Comments by "HomerOJSimpson" (@Homer-OJ-Simpson) on "OBF" channel.

  1. The flat Plaines in western Russia mentioned at the beginning that made invading Russia possible also works in reverse — and more often it was russsia invading others.
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  2. The vacant home issue that is the result of speculators is not as big of a problem in much of the US. Property taxes discourage leaving a house vacant as you have to pay taxes on the property so if you don’t live in it or don’t rent it out, you paying a lot of taxes with no earnings to offset.
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  3. I think the argument “Norway is incredibly well designed” should have finished with “for a country with such terrible geography”.
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  4.  @harukrentz435  Europe is struggling because they set a high bar. Compared to the rest of the world, they are doing great.
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  5. Mexico has had a century to curtail development and population growth in Mexico City and move it elsewhere but they kept allowing Mexico City to grow. During the past 100 years they could have created a new capital or incentivized the population to grow elsewhere.
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  6. A famous former US general has already suggested what the plan would be if Russia were to use a nuclear bomb on Ukraine. It basically would be that NATO would use a conventional weapons to destroy every single Russian soldier in or near Ukraine. The US already has an idea where most of the Russian soldiers are located and would be easy targets for the far superior weapons that the US has.
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  7.  @hilaryhongkong  I don’t think you understand the problem — it’s that 30 million people in live a small area that is how Mexico City metro. If you moved 10 million from Mexico City and spread them to Puebla and another city, you would eliminate most of the problems. It’s the concentration in a small area that is the problem
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  8. The new capital city looks very expensive and Myanmar is one of the poorest countries in 2005. How did they afford this? Im guessing some other country (China?) helped pay for it
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  9. This is not only OBF but most YouTubers. I think it gets more views. Americans watch them often because they think their country is doing badly and non Americans watch it because they want to feel superior. Picking on the “top dog” is always popular. I use top dog in quotes because it’s perceived to be the top dog even if arguably it is not.
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  10.  @noway8563  I agree. I dislike the framing of "Russia has been invaded 5 times from it's west" without pointing out Russia does far more invading of it's neighbors to it's west...and south.
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  11.  @TakehisaYuji  First of all, most invasions happened before USSR. That's how Russia got so big. Second of all, USSR was run by Russia. Even Putin says USSR history belongs to Russia.
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  12. Are you saying Europe should just let Africa stay poor?
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  13. So many issues with this vid, take it down. 1. Why does this leave out that that they aren’t trying to reduce spending but rather they are looking to offset the decrease spending with decrease taxes, especially for the rich? 2 why does it just take elons words as facts? 3 the poor family of four don’t RECEIVE $134k in benefits. Not even close. I’m guessing it’s the total costs to government which includes the departments costs such as govt workers salaries, overheads etc 4. The cost savings potential described here are highly misleading and unreasonable. It’s almost as if the script was written by Elon
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  14.  @Jay-qb9gi  Well, the US rebuilt some of what was destroyed but much of the new infrastructure was from Japan on their own in the 60's and after.
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  15. Mexico has had a century to curtail development and population growth in Mexico City and move it elsewhere but they kept allowing Mexico City to grow.
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  16.  @aiprangon  how will it backfire for UK or US? What OP said might only backfire on the Chinese dissident. But maybe you’re arguing something im not aware of? Based on your comments u have posted, appears u defend the CCP. And like typical Beijing worker, you bring up the US having police in other countries while ignoring those police have approval, are open, and are often invited as training programs. Nice try.
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  17.  @Lena-vw6ye  Russia refuses to back out of the fight they started? And it’s somehow not Russia (Putin) fault? And you blame the sanctions which were AFTER the invasion?
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  18. 2:56 “brief break from military government”. Sort of. Military still controlled the government but they let others manage it. Kind of how Iran works but instead of military it’s the supreme leader.
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  19. Correct. It's not about just checking China's influence in Africa but Russia.
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  20.  @EnjoyFirefighting  yeah, I actually meant to mention that as part of the geography— that’s it’s 5 million spread over a large country with terrible terrain.
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  21. Yeah, that whole section was terrible. French are known for striking for the smallest thing so for him to argue that they are wildly underpaid and his evidence is the strikes is a terrible argument. In addition, the did another strike after the pay hike! It’s just the French way — strike as much as you can.
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  22. What do you mean 'in conjunction with African leaders'. How is that different than what China is doing?
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  23. No you aren’t. You’re seeing someone that is waiting until their military is powerful enough to do what they want and drop neutrality. And if Modi and the authoritarian rule he has is a sign of things to come, a more powerful india will possibly raise Concerns
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  24.  @brendon1689  the topic is literally about Europes concern about Chinas influence in Africa. If you don’t think China can be a bad influence, then explain the gen-ide in Xinjian?
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  25.  @BocaoZ  What do you mean 'an important step that European leaders may have skipped'. How is that different than what China is doing?
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  26.  @leothelion634  yes but the difference is in the US the middle class and rich go the suburbs and easily afford cars. In South Africa, the poor in the suburbs generally cant afford cars
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  27.  @rickc.9664  and Rio in Brazil saw a sharp decline in growth. It didn’t shrink but it’s population growth was halved
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  28.  @KirkFickert  Russia using nukes would mean the end of Russia. Those around Putin know that attacking NATO with nukes would mean Russia would be hit by nukes. also, you realize how silly it is to say “ if he use nukes on a non-nuclear power, what makes you think he won’t use it on a nuclear power?“. That’s because you strike a nuclear power with nukes your own country will get nuclear bombs in return. Not rocket science so weird for you to make the jump from “using nukes on non nuclear nation means they will use on a nuclear nation.”
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  29.  @aiprangon  like typical Beijing worker, u bring up the US having police in other countries while ignoring those police have approval, are open, and are often invited as training programs. Nice try.
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  30. Most fast growing economies that have reached middle income seem to have this issue. Look at Dominican Republic nearby and it’s the same. Although Chile has similar GDP PER CAPITA, I don’t see as much poverty there as compared to Panama.
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  31.  @binskee677  China has free speech in their constitution. Japan has clauses in their constitution about how their military is for defense purpose only yet they have suggested they will help Taiwan. In fact, that's probably how it will go -- India (assuming they keep going down that path) will justify some military action as defense just like Japan is doing in regards to their support for Taiwan. >I bet there are some loopholes For sure, I just used a great example.
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  32. The key is or be vague but not that vague. Give them a hint of what the consequences would be and it appears the US has already done that. A famous former US general has already suggested what the plan would be if Russia were to use a nuclear bomb on Ukraine . It basically would be that NATO would use a conventional weapons to destroy every single Russian soldier in or near Ukraine. The US already has an idea where most of the Russian soldiers are located and would be easy targets for the far superior weapons that the US has. Supposedly such Information would already be suggested to Russia.
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  33.  @Lena-vw6ye  you say no way the US would never attack Russia if it used nukes on Ukraine. So do you think Russia would use nukes on Ukraine knowing the US has already signaled they would retaliate with force enough to make most Russian troops in Ukraine disappear? You say the US wouldn’t intervene because no precedence — but no one has used nukes in a world with more than one nuclear armed nation so by your logic, you believe Russia is all bluff on using the nuke?
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  34.  @Jay-qb9gi  1960’s high speed rail was paid by japan itself. The rebuilding was done in the 50’s and wasn’t even enough aid to equal the cost of japans first high speed rail a decade later. - Total U.S. assistance to Japan for the years of the occupation, from 1946-1952 was roughly $2.2 billion ($15.2 billion in 2005 dollars), of which almost $1.7 billion was grants and $504 million was loans.
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  35.  @Lena-vw6ye  “only keyboard warriors would think a conventional means would end Russia”. Ukraine who didn’t really have an army a decade ago and with no navy no air force and weak drones and limited ground weapons has beaten back Russia. Defeating the rest of Russian army in Ukraine and Black Sea would be super easy for NATO.
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  36.  @Lena-vw6ye  Well, yes, but to not call their bluff would mean the end of Ukraine. And the US / NATO will respond to russias use of nukes with an all out aerial bombardment and missile strike. They would wipe out 50k-80k Russian soldiers in ukraine and in Black Sea in a short time.
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  37. Rent control is the worst solution to any housing issue. Building more units and incentivizing people to live away from the hot spots. The solutions are easy in theory but the difficulty is the politics around it. Government can try to increase more new units to be built but some residents who own homes might try to stop it (NIMBY) because they already bought in and don't want changes, especially if the change will reduce prices of housing units. Incentivizing people to live in other parts of the country or even other parts of the metro get tricky -- there will arguments of WHERE they should try to get people to move, HOW much money to spend and HOW they will do that.
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  38.  @Jay-qb9gi  lots of countries had help after ww2 but japan exceeded the growth of most or all others for decades. Y spread false info on japan?
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  39.  @carlosalba9690  you don’t even need to convince people to leave — just stop the growth and over time it shrinks. Creating a new capital would indeed move many people away from Mexico City — the government workers and supporting staff.
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  40.  @pottertheavenger1363  little time to prepare? They had 50 years to do something and it’s been 50 years but no plan to reduce the population. Brasília for Brazil didn’t take 50 years to start planning let alone to go from planning to actual start of the new capital city
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  41.  @Lena-vw6ye  why do you keep using the same lame tactics? You keep saying “Germany doesn’t have F35 until 2026” when NATO countries like the US already have hundreds of F35 which would be used. You won’t respond to this because it’s obvious Lena is Ivan from Russia.
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  42. 8:15: even if 75% of the homes are going to be expensive luxury style, that still helps the housing market. Those 20,000 people who would be buying/renting the expensive housing would mean 20k fewer people buying/renting in what is now the city. That would drive down the costs of housing even for the middle class. Those luxury renters were competing with middle class for limited housing and giving up prices but now they will have 20k new homes to bid for and they will less likely bid for the cheaper homes the middle class is renting / buying
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  43.  @brendon1689  liang? How come China is committing gén-ide in Xinjian?
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  44.  @Suryavanshi1008  Some of the reasons they scored India low was: - While India is a multiparty democracy, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has presided over discriminatory policies and a rise in persecution affecting the Muslim population. The constitution guarantees civil liberties including freedom of expression and freedom of religion, but harassment of journalists, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and other government critics has increased significantly under Modi. The BJP has increasingly used government institutions to target political opponents. Muslims, scheduled castes (Dalits), and scheduled tribes (Adivasis) remain economically and socially marginalized.
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  45.  @miciboo9993  Ukraine ain’t NATO which is why they won’t strike Russia with nukes. Why are you bringing up other wars — what do they have to do with nuclear strikes??
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  46.  @Lena-vw6ye  “NATO is not ready, Germany only recently started the modernization of its military”. You forget that US is part of NATO and they would use US weapons?
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  47.  @DilbeardAlbeard  do you live in Sweden? If no, why provide your input?
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  48.  @hermaeusmora2945  ​ do you live in Sweden? If no, why provide your input?
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  49. Sounds a lot like Iceland is lucky everyone is nice to it. They get helped frequently by the US and Europe both financially and military. And the UK could have won the cod wars but didn’t want to be seen as bullying a tiny nation.
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  50.  @jinvonastrea1141  scramble for Africa started by China this time
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  51. @Chance_Ricewhat do you mean “Reddit much”? You blindly believe what a 1iar says? Don’t trust anything a politician or their aid says
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  52.  @Suryavanshi1008  Democratically elected can be authorit@r1an. Donald T was an example but good thing there are lots of checks and balances. The democracy matrix by University of Würzburg has India 85 out out of 176 in democracy and labeled as "Hybrid Regime ". The label above is "Deficient Democracy " and above that is "Working Democracy ". The Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit India 93 out 2010 with a score of 66/100 and labeled as "partly free".
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  53.  @Lena-vw6ye  they mobilized 300k troops. Ok? So that will be more easy targets for an aerial bombardment and missile strike. NATO doesn’t have troops on the ground so Russia would have trouble responding — they will have to shoot down the US far superior drones, figures, bombers, and missile systems. 300,000 Russian troops squeezed into a small part of Ukraine would be easy target for the missiles.
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  54.  @tortellinifettuccine  no, most of Chicagos houses that are not occupied are foreclosed or run down. You people should really educate yourselves
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  55.  @tortellinifettuccine  in fact, Illinois has 3rd lowest vacant rate and only 8% of homes in the whole Chicago area are vacant. That includes homes foreclosed and under repair.
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  56.  @Lena-vw6ye  can you read English? No one said Ukraine is part of NATO. I said US would intervene with conventional weapons on Russian troops inside of Ukraine if Russia used WMD. Why would Russia then respond with WMD on NATO if that would result on WMD on Russia?
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  57.  @rogink  some strikes are good. But some strikes just go to far. I’m more troubled by public sector (workers paid by government) strikes because the people paying (tax payers) aren’t the same as the people making the decision (the politicians). And also public sector jobs (government jobs) have a monopoly in most industries. Private sector strikes mostly seem fair because the negotiating party is the one absorbing the costs.
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  58. I hate these projects for affordable housing in the most expensive areas. It’s such a waste of tax payer money. Build them on the outskirts or suburbs where the government can build many more homes for the same price.
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  59.  @pottertheavenger1363  moving the capitol is the easiest way because it’s government jobs and many of them — plus all the industries that support the government. Plus all the construction needed to build new government facilities elsewhere. How do you move private industry companies?!
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  60.  @ccdsds3221  "Even Putin says USSR history belongs to Russia." I guess CCDSDS not able to understand the importance of "EVEN Putin". He does lie a lot but the fact he admits USSR belongs to Russia tells you what Russians think of the USSR...that it was a Russian Empire.
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  61. @gearloose703 "you can not argue with him (Elon) about efficiency or money because you will lose." Why? Are you saying that rich people don't lie to protect their interest? Are you saying that we should blindly believe billionaires? Running a company, it's his incentive to make profit. What he's doing with the government, it's his incentive to make money for himself.
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  62.  @javelinmaster2  Africa needs to get rid of corruption and strengthen democracy before he can fully prosper. When it does, it has so much potential.
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  63.  @theevilmoppet great point. In addition, locals have the option to buy monthly pass to avoid the price hike. If they don’t use the public transit enough to buy a monthly pass, it means they don’t use transit much and thus only a small temporary hit for them
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  64.  @Suryavanshi1008  It's worrisome to see how TTdu$mPb people are and say they don't see authoritarianism when it's right there. It's usually because they support it but don't want to acknowledge they
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  65.  @binskee677  Also, explain to me how a country that keeps going down in democracy is going to be someone that is trusted with a powerful nation? China has been more ev-1l as they get more power. India is treating a hundred million muslims like 2nd class and becoming more authoritarian. RUS rebuilt it's military in the 2000's and see what they do. Well, I'm guessing Binskee defend RUS in Ukraine? Anyways, what powerful authoritarian government has ever been one not to worry about? Complain all you want about the US but an increasingly authoritarian IND is a concern for many in the world as they build up their military.
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  66.  @Santosh-lz3zz  "Muslims in India are living a better life than Muslims in Pakistan" oh, so because they are financially better off it means they are not being treated terribly? sounds a lot like how TTdu$mPb people defend authoritarianism
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  67.  @vanshkoshti9614  George soros? So now Indian nationalist are same as Chinese and Russian nationalist? And Hungarian? Some very right wing stuff.
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  68.  @dihainthegreat  Belarus is Europe’s last dictatorship. So you’re point is that all but one country is a dictatorship in Europe?
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  69.  @concorkery8496  most of these others criticizing europe are in other comments defending what China is doing to Uyghurs. Any video that mentions China will bring out that crowd that denies or even supports what’s happening in Xinjian
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  70.  @Arsenal1940  and yet you can speak for all Africans
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  71. I finished the vid and it has numerous mistakes. What you said, the $134k that a family of four “receives”, taking elons words as facts, etc
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  72.  @binskee677  Come on, no way anyone is arguing in good faith. Those loopholes were obvious but you defended the country by saying they can't because the constitution. We see this over and over again -- an authoritarian nation gets more powerful and they started acting bad.
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  73.  @vanshkoshti9614  Credible to say what? That international organizations say india is becoming increasingly authoritarian? Or that such countries when they get more powerful mlitaires are generally not good actors? I guess if you think Ruzzia and Ch1na are good actors then it's very telling of Vansh views.
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  74.  @vanshkoshti9614  like typical supporters of authoritarian, need to justify it by Saying “but the west in the past treated Africa badly and etc”. Same stuff your buddies in China and Russia say to justify bad today. Always point to the past because examples aren’t as easy if you stick to today. But yes, I do not deny and i recognize that atrocities were committed by the west. Though EU? I’m assuming you use that short for Europe because the European Union is fairly new.
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  75.  @vanshkoshti9614  I’m going to trust the various human rights groups and respectable media more than I will trust the government that they claimed is increasingly authoritarian. Btw, it s amazing how modi proved he wasn’t authoritarian when he had the bbc-India offices get raided after they ran a documentary critical of Modi. But maybe we are just misinformed and they never happened, right?
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  76.  @vanshkoshti9614  my point is that be very concerned with the direction India takes. All this support for modi is scary. Just like all the support for Donald T. But at least with Donald, there are more checks and balances than in India. I give Donald supporters the same criticism I’m giving here. Same with Turkey, Hungary, Phillipines, Russia, China, Venezuela and a few others that have gone backwards.
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  77.  @anuroopchatterjee1746  "I can definitely assure you is that India will not become a full fledged authoritarian country" Because Anuroop said so. > We have too many different kinds of people to support And yet authoritarianism has increased and the minority are being discriminated against even more. So how can you say that because there any many different kinds of people to support it won't be an issue? Russia is FULL of many different kinds of people. They have several oblasts/regions that are majority or plurality of a non Slavic ethnic group. Yet they are highly authoritarian. Only 71% were ethnic Russian in 2021 census.
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  78.  @dihainthegreat  my calendar says it’s 2022. Is that not accurate?
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  79.  @Lena-vw6ye  the war is far from over? Did I say differently!? I’m talking about in the situation where Russia uses a nuke on Ukraine . If they do, their 300,000 inexperienced new soldiers would be destroyed by the best air force with the best drones and best missiles and best bombers in the world. If they don’t use the nuke, this war will go until Putin is forced out because he won’t be able draft more people. 700,000 already fled Russia.
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  80.  @globalexpression6102  what right gives Russia the right to using a nuclear weapon? And do you believe Russians don’t want to live? By that I mean that a nuclear strike on a nuclear power would mean Russia is but with nukes.
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  81.  @Lena-vw6ye  F35 for Germany? Why bring up something unrelated? It’s not important that Germany doesn’t get F35 until 2026..,US already has plenty of them.
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  82.  @VikingTorvald  Norway has the best looking geography but terrible for building up infrastructure.
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  83.  @concorkery8496  I think we are in agreement. Morocco will also benefit. I agree.
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  84.  @socialcredit9480  and urban house in Japan is just a toilet. 😂 I watch YouTubers in Japan and certainly in Tokyo the apartments for one person I’ve seen are usually 20 to 30 square meters
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  85.  @glujaz  And for your information, Only 1 country in Europe pay train drivers more by a statistically significant amount -- Denmark. About the same as France are Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany, Netherlands and Finland. The rest are far below such as Belgium, Austria, Italy, Spain, etc. According to Eurostat. UK is not included in the list though. In 16 EU Member States, train drivers received average gross monthly earnings of less than €2,000 in 2021. France was around €3,010. Denmark, the only country ahead by statistically significant number, was 4,763.
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  86.  @pottertheavenger1363  so you propose a much much more expensive solution than to moving the government institutions? Moving the government institutions can be done quicker and cheaper which is why it’s literally the one solution used by many capital cities having population issues.
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  87.  @pottertheavenger1363  also, to point out the ignor*nce of buying all the company lands and then giving them tax breaks elsewhere as a solution over moving the large number of government jobs elsewhere, you don’t have to pay for the lands of government building but you do for business and you don’t have to lose tax revenue by tax cuts on government jobs moved but you do for businesses. So your solution is far more expensive than moving the government jobs elsewhere
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  88.  @pottertheavenger1363  also, to point out the how horrible of a plan it is of buying all the company lands and then giving them tax breaks elsewhere as a solution over moving the large number of government jobs elsewhere, here a a couple items of concern: 1. you don’t have to pay for the lands of government building but you do for business. You will have to pay well above market rate to incentivize the businesses to move 2. you don’t have to lose tax revenue by tax cuts on government jobs moved but you do for businesses. So your solution is far more expensive than moving the government jobs elsewhere
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  89. It’s Elon Trump written video
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  90.  @aiprangon  so you’re saying that China isn’t running secret police stations and or saying the US police stations identified here are not approved by the host country?
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  91.  @vanshkoshti9614  the thing is that developing countries usually tend to become less authoritarian over time. But India is going the other way. Much like China and Russia. I guess i can give developing countries a break when they are not the type they can afford a powerful military. It seems that’s the difference— countries moving up in wealth that are powerful tend to become more authoritarian. Maybe the smaller countries feel more pressure from the more democratic countries to become more democratic but a bigger country doesn’t have that pressure and this leaders take advantage and start becoming authoritarian.
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  92.  @iraholden3606  Putin pal everywhere
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  93.  @Lena-vw6ye  and you never answered — if US/Europea won’t intervene if Russia uses nuke because no precedence of that, then by your logic Russia wont even use nuke because no precedence of nukes being used in war in the era where multiple people have nukes. How much per post?
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  94.  @Lena-vw6ye  just admit to being a paid Putin pal.
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  95.  @Lena-vw6ye  can you read English? You seem to ignore every question and then just state what every irrelevant thing you want. You’re latest is saying “still waiting on the US to do more than just just send weapons to Ukraine”. I never said US would get Involved directly in Ukraine if Russia isn’t using nukes. And why would they? Russia is losing now and just had their nice bridge destroyed as well. Ukraine with weak American weapons is beating Russia.
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  96.  @PutXi_Whipped  said the guy who denies the gen -ide in Xinjian. Nice one vvumao
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  97.  @Lena-vw6ye  “ Russia has the ability to Stone Age anyone”. And so does United States in NATO, so what is your point? you seem to be sticking to a script, saying that only Russia has that ability but nobody else does.
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  98.  @vervetech9395  actually the EU has given lots of handout (aid). Largest donor of medial aid and support and good aid is europe and then US after that. Educate yourself
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  99. That’s a little smaller than the average size of a house in Europe
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  100.  @glujaz  Why state a lie that the protest are mostly for transportation? I just proved to you the many protest for variety of reasons just in the past 2 years?
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  101.  @TheAlmightyPrime  Great, 2 examples. And both lost. So NEXT. Now, what about all the times Russia invaded all it's neighbors? Hmmm....they eliminated Poland from existence twice. So many other examples...it's literally how Russia and later USSR got so big.
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  102.  @techzone1552 China South Korea are also dying then
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  103.  @ALIHQG  war and bad leadership are a people problem not geography problem. So yeah, you can blame it on people.
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  104.  @samanth.  democracy promotes corruption? All the top on least corrupt countries are strong democracies while all the worst corrupt are not democracies or very weak democracies. All you did was just prove you will lie to support autocratic rule.
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  105. If anyone wants proof of what China's goal are in Africa and why the EU is interested in checking China's influence, look at the votes in regards to condemning China over it's gen-ide in Xinj. Much of those that supported China were African countries. China is trying to buy votes in Africa to accomplish scary things.
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  106. Indias support or semi alliance with Russia is exactly why they won’t get full support from the US and other allies
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  107.  @Santosh-lz3zz  The west is helping India with containing China and has been trying to make closer ties with IND but their alliance with Rus especially after 2014 inv of Ukraine and even more after 2022 is why it's hard to believe India is a reliable partner. why did they increase their purchase of RUS goods and went around snctions? How is that helping?
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  108. Yeah, this is why I don’t like many of these type of arguments. Damn if you do damn if you don’t
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  109. If Putin uses nukes, US has suggested they will take out every Russian soldier in Ukraine and Black Sea.
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  110.  @Lena-vw6ye  you’re saying that US doesn’t have the far superior drones, missiles and planes?
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  111.  @samirpadhan3701  that's true, all the news about Mslims being attacked and attempts to take away their citizenship never happened.... /s if not obvoius.
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  112.  @angrymaninapandamask6432  oh, Africa is a horrible geography vs Europe and Asia . Eastern Europe is terrible in comparison to Western Europe in terms of geography. Geography is a major factor — but again, it doesn’t mean it can’t be overcome
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  113.  @duellingscarguevara  yes, him. Why laugh? He has insight.
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  114.  @Lena-vw6ye  you responded “exactly” to the consequences of a nuclear war? So you agree that Putin wouldn’t do it if he’s not crazy because it would mean the end of Russia?
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  115.  @miciboo9993  what a gnome. US didn’t drop tactical nukes on Yugoslavia.
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  116.  @miciboo9993  now you’re talking about testing nukes? What a gnome
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  117.  @PutXi_Whipped  oh, you’re username even confirmed vvumao. Calling Putin a lapdog of Xi
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  118.  @Lena-vw6ye  “only keyboard Warriors think Russia would standby while the western world joined”. So you’re saying Russia would respond with nuke to western world but somehow western world won’t respond with Nuke?
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  119.  @Lena-vw6ye  “ nah Ukraine is not part of NATO”. Still repeating the same tactic. The person only mentioned that if Russia used a nuclear bomb on NATO, the NATO would respond with nuclear bombs. Nobody said that Ukraine is part of NATO.
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  120.  @isaihernandez4136  are you saying 🇨🇳 hasn’t made worrying statements about taking Taiwan? Are you saying you support the gen-ide in Xinjian?
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  121.  @isaihernandez4136  also, are you aware of 🇨🇳 currently looking to Take the South China Sea and possibly East Sea?
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  122. If anyone wants proof of what China's goal are in Africa and why the EU is interested in checking China's influence, look at the votes in regards to China over it's gen-ide in Xinj. Much of those that supported China were African countries. China is trying to buy votes in Africa to accomplish scary things.
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  123. Yeah, China started that 20 years ago in Africa.
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  124.  IJŠƇĦͦ̚5ɜPƔNjƇάȥɓϋξ îπɛş\x91͈ǷǯƠɱ\  how many cities have 21m metro in such a small area on such horrible geography?
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  125.  @pc_suffering6941  Are you saying that Russia didn't more often invade it's neighbors? And Russia just got big because people wanted to join? Then later as part of Russian Empire / USSR, all those countries and nations just wanted to be part of Russia's Empire?
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  126.  @lilixerus3249  I don't get it? Are you saying Russia did not do so much invasion despite it being documented so well?
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  127.  @tolazytothinkofanamd2351  it’s not a luxury home if it’s the average home. Media home price is $770k for NYC, not $1m. A luxury homes in NYC would have to be well over $1m
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  128.  @kazuhirala  off course? You brought up 🇨🇳 and I pointed out they discussed it In the video. Did you not watch it?
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  129.  @kazuhirala  and you ignored the reason why it’s danger for China too have that much influence. Are you saying you support what’s going to ughurs?
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  130.  @aladin7339  no, I don’t support issue in Palestine. There is Indeed a lot of bad in the world but 🇨🇳 is currently committing gên-ide and has stated they may take Taiwan and they are currently trying to take South China Sea as well as East Sea. They also crack down hard on any speech or dissent in their country.
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  131. 7:24 that whole section was terrible. French are known for striking for the smallest thing so for him to argue that they are wildly underpaid and his evidence is the strikes is a terrible argument. In addition, they did another strike after the pay hike! It’s just the French way — strike as much as you can. And then to argue there is money for a pay raise because they had money to update some train lines was an even worse argument because he made that comment just after spending a minute on how badly the trains need updated!
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  132. 5:25 I don’t like the “min hourly wage needed to afford housing living alone”. So many flaws in that not the least which is people can have roommates which is common. I would like to know the min wage to afford housing if splitting a 2BR with a roommate
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  133.  @Santosh-lz3zz  What doesn't make a good reliable partner are govt that are TEauthTEoritarian. Democracy indexes show they they are increasingly becoming one and the large numbers of govt have concerns.
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  134.  @Santosh-lz3zz  Afraid of increasing tensions with China while India has engaged in many fatal skirmishes with China. Hmmm.. >how it increased tensions btw russia and ukraine Yes, because Ukraine did not deserve to be independent, right comrade? It is the Su or West fault that all of RU former colonies remain under RU in one way or another. Just like IND should have remained under the UK, right comrade? I also notice a common trend of those that support ev1l today. They always justify it by pointing to things that happened decades ago. I guess IN is the type that would 'eliminate' from life a million Muslims as they left to Pakistan 70 years ago. We live in the past, right?
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  135. Index funds only and everything should be transparent
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  136.  @anuroopchatterjee1746  So now that I pointed out that I read lots of the human rights reports, democracy ratings, and respectable media while also pointing out that diverse countries also can be authoritarian.can you acknowledge that Modi and his party are indeed authoritarian? What are your thoughts on Modi raiding the BBC India office after they released a documentary criticizing Modi?
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  137.  @kaushy  These guys are saying "No, our country is not increasingly áuthoritárián" then proceed to use all the talking points of áuthoritárián supporters. "George Sorros!", "Cant trust western organization!", "Have you ever been to India??" etc. Same used by Russians and Chinese. No different.
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  138.  @pritamghosh4360  - Since Modi and his BJP party came to power in 2014, he has pursued a relentless campaign to curb the independence of India’s media. As the Editors Guild of India put it, the BBC raids are part of a well-established “trend of using government agencies to intimidate press organisations that are critical of government policies or the ruling establishment” - The government – and many BJP-controlled state administrations – have also sought to intimidate journalists through the use of sedition and national security law
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  139.  Bruhh  "The land of India is the origin of democracy." It's actually Greece but wouldn't expect facts from someone that thinks that's relevant to 2023. How does it feel working for Modi online?
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  140.  @actionman4520  yeah no to what part?
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  141.  @TomatoToMaToes69  tactical nukes today would be equal to the nukes in 1946. I do believe a ww3 if it happened would be from tactical nukes. Though how many countries do you need for it to be a ww3? Nobody would help Russia.
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  142.  @Lena-vw6ye  has Putin called you back? You went quiet once people called out your Russian talking points. I wanted to add that as another option to the US using its best weapons, they could just give Ukraine the best weapons. This would include the best drones and HIMARS with 300k instead of 50km range. That would put Moscow pretty close to within range. Does Russia want missiles landing on moscow?
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  143.  @coyoboyo  fyi, Lana is a Russia govt worker. It’s already established by many experts of whom many themselves were US generals that the response will be US destroying every Russia position inside Ukraine and Caspian Sea (casualties of 100k Russian soldiers) or giving Ukraine the U.S. top weapons to do that. That’s for a major nuke strike on Ukrainian people. A tactical nuke with limited casualties (far from civilians and few if any Ukrainian military casualties) would likely lead to U.S. destroying the base where the nuke came from.
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  144.  @sg12onlinename40  which would, of course have the natural consequence of Russia trading NATO countries? so you’re arguing that Russia should use nukes on Ukraine now so that Russia could use an nukes on NATO later?
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  145.  @sg12onlinename40  what do you even mean when you say that Russia is by logic not allowed to lose a war that actually means anything to them? are you saying that any war Russia starts that they should be allowed to win it? sounds like a Russian government worker
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  146.  @sg12onlinename40  and you blame the west for helping Ukraine but don’t blame Russia and the Russian voters for supporting the invasion and keeping the offense going?
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  147.  @cortster12  Lena is Russian account. She uses the same tactics everywhere — won’t actually answer certain questions then makes a irrelevant comment. For example, I said US-NATO has far superior weapons than Russia and Lena responds “Germany won’t get F35 until 2026” as if NATO won’t use US F35 and other superior weapons.
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  148.  @Lena-vw6ye  is you’re real name Ivan? I’ve never seen a more obvious Russian account
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  149.  @Lena-vw6ye  you don’t believe that the United States would intervene if Russia use a nuclear weapon? Based on what? And what makes you believe that Russia would indeed use a nuclear weapon?
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  150. Is Kuhan Dharmarajan capable of acknowledging that China is commiting gen -ide in Xinjian?
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  151.  @cjclark2002  He's saying China's influence isn't something to worry and that China doesn't have some scary motivations. If you look at the UN vote on China's actions in Xinjian, most of the votes supporting China came from Africa. So, do you acknowledge the gen-ide in XJ? Can you acknowledge scary idea of China's influence in the region?
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  152.  @cjclark2002  You are praising China in other comments so now it makes sense
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  153.  @isaihernandez4136  you just asked but didn’t say anything yet you still defended PRC in South China Sea? Almost as if I predicted your position based on HOW you asked a question
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  154.  @isaihernandez4136  regarding Xinjian, seems you agree it some terrible things. In South China Sea, it’s disputed by many countries but China has built large number of artificial islands and places massive military in it and threa tening anyone that comes near. You are arguing that if disputed and even though china doesn’t have the best claims, you are okay with them using such force to take it? East Sea is similar - disputed islands.
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  155.  @triplemoyagames4195  I’m addition, there was no proof provided before nor where so many identified. There are suspicions of secret police but very vague where. Now we know where and to what extend these police stations operate
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  156.  @Arsenal1940  Soviets were involved in lots of proxy wars in war. They were no more involved in decolonization as Europe was involved in decolonization.
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  157.  @brendon1689  "Why are you pretending like you're not dodging the topic?" You start out with the false premise that Europe in 2022 is trying to colonize Europe like in 1800's. Why are you pretending like you're not defending China here?
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  158.  @ayodejiolowokere1076  not everything is black or white — there is a gray area. They care somewhat which is why they have sent billions in aid in the form of medical support, food aid when Africa is in trouble, and financial bailout support. Does that mean they are perfect and care tremendously? No, it just shows they do care to some extent. Unlike China that doesn’t do any of that and they only care about profiting — which sometimes can benefit both sides but it doesn’t mean at all China cares even one bit.
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  159.  @An-kw3ec  also the sea around Mexico tends to be hot and humid so people then and today live up in the cooler parts of Mexico
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  160.  @dramasoldier8669  you can say the same half the workers in France….because they always strike no matter the pay. It’s Also why France always has a much higher unemployment rate than Germany — the French find any reason to strike or not work.
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  161.  @rogink  Yeah, your comment doesn't show again! But it also could be because you said "ce-sors" word. Just simply reply "what is british d..." and finish word (isease). I'm curious if it's that word. YT is weird.
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  162.  @frka.836  no, europe has actually pumped a lot of money into Africa in the past 15 years. The issue is they didn’t increase that spending as China came in.
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  163.  @williamthesilent1849  it’s the same .50RMB crowd in any video about 🇨🇳 . They want to argue like PRC is perfect and nothing bad going on in Xinjianng.
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  164.  @williamthesilent1849  your reply to him doesn’t show up. YT removes a lot of comments
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  165.  @ALIHQG  you’re defending Iraq way to hard. You suggest Iraq / Baghdad was actually in a bad spot in the Middle Ages because a “the Silk Road brought good trade but it also brought bandits who aimed at raising and stealing those goods”. China had the Mongols and many other groups nearby constantly raid and eventually take over. Italy was worn down by raids by Huns (who may be Turkic / Mongolian) and Germanic tribes. Most empires had to face those same issues Iraq faced but many of them have moved on from it.
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  166.  @thegoblintown  there not many major U.S. cities with anywhere near the number of vacant homes due to speculation as there are places with no property tax. China has no property tax and it’s basically millions of homes vacant due to speculation.
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  167. The video literally discusses that. Also, China is the next Russia so them getting influence in Africa should be a concern but I suspect 'LA Prodigy" is the type that supports what's happening to Uyghurs and supports an attack on Taiwn.
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  168.  @aladin7339  so, why do you support PRC but then complain about Palestine?
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  169.  @aladin7339  and it’s not just Xinjian. Look at Tibet. And Hong Kong. And most importantly for international issues, look at their statements about taking Taiwn back with force if needed. And their attempts to take the South China Sea with force
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  170.  @enticingmay435  Norway already started with a decent economy before the large reserves of oil and gas were discovered. That helps tremendously because that means Norway had a full properly functioning economy and government before the oil and gas. Most of the other sort of similar examples of small population with large energy reserves had little economy and badly run government (often because they just gained independence after centuries of being ruled by another).
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  171. 7:50 you mention making it mandatory to live in or rent out a home and leaving some % of homes with no residency requirements. how would the govt decide which homes and which people would get that option?
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  172. They have literally said they want tax cuts. This isn’t b about cutting debt
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  173.  @Santosh-lz3zz  "better stop trading with Russia before begging to others" The west has reduced their trade with Russia by something like 80% with many at or near 100%. But IN drastically increased because hey -- have to support ev1l.
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  174.  @Santosh-lz3zz  You've seen my other comments. So you are going to say that IND isn't increasingly authoritarian? That all those human rights reports and democracy indexes are made up? That's a tactic people use to defend e1v1l...they just deny facts.
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  175.  @aspenin  Singapore only allows US and India navies to use their docks, not China. Singapore is highly concerned with China
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  176.  @Lena-vw6ye  Russia hasn’t been able to beat Ukraine and is losing. Ukraine has WEAK tools from the US. No Air Force, no advance long range missile system, no navy, no top of the line tanks, etc. how would they send US and NATO to Stone Age? Do you mean nuke? Well, that would also send Russia to before the Stone Age. What good is that for Russia?
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  177.  @aiprangon  I can’t understand your English. Any ways, you argued elsewhere falsely that US has secret police stations in other countries. You can’t be trusted.
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  178.  @aiprangon  you work for Beijing?
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  179.  @aiprangon  I’m sorry, are you saying that the US police stations abroad you identified are there with support of the host country?
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  180.  @aies.5074  " i mean cheery picking and maligning are very easy" I agree!! Look at all these people defending the direction Modi is taking! Nothing but cherry picking!
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  181.  @aies.5074  ">why are you just painting every major developing country authoratarian". Costa Rica is poor and #10 in democracy. Cape Verde & Jamaica very poor, more poor than your country and they 37 & 38. So argument failed. >"international organzation funded by geroge sorrows " So just repeating the same thing Chinese do? Wow, you really do want India to become China with all the rules, laws and etc.
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  182.  @Quizzingspeed  "Constitutional Amendment Act". The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019? The one that is being used to try to evict Muslims? all others are given a pahtway to stay?
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  183.  @Quizzingspeed  Wha's the next Modi talking point you have on the list?
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  184.  @dk-ln6om  I know how to read. Do u? Did you read that Modi had BBC in India raided for airing a documentary that was criticial of Modi? And somehow that's a good sign that áuthoritárián isn't happening?
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  185.  @pritamghosh4360  The raid happened about 2 months after the doc aired. Did modi tell you different? And you know it's not the first time something like this happened. So what's your source?
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  186.  @karandullet380  All the more good for us? Until the country becomes just like China! ​> "so what as long as it's in India's interest" sounds a lot like you are from China. I don't know how it's the people interest become them with the laws and rules and limits.
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  187.  @pritamghosh4360  Examples of how Modi is treating media: look up 1. 2020, Siddique Kappan, a journalist from Kerala - 2. , Dhaval Patel, editor of a Gujarati news website - 3. 2021, the journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem - 4. ministry of information and broadcasting blocked the television channel Media One The three journalist arrested in BJP states on manufactured causes.
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  188.  @pritamghosh4360  @Pritam Ghosh Examples of how Modi is treating media: look up 1. 2020, Siddique Kappan, a journalist from Kerala - 2. , Dhaval Patel, editor of a Gujarati news website - 3. 2021, the journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem - 4. ministry of information and broadcasting blocked the television channel Media One The three journalist arrested in BJP states on manufactured causes. One was reporting on sad story of a young Dalit woman. 2 & 3 critical of govt on handling of pandemic.
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  189.  @r.b.8018  Why? For bringing facts?
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  190.  @bobi6191  That's a great point. That's over $800 billion there.
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  191.  @chickentoucher55  exactly, all those Russians justifying the war crimes and land grab that their country is doing Ukraine war are people who think their Russian state media isn’t propaganda
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  192. Hello Vlad from Moscow. Yes, it is not russias fault for invading and annexing a country but it is the opposition’s fault because how dare they defend themselves?.
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  193.  @angrymaninapandamask6432  if they are historically a very poor country it means geography matters. That also doesn’t mean it can’t be overcome as they are evidence of it.
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  194. Ukraine needs war because the war was brought to them by Russia. The alternative just handing over the country to Russia.
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  195.  @miciboo9993  now go away after those lies
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  196.  @Lena-vw6ye  I mentioned nothing about the F35 but there have been over 800 built so not sure why say it will be 2026? Is this a paid by the post account? Anyways, if Russias weapons were as good as the US, why are are they losing to smaller Ukraine who is using weaker and older US weapons?
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  197.  @globalexpression6102  you: “US/NATO won’t intervene if Russia uses the WMD” Also you: “US/NATO won’t use WMD on Russia if Russia uses WMD”
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  198.  @afromanftw  there are so many Russian accounts here. Lana is everywhere with misinfo — probably just Ivan from Russia.
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  199.  @Lena-vw6ye  what makes you think that the US would not intervene but also makes you think that Russia is terrible enough to use nukes? In addition, even if the US doesn’t intervene directly, they are likely to give Ukraine the full US arsenal that would destroy Russia.
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  200.  @tsugumorihoney2288  Ukrainians started from scratch in 2014 and with US weak weapons are beating Russia. Ukraine is being trained but so have so many other militaries in the past. It takes a long time of training and creating a system to become a legit top level military. Ukraine is also receiving American intelligence information which also helps. Now imagine if Ukraine was given the full arsenal of US weapons — the top airplanes, drones, HIMARS with 300km range (not just the 50km range they have), and other advance missile systems
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  201.  @Lena-vw6ye  to sum up, you believe Putin is so Evil he would indeed use nukes and is okay with millions of Russians dying from Ukraine attacking Russian cities. And you think Putin so evil he would use nukes on NATO thus he doesn’t care if Russia is destroyed and millions gone.
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  202.  @Lena-vw6ye  US won’t do anything? Probably because Putin isn’t düm$b enough to use a nuke.
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  203.  @DilbeardAlbeard  so you don’t live in Sweden. Got it. Also, the glove doesn’t fit.
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  204.  @iraholden3606 how would Russia even know the missiles are from NATO / US and. If Ukraine? And you think they lack the intelligence to know what is nuclear and what is not? Plus they would also be told ahead of time they were going to be attacked in Ukraine by conventional weapons.
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  205.  @lzl4226  Russia keeps it vague just like the US keeps it vague how they and nato will respond — so they aren’t out in a position where they have to do something. Russia is threatening nukes but hasn’t detailed exactly the line so that they don’t seem to weak with their threats not carrying weight. And the US / NATO will respond to russias use of nukes with an all out aerial bombardment and missile strike. They would wipe out 50k-80k Russian soldiers in ukraine and in Black Sea in a short time. If Russia believes their offensive war in Ukraine being attacked in Ukraine by NATO deserved a nuclear attack on NATO, he would know NATO would destroy Russia and even if Putin is crazy, those around him would stop him if it came to that. They have families to worry about.
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  206.  @srccde  Lena is paid Putin pal. She says US and Europe wouldn’t Intervene if Russia used nuke because no precedence but there is also no precedence of anyone using a nuke in a world with multiple nuclear armed nation. She will have to admit that Russia is all bluff — but Lena is being paid to make the threat sound legit whole saying no one will stop Russia so just give Russia everything it wants!
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  207.  @Tony-uk5xb  why do you think the US can destroy every Russia. Soldier in the Black Sea? US has superior weapons by far. If Russia responds with nukes, why would Russia be okay with Russia being nuked?
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  208.  @srccde  Japan was much more of a threat than Russia right now— Russia uses a nuke, they become a much bigger threat than Japan ever was.
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  209.  @afromanftw  terrorist in mountains are so much harder to wipe out that armies out in the battle field. Do you know anything about war?
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  210.  @SuperCrow02  CAN be. It can also be Ukrainian troops given US weapons. And it doesn’t require NATO Troops on the ground. And it would be on Russian troops in Ukraine. So what is even your point in quoting that it CAN be US troops who attack Russian troops work CONVENTIONAL weapons??
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  211.  @red-vg2ds  I’ve seen dozens of people here “asking” questions. It’s loaded questions. If it wasn’t, how was I right that he would defend Chinas attempts to take South China Sea? He argued it’s disputed and China has a strong military so it makes it okay.
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  212.  @red-vg2ds  He just doubled down even more on defending China -- so I was 100% right on him.
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  213.  @isaihernandez4136  " That being said I like Chinese foreign policy as they don't push for political agendas (with the exception of Taiwan) when lending money (contrary to the IMF)." I'm so shocked!!! It's like I was 100% right about you. IMF provides BAILOUT loans while China is providing loans for their own projects. These are not remotely the same -- the west also provides loans for projects which would be true comparison.
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  214.  @isaihernandez4136  "By the way do you have any proofs of the "gen-ide" in Xinjiang" I'm so surprised!! I guessed it. Literally its the definition from the UN. There are 2 parts to the definition. The first is showing intent for it and the 2nd is just meeting just ONE of 5 acts. The intent: gen-ide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: The intent is indeed to destroy as much of that religioun or ethnic identity. of the 5 acts, the following are proven: b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (xinjian police files plus former policeman from Xinjing confirm it as well as countless of testimonies) C. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; D. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (forced sterilization -- lots of evidence).
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  215.  @Lucas-vr1qr  That's it. Well, besides the testimony from countless of Uyghurs. And besides the picture evidence of factories built next to the detention facilities where they placed up the innocent but rounded up Uyghurs. Other than that, just a picture of one woman harvesting crops.
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  216.  @isaihernandez4136  The full definition (which YT removes so no one will see this but you): In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a. Killing members of the group; b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
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  217.  @Lucas-vr1qr  source they have increased since 2017? The only data we have since 2017 is how rapid instant drop in births in 2017 when it all began. So actually the evidence does support a gen -ide. Can you also point out where in the UN definition of gen-ide it says that a population loss and an immediate one is required?
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  218.  @Lucas-vr1qr  if you can’t provide where in UN definition of gen-ide it says population losss and immediate population loss at that is required than u have proved to be a vvumao that won’t stick to facts
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  219.  @frka.836  you are making the mistake of conflating bailout loans with project loans. The loans with strings attached you mention are not for projects but to help the African nation — China offers no such thing. The loans they offer are for projects they will build or are part of the building process. The west also offers those but it’s not the same as the bailout loans you mentioned
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  220.  @frka.836  also, the western projects to build something do come with stipulations on safety and environmental concerns while China doesn’t care about safety and environmental concerns. Maybe that’s the strings attached you were talking about but you mentioned theories so I’m sure you are referring to bailout loans that require economic changes
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  221.  @frka.836  so, where you indeed talking about Bailout loans?
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  222.  @Lucas-vr1qr  Lucas, not going to Point out where in UN definition it says population decline is required? Typical vvumao
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  223.  @Lucas-vr1qr  you also ask why autocratic oppressive regimes support China? The same regimes at war with other Muslims? Why is that the only nations that provided any support for China are those ranked near bottom in human rights index?
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  224.  @Lucas-vr1qr  do you believe Iran and Saudi Arabia and Syria are better at human rights than Sweden or Norway or New Zealand?
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  225.  @Lucas-vr1qr why won’t you provide a source that population decline is a requirement? Was it more false info from you?
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  226.  @Lucas-vr1qr  you won’t bother trying to explain you made up that population decline is required for a gen -ide?
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  227.  @Lucas-vr1qr  you won’t bother trying to explain why most countries didn’t support China in UN vote and that from those that did, almost all were low ranked in human rights indexes and almost all that opposed China were the highest ranked in human rights?
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  228.  @Lucas-vr1qr  why would Muslims countries who have almost non existent human rights on their own Muslims population and constantly at war with other Muslims support a large trading partner in China? You can’t be serious
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  229.  @Lucas-vr1qr  I’m addition, Saudi Arabia is full of anti Christian and anti Judaism people. Yet they work with the US and are now having closer relations with Israel. It’s obvious human rights or for what their population support is of little concern for these kings and authoritarian autocratic leaders.
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  230.  @Leerill  London is not like Denmark. UK and London made laws that encourages such behaviors
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  231.  @concorkery8496  this thread is just full of pro China types (many supporting everything China does including what’s going on Xinjiang) and just typical anti west types. Europe most certainly cares and I would say they started caring the 80’s. At the very least they care just because they understand the history of Europe in Africa and have guilt much like some white people in the US have a guilt about what their ancestors did to black people in terms of slavery then segregation.
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  232. They've been saying that for 20 years with Chinese coming in.
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  233. Meanwhile China makes any deals it can without any any care (no safety concerns, no concerns about oppression, etc) and will keep taking business and influence if the west keeps trying to add strings to any deals
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  234.  @socialcredit9480  quick google search shows following for apartments in Tokyo; 25-38m² (269-409ft²) for a single person 38-50m² (409-538ft²) for 2 people (couples) 50-70m² (538-753ft²) for a family of 3 70+m² (753+ft²) for a family of 3 or more
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  235.  @socialcredit9480  I started by saying homes are only a little smaller than European averages. Average size in western Europe is around 100 square meters…some countries bigger and some smaller
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  236. I don’t think it would ever work, but the idea sounds good. There is too much to overcome. There is currently too much corruption and weak democracy among many of these countries. There are also too many differences between these countries and I don’t think many, if any will want to cede some power to this organization.
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  237.  @rickc.9664  that’s just a GD number I threw out to make a point for he uneducated people who keep thinking it’s the same effect if you spread the population around. It’s not meant to say 10 million could be moved today but that if they had done proper planing over the past 50’years, there could be 10 million fewer in Mexico City metro. Are you part of that uneducated mass coming here to defend Mexico City for its horrible management? Mexico City proper still added over 1.5 million in the past 10 years. They really should already be taken steps to stop the population growth but you people here are worthless and just complain “nah, can’t be done” despite many other cities/countries having done it
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  238.  @rogink  you’re comment doesn’t show up either. Maybe “French disease” is a trigger for censorship?
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  239.  @harounslacker  You are right, French don't protest. Never have....
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  240.  @glujaz  The french don't just strike for transportations. The yellow jacket protest was a collection of many different groups protesting. There also was Thousands of people across France came to the streets in October 2022, launching a statewide strike against the rise in the cost of living. And aso, The 2021 French labor protests were a series of protests and strikes organized by the General Confederation of Labour (France) (CGT), other trade unions, and French citizens dissatisfied with the country's economic and employment conditions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. These were followed by protests against proposed laws that would give greater powers to police On 23 January, workers from CGT and other worker unions, as well as workers at companies including Sanofi, Cargill, SKF, and General Electric, protested against layoffs 1 May 2022, Thousands of people joined May Day marches across France, calling for salary increases and for Macron to drop his plan to raise the retirement age. The list goes on.
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  241.  @glujaz  Denmark is a small country and easy to run a train there. So if you remove them, then France train drivers are among the highest paid in Europe!!! Thank you for helping me make my point.
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  242.  @Lyn-757  So you're not from France and know even less? yet you keep writing -- hypocrite much?? "What i'm saying is that you don't know much about France to only be able to enunciate cliches" I gave facts. Are you saying France has an economy as strong as Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria? They don't. So explain to me why that is? "most strikes and protests are not about transportation alone. " I know. THAT IS LITERALLY MY POINT. I've said that the french protest or strike about anything. That's not good for businesses....hence, one major reason why France lags behind all those countries I mentioned.
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  243.  @jeantaciturne81  So theres currently strikes and protest again. What a shock! It's almost like I was right!! ", we just don’t let the rich walk on ourselves like poor americans do" I didn't know Germans, Dutch, Swedes, Swiss, etc are also American.
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  244.  @carlosalba9690  the problem with Mexico City is far worse than a American cities — Mexico City is sinking, it has no Water to many of its residents, the infrastructure is breaking from the sinking, etc.
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  245.  @youngz13o  the problem is China will use that influence to defend their attempts to take Taiwan or keep their Gen -ide of Uyghurs going
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  246.  @wrestlinganime4life288  hey, are you allowed to acknowledge the gen-ide in Xinjian? Does that cost .50RMB?
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  247. @ " must has proven to be good with money" when it's his money on the line. So all you proved is that Elon may just be interested in what benefits HIM and not the US.
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  248. @ and I’m fairly centrist on economics but I’m against an oligarchy like what Trump is trying
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  249.  @ALIHQG  you never said that but that’s what your argument suggest. I’m pointing out that MANY nations/countries have faced the same problem but they aren’t poor or troubled like Iraq today thus you pointing to raids occurring centuries ago isn’t relevant to Iraq’s position today. And in terms of Iraq’s positions centuries ago, the raiding they faced was common of most major powers.
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  250.  @ALIHQG  it is a people problem even if you say it isn’t. Now, if your argument is that geographies shape people, that can also be true. But geographies don’t 100% shape the people — there is a lot more that goes on. The geography doesn’t change over time but the people do. It can be religion that changes the people, the leaders that change the culture and people, or many other factors. There is no geographic reason why Islam took over Iraq and not Christianity or Judaism or other religion. What happened was simply some guy in 600’s started a new religion and the people of that region preferred that religion over others. That guy decided to expand religion through force (like Christians did as well) and after his death, the next leaders lucked out that Roman Byzantine empire and Persian empire (who controlled Iraq) just fought a war lasting many years leaving both weak and the Islamic leaders (people) decided to expand into Iraq and conquered if easily because Persian leaders weakened their empire by fighting Roman’s for many years. Leaders and people helped create the situation where Islamic culture and religion would take over Iraq.
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  251.  @ALIHQG  and I’m pointing out that such a problem exist in many many other countries that are doing much better than Iraq so when you said you can’t blame it on a “people problem”, I just described how it is in large part a people problem.
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  252.  @robertb6889  Germany, Russia and Austria were also 3 of the big 5 powers in 1700's and 1800's. Austria and Russia didn't begin to decline until after Poland was disappeared then in the 1900s Russia remerged as an expansionist power along with Germany.
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  253.  @tolazytothinkofanamd2351  but luxury homes are a small % of total homes.
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  254.  @aladin7339  "i don't support prc. i just want ro highlight ur double standard" No, you just committed the double standard. You are defending PRC by saying "But look at Palestine". I'm not defending either but you are claiming I'm defending Palestine situation and not China.
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  255.  @aladin7339  In addition, they aren't even the same. PRC is putting millions of innocent in facilities and effectively now allowing them to practice their faith.
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  256.  @aladin7339  You can point to Gaza but then I will point to you that their leadership supported by the majority (in votes and polling) have stated their desire to kki|| Jews
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  257.  @mirandapillsbury7885  it also seems like a damned if you damned if you don’t. Europe does something and half the comments here are criticizing EU and saying “neocolonialism 2.0”. They don’t do anything and they are blamed for not doing much.
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  258.  @aiprangon  so you’re saying that China isn’t running secret police stations and or saying the US police stations identified here are not approved by the host country?
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  259.  @alanendurace  yea, Russia is the victim, right Ivan of Moscow? If Russia is allowed to take Ukraine, Georgia is next. And Moldova. Then after that, who knows? But Russia is victim and US has gone too far!
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  260.  @tsugumorihoney2288  you think Russians are so terrible that they don’t care for their own lives?
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  261.  @tsugumorihoney2288  you think Russians are so terrible that they don’t care for their own lives?
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  262. The big con against a Singapore system is obvious — see China and their human rights on Uyghurs Tibetans etc. There are many European countries that have great infrastructure so the notion that a dictator is better is a lie. Look at Africa or Cuba or Venezuela or North Korea for failures. Also, a major issue with such comparisons is that Singapore is a city while US or Germany or Spain is a country full of hundreds or thousands of cities. Huge difference.
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  263.  @pondeify ​​⁠let me guess..:Chinese nationalist? Or Korean nationalist? Which r u?
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  264.  @betterwithrum how is it revisionist by not including something that isn’t relevant to the story? U Chinese or Korean nationalist?
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  265.  @krlost4405 this story is about the cult not Abe. R u Chinese or Korean nationalist?
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  266.  @noideasforanyhandlesorry990  The common tactic of those that defend ev1| today is to point to things way in the past. Sure, Indians 'eliminated from life' over a million muslims as they left to Pakistan 70 years ago but I would not use that to describe IND in 2023. But people who defend ev1| today always point to the past when the world was different. Same tactic used by nâtĩŏňàʟîšʈ in China and Russia so no different than SeeSeePee methods.
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  267.  @0HOON0  yeah, the country that limits speech and press and where the leader arrest political opposition is really great with human rights
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  268.  @ccdsds3221  Taiwan is China based on what? Taiwan pays no taxes to China, has their own government, has their own military, has their own culture. So how is Taiwan part of China?
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  269.  @elitemeemoosood9869  the UN doesn’t even state Taiwan is part of China. They keep it vague. What they state is PRC is the representative of “China” seat.
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  270.  @elitemeemoosood9869  Yes it does add to it. It's just a clarification that might be needed for others who will still try to claim "Taiwan belongs to China because UN said so!"
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  271.  @Sudupe16  but where did they get this much money?
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  272.  @davidsplooge14  2005 is when they started building this new capital city
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  273. It’s still possible that Putin can be arrested if he is no longer president and is found to be in a country that respects thefindings of war crime. But Putin knows that so he will never go to a country where that might happen. Only the people of Russia can hold him accountable and that won’t happen
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  274. The war would be over quickly and your pal Vlad knows this which is why he won’t use the WMD
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  275. Spoken like a person who wants to live a China style authoritarian country.
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  276. ​ @pritamghosh4360  Examples of how Modi is going after media: - In 2020, Siddique Kappan, a journalist from Kerala, was charged with many crimes after reporting
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  277.  @aies.5074  Since Modi and his BJP party came to power in 2014, he has pursued a relentless campaign to curb the independence of India’s media. As the Editors Guild of India put it, the BBC raids are part of a well-established “trend of using government agencies to intimidate press organisations that are critical of government policies or the ruling establishment” The government – and many BJP-controlled state administrations – have also sought to intimidate journalists through the use of sedition and national security law Examples of how Modi is treating media: look up 1. 2020, Siddique Kappan, a journalist from Kerala - 2. , Dhaval Patel, editor of a Gujarati news website - 3. 2021, the journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem - 4. ministry of information and broadcasting blocked the television channel Media One The three journalist arrested in BJP states on manufactured causes. One was reporting on sad story of a young Dalit woman. 2 & 3 critical of govt on handling of pandemic.
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  278.  @vorrdegard2176  Not Pakistani but is that the only way to defend from the fact that Modi is áüthõrĨtárĨán? Just proving my point.
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  279.  @theeternal6890  "Ur arguments were well put and logical unlike that other guy calling India authoritative." Binskee called India authoritative. He also said "india has something like a non agression rule in their constitution" which it was pointed out to him it means nothing because there are plenty of examples of countries with such clauses finding ways around that. . Japan has clauses in their constitution about how their military is for defense purpose only yet they have suggested they will help Taiwan. In fact, that's probably how it will go -- India (assuming they keep going down that path) will justify some military action as defense just like Japan is doing in regards to their support for Taiwan. India and China both have 'freedom of the press' in their constitution. We know that there is 0% freedom in China and we know Modi is arresting journalists or punishing media that criticize him. Then Biskee writes about how it's difficult for someone in India like Modi to have too much power because it's a federal Republic. Russia is a federal republic. That's enough evidence that it can easily be done. So what again was his logical arguments?
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  280.  @theeternal6890  CAA is indeed concerning muslims in India. It's being used together with the National Register of CAA. - INDIA’S CITIZENSHIP LAW, IN TANDEM WITH NATIONAL REGISTRY, COULD MAKE BJP’S DISCRIMINATORY TARGETING OF MUSLIMS EASIER - Due to changes to India’s citizenship law, Muslims excluded from a national registry, which has already been implemented in Assam, cannot become citizens.
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  281.  @theeternal6890  "Thousands of Indians have been protesting against a new citizenship law as well as possible plans for a National Register of Citizens (NRC), alleging the measures are an attack on a secular constitution and against minority Muslims. Elsewhere in India, protesters say the citizenship law will be followed by the national register, which they fear is designed to expel Muslims who do not have sufficient citizenship documentation." also: "Nowhere is this more evident than in the northeastern state of Assam, some 2,000km (1,242 miles) away from New Delhi, where the BJP has ruled since 2016. Thousands of Muslim families have been forcibly evicted since 2021 from land they had been residing on for decades....The campaign to render families homeless has picked up steam in recent weeks. On December 19, about 250 families were evicted in the Nagaon district of Assam. A week later, 47 families’ homes were destroyed in Barpeta district. In the Lakhimpur district, hundreds of families were evicted in early January."
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  282.  @theeternal6890  I used Russia and China to make the point that those defending India/Modi are not using facts. Someone argued Modi can't have too much power because it's a Federal republic. Russia is a federal republic. Someone argued that India has freedom of the press and ""india has something like a non agression rule in their constitution". well, Russia and China have freedom of the press in their constitution. And Japan has in their constitution that they their military is for defense only yet they signanling they will help Taiwan against China by expanding 'for defense' to include Taiwan and did so by saying they are critical to Japan's national security. So what's the problem? I stated facts that can't be refuted.
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  283.  @AKB_Abhi  so hindú religion supports limiting rights of minorities and limiting rights of the press. I didn’t know. Thanks for informing me!
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  284.  @iz7828  something is burning? Democracy in India?
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  285.  @RG-un2vl  statistical evidence is literally what I have provided. You're saying the democracy rankings are all made up? You're saying all the reports of journalist in India being jailed or media being silenced is made up?
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  286.  @Iamarushix3sharma  what’s your argument? Modi can punish any media if they don’t post a specific positive story about him?
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  287.  @Iamarushix3sharma  India does not have the 4th most powerful military. There is a big drop off from US/Russia/China/Japan/NATO down to India. "During Russia Ukraine war whole world pressure India to take Ukraine side but still India maintain its neutral position." The world should have done the same when Japan was making it's way to India, right? >. We are not like west who love Said the guy from the country that human rights group says is very bad.
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  288.  @Steel0079  "Scheduled Castes have it best. There are reservations in place by government that priorities in many things" This reminds me of how Americans who don't like black people will say black people have it best because X or Y. If the scheduled castes were not discriminated against, there wouldn't be a reason to try to correct it through some government action.
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  289.  @Iamarushix3sharma  "Google India military position in world". That's based on soliders, not actual strength. " Human right index you point at the rank of India but doesn't want to accept the reason" So you agree India is slidiing into some bad human rights but it's justified because India/Pakistan decided to split over 70 years ago?
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  290.  @randomnyss2011  Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces - actual control lies with the executive headed by the Prime Minister of India. That would be Modi. >We will lead the world soon , not use tactical strategy to exploit or destroy. Mince ur words. Sounds scary. Like China and Ruzzia. really making my point.
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  291.  @Delacrow_l_Chawngthu  " What are the criteria.." Its easy to look it up. I gave you the names of the groups doing the rankings. For the most part, India has dropped heavily because Modi is limiting the free press and because of the human rights abuses.
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  292.  @tinkudas8320  "Japan has said but hasn't done it." Haven't done because China hasn't attacked TW yet. What's the relevance here? You're agreeing that India would also do what Japan is doing and just find ways to fit what their doing into a legal justification that matches the constitution?
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  293.  @tinkudas8320  " India follows it's constitution." Does India have free press in the constitution? Need answer....if you have common sense then you will understand India doesn't follow it's constitution. .
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  294.  @FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog  no one in brics is giving Russia material support and India is already turning its back on Russia. Brazil voted to condemn Russia and the others all abstained without one supporting Russia.
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  295.  @FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog  yes comrade, Russia has best missiles. That’s why it is losing to Little Ukraine.
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  296.  @michelbruns  And they even Call the Jewish Russian-Ukranian president a n-zi too! Their arguments don't even make sense.
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  297. Let’s totally believe this vvumao that supports gén-ide in XJ China
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  298. Historically (before industrial revolution) japan was certainly effected. Post industrial revolution, these things don’t matter as much.
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  299.  @Jay-qb9gi  why spread so much fake info on japan?
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  300.  @angrymaninapandamask6432  Japan was backwards country until the 1800’s though
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  301.  @vitojosie  I never said every country US invested in was a success. I also said that japan did it on their own after the 1960 and the first HSR cost about as much as the whole help from the US a decade earlier
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  302.  @erikjj235  yes, given that any topic about China or one of Chinas enemy is flooded with Chinese nationalist or their .50 RMB army i will guess he’s Chinese
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  303.  @timbehrens9678  Russian bots are out everywhere
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  304.  @KirkFickert  you do know that russia using a nuke on NATO would mean nukes on Russia. Putin maybe a dictator but those around him want to live and want russia to exist so no way will they allow Putin to drop nukes on NATO. This is why the use of conventional weapons against russia would only be on the soldiers in Ukraine and Black Sea, not in Russia. You understand this, right? Or do you think no one in the military and Putin himself don’t care for the destruction of their country and family? Anyways, the theory is that Russia would use the nuke only if they thought there would be no consequences. They use a nuke strike because Ukraine doesn’t have one. They would no use nukes on NATO.
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  305.  @TomatoToMaToes69  Mici Boo lied that US dropped tactical nukes on Yugoslavia. It’s a gnome. Also, @Lena appears to be a paid Putin pal just like Mici Boo
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  306.  @miciboo9993  oh, and what’s your source that nukes were used on Serbia? Nothing? You know who brings serbia up a lot? Russians — so you might be outing yourself as Russian.
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  307.  @Lena-vw6ye  so you’re saying Russia is indeed crazy enough to use nuclear with no precedence of nukes beings used in a world with multiple nations having nukes? But you’re saying the US and and Europe won’t respond to Russians nuclear use because there no precedence of the them intervening when a military uses a nuclear weapon. Everyone can see the purposeful terrible logic being use here
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  308.  @tsugumorihoney2288  does Russia want a Moscow and Sochi in dust just so they can have a Ukraine in dust? I’m confused what you’re arguing — do Russians not care for their lives?
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  309.  @Lena-vw6ye  US won’t do anything? Probably because Putin isn’t insane enough to use a nuke which would lead to his country being destroyed.
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  310. Still trust EU far more than the PRC.
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  311.  @sid-fp6bi  like typical Beijing worker, u bring up the US having police in other countries while ignoring those police have approval, are open, and are often invited as training programs. Nice try. This is about china running SECRET police stations without that host government approval.
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  312.  @sid-fp6bi  ​ and if anyone is interested in how mis info accounts work, look at Sid comment at the top here. He’s aware of the US police stations and locations which most people aren’t. So if he’s aware of those details, he fully knows that those police stations are working with the local governments and invited. He also knows Chinas police station were not invited and are in secret. So how do you mislead people as part of a pro CCP prop-gânda? Ignore lots of relevant information and make a simple comment that US is like China with both having police stations abroad.
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  313.  @lmao2351  part of the reason Sweden has a “high” crime rate is simply reporting. Sweden captures are a lot more crime than others simply based on how often people actually report crimes and how the government collects the data.
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  314.  @DilbeardAlbeard  Win Tan, you’re Asian right? So an immigrant to Sweden?
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  315.  @DilbeardAlbeard  no I’m not an OJ nor a Homer
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  316.  @Lena-vw6ye  hey pro Putin (yes, I can see your other comments). Anyone following the war would know that Ukraine doesn’t have long range missiles, no good fighter Jets, no navy, no advance missile system. The best they got is HIMARS and we’re only given missiles that can go 50km while US has missiles that can go 300km. Learn to do your job better.
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  317.  @SuperCrow02  there are multiple ways to adress it and and if you look it up, all experts say the solution include much higher increase in sanctions with support from China and India as well as an all out assault on Russian troops in Ukraine. That assault on Russian troops can be directly from the US/NATO or US/NATO giving Ukraine access to the top weapons. Instead of 50km HIMARS, it would be 300km HIMARS so all Russian troops in Ukraine are now easily hit. They would give them advance missile system. Possibly advance drones. Etc. Would russia respond with nukes on NATO? I don’t know, does russia want Russia to be destroyed with nukes as well?
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  318.  @SuperCrow02  also, lots of people who don’t really think this out don’t realize how dangerous it would be to not punish Russia if they used nukes. Without punishment, it sets the standard now that using nukes on offense has almost no major negative consequences thus nothing to stop Russia doing it on all other countries who don’t have nukes as well as other countries with nukes doing the same. Imagine China now using nukes to take Taiwan, the South China Sea and much more.
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  319.  @SuperCrow02  do you think Putin is so evil he doesn’t care that millions of Russian would die in nuclear attacks if Putin uses nukes on NATO? Do you think every person that would be involved in approving and following through on the orders to use nukes also are so terrible they don’t care for the lives of millions and millions of Russians dying in a nuke attack? My point is that Putin will push as far as he can until the point it means nukes on Russia. If there is no military response to Russia using nukes in Ukraine, Putin will keep taking everything he wants by using nukes.
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  320.  @SuperCrow02  such sanctions as you describe are likely impossible— it would require China and India and others to not buy Russian oil or gas. That may be impossible. They might agree to some cut backs or sanctions on other Russian goods but ultimately that wouldn’t be enough to completely shut down Russia. You know what Russians value more than their money? Their lives. So Russian would put up with 10% or 20% decline in gdp to keep fighting in Ukraine and to use nukes but they won’t put up with deaths of millions of Russian civilians. You agree?
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  321.  @SuperCrow02  do you think Putin is so evil he doesn’t care that millions of Russian would die in nuclear attacks if Putin uses nukes on NATO? Do you think every person that would be involved in approving and following through on the orders to use nukes also are so terrible they don’t care for the lives of millions and millions of Russians dying in a nuke attack? My point is that Putin will push as far as he can until the point it means nukes on Russia. If there is no military response to Russia using nukes in Ukraine, Putin will keep taking everything he wants by using nukes.
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  322.  @SuperCrow02  nobody said anything about NATO troops inside Ukraine. Do you think drones don’t exist? Or airplanes? Missiles?? Just to confirm I’m not dealing with Ivan from Russia, please confirm whether you think Putin and those around him care zero about having millions of Russian dead from nukes if Putin decided to use nukes on NATO? You keep ignoring that question but you highly suggest Putin and those who make the decisions will use nukes first on the west even knowing it would destroy Russia.
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  323.  @SuperCrow02  just seems to me you are indeed Ivan from Russia. You ignored the question many times if Putin and all those involved in a decision to use a nuke on NATO care that Millions of Russian would die in a nuke retaliation. You also seem to twist my argument around in order for you to low key defend Russia.
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  324.  @SuperCrow02  uneducated type that things drones and planes require troops on the ground in Ukraine? Come on man, you know drones and planes are up in the air and can be based outside of Ukraine. US literally took out Al qaeda top guy a few months ago in the capital of Afghanistan without troops on the ground — it was an attack from above from a drone that started well outside of Afghanistan. Do you really know this little or just trying not to answer questions so you can low key defend Putin?
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  325.  @SuperCrow02  Educate yourself and watch the video from TLDR News “what if Putin goes nuclear” or what former US General David Patreas. General Phillip Breedlove has also said Similar (look up on YouTube “ former general explains how the west would respond if Putin used a nuke” on Times Radio channel). They are all saying the same story — US Likely would respond with aerial campaigns to take out all Russian positions in Ukraine and Black Sea.
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  326.  @isaihernandez4136  "The difference being that China now is arguably militarily superior to all the countries around" I guarantee you have never used that to defend the actions of other countries not named Chin.a.
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  327.  @isaihernandez4136  " I am a realist" is what I always hear from those defending China. ". I believe any powerful country act based on the its own interests which lead to win-lose situations. " Countries intersted and value systems vary. Adolph H and UK both acted in their own interested in WW2 but would you say they both equal? Your defense of China here falls apart because you suggest Adolph H is the same as Churchill.
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  328.  @frka.836  "Then must of these are directed to country generally in a war, the same who are kicking France out, and when in a stabled country, they are stolen by the politicians, " How far back you going? I'm discussing the past 30 or so years and not war related. Parts of it are also stolen by the corrupt politicians which is why these bailout loans usually have many strings attached because they often included human rights reforms, economic reforms, democracy reforms, etc. "So, naturally after 10 years, when you compare, the average person see nothing of those loans. " The problem is that bailouts isn't something that the people actually can see or touch and they thus don't value it as much as it truly is valuable.
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  329.  @frka.836  I agree that EU should be providing loans besides bailout loans. The issue is how to compete with CHina when China's loans are for their own projects with little care of safety or environmental concerns. EU (the west in general) has a history of adding a lot of 'regulations' to their project that increase the cost of the project. I do believe the EU should be far less concern with safety and minimum wages for these projects in order to compete with China. That seems to be what you want so EU should do that.
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  330.  @frka.836  FYI, when why topic of a video includes China, it will be flooded with Chinese nationalist and vvumaos (vv = w)
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  331.  @Lucas-vr1qr  the evidence is right in front of me? Yeah, I’ve seen the Xinjian police files and china files — two sets of documents detailing their plan to mass arrest and beat detainees.
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  332.  @Lucas-vr1qr  the evidence in front of me also includes evidence of majority of religious sites being demolished or damaged, countless testimonies from Uyghurs, etc.
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  333.  @Lucas-vr1qr  oh, in case you didn’t notice that when you spell “genocide” it often gets removed from YT. I only found your comment complaining about my spelling in your vvumao history but it doesn’t show up otherwise
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  334.  @Lucas-vr1qr  vvumao .50 RMB Army
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  335.  @Lucas-vr1qr  why are u subscribed to YouTubers paid by CCP to promote the CCP?
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  336.  @isaihernandez4136  vvumao, why are you in support of the gên -ide in xinj?
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  337.  @isaihernandez4136  you asked questions then literally went on to defend china on it. How predictable that you defend evil actions
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  338.  @krombopulos_michael  cheaper housing shouldn’t even be built on such an expensive and luxury construction. I’d say allow all luxury (or whatever the market demands) than just take the heavy taxes from it to help pay for affordable homes elsewhere where the money can build a lot more homes.
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  339.  @PutXi_Whipped  so why do you deny the evidence of the gén -ide? Did you read the Xinjiang Police Files detailing their plan? It’s literally CCP documents.
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  340.  @PutXi_Whipped  did guy read the previous china cables also detailing their plan? Or read the testimonies from countless number of Uyghurs?
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  341.  @PutXi_Whipped  or did you see the evidence that majority of Islamic religious sites were demolished or damaged?
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  342.  @williamthesilent1849  they actually do — while some of them live in a free country. Others get in vpn to avoid their govt but only to defend that same govt.
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  343.  @brendon1689  " i responded topically and you replied with "genocide in Xinjiang" " Topically by misleading in an attempt to defend China and be negative on EU. The fact you cannot acknowledge whats going on in Xijian proves it.
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  344.  @balabanasireti  Coming from the guy with various anti-EU and pro-China comments. Why are you a supporting of gen-ide in 2022 China?
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  345.  @balabanasireti  europe did something awful to Africa like what China is doing in 2022 to Uyghurs
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  346.  @grisflyt  there isn’t one In Xinjian? But it literally fits the definition of one per the UN. Are you saying they haven’t rounded up millions of innocent and sent them to one of the nearly 400 identified facilities created (or modified) in the past 5 or so years? And you’re saying the countless testimonies from Xinjian population isn’t true? The pics of religious sites disappearing from its location is also not true? The many leaked CCP documents and many of them public documents aren’t true?
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  347.  @grisflyt  “China May be bad” but you just did a vvumao and said they aren’t doing anything bad in Xinjian based on your .50 RMB contract
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  348.  @carkawalakhatulistiwa  "uni Eropa pland" No idea what that means. "Africa must be poor" poorest region in the world. That's why millions of Africans have made their way to Europe and many more attempted.
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  349. @Zaydan Naufal who ever said Europe didn’t have any Gen -ides? Defending what Serbia did is like def did what China is doing so you’re point is lost when you defend them
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  350. @Zaydan Naufal are you saying you support the gen ide against Kosovo?
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  351. @Zaydan Naufal yes. Lol, no to what?
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  352.  @ayodejiolowokere1076  if europe didn’t care why do they spend billions of Euros in medical and food aid and bailout?
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  353.  @ayodejiolowokere1076  minuscule portion? You expect them to send 2% or 3% of their gdp? That would send them to recession. You are basically setting unrealistic expectations so you can keep to your narrative they don’t care and refuse to answer if you would help your neighbor so I assume you indeed would NOT because you are not a kind person.
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  354.  @ayodejiolowokere1076  that’s assuming you aren’t a paid anti west or pro China account
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  355.  @hayatimofire4852  aid prevents loss of human life. Also, europe is still biggest trade partner for most of these nations so why pretend they also don’t have trade with Europe?
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  356.  @hayatimofire4852  Marshall plan was directly after ww2 destroyed those regions. So US should have Marshall plan for whole world??
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  357.  @hayatimofire4852  w8ma0
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  358.  @valentineisraelshabangu4069  besides spending billions in medical aid and financial aid, and besides the big trade with Africa, what has Europe done for Africa?
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  359.  @kantovagrant3194  “europe wants Africa to stay poor”. Is that why they have provided so much aid? And China just wants to help them like they help the Uyghurs and their gen cide
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  360.  @animebrospodcast4577  And China wants to help? Why has Europe (and US) been spending a lot of money on aid for Africa?? Medical aid, food aid, financial aid, etc?
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  361.  @alexsalemo9137  “evil west” while suggesting the Soviets are good? Stalin killed tens of millions of his own!
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  362.  @kysfggt  so is europe. Europe is still the major trading partner for most African countries
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  363.  @teenaygoan4296  Africa was poor before Europeans arrived and even if Africa remained poor because of European colonialism, it’s 2022. What matters is what they do now and the future
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  364.  @teenaygoan4296  what country / government do you support that doesn’t have a terrible past?
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  365.  @teenaygoan4296  sub Saharan Africa was always poor. Are you actually saying that Africa in 1800 was rich and comparable to Eurasia?
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  366.  @mroverdose1133  what are you going on about? Reddit? Let me guess, Genzedong? If you think Africa wasn’t poor relatively to Europeans then you probably are the type supporting Chinas gen cide of Uyghurs?
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  367.  @silveriver9  from UN Human Rights Chief “China’s treatment of Uyghurs may be crime against humanity, says UN human rights chief”
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  368.  @silveriver9  funny how you and Kwowkai So were in both of these random videos about China and found me in both. Not a coincidence.
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  369.  @samanth.  China should mind it’s own business too. Everyone should let Africa stay poor, right?
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  370.  @romanvssvmromania  chance to work with Europe? 100%. That’s what China did to get wealthier — let in a lot of foreign businesses and capital.
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  371.  @INTJ791  EU is bigger export market for Africa. Same is true for imports
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  372. These videos attract nothing but anti west or pro China types who just want to criticize anything europe does
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  373.  @ThaBigB  AT WHAT COST!!
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  374.  @3-Kashmir  how do you cooperate with African people when it’s government that’s make policies?
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  375.  @ookidokii  drastically cut coal burning in the past 20 years, so what are you talking about?
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  376.  @dramasoldier8669  I do appreciate you suggesting strikes aren’t common and then say it has to be low pay and working conditions but somehow can’t be that the French will protest or be unemployed for the smallest of reasons.
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  377.  @HakingMC  That's literally my point. The people actually paying (tax payers) aren't the ones doing the negations with the unions.
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  378.  @Lyn-757  so only the French can talk about France? Pablo, are you from Paris? If not, stay out of it. And why is it that France does worse than Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands? They must be making some mistakes, right?
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  379.  @miliba  Yup, that's how Russia got so big. They kept invading and invading it's neighbors.
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  380.  @simonmeszaros2770  " huh this leads nowhere. peples were in wars all over europe all the time" except the point is that Russians aren't honest when they complain about this since it was far more often they were invading others then Russia being invaded. And invading Russia was often difficult. "Russians now want to expand westward " yes, they act like it's the 19th century. Archaic, dangerous and civilization has moved forward. "but fortunately they took too big of a bite even for a bear as they like to call themselves. " And you know what would make Russia better off? Progress. Reducing corruption, having an actual democracy, having more rights, better international relationships, etc. But when a person becomes autocratic, what is best for the people isn't what the autocratic cares about.
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  381. Privatization with high regulation seems to be the path the works best around the world for airports. And now rail is doing it too. Italy now has a private high speed rail and it’s even better than the state owned though it’s great there were two options when I was there.
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  382. They would only get involved if Russia uses nukes. I don’t think you understand what a horrible and dangerous precedence it would set of Russia used nukes in an offensive war and there was no punishment for it. It would set a new era where some other nuclear powers would begin using nukes in offensive strategy.
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  383.  @wrestlinganime4life288  so China does to all its citizens what US did to Venezuela— sanction it’s govt? Wait, this comparison doesn’t make sense.
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  384.  @wrestlinganime4life288  seems like you do agree though that 🇨🇳 is extremely cruel to its own people?
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  385.  @wrestlinganime4life288  Why do you support gen-ide in Xinj China?
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  386.  @DTTArt  yeah but any given time, UK or US could have invaded or done a coup or whatever.
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  387. ​@ These guys defending Elon because "he's rich & proved he can run businesses" are actually making the case why we can't trust him. Elon cares about this personal interest and no the US. He's interested in cutting taxes for himself, not helping the US as a whole.
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  388. @magyara Elon is good at making money for himself. Gee, I wonder if he has the interest of Americans or the interest for himself when he’s cutting all these programs and looking for tax cuts for the wealthy
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  389.  @jascrandom9855  actually, UK and France barley did anything after the appeasement so no, that’s not what it was for. In fact, after Germany invaded Poland and the allies declared war, nothing happen for well over half a year. They really didn’t prepare that much so they took that time to start preparing.
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  390.  @iraholden3606  it works if you are germany in the 30’s
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  391.  @jascrandom9855  I don’t think it was to buy time. I think they literally thought it would work — that if they let Germany unify with the German Austrian and allow him to take German parts of Czech Republic, Adolph would stop as there was no more Germans to take.
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  392.  @jascrandom9855  well they didn’t do much preparing so I have trouble believing you they did appeasement knowing it won’t work but meant to use that time to prepare for war.
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  393.  @jacobbambam5460  OP didn’t say anything about CNN so all you did was prove this video right by using a strawman. And most evening shows in cnn are sensationalism but they have a couple programs that are solid (weekend programs) and they have a good investigation team doing actual investigation. However, the popular evening shows are the worst of cnn. Still much better than Fox News.
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  394. The latter…sort of. The government made policy 70 years that created the car culture but now as they want to add more public transit it’s an issue because it’s such a car centric city.
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  395.  @jacobbambam5460  nobody watches The View for news. And OP didn’t mention CNN so you just proved this video right by using a strawman argument.
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  396.  @walt1955  a higher tax for rental? I’ve never heard of that and it sounds like a good idea.
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  397.  @mirandapillsbury7885  lots of countries were as poor as those African countries were 50 Years ago but they made the reforms and are now economically much better off. Could europe do more to help out? Sure but those African countries are so poor it will take a long time and lots of money from the EU to even get to a strong enough economy so that migrants don’t leave Africa.
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  398.  @vicentefrancavalcarcel3995  100% agree. It's not a difficult job to automate. Unions will likely block it. I know in my City in the US there is a city to suburban line and they still do the ticketing manually because the union of the train ticket collector blocked automating the process. So a worker still comes around collecting tickets or scanning your online pass. You could easily just have the scanning done before entering the train to get past. 25% of the train conductors on this line make over $100,000 a year.
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  399.  @pierren___  People strike if they think they can get more. That's how it works. Often little to do about if the job is properly paid according to other countries or other domestic jobs.
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  400.  @pierren___  Only one country (Denmark) in Europe has a significant higher pay for train drivers. There are about 5 or 6 countries about the same as France, give or take 10% and then the rest are well below. Food for thought.
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  401.  @search4omniscience  ok
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  402.  @eaturcookiescookie7462  nah, erasing their present borders will lead to war. Unless the government in power is okay with giving up land.
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  403.  @Anonymous-hp1tg  100 million people supported Trump so the people don’t always know what’s best for them
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  404. I don't understand? Do you think Germany is still run by a H!tler type?
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  405. 67th comment!
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  406.  @akmalhafiz8763 under Elons dictatorship, the days of US reign at the top are numbered
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  407.  @iwiffitthitotonacc4673  Okay, that makes sense. So it's not just given to anyone that applies, they need to have special circumstances. Makes sense.
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  408.  @sg12onlinename40  screw with ethnic Russians in Ukraine? You mean the Russian backed rebels, who started the war in the Dunbas region? So you’re saying that Ukraine should’ve just let the region break away and join Russia? ok, vlad from Moscow .
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  409.  @sg12onlinename40  “ Russia is not the good guys“ then proceed to defend russia. Nice try. Here is you’re 50 rubles
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  410. Yes. That’s what former US general Patreas (sp?) said. He said US / NATO knows where most Russian troops are located in Ukraine and in Black Sea and the US has significantly better missiles and air force that they would wipe out all 50k+ troops in Ukraine with an aerial bombardment and missile strike. He said it would effectively end the war.
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  411.  @harryloo8544  that’s not entirely true. In most countries, the majority of the people vote. And politicians generally do try to work for their voters. But on a few issues, they of course appease their rich donors.
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  412.  @telanos2492  there are many European countries that have great infrastructure so the notion that a dictator is better is a lie. Look at Africa or Cuba or Venezuela or North Korea for failures. Also, a major issue with such comparisons is that Singapore is a city while US or Germany or Spain is a country full of hundreds or thousands of cities. Huge difference.
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  413. @Carlior Fontuna these people praising dictators are ignoring the human rights in China and failures in North Korea and ignoring what Putin is doing to Russia. Additionaly, Singapore is an island city so comparing it to a country with hundreds or thousands of cities is not a comparison to make. Switzerland and Netherlands and other European cities do have great infrastructure.
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  414. @@introboy1”50% of industries in dprk are owned by worker cooperatives”…that are controlled by the govt
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  415.  @AA-ju6mk  for sure. Russia invading annexing parts of Ukraine somehow has to be the US fault. Russia doing the same in Georgia somehow have to be the US fault. Russia effectively getting rid of democracy and making Putin a dictator Hass to be the US fault. Putin, making nuclear arm threats has to be the US fault. Russia, helping the Syrian government that was using chemical weapons on it civilians has to be the U.S. fault. It is never Russia’s fault.
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