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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6. Who wants to be colonized though?
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  7.  @danielwebb8402  Depends on Nation and location.
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  8. Yep, I agree it's time to say no to Fascism, take Putin out.
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12.  @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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16.  @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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20.  @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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. ​ @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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  24.  @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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  25. 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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  26.  @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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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35.  @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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  36.  @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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  37. Yes Ukraine debunked that myth long time ago when they elected a Jewish president.
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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. You don't want the EU but you want our money lol.
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  42.  @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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  43. Then why are so many people risking their own lives to become Europeans? Doesn't make sense.
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  44. 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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  45.  @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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  46. 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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  47. Honestly they should scrap the EU green energy policies for now.
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  48.  @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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  49. 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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  50. They can do what they want, it's their country.
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