other various minerals to be sent back to Russia 🤣
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  1699.  @snacks1184  They are still there somewhat, the biggest violator is France in that regard and Spain to a lesser degree Spain does indeed have small tiny fragments of the African continent as a part of its sovereign territory where it is quite literally walled off from the rest of Africa A legacy of the former "Spanish Sahara" France meanwhile doesn't have actual pieces of territory but is more subtle instead regularly sends it's military forces all across N. And W. Africa for operations in various African countries, many African nations speak French as their official language, and many African nations are economically tied to the larger French economy But to be fair Imperialism exists in many forms across the whole of Africa as a continent, from Africans themselves such as hostilities between Eritrea and Ethiopia, Egypt and Ethiopia, Somalia and the unrecognized Somaliland (the Taiwan of Africa) There's imperial legacies of the Arab conquest in both East Africa when the sultanate of Oman ruled most of Kenya, and across Northern Africa as well when the various caliphates were founded So much so that many indigenous African groups are trying to reject Arab culture and languages and instead try to promote their own indigenous languages and practices To fight against imperialism means to fight it in all it's forms including this current Russian attempt
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  1700. At least he's willing to comply with the ICC and arrest Putin if he did visit, BRICS alliance be damned
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  1701. NATO still does the problem is India has always been a Soviet Ally since the time of Indira Gandhi So a lot of Indians are loathe to drop that relationship
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  1702.  @zemaax  yeah I know Ethiopia struggles with ethnic and religious tensions on the regular The Tigray, Oromo and Amharans always seem to be at each other's throats
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  1703. I hope Ethiopia can stay United as a singular country I know they've lost pieces of it before like Eritrea I hope they don't break apart like how the tigray have been wanting to
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  1704. No, they only did colonization in Asia by the conquest of Siberia, taking territory from China like Vladivostok and the Kuril Islands from Japan Not to mention colonization in America through the subjugation of Alaska formally annexing it in 1799 and establishing military forts in both California and Hawaii
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  1705. Unlikely, they are all well aware of what happens with attacking a NATO member
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  1706. I agree, I only err on the side of caution in potentially creating something what would be seen as a frozen conflict, like what's going on currently in the Korean peninsula And sadly I don't know of a way to solve that if it did come to pass because Russia will never stop harassing Ukraine just like the N. Koreans will never stop towards S. Korea And that's despite the fact that even though the S. Koreans have the equivalent of NATO protection they are still threatened on a daily basis
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  1707. Yeah I'm pretty sure it was an attempt to get access to Russians nuclear weapons Which I'm pretty sure we'll eventually be proven true is pretty ballsy on behalf of the Ukrainians And yes the Russians are that stupid remember that convoy line but they didn't even pack any fuel on the way to Kiev during the beginning of the war we have seen nothing but stupidity over and over again from the Russians
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  1708. I would still be happy that I was able to find allies and support to ensure my country continues to be existing, regardless of what debt I took were I the leader of a country that is in a state of war and defending from a hostile invasion force
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  1709.  @trollpenguin6713  no they not donated, no country donates military hardware under any circumstances but I would pay any price if I was a leader of a country to ensure my country still stays on the map, and yes it's a fact of life that war debt is an ugly thing The UK for example didn't pay off the lend-lease act for the WW2 support until 2002
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  1710. Yeah Igor was singing the praises of Putin at one point and then now he's trying to save his bacon, and get in the good graces by denouncing him But people haven't forgotten what he did when he shot down that civilian passenger aircraft and subsequently became a war criminal
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  1711. If Russia did not have nuclear weapons I guarantee you there would be a multinational coalition with arms and boots-on-the-ground and you would be seeing English-speaking soldiers in Ukraine in the hundreds of thousands likely outnumbering the Ukrainian defenders all set to oppose the Russians and topple the current regime
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  1712. Fun fact the poles were so happy to be released from the yoke of the Soviet Union they were literally the first Warsaw pact nation to join it They said let me join NATO now or I will get my own nuclear weapons as a deterrent because Russia will be back
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  1713. Actually there really is some weird gray area in that regard, Because back when Boris Yeltsin was the Russian president he really did propose a union state to Belarus and Lukashenko and he agreed Both leaders have even signed the decree, but Lukashenko didn't pursue it any further once Yeltsin left office and was replaced as Lukashenko correctly surmised that he would be the junior party when dealing with Putin So he's been biding his time with this act of creating a union state
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  1714. It exists but only in theory and on a piece of paper that's pretty much worthless It's the same thing with Turkey and China, both of their constitutions expressly allow the "freedom of speech" but Turkey has a law that is so broadly vague where they can arrest you for literally word for word: "the insulting of Turkishness" And China can arrest you for "subversion"
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  1715.  @blackwolf-sf1dy  And yet they crossed over the sea and colonized Alaska formally in 1799 The first documented case of Russians arrived in Alaska was in 1714 and almost immediately they started causing problems with the Alaskan natives and they would decimate and subjugate them just as badly as the French the Spaniards and the British did across the rest of the Americas Russia don't get to escape the legacy of colonization on the count of a technicality for not engaging in colonizing the African continent No more so than Japan does for it's colonization of Korea, or Oman for it colonization of Kenya
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  1716. They had control over Alaska for about 65 years and even more down the Washington and Oregon coastline with forts in California and Hawaii
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  1717.  @AlkiA1A2  well then you must not have been paying attention when discussing Promyshlenniki and the russification attempts they facilitated at great expense to the indigenous Siberians and Alaskans. Their atrocities are well documented Try harder next time 😉
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  1718.  @AlkiA1A2  the same thing should be said about the Siberians
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  1719. Oh no not at all one of my very first examples of the Japanese government having scandalous and corruptive behavior was the long after this one but it was when the Japanese governments did something similar to what the US did when they took in the Shah of Iran for asylum The Japanese government took in the president of Peru, president fujimori, and they refused to extradite him back to Peru so he could face all the corruption charges and extrajudicial killing charges that he was having to answer for when during his presidency and I'd still to this day do not know why the Japanese government refused to extradite him except for the fact that fujimori was himself an ethnic Japanese man born in Peru so they just used race as the singular means for defense of refusal to extradite And that is extremely corrupt and disgusting behavior and in fact it was only the border nation of Chile that actually acted upon the extradition order in 2007 and FINALLY sent the criminal president back to Peru to be prosecuted and convicted
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  1720. oh without a doubt I really do not like Japan's criminal system at all They run an inquisitive system where they take the concept of innocent until proven guilty and it's flipped on its head under the Japanese you are guilty until proven innocent And they can detain you for months without notifying you of even being formally charged for any crime
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  1721. Thanks I'm going to add it to my list
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  1722.  @RonJohn63  yeah I just wanted to put an additional for massive amounts of hard labor 2600 is great but anything 3000 over is if you're working like an ox
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  1723.  @Verbindungs  no, it's all about reducing/increasing rates of lending between banks on a national macro scale
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  1724. No, quantitative easing is trying to reduce/increase the macro level of inflation a nation is experiencing by bringing the lending rates between banks down/up, and theoretically reducing/increasingly the overall money in circulation on a national scale These guys abolished all but one singular state bank in some weird attempt to have firm control over the national economy, meaning there's no one left to lend money to
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  1725. Man that is just so overly confusing and unnecessary 🤣
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  1726. I'm pretty sure you can't land because there's no surface
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  1727.  @David_jdmc  You got tungsten that will withstand a severe amount of heat
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  1728. They also said that they flash froze it prior to it launching into the atmosphere of Venus
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  1729. Yeah sort of.... there still was little to no scientific and data to be gathered from this type of mission I mean that's great that they made it to the surface of Venus and feet that's never been replicated, give praises to the engineers by all means But it kind of was more of a publicity stunt than anything else very similar to the Soviets exploding the largest nuclear bomb on Earth Tsar Bomba I mean at that 50 megatons you have no practical use in warfare as your aircraft to diver it's payload it would be so slow it could be easily shot out of the sky so you know there's a lot of diminishing returns, and that same concept of diminishing returns can also be applied to these Venus missions
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  1730. It's also because the nation of japan is extremely homogeneous so when they want to plot a course of direction in government policy it's much easier to achieve because they aren't fighting as hard and needing to persuade as much to other groups within the nation to follow policy Contrast that to the US, in which it has thousands of different ethnic, racial, ideological, and religious groups within it's population that it has to cater to and win over
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  1731.  @Morris_Minor  no they aren't
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  1732. Wow! I didn't know that the British government and the French government opposed the German reunification. That's interesting to know
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  1733. That's good. That should be how you conduct an interview
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  1734. Wow he's still alive?!!! Amazing! Love him or hate him he is a walking and living piece of world history. It's fascinating nonetheless
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  1735. I had no idea
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  1736. Same
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  1737. Agreed
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  1738. I have never heard him speak, it was always English dubbed. Strangely I have also never heard Putin speak either
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  1739. No kidding
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  1740. 1984 Mayan genocide by the Guatemalan government: UN is silent
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  1741. Salt. Lots and lots of salt. Colorado in the US does the same thing.
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  1742. A little of both the Russians are falling back on certain fronts and they're "advancing" in at least this one I think what will happen is the government of Russia will throw lives away needlessly because they're not a democracy and they can force their population to stomach high losses (50,000 KIA in 9 months) until they get what they want I don't think they will succeed I'm just telling the mindset of the Russian government I think that tactic the Russians are employing would work if there was ever a cut or a cease in Ukraine receiving Western shipments of weapons and material If that ever happens then Russia could just play the numbers game and just overwhelm them by sheer numbers I mean there's a reason why Russia sacrificed 20 million from World War II just to be "victorious"
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  1743. Oh I think I'm going to be sick...
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  1744. Pardon me sir/madam, but I noticed that in your haste to comment you have seemed to misspelled the word propaganda. I humbly advise you to correct this error because it gives negative connotations to the intellegence of the author. I know that no one likes to have one's own intelect questioned in a humourous and insulting manner. I would very much like to take you seriously, and engage in polite friendly debate. This will be most easier and benefit us both greatly if this small matter be addressed. Please consider my polite request, I have no intent of offense nor instigation merely scholarly delight. Thank you, have a good day.
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  1745. Without a doubt pants were shat
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  1746. God damn Everyone is doing damn border protection and using unwanted immigrants as the reasoning. US-Mexico, Mexico-Guatemala,Norway-Russia, India- Bangladesh, China-North Korea, Chile-Bolivia,Bangladesh-Burma(Myanmar) Should start using the meme with Oprah saying, "you get a border fence, and you get a border fence, and you get a border fence"
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  1747. You know it's fucked when the Taliban are allowed to be on Twitter
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  1748. Im not surprised most of the world DOES NOT use Jus Soli that is a privilege largely given by the collective West with a few outliers like Australia who doesn't participate Most use Jus Sanguis, you can only get citizenship through blood relations
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