Comments by "boz" (@BOZ_11) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. the video said 27%! A couple of percentage points is within the margin of error, for Pete's sake.
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  2.  @history_repeats8201  Turkey has been occupying Cyprus so hard that they put their weight behind unifying the island with the UN and Greece as part of the Annan plan of 2004. Turkish Cypriots overwhelmingly voted for reunification, Greek Cypriots (not wanting to live in harmony or as equals with Turkish Cypriots) voting overwhelming against reunification. The treaty would have actually meant that there would have been 900 more Greek soldiers on the island than Turkish soldiers. Not to mention the 2017 Switzerland Crans-Montana peace talks that Turkey also engaged with as an attempt to reunify the island, which yet again the Greek Cypriots rejected and refused. Hence you have bizarre comments like this one - screaming and crying about "Occupation" when the Greek side have repeatedly refused any attempts to put provisions in place which would mean Turkish Cypriots could live in peace without the fear of being powerless and vulnerable to another attempt to genocide them.
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  3. 2% for Greece is nothing when you realise their GDP shrank like 30% after the bank crisis
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  4. Stop harping on about GDP if you want to gauge the wealth of people. Look at the average wage/average house-price multiple. Look at the unemployment rate and median inflation-indexed salaries.
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  5. Ukraine won't be able to hold it
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  6.  @casper6014  Russia has 3x more personnel fit for service, 15x more fighter aircraft, 17x more attack choppers and 13x more tanks. Why do you think the Russians keep calling this a "special military operation" and not a 'war'? A full Russian deployment in a Blitzkrieg roll out would flatten Ukraine in weeks, but that is NOT what they want; they see the Ukrainians as their cultural and racial cousins (which they are). No NATO accession talks, no conflict.
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  7. I cannot stand this particular reporter. The UN "invaded" Cyprus, with Canadian peacekeepers in 1974. Greeks broke the Treaty of Guarantee 1960, which explicitly states that no nation can annex it to their territory. Turkey's intervention was covered under their signatory status as a guarantor of the same treaty. The border is literally a United Nations buffer zone, and the UN is still there today, policing the border. The intervention was necessary since the terrorist group EOKA B (supported by the Greek National Guard, and their military junta) was mass murdering Turks and ethnically cleansing the island. Turks have lived in Cyprus since the Ottoman Empire in the 1500s, they didn't arrive in 1974, a quite asinine idea. Moreover, the Turks won 1/3 of the island in the '74 war, freeing the population from their ethnic cleansers, and the Turkish Cypriots voted (in a 2004 referendum) to re-unite the island, but 75% of Greeks voted against. Greeks are the impediment to a unified island, and the Turks no longer care about reunification.
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  8. did u watch the vid? They failed to win Donbas with the Kursk distraction, and are losing it faster. They said so in the video
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  9. thats not how geopolitics works
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  10. Far right nationalism is ethnocentric, and racial purity is a complete fiction, meaning nationalism is the most unstable sentiment to build a polity on, and the proof of that is the frequency of polities dying and being created in Europe. Republic of Finland (1917) Republic of Poland (1918) Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918) Republic of Austria (1919) Kingdom of Hungary (1920) Irish Free State (1922) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (1922) Republic of Turkey (1923) Albanian Republic (1925) After World War II: German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (1949) Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (1949) After Dissolution of Yugoslavia: Slovenia (1991) Croatia (1991 - re-emerged as independent) Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995) Republic of Serbia (1992 - re-emerged) North Macedonia (1991) Montenegro (2006) 21st Century: Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006) Montenegro (2006 - separation from Serbia and Montenegro) Kosovo (2008 - declared independence from Serbia) Look at the mess these ethno-centrists cause. Even monarchies were more stable than the polities they create.
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  11.  @franciscoabreu4893  Inflation adjusted (i.e. real) GDP is down 24% from Q2 2007 to today. That's pretty sh1t
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  12. this is pasty propaganda.
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  13.  @kevoreilly6557  i've been an economist since 2007. you dont know what you're saying
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  14.  @puraLusa  It's 145 million. thats not a trivial number, and we're not talking about heads per square mile, nobody cares about that. As someone else said, 9th most populous of about 180 nations.
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  15.  @richdobbs6595  "GDP is basically a measure of income, not wealth" you do not know what GDP is. At all. I am not going to tell you, either
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  16.  @mihaimaracine5373  "Nationalism usually doesn't mean dominion over other nations," - neo-colonialism says hi
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  17. you've been told to hate Putin by western PDF Files. think for yourself, if you can
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  18. did u watch the vid? They failed to win Donbas with the Kursk distraction, and are losing it faster. They said so in the video
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  19.  @prajwal4080  USA has literally never defended itself in either the 20th or 21st centuries. Lots of aggression though, but thankfully they're declining, fast and hard. Fast, and hard.
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  20. haha. They're EAST of turkey. get a map
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  21.  @ricardobarahona3939  ukraine lost 20% of its entire land mass
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  22.  @johnmullis8879  they have to keep it to trade it, whilst it acts like a dead weight to their efforts elsewhere. You guys are deluded Russophobes.
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  23.  @ATHLDN  The UN "invaded" Cyprus, with Canadian peacekeepers in 1974. Greeks broke the Treaty of Guarantee 1960, which explicitly states that no nation can annex it to their territory. Turkey's intervention was covered under their signatory status as a guarantor of the same treaty. The border is literally a United Nations buffer zone, and the UN is still there today, policing the border. The intervention was necessary since the terrorist group EOKA B (supported by the Greek National Guard, and their military junta) was mass murdering Turks and ethnically cleansing the island. Turks have lived in Cyprus since the Ottoman Empire in the 1500s, they didn't arrive in 1974, a quite asinine idea. Moreover, the Turks won 1/3 of the island in the '74 war, freeing the population from their ethnic cleansers, and the Turkish Cypriots voted (in a 2004 referendum) to re-unite the island, but 75% of Greeks voted against. Greeks are the impediment to a unified island, and the Turks no longer care about reunification.
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  24. news flash. they dont want it
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  25.  @italiansandvich6  no they dont. Istanbul supplanted Paris as Europe's #1 tourist destination.
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  26. The percentage of the population holding equities is completely irrelevant, since only the top strata of income earners tend to make significant capital gains. A median salaried worker is not going to change his or life with the pittance of disposable income they have for investment; if you want people to have more wealth, then salary rises must outstrip inflation.
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  27. 8% for a wartime economy is actually impressive, when you consider hundreds of sanctions and forex attacks on the Ruble; pasty
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  28.  @pavlinpetkov8984  median income + percent of population under poverty line + unemployment figures = best metrics.
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  29. Pro child policies are not expensive, compared to the expense of a collapsing demographic. THINK
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  30.  @Rhytmicasd  they were strangling Japan's energy imports, despite not being engaged in the war! Moreover, the military post(s) on Pearl Harbour were supposed to be decommissioned months before the attack, but were left there by Roosevelt to invite the attack and spur a VERY non-interventionist public into the war. Vietnam was even worse, since the casus belli never even happened (Gulf of Tonkin incident, declassified in 2005). Fast, and hard.
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  31. Serbian brain? oxymoron
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  32.  @sleeppe  no they're not, they're south of the mountain range that contains Elbrus and Ushba. Get a map, stop typing
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  33.  @Hyper584k  because she's not a politician.......genius
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  34.  @Flugs0  The UN "invaded" Cyprus, with Canadian peacekeepers in 1974. Greeks broke the Treaty of Guarantee 1960, which explicitly states that no nation can annex it to their territory. Turkey's intervention was covered under their signatory status as a guarantor of the same treaty. The border is literally a United Nations buffer zone, and the UN is still there today, policing the border. The intervention was necessary since the terrorist group EOKA B (supported by the Greek National Guard, and their military junta) was mass murdering Turks and ethnically cleansing the island. Turks have lived in Cyprus since the Ottoman Empire in the 1500s, they didn't arrive in 1974, a quite asinine idea. Moreover, the Turks won 1/3 of the island in the '74 war, freeing the population from their ethnic cleansers, and the Turkish Cypriots voted (in a 2004 referendum) to re-unite the island, but 75% of Greeks voted against. Greeks are the impediment to a unified island, and the Turks no longer care about reunification.
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  35.  @ravenblood1954  did u watch the vid? They failed to win Donbas with the Kursk distraction, and are losing it faster. They said so in the video
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  36.  @DeeSnow97  "that's pretty much the point. anti-abortion rhetorics are strongly linked to women's disempowerment" Sorry, but that's a gobbledygook sentence. Makes absolutely no sense. Women were not powerless pre-abortion, utterly absurd thing to say
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  37.  @atrumluminarium  then it wasn't bloody Soviet
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  38. Russian oil and gas revenues jump 26% in 2024 to $108 billion By Reuters January 13, 2025
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  39.  @gooseboy4025  ukr will never take donbas, not in my lifetime.
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  40.  @DeeSnow97  Bonobos have abortions? haha
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  41.  @savvas_1367  what difference would that make? this guy is loading up official data and making judgements. idiotic
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  42. please, EU is a low growth dud
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  43.  @thomasgrabkowski8283  policies take years to affect change
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  44.  @hamodalbatal464  Hungarians are Asian, just like the Turks. Silly
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  45. ​ @franciscoabreu4893  I just explained in real terms that it's not! Adiós man.
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  46.  @Zoetherat  but all countries are suffering. you cant escape these trends since they're global.
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  47. they're not in the EU, so they dont need to abide by EU rules. You're so slow
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  48.  @miramosa7768  they don't want EU accession any longer. They've just been inducted into BRICS, and have been in the EU Customs Union for YEARS; they gain nothing from full EU membership, but lose some sovereignty.
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  49.  @miramosa7768  you can't have it both ways. You can't ask for the biggest military in Europe and give little in return. Europe will have to defend itself without America and without turkiye
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  50. They're going to lose Kursk in weeks EDIT: This is pure propaganda and the facts (omitted) are that Kursk offers no strategic or political advantage and will be lost in weeks, at great cost to the other conflict areas. It's 1944 for Ukraine; still fighting, but it's over.
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