Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "DW News" channel.

  1. The idea is to create an in-group which feels at one threatened and superior to the out-group. Simplicity works well because it Is meant to appeal to simple people who would like to feel better about themselves.
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  2. So Olaf Scholz is saying, that Russia can do anything it likes, because he has some historical hang-ups?
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  3.  @eveleung8855  those 700,000 people who left should have listened to you, but nobody was listening to you, and they still aren't.
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  4.  @РжанойПряник-щ6о  we found them. The US is the world's biggest oil producer anyway. Now you can sell it cheap, sbd get even poorer.
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  5. ​ @johnadam2885 if its clear disinformation, yes. Its disingenuous and manipulative.
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  6. Was lendlease insane?
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  7. That's not the problem. Social inequality, reckless economic policies including the brexit debacle and zero industrial strategy is. In fact the lack of workers has only compounded matters.
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  8. Is it common sense to ignore the consequences of global warming?
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  9. ​ @palamaruluca5052 you mean milosovic and assad. Yeah, they are/were genocidal states.
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  10. Eurasia; Europe isn't Asia. It has distinct cultural and institutional features.
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  11.  @Kinjshàl  less military aid than the UK.
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  12. ​ @felipe-vibor china gdp 19 trillion, russia 1.8, china population 1.4 billion, russia 140 million. 10x bigger!
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  13. Our forces haven't been deployed yet; a naval blockade of the Bosphorus and Baltic would bankrupt Putin in weeks.
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  14.  @anarabbasov8634  no, Russia has an economy the size of the state of texas and a population a bit bigger than Japan. It is picking an argument with a block of well over a billion people with half of total world gdp. In pure military terms with 3x the soldiers, 6x the aircraft and 15x the number of aircraft carriers. This block is giving ukraine a tiny portion of the help it could give(0.25% of gdp), and is absolutely capable of giving much more, should that ever be required. It is the perfect trap for a country which has lost touch with reality, and for some bizarre reason considers itself a superpower, against all the evidence.
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  15. They have a coalition. She represents 17% of the voters.
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  16. He's not very imaginative, so don't hold your breath.
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  17. The money we provide has enabled Ukraine to remain a free sovereign country.
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  18. You don't honor treaties. Your signiture means nothing. Why would anone negotiate with you? Total waste of time.
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  19. It does have 800,000,000 people and an economy 10x thd size of russias. Is it really so hard?
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  20. No other country wishes to spend 30% of its budget on weapons. We prefer having proper roads, decent education, decent health care, decent pensions etc.
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  21. Nobody's blaming Germany. You're our allies. We're all in this together.
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  22. The home of democracy. The best place in the world. I guess that's why so many of you lot came over.
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  23. You actually saved Stalin. The British Empire itself was not in peril. Germany didn't have a navy. And your 250,000 troops in France in 1918 came without any artillary and made a minor contribution. The breakthrough was actually achieved by battle hardened Canadian forces.
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  24. Impairing judicial control.
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  25. France didn't react well to losing its Eastern provinces to the Germans in 1871, but applies different standards to ukraine.
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  26. China won't let you do it. They want to live.
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  27. ​ @47aRealN  why did Russia lose world war one to Germany?
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  28. ​ @soreeyez  nope, we've been reducing spending on our militaries for years now in order to divert resources to more useful government departments.
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  29.  @lucasmarques4521  it's the future.
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  30. @@sunnyjesus what were the options given in the 2014 referendum? Yes, thats right; be part of Russia or autonomous. Being part of Ukraine wasn't a choice offered. The real results were leaked after. 30% turnout, so not only was it in breach of the Ukranian constitution, but russian law too.
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  31.  @fantozzi2444  this, isn't true. Ukraine is very fertile, it was called the breadbasket of the USSR, and was an important industrial region too for the USSR. For example; Russia still can't make powerful engines for new warships, as the factories and technologies are in ukraine.
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  32.  @MWENDA-vv5im  in the 1500s crimea belonged to the Turks. So that must belong to them.
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  33. ​ @gregkillam  Your economy is doing really well. I suggest you keep pursuing the same path. It will definitely not collapse due to rampant interest rates, inflation, the crashing currency, sanctions and critical manpower.shortages.
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  34. We have soooo much more.
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  35.  @sabreakkari7910  it is rather nice, yes. You would love California, but you will never get to see it now.
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  36. Putin's ended in 2007.
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  37. There are Chinese police in Belorus right now.
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  38. Germany is 2nd. They gave 17 bill. to the uks 7.5 bill.
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  39. Duncan. You're very active? Are you unemployed?
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  40. Bye America. Love to Canada, the Kiwis and Australia.
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  41. ​@garyyakamoto2648 crimea only belonged to the Russian SSR from 1945, because, hey ho, Stalin committed the war crime of ethnic cleansing in the Crimea, deporting and "resettling" the Crimean Tatars.
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  42. You're a regional power. To say otherwise would be dishonest. Spending more than you can afford on your military fools nobody.
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  43. ​ @mianmian3488 Europe's main economies are the 4th,5th, 6th and 8th largest in the world. It contains 2 nuclear powers, 800 million people, and its GDP is larger than China's. It is the main export market for both the USA and China. Its economy is 11 x bigger than Russia's. The German federal budget is 3x bigger than Rusdia's. No country has ever conquered it.
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  44.  @esosaiyamu2581  not dumb. It is of no strategic value, unlike Kyiv, which the Russians were forced to retreat from. If russia keep winning like this, they won't have an army left.
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  45.  @greggrimer1428  you obviously don't live there. Prices have rocketed in the last few months and pay can't keep up. For example, bus ticket prices have gone from 30 p. To 40 p. In the past 12 months, and in my tiwh they were offering free bags of sugar for burning ukranian flags in the town square, as sugar has been scarce here.
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  46. Blackmailing Europe with gas didn't exactly improve relations.
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  47.  @appletree6741  and it is legal to make jokes about zelenski too. The ability to laugh at yourself says so much about a person, don't you think?
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  48. Paul Joy is an economist😂😂😂
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  49. ​ @NicolasHaufe not a student of British history then.
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  50. Between you and me, Gorbachev is ten times the human being that Putin is. I trust him as a man of proven principles, honesty and moral integrity
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