Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "DW News" channel.

  1. It's Europe. We should not judge people by how well they speak a foreign language.
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  2. Good.... Did I mention "good"?
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  3. Yeah I know. With Russia one "just has to kick in the front door".
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  4. I agree...they constantly shoot people in the back....
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  5. This channel censors comments. The "censorship fanboys" are not interested in the truth, in case they censor even balanced comments, based on facts and reality.
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  6. Bild is the German version of FOX and Sky News...
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  7. Don't forget to inform the virus that things will be fine by Easter....
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  8. Excellent information and explanations. Thank you.
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  9. Germany has a much more diverse (deep and broad) economy, unlike Venezuela (overall reliance on a single source, which is oil).
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  10. EU sanctions for moral reasons, without a hidden agenda. USA sanctions because there is an ulterior motive: own economic gain. Go EU...you show 'em.
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  11.  @pouletbidule9831  "Legit" is a bs premise for any debate concerning war. What really counts is smart leadership, and Brits sucked at geopolitics. The real question that should be asked, and therefore the premise of any debate is: Was it wise at the time? To which the simple answer is "no". They ignored the big picture... And of all the "big pictures", this is the biggest of all... The worst choice of all was ignoring the reality of how Europe had been "set up" to protect the British Empire. The British Empire was actually protected in Europe by uniquely "balancing powers" on the continent. For more than 100 years, "balancing powers" on the continent, kept these powers opposing each other, unable to divert military or economic resources to affront the status of the British Empire as the nr.1 in the world... According to the logic of this policy, completely ruining a power on the continent, would lead to an imbalance, which could then be directed at the British Empire... Therefore, totally destroying Germany was neither wise nor in GB 's interests. Concerning WW2. Firstly, a 100% collapse of Germany as a power...was a dream condition for communism (Moscow) and US corporatism (Washington D.C.). After WW2, there was no strong Central Europe to "balance out" the rise of communism (Moscow). France broken, pissed off by Mers el Kebir and slipped under Washington's wings... Germany = alles kaputt Eastern Europe = overrun by the commies... GB was no longer the boss. Nothing left to "balance" with... Sorreee. That's just how it goes if your eternal "balancing" games on the continent go south... Washington got tired of bailing GB out, and decided to become the "balancer of powers" in Europe herself. And down went the British Empire too... Sad. "Justifiable" is a bs premise for any debate concerning war. What really counts is smart leadership, and Brits sucked at geopolitics/geostratey, and lost their Empire....
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  12. I hope you realize that you are using a hypothesis in order to justify an actual event?
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  13. Not only Churchill, but an entire network of "old boys" stiff-upper-lipped Empire into ruin... Because there's always a big picture... And of all the "big pictures", this is the biggest of all... The worst choice of all was ignoring the reality of how Europe had been "set up" to protect the British Empire. The British Empire was actually protected in Europe by uniquely "balancing powers" on the continent. [britannica & balance-of-power] For more than 100 years, "balancing powers" on the continent, kept these powers opposing each other, unable to divert military or economic resources to affront the status of the British Empire as the nr.1 in the world. Note: nobody in Europe ever applied for this "honor". It was simply imposed on the continental powers, decided behind closed doors by a few London lords without negotiations or accords with those so "divided"... London made Germany, the strongest continental power, "the enemy", as a default setting. According to the logic of this policy, completely ruining a power on the continent, would lead to an imbalance, which could then be directed at the British Empire... Therefore, totally destroying Germany was neither wise nor in GB 's interests. Concerning WW2. Firstly, a 100% collapse of Germany as a power...was a dream condition for communism (Moscow) and US corporatism (Washington D.C.). After WW2, there was no strong Central Europe to "balance out" the rise of communism (Moscow). France broken, still angered by Mers el Kebir and slipped under Washington's wings... Germany = alles kaputt Eastern Europe = overrun by the commies... GB was no longer the boss. Nothing left to play "balancing games" with... Sorreee. That's just how it goes if the eternal "balancing" games on the continent go south...you loose your empire to the new kids in town... From the unmistakable "Nr.1" in 1900, down to "merely on par" with Washington DC after WW1, down to "third fiddle" during the Cold War. All in less than a single lifetime... Washington got tired of bailing GB out, and decided to become the "balancer of powers" in Europe herself. The world was divided in "East" and "West". And down went the British Empire too... Sorry 'bout that. Causality is a b*tch...
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  14. What percentages are rioters or looters? What percentage is right-wing agitators? Or, don't you care?
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  15.  @ihave35cents95  You are on the wrong channel buddy. Go elsewhere if you don't believe in facts...
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  16. So was Imperialism, and colonialism. Yet they still have their "fan base", even today. Pathetic "empires" judging others. Google what the Bible says about hypocrites, and then also google what the Bible states will happen to the hypocrite... And that is exactly what happened.
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  17. Their Sovereign Wealth Fund is the top thing for me. Other countries with natural resources should use it as an example of how to invest income generated by the availability of some sought after resource.
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  18. You can't run a car on crude oil. To refine it, one needs...uhm, well...refining. A process that needs additives which need to be imported. These imports are being sanctioned by the USA. So, it isn't really surprising that there is no fuel.
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  19. Why should they? Motive?
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  20. Trump: If at first you don't succeed, try try again....to achieve your own "Enabling Act"...
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  21. Thanks for all the comments, but I was beeing sarcastic :-) Of course, the "do onto others"-crowd are not as perfect as they've always claimed to be. And politicians as "moral"....LMAO.
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  22. "Saigon...S-S-Saigon....men who were 19..."
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  23. Well...a golden cage for a few years, then good friends will bail him out. The "preach water/ drink wine"-crowd are such good examples for the rest of us.
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  24.  @TheisRafa18  The definition of Socialism: "Socialism is a political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management of enterprises ... Socialist systems are divided into non-market and market forms."
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  25. As long as all "treaties" are temporary, nothing will change.
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  26. Putin should invent the slogan "Ukraine is the pistol pointing at the heart of Moscow". That should clarify things...
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  27. It would have been pretty difficult to uphold the claim to be "better people", or "on the right side of history" if one imitates what one criticizes. But then again, hypocrisy isn't exactly a new phenomenon. It's one of the leading causes of duress, strife, revolutions, wars...
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  28. They should use low voltage shocks to scare them off, like cattle prods but for underwater use. Orcas are smart. They'll catch on.
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  29. More like a mob....
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  30.  @Team_Fauda_Germany  Both the Ottomans and GB occupied the land. Your point?
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  31.  @Team_Fauda_Germany  So Egypt occupied Gaza, and Jordan occupied Gaza, and then after 1967 Israel occupied Gaza/West Bank. And?
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  32.  @DanielKolbin  Sure, Daniel, sure. How?
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  33. It is Israel which denies the Palestinians the right to exist as an equal. They chant, "Palestine was never a state..." because Israel never intended for Palestians to ever live in full sovereignty. Netanyahu, quoting Yitzhak Rabin, “We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank ... We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, [aka/edit: the "Apartheid dependency, of a Bantustan"] and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority. The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.” “The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.” “Jerusalem,” Rabin said in his speech, would be “united as the capital of Israel under Israeli sovereignty,” and “will include both Ma'ale Adumim and Givat Ze'ev”. “We came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.” Even at this point in the 1990s, the last real chance of peace, Israel wanted Arafat to "sign away" millions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, and some areas in the West Bank, to fall under Israeli control. What that would have meant, we see today. Settler colonists, protected by the guns of the IDF, have been using this concept of the "Bantustan" to raid and occupy one house at a time, making the original inhabitants homeless in their own city...
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  34. Beautiful idea.
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  35. You mean Stalin and his commies?
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  36.  @equigirl78jill64  They do "twist" the arms of politicians (aka "lobbying") to avoid regulations and laws. According to the logic of "actions have consequences", these unhealthy products should be taxed higher, and the revenues made available to the health systems of countries "infected" by these franchises.
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  37. Don't worry folks. The Trump admin's "never let a crisis go to waste"-strategists are already working on this... Best way to assure a far-right victory in November? Escalate. Because history has shown that violence always leads to a "right shift" in voter behavior.
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  38. Deep roots bind soil.
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  39.  @FirstnameLastname-up7ov  *autocrats
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  40. "Good Polish lapdog....goood boy....here's your bone.....catch.....goooooood boy!" Oh, how cute. Look at him smile and bow... You know master Trump wants to invade Iran, and needs a lighting rod for all those Russian nukes....goooood boy. Every dead Pole, is one live American.
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  41. There is a one million dollar reward out for evidence for voter fraud. Present it, if you have it.
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  42. SA 1975: People protesting and rioting.. World: It's because of an unfair system... Muricans: yeah, yeah....agreed... USA 2020: People protesting and rioting. World: It's because of an unfair system... Muricans: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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  43.  @llkk290  The USA is a social-democracy. It should stay a social-democracy. It simply needs to move towards more progressive policies concerning its own people (like health care, etc.) and get away from the destructive "world policemen"-role.
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  44. Shakespeare lived 500 years ago. He also wrote Romeo and Juliet. Two lovers, and Juliet was 14 years old... So...about that "Shakespeare's logic". Do you want to live in a world determined by 500 year old "logic"?
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  45. French and German economies are tanking, heading for a likely recession. Who woulda guessed that cutting yourself off from reliable and affordable sources of energy, could backfire and hit the own people 😮
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  46.  Ian Lev  I suggest reading a few books....
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  47. When has either/or Senate or Congress ever done what a majority of Americans want?
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  48. Which part expresses "DWs endless love for China"?
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  49. Take care Zambia, that you don't become like a 3rd world country like the USA in which the president fires public servants left and right according to his feelings :-)
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  50. Ah, the "area bombing"-fanboys...lol. The term "naive old buffer" comes to mind. How could they be so wrong? Didn't they know that for any US President, the US would always come first? Didn't they know or even instinctively feel that most of the US elites were just waiting for the British Empire to crumble? So let's become "best fwiends" with a faraway "empire", the American Century. And don't even get me started on that "enemy of my enemy is my friend" claptrap. When in history has that ever worked out? Never has and never will, especially where ideological enemies are concerned. Because Stalin too, was just waiting for the old European Empires to crumble. So let's make Stalin a friend too. Two "friends", just waiting for you to crumble and fail. "England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests." (Lord Palmerston) Why should it be different for anybody else?
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