Comments by "zjeee" (@zjeee) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1.  @abps9947  Georgia should be free to choose their own fate. If they want to join then let the member states discuss it.
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  2.  @NgolaNalane  Nope, NATO relies on it's members to join by their own free will. Support for NATO in Finland and Sweden before the invasion was hovering around 20-30% now it's up to 70% putting pressure on it's politicians which in turn applied.
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  3.  @quinntinmann  That's your opinion, 76% of Finns doesn't agree with you. Perhaps we should let them choose their own fate instead of telling them what to do? They are a democracy after all.
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  4. Honestly don't think most Islamic countries care about the Uighurs as long as they get good deals with Beijing. They are not those kind of Muslims.
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  5.  @magnuslundstedt2659  Well you are in the minority then, only 20% of Swedes oppose NATO now.
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  6.  @magnuslundstedt2659  Why not? We do business with countries like Saudi Arabia and China turning a blind eye to their transgressions and human rights abuses.. Why is it a big deal if we do the same for Turkey?
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  7. So what you are saying is that Russia are allowed to have nuclear missiles that can fly from Russia to Finland in less then a minute but for some reason Finland is not?
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  8. Well obviously there is no one reason to cover all bases, it's hard to run an effective democracy without an economic base and educated population and China had a literacy rate of around 20% in the 1950s and it's not until the 1980s and forward where economic progress was made. I find it very hard to see China being able to have a democracy under such circumstances before the 1980s even if they actually wanted to. A great example is to observe democracies in the Middle east and Africa, democracies rarely work well without a strong economy and an educated population. These days the foundations are much stronger in China and I am sure it could work but obviously the communist party would never allow such a thing. But yeah you are right there is nothing specific about Chinese culture that makes them choose one way of governance over the other, the people of Hong Kong and Taiwan had no problem whatsoever adopting western culture and democratic elements. But just the mere size of China and the division among the minorities would probably shrink it's size very quickly should they try to adopt democracy. Xinjiang, Yunnan, Tibet and Inner Mongolia would break off as soon as they got the chance without an authoritarian state around.
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  9.  @thelikesofus324  What? The US invaded Iraq with less than 200k men. They took Baghdad with around 30k soldiers lost only 34. Iraq had 400k soldiers at the time and 600k reserves. Yes you are right, they are using different tactics - do you know why? Because the US forces are better and retained air superiority very quickly. Meanwhile Russia would love to employ US tactics but they lack the capability to enforce air superiority and the communication and skills to combine air-navy-ground operations. In the US army the Navy, Airforce and Infantry will work as one in the Russian army individual infantry divisions fail to co-operate. It's not like the Russians use a different tactic because they want to they just simply do not possess the ability to do what the US army does.
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  10. Article 42 is not binding and is still being debated what it actually means. Sweden and Finland has been spending decades downplaying this article as void.
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  11.  @FOLIPE  Democracies don't really go to war with each other that's very rare. It's more likely they stay on friendly terms and international relations are usually very good between democratic nations. Obviously there are a few exceptions out there like the Balkan wars but generally democracies rarely declare war on each other.
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  12. NATO has nothing to do with economics it's a defensive alliance. Sweden only relies on Russian oil and gas for about 5% of their electricity. I doubt it will make a dent
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  13. Sunni and Shia getting along? I believe it when I see it.
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  14. You think Russia doesn't know about other markets? They chose the EU and US markets because they are the biggest markets in the world. They are starting to turn East now but as you know the Asian countries are not as rich and Russia has had to meet India's demands for cheaper oil and gas so they are getting less income from the East than they would with the West. Which is why they had so much trade with the west in the first place. You are wrong about economic strength in terms of export - it's much more complicated than that if that was true then Africa would be the richest continent in the world as it's the richest continent in terms of Natural resources. Problem is they are a raw material economy and they sell their raw materials cheap and the developed world refine it and resell it at a higher value.
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  15. Nope, Taliban are Sunni and Iran Shia. They hate each other.
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  16.  @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901  You think democracies hold referendums for every single decision? That would be very expensive and extremely in-effective. The Finish public have voted in their politicians that represent them. Should they step out of line the Finish people can always elect new politicians that promises to leave NATO should they not support it.
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  17. Free Novgorod
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  18. New members have to be democracies and respect human rights so they would not meet requirements
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  19. Then why are your US politicians actively promoting NATO and seeking influence over European markets and establishing military bases in Europe?
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  20. Then why did they ask Sweden and Finland to lift their arms embargo if they want to be accepted in NATO? Surely if they are going to VETO anyway there is no point in giving any demands to Sweden and Finland?
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  21. Unfortunately NEW members need to be democracies and respect human rights. I don't think Russia and China would fit the bill on that one.
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  22.  @rahulsubramanian6545  Swedish and Finish governments don't support Kurdish militants but many Kurds that fled Turkey under Erdogan's iron fist do. Which is not really that surprising they had to flee Turkey because of Erdogan's policies so of course they support his enemies. Both Sweden and Finland has a huge Kurdish population that fled from Turkey.
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  23. Shia and Sunni Muslims have been fighting for more than 1000 years, nothing new here.
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  24. That's just the Russian mentality, invading Ukraine then getting pissed off when the Ukrainians strike back on Russian territory. "Rules for thee and not for me" mentality.
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  25.  @nunoalvarespereira87  You mean like North Korea? Yeah looks great over there.
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  26. Yeah let's forget the 1400 years of fighting between Shia and Sunni Muslim that's still going on today. Iran Shia, Afghanistan Sunni that's all you need to know.
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  27.  @skywillfindyou  And the US loves it because they are eliminating their own military too.
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  28. And once they do they will be themselves toast in a few minutes. Which they know and is why they won't send nukes to EU. That's why it's called mutual destruction.
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  29. Russia has the economy of Spain. Spain is considered a financial mess by European standards.
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  30. Well you keep your Muslim brothers from exploding themselves on our streets and we'll try to hold Russians firmly in Europe. You deal with your trash, we deal with ours. Deal?
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  31. Yeah you forgot to mention they export Islamic terrorists like nobodies business. Nobody would care one thing about Afghanistan but they are a playground for terrorists going to the west. You don't need to push the Taliban towards revenge and fundamentalism they already have plenty of that, it seems you forgot the reason why Afghanistan was invaded by the US in the first place.
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  32. Well I mean they could just stop killing their Muslim brothers and sisters but I guess that's too much to ask from them.
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  33. The UK left decades ago, why can't these countries just make an agreement and redraw their borders? How hard can it be? You had almost 100 years to solve this issue it's like they are helpless without the European powers that left them to their own devices. "Hey leave us alone", UK: Okay, cya. "Hey wait we have problems solve them for us we cannot do anything ourselves!"
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  34. Total over-reaction Trump was in power for 4 years and we all survived - the world did not change for the worse. In fact when he was in charge Russia or Hamas did not dare to strike, if anything it seems the world was more peaceful. You are just fearmongering.
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  35.  @serhatkarabeyli9818  Don't agree the Baltic countries highly support NATO as it's their only way of survival and NATO likes the Baltic states as it gives them great strategic positions to counter Russia and with the addition of Sweden and Finland they totally dominate the Baltic sea. Not all aspects of an alliance is numbers and quality of troops.
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  36.  @modelmark  And Russia never ever broke any of their promises huh? Dictatorships crying over broken promises give me a break.
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  37. Russia keeps backing it's neighbors up into corners yet they cannot handle it when the shoe is on the other foot.
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  38. Just stop sending suicide bombers and Islamic terrorists to the west and we're cool. That's all we ask for, I know it's a hard task but please. Try.
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  39. Compared to Russia a paper plane is advanced.
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  40. China already claims plenty of Russian territory, Vladivostok is just an example of many. As a junior partner Russia would have less power to say no to a demand such as that.
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  41.  @babla69420  Does Russia have enough time to send nukes on every 30 member state before the Nukes start raining down on them?
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  42. Unfortunately for you the Finish people don't agree with you.
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  43.  @emirkokturk1599  It's funny that you support a regime that has demanded Finland and Sweden to lift their arms embargo on Turkey before they accept their membership then. You want peace but the Turkish government wants to be able buy weapons in return for NATO membership for Finland and Sweden. I don't want war but PLEASE CAN YOU SELL ME SOME WEAPONS?????! LOL.
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  44. Just like Denmark and Norway was protected by their neutrality when Hitler attacked? Or just like Finland was protected by their Neutrality when Stalin attacked? Just like Kuwait was protected by their neutrality when Saddam attacked? Since when do dictators care about Neutrality? If Russia was peaceful NATO membership would not be necessary for Finland and Sweden. Unfortunately this is not the case and Russia loves to invade it's neighbours. Ukraine was not the first nation Putin decided to attack and likely won't be the last. If Russia is stupid enough to attack NATO then it doesn't matter if Finland or Sweden are members or not, Russia has 6000 nukes - it takes about 100 to destroy the world. If Russia decides to attack we're all doomed whether we are part of NATO or not.
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