Comments by "zjeee" (@zjeee) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1.  @emperium108  The political pendulum swings between the right and the left all the time. Although we can see a general trend that leans right at the moment it doesn't mean every single nation in the democratic world is following that pattern. Brazil will swing back right eventually and Europe will swing back to the left eventually.
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  2.  @AntonSobyanin  That's great but we don't live in the 1900s anymore. Things change, in the past the Europeans dabbled in Genocide and colonization. These days the Chinese and Russians have taken over that role.
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  3. ​ @top..G66  NATO endangers the future of dictatorships in the world I agree. I would be very worried about NATO if I was a dictator that's for sure. I think the Axis comparison is pretty bad Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan let's see.... dictators, genocide, terrorism.. Yeah we can have a discussion about what NATO should and should not get involved with and whether some invasions were justified or not but I think most people agree that all nations that got to experience NATO involvement were no good actors. I think Slobodan Milosevic, Assad, Gaddafi, Saddam makes better comparison to the Axis than NATO. I for one think NATO involvement in the cases you described made the world a better place I am not going to cry for evil men like Milosevic, Gaddafi and Saddam.
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  4. Me: Oh no we're all doomed. Visualpolitik: Quotes numbers from Chinese state owned newspapers. Me again: Oh I see you have a new sponsor.
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  5. They have first hand experience of how the Russians operate. Smart people, Germany needs to take note and learn something
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  6. IF you are not a Swedish citizen and you don't have a taxable income then you shouldn't be allowed access to welfare at all.
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  7. @TuubChännel Irrelevant, ask any Swede or Finn what they prefer, be allied to America or invaded by Russia. Choice is very simple, Sweden and Finland has already followed NATO and America into Afghanistan and other theatres of war. This is nothing new.
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  8.  @tomk3732  Russia spends 9 times more money on their military than Ukraine does. Russia is a military super power, on paper they should've taken the capital in a few days... Even the US top brass was expecting Kyiv to fall in 72 hours. Ukraine doesn't need to focus too much on counter-attacks they have time on their side, the more time pass the more supplies they get from outside. Russia has internal dissent amongst its population and an economy battered by sanctions it's up to them to finish the war. The longer this war drags on the weaker Russia gets, everyone knows this and NATO would love this conflict to continue for years as it makes Russia weaker. The only nations supporting Russia right now is N. Korea, China, Iran and Syria.
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  9.  @TheStallKross  I think his name already gave away that he is far left LOL.
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  10.  @FC-vp9ej  No the entire world is not on the opposite side, if you look at the UN resolutions and the way nations usually vote in these matters you see China usually votes with Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria and Iran. When it comes to China's claims of the South China sea they have these 5 nations with them, everyone else is against or abstained voting. China and Russia have to throw out their VETO power all the time because the majority of Nations vote against their interests.
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  11.  @CUPAVI1  Swede here, I did military service in the early 2000s and my dad did military service in the 70s, we were both preparing and training based on the assumption that a possible attack would be coming from Russia. That's what our military has prepared for ever since the Soviets attacked Finland 70 years ago. So the way I see it if we can stop Russia in Ukraine that's beneficial for us too. If anyone would attack Sweden it would be Russia. Stopping them now before they get to the Baltic regions and Finland is a matter of our national security.
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  12.  @SpiritusMundi4  That's because they don't have the capability and they do not dominate the airspace. They have no problem sending rockets into civilian areas but somehow they are showing restraint by not using their airforce out of goodwill? You confuse goodwill with inability, Russia does not possess the ability to use their air force as they would be shot down and it would be too costly before air dominance would be achieved which is looking very unlikely to be possible.
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  13. They are not lucky they are just smart in picking the ones that will benefit their society while Sweden had an open door policy letting everyone in.
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  14. Very few European nations get along with Turks.
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  15. the good thing is that Russia is heavily dependent on their oil and gas income and Europe pays premium and Russia does not possess the ability to send that amount of gas to other markets. The maximum capacity of their Asian gas pipelines is less than 20% of what Europe currently buys and India and China buys gas for massive discounts. Point is Russia needs European money just as much as Europe needs Russian gas.
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  16. It's because we have countries like Germany that has been getting in bed with the Russians for decades that we have such a "weak" and "timid" response. If the Baltic countries and Poland was running the show Russia would most likely have lost already. The Germans and the French still wants to appease Putin and hope he turns into a "good guy" over time.
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  17.  @jafneezakwan5810  They tried, they failed in 1979.
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  18.  @gerhardbenade5869  Europe is not one single country, some countries are more dependent than others, in my country 1% of our energy needs comes from Russian gas. It's too bad that our other European brothers and sisters (looking at you Germany) did not see a threat in Russia even after the Crimean occupation. We just have to suck it up and help each other now. My country is already a huge exporter of energy to Germany and the Netherlands have a sh1t ton of natural gas that they did not tap into for a very long time. We just have to throw the environmentalists out and start using our own resources. Speaking of Germany they have a lot of coal that they can use to generate electricity instead of using gas. Some countries made the mistake getting in bed with the Russian bear but not all of us were that foolish and we just have to help our friends and hope they learn from the mistake.
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  19. The US and EU is sitting on a large part of Russia's foreign reserves - those funds can always be used to rebuild Ukraine after the war.
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  20. I would not worry too much, living in China I can tell you that all the big companies are sacking people. The government cracked down on pretty much every big technology firm even massive giants like Tencent and Alibaba have not been spared, not even mentioning the education industry that's pretty much is being annihilated by the new restrictions. Oh and there's the factories that have to shut down for weeks because there is a massive power shortage, electricity is now being rationed even for regular people and restaurants. Imagine having freezers stacked with meat in your restaurants only for the government to suddenly cut power for a week, yeah it's that bad at the moment. As for the future they won't, the one child policy for 40 years have really crippled them and their work force is expected to be reduced by half within 30 years as the generation of multiple children family households are now retiring. Their only saving grace would be if they developed AI enough to compensate for the work force reduction they will inevitably face in the future.
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  21. I don't know I am from Sweden and 52% of the price of gas are taxes there's still plenty of room for us to alleviate the rising prices by cutting the taxes. Obviously this means less revenue for our government but maybe it's time to downscale the government anyway.
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  22. I'd say it's more about the level of education and what kind of people immigrate. The earlier waves caused little problem and all Iranians with good education had no problems to assimilate but when you take in people without even high school education then yeah you are going to have a problem.
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  23. No, Finland has joined the sanctions against Russia so the relationship has forever changed,
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  24.  @ShubhamMishrabro  That was my first thought I don't like Bernie Sanders, not because of his political views but as a Swede I always shake my head when he starts talking about the Scandinavian model, he's a huge contributing factor to why people have a false image of how our politics work in Sweden. Sometimes I feel like he is intentionally misleading people. So many times in the US I had to explain to my American friends that we are not socialists and when I ask why they got that idea they almost always mention his name.
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  25. As a Swede going through the school system in the 90s there were problems even back then. I remember the Turks and Kurdish groups of students constantly fighting and I also remember how the Muslim groups would harass the few Jewish students we had. In College I clearly remember the Muslim students walking out of a biology class about Darwin's evolution theory and refusing to take any biology examinations. I also remember them starting a huge brawl when they lost a football game and the school had to call the police. I am not surprised at all that this has happened when the government decided to take in even more immigrants from these cultures when we already had problems with the ones we had.
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  26. True, also hasn’t the two muslim factions Shia and Sunni been fighting each other for like a 1000 years already?
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  27.  @sb7109  Of course you can always use the land route but that's A LOOOOOT more expensive than sending it with ship. There's a reason it's a huge problem for Russia if they cannot transport the oil with ship. It's the cheapest and most effective method of transport by far. With your route through Iran they have to go Ship > Truck > Ship > Truck, they have to load and unload their cargo 3 times. That's expensive and time consuming.
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  28.  @KinLee919  I live in China for a very long time, showing off wealth is very common here.
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  29.  @ashman8891  Yes, because they are the biggest oil producers in the world. What people don't realize when they are moaning about Saudi Arabia and US ties is that without them the price of fuel would be a lot higher than it is now. Now Biden says no to Russian oil where does he go? He started talking to Venezuela.... People are already complaining about high fuel prices what do you think happens if you would cut your ties with the Saudis? If you want fuel at an affordable prize you have to buddy up to the "baddies". That's what happens when you kill your own energy production and have to rely on others. If the US would ramp up their own oil production they wouldn't have to keep Saudi as an ally but they don't so they have to. You can thank your environmentalists for that.
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  30.  hsw Xx  And yet the people of Hong Kong are protesting against getting closer to China and probably a lot of them would very much prefer to become British citizens, I wonder why that is? Why don't they like China, Why don't they want to give up their freedoms? It's almost as if they don't want to belong to China - hmm strange why don't they want to be oppressed by a dictator, sounds lovely?
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  31. They did, yes. Their Premier Li Keqiang even said China has 600 million people with an income being less than 140 dollars a month.
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  32.  @dr.lyleevans6915  Yeah, That's China for you - rich country, poor people.
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  33.  @zx4337  That's just a Chinese state owned media narrative, also known as CCP propaganda to garner support for their occupation of Tibet and to slander a very popular Dalai Lama. The CCP has also called Dalai Lama a terrorist, apparently sitting around meditating is really dangerous - they even banned Falun Gong and they just sit in parks and meditate. Maybe CCP is just afraid of meditation for some reason it would seem?
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  34.  @michaelotieno6524  Better be careful throwing those numbers around, China has a much much lower ceiling as to what is considered poverty so a lot of those people would still be considered under the poverty line were they outside China. For example in America, Federal poverty line is at 1073 dollars monthly income, According to Likeqiang (CCP Premier) 600 million Chinese have less than 140 dollars monthly income. You put all those people in poverty from America on a plane to China and suddenly they are considered middle class.
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  35.  @adarshkeshri9888  Sorry but you are a bit silly of course the EU is not cozying up with NATO adversaries because most EU nations are also NATO members. It's not like the EU is under influence of NATO it's that the majority of EU nations are also NATO members. It's like you have two groups, group X and group Y and both these groups consists of the same people and then you claim that group X is influencing group Y in it's decision. This is a silly point because the people are the same so what you are saying is that the people in group X are influencing THEMSELVES into making decisions?
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  36.  @fuckas..r  I guess the answer to your question depends who you are asking. Trump had very low popularity in the EU and outside US in general but strong support in America and in particular countries or zones having issues with China such as Hong Kong,Taiwan, India and Australia.
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  37. It doesn't work that way, Europe's global GDP is huge, around 25% of the world economy. If we look at Africa which is the most resource rich continent in the world it's only 2.8% of global GDP and it's not really growing that well. Resources doesn't mean a thing if you cannot refine or have the capital or know-how to manufacture finished products.
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  38. I think you will be disappointed to know we will start burning more oil and coal.
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  39.  @ThePandaKZ  That's how Realpolitik works, the US does not impose sanctions on Israel because they are their only reliable ally in the Middle East a region where many hate their guts. You don't sanction your friends you sanction your enemies. Venezuela aligns itself with China, Iran, Russia, Cuba and Syria. Do you see a pattern here? We can talk about what is fair and what is right but at the end of the day nations will do what's in their best interest. YES they will try to explain it in a manner that makes it sound more reasonable but at the end of the day they engage in diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly binding itself to explicit ideological notions or moral and ethical premises.
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  40. How could the EU/NATO intervene? NATO is a defensive alliance - Ukraine is not part of NATO how and why would they justify an intervention? That's well beyond the scope of a defensive alliance to intervene when a non-member is under attack. The EU is not a military body it's mostly a union focused on Economic co-operation so I am really not sure how anyone could expect a military intervention from the EU. How many times did you see the EU intervene somewhere military? Yeah that's right - never. I am not sure what the problem is about taxpayer money going into weapons, you do realize it's waaaaaaaaay cheaper to spend money to give Ukraine the ability to stop Russia here and now than it is to have an all-out war with Russia in the future when they beat Ukraine and decide to take the Baltic states? It's better to spend a little tax money now than to have to spend 100x times more in 5 years and end up in a war. The truth is Ukrainian and western interests align, they both want to stop Russia in Ukraine. The west can do so without going to war and Ukraine needs the money/weapons to stop them. It's a win-win situation - west is happy Russia is stopped without having to go to war, Ukraine is happy because they get to secure their independence. About Ukrainian leadership I am sure they made some mistakes but they are holding on after months of Russian onslaughts which is a miracle in itself considering Russia is a military super power (They are supposed to be anyway I guess now we have to rethink if that's true or not) so I think they are doing alright.
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  41. Yes that sounds pretty normal that they would prioritize EU citizens, I went to China to work myself and foreigners are not allowed to have any job that a Chinese citizen can perform. Even though it was a real painful and time consuming experience to try get a work-permit I feel this is just a way for the nation to prioritize their own citizens first and I cannot really say they are wrong even though I was myself over-qualified compared to the native Chinese citizens that got the job.
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  42. You are assuming all sanctions will be lifted as soon as the war ends, which I don't think is the case. Some of the sanctions will be there for a very long time.
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  43. Sorry to say but it doesn't look like Russia is coming out strong at all. 1 Month and counting.. tic tac... tic tac....
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  44.  @TihetrisWeathersby  Swede here we do not have socialism here, I know we have a huge party named the "Social demokraterna" (Social democrats) but they are actually not socialists. We have a party called "Vänstern" (the left) they used to be called the Swedish communist party before they changed their names they are socialists but they have never been in power though most Swedes are not really into socialism (their election results are in the single digits). The Social Democrats have been in power a lot of times during the last 50 years but they are a lot closer to capitalist than they are to socialism. In essence Sweden is a capitalist country with a welfare system you may call it a middle ground between socialism and capitalism if you want but truth is we are a lot closer to capitalism than we are socialism. Our markets are in some cases more free and open than in the US.
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  45.  @anomalianomali5080  Fertility rate is only part of the problem. The problem is they have a higher proportion of old people to young people ratio with a large portion of the population going into retirement soon without enough young people to replace them in the work force. Their work force will shrink the coming years which is not a good thing if you want to keep your GDP high.
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  46. Yeah pretty much or take in people with similar values. For example these days we have a lot of Ukrainians coming in and these guys make little to no problems at all.
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  47. I just wished it could benefit the population as a whole a lot better. I live in a T2 Chinese city, the province capital and the Chinese BNP per capita totally smashes my country yet the average salary of my country is 6 times higher than the average salary in the Chinese city I am living in right now. Even compared to Beijing and Shanghai my country's average salary is 3 times higher. Compared to my Chinese wife's hometown it's 10 times higher and she's not from a poor province. You could say things are cheaper in China but that's only half true, every Chinese needs to buy an apartment and those are not cheap considering how little they earn. Always much respect to the Chinese people, they work very hard for a very little.
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  48.  @aghileshemdani3144  It is, Israel is a nation of immigrants from many different nations and backgrounds. They have a much higher GDP and a much more advanced society than the countries surrounding it.
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  49. 40% of the Russian state's revenue is from their oil. You do realize they need this foreign currency to buy things from other countries right? Very few countries accept the Rubel when they are selling things to Russia. So you think magically a random state is going to be knocking on Russia's door with a order making up for the US and EU which is Russia's biggest customers? That's not how it works. It takes time to shift supply routes and find new business partners you cannot just do these things overnight.
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  50. Yes because Putin has never ever done anything bad to his political opponents so we should let him win. I am sure he will treat the opposition better.
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