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

  1. Turkey will not join the EU anytime soon, perhaps when Erdogan is gone and they done a 180 on their politics, until then no-way.
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  2. Detach from the #1 economy of the world...? Yeah not happening lol. I don't think we should expect Americans to put European interests over US interest just as Americans know the EU won't put American interest over European interests.
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  3.  @user-wq9mw2xz3j  US democracy is not perfect, still it's 100 times better than Turkey's democracy
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  4. Public transport is usually heavily subsidized with the government. Remember that when you use public transportation, most of the cost the taxpayers have already covered.
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  5.  @ampulsuper  Yeah let's ignore 600 years of history why Russia and Turkey have ALWAYS been rivals and constantly fighting each other for 600 years. If Turkey liked Russians they would not have joined NATO in the first place.
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  6. Turkey wants in for the economic benefits, the EU does not want Turkey because Erdogan will start all kinds of trouble and the overall economic benefit for the EU won't change by adding a weak Turkish economy.
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  7. No rush, Turkey will not be joining anytime soon anyway I am sure if it took Armenia 50 years they would still join before Turkey.
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  8.  @Gnashercide  I am pretty sure most Japanese don't share that opinion but keep trying.
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  9. Yes unfortunately the "greens" had a lot of influence over the current government so we've had some really stupid decisions about things like that that's going to bite us in the ass the coming years :/. We don't actually need to import energy but to be honest I think it's good to produce extra so we can at least help our neighbours, I mean they need it and they pay for it so why not...
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  10.  @DoofyGilmore1299  Just wait until after election date and you will see the application be swiftly accepted. It's just a show for the voters, play the strongman card. As soon as election is won (or lost) Sweden and Finland will be accepted. Turkish politics is whatever Erdogan wants it to be, the Turkish parliament will do whatever the leader says. That's how you stay in power for 20 years.
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  11.  @kimzeysmith6704  You don't know history, as a fellow Swede I can inform you that in our last war with Russia we lost 35% of our male population in the war. We did not become neutral because we wanted to be friends. We became neutral because our population could not sustain warfare with the major European powers. There simply was no way to replenish the losses from war with such a small population. There was no way we could be a powerhouse after the devastating loss in the Northern war. 200.000 soldiers dead when we only had a population of 1.3 million - half of them being women? No way we could be a powerhouse after that.
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  12.  @HistoryMadeSimple90  It does sound improbable but seeing how weak and incompetent the Russian army is who knows. Wasn't there a German civilian that flew all the way from West Germany and landed at the red square without being stopped in 1987 or something?
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  13. As a fellow Swede I'd say if Finland wants to join then it's a 99% chance Sweden will follow.
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  14. Of course Finland is in range of many Russian cities having them as part of NATO is a nightmare for Putin. It's also making it almost impossible for Putin's future plans to invade the Baltic states if NATO has access to the Baltic sea from Finland and Sweden.
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  15.  @Sami-gi1ld  To be honest if Erdogan leaves and Turkey takes steps going for a more secular type of government and sorts out it's territorial issues I can see it happening. Sure it will take time maybe 10+ years but I don't see it being impossible.
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  16.  @romanianturk2101  They follow orders from the Ukrainian government, you know the same government being led by Zelenskyy who is a Jew. You really believe real Nazis would take orders from a Jew?
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  17. Well Erdogan won't be there forever. Election is coming up this summer and Erdogan's poll numbers have been abysmal for a long time.
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  18.  @LyricsFred  Not the same an Expat is someone who lives outside of their native country an immigrant is a person who comes to live permanently in another country. If you only intend to stay in a country for 2 years and then go home you are not an immigrant, you are an expat.
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  19. Disagree, EVS are not the future. They work alright in packed urban centers perhaps but on the countryside they are useless. Besides if the powergrid goes down everything stops not very convenient. Also the price point is just ridiculous, it’s a good option for wealthy environmentalists I guess. Yes China makes evs a lot cheaper but the result is they don’t pass eu and us safety standards.
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  20. Should disband the UN and redirect all those funds to Ukraine to rebuild instead of throwing them into this black hole of a useless organisation.
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  21. Well when they trigger financial crashes like what happened in 2008 it kind of becomes a crisis.
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  22. I don't think you should put too much energy on Putin's Casus belli he said the whole Ukrainian regime is full of Nazis not just the Azov regiment. If the Azov did not exist Putin would just come up with another excuse to justify his war.
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  23.  @jakewillsuffice6938  It's good for the rich that can buy the apartment with CASH and no bank loans. For everyone that needs a bank loan the affordability does not improve at all - sometimes it's even more expensive when you add in the extra monthly mortgage costs.
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  24.  @Paul_Davies  You ask people to be open minded and be careful for the propaganda from MSM media and in the same breath you are repeating Russian propaganda claims. Your "independent" journalist Patrick Lancaster features often on RT you know the Russian state owned news channel Russia Today. Maybe you should take your own advice and be objective and open minded and stop listening to Russian propaganda.
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  25. And for the people that cannot afford 60k Euros for a Tesla? Driving is only going to be for the rich, sounds like a pretty bad deal for the working class people to me.
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  26. No it's just the result of a peace time military that has got 0 combat experience and having corrupt leaders putting funds allocated towards army equipment and training in their own pockets. It's the same in China generals and officers will request funds for a military exercise consisting of maybe 200 troops then spending 1000 rounds of ammunition then report back to their leaders and say it was 1000 troops spending 10.000 rounds of ammunition. They receive all the ammunition and equipment which they then sell off and put the cash in their own pockets.
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  27. It won’t happen, even IF the EU leadership would agree Greece would block Turkey.
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  28.  @louisecorchevolle9241  There are memorial plaques to Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval, the head and prime minister of France’s collaborationist Vichy government which hunted down and deported 67,000 Jews to the concentration camps. Pétain is honored with 11 streets in the U.S Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, both have busts in upstate New York and Wisconsin. Andrey Vlasov, the Soviet general who went over to the Nazis and raised an army of over 100,000 men for the Third Reich, has a memorial just outside New York. Chicago also has a memorial to Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, who commanded a unit of the Lithuanian Activist Front, a Nazi-allied organization whose members slaughtered Jews across Lithuania in the summer of 1941. There you go, according to you this is proof that a majority of Americans are Nazis, right? Also Russia has TONS of statues of Stalin, the man that purged the Polish army and intellectuals several times, does that mean all Russians are communists that support the genocide of Poles?
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  29.  @nonyabisness6306  Swedish here, yes heating your house while you go to work is very common otherwise you'll freeze your ballz off when you get back home. I know plenty of people that have their heating on 24/7.
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  30.  @afjo972  You can't compare - different living costs, taxes, salaries and so on.
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  31. suuuuure suuuuuuure.
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  32. It's already a given that it will not pass, it's not realistic. Probably the idea was set a very ambitious exgtreme goal so when it gets watered down as it inevitably will it will still be at a decent level.
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  33. The last thing Ukraine wants is to escalate things and give Putin and the Russians a reason to send more troops into Ukraine.
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  34. There is no market in the west for Chinese cars as the safety standards are too high. Only option is emerging markets with less safety standards
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  35. It's a lot more complex than that, Greece has a much much MUUUCH better human rights track record and freedoms that Turkish people can only dream about. There are many issues here, Turkey's oppression of minorities, Erdogan's Autocracy, Weak democratic institutions, Border disputes, lack of freedom of speech, censorship of newspapers etc etc. It's just not one thing here there are plenty. A lot of EU countries have Muslims on minister position and government positions it's totally possible to bridge and co-operate with Muslims.
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  36. To be fair a large amount of people that "own property" really don't. They took a loan for that property and the bank is the true owner of the home until it's paid for which is usually around when it is time to retire. You can't say the person owning property have 1000 more because they have to pay off that loan too. Even if you rent an apartment out your monthly loan payment will be higher than the rent you get for someone living there.
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  37. legal migration is not an issue, illegal is.
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  38. Well you do realize that stores will have to be refilled somehow right? The food doesn't just magically appear in the supermarket it needs to be transported there. Don't mean to be rude but it kind of sounds like you assume everyone can work remotely and everything will be within walking distance. Maybe if everyone lived in a small rich country like one of the Northern European countries like Sweden or Denmark and worked with like say software engineering that you can do from home it would work yes. Truth be told the vast majority of the world's population doesn't have the opportunity to do so. It would be incredibly expensive you would have to rebuild whole cities to accommodate for the increase of people on the walking streets, the buildings are too tightly packed for your idea to work in a big city. Maybe a small town could work, just trying to imagine Shanghai with 20 million and everyone will walk/take the subway. Sounds like a nightmare to be honest.
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  39. According to Russia the Ukrainian government are all nazis, especially Zelenskyy which is hilarious seeing that the guy is Jewish.
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  40. ​ @asozialesnetzwerk  To be fair that's around the number for Sweden more or less - would not be surprised if Germany's numbers are somewhere in that area. You have to remember it is not 75% income tax it's in total. You pay income tax in Sweden that is anywhere between 35-55% then you pay 25% VAT on everything you buy. Don't get me started on Alcohol and fuel. You even pay tax on your pension. All in all at the end of the day a large part of what you earned goes to the government, my parents in Sweden pay half their salary to the government already so adding VAT and all that I am sure they would reach around the 70% mark easily. Well why don't you invest? Yeah good idea ooh right 30% tax rate on any profits made on your investment, nice! That's one of the reasons I moved to Asia when I had the chance, used to pay 40% income tax in Sweden now I get the same salary with a tax rate of 8%, half of that I get back in tax reductions for having children and so on.
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  41. It's just a regular scheduled maintenance it will be up again. The Russians don't have anywhere else to sell that amount of gas. The pipelines to Asia can only send about 20% of what Europe receives so unless Putin wants to say goodbye to 80% of the revenue he still needs the EU to buy the gas for now.
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  42.  @merseyviking  You do realize that anyone at any time can edit a Wikipedia page? I could literally go in right now and add a quote from their leader voicing his support for the LBTQ + Community and claim they are all homosexuals.
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  43. yep Turkey just magically got a sign of approval from the white house about their F16s a few hours after saying Sweden and Finland are welcome, magic.
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  44. Yep basically rich people drafted up a resolution either A) Not realizing everyone else is not as rich as them or. B) Doesn't give a damn about you if you are not rich.
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  45.  @theonly6359  Power of Siberia can supply 38 billion CM3 to Asia. Russia supplies Europe with almost 200 Billion CM3 with all the pipelines... add to that that they sell the gas at a discount to Asia this is a massive loss to Russia. Once they get more pipelines up sure they will be fine but for now they will lose too much money cutting EU off completely and I am pretty sure that this is just a temporary maintenance.
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  46.  @fernbedek6302  Bad comparison, Finland and Portugal are different yes but that's like saying hey New York and Texas are different so we might as well add Saudi Arabia and China as a US state.
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  47. Sure there are bigger problems, the issue people is that those bigger problems usually boils down to "we don't have enough money" then when people see all the migrants coming in to their countries costing resources and wondering why the government has money for the problems of non-citizens but as soon as it's about their own citizens suddenly they say not enough money left. It is not the biggest problem it's just the fact that there are huge issues that needs addressing and EU is forcing nations to waste precious resources on non-citizens. This will upset most people, now it's at a boiling point so you can see plenty of anti-immigration parties popping up all over Europe. At least in my country if you check the polls most people want to limit migration but the EU is pushing all nations to take in more, when you have an institution that goes opposite of the will of the people then usually you end up with protests. That's just my country though cannot say for the other EU nations.
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  48. They are different it’s just according to the political spectrum of your country they both appear to be far right
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  49.  @noobaction7720  Sweden and Finland never voted against Turkey's EU ascension, you are spreading misinformation.
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  50. Population in nations not in the EU: LESSSSS GO JOINNNNNN Woop Woop. Population in rich well-off nations already in the EU: Errr... I think perhaps it's time to abandon ship.
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  51.  @alpersenturk1420  Depends how you define innocence they are certainly guilty in Turkey but are they in other countries? To be extradited they have to committed an action that's considered a crime in the country they currently reside in. They cannot be extradited because Erdogan says Trust me br0. If they can be proven to be terrorists then they will be extradited, but make no mistake we're not Erdogan's personal police force and will not help him cleanse political opposition with terrorist labels.
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  52.  @dax354able  and how will they get the gas there? The pipelines they have to Asia have about 20% of the capacity of their European pipelines.
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  53.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  There is no guarantee the next guy in line will be any better but I agree Turkish people are fine, just a bad leader.
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  54.  @ephimp3189  China has the exact same problem, you pay enough money you can become a general and then make money on the side by selling off army equipment. Both armies are used to controlling their own population and very few of them has actual combat experience. The only difference between the 2 is that China has a lot more in terms of number of troops. Everything else they are in a similar state.
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  55. Yep, they surely are making it easier for the anti-EU parties around Europe. Perhaps more nations will join the UK and do their own BREXIT.
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  56. Not a big fan to be honest, good video poor choice of T-shirt.
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  57. Yeah I always found it weird about the EU talks, pretty much all nations are against Turkey joining the EU still Brussels tried to get it done regardless.
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  58.  @Stjepko15  The pipelines to Asia's max capacity is 38 billion CM3, Russia sends 200 billion CM3 to Europe. They can't replace Europe with Asia, they don't have the pipeline infrastructure to do so.
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  59. True, not sure about Montenegro but Serbia has too many issues with Kosovo at the moment. The last thing the EU wants is a war within it's borders.
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  60. Offering Putin parts of Ukraine? yeah right, let me guess : "LOL trust me bro" is your source?
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  61.  @leostabauer5930  Which part of taxes are capitalism? If you look at socialist countries they have higher tax rates which would seem it's the opposite.
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  62. I think the Mongols should reinstate Moscow as their vassal, that's only fair as it was back in the good old days.
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  63.  @bobroberts2581  Then why did Apple agree to this then... They signed off on it now it's time to follow up on what they agreed upon.
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  64. Also Swedish if Finland joins that's a guarantee Sweden will join in my opinion at least.
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  65.  @ibrahimmansour615  Hey how can you burn holy books that's so wrong man. OH BTW ima go burn a holy book myself now. Yep didn't expect anything less from you guys. If you cannot handle it then simple don't go to Sweden. Nobody is forcing you to. You are too sensitive.
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  66. It's just politics, everyone agrees we need to protect the environment it's how we need to do it and how far we need to go that differs. I am guessing whoever said that is on the right and likewise I would assume the other extreme on the left would blame capitalism for everything. That's just politicians for you. Most people are in the middle and are totally fine to combine both capitalism with measures to protect the environment.
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  67.  @JAKE-ng8yr  Turkey is not in NATO for it's army size, it's there because strategic position. Army size matters little in war. The Americans needed only 30.000 soldiers to take Baghdad a city with a 8-9 million population in the Iraq war. Quality will always beat quantity any day of the week. Numbers won't do you any good if they turn and run as soon as they get into battle.
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  68. The politicians drafting suggestions like this fly private jets which is one of the dirtiest modes of transport on the planet when commercial flights and trains are available.
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  69. NATO has said that it wants Sweden and Finland to join and should they apply their application will be handled swiftly. For several reasons NATO have been very hesitant to add Georgia, Ukraine and Bosnia. In those cases it's about politics. When it comes to Sweden and Finland they offer very strategical advantages to defend the Baltic NATO members.
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  70. No, the agreement you are talking about in the EU is very vague and is still being debated if it's mandatory or not. It's in no way a guarantee and the funny part is that Sweden has always downplayed this clause as non-binding as we were unwilling to be dragged into any war through our EU membership. Now that we are threatened we are trying to highlight this like it's a mandatory defensive pact like NATO but it's not and it's still being debated to this day if this clause is mandatory or not and what it actually mean.
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  71. All they said is that they will look into it. Nobody will get extradited.
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  72. Sorry I don't see the big deal, the guy said the Azov battalion/regiment are 1000 men and about 10-20% of them identifies as Nazis. So you have 100-200 Nazis in your army. I am pretty sure most armed forces have more than 200 Nazis in their armies.
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  73.  @neventomicic330  You take things way too seriously Trump is just posturing for NATO to increase spending, he is not actually going to pull the US out of something that is a massive advantage for them.
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  74.  @birdyflying4240  The pipelines to Asia can support a capacity of 38 Billion CM3, Europe buys 200 billion CM3. Yeah the EU will suffer but Russia will lose out on selling 80% of their gas too. LNG by ship is expensive and you cannot transport a huge quantity that way. Even if you could send 200 Billion CM3 to Asia China only uses 16.5 Billion CM3 of gas so who's going to buy the remaining 180ish?
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  75. Yeah of course the deportation issues needs to follow Swedish law and the Swedish constitution why would they want to suddenly adapt Turkish law? That makes little sense. Sweden is not a Turkish vassal, they have their own set of laws and regulations to follow.
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  76.  @coconutshrimp707  You need pipelines to send gas you cannot just change your trading partners without first building pipelines to your new customers. Russia has the capability to send 38 billion CM3 to Asia at a discount while they right now sell about 200 Billion CM3 to Europe at premium high prices.
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  77. Didn't the Right sector and Svoboda and 3 other right wing parties join together in 2019 and get like 2%ish? Doesn't sound like a big right wing problem to me back home (Sweden) our right-wing anti immigration party got 17.5% LOL.
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  78.  @Jay-hr3rh  Well it is getting what it's asking for... they go around trying to expand on their neighbours behalf and now half the world treats them like the warmongers they are. If they want to become the next North Korea then let's respect their wishes and help them get there.
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  79.  @nonyabisness6306  The EU defensive alliance is very vague and is still being debated if it's mandatory or not.
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  80.  @icup4318  NATO has no agreements about handing over political opposition figures to each other. Besides EU and US are democracies you cannot just hand over individuals for political reasons. Turkey would actually have to prove that these individuals committed crimes that would constitute as crimes in the states they are currently residing. Just because Erdogan says they are BAD DUDES does not mean we can simply ship them off like that, that's not how it works in countries where the political system and the judiciary are separated.
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  81.  @PixelShade  Lol Malmö... I figured it was someone living in a small city thinking like this, try applying this to a real city with millions of people. Malmö wouldn't even be considered a city in a lot of countries.
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  82. Yep, I just moved to Asia, my salary is around the same but living expenses are a lot lower. I went from 50% of salary for rent for my 1 room apartment in the capital city of my country to 10% of my salary for a nice 4 room apartment.
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  83. @David Alvarez I don't know which aspect you are going for being like a European country but their economy is very weak and they are authoritarian. I guess there could be some similarities but I don't know if you can find many Europeans that would actually agree that Turkey is like a European country. As an example Turkey in the EU is very controversial and there are not many Europeans that want this to happen.
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  84. Why? They just said they will look into the extradition requests that's it. Nobody has been extradited yet and probably will not be they just promised to take another look at it. Turkey got their weapons and Erdogan was happy with that. This was never about Kurds just F16s.
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  85. The way things are looking it's more likely another major EU nation will leave the EU before any of the candidates would accepted.
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  86. You are trying too hard my man, it's all political. If there is a political will then that argument will be used, yes. If there is no political will then it will be "not a European nation". It doesn't come down to geography it comes down to politics.
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  87. really? I know there is going to be an election probably I didn't know the reason was so Erdogan could skip the laws about a third term though.
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  88.  @raheemharris766  I would hardly call watching RT as doing "research"
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  89. Europe will be fine not so sure about the third world, you can already see the effects of the increased prices, just take a look at Sri Lanka.
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  90. Doesn't Turkey claim they are a secular country? Why would a secular country care about a holy book?
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  91. It's freedom of expression actually, the more you know...
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  92. Yep, Erdogan will claim a political victory at home and Sweden and Finland will join NATO.
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  93.  UAE Emirates  Biggest in terms of what? Soldiers? France, Germany and the UK spends more than double that of Turkey on their military. Even Italy and Canada outspends Turkey. Surely you must mean number of soldiers? In terms of combat readiness, technology, spending Turkey is not number two in the alliance. In terms of military Spending they are very similar to Spain.
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  94. Erdogan knows this and it's quite likely he never cared about Sweden and Finland at all, did you notice Biden just magically threw his support behind Turkey's request to buy the F-16 they have been blocked to buy for so long just a few hours after Turkey's announcement they will let Sweden and Finland join? The real negotiations have been going on between Turkey and America. Sweden and Finland is just a play piece.
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  95. It's a no brainer move, getting favourable relations with the victorious major powers of the world doesn't seem like such a stupid move.
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  96.  @Poctyk  Housing prices in Sweden are not really that bad - we just like to complain about anything. I will say if we are talking about the capital Stockholm then they are much higher than the rest of the country. Stockholm is 7823.50 USD/M2 the national average is 4379.25 USD/M2. I do have to mention that in Sweden you are expected to buy the apartment by yourself though. Many of my Asian friends laugh at the prices not being too bad until I mention that you are expected to buy the home by yourself and asking your parents or family members for money is frowned upon. I think that's why a lot of westerners complain about the prices even though they are not that bad compared to some places in say Asia. It's because in western countries you buy the apartment by your own money. In for example Asia your parents and grandparents will all chip in and it's not uncommon to have more than 5 people come together and buy a home for their children or grandchildren.
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  97. Russian trolls: The Kyiv front and Kherson front was all just a distraction to get Bakhmut!
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  98. It doesn't help when you are using cluster bombs that are designed to inflict as many deaths and injuries as possible into civilian areas.
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  99. some people see racism everywhere. The way I interpreted it was the NATO values about democracy and human rights etc. Sweden and Finland are definitely more inline with the requirements NATO has of it's members. But well apparently Mathematics is racist according to some people so nothing surprises me anymore.
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  100. ​ @v-vinz6869  Socialism and Fascism are definitely similar in some regards and it's not a coincidence that the man that coined the term Fascism (Benito Mussolini) was a Socialist politician before resigning and creating his own ideology. His family were die hard socialists If you don't believe me check his name: He was named after leftist Mexican President Benito Juárez. His two middle names, Amilcare and Andrea, came from Italian socialists Amilcare Cipriani and Andrea Costa. Of course there are maaaany differences between the two and I am not going to pretend they are the same even though they share many similarities but - in my opinion - in practice it's very hard to label ideologies on a right or left spectrum. For example nationalism is usually placed on the right while communism is placed on the left spectrum, China is extremely nationalistic which should make them right wing but if you ask them they would proclaim they are die hard communists which would put them on the left. In my country (Sweden) our right wing party received 17.5% of the votes yet there are more similarities to fascism between the Communist regime in China which we can all agree should be on the far left spectrum and a self proclaimed right wing party in my country which we (at least in my country) put on the extreme right. So yes, in theory Fascism should traditionally be on the right side of the political spectrum but in reality it's not as easy as that and in many cases you can find more fascist tendencies on the "left" and in communist countries than you can in governments that are considered far right.
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  101. It's not falling apart everyone is just making such a big deal out of it. Sweden and Finland joining NATO benefits all parties from a strategic-military standpoint even for the Turks they just have some political reservations about it. It really doesn't matter what the reason is for Finland and Sweden joining is NATO members will decide based of what they can provide militarily be it army or strategic position. Obviously Turkey will not get kicked out but if all countries except one is for entry then obviously the other members are going to want to hear a very good reason why. Anyway Turkey has always been the odd one out and most of it's NATO allies already have a weapons Embargo in place against them even before they said anything about Sweden and Finland. I don't see the big issue, Turkey wants to negotiate a bit that is fine let them negotiate and then Erdogan can claim a political victory at home, Sweden and Finland will get accepted and people will move on.
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  102. Because the problem is not Turkey it's Erdogan and he won't be supreme leader forever. Although 20 years in power is impressive he can't do it forever.
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  103. Depends how you see it, the EU and US stand for more than 33% of the world's GDP. Maybe in terms of population they're pretty minor, in terms of economic muscles only China can compete with them though. If you think the sanctions will hurt the Citizens of Europe wait until you see what happens to Africa and Middle East. Europeans will complain about higher prices of food and fuel, sure but they will afford it. Africans and Middle Easterners however they will die of starvation, it's already started to happen and look at Sri Lanka. When it comes down to food and fuel goes up and nations start competing for food who do you think food producers will sell to, the US and EU that can give them a high prize or the third world that can barely afford the regular price? On your list I reckon China will be alright, India.... kind of yeah not as good as China but they can manage. Africa and South America though? Good luck with that. Why would Russia sell to them for half price when they can sell to others for bigger profits? Even India has said they get a 35% discount from Russia. If we go by that then even if Russia can replace the EU market they will have a 35% loss of revenue and Africa and South America probably wants a bigger discount. TLDR there's a reason Russia did so much business with the EU and US and not the third world because Africa, India, South America, Middle east are pretty poor compared to Europe and they cannot afford to pay western prices. China is the only one that can keep up with the western market in terms of economic muscles.
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  104. Those were not US forces, US trained - yes. America had no soldiers on the ground taking part in the battle. Ukraine has about 3500 soldiers in Mariupol not sure where you get 15k from.
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  105.  @BuddyLee23  They are just suggestions and needs to get accepted by all member states, not all EU members share this extreme agenda and the result will most likely be a very watered down version.
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  106. Who wants to be colonized though?
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  107.  @danielwebb8402  Depends on Nation and location.
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  108. Yep, I agree it's time to say no to Fascism, take Putin out.
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  109. Sorry don't see this as a major problem, I am Swedish and our neighbouring country used to teach and use Swedish in their school system as a big part of Finland has Swedish speakers because Finland was Swedish for several hundreds of years. Then one of their new governments made a law to stop teaching and speaking Swedish in Finnish schools. Even as a Swede I don't see this as a big deal, it's not like they banned people from speaking Swedish they just want the Finnish schools teach in Finnish. I am currently living in China and here they even forbid schools to teach in Chinese dialects, it has to be the Beijing dialect Mandarin Chinese that is being taught no matter where you are in the country. I think this is pretty normal and you can find these tendencies all across the world. If you feel offended by it I am sorry but it really just seems like a minor inconvenience to me - I've seen Zelenskyy speak both Ukrainian and Russian so I am sure you are still allowed to speak Russian in Ukraine and that's what matters really.
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  110. Yeah prices in Stockholm are twice or triple of what they go for in the smaller cities. My parents sold their apartment in Stockholm last year and for that money they could buy a really nice house on the countryside.
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  111. Have you seen a car crash in China? There is a reason Chinese cars are not allowed to be sold in Europe or America, they cannot pass the safety quality controls. Trust me you don't want to sit in a Chinese car in case of a crash, it's bad - really bad. When you cut corners and choose cheaper materials there are consequences.
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  112.  @cobbler9113  Yeah I totally understand I am all for the economic benefits and it's great negotiating with China or the US as a big block when it comes to trade. Brussels trying to apply one-size fits all rules to all countries is just plain stupid though. If Brussels allowed Britain keep the economic benefits while leaving the EU then 95% of the countries would leave in a heartbeat. Nobody likes Brussels trying to decide everything but nobody wants to leave because of the economic benefits.
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  113. Number one is nah NATO has already stated many times should Sweden or Finland want to join the application process will be quick and the 2% requirement is something that can be solved after membership has been given.
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  114. It's just politics. They all know Finland has been preparing for a Russian invasion for 70 years. She is just trying to make a balancing act of moving towards NATO while not giving Russia an excuse to retaliate until they have sent an application.
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  115. Yeah as a European I think that this was going to happen sooner or later, time to open up more nuclear power plants and burn coal!
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  116.  @bbbbbbears6999  Europe has natural gas reserves it's just that producing it is not environmental friendly and has it's downsides so they have been fine letting Russia do the dirty work. I guess now is the time for countries sitting on huge natural gas reserves to increase production. Netherlands for example has a shit ton of natural gas that they know about but didn't touch yet as there has not been a demand for it.
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  117. I am pretty sure if it's something they wanted to do then it's not a big issue. Worst case you can just create a new alliance and invite everyone except Turkey. For all Turkey's fault they do have a great strategic importance though so it's extremely unlikely anyone would do such a thing. Besides the problem is not Turkey it's Erdogan and he won't be there forever. Things change.
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  118. Well they were invited before Erdogan came into power. I know they are kind of trash in foreign relations but that's got nothing to do with Turkish people or the nation as a whole just Erdogan. Turkey is not the issue Erdogan is, and he won't be around forever.
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  119. The reason Sweden is a big Russian target is Gotland, an island in the baltic. You set up air defence there and you own the airspace for the whole baltic area.
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  120.  @maelstrom254  You do know Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, have monuments and statues in upstate New York and Wisconsin too, right? Just because a country has a statue of a guy does not mean all it's inhabitants love the guy.
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  121. There are plenty of ways to isolate Russia without inviting poor countries that the rich EU countries will have to put on life support for the foreseeable future.
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  122. Wasn't Finland neutral back in 1939 when the Soviets invaded? I am pretty sure Norway and Denmark was neutral when the Nazis invaded them too. Neutrality has never been a guarantee to security. Sweden was lucky due to it's geographic location.
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  123. ​ @Salarat  What do you mean Turkey allowed Greece to join? Turkey had no part in allowing Greece to join NATO Turkey and Greece joined at the same date lol.
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  124.  @youcefferah8756  A secular country getting upset over the burning of a "holy book" yeah I don't think you know what secular means.
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  125. To join NATO they need 75% of the votes not a simple 51%, if Sweden is to join NATO they need the Social Democrats onboard as well. SD has stated they are only willing to join in Finland joins too. If the Social Democrats are not onboard they cannot join NATO with a vote in the Swedish "riksdag".
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  126.  @samhaslemere7471  we are managing our own country, burning trashy books is totally legal. Nothing to see here just regular day life. You cannot handle it? Grow up, deal with your own problems. Crying over a book... you are a big boy you.
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  127.  @Jompe69  You are free to take the initiative to make the transition, not interested. Also you forgot to add something, "Cars should be more of niche like for ambulance, firefighters, rentable AND RICH PEOPLE". We both know this is exactly what will happen.
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  128. It's not about Capitalism it's about tax rates, if anything Germany pretty socialist compared to countries like the US.
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  129. A distraction for what? They did not take any territory in Donbas and their push has been slowed down and reversed in the south and now they are sitting in Russia for 10 days doing nothing while Ukraine has been rushing heavy equipment and manpower to eastern Ukraine to prepare for them. They could not appear to be more incompetent even if they tried to.
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  130. All NATO countries are bound to help another NATO ally militarily if they are attacked, it's a defensive alliance. One of the main reason Putin targeted Ukraine and not for example Poland is because Poland is a member of NATO and Ukraine is not. There is no way Putin would win against the whole of NATO and he knows it.
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  131. yeah haha I was thinking about my home-country with winters always colder than -20 sometimes up to -30 with no heating... ouch xD.
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  132. Totally different. In China the only way you can reliably invest is by buying a flat. In Sweden people tend to invest in the stock market not flats as the stock market provide a faster and more reliable income. China has 65 million empty homes, that is enough to put all the French into a home. In Sweden the apartments are usually not empty but are rented out. Also in China you NEED to own an apartment to get married and to send your kids to school so home ownership in China is above 90%. In Sweden it's not even above 65%. Swedish apartments are dropping in price due to hiked interest rates. Prices in China are dropping because housing companies are going bankrupt are selling their units at a massive discount to pay their loans and the fact that China has more apartments than it actually needs because a lot of people buy apartments as an investment in China not to actually live in.
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  133. Yes home ownership is a poor metric, Chinese home ownership is more than 90% but what people don't realize is YOU don't own your home if you are still paying off that loan, the bank does. The minute you cannot afford the loan payments anymore that home goes to the bank to be sold.
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  134. They are called the Azov regiment now, they are a part of the Ukrainian army. Comparing them to ISIS is not a good comparison you are talking about a 1000 man regiment in an army. They are not controlling the army besides not all of them are Nazis. ISIS built a state on their extreme ideology making execution and torture part of government law. Azov have no influence over governance and are taking orders from Army command. Are Azov soldiers running around in the west blowing themselves up or killing civilians on the streets? No they are killing Russian SOLDIERS that invaded their country. SOLDIERS. Pretty much every single country in the world could agree that ISIS is a wicked terrorist organization that needs to go, the only nation in the world that is talking about Azov is Russia, and perhaps their friends in Belarus. Besides I don't want to seem cold hearted but we're closely allied to the Saudis even though their leader makes a habit of sending death squads after journalists all over the world and then we're going to cry about Russia's claim of 100 or so supposed Nazis defending Ukrainian territory against an invasion? The US and EU tolerates a lot worse than a small fringe group of 100 or so Nazis defending their country against a common enemy of ours.
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  135.  @kaanlenny  It's hard to explain to someone that's not used to western system of free speech and expression but basically PKK is a designated terrorist organization in Finland AND Sweden but waving a PKK flag is not a crime in both countries. It's the same with ISIS, if you are part of ISIS that's a crime but it's no crime waving an ISIS flag. Waving a flag is not the same as being part of a terrorist organization over there. Similarly it's a crime to commit acts of hate and violence against someone because of religion but it's not a crime to burn a Qu'ran which happened recently in Sweden. I know it's very different from what it's like in Turkey but yeah I think they will come to an agreement eventually. To me it seems like Mr Erdogan wants a political victory at home rather than having a real issue with Sweden or Finland. I would be very surprised if they did not reach a deal.
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  136.  @probium2832  If they are Nazi why do they have Jews serving there and why are they taking orders from Zelenskyy, the guy is Jewish you know? Did they forget they are nazis and supposed to hate Jews? Isn't that Nazi 101 to hate Jews? Maybe we should send some Nazis for dummies books to them.
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  137. Yes Ukraine debunked that myth long time ago when they elected a Jewish president.
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  138. Turkey supports Hamas, al-nusra etc that the rest of NATO considers terrorists. It goes both ways, it's not hard figure out, is Turkey knowingly screwing the rest of NATO?
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  139. I am pretty optimistic, the problem is not Turkey the problem is the Sultan Erdogan. He won't be around forever though, things can change quick.
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  140. Nah I'd rather governments went for the energy sources that are reliable, effective and cheap, anyone who still wants to "make a difference" and go green has the opportunity to do so but have to be ready to pay more because wind and solar are very unreliable, ineffective and expensive compared to other ways of generating electricity.
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  141. You don't want the EU but you want our money lol.
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  142.  @arnejungclaus7957  That's all fine and good in rainbow land with colourful unicorns running around but in the real world if it's between freezing to death or nuclear power then that is a very easy choice, isn't it? It would be great if Solar and Wind was feasible to meet our basic needs, but they ain't. Speaking of taxpayers picking up the bill Solar and Wind are reliant on taxpayer to be viable, if you look at the cost versus the electricity produced it's an incredibly expensive method of generating electricity and it's reliant on government subsidies.
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  143. Then why are so many people risking their own lives to become Europeans? Doesn't make sense.
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  144. So you think because the prices are falling that means apartments get more affordable? Well you are in for a treat when you realize while you have to give less money to the homeowner that money you will instead give to the bank in higher mortgage for the bank loan you took to buy the house. You still pay the same price and sometimes even higher for the home now you just pay that money to the bank instead of the home owner.
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  145.  @kaloyanm.r2233  Sweden was neutral, so was Norway and Denmark didn't stop Nazi Germany invading them. What saved Sweden wasn't neutrality it was geography if Sweden and Denmark switched geographic locations then Sweden would have been invaded and Denmark would have been spared. Finland was also neutral but that did not stop the Soviets invading them. Nazi Germany didn't care at all about neutrality neither did the Soviets and neither does Putin.
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  146. Why do you care? China does worse to your brothers and sisters and you have no problem taking their business, even the Talibans are best friends with them. Fake Muslims.
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  147. Honestly they should scrap the EU green energy policies for now.
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  148.  @Miamcoline  This year is an election year in Sweden and the last survey put them on 19.7% they used to be over 20% a year ago or so. But yeah polls are obviously not 100% correct but most people expect them to get more than 17.5% like they did last election 3 and a half years ago.
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  149. I don't think we should stare too blindly at Russia's "official" reasons for going to war there was a lot of natural resources discovered around that area and in Crimea so as much as Putin is repeating the good old NATO enemy and Nazis there are plenty of other reasons for him to focus down on Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Also I think there is a difference between what Putin and his ever shrinking circle of elites feel like is a do or die situation for them and the Russian public in general. Even if Putin wants to fully mobilize does not mean Russians in general will go along with it. Russia's air capabilities has been severely limited by the use of stinger missiles and Anti-air systems from the west. On paper it looks like Russia has the edge but on paper they had an edge in the Kyiv region too and they just could not get things done. It's hard to factor things like Morale and Discipline of soldiers into the equation too, I mean even if you have the most expensive modern equipment in the world it won't matter if your troops will drop the gear and run away as soon as they get fired upon.
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  150. They can do what they want, it's their country.
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  151. That happens in every fcking country in the world... racism is everywhere unfortunately, not just in Ukraine
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  152. Perhaps we can start by banning the private jets these politicians that lecture us loves to use for short flights when they have commercial flights and trains available.
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  153. Housing prices in Sweden are not too bad compared to the rest of the world. And even then it's only expensive in Stockholm or perhaps Gothenburg, you look outside those cities and you will realize it's not really that expensive.
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  154. There is no Palestine though. No such country.
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  155. There is a huge difference between a Nazi and a racist though and the claim from Russia is that they are Nazis not racists.
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  156. That's up to each and every country to decide Obviously people from poor countries like this but Europeans prefer not to as they'd like to stay civilized.
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  157.  @tigerii10.5cmpog4  They have a website
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  158. I think there's a bigger chance of the EU not surviving another 4 years than the trans-Atlantic partnership not surviving. Brussels are making too many missteps - it should be an economic union but the clowns in Brussels are trying to set political policy for all EU members and it ended up in the UK leaving and political parties that want to leave the EU growing bigger in many countries in the EU. In my country in N. Europe the party that wants to leave the EU is our second biggest party and by the looks of things they might be the biggest party in the future.
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  159.  @kenseitakesi4521  Then you move into the social welfare states of northern Europe and realize it's even more expensive because everything is taxed to fund social programs. The problem is high taxes and outsourcing of food supply. We are over-regulating our own farmers and then we buy our food from abroad. Then when there's a crisis like COVID or war like Ukraine - Russia prices rise because we get our food from outside.
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  160. Sweden has a very small imprint on the global market, Sweden's economy could be totally erased and the world would not notice. A crash in the US though yeah that will ripple through the whole world.
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  161. It's okay, the problem is not Turkey it's Erdogan and he won't be there forever.
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  162. Nah Swedish government have already announced they will make a decision before the NATO meeting in June. Also there is an election year there is no way any of the parties want to be the ones responsible for a botched NATO membership when 60%+ of Swedes are for NATO that is just suicide with an upcoming election.
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  163. Lol yeah let's make it more expensive so only the rich can afford cars. Sounds like a lovely place - you can be as dirty as you want as long as you have the cash to back it up. Perhaps we should reinstate a monarchy and limit air travel to only kings.
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  164. Who cares, anyone that doesn’t agree with Erdogan gets a terrorist label in Turkey.
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  165. Yeah let's let the Russians know we intend to join NATO and give them a date to plan their invasion before we have a chance to vote about it. Great idea.
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  166. Always the same story, the "reds" will say it's the fault of "Alliansen" and "Alliansen" will say it's the fault of the "reds". It would be great if either side would just try and make the country better instead of trying to blame the other side for everything that's not working.
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  167. No thanks, as a citizen of N. Europe I trust America a lot more than I do Germany or France. EU is and should be an economic union only, it would be a very bad idea to give Brussels more influence over national decision and for godsake don't make an EU army for Germany and France to play around with.
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  168. If you go by his video it's 100 soldiers out of a 250k military that's 0.0004%. Israel is not going to bother about every single individual Nazi in the world they would love to but they don't have the resources to go after them all. Besides the way we associate Nazis are with antisemitism and the Azov regiment has Jews and are fighting for a Jew so the term Nazi is coming out of Russia, in the west some of these guys would probably be defined as nationalists or right wing not Nazis. The video even states their leader looking up to Israel. If you are a true Nazi you don't say things like that. That's just Nazi 101.
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  169.  @nnnik3595  Strategic interest also just because they are like a dictatorship now doesn't mean they will always be like that. I think the problem is mainly Erdogan, not Turkey. And Erdogan won't be the supreme leader forever.
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  170. The Finnish public supports NATO membership so what's the problem?
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  171. Diversity is just made up by major companies to import cheap labor to increase their profits.
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  172.  @123456qwful  Russia and Turkey ally? Sounds as likely as Russia and America getting allied. Or India and Pakistan. You do realize Turkey and Russia has been fighting each other for 600 years right? They are historical rivals.
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  173. If you buy with CASH yes, if you need a loan then NO. The increased interest rate will make your monthly mortgage payment a lot higher than it was 6 months ago. It is suggested to wait, that is why the prices are dropping because the loans to buy a house just got more expensive.
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  174. You can thank Merkel for that, she was very good at cozying up to China and Russia
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  175. I don't think they are banning cars but yes, I agree. The EU should be TRADE ONLY, as soon as Brussels starts dictating policies for every single nation then we have to ask ourselves if that's what we really want.
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  176.  @abcdefghijklmnopqrstuywxyz1  Turkey is considered autocratic at worst and a "weak" democracy at best by most, even Putin is allegedly elected democratically every year but very few consider Russia to be a democratic nation. Most NATO countries have arms embargos on Turkey, they only have each others back if one is attacked. You are however correct that this is irrelevant to NATO. NATO doesn't care if it's members are democratic or not (NEW members have to be) but there are no requirements for older members to be democratic otherwise they would have a hard time keeping nations like Turkey in the alliance. And yes I will concede Turkey is officially a democracy on paper (and so is Russia lol) but most people would call it a weak democracy or an autocracy.
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  177. Actually the Swedish home ownership % is lower than the EU average. The EU average is 70% and Sweden is at 64%.
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  178.  @MadSwede87  What he said about Stockholm is true, the waiting queues can easily go well beyond 15 years.
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  179. I agree somewhat with the second part of your assessment even though I find it a little bit overexaggerated. About Sweden's military I don't agree. Sweden's military has 24.000 active personnel Finland has 21,500. Finland does have 900.000 reserves but that is because you have a system of conscription which means that every able man from 18-49 will be called in and Sweden don't at this point. That doesn't mean you have an active pool of 200k ground forces. Only 21,500 men are active in the Finish military and if attacked every man between 18-49 will be conscripted into the military no matter if they want to or not. If you compare the Defence spending Sweden spends $7.18 billion dollars 2022, Finland's regular defence spending for 2022 is around $3 Billion dollars with a one time increase for around 2 billion which totals to 5 billion dollars in 2022. Even with a very downscaled military Sweden regularly spends almost twice as much as Finland on the military, 2022 is an exception since Finland decided to increase the budget by 70% for this year only. I do believe the Finns are more motivated to fight than us Swedes though, you have prepared for another Russian invasion for 70 years and the population is more mentally prepared for an armed conflict. This part I agree with although I think this has more to do with geography and history. As a Swede that is highly critical of the way our government handles crisis I agree with your next part but the 10x mortality rate is just plain wrong if you look deaths per million inhabitants Sweden's numbers are 3 times higher, which is bad but not really 10x bad. The lack of medical supplies is true and our total ICU beds are incredibly low which is alarming but is irrelevant for this pandemic as we were never on full capacity and Sweden have never had a mask mandate, even to this day few people use face masks. So yes our Crisis management is very bad but the lack of medical equipment had little influence of the outcome of this pandemic, we got very lucky this time. Medical equipment and ICU beds + face masks did very little to stop the pandemic, we have countries like America and the UK with a lot more deaths/1 million inhabitants and they have tons of Medical equipment, ICU beds and face masks. But those are just my opinions on the matter, I am not for lockdowns at all I am actually living in China right now and considering to return home to Sweden for the first time in 7 years just because of the strict quarantine measures here. When you are stuck in your own apartment for more than a month several times of the year because your city has less than 10 cases you get tired of strict quarantine measures quick. Maybe that's just me being selfish but being able to go to a society that has more of a "live with the virus" approach is a big plus to me. Our government is shit handling a crisis I agree but having no COVID lockdowns is something I applaud them for.
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  180.  @Forrestlynx  If you look in terms of numbers Sweden is ahead of Finland when it comes to military spending by quite a large margin.
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  181. Not everyone lives in a big urban city with a well developed subway/bus network.
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  182.  @irfanbozkurt9194  All those atrocities have been recognized though. There is nobody in Belgium that is going to deny what happened in Kongo. There is nobody that's going to deny what the Europeans did in China or to the native Americans. Meanwhile Turks pretend like their nations is 100% pure and has never done anything wrong - yeah Europeans did bad things, guess what they don't deny it. Meanwhile you are too busy trying to deny your nation has made a single mistake or something bad. Get over yourself, nobody cares you are feeling offended because your country is accused of ignoring human rights and fail at democracy.
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  183. Yeah but I think they need 75% of the votes to apply for NATO membership, a simple 50%+ majority is not enough.
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  184.  @paul1979uk2000  I don't think the governments are blind, they are the ones passing the laws favoring the elites and the big companies most of the time. The problem is a lot of the politicians have made themselves the elites, just check the US congress using insider knowledge to get them and their family rich. Bernie Sanders used to talk about taxing the millionaires, now he is saying taxing the billionaires is enough - so what changed? Well he became a millionaire himself...
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  185. Maybe from a military or political standpoint. From an economic standpoint not really, they don't add much and will be a net negative.
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  186. We can only imagine what would make them admire Japan and Israel, I am sure there is more than one reason. Just the fact that a supposed "Neo-Nazi group" is admiring Israel is kind of funny by itself
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  187. Hello Putin
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  188.  @prolink9590  Europe will finally throw the green agenda in the trash and open up their nuclear power plants and start burning all the vast coal from the coal mines scattered all over Europe that the greenies shut down.
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  189. Erdogan doesn't care he just plays dumb to get F-16s from America in a deal to let Sweden in.
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  190. Errr I think Turkey is an important NATO member and all but one of the best armies in the world? Really? I am trying not to be rude here but where did you come up with that conclusion? I mean if you mean top 20 army in the world yes but they are nowhere near the top 5 or 10.
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  191.  @ThomasTomiczek  Really is that why he is bombing civilian targets with cluster bombs?
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  192. And now they are Effed because of it. When you trade the needs of your citizens for ideology...
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  193. I think it's possible, maybe not now but when Erdogan is gone and if Turkey goes for a more secular type of government with less infringement into Turkish people's freedoms, solves it's border disputes with Greece/Cyprus and stops oppressing minorities, why not? Right now it's not realistic but in 20 years who knows? It all depends who comes after Erdogan.
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  194. I am pretty sure he refers to the ones that have the same system, values and ideology as the other 29 members of the alliance. Sweden is one of the most secular nations in the world and is one of the nations with the highest % of atheists.
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  195. news
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  196. Not really Sweden is one of NATO's most active partners our military already uses the same "language" so it's very easy to integrate our forces since they already use NATO abbreviations because they do a lot of co-operation and practice together. Sweden's politicians wants to join now because Russia is busy with Ukraine right now, joining later when Russia is done in Ukraine poses a greater threat.
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  197.  @enjoymfs9715  What does religion have to do with IQ? That sounds like a very low IQ comment tbh.
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  198. Oh the same Svoboda and Right sector that got 2% of the popular vote in the 2019 elections and has no seats in parliament? Yeah that sounds like really influential parties with massive government control... did you watch too much Russian television or are you just stupid?
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  199. smart
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  200. They did send Russian jets armed with nukes into Swedish airspace according to all major Swedish news outlets. The fact about Russian jets going into Swedish airspace has been confirmed by the Swedish military they did not however want to make any comments about if they were armed with Nukes or not though.
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  201. Doesn't matter even if he wins he has no reason to block NATO anymore. He is just trying his best to win votes for the election. Don't be surprised if Sweden and Finland is welcomed shortly after election, even if he wins.
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  202. What?! A democratically elected leader has been receiving donations from rich people? Say it ain't so? I cannot think of any example anywhere else in the world where this has happened before 🤣🤣🤣. We can always speculate in various conspiracy theories but just remember these kind of theories exists everywhere. Even in the US plenty of people call Joe Biden a puppet, is he one though? Maybe he is maybe he isn't. Whatever Zelenskyy is he was elected by his people to lead his country and he is doing a great job, he has a sky high approval rating by his people and after every speech he has in the west he receives plenty of support in terms of money and supplies. Is he faking it? perhaps. Is it working? Yes. Isn't that what politics is all about at the end of the day? "An honest politician is an oxymoron". by Mark Twain.
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  203.  @Έκπληξηρυσός  The US has no say in who can or cannot join the EU, truth be told there are many EU countries that do not want to see Russia in the EU - like everyone lol.
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  204. The end goal is not solely to topple a government, it's to limit it's capability. Look at North Korea, sure the leadership is the same as before but IMAGINE the North Korean state having access to the wealth and GDP of South Korea. Now imagine all that money going into their military... you see how this would be problematic? Sure maybe regime change won't happen but the less money Russia has access to the less it can put into it's military, which is always going to be a good thing for the security of it's neighbours. Without the Sanctions on North Korea they would have been able to pump out nukes like nobody's business.
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  205. Nah, EU already has enough countries to keep on life support nothing bad against them but we have been pumping cash into failed states like Greece that just ends up teaming up with the Chinese to block EU legislation the CCP does not like in exchange for loans. Not a big fan of adding more of those countries.
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  206. Of course, all nations always wants whats best for their nation and their citizens,
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  207. That's not how it works, companies will do whatever is profitable and now they have been jumping on the EV train because governments have been subsidizing this business. They do EV because it generates profits, as soon as the governments decides to subsidize another type of car they will jump on that. Truth be told we don't seem to be running out of oil anytime soon so I don't see how the writing is on the wall. Yeah maybe we will eventually but is that in 50 years, 100 years or 300 years? At the end of the day the everyday person is not going to buy an EV when they come with that price tag, they will pick the cheap alternative. Not because they don't care about the environment but because they cannot afford it. Then add to the fact that the EVS are subsidized and actually would cost more without government support.... they are just too damn expensive to be any realistic option for most people
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  208. Who cares about Asov they are a regiment of 1000 soldiers in which about 100-200 identifies as Nazi in a 250k Ukrainian army that is 0.0004%. Big deal.
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  209. Unfortunately there is no correlation between having high IQ or being "smart" and the housing market of your country.
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  210. Don't think they need to, they just rebuild the dam and make sure no water goes into the region and it will be a huge money waste and burden on the Russian economy. That region is a logistic disaster for the Russians and cost them huge amount of funds to make life sustainable, better to leave it be and focus on holding off any Russian advancement into Donbas.
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  211. Yep the US and Turkey will make a deal under the table and then Erdogan will be happy
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  212. There was a time in Turkey before Erdogan came to power when they were actually quite decent.
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  213. They are not Russian based, sorry. Don't worry I am sure your regime will ban youtube soon then you can use the Russian version where everything is pro Putin.
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  214.  @Cam-sl8ve  Why would Germany waste time and money on solar or wind, 70% of France's electricity is nuclear and Germany has a shit ton of coal they can burn. Nuclear and Coal is what Germany are going to use. Solar and wind is not as effective and very inconsistent, a day with no sun or wind and production drops massively. Nuclear and Coal you can regulate up and down dependent on your needs. Obviously Nuclear will take time but Coal they have plenty of and I would not be surprised if they ditched the Paris accords to survive the winter.
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  215.  @anthonydyer3939  Germany has already announced they will open up nuclear power plants and they got a shit ton of Coal to burn if they need to during winter. Solar and Wind is not very reliable or effective with today's technology.
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  216. As a European I would prefer NATO over a EU army. I mean if the idea of the EU army would be more like a military alliance then I guess that's fine but if we're going to have some people in Brussels deciding military matters for nation states then no thank you, bad idea. I don't always agree with the Americans and they have a really weak president right now but even so I have less faith in Brussels.
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  217. We need somebody like Trump we are getting destroyed by the Brussel immigration policies.
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  218.  @oreinigpb  2035 won't happen, all member states needs to sign off on it. There is no way that will ever happen.
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  219.  @MrDanisve  I think we have to realize that when Erdogan is saying terrorist in our world that would be political opposition. For Erdogan anyone that oppose him politically is a terrorist.
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  220. From a fellow Swede, not all European countries are as well off as Sweden and Sweden has almost 3x higher electricity use per capita than countries like Italy or Spain. Gas is a cheaper way to get heating and electricity. So it's not because we're smarter it's just we waste a lot more energy than our European counterparts and are willing to pay extra for the convenience of other energy sources over gas. In Sweden many people keep the heating on while they go to work so they can get home to a warm home in winter, in other European countries a lot of people doesn't even turn the heating on even during the winter.
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  221. They always stop for maintenance, it was announced they would do that for that date long before the war started. I would not worry about it, Russia needs the money - the gas will be back up.
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  222. It's not Turkey, it's Erdogan.
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  223. prices are not too bad if you start looking outside the capital (Stockholm). What you can find in Stockholm you can find in another city for half the price.
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  224.  @troublemaker1778  Well to be fair plenty of people even in the US congress and Senate, especially on the Democratic side has shown admiration for figures such as Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. A notable example is Bernie Sanders who almost won the nomination to be the democratic candidate twice. That's the same guy that spent his honeymoon going to the USSR back in the day.
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  225. It's not universal, in some countries it's the opposite. Where I am from old folks tend to vote conservative and the young vote left. You go to a university here you would think you are living in Cuba - universities are breathing grounds for left wing policies here.
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  226. Hah not sure how that works out but I used to live and work in Sweden and worked my ass of one month - lots of overtime. When I saw the salary slip I realized I worked myself into a higher tax bracket. There literally was no point doing overtime I just increased my tax rate making each hour worth less.
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  227. Then why are the working class in Capitalist countries better off than the working class in communist countries? The concentration of Wealth and power is a lot more noticeable in countries such as China, N. Korea and Venezuela than they are in Western Europe. I am an expat in a communist country, people cleaning toilets in my European home country have higher salary than what people consider Middle class here.
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  228. It's no secret that Russia has had it's eyes on the Swedish Island of Gotland for a very long time. Most of Sweden's military practices and focus has always been to defend from a Russian invasion. As for Finland their military has prepared for a military conflict with the Soviets and then Russia since the last time they were invaded.
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  229. It matters little to Putin, he would simply just fabricate another excuse to invade Ukraine. If it's not about Denazification it's about something else. But yes it's an interesting point. Also one of his main motivations was to prevent NATO surrounding Russia. But a possible result of the invasion is Finland joining NATO which also borders Russia so the invasion would be very counter productive in this regard too.
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  230. Huge power spike economically? Turkey has a worse economy than Spain even before they got their inflation and Spain's economy is considered very bad based on European standards. It will be a nice addition geographically but Turkey's economy is very weak and they won't contribute much to the EU market. Turkey wants to join to gain free access to the European market. Erdogan is free to create his own "Turkic Union" if he wants but I seriously doubt it will rival the economically benefits of having full access to the EU market. I don't fully disagree with all your points I just don't think adding Turkey will add much to the EU economy - it's a weak economy.
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  231. Why not? If you want to join you apply for a membership and if all NATO members agree then you are in. That's all that matters.
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  232.  @jonizymberi6787  Sorry I am not from that part of the world but I think when Greece was fighting for their independence against the Ottoman Empire the Ottoman troops sent a lot of Albanian Ottoman soldiers against the Greeks, also wasn't the Albanians involved in the Greek civil war of 1946 when they supported the Greek communist army? I am not saying Greece was right to expel Albanians from Epirus but I know there's a lot of tension between these countries for a long time they have been on opposite sides and Albania has been meddling in Greek affairs many times in history (I am sure the Greeks have interfered in Albanian affairs too :b)
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  233. Ehm okay so basically we ban the cheap alternative to transporting goods which will lead to increased cost to companies which in turn will have to raise the price of their goods to make up for the increased cost making products too expensive for people to afford leading to the companies to sell less and having to downsize to survive. Yeah I am sorry you obviously have not worked within logistics before. Logistics is a very important factor in company growth. What jobs would open up by making people having to resort to fork out 60k Euros for a tesla and companies having to invest money into EV trucks for transport? Perhaps you are thinking about the people that cannot afford these changes and will have to transport goods by walking for long distances, yeah surely that will keep people occupied I guess? Obviously limiting people's access to cars will have an impact on the job market, 60k Euros for a tesla is not feasible for the working class.
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  234. Green energy has no future with current technology it's time to face the hard reality, the most reliable energy will come from nuclear power and Germany has already started building those. Also if shit hits the fan Europe is loaded with Coal and while not very good for the environment it's better than freezing to death. There are alternatives they are just not very clean but right now the green agenda can sit on the side until the energy crisis is over.
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  235.  @othalabro8663  The way Putin defines Nazis is anti-Russian. In the west we would call them Nationalist right wingers. They would still be considered extremists but not Nazis. We associate Nazis with antisemitism and these guys fight with Jews in their regiment and fight for a Jew. Their leader is even in this video saying he is looking up to Israel. Basic Nazi 101 - hate Jews. These guys are not Nazis, sorry. Only one calling them Nazis is Putin.
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  236. It's a designated Terrorist organization in Sweden. So you are basically saying the government is secretly supporting an organization that it itself designated as a terrorist organization lol? You like conspiracy theories?
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  237. Yeah sorry man if you are talking about the US it's more likely aid for Palestine will be suspended long before aid for Israel will. Israel are our allies, Palestinians are just hustling our aid money.
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  238. They are not threatened in the same way as Sweden and Finland are in Russia's sphere of interest so I don't see why they would consider that.
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  239.  @MikeRidesEU  I would rather be in a military alliance than having some douche sitting in Brussels dictating what our military is going to do and not do. NATO is just an alliance what you are talking about is handing over our military to bureaucrats in Brussels. At least in NATO we could make our own choices as long as we reach that 2% GDP spending.
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  240. I thought 75% of the vote was required to join NATO. At least that's what I read from the major Swedish news outlets that they need both SD AND S to vote yes.
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  241.  @paddington1670  I love nuclear I must say though Hydro is pretty good if your geology allows it, Swedish here, 45% of our energy is from Hydro. Our wind and solar panels are shit though, people were so excited about them and whole areas went fully solar and wind. Now they regret it because they will get a power outage when the sun stops shining or wind stops blowing. Hydro is consistent and nuclear you can crank it up or turn it down when you need to. Nuclear is great and we shouldn't shut them down, the excess energy we get it sold to Germany - even if we don't need the extra energy we can sell it and Germany needs all help they can get - win-win it would seem. The greens don't agree though obviously.
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  242.  @jupiterbirlesikgezegenleri9884  Erdogan knows he won't get any extraditions through and the white house just magically announced they support Turkey buying their F16 that they have been blocked to do just hours after Erdogan signed the deal. This was never about terrorists it was about weapons all along, Erdogan got his weapons now he announces victory in Turkey for his victory lap and Sweden and Finland stand there confused why he accepted when they refused all demands except selling Turkey weapons. LoL. Sweden and Finland lifted the arms embargo and promised to take Turkey's concerns seriously. Other than that no changes.
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  243.  @shauncameron8390  And then what will happen? The rich will just take their money and move elsewhere. Just look at New York losing their wealthy residents to states like Florida due to their policies. I would just prefer smaller government and less government spending = less money needed = lower taxes. Stop sending foreign aid, stop all these social programs, shrink the military, shrink government employees. Less money needed to run government, less need to overtax your citizens. Do we really need to send all that aid money to foreign conflicts all over the world? Gaza, Israel, Ukraine etc.
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  244. They won't be kicked out but they will probably get the cold shoulder treatment from the rest of NATO.
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  245. True but on 12 March 2024, the European Parliament passed a resolution confirming Armenia meets Maastricht Treaty Article 49 requirements and that the country may apply for EU membership. Georgia has also been granted as a valid candidate. It's all political more than anything geography doesn't mean much. It should but it doesn't.
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  246.  @evolassunglasses4673  There was never any urgent need for them to move East, the Russian advance stopped quite a while ago there and even in the South it has reversed. I could see the logic if the Russians kept gaining ground to the East and South but they didn't. Now the troops have been sitting in Russia for 10 days giving Kyiv plenty of time reinforce the East in preparation.
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  247. You didn't watch the video? He did say it's unlikely and won't happen due to the size of the military and the strategic importance? So basically you just read the name of the video and assumed that was his stance lol? I will admit it's a little bit click-bait but you obviously did not watch the whole video my man.
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  248. They are too busy spending all that tax money on immigrants from the Middle East.
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  249. Maybe they should have thought about that before they invaded Ukraine.
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  250. It's already been discussed in the Swedish government about requirements limiting foreign troops on Swedish soil and a big no-no making Sweden part of NATO's nuclear weapons umbrella. I am sure the Finns will have similar reservations.
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  251.  @roberthansson8222  The same defense clause that is so vaguely worded that it's being debated what it actually means and if it's mandatory at all?
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  252. There are pros and cons with everything. Helps economy but increases crime rates and it is a lot easier for islamic terrorists to operate in Russia.
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  253. So why did Putin attack Ukraine and not the Baltic states or Poland? The answer is because these countries are NATO members.
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  254. Let's take some talking points and exaggerate and add 2 min 30 sec sponsor video! done deal. We all know Trump is just rallying Americans to his cause and posturing against NATO to spend more - he is not pulling of NATO... but yeah let's just exaggerate and add adds to the video - gotta respect the hustle I suppose.
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  255. According to our Swedish news outlets Russian jets violated Swedish airspace very recently and were armed with nukes. The Swedish military confirmed that Russian jets violated Swedish airspace but did not want to comment if they were armed with nuclear warheads or not. So yes that seems to be the card that they have decided to play.
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  256. Hello Putin.
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  257. You didn't see the Channel name TLDR EU? Of course it has a western perspective. If I wanted a Middle Eastern perspective and Bias I would go to AL-Jazeera's youtube channel.
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  258. Which nation is "Mighty Russia"? is that the name of Russia in a parallel universe that's actually winning a war?
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  259. I am also a Swede, grew up in Stockholm. I can understand why a lot of my fellow Swedes living in urban centres are of the opinion cars are not needed. It’s always a shock for them when they visit the countryside or live abroad for a while. It’s hard to imagine a place without subways or bus stations when you grow up with a cushioned lifestyle in an urban centre in the west.
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  260. Not really, they will open up nuclear plants and burn coal.
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  261. If Finland joins Sweden will almost definitely join too. Right now Sweden's biggest party is considering it and the second largest said they are only interested to join if Finland joins too. More than likely Finland and Sweden will join together at the same time.
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  262.  @nightruler666  No, the rules clearly states NEW NATO members. Please notice the word NEW it's very important, when Turkey joined there were no such requirements and they had to add NEW to the rules because Turkey clearly could not be a member if they said ALL OLD AND NEW NATO members need to be democracies.
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  263.  @Vercixx  There is no way it will be implemented and set to 2035, just because some liberal politicians draft a very ambitious plan doesn't mean the right wing European governments will blindly agree without watering it down and removing a date. It still needs to be signed off by each and every individual member state, there is no way that will happen as he mentions in the video there is strong opposition.
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  264. That's not how it works. From NATO's point of view Sweden and Finland would be very useful additions to the alliance and NATO has said repeatedly that should they apply the membership process will be swift.
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  265. If you claim Sweden is against then you should also say Sweden is against all religion, you may burn any holy book in Sweden, not just the QUran.
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  266. As soon as I saw you say "Russian side of Ukraine" I knew this was Russian propaganda. There is no Russian side of Ukraine, Ukraine is Ukraine. It's divided East, West, North, South. There is no such thing as a Russian side. Troll.
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  267.  @charliecan9603  I don't know man when I see leaders trying to change the laws so they can stay in power for life when the laws stipulate 2 terms only then that's a bad sign. Usually those are the same guys that abuse their power to make sure the political opposition gets thrown into jail. I am not sure I would say fascism but calling Ukraine fascist when they have a much stronger democracy is a bit silly. You can't really compare Russia and Ukraine and say Ukraine is more fascistic when you got a guy that has been in power for 22 years and is looking to extend that to life. If you think Russia is no different from any other European country then I know you haven't been to Russia or Europe in general. How many leaders can you find in western Europe with presidents or PMS that has been there for 22 years?
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  268. Zomg I HATE when others talk about politics in my country. - *Goes on talking about politics in other countries*. You can throw punches but you can't take them. Don't worry you are not alone plenty of people like that out there.
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  269. There is no need to, how many Chinese car brands are on the market in the Uk/us/northern Eu? 0. Why? They cannot pass the safety standards.
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  270. Supported by a majority of the Swedish and Finnish population. I am pretty sure they know better what's good for them than you do.
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  271. Also we could throw in some tariffs for Asia too so our companies come back and produce in Europe instead of exploiting poor people for cheap labor.
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  272.  @darkos1510  Since when did Russia care about Neutrality? Georgia was neutral so was Ukraine when they got invaded. Don't get things confused the reason for the relation between Finland and Russia has always been based on threats. Finland has prepared for a Russian/Soviet invasion since they made peace with the Soviets during their last invasion.
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  273.  @irfanbozkurt9194  Well if we go by the definition of what Authoritarian actually means then yes Turkey is a lot MORE authoritarian than for example Spain. If we go by your definition then everyone is authoritarian because there is no single human being that is totally "open" with everything. For example most of us agrees murderers should be thrown into prison but by your definition that is authoritarian. To me it just sounds like you live in a country that is labelled authoritarian or as a human rights abuser by the west and are upset about it. I suggest you use a dictionary or wiki to see what the definition is and then you can probably understand whey certain government forms and nations are generally considered more authoritarian than others. No they are not "buzzwords" they actually do have meaning I am sorry if you live in a nation or favor a side that has a bad rep when it comes to Human rights. I am not going to pretend that there are "perfect nations" but there is a level to it. For example there is a huge difference committing genocide on a state level and not letting terrorist organizations conduct protests. Yes nobody is perfect but I think 100% of us can agree that there are different layers of evil and Genocide is a lot higher up in terms of "bad" than not letting AL-Qaeda have a protest?
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  274. Europeans are spending more money tending to migrants from the Middle East than they do on their own.
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  275. It depends on geological factors if renewables are feasible or not in my country 54% of all electricity produced are renewable which sounds great but actually 45% of that is generated by hydropower, we're lucky we have a lot of running water. We have a lot of investment going into wind and sun but honestly they are just trash so much money and taking up so much space and still stuck at 9% and we get a lot of power outages in areas that depend on those sources of energy because the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. Hydropower and nuclear you know what you get and Nuclear you can always crank it up or tune it down depending on needs. Anyway TLDR If your geology allows for hydropower then you are sorted and can probably close a few nuclear plants. If you are expecting wind and solar to replace your nuclear power you are delusional, maybe with better tech sure but as it stands now it's so unreliable and very ineffective.
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  276. Erdogan doesn't like anyone that oppose him politically.
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  277.  @joaoruiz2577  It sounds like you are just repeating Russian propaganda. The only ones claiming the Ukrainian government is being run by Nazis is Russia and it's just simply not true, the right wing nationalists only received 2% of the vote and does not have any seats in the Ukrainian parliament. What other conspiracy theories are you into?
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  278.  @tuomastt  He got his F-16 fighter jets and he can pretend to the Turkish public through state media he stood up to NATO. Dictators always need to act like strong men.
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  279. @Utku Güney Not sure which war you are talking about but Turkey's economy is in a weak state so I certainly hope they won't try to get into a serious war. They are an important NATO member but they are in no shape to have a serious military conflict by themselves right now.
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  280. Well while we wait for you to deliver we'll make ourselves comfortable around the campfire using certain books.
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  281. First off Zelensky banning leftist opposition NOT TRUE. Second PUTIN friggin poisons or assassinate any opposition no matter left right centre doesn't matter. If you want to believe a dictator be my guest just don't expect the rest of us to.
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  282. Bro you know Zelenskyy is Jewish right?
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  283.  @Paul_Davies  Why do you need to talk about it? Just use logic. You are basically saying Putin is right Zelensky (which by the way is Jewish) is supplying Azov (which you claim are Nazis) with guns so they can fight for him. So Nazis are fighting for a Jew that is sending them weapons. Yeah highly unlikely, real Nazis would not side with Jews and real Jews would not arm real Nazis. Use your head.
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  284.  @chrisr4769  They spend money on the wrong things, they tax their citizens to hell then use a lot of money for things that generate no return. Infrastructure will always pay off in the long run, yes. A lot of social programs that lead to nowhere though, they take in many refugees, spend lots of money to educate them then after half a decade they either move back to their country or they work and send most of their earnings back to their home country. Europe spends a loooot more money on education than the US yet if you want the best education in the world US is the place to be. Throwing money at a problem does not always solve it.
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  285. It's also a good deterrence, you can bet your ass China is watching and calculating if going for Taiwan is worth it if they will get the same response as Russia got. Doing nothing would just invite any nation to grab any land they can as it has little to no consequences.
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  286. The French
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  287. Of course they are stalling Russia! Ukraine isn't even in the top 40s in the world when it comes to military spending! The fact that they haven't lost their capital after a month fighting one of the biggest military super powers of the world is a very big surprise. Lasting more than a week is a miracle in itself.
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  288. No you won't unless you have the cash for it. Interest rates going up means getting a bank loan with a higher mortgage.
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  289. As a fellow Swede that grew up in Stockholm I think you'd have to make a difference where you actually get the house or apartment. The average price of an apartment in Malmö is 33.000 SEK per square meter while in Stockholm the average price is 82.000 SEK per square meter. The national average is 45.900 SEK. Obviously if you want a home in a city like Malmö then it is not really that bad as it has some of the cheapest homes you can find in Sweden. But try your luck in a more attractive location like Gothenburg or Stockholm and it is a whole different story and you will have to pay twice or maybe even triple of what you would have to in a city like Malmö. Right now I live in a small city in China and even here the price of a home is higher than in Malmö. In any case getting an apartment at 30 with no loans is an achievement in itself just saying it is well below the national average when it comes to home prices. Even if you do have the financial know how getting an apartment in say Stockholm is a whole different story.
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  290. Because communism is so much better, just look at China they are doing gr... ehm well surely North Korea are really looking go.. ehm oh oh Venezuela? No can't have them. Ehm Cuba? Well damn we have no good examples here.
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  291. I wouldn't say it's dead but it certainly is not a viable and realistic alternative at its current state. There is a possibility things might change if technology advances though.
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  292.  @xerzy  The same militia taking orders and receiving weapons from a Jew (Zelenskyy). Yeah Nazis taking orders from Jews and Jews sending weapons to Nazis that sounds so very logical to me surely cannot be part of some Russian based propaganda????????!
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  293.  sherlocat1946  Relax, Turkish politics is Erdogan. The guy has been in power for 20 years. If the next dictator in line for a 20 year run is western friendly then things can change over night. Election is coming up soon and Erdogan's numbers are looking really bad. Who knows?
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  294. ​ @Xsomono Just look at it this way through the lens of political theory realism, "Decision-makers are rational actors in the sense that rational decision-making leads to the pursuit of the national interest. taking actions that would make your state weak or vulnerable would not be rational". Disbanding and prosecuting Azov would weaken the state as they need every man they can get fighting the Russians and lower western support for the Ukrainian army if they would admit their soldiers have committed human rights violations. It's in the Ukrainian state's best interest to support Azov as they are doing a good job holding off the Russians. Why is the US allied to the Saudis even though they are probably one of the worst when it comes to human rights? Because they share a common enemy, Iran. They have a shit ton of oil that the US needs and can get at a discount. Is it correct to ally with the Saudis from a moral perspective? No. Then why? Because the alliance makes the US stronger and gives them a presence in the middle east to counter their enemy, Iran. Getting cheaper oil is not a bad thing either. Of course there will always be a balancing act about pros and cons but right now Azov has more pros than cons for the Ukrainian state so they will continue to support them. Perhaps after the war there will be more cons than pros and they might change their stance. But for now not supporting them would make the Ukrainian state weaker and would not serve Ukraine's national interest and would therefor not be a rational decision. Obviously this is one of many political theories but sometimes acting morally is not in the best interest of a state and it's better to come at it from a rational approach. Not always but in this case it can make a good example to explain a state's behaviour, In my opinion anyway.
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  295. Because it's Russian propaganda calling them Nazis the EU does not trust Putin
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  296. According to the Swedish press Russian jets armed with Nukes violated Swedish airspace a few days after it was announced the Swedish government would discuss NATO membership. The fact that Russian jets violated Swedish airspace is a fact but if they were armed with nukes is something our military decided not to comment on.
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  297. As a Swede myself I would just like to point out that Sweden got involved in Afghanistan without being a NATO member. As for Taiwan that has nothing to do with NATO, Taiwan is not a NATO member so NATO has nothing to do with that. Maybe the US will get involved but they cannot activate article 5 because Taiwan is not a member or NATO. The way I see it it's a defensive alliance and if someone is going to dare attack NATO it's going to be Russia or China and even if we're not involved these countries have enough nukes to destroy the world anyway. If war happens between China/Russia vs NATO the world will probably end anyway even for "neutral" countries.
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  298. The guy is old and you can only imagine there are others waiting for their time to take over. There's no guarantee Putin would still be in power 5 years down the line.
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  299. It's not realistic though with the price of electric cars if this was implemented then only the rich would drive, maybe that's the goal.
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  300.  @timavolkov  Can you guarantee that though? There's been plenty of doomsayers during history saying the world will end tomorrow.
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  301.  @dalstein3708  Just like Manhattan was supposed to be underwater by 2015 according to "the leading scientists" in the 1980s? lol.
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  302. I don't think we're quite at Middle Eastern level yet lol Donkeys are still far off.
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  303. Still they want easy to access EU visas and entry into EU markets. They want the benefits of the EU without becoming members :p.
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  304.  @Jay...777  Why does a country with a military spending that's top 5 IN THE WORLD need to make a feint that cost billions in equipment losses and thousands of soldiers dead? The Russian tanks ran out of fuel and they were abandoned and taken over by Ukrainian farmers with tractors transporting them to Ukrainian storage, is that really a feint. A military super power 300+ IQ move? US troops took Kabul losing only 34 men and the Russian military should not be so far behind and the Ukrainian military is a lot smaller than the Iraqi army ever was. They should not have to feint for Kyiv they should be able to take Kyiv with minimal losses within 2 weeks. It's like Barcelona playing against a div 3 Algerian team and you cheer for Barcelona and it's an even match with the score at 2-2 and you try to pretend Barcelona is very successful when everybody knows full well that anything other than Barcelona winning with 20-0 is a massive failure for them considering one Barcelona player is worth 10 times more than the whole Algerian div 3 squad.
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  305.  @kremepye3613  Still too expensive for working class people, even more crazy when you realize it's government subsidized and still it's too expensive for the average citizen.
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  306.  Zaydan Naufal  LOL are you trying to prove that the EU has some sort of Islamophobia based on the color of their flag???! Okay dude. Considering how many Muslim refugees the EU has taken in from all over the Middle East it doesn't seem like they have any problems with Muslims. but yeah They have a blue flag so they must be secret Muslim haters.
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  307. yes he said that in his video.
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  308.  @Djawadi90  "they support ypg which is the exact same thing connected to other". According to Turkey yes. Just because Erdogan says everyone that oppose him politically are terrorists doesn't necessarily mean everyone will agree with him.
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  309.  @cengizsogutlu  Yeah I wonder why the US and EU have arms embargos on Turkey... Could it be Erdogan has been a naughty boy? Nah surely they are doing it just for fun.
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  310. Probably true but who's to say they haven't already sided with the Chinese bloc? they have no problem selling/buying military tech from Russia
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  311. I think it's okay I am Swedish and our politicians have indicated that if we join we want some special rules like Norway that limit foreign troops placed on our soil and forbids NATO to put Nukes in our country as part of it's nuclear umbrella. Also if war ensues between NATO and Russia and it goes nuclear Russia has 6000 nukes, it doesn't matter if you are a NATO member or not that amount is enough to blow the whole world up lol.
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  312.  @jasonpark4293  They are part of the Ukrainian army that's where they get all the equipment and ammunition that is normal. What, you think that as soon as you retire you get to keep all the equipment you used in the military??! Oh you are going to retire from being a tank driver? Oh well I guess since you were driving this tank it's yours now... That's not how the army works man 🤣🤣🤣. Army equipment is not personal property not the same thing. Otherwise we'd have a whole population of retired veterans with private jet fighters and tanks all over the world. If you drive a tank in the army and you retired you will be replaced by another soldier who is going to drive that tank. Do I really have to explain this???
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  313. Nothing has changed, Turkey got F16s that's what this was all about.
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  314.  @upcom1ng116  You will be happy to know then that the money they lost is going straight into the banks pockets instead with higher interest rates on house loans. Because banks are not greedy at all, right?
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  315. ​ UAE Emirates  Turks have a really hard time to understand that there are no laws against having a PKK flag. Yes the group is designated a terrorist organization but that doesn't mean regular people aren't allowed to wave their flags. There are no laws against waving an ISIS flag either but if you're part of the group you'll get thrown into jail or extradited. It's a different system and maybe it's hard for people from the Middle East to understand the concept of freedom of speech and expression but there is a huge difference between waving a flag and being a member of a terrorist organization to them. I know a lot of Turks also could not understand why it's not a crime to burn a Quo'ran in Sweden. Different system, different laws. Freedom of expression and speech is a factor.
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  316. Relax man Turkey is not Erdogan. He has been in power for 20 years and he controls the Turkish parliament and the Turkish courts. Once he is gone which might happen sooner rather than later due to the elections Turkey could potentially get a new leader that's more interested to lean west.
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  317. If it's a nuclear war it really doesn't matter if you are part of NATO or not. Russia and NATO has more than enough Nukes to end all life on earth if it comes to that point we're all fcked no matter if we are part of NATO or not.
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  318. That's irrelevant there is nothing stated anywhere that you cannot join if you are a Muslim nation.
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  319. Considering the Finish president went to meet with the Swedish PM now they are almost certainly discussing NATO. Possibly they are planning to join at the same time to mitigate the chance of Russian retaliation.
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  320.  @ukj5850  You are always free to not use cars that's fine. Just as I am free to drive my car to work. That's freedom, you just want to limit my options to fit your ideals and values. I am not worried about this resolution, it needs to be signed off by each and every member state which as he said in the video is not happening. Too much opposition. Stop worrying about others are doing, if you really think it's a big deal then don't use cars, I am not forcing you.
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  321. With current pricing? They won't, EV cars is a luxury market aimed at the rich, very few people have the means to afford 60k Euros on a car.
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  322. There is a big difference between Nazis and Racists though.
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  323. Because when it's -25 outside and you don't have heating you freeze to death. Are you willing to freeze to death while your leaders use jets to go everywhere and spew bullshit about green policies? No thank you.
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  324. you fail logic.
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  325.  @greed864  Per capita who knows really, I am pretty sure you can find bigger far right extremists in US than KKK if you put some thought into it. I am not American and it took me about 2 minutes to think of one, AB Aryan Brotherhood. Now these guys are true Nazis and they are estimated to have 15,000–20,000 members at least according to the Anti-defamation league. Like I said I am not American though I am sure you can find plenty of other organizations that share ABs ideology.
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  326.  @Tjalve70  Turkey knows but they don't care this was never about Extradition Erdogan got Biden's support to buy F16s just hours after signing the deal. This was never about Sweden or Finland just American and Turkish Bazaar.
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  327. It's not only about imports it's about business, sanctions means less foreign capital and investments coming in and less Russian companies expanding their operations outside of Russia. It keeps Russian companies small and limits the investment they have access to. It stifles economic growth hence why the GDP is predicted to fall so much, for the elite this doesn't matter much as they already propped themselves up but for the middle and lower classes they can expect a lower standard of living as a result.
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  328. Of course Turkey is in need of military protection, why would they still be in NATO or even join NATO in the first place if they weren't? By European standards Spain's economy is weak BUT Spain's economy and GDP/Capita is pretty much similar to Russia and Turkey's GDP/Capita is even LOWER than Russia. So yes militarily Turkey is huge but in no shape or form are they ready for a war. They are very weak in terms of economics right now they wouldn't be able to stand against Russia by themselves at this point in time.
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  329. Okay, Sergey I am sorry your home country is not very popular in Europe. Perhaps you should encourage your leader to stop invading your neighbors?
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  330. Yeah there are about 100 Nazis in the Ukrainian army fighting Russians. Big deal.
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  331. They are already isolated. Most NATO members have an arms embargo on them. Erdogan has played both sides for many years. It doesn't matter - as long as they respect article 5 that's what matters. There is nothing in the NATO membership rules that say we have to be nice to all other NATO members. Furthermore things can change quick if there is a change of political leadership the country can make a complete 180. Just look what happened to China everytime they have a change of leader. It doesn't happen often but when it does it becomes a new country in terms of policy and foreign relations.
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  332. Well the topic here was are they Nazis or not I am not sure Nazis would look up to Israel. Are they right wing? Sure but you will find plenty of right wing leaning groups in all countries.
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  333. ​ @kevinb5621  Yes of course, it's never cold inside in Scandinavia. Even if it's -30 people will walk around their house with t-shirts.
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  334.  @advancedomega  Yeah let's remove the fence at the Zoo for the lions and tigers, having a fence or caged area makes people feel safe and stick their hand into the cage thus having an accident. When letting the lions and tigers run free we can guarantee that less accidents happen. Logic.
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  335.  @uqs57bju  Considering the price of the EVS compared to the traditional alternative it is not a ban out right but working class people won't afford a 60k euro tesla and that is AFTER government subsidizing it. Too expensive to be a realistic option.
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  336. You mean for the public right? Vehicles are essential and we would not be able to live in cities without vehicles to transport food and goods to and from a city. Take away all cars and the people of the city would starve and all buisnesses would die.
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  337.  @akon360  Europe's political system is not reliant on leaders to stay in power. Leaders come and go all the time and business stays the same. The system is built upon changing leaders to combat corruption which is why you see such high corruption in countries where the leadership and elite stay in power for a long time.
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  338.  @newfaith912  So it's the EU's fault that there is corruption in the Balkan countries lol? The problem is they have weak democratic institution and there's still tension between the different Balkan nations. The last thing we want is a war between EU countries.
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  339. Can't speak for all countries but at least for mine (Sweden) Problem is not wage it is taxation when you pay half your income in tax you won't consume as much. Where I live now I earn the same as I would in Sweden but I pay 10% tax instead of 50% and I can tell you I consume a lot more, I wonder why...
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  340. Didn't the guy say they only received 2% of the vote and has no seats in parliament? And they are only expected to be 10-20% out of a 1000 man regiment that would make them 100-200 men strong in an army of 250k soldiers. Doesn't sound like a large influence to me neither in Politics nor military.
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  341. What is "modern media"? All media sources in the world EXCEPT Russian state-owned TV?
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  342.  @paul1979uk2000  Yes Europeans will complain and pay the higher price we're fine we will just b1tch a bit, the third world people will die from higher prices.
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  343.  @Noschool100  yep totally agree. Finland is in missile range of major Russian cities, it's a real nightmare for Putin should Finland join with that long border.
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  344. Then why are the EU taking in massive amounts of Muslim refugees and allows them to join European countries government bodies? Plenty of governments have Muslim mayors, ministers and all in all kinds of government positions these days. How many Christians or Jews does Muslim nations have in their parliaments?
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  345. No, Erdogan is acting for an Oscar so he can milk the US to give him his F-16s in a deal to let Sweden in.
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  346. I think everybody is an exaggeration, more like the liberal body of the EU has a problem with them. Conservatives and most citizens in the EU has little to no interest to dictate political reforms on a country that is not their own.
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  347. And what other means of energy would that be? Wind and Solar? Sorry but with today's technology there are no viable energy options. Wind and solar doesn't come close to fossil fuel and nuclear power.
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  348. Don't worry it will be done quick. It's an election year there is no way the Social Democrats are going to be the ones being responsible for Sweden not joining NATO when the majority of Swedes are for NATO membership. They see the election coming up it's a no brainer to get this done quick otherwise they risk losing a lot of their support for the upcoming election.
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  349. So basically they exchanged one dictator for another.
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  350. Yep that is the truth. Compared to other western Nations Ukraine's far right movement is pretty small. In my country (Sweden) the Far right party received 17.5% of the votes, in Ukraine they got 2%.
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  351. Why would you listen to the Russian president, he said originally that they did not invade at all it was just a military exercise remember? There are plenty of sources of information out there to find out what's going on why would you pick the one which everyone knows is lying?
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  352. Move out of Stockholm, the housing que is just a couple of months outside the capital.
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