Comments by "Jiri Slavicek" (@jirislavicek9954) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

  1. @nothanks9503 It's not a moronic concept at all. It's a concept that's been working for millennia. It's a way to prevent anarchy.
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  2. The more I think, the more I realise that Intermarium is the only future for Eastern Europe that can guarantee survival of the nation states. We need. 1. Strong defence against Russia 2. Counterbalance to German dominance in Europe 3. Preservation of national states and opposition to woke ideologies coming from the West. 4. Tighter economic cooperation
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  3. Yeah, Caspian Report goes downhill becoming a money grabbing channel promoting dubious products or outright scams.
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  4. I think only Poland understands the seriousness of current situation and ramps up its military capabilities as crazy. The Baltic states without the US are completely defenseless, so is most of Europe.
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  5. I definitely prefer India. Although this country is facing many challenges, indians have better work life - balance. Chinese ate too obsessed with money and production.
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  6. Very well researched video 👍 Thank you!
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  7. It is not a bad idea at all. 👍 Britain currently doesn't have the power to create such union as an alternative to EU. But these countries should cooperate in the fields of defence, manufacturing, education etc. As a Czech I have deep distrust in the German - French dominated EU, particularly as regards defence, energy security and immigration policies. Also unfair system of agricultural subsidies and huge bureau are downsides of the EU membership. Britain has more pragmatic approach and similarly sees Russia as a threat. Eastern European countries should definitely work much closer together.
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  8. To myself, a Czech person, this law seems absolutely fine and balaced. I think we desperately need similar law in our country. Foreign financed NGOs cause huge damage to our lovely country and Europe as a whole. They are bringing in neo-marxist ideology in a cloak of "liberal democracy". They diguise foreign and corporate interests as grassroots movement. They bring in large scale immigration , LGBT agenda, deindustialisation masked as fight against emissions. I cannot see how Russia can misuse this law, Russian NGOs would have same obligations as western NGOs.
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  9. As a Czech person I am extremely impressed by the actions of Polish government i recent years. 👍Poland has made a huge leap in last ten years in building it's economy, infrastructure, industy and military capabilities. I am a big supporter of Intermarium. I don't think it's only a good option for eastern European countries but pure necessity to ensure survival of the individual nations and to stay relevant. Let's be honest and less diplomatic. Polish military build-up is not only deterrent against Russia, but also against Germany or any other invader. Political disagreement and tension between Poland and Germany - France dominated EU is increasing in recent years. The biggest points of friction are immigration policies and redistribution of immigrants, energy security and the role of nuclear energy, gender, equity and other neo-marxist agenda. My opinion eastern European countries should build a strong political, military and economical block, either within or outside the EU. This should include Poland ,Ukraine, Romania, the Baltic states, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia. In future possibly Belarus, Serbia and Hungary. The main characteristics would be. 1. Common defence against Russia 2. Counterbalance against German dominance 3. Development of North - South business routes in competition to East - West. Economical cooperation. 4. Political alliance against woke ideology and dissolution of national states. Protection of culture, family and Christian values. 5. Strong military and economic ties with the United States and South Asia, whilst keeping good relations with the rest of Europe 6. Expansion of nuclear energy and using it as a building stone in energy transition. Pragmatic energy policies in opposition to German dogmatic Green Deal. 7. Dealing with Europe on equal terms, ending servitude to Germany and France.
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  10. ​ @gambit6113 But Poland has allies who can supply the weapons to prevent this scenario from happening. The US, Britain and the Scandinavian countries definitely don't want Russia or Germany to territorially expand. It is a threat to their national security.
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  11. Do you know any country where politicians are good??? I would love to move there
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  12. @nothanks9503 Nations are key to our survival. Human is a social creature, zoon politikon.
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  13. Yes, the EU will light the Eiffel Tower in blue and yellow 🤣. Ukrainians need weapons and the EU has nothing to offer them.
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  14. Yes, exactly. Turkey is in the best situation, it has very good demographics, strong army and the economy is "Turkish" but works nonetheless. China has abundance of young workers / soldiers at the moment, but its demographic will fall sharply. It has good economy and army. Russia's economy is still OK, but bleeding in Ukraine, it has a bad demography and reduced military capabilities due to current loses.
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  15. Go to watch a local football match in your town / county. Players you know. Then have a beer with friends in your local. Rather than watching this extravaganza of vanity.
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  16.  @desydukuk291  Yes, Brits are consistent in this. Germans and French are all talk about democracy and human rights when it costs nothing.
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  17. Is that not AI?
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  18. This happens when you do poor planning. Build large cities and factories on fertile soil and leave desert for agriculture. 🙈
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  19. You must be a nut to invest in it
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  20. The war in Libya is as complex and difficult to comprehend as the war in Yemen. I don't know who will be able to clean up this mess.
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  21. 1. It is quite the opposite. Nuclear energy is cheap in a long term. The storage of nuclear waste is subsidised by taxpayer, but so are the incentive for renewables. The "cheap" price of renewables somehow never calculates for their intermittency, eg batteries, hydroelectric storage hydrogen storage, etc, demand for high capacity HVDC power lines. 2. Cut both, unreliable renewables and imported gas. Use strong and reliable nuclear instead. It's a no-brainer. 3. It was a slow process managed by Russian and American interests And yes, 4. Nobody understands Germany
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  22. You are talking rubbish. Dual citizenship is illegal in Russia.
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  23. This is a result of the car industry arrogance and lack of innovation and also a consequence of psychopathic policies of the German government. Energy dependence on Russian gas, irrational closing of nuclear power stations, social welfare handouts incentivising idleness, catastrophic immigration policies, terrible family policies. Government so much wanted socialism and now they are getting it 🙈. As a Czech person I am not laughing, economists in our country have been vocal about the Czech Republic's over-reliance on Germany and automotive industry for years. Government did absolutely nothing to solve this strategic vulnerability and to diversify the economy.
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  24.  @setoki2838  That's really frightening! Berlin and the whole former Eastern Germany is an incubator of leftists, neo-marxists, communists and admirers of Russia. The only sound folk in Germany are the Bavarians. All this makes the English proposal very relevant to Eastern European counties.
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  25. Policy of non-alignment is definitely the right direction for India. I wish Europe was behaving that way.
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  26. Yes, Germany is so prone to tsunami waves 🙈
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  27. ​ @razal-ghul1105  Democracy and people living in poverty doesn't contradict each other. India is definitely on the right path, reducing poverty every day.
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  28. V4 is probably not as relevant today because it's main goals have been achieved, like integration into EU structures etc. Personally I would like to see V4 like a more pragmatic alternative to left leaning tandem Germany - France in European parliament. Voting force for East of Europe.
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  29. Current fertility rate of Germany is 1.6 children per woman (including immigrants) it's an outright demographic collapse. It was even lower in 1990s and 2000s, around 1.3 mark.
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  30. Is a Czech person I have different view. France has proven itself historically as a very unreliable partner. Together with the UK they've thrown us overboard in 1939 to maintain "peace " with Germany. Tandem Germany - France will always prefer good relations with Russia to good relations with central Europe, because it's their material base. (France also has Africa). France and Germany are also the biggest source of European bureaucracy which is crippling our economy. Central Europe has to co-operate militarily with the USA, they are the only true strategic partner, our geopolitical interests align. France is a country still stuck in their colonial past when French was diplomatic language number one. But these times are long gone. France is still strong power but definitely not superpower. They need to adjust their policy to reality.
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  31. The problem is that USA, in its current form, is not the great country or freedom and opportunities it used to be. It's becoming less and less free and controlled by corporate bodies and their (mostly left wing) cronies. Individual freedoms and freedom of speech qre quickly diminishing. Arestovych can see this decline and wants to avoid it.
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  32. Yes, Haber - Bosch method of fixating nitrogen.
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  33. Exactly 👍 The whole is more than sum of it's parts.
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  34. ​@JumpstylA78Cooling of the reactors is done by electric pumps = it's silent. Everything can be made silent apart from diesel engines, which are noisy by their nature. You never can completely silence vibrations from moving pistons, explosions inside cylinders.
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  35. That's called free market. UK exports gas and imports oil. Brits always have this idea of merkantilism, that they should be allowed to sell their good and products to othet markets but other countries shouldn't be allowed on British market.
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  36.  @user-ze3jk2iu1x  Good summary 👍 Something similar happened in a small scale on the Pacific Island of Nauru. In 1970s it had world's second highest GDP per capita of $50,000 due to export of phosphates.( First was Saudi Arabia) In 1990s the deposits of phosphates run out and the life standards plummeted, GDP per capita shrunk to only $2,500, central bank went insolvent and the island was left impoverished with uneducated, unemployed population, with high rate of obesity and environmental damage. Saudi Arabia is heading similar way. MBS seems to try to implement some reforms and diversify the economy. He's planning the futuristic city of Neom with free economic zone in Gulf of Acaba. But I cannot evaluate how much of it is a genuine effort to reform and gow much is just a show. Emirates on the other hand made a progress, there economy doesn't stand on oil anymore.
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  37. I think the reasons why Germany is not sending the tanks are purely geopolitical. Russia is a raw material base and a massive market for Germany. They don't want Russia to lose the war as they are hoping to do business with you in the future.
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  38. Yes, Norway is going the right direction. It is an extremely lucky and rich country so they can afford the transition. They have oil, gas and other minerals, fish, timber, great tourist potential and massive hydroelectric potential which guarantees them cheap abundant energy. Other countries are not so lucky so the transition will take them longer. Germany is an example of country that goes completely wrong direction. They got rid of their nuclear plants because of scaremongering campaigns from NGOs (sponsored without a doubt by Russia and Oil and Gas lobby). Now the conflict in Ukraine showed their strategic vulnerability in dependence on Russian gas. Also the pollution and carbon footprint of Germany's energy sector is much higher than one of nuclear France.
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  39. Excellent summary 👍 Thank you!
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  40. I hope Trumpl wins and implements as much from Agenda 2025 as possible 👍
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  41. Yes that was Boris Johnson specifically
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  42. At least he calls things its right name 😀
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  43. Instead of using diffused nuclear energy (solar, wind) humans should use concentrated nuclear energy (nuclear, thermonuclear).
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  44. The US has FARA - Foreign Agent Registration Act
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  45. Great video. But you forgot to mention two important issues. 1. Russia may use weapons of mass destruction to prevent its breakdown, it is even part of their nuclear doctrine. 2. Some parts of Siberia and Far East are becoming increasingly more populated by ethnic Chinese. China may utilize the chaos of Russian collapse, in case one comes, and annex the new territory or at least, keep it in its sphere of interest.
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  46. He must have been thinking about Antarctica 😁
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  47. But so does every other plane. Mig-29 being the most demanding on maintenance
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  48. Absolutely! 👍 As a Czech person I agree. In 1938 Chamberlain and Daladiere sacrificed Sudetenland, a small region they thought was unimportant and not worth a conflict with Hitler. This small act of appeasement ultimately lead into the most destructive war in world's history. History has shown many times that policy of appeasement doesn't work. Czechoslovakia in 1938 was in precarious situation. Landlocked country surrounded by enemies from all sides with a massive pro-Hitler German minority within, majority in certain areas. Resistance would almost certainly be a defeat. Ukraine today is in much better position today. It has supply line from the at least from the West and is likely to keep Black Sea access, it has support of many countries in the world. Ukraine is familiar with its enemy, knows Russian thinking, strong sides and weaknesses. Also today's conflicts are resolved by technology not sheer numbers as it was the case in past. Chances of the Ukrainians are much higher. Europe and the US should be way tougher with Russia and don't allow this conflict to last for too long. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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  49. ​ @skp8748  Also Indian WION is pretty good. Particularly for covering topics that are a heavily biased in western media, like war in Ukraine, "humanitarian aid" to Africa, etc.
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  50.  @ingislakur  Yeah, I have been to Iceland and really liked it. But it's a very specific country due to its small size, low population density and strategic position in the North Atlantic.
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  51. 👍👍👍
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  52. It's Venezuela that wants to invade not Brazil. But Brazilian territory may be possibly used.
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  53. There will be a massive decline of Chinese population. But you are still talking about hundreds of millions of young people, there is a strong base for unrests.
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  54. As a Czech 🇨🇿 person I am a big fan of Intermarium, but for slightly different reasons than are mentioned in this video. 1. Protection of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia against Russia, that's the obvious purpose. 2. Secondly and more importantly, this should be a block of countries in opposition to tandem Germany - France and their domination of the EU. I personally consider EU's neomarxism and progressive liberalism as greater threat than Russia. The states in intermarium need to preserve their national characteristics, sovereignty, religion and traditional values like family. And they need to stand against multiculturalism and disillusion of traditional values and culture. 3. This blog should be also ready for military attack from The West, particularly from Germany. It seems impossible now but it can become a reality in case of economic downturn or social upheaval. 4. This block should also be completely detached from the EU and function as a separate entity. It is clear that ideologically the old EU and intermarium drift apart. Meritocracy vs socialism, traditionalism vs multiculturalism, anti- and pro-Russian sentiment. Intermarium should be both, a business partner and competition to the EU. 5. I am very unsure about membership of the United Kingdom, country that has historically proven itself to be extremely unreliable and sly partner. I also don't share big enthusiasm for membership of Ukraine. It is a country with orthodox tradition and historically part of Rus'. And definitely not Belarus for the same reasons. My prediction is that Ukraine will be partitioned into Russian and pro-Western sphere. Membership of the Western Ukraine is OK. 6. I absolutely 100% support the vision of creating unified defence, aviation, space and AI industry in the North - South axis. And strong corporation in energy sector.
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  55.  @Truspio  $750,000 in damage caused by 2 cheap turkish drones ($11M each and they have returned intact) and two Neptune missiles (I guess they can be $5M each (?), calculating all the relevant support). That was a nice shot 👍👍👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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  56.  @ThubanDraconis  Yes, the main purpose of the Moskva cruiser was demonstration of power. The exposed missiles look very impressive but they make the ship extremely vulnerable. Historically the Russians love to build impressive equipment with little or no military value. Like tsar puska, the biggest gun that was unable to fire, tsar bomba, the biggest atomic bomb which was so heavy it had no practical means of delivery, multi-turreted heavy tank T-35, which was only good for parades but useless in battle. Caspian Sea Monster ekranoplane. And the list goes on.
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  57.  @theproblemmustbeinyourpant5910  No, they don't. Is that what you've learned in some Greenpeace anti-nuclear brochure? There are many nuclear plants operating inlands, even in completely landlocked countries. They use cooling water from rivers and reservoirs. Building a plant at sea level is only convenient as you don't have to build large and expensive cooling towers. Sea rises couple milimeters a years, it was 210 mm over last century. Hardly a technical problem. Building reactors below sea level is actually a benefit. They could be flooded by sea water in case of emergency to prevent meltdown.
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  58. Carbon capture is a stupid idea. Oil is a finite resource, it makes no sense to waste it by running carbon capturing machinery. This process will be very energy demanding.
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  59. 👍👍👍 Germans have this god-like complex. They will pay dearly for this.
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  60.  @Lusa_Iceheart  Excellent comment 👍
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  61. Germans snd Russians were always biggest allies
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  62. It was simple. Post-war Germany would I be either prosperous part of the West or it would get better offer from the Soviet Union. Americans wisely chose to keep Germany on their side.
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  63. To myself, a Czech person, this law seems absolutely fine and balaced. I think we desperately need similar law in our country. Foreign financed NGOs cause huge damage to our lovely country and Europe as a whole. They are bringing in neo-marxist / neocon / globalist ideology in a cloak of "liberal democracy". They diguise foreign and corporate interests as grassroots movement. They bring in large scale immigration , LGBT agenda, deindustialisation masked as fight against emissions. I cannot see how Russia can misuse this law, Russian NGOs would have same obligations as western NGOs.
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  64. Spot on. I visited Georgia in late 1990s, it was a really poor decaying country then, but I was blown away by the Orthodox churches and monasteries, some of them thousand years old - Mtscheta, Kazbegi, David Gareji, they were really holy places of God. Don't let your cultural heritage being destroyed by progressive agenda of foreign powers and NGOs. I am Czech living in Ireland and I am witnessing the decline of this country. 20 years ago, it was predominantly Catholic country populated by Irish people, not overly rich but prosperous and happy. Now all the multinational companies moved to Dublin and brought the rubbish lgbt culture with them. Irish own less and less of their own country, more and more illegal immigrants are coming to here, Christianity is in decline, kids are being brainwashed in schools with progressive curriculum. Ireland is on paper the richest country in Europe per capita, but all that wealth is highly centralised in the Dublin tech sector. The rest of the country is struggling to keep up with the evergrowing bills. Homelessness is rising. Georgia is in similar situation, it's only tiny country of few million on geopolitical chessboard of superpowers. Once you surrenderer your sovereignty to the NGO mafia, you will lose everything and you will never get it back.
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  65.  @Quickshot0  None of these technologies are ready for commercial usage, except electric cars. Even vans are a problem. Today's batteries don't have sufficient capacity. Further research in batteries or supercapacitors is needed. Recharging is also a problem, to recharge an electric truck quickly you need large capacity charger 500 - 1000 kW or more. Charging only ten trucks would require 5 - 10 MW of power, strong very high voltage lines on every charging point. Hydrogen may be way forward but it presents many challenges. It is difficult to compress and store, and it's highly explosive. Planes are more likely to use synthetic methane or similar fuel. I can also see this as a way to power trucks and large machinery. Either way, the world needs a primary source of energy to power all these techs. Current renewables won't be enough, research is needed in nuclear fission and fusion, deep drilling to harness geothermal energy, solar energy on geostationary orbit, etc.
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  66. ​ @ChuckThree Agree. Tooling, industrial metal work and firearms have a long tradition in the Czech Republic. The CZ Group in 2021 acquired Colt and became one of the world's biggest short firearm producers. That would sound like a sci-fi to me 10 - 20 years ago.
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  67. To myself, a Czech person, this law seems absolutely fine and balaced. I think we desperately need similar law in our country. Foreign financed NGOs cause huge damage to our lovely country and Europe as a whole. They are bringing in neo-marxist ideology in a cloak of "liberal democracy". They diguise foreign and corporate interests as grassroots movement. They bring in large scale immigration , LGBT agenda, deindustialisation masked as fight against emissions.
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  68. Yes. The European Union should pay extra attention!
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  69. European leaders don't understand the seriousness of the situation, the only country that prepares for the worst is Poland.
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  70. Ideology always comes before common sense in Germany 🙈
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  71. What about subsidies for the "green" tech
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  72. Excellent summary 👍
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  73. Age doesn't matter, F-16 is still very capable plane. And with modern avionics and weapons it will be deadly. Mig-29 is capable, but very demanding on maintenance. It is a nightmare to work on, the engines don't last very long on it and require extensive regular maintenance.
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  74. Yes, the Montreax convention.
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  75. There is no hope that would happen today with the armament Poland built up. Poland is military much stronger than Ukraine.
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  76. Who thinks this strategy is going to work? 😂 I mean for the Germans (not Russians or Americans)
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  77. I think the main reason why people vote for populists like in Hungary is EU elite's total detachment from real problems. Lack of affordable housing, illegal immigration, technical norms and legislation tailored to German manufacturers to minimize competition, imports of heavily subsidized food products that ruins local agriculture.... Instead of that Brussels is preoccupied with problems like how to convert toilets in university campuses so transgender students can wee in peace.
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  78. Carrying capacity can be (and is already) greatly extended through technology. The Earth can only bear units or low tens of millions of hunter-gatherers. Today's enormous population of 8 bn is only possible thanks to industrial agriculture. High yield varieties, fertilizers, pesticides, use of diesel powered agricultural machinery, massive storage and ocean shipping of goods. Also modern healthcare, vaccination, hygiene and use of abundant cheap energy. If any of these support is removed, good population will be in trouble.
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  79. I am more than proud to be on that list! :-D
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  80.  @Yushimitsu  Connect yourself to the electric grid! In country that utilises nuclear power
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  81. Agree, but good luck explaining that to the French 😁
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  82. Germany is declining under socialist governments. It is home to some world's best engineers, prestigious universities and well established industrial base. The left is killing the country, the car industry, German economic stronghold. It is destroying German energy security and creating dependence on Russian gas by implementing Green Deal that is based on feelings but not technicalities. Von der Leyen is the defence minister completely destroyed Bundeswehr. Germans need some decisive shift in policy as regards nuclear energy, defence and NATO membership, immigration etc.
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  83.  @Schuubi1896  Le Pen is center populist, definitely not a nazi. French don't have that mindset. If she wins, she will openly cooperate with Russia. Something that Macron (or Schulz) do covertly.
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  84. Exactly! We need a paradigm shift in our minds. We cannot be solely focused on growth and "progress". We need to be focused on family, community and nation.
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  85. Exactly, especially when Sweden has excellent aerospace industry. This small country is punching well above its weight. Gripen fighters are possibly less capable than F-35 in certain areas, but they are produced in Europe and have some unique abilities like to use improvised airfields. Research and development would certainly push the capabilities further, if there was enough buyers.
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  86. United States of Europe under German leadership is a terrible idea! It sounds like the Third Reich based on Soviet economic model. The EU is already far too much centralised. And centralised systems lead to dictatorship and subsequent decline. That is what's happening in China. Only decentralised systems thrive, like the one in the United States.
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  87. Angela Merkel and her policies made a colossal damage to Germany and Europe. This could only be compared to the damage caused by Adolf Hitler.
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  88. Terrible development! I think I would rather start learning Russian again than being ruled by anti-human Marxists and psychopaths from Brussels, Berlin or Paris. The creation of the EU was the biggest disaster for this lovely continent. It is rotting and declining under its own weight, its bureaucracy, overregulation, redistribution and socialist ideology. Eastern European countries still have a chance to leave the EU and form their own block, eg. Intermarium, based on conservative Christian values and free market, military strength and tight cooperation with the United States.
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  89. I think the US should develop cheap drone platform with a very long range capable of launching cruise missiles or dropping bombs and use them in large numbers. They need to improve protection of the aircraft carriers against saturation missile attacks.
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  90. Exactly! Not everything can be bought by money. Thumbs up for Biden this time 👍. And I am not a fan of him.
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  91. Agree with the with the first paragraph. More free trade and less progressivism! But the second one is ridiculous. You can only blame your grandfathers for the rise of communism in Hungary. Roosevelt had no option than to do a deal with Stalin and divide Europe into spheres of interests. Soviet union was on the winning side with the allies, with a great loss of 20M men. Did you expect them to go home empty handed? Don't be so naive! Unfortunately we in Eastern Europe fell into the wrong sphere of interest and experienced 40 years of mayhem and decay under the rule of the Soviet drunkards. Americans did for Europe more than anyone else, fought two world wars, created Marshall plan and new world order. Finland is an example of country country that fought fiercely against the Soviets with great losses but never became communist despite the enormous pressure.
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  92.  @dutchrjen  Well said 👍 But I would include: Pros. 12. US is the only marine superpower, it has a strong blue Water Navy and an ability to project military power anywhere in the world. No other country possesses navy of that scale and this gives the US monopole similar to that Great Britain enjoyed in 18th century. Cons: 6. Loss of faith and value crisis. More and more Americans have "I can't be bothered attitude" or they hate their country and it's founding values. Instead of trying to reform and solve its problems they try to actively bring it down. Left wing media constantly exaggerate America's problems, labeling it as racist, bigot, bla bla bla. But this narrative is now widespread and taught in schools and only will get worse. No other country in the world has the ability to defeat US. There are only three possible scenarios how the the US could be challenged and existentially threated. a. New superower emerging on Eurasian continent. Not likely, the US won't allow it to happen. b. Attack by a strong decentralised group, Al Quaida style. Not likely. c. Collapse from inside, civil war, large scale unrests, economic collapse. Quite likely.
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  93. Of course, this energy crisis is only caused by EU leader's own stupidity. Every country should have diversified and secure energy and food sources. Americans understand it, Chinese understand it, pretty much any country understands it, all except naive EU.
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  94. Absolutely not. Trump was very pro-Saudi, pro-Israel and against Iran. Biden has very cold relations with the Saudis, not great relations with Israel either and he's quite soft on Iran.
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  95. 👍👍👍 It makes no sense to use diluted nuclear energy (solar, wind, hydro) if you can use concentrated nuclear energy (fission plants and fusion plants in future). So cold Renewables are a huge waste of resources (metals, rare earth, silicate sand), except for special circumstances
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  96. It's been figured out in 1950s. It's called nuclear energy
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  97. Poland and Turkey will be two new power houses in Europe
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  98.  @kennethferland5579  Absolutely! Poland will be the new political counterbalance to tandem Germany - France. It will be strongly anti-Russian, modern but socially conservative. In opposition to pro-Russian and woke Germany and France.
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  99. I very much prefer the Polish accent to AI
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  100. Yes, Russia and China are "frenemies "
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  101. I don't agree with Ashford. I think Ukraine should aim to regain ALL of its former territory. There is perhaps some room to negotiate the status of Crimea. The west should keep supplying Ukraine with with weapons until the goal is reached. It is in the interest of Ukraine, The United States and Europe. The issue should be sorted once for all. No one wants to see repetition of the war in 10 years time.
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  102. Ingenious move by Putin & FSB
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  103. Iran and Saudi Arabia are rivals who would both love to see themselves as the leaders of the Muslim world. Some form of armed conflict never can be ruled out. China cannot afford that because of its dependency on Middle Eastern oil, so they will do everything to maintain peace between the two countries. The USA don't want war either, but they are not dependant on Middle Eastern oil anymore. It's not life or death issue for them.
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  104. MBS is a great leader of his country. Diversification and policy of non-alignment goes a long way. 👍 Biden is a psychopath and evil personified. Since he got into power, the world has seen nothing but instability, inflation, indoctrination and wars.
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  105. The level of corruption in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia is not very different from the level of corruption in Italy, France, Spain. It's worse than in Germany, but better than in UK. The really corrupt Slavic countries are Bulgaria and Ukraine and of course Russia and Belarus. Serbia and Slovakia are somewhere half way. The other Balkan Slavic countries suffer more from tribalism and general dysfunction.
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  106. The German politics is dominated by Russians and their proxies. The entire Green Party, large part of the CDU,... 👎 Germans shot themselves in the foot with Energiewende, replacing domestic nuclear plants with Russian gas. German politicians wouldn't hesitate to throw Ukrainians overboard entirely wouldn't there be string pressure from public and the US.
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  107.  @Quickshot0  Electric cars perhaps and electric town buses which run on short routes. There's no currently a viable alternative to diesel trucks, long distance coaches, agricultural and contruction machinery, ship engines, jet planes. Fertilizers are also a big deal. Problem is not hydrogen but nitrogen. Nitrogen occurs in nature in N2 molecules which are hold together a very strong bond. To break the bond in order to synthetisise ammonia you need a lot of energy.
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  108. Absolutely! 👍 Who prioritises the growth of economy over security gets neither of these two things.
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  109. Looks like this project of Democrats and Biden jr is spinning out of control. Free Ukraine was never the goal, it could have been a nice bonus. The goal was to weaken Russia using Ukrainian proxies and it failed miserably. The opposite is happened, Russia solidified the axis of resistance, strengthened cooperation in BRICS. The war is a disaster for the Ukrainians, for the Russians and for Europe as well.
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  110. Blowing up the dam was a major f__k up! Russians shot themselves in a foot.
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  111. As a German, you need to get rid of fanatic politicians who rule Germany at the moment. Anti-nuclear scaremongerers financed by gas lobby. They are destroying German and European energy security and competitiveness. Germany has enough brainpower, research institutes and industrial base to build its own reactors. Problem is purely political.
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  112.  @Coles1.25LPepsi A submarine doesn't have to surface completely, all it needs is to get air through the snorkel to run the engines. Snorkel is very hard to detect on a radar because of its size. Also the exhaust gases can be cooled down to avoid detection by thermal sensors on planes and satellites. The biggest problem is noise, sound waves travel exceptionally well underwater and can be detected at a great distance.
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  113.  @jakemocci3953  That's true. But the range on electric power is limited. They need to recharge batteries with the diesel engine which makes them prone to detection. Submarine needs to be quiet all the time. Some Swedish designs use quiet Stirling engine instead of noisy diesel to circumvent this problem.
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  114.  @Ramschat  yes technically it is a diesel engine, but it is of a completely different design without noisy pistons, conrods and crankshaft
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  115.  @wolfdreams1545  Yes, water rights will become an issue in the future. How much water each country can use. Turkey vs. Iraq, Ethiopia vs. Egypt, USA vs. Mexico, Fergana valley in central Asia, ....
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  116. Britain lost its nuclear capabilities. They cannot manufacture the fissile material or the warheads or even the delivery system (missiles). The Trident project is completely controlled by Americans.
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  117. EU is not supposed to be a unified state or a superpower. It's union of (theoretically) sovereign states with free trade a free movement. I am not a fan of centralization and federalisation and the political development after Lisbon treaty deeply worries me. But it is clear that together European countries balance the power of the US, Russia and China much better than on their own.
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  118. This is an example how one incompetent bureaucrat can f__k up a whole region of the world.
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  119. Nuclear plants cannot be switched on and off as politicians please. Decommissioning and recommissioning is a long elaborate process with many sub steps and tight regulation. It requires highly skilled labour.
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  120. Globalisation was a (successful) attempt to contain and economically isolate the Soviet Union. The United States didn't profit from it, they sacrificed the most of their industry to maintain the status of the world hegemon. But now this threat does not exist anymore and the world order will start to deglobalise. Geopolitician George Friedman wrote a book on this topic: The next 100 years
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  121.  @tom-was  Where do you think woke aka neomarxism comes from? From Germany, it's based on teaching of the Frankfurt school. All evil ideologies have their origins in Germany.
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  122.  @robertab929  Politically: Western Europe = +- states to the west from former Iron curtain, Eastern Europe = all countries to the East. Russia, although it lies particularly in Europe, is a separate entity. It has it's own culture and history, different from the rest of Eastern Europe.
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  123. TLDR: The biggest threat to the economy and long-term survival, prosperity and security of Europe is not Russia, China or the US, but our own deluded left wing politicians.
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  124. The only thing Karaganov nailed is that the West is degenerate and feminised. He is also right about the extreme consumerism. But the rest is utter rubbish. Russia doesn't offer any reasonable alternative, it is failing in ideology, economy, culture, religion, environmental protection, science, demography. It is a degenerate soulless country unsuccessfully trying to copy the West. Consumerism is rampant in China and also in Russian circles that can afford it. Karaganov knows that Russia only has a hammer (nuclear weapons) and sees every problem as a nail. His geopolitical premise is false and doesn't take in account response from other countries. Does he think that if Russia attacked Poland, other countries would just watch? China, India and other supposed allies? These countries work with Russia because it represents alternative to the Western / US hegemony but not because they want to be part of the Russian world. China certainly has imperial ambitions on its own, so does Japan, Turkey and other nations.
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  125. Israel made the fatal mistake of turning to secularism and liberalism. Very destructive ideologies. It may cost them everything. Also please get rid of the AI narrator, there is lot of generic stuff on YT already.
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  126. Germany represents even more danger for European security than Russia itself. Dogmatic thinking and sickening ideologies originating in Germany pose a real threat to humankind. German politics itself is / was infected by Russian Trojan horses like Schröder or Merkel.
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  127. ​ @mortmortannon6640 Solution to demographic decline are pro-natalist and pro-family policies. Motivate European women to have kids, not import of immigrants from culturally incompatible backgrounds. Affordable housing, affordable childcare and healthcare, promotion of family values, clamping down on hedonism and consumerism.
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  128. Germans always put ideology ahead of rationality and common sense. We've seen that many times in history and we see it now again.
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  129. Not probably
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  130. Reunification of Korea is an ENORMOUS challenge!
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  131. Germany has only one big problem, which creates multitude of other problems: SOCIALISM. Germans are unable to learn from their past and they make same mistakes over and over. They always put ideology ahead of rationality and common sense. This crisis is what happens when you put philosophers and green fanatics in charge of your energy security and infrastructure, marxists in charge of your economy and border security and foreign NGOs in charge of your foreign policy. 🙈
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  132. It was a masterpiece of Russian foreign policy and American oil and gas lobby. 🙈
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  133. But it's going down rapidly. We need to avoid americanization of Europe. Immigration and dissolution of our culture is the biggest threat.
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  134.  @Ooz4ru  I just wrote the same on my comment to go to deleted
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  135. Biden is a traitor who hates his own country and its people. He is a mortal danger for the entire Western civilisation. I pray to God that Trump wins the next election and reverses some of Biden's suicidal policies.
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  136. The problem is the same as always: Brussels 👎
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  137. She's a symbol of naivety and decadence of the Western world. She have met with world leaders and was prized by many politicians, gave speech in UN assembly. She is not the leader of the movement but she is a construct created by the corporate "green" lobby. She brings "good feelings " rather than real solutions, like all left wing policies.
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  138. There is only one reason for all this decline: socialism!
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  139. Biden in the White House is a disaster for humanity. 🙈
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  140. ​ @HanSolo__  Perhaps because India, Japan and Poland have their own distinctive cultures, but they don't force their values and worldviews on other nations. Unlike Germans, Brits or Muslims.
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  141. Socialism in practice. 🙈 Only a socialist can bankrupt a country with the largest oil reserves!
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  142. "The high price of sluggishness and laziness of European decision makers is now paid by ordinary citizens." 👍👍👍
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  143. Milei speaks well, we will see what the reality will be like. But one thing is for sure: once you are on the bottom there is only one way - up.
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  144. Near Arctic city 👍
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  145. This is the ultimate humiliation of Putin. Everybody can see that the czar is naked. 😂
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  146. Irish people have no clue Georgia even exists (apart from the US state). All they are interested in is worship of Palestinians.
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  147. Russia, Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, Niger
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  148. You can thank Russian gas lobby and their German left wing cronies who push the agenda of anti-nuclear scaremongering. 🙈
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  149. Swedish support for Kurds and particularly Palestinians is a disgrace 👎
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  150. Trump could be the Caesarean figure!
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  151. Meanwhile it feels like German / Marxist religion is setting strong foot in the United States. Universities and public institutions are almost completely captured, gen Z loves marxism. The US is turning into China and becoming more and more authoritarian, not the other way around.
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  152. The Russian threat is clear and omnipresent. But there's also danger coming from the West, particularly Germany. The neo-marxist agenda and cultural nihilism, dissolution of identity and national states.
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  153. @@JiraiyaSennin-gb5th Then you must probably live on Mars. Possibly in India.
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  154. Exactly! Eastern European countries should work much closer together. The Baltic states, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Slovenia and Croatia all have similar agenda and geopolitical objectives. They should revive their agriculture and secure better trade deals, push together against European bureaucracy and regulations. In defence pull together with the United Kingdom and United States.
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  155. These are ideas presented by geopolitician George Friedman. And I agree with him. I can see it already happening. Countries who will rise and become major powers will be Japan, Turkey, Poland, Mexico, possibly Brazil, Argentina and India. And of course the United States. Countries who will lose influence are France and Germany, most definitely Russia and there is very dark cloud hanging over China.
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  156. To understand the reasons for the invasion read book by George Friedman America's secret war.
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  157.  @tobia5267  Words of wisdom. Don't pi$S off your powerful neighbours unnecessarily.
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  158. Yes, all that is true. But every coin has two sides . If it was not the US, somebody else would support them. Earlier the Soviet Union, in todays world probably China. Also other oil rich countries cause problems and produce terrorists. Iran is a biggest supporter of hezbollah, Lybia, Algeria and Iraq . None of them was US ally. 1. Origin of Islamic state is in Iraq. This organisation was formed from former government officials in a Saddam Hussein's government. 2. Yes, absolutely. 3. Osama bin Laden actually strongly opposed the Saudi regime backed by Americans. His goal was to create an Islamic caliphate and the US simply stood in his way. 4. Opec is an energy cartel. Controlling oil prices is its main purpose. 5. The uncontrolled war in Yemen is a disgrace for all involved and for the West.
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  159. TLDR: The European Union is a US colony, it's a captured market for American companies. Americans control it through puppet politicians, international organisations and NGOs. European politicians are on American payroll and slowly are deconstructing Europe into oblivion through regulations, bureaucracy, energy deprivation and mass immigration. For this reason the EU never can be truly reformed. The only real reform would be a return to monarchies, where the monarch is loyal to the nation rather than to transnational capital. The globalist elite cannot control China, because it's ruled by the CCP and it isolated itself from the Western liberal propaganda. They cannot control Russia because of Putin. They cannot fully control Saudis or Emirates. But they can control Europe, Canada, Australia.
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  160. Title should be: How corrupted bureaucrats, socialists, dreamers and psychopats in Europe made themselves first dependent on Russian gas and then on Chinese manufacturing.
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  161. Germany is and always has been the biggest threat for democracy and humanity. It is a country of brilliant engineers and prestigious universities, but everything political that ever comes out of Germany is always a disaster! Germans invented national socialism (nazism), communism, marxism, neo marxism of Frankfurt school, net zero. They spoiled the world with these sickening ideologies. And most importantly they gave the world Klaus Schwab, a person as inhumane it it possibly gets. Germans are and always have been big fans of Russia and authoritarian regimes. They pose an existential threat to all eastern European countries. I agree with the video, eastern European countries need to build a coalition that will counterbalance the influence of France and Germany in the EU. After the war Poland and Ukraine will be two new major powers in Europe. And other countries will join them. And of course we need to keep close ties with the United States, the only country that can guarantee our sovereignty and peace.
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  162. Better authoritarianism under Trump than marxism and decadence under Harris.
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  163.  @Spectification  Yes, that's very true. Russia is something like a large scale mafia state. But what I have noticed this wierd trend in Germany, particularly on the left, the self bashing "culture". People hate everything German , European, Christian, traditional and uncritically admire the opposite, no matter what it is. Russia and islam being on top.
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  164.  @desydukuk291  It is only an idea and probably not very serious one. But the UK and Eastern Europe have similar interests as regards Russia.
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  165.  @boudgaming5123  Yeah, that's true. Germany has it's natural resource base in Russia. So does France, but they also have Africa. Both countries are thus quite dependent on Russia and must have friendly policies towards Russia. Britain and Scandinavia don't rely on Russia so heavily so they can afford to be neutral or hostile towards Russia. The whole Eastern Europe sees Russia as an existential threat. Logically they are aligned with the US and the UK, who also see Russia as enemy. The USA has more common sense approach. Germany is home of brilliant engineers, prestigious universities and strong industry. But politically it is very immature, naive a ideologically driven. Energiewende is a prime example, only fool replaces clean domestic nuclear energy with gas imported from country with poor human rights record. Also suicidal immigration policies are a recipe for a disaster. Germany is a country where socialism has gone too far. USA has many problems with their woke "culture" on one side and backward conservatives on the other, but as whole it is very consistent country moving in the same polical direction. For that reason I will always prefer the US to Germany as a guarantee of peace in Europe.
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  166. I think one of the main things that V4 countries have in common, regardless their differences, is opposition to European "progressivism". It spreads like a cancer through this lovely continent and spoils everything!
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  167.  @3kkk3  Yes, your circumstances are bit different. Russia operates through oligarchs and through bribing politicians directly. This law won't affect them much.
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  168. Absolutely 👍. It was Putin's master move. But also American NGOs and lobby are to be blamed.
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  169. ​ @TheKobiDror 🤣🤣🤣 Polish politicians are probably not as short-sighted and indoctrinated in dogma as their German counterparts so they would do something as stupid as they rely on renewables. Considering natural conditions in Poland - dark in winter and not very windy (except Baltic coast) - nuclear poweris a no-brainer for both economic and environmental reasons.
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  170. ​ @user-jt3bf8ws5q Yes, but fertility is expressed by number of children per woman not per man. Women are those who give birth. "Alpha male" like Elon Musk can have as many children with different women, but it won't change the overall picture. He still has 1 or 2 children with each woman. To increase fertility you need more "alpha females".
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  171. The Germans had no option but to run their country like a company. They have lost the war and Americans didn't give them any option to have geopolitical or imperial ambitions. They have wrote their democratic constitution for them.
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  172. Of course Putin is trying to save Christian values. By sending Muslim Chechens to kill Christian Ukrainians. 🤣🤣🤣 What a loser! Thumbs up for Ukraine 👍👍👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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  173. @paocut9018  Absolutely. The whole power balance Russia - Europe is ridiculous. Historically it was always Europe who was much stronger and was giving Russia hard times. Not the other way around. Europe has half a billion inhabitants, strong economy and strong industrial base and knowledge. It is only incompetence of our leaders that 146 million Russians pose a threat to Europe. Their only two real military assets Russia has are nuclear deterrence and strategic depth (size). Europe could build fighter jets on the same or even better level then Americans. Only if we were not behaving like their colony, but pushing harder our own interests. Europe could also built world class drones, tanks, artillery, etc. The weakest point of European defence industry is its fragmentation.
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  174. It's not only China creating Brave New World. It's our own Western politicians, deep state and NGOs.
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  175. PiS was very different from Fidesz. They had great policies, turned Poland into a major power, reformed education system, built infrastructure, strong army and they were fighting for Polish interests hard. PiS were not subservient to Brussels and were not afraid to confront Germany .They were the role models for the whole Eastern Europe. I wish we had a government like that in the Czech Republic . Sad to see them gone, Poland will experience hard times now under traitor Tusk.
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  176. ​@longoniadriano The "European project" is the worst thing that happens to our lovely continent. It needs to be dismantled ASAP. Thankfully, we are seeing some serious cracks already. We need to return back to tradition and national states that freely co-operate on voluntary basis. We need to reject Marxism and multiculturalism. There was enough of EU tyranny, malice and incompetence.
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  177. We have to give credits to George Friedman 👍. Everything he forecasted is happening or is very likely to happen in near future. War in Ukraine. US being the only world superpower. Decline of Russian power. Japan and Turkey becoming new world powers. Poland and Mexico becoming strong regional powers.
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  178. German Wunderwaffe: Self destruction through large scale immigration and energy deprivation
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  179. German Wunderwaffe = Making your own nation obsolete through out of control immigration and energy deprivation
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  180. German Wunderwaffe = self destruction through energy deprivation and massive migration
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  181. In only one day, 24th of February 2022, Putin has undone all his work from last 20 years 🙈
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  182.  @jasc4364  Consisted mostly of corruption. But it was still a better than chaos under Jelcin.
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  183. Did you not say the same about Zelensky?
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  184.  @VojvodaBla  Like woke Commiefornia? No, thanks. 🙈👎
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  185.  @lusvus5445  Fed doesn't need to print money. What Ukraine will need is rule of law and it's enforcement and most of all to tackle corruption. They need to create stable economic environment and foreign Investments little flow there. Another thing will be to restore the damage to housing.
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