Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Business Basics" channel.

Yeah, this will eventually come to a breaking point and China will regret all of this. They are practically making the world hate them with basically every action they take, diplomatic or otherwise... To quote Londo Mollari from Babylon 5: "Only an idiot fight's a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots fights a war on twelve fronts!". All it would take, is for nations mentioned in this video to unite, invite Japan and Australia in. "You nick our water? Alright then, it's war with all of us.". Not even China would ever try and rattle two nuclear powers.
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Not sure about that. Remember, Ukraine now has equally big border to man and so far, they've proven inferior in defense. Ridiculously good and efficient, but still inferior. And on top of that manpower shortage, there is a river to consider, which benefits the defender. I'd say, that if Ukraine managed to capture another state or two, they could then sue for white peace, but it is not enough just yet. I just don't see this ending purely militarily at this juncture.
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Not really. We made a massive error during first immigration wave from Syria. We should have given them language training and started to force employers to increase output with the incoming workforce. But people voted and screamed otherwise. If you checked annual statistics and compared crime and GDP growth, you'd find that GDP growth is diminishing crime. It's as if not being able to feed yourself legally drives people to crime...
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@robvett8584 Until Sri Lanka happens again and those South American and Middle Eastern nations will be forced to settle their accounts...
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@chadbrad8100 Question is, how long can Ukraine maintain that? Two years is long already, as majority of wars had been shorter. And if the West cut's their support... they're screwed. Swedes did extremely well in Winter war, but they too eventually had to cede some land, all be it much less than otherwise would have. Mass is a quality of it's own and Russia, unfortunately, still has that advantage, not to mention how well Russians can suffer. How long it takes to break them to demand political change... I don't think, Ukrainians would have to walk all the way to Vladivostok, but I'm concerned, they wouldn't even reach Ural, behind which Putin can run, unfortunately.
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You are never independent/sovereign. If you trade at all, you have to accept dictate of the stronger one in the trade. Alternative is to become North Korea. The difference between the EU and Russia is, that Russia doesn't care about anything. No questions asked, which benefits local corrupt authorities.
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I for one believe, that the West made a mistake, when it chose to believe, that it can win wars without getting dirty. It failed, to deliver some very clear messages, like "if you want that system, we can show you, how that looks like. Bosporus and Belgian straits are hereby placed under blockade, no ship will be permitted under any circumstances passage. Any ship attempting to cross will be sunk with all hands. Since you've rejected the international order, the law goes with it too. I'm sorry, what are you talking about famine and this being a genoicde? Just go and visit Buča!".
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Let me play a Devil's advocate for a moment. But, shouldn't the airline bear the responsibility, not Russian air defense? Shooting down passenger planes is not strictly Russian thing, all be it, they're the most frequent ones to do it. In 1988, USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air 655 due to miss-identification of the plane with a hostile fighter. Russia is at war (though they refuse to admit to it), and therefore very trigger happy. Shouldn't the airlines, given they know, which airspace their planes are scheduled to fly over, actively evade risks and even cut routes, if threat of something like this is heightened, for instance, during an armed conflict?
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@Marsh-j8m Not an argument, when Ukrainians managed to hit Moscow multiple times. For this to be an argument, the shoot down would have to be outside of Ukrainian's theoretical range and that, given what we've seen so far, would be past the Ural mountains. Not to mention the fact, that Baku is a major oil field and there is interlink between it and Russia, through which Russians could try and smuggle their piped oil to the rest of the world, meaning there is potential target for Ukrainians at very least in that direction. And then again, Russia is at war. Russia is sanctioned. Why are there airlines still operating routes to Russia?
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@shockzlol8282 Why didn't Iran or Iraq do the same in USS Vincennes' case? And that was at sea! Besides, Russians can't do it, because that would give away locations of their assets. No, I'm convinced, that no nation at war would do that for strategic reasons.
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It would not be RMB, it would be Euro, if new reserve currency were to be established. Why? Already, a number of nations ditched their currencies in favor of Euro and there are currencies, which are fixed directly to it (such as CFA Frank, which it self is used by a number of African nations). What I think would cause this to happen, would be Ukrainian adoption of Euro. Ukraine was and likely will eventually again become breadbasket of Europe. A lot of African and Middleeastern nations were and will be dependent on them for food supply. With oil being still important for chemical sector and Europe being at forefront of this field (particularly Germany), it would make trading easier, not to mention, that there would be more nations to draw that currency from directly, because they use it as their home currency.
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Yeah, this happened to me once. I was in the Uni and had an assignment for my English class (foreign language), to write a short story or a script. So I wrote down this horror thing that I thought would be absolutely cringe and make everyone uncomfortable. Well, I had to explain, why am I ripping off eleven different movies, which I've never seen ever in my life. I'm more of a Sci-Fi guy, yet here I was.
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