Comments by "Andy Monaghan" (@229andymon) on "DW News" channel.

  1. How dare China play us at our own game..!
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  2. So, when Chinese exports grow it’s a threat, but when US or European exports grow it’s success..?
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  3.  @insurgent23 When did they agree it was all Syria and they didn’t have a right to their own state?
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  4. Not meaning to belittle a very serious issue, but how did this place get called New Caledonia (Scotland)..?
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  5. If Russia is struggling to beat Ukraine, how could it possibly beat the combined forces of the rest of Europe, far less if USA also joins in? It seems highly dubious to me that Russia will even annex all of Ukraine. This “first Ukraine, then Europe” notion doesn’t seem rooted in any logic.
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  6. Yes, but don’t forget that switching away from fossil fuels is also in China’s general best interests too. China hasn’t enough fossil fuel resources to meet its needs, so has to rely on spending lots of money buying such fuels from states some of which regard China as either a competitor or even an enemy. Switching to EV makes sense for China on many levels.
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  7.  @Wakereu  There’s plenty of lithium, it’s a shortage of refining capacity that’s the issue, but in any case, there are new battery developments coming on stream that promise new, easier and cheaper sources, such as sodium. As for electricity provision, it’ll take time to replace all the ICE out there, so as long as new generation keeps pace we’ll be OK. Solar is now the cheapest form of energy on the planet, this, coupled with wind and battery storage schemes looks like it will be able to facilitate the transition. We’re entering an era where soon we simply won’t need fossil fuels in anything like the scale we do now.
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  8.  @kovacevic6870  You need to read history. Before the French and British invented the present state of Syria, it was part of the Ottoman Empire. The French and British laid a map on a table and 2 guys drew lines on it and created Syria.
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  9. I was just thinking the same. No balance whatsoever. As for you wondering if DW thinks you’re not smart enough to make your own mind up if they provided balanced journalism, I reckon you’re wrong. I’m assuming they think you are smart enough, which is why they’re deliberately not presenting the alternative POV.
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  10. So they are to retreat - by swimming over the river or on inflatables etc while under fire? Really...?
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  11. Even assuming you are correct in that assumption, once the green energy revolution is complete, such a disadvantage will be an advantage.
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  12. @ Britain is British! Said the Brits to the Irish. France is French! Said the French to the Algerians. Pakistan is Pakistani! Said the Pakistanis to the Bangla Deshis. Etc etc etc…
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  13. Trump appears to have started a trend.
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  14. With Russia struggling to overpower one of the poorest nations in Europe where they have possibly the best logistics etc to invade any country, why did Germany decide this necessitated an increase in defence spending? Logically, you’d conclude the opposite.
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  15. Well, that really explained things…. Call that journalism?
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  16.  @CM-ey7nq  Writing Putin off as a madman/psychopath/dictator etc is a fantastic way to avoid meaningful discussion. About as easy as it is for a Russian to write off the next US President i expect. Doesn’t really get us anywhere though, does it?
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  17.  @vincenthigginbotham8729 After the fall of the USSR, both the Moldovans and the people of Transnistria declared themselves independent. The Moldovans want to incorporate Transnistria, but the Russian people of that area don’t want to join them. Why do you support Moldova, what have you against the national aspirations of the the Transnistrians? Why not just let the people of Transnistria have what they want?
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  18. Only if you are happy risking the continuation of human civilisation.
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  19. Been here before…?
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  20. It’s easy to judge with the gift of hindsight. We know *now* that strategy didn’t work, but at the time it was considered worth trying. Let’s face it, what was the alternative - the worst conflict in human history. If it had worked, tens of millions of lives may have been saved.
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  21. These soldiers have just been told they’ll have to fight until the end of a war they can’t win. What a terrible future ahead for them.
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  22. @ Self determination IS demanding a country. But there’s one condition, it has to be a fair demand. Now you tell me why the Kurds do not have a fair claim to their own country. They don’t want anyone else’s land, they want their own land that others currently lay claim to. Just to remind you, we live in a world full of countries that didn’t exist before. Including Syria.
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  23.  @DarxKies  The guy explained nothing, in fact his response was a masterclass in avoiding explanation. Why would any journalist get a death sentence for saying nothing? But yes, you’re right about him being a fairly good representative of Western journalism.
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  24.  @Martingl-v6p  I get that farming in France is different to many others in Europe. I get that it reflects not just agriculture in France but also the French way of life. I get that to maintain the current system in France requires financial support due to it basically being unable to compete with larger scale agriculture. Personally I hope it continues. What I don't get it why the rest of Europe has to help pay for it.
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  25. @tylerelissa6377  And Moldova has been bigger and smaller and passed from one external power to another for 800 years too. So what makes their assertion they own Transnistria any more valid than the Transnistrian's assertion they don't? The USSR made, unmade and remade borders to suit their own interests and reflective of their own ideology, why must the Transnistrians feel bound to that. Your opinion that if the Transnistrians want to be Russian they must leave their land and go to Russia is the language of the despot. Why do you not understand that I support the people of Transnistria's right to self determination, you seek to forcibly keep them in a country they do not want to be.
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  26.  @Eder-bk5mm  Your first statement is just your opinion, unless you’d like to substantiate your claim the Russians don’t care about Russian people living in Russia. On the other hand there are Russians living in other countries that I see no significant evidence are supported by Moscow. Take for example the large numbers of Russians living in the Baltic states, some of whom claim to be discriminated against, do you see much evidence of Russian support for them? I don’t. As for ethnic Russians living in Ukraine, yes, Russia does support them, but the Ukrainians promised to respect their rights in Russian dominated ares such as the Donbas and there is evidence this was not done. As for whether I would support independence movements within Russia, that would depend entirely on the circumstances, as is the case with any such movement throughout the world. For example I think the Russians should not have forcibly stopped Chechen independence. If, however, say the St Petersburg area wanted to separate from Russia, I’m not sure I would support such a move as if I were Russian I would consider that a definite part of the Russian nation. Self determination can only be viewed on a case by case basis as the circumstances are never the same.
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  27. Once electric car manufacture reaches the volume of ICE, and assuming batteries become cheaper due to new, cheaper materials and mass production etc, it would appear logical to assume cars in general should get cheaper and cheaper. EVs have on average 50% of the number of components ICE cars do, batteries have something like 1% of the components of an engine. It follows that they should be easier, quicker and cheaper to make.
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  28.  @Ursu77  Well, Chinese companies have made millions of EVs by now, so I’m assuming they know how to make good cars. As for questioning their ethics and quality, I don’t think western companies are squeaky clean, think dieselgate. I believe in never overlooking the obvious, and it seems reasonably obvious to me the Chinese have simply made better choices and are executing them effectively.
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  29.  @jr_san Often only through initial division can come unity. Think about how many present day nations came into being, including USA.
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  30.  @franciscomarcelino1251  Sounds like every Empire. I'm sure a quarter of the world's surface applied to join the Brit Empire.
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  31.  @franciscomarcelino1251  I'm not sure what narrative you mean, given my comment could be read to support yours. My point was that the kind of conflict you described was very similar to every Empire in history. As for NATO not forcing countries to join, no, it doesn't, but it can prevent them.
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  32. @xena2559 That’s not possible - at this time. However, replacing the world’s population of micro-sized fossil fuel power stations spewing toxic fumes on a daily basis called cars very much is. Which is - 1.5bn cars producing 3.5 bn tons of CO2 pa. You’re a glass half empty kinda guy I’m guessing…?
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  33. @xena2559 No one brainwashed me, if they had, the reports on the impacts of the EV revolution I completed for my employers last year would’ve been corrupted and compromised. Are you questioning my source, or just venting? Perhaps you can tell me how you’ve come by your conclusions, not that they’re very clear…..
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  34.  @kovacevic6870  Neither was Syria until the British and French invented it. Without asking the Kurds that have lived there for centuries if they agreed. History is full of countries that have disappeared, broken up into other countries, empires that have fallen, countries that should never have been countries, countries that were taken by others, given by others…. Countries are human constructs, they change all the time. If ever a people deserved the right to self determination it’s the Kurds.
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  35. @ Meaning what? Everyone came from somewhere. I’m Scottish, the Scots originally came from Ireland. Am I Irish, is Scotland part of Ireland? The Turks came from Central Asia, and they’re saying the Kurds don’t get a state, but we all know why. Sorry, but you’ll have to do better than that.
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  36. But European nations in NATO *already* outspend Russia militarily by a large margin. Why do we never get the actual numbers from the western media when they’re telling us that we need more taxpayers money. Why do we always get %s instead? Are they perhaps scared we might ask questions as to why they can’t defend us with the huge amounts of money they already get?
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  37. How is 7% too much? Surely it’s only too much if it will increase the cost of a car significantly enough to deter people buying. So to say it’s too much you’d need to know what 7% salary increase mean in terms of overall costs. Do you know that?
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  38. Trump economic “policy” seems to me like US military policy. All about steaming in all guns blazing and worry about the consequences later. Tariffs. OK, what is the anticipated short, but also medium and long term future? What will the post-tariff US economy look like? What are the anticipated reactions from those places tariffed, including Europe, China, Canada and Mexico, and how will it impact the US? I don’t see Americans talking about these things…
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  39. Maybe because that may provoke Poland to ask for their land back too.
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  40. If this was happening in Russia the EU would be all over it like a cheap suit.
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  41.  @DarxKies  Sorry, but once was more than enough BS for one sitting. I don’t watch RT, it’s too biased, like many government directed news outlets, including DW and the BBC. In my opinion the best option for as close to objective mainstream state oriented reporting as you’re likely to get is with Aljazeera. You don’t have to be a Russian shill to criticise rubbish Western media, you really don’t.
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  42. I’m not expert enough to guess which battery tech will become the dominant one. But… what I reckon is obvious is that given the enormous amounts of profits that will be made in battery supply for many years into the future, and the equally enormous amounts of money already being spent on battery tech R&D, we will see continual and significant progress toward an electrically powered world. The era of fossil fuels is over, we’re in the beginning of the renewables age. It is the next Industrial Revolution.
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  43. Biden’s comments aimed more at China than Russia, methinks….
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  44.  @roberthoyt7921 But what about the fact that the Russian people of Transnistria didn’t want to join Moldova? Why must they be forcefully integrated into a country they don’t feel part of or voted for?
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  45.  @tylerelissa6377  You don’t consider the fall of the Soviet Union “specific circumstance”?. Sorry, but you haven’t even started to persuade me that the people of Transnistria have as much claim to not want to be part of Moldova as Moldova does that they “own” them.
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  46.  @tylerelissa6377  So, do the people of Taiwan have no right to independence?
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  47.  @tylerelissa6377  Have you heard about the UN principle of self-determination? I’m a Scot, believe me I have. Look it up. In any case, I believe your paper thin argument for forcing the Transnistrians to stay in a country they don’t want to is flawed, both morally and legally. After the fall of the USSR Transnistria decided they had no obligation no stay in a country whose borders were decided by a political entity that no longer existed. That sounds entirely reasonable to me. Moldova’s case is shaky at best, but it definitely seems to have convinced you, I suspect because you are anti-Russian, not pro-Moldovan or any other “legal” consideration - you just want to see Russia stuffed. As for your fear about what happens if peoples start demanding self-determination - well, perhaps they should get it..! Let me guess, you come from a big country that could worry about such movements - right?
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  48.  @tylerelissa6377  Why does the UN principle of self determination not apply to Transnistria? Did you read it? Oh and incidentally, you’re a YT commenter too.
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  49. @tylerelissa6377  The UN charter on self determination is clear and applies to Transnistria. If that doesn't accord with your Russophobia it has nothing to do with the unfortunate people that live there. I note you appear to support Chechen independence under similar circumstances, I wonder why. You should attempt to be objective,
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  50.  @Eder-bk5mm  You didn’t say Russia isn’t a free country, you said Russia doesn’t care about the rights of Russians in Russia. You then equate that with the (alleged) treatment of political opposition figures. I agree there is an element of gangsterism in Russia (and Ukraine, incidentally) both in politics and in the private sector, but to equate that with a generic lack of care about Russian rights is simplistic and misleading. As for Putin’s indifference to suffering, why then was he recently re-elected with a massive majority? Was the election probably subject to some kind of interference? I expect so, but I also reckon even if it was squeaky clean he would still have won. We in the West don’t like to face up to this, but Putin is popular in Russia. As for insistence of Russian aggression to the Baltic states, given the current situation I regard that as fairly restrained in the light of the build up of NATO military capability in the region, the very vocal support for Ukraine (urging NATO to supply more aggressive military weapons) and the highly anti-Russia stances of the Baltic leaders. You do that in the middle of a war…. what do you expect? If your idea of “aggression” in a war situation is the issuing of some arrest warrants for dismantling Soviet monuments, you have a low bar as to what constitutes aggression. Look Putin is no angel and Russia no paradise, but neither is Ukraine, NATO, the Baltic states, Poland or the West generally. We’re making moves too, eh?. There is precious little going on I reckon can be assigned as all good or all bad IMO.
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  51.  @Eder-bk5mm  I don’t share your extreme Russophobia, so I see no further profit in discussion. All I’ll say is that I always try the shoe on the other foot and if I were Russian I reckon I would fear and deeply mistrust NATO. Russia did ignore the Baltic states joining NATO, and Poland, Romania etc, but they made clear Ukraine doing so would be considered a an existential threat to Russian security. Do I blame them for that? No. Did Ukraine know that as they pressed ahead with NATO expansion regardless? Yes. Perhaps you’ll say the Russians had no right to think like that, but we live in a world where not only Russia thinks and acts like that. USA, China etc would do the same. I don’t agree culpability is 100% one sided in this conflict.
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  52. @Eder-bk5mm  So, your solution to Russian fear of NATO expansion is to treat them like children that see gremlins under the bed by telling them they're being "irrational". Yeah, I can see that working. What is NATO and why was it formed? It was an anti-Soviet and is now an anti-Russian military alliance. What's "irrational" about fearing that, especially since NATO already outspends, outguns and outmans it. For a Russian I'd call that the epitome of rationality. Russia let NATO get closer and closer, and did nothing until NATO encouraged Ukraine to go for membership, in the full and certain knowledge Russia had said that was a red line. Have a look at a map and see how close that would place an anti-Russian military alliance to Moscow. Then tell me the US wouldn't stamp on that like a bug if the tables were turned.
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  53. What’s the difference between Beijing dictating Taiwan must remain Chinese and Madrid dictating Catalonia must remain Spanish?
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  54. @ Taïwan is not an independent country.
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  55. Game on….
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  56. “When the works council speaks they cheer, when the company leadership speaks, they boo”. Welcome to Britain for the last 100 years.
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  57. Syria was a creation of colonial powers that divided up the region as they seen fit and to suit themselves. Why should the peoples of those areas agree to continue that?
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  58. So the difference between Trump threatening to invade these places and Russia invading Ukraine is what? Just that the Russians actually did it?
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  59.  @lovingeachothernow I’d say Russia is weaker than US for the simple reason it has much smaller population with an economy around the size of Italy. It also hasn’t spent anything like the insane amounts US has on military over the last 30 years or so. However, according to the IMF, the Russian economy will grow faster than the US this year and it’s clear the sanctions regime the West has imposed on it (harshest in history) isn’t working. In fact I’m in agreement with Prof Mearscheimer of Chicago Uni, who says US should be courting Russia, not fighting it, since the only global peer competitor to it currently is China, not Russia. Recent US foreign policy has driven Russia and China into the arms of each other. Not that I believe US should “naturally” believe China to be an enemy just because it’s now a very strong nation, but that is the way US thinks.
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  60. The only protests from environmentalists I seem to hear about are those around electric vehicle factories. Go figure….
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  61.  @peterpanini96  3.5m according to Wiki, excluding US. As I say, they’re struggling to beat one of the poorest nations in Europe with a population about a quarter of Russia’s, but we’re meant to believe they’ll sweep aside places like Poland, Germany, UK, Scandinavia and France, all fighting them together with US. Logic of the loony bin.
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  62.  @lepetitroquet9410  Speaking as a European, I don’t think we need USA to defend us. I’d welcome a purely European defence arrangement. Let’s face it, the US sees its main adversary in China, not Russia. In fact decoupling Europe from USA will allow us to determine our own foreign policies rather than follow US. If Russia can’t get through Ukraine, I don’t think we need to worry about Russian troops marching up the streets of Paris or Dublin.
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  63.  @CM-ey7nq  And I daresay the average Russian doesn’t have much respect for western leaders. Putin may be all you say, but the evidence we have points to him being, even now, very popular with the Russian people. I don’t doubt the Russian leadership capable of influencing the outcome of Russian elections, but frankly, I also doubt they need to. I reckon Putin would win without help. Putin is an authoritarian and domineering leader, but he is no fool. I can’t see Russia losing this war. Ukraine, in spite of fighting like tigers, simply can’t match them and can’t outlast them, even with all the material we can provide. Which leads me to question exactly what it is we want to achieve and how we expect it to be achieved.
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  64.  @CiucNoris-i4v  Henry Ford is reputed to have said “if I gave my customers what they wanted, I’d have sold faster horses”. You would have been one of the customers he described. “Reality” should not be a prison.
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  65.  @agme8045  I think you’re being unfair. Firstly, I expect the delay was (as the report mentions) due to resistance from the EUs agricultural sector (esp France) as opposed to anything to do with EV adoption or green energy. Secondly, the EU has one of the most ambitious EV and green energy adoption targets in the world. Lastly, 20 years ago the scale and pace of the EV revolution wasn’t known, so expecting the EU to finalise a deal with South America assuming it was is harsh.
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  66. Apart from to keep pumping money and materials into Ukraine to keep the war going, what is Europe’s exit plan?
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  67.  @ChrisVillagomez  Yes, but to retreat a significant number of soldiers like that…? After the Russians have advanced further and know and can see exactly what you’re doing, when and where you’re doing it..? I pity those men
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  68.  @ChrisVillagomez  I hope they’re sending a few magic wands then, coz that’s what I reckon it’d take for UKR to win this war. Chris, sorry, but Russia is winning, and before you write me off as a blinkered Russia fan let me explain why I hope they do soon. Every day this war continues the whole world is in danger, and the longer it continues that danger escalates, every day. Not since the Cuban missile crisis has the world been in so much danger. I believe, unless something that will totally change the odds (and that isnt western weapons) occurs, there can only be one winner - Russia. The odds are just too stacked against UKR.
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  69. @ No manpower though. But surely the point still stands? If Russia is only occupying 20% or so of Ukraine after 2 years , regardless of how much material support they’re getting, how much should Germany fear seeing Russian troops in Berlin? The Ukraine war is proof the west and NATO has *less* to fear from Russia, not more. The warmongers are deliberately misinterpreting this to suit themselves. The threat of Russian conventional forces to Western Europe has been greatly exaggerated, as we are seeing in Ukraine right now and we should be cognisant of that.
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  70.  @fjdkfdfjdf33 Doesn’t explain why China has established such a huge lead in EVs over German makers. Germans, like other Western makers, have been sound asleep at the wheel and are now facing the consequences. They seen what China was doing, but stuck their heads in the sand so long as the money was rolling in from their Chinese export market. That happy hunting ground has now turned round and is hunting them..!
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  71. So, what’s the difference between this situation and when Putin persecutes his opposition? Well, I mean apart from that western media is all over one situation being an unacceptable outrage and another, let’s say less so.
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  72.  @G.A.C_Preserve  The question isn’t did they have a state, it’s should they have a state. The Americans didn’t have a state either before they got one.
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  73.  @ehsanazerbaijanli1738  You’re talking about someone else’s land, unless you’re Kurdish.
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  74.  @mustafahakim1298  Why not? Don’t you believe in the principle of self-determination?
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  75.  @Trigga_man3  In that area? Who hasn’t?
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  76. To warmongers and propagandists, yes.
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  77. 60 km Russian convoy spells no Ukrainian airforce capability. Otherwise it would be bombed.
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  78. And if Poland sends troops into Ukraine they'll travel through western Ukranian territory that used to belong to Poland. What will Polish forces be thinking when in Lviv, that used to be a Polish city not that long ago. Would getting Polish forces back out perhaps prove a bit more problematic?
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  79.  @LevanGudadze  I suspect any such Polish aspirations would be immediately and firmly stamped on. NATO could hardly be able to maintain their activities against Russia if a NATO member was doing the exact same thing...
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  80.  @stephenkeen6044  OK, but you didn’t answer my question. How much of a overall cost increase does an additional 7% of labour cost represent?
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  81. @stephenkeen6044  OK. I've done some basic research and found figures of between 7% and 14% as representative of the labour cost in auto manufacture. So if we take 10% and then calculate the selling price as being nett cost plus profit margin of around 12.5% then 7%, vs a lower annual increase, of the original 10% appears insignificant. Let's say a car costs 20000 to make, plus 5000 profit = 25000. So 7% of 2000 = 140. So we'd be looking at a 7% wage increase costing 140, putting the price up from 25000 to 25140. Doesn't seem much to me especially if you are allowing for some other annual inflation increase. Taking the 7% down to 5% for example would only save 20. So 20 in this example, What about taking 20 or 30 off the margin instead, I haven't seen a marginally lower profit considered?
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  82. @stephenkeen6044  wow, you are rude, aren't you. It isn't even the measly 140. By your own, invented, estimation of fairness it would be half that.. I reckon VW is already too late in any case. Bad leadership looks like bringing it down. Paying the workforce what they want won't do it, their own incompetence to will.
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  83. The Russians couldn’t even hold Afghanistan. What on earth chance would they have of forcibly controlling the whole of Europe? That’s of course based on the absurd premise they could defeat the whole of Europe in a war. Reminder - they’re struggling to beat one of the poorest countries in Europe now. Your thinking is about a hundred or so years out of date.
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  84.  @dojan  Have a look at current military spending by European NATO countries. We already outspend, outgun and outman Russia. So why on earth do we need to do more to protect ourselves against a country struggling to beat one of the poorest nations in Europe that they share a border with? If they can’t beat Ukraine, why should Germans or Poles worry? We don’t need USA to protect us. Who from?
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  85. I reckon he should be given the benefit of the doubt, but, having seen the clip now….. Close…!
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  86.  @nguyep4 According to the IMF, Russian growth in 2024 will be higher than US growth and much higher than EU and UK growth. Russian growth will fall next year, but will still be much higher than European. The German economy has been hit with 2 major problems in particular - the end of relatively cheap Russian gas, plus the inability of the German auto industry to compete with China.
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  87. ⁠​⁠ @nguyep4 It would be valuable if DW explained exactly what a 7% salary increase would mean in terms of what that would represent to the overall cost of a vehicle. Not doing so is just sloppy journalism. According to a recent article in CNN, the labour cost of making a car is 7%, so giving the union what it wants would add 7% of 7%. Which is insignificant.
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  88.  @bruceketcheson4877  The average labour cost in auto manufacturing is around 10%. So the union is demanding 7% of 10%. Less when you add OEM profit and dealer profits to the selling price. That’s a tiny amount. And let’s face it, VW are facing the wall not due to high wages, but to really, really bad leadership failing to see what was happening in China for the last 2 decades. Oh and the VW leadership committing fraud on a massive scale as well of course resulting in the need for equally massive reparations. Average profits in auto manufacture are also around 7-8%. No one questions that. When VW goes down, I know who I’ll blame, and it won’t be the union.
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  89. Perhaps the workers are being paid too much, but do you know they are? And, why do you not ask whether the profits are high enough to afford it, or whether the dividends are too high, or whether poor management is more to blame or any other reason there may be for the state of VW? Was the workforce to blame for Dieselgate? How much has *that* cost the company? Why do people default to blaming the poor schmucks on the shop floor all the time?
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  90. Trump has started a trend…
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  91. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the rational and objectives of NATO, that was set up as a bulwark to it, should have been completely reconsidered. For NATO to simply replace the USSR with the much different and much diminished Russian Federation and carry on regardless is wrong. Russia is not the USSR. Quick couple of facts. Russian GDP is slightly higher than Italy’s. Russia’s population is less than UK and Germany’s. European NATO countries encircle Russia on its Western flank and already spend $454bn on defence c/w wartime Russia’s $149bn. Does anyone with any sense of realism actually believe there is a serious prospect that Russian troops will one day invade Poland or Romania, far less UK or France?
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  92.  @teresamccartney1309  At the end of WW2 Russia invaded Manchuria to liberate it from the Japanese. In spite of this costing many Russian lives, the Russians gave up the territory they then occupied to the Chinese after the defeat of Japan.
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  93. Kirschbaum is wrong. USA is *not* the most important global auto market. China is. As USA is about to discover!
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