Comments by "M S" (@MS-ii1sv) on "Econ Lessons" channel.

  1. This guy only cares about Ukraine. He doesn't care about his own country or any other aside from Ukraine. Total tunnel vision.
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  2. ​ @volo7877 A dollar bill is one gram. So a million notes per ton roughly.
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  3. ​ @Lasse65 Russia took it without a shot fired. Then Ukraine let them sit there for eight years. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. If they couldn't get it back then there's no way they're getting it back now.
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  4.  @Lasse65  The UN doesn't mean anything unless all the security council members agree. Russia is a security council member and so is China. Recognized or not it will be a part of Russia in the same way that Taiwan is not a part of China even though they say so. Sanctions are a joke too. Russia has already beaten the most aggressive sanctions ever. The only way Ukraine gets any territory back is through direct NATO intervention and anyone who wants that is a madman.
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  5.  @Lasse65  Yeah. I just said it doesn't matter what the UN said nor who recognizes the territory as Russian. Russia's physical presence is what counts.
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  6.  @smuook1969  No. He won.
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  7. How come you started pronouncing your name differently? Is that another thing in the long list of things you don't know how to pronounce?
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  8. So if every single Ukrainian is trustworthy then why did Zelensky need to clean up corruption in the first place?
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  9. How can you have comparitive advantage when you soend all the money and effort inventing things and then the Chinese just copy it.
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  10. So why did they have corruption in the first place?
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  11. Well that proves it. An imaginary game you made up in your head says Ukraine will win. You just have to get this video to Putin and he'll turn around and leave tomorrow.
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  12. Oh really? Russia has spies? Wow. What a revelation. I'm pretty sure the US has spies in Russia too. They just traded dozens of them in case you weren't watching the news.
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  13. Yeah. They've been through way worse than whatever he thinks is going on and they've never been doing better than they are now. The sanctions were supposed to tank their economy instantly but he's saying "just wait". Meanwhile the US is still the reserve currency after two years so that invalidates Russia's economy according to him. This guy is just a meathead with family from eastern Europe who can't get over something that happened 100 years ago.
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  14.  @Mrdm0066  They compare us to flat earthers but they don't censor flat earthers.
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  15. ​ @EconLessons You were there in the 90s. It's like saying the Euro is no good because you went to Germany in the Weimar period.
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  16. Of course they do. Any developed country could do it. The problem is they would get their facilities destroyed in a heartbeat.
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  17. I'm an economist. I know stuff.
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  18. He's out to lunch. For some reason this channel came up and I keep coming back to see what retarded shit he says next.
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  19. ​ @paperandmedals8316 That's probably the part of town where guys go for that sort of thing.
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  20. Good plan. Get absolutely everyone to agree on absolutely everything across the whole planet. Let's use western democracy, a system built entirely on dividing populations against themselves, to achieve this.
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  21. Japanese Yen.
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  22. The reason she ran on abortion is because she had nothing else. Ukraine being the disaster that it is wasn't even talked about after Biden was swept aside. Well it wasn't by Harris. Trump talked about what a waste of lives and money it is and how he's gonna end it. Sure the evangelicals voted R. They always vote R. All he had to do is give them some lip service. Immigration was a huge issue that you totally ignored. You think people like paying for someone to live in a hotel after they sneaked into the country? So basically the election was about A. The economy and B Stopping frivolous spending on non Americans while Americans are struggling. So to stop pissing money away on a stupid war is a good start if you want to fix the economy. Tell me how it benefits the economy to send hundreds of billions of taxpayer money overseas.
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  23. It's Sun Tzu. Who is Lak Tzu? Lao Tse? You don't have a clue what you're talking about.
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  24.  @Lasse65  It lasts forever unless the US decides to go in there but then we're talking nukes.
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  25.  @Lasse65  Quit listening to this Mark guy. He's a clown. He has no idea what he's talking about.
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  26.  @jasperchance3382  No way Ukraine is getting them out of there.
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  27. A pipeline to Europe from Canada? Do you have any idea how insane of an idea that is and how long it would take to build if it was even possible let alone economically feasible?
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  28. People want the borders closed. They care more about the US than Ukraine. Russia is the least of theor worries.
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  29.  @smuook1969  I must have missed the part in the constitution about Ukraine.
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  30.  @smuook1969  This whole video is about what's good for Ukraine and who you should vote for. So what is it about the constitution that Trump is violating?
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  31.  @smuook1969  Never thought of it that way. You're right. He shouldn't have stepped down. But I imagine he didn't have the backing of the intelligence and military leadership so it wasn't really possible. He chose to live to fight another day and he's still here and the front runner so he probably made the right call.
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  32.  @smuook1969  Did you enjoy watching your hero putting one foot in the grave on live TV last night? I bet the other world powers and adversaries are quite intimidated by that performance.
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  33. ​ @EconLessons Are you still endorsing that vegetable after last night? You're lost dude.
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  34. Go ahead then and vote for a vegetable. ​
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  35. India is the worst culprit.
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  36. Like the Japanese soldiers that were living in the jungle for 50 years.
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  37. How different are Russians really from Ukrainians? Would you say that Ukrainians are closer to Russians or to western Europeans? Are they closer to Russians or Americans? Think about this from that perspective and you'll get an idea why so many people in the west aren't very invested in the conflict. The only reason anyone has any opinion either way is because they've been bombarded with a media campaign and they either buy into it or are annoyed by it.
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  38. He likely is not religious but at least he isn't openly hostile to Christianity like western governments. Joe Biden dedicated Easter the holiest day of the calendar to transexuals. Justin Trudeau said he understands why people would burn 50 churches across Canada. Churches across the west were prohibited from operating during the lockdowns. The US congress just banned publicly telling the full story of The Passion. In what way is Russia on the side of darkness if you believe in this sort of thing?
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  39. Dionosius or Dionysius?
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  40. Okay. So why does everyone say Russia when it's all the bad stuff the USSR did? Stalin wasn't Russian. Beria wasn't Russian. Trotsky wasn't Russian. Kaganovich wasn't Russian. Many of the higher ups were not Russian.
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  41. ​ @hughjanis6439 35 trillion (12 zeroes) or are you using the European milliard, million, billion system?
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  42. ​ @Mad_Dog_of_the_Regime Yeah. I wonder about this moron and how his channel was even boosted to the point where anyone saw it. I just come to watch the stupidity to see how out to lunch the last few Ukraine shills are.
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  43. ​ @johnthornton2075 People have been screaming their heads off about this for decades and nothing has happened. You expect the Liberals of all people to get it done now in a timely manner?
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  44. ​ @EconLessons The approach to use is to increase your own production and hurt Russia's state budget like Trump was doing. Biden bled the SPR dry and it did impact the price for half a year but it's not an option anymore. For whatever reason the US and Canada are hostile to oil and gas production so Russia is continuing to benefit. The idea that it's at all possible to completely stop Russian oil production is ridiculous to begin with so you end up with token attacks that raise the price and Russia ends up making more money with less production.
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  45.  @roiq5263  Of Ukrainians in Ukraine.
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  46. ​ @MrTreacletime  Yeah sure. China is gonna piss off Russia when there's trouble brewing in Taiwan. How does that make sense?
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  47. ​ @EconLessons So why are things being offered? Surely if the US had Russia on the ropes they wouldn't be starting negotiations. There's clearly a disconnect between the slop they put out for the mainstream and the facts on the ground. You've been believing the slop and regurgitating it for your gullible viewers.
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  48. ​ @EconLessons Invest in them right now if you're so sure they'll win.
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  49. ​ @EconLessons Take off under their own steam or by charity from the US and EU? They are closely related to Russians so I don't see how they would manage things any more competently.
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  50. So would you say you can judge today's China by what you experienced as a tourist 30 years ago?
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  51.  @johnwalsh4857  Meanwhile the west has gotten worse. So why would an up and comer want to be ruled by them?
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  52.  @johnwalsh4857  Wow the comment erasure is bad around here.
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  53. Yes. Britain. Canada. Australia. New Zealand. Any "first past the post" system has this feature.
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  54. Trudeau lost the popular vote in the last two elections.
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  55. Tulisi Garberd. Vika Ramasarmy. Pete Hesit. lol and you've got a piece of paper to guide you. Maybe learn the names of these people before you try and criticize their qualifications. I bet you they can at least read a sheet of paper without garbling the words.
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  56. What gratification instant or otherwise would today's western youth get out of Russia's defeat? I think they're more worried about if they'll ever be able to own a house or start a family.
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  57. ​ @EconLessons What? An internet Ukraine shill for president? Again. People care about other things aside from that.
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  58. ​ @EconLessons Okay so why didn't NATO give them a bunch of shells if they have more than Russia? They spent like 400 and something billion so far. Maybe throw some shells into the mix. I'll tell you why. They don't have them and they can't make them fast enough. That's why they are getting cold feet about supplying Ukraine. It's become an embarrassment and they don't want to be seen throwing good money after bad. I think you're maybe one of the last few people who still believes in this sham.
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  59. All the Slavs were invaders after the fall of the Roman Empire. In Poland's case there were Germanic and Celtic people where they settled. I bet you there was a town or village there at what became Warsaw. Catholicism is a big part of Polish culture. Well they got that from the Italians (like you claim the Russians got ballet) about 500 years after the rest of Europe. Poland still has a culture and so does Russia.
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  60. Do you guys honestly think that Ukrainians don't drink vodka just as much as Russians do? They are practically the same people. It would be like the Portuguese calling the Spanish a bunch of winos. Incredibly delusional.
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  61. Why put sanctions on Russia if you're so into free trade?
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  62. Why would they want to crash their own economy?
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  63. ​ @EconLessons Maybe a dose of realism is that you can't put the whole world under your thumb forever. Especially not if they have as many nukes as you do. If Russia wants to beat up protestors or invade the country next door what's it to you? So what if they're poor? They will not give up and they want it a lot more than you do. The Germans kicked their asses initially but they beat them eventually after much hardship. They beat Napoleon by burning down Moscow. The Ukrainians probably have the same mentality but they just don't have enough bodies or equipment to win. It's simple math. 150 million Russians vs 40 million pseudo-Russians.
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  64. ​ @reluctantheist5224 More like retardation.
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  65. They're basically the same people. If they join the west they'll get flooded with Africans and the country will never recover.
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  66. If you guys are so smart and you think so poorly of Americans then maybe you should handle Russia by yourselves.
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  67.  @arnesbeganovic  Good. So quit whining and leave Americans to worry about their own problems.
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  68.  @beatreuteler  The question isn't whether Americans can afford it. The question is how does it benefit them to be a white knight for a bunch of stuck up Europeans who insult them constantly and won't pay for their own defense? That's not a Russian talking point That's an American one. Russia is no threat to the United States whatsoever provided we don't trade nukes with them.
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  69.  @beatreuteler  Also. Comparing anyone who disagrees with you to a stone age primitive isn't a great way to win anyone over to your cause.
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  70. ​ @melolonthamelolontha9099 The video is all about how Europeans know stuff that Americans don't know so Americans should listen to them. The point of the video is stupid because any middle aged American or older grew up hating Russia and if they missed that time they have been subjected to an anti Russia media campaign for the last ten years. Americans have far bigger problems to worry about like their own border.
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  71.  @themeiafy  I am calling them primitive. Besides. The viruses had already had their effect long before the English got to North America. They spread from Columbus in 1492 through the Americas. Mexico was conquered in 1520. The Inca empire was conquered in 1532. Jamestown was in 1607. The analogy is stupid because the Seminole were simply outmatched technologically and had no hope of winning. Also Russia is not attempting to conquer the US nor could they so there is no parallel here whatsoever. To top it off this guy can't even pronounce the name of the chief properly.
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  72.  @themeiafy  Well France helped out a bit early on in the US' development and Spain got the ball rolling and teed up some nice juicy territories for the US to take over and a bunch of settlers and immigrants came from Europe at large but since ww2 I think the only Europeans who had much impact were the German rocket scientists. Britain has been quite useful in the past as an ally but that's not really Europe in my book and you guys hate them as much as you hate Americans in spite of them saving Europe from the moustache man. But the US has no need for Europe and China can't conquer the US either by the way. Sadly your type of fear mongering is more popular in Washington and Europe while both refuse to protect themselves from wave after wave of human garbage which is by far the biggest threat to the civilized nations of the world. That needs to change so in the meantime Russia and China are the least of our worries.
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  73.  @themeiafy  That stuff is all nice but if it comes at the cost of trillions of dollars of military commitments then it isn't worth it.
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  74.  @themeiafy  Name me one thing that Europe has that the US doesn't have or can't get elsewhere.
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  75. Yeah well at least a Russian can pass as an Australian if they can hide their accent. Australia and all of these countries even have Chinese spies in their parliament. Pretty sad when someone who looks different can infiltrate your government at the highest levels.
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  76. Electorial college? It's the electoral college. You're lived in Poland and you don't know how to pronounce Zbigniew.
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  77. Durgin or Dugin?
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  78. Youtube deleting me like crazy. Yes. They've suffered way way worse events than this. If it was going to bring them down then it would have by now.
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  79. Canada has low inflation?
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  80. Did you rob a 12 year old girl for that shirt?
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  81. Mendeyev? You mean Dmitry Medvedev?
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  82. Millions of Poles and others flooded to Germany and the UK and depressed wages. Meanwhile other less desirable immigrants were coming thick and fast on top of that. Britain and Germany were taxed through the nose to build up Poland and meanwhile Poland kept the garbage out of their country. Now Germany and the UK have become shitholes and Poland is nice and modern and safe. It all happened on the western European's dime and to the detriment of their home country.
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  83. A democratic country with hylerinflation, child prostitution and a transgender surgery clinic.
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  84. Was Ukraine any better than Russia or pretty much the same?
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  85.  @videotosse  I never went to the Ukraine but I went to the Baltics and Russia in 2002 and really the Baltics felt just as decrepit and gross as Russia for the most part. Estonia was the only exception probably due to a lot of aid from Finland. Sure there were some people with fledgling businesses and what was new was pretty nice but that was the case in Russia as well. Russia is just a huge country and it takes a lot more to turn it around than some little country especially when the EU is willing to bleed its taxpayers dry to subsidize that little country.
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  86.  @videotosse  Yeah. All of Eastern Europe flooded into western Europe once they got into the EU. That's why Britain left. They were getting double shafted with migration on one hand and paying billions in subsidies on the other hand. I live in Canada and honestly for every Russian I meet there's probably five Ukrainians, a Lithuanian, a Moldovan and a Belarusian. That's before the war. That doesn't suggest to me that Ukraine was an especially prosperous place. Now we are inundated with Ukrainians and many of them have a pretty bad additude. The pre existing (early 20th century and post ww2 and descendants) Ukrainian community doesn't really want much to do with them. I have a buddy from Ireland and his village of 1000 people got like 400 Ukrainian men and according to him they are drunken bums. People I know from Poland say they have had enough of them too. I am not buying this idea that Ukraine is some utopia but for the current conflict.
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  87. They don't need to work very hard when the governments of their adversaries are hostile to their own people.
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  88. Yeah. Because everything you hear about ww2 is bullshit. Just like this war.
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  89. The west is running on the fumes of its former greatness sadly. It's getting worse and worse all the time. You just left a crappy place for a better place at the time but have no appreciation for how it should be.
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  90. ​ @robertmiskey5502 Why do you people care more about Ukraine than your own country? It's some kind of sickness.
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  91. They say that because they know what Russia was like and Ukraine is very similar.
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  92.  @waynesworldofsci-tech  Um. By missiles?
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  93.  @waynesworldofsci-tech  I understand that they have smart people there. Like I said lots of countries could do it. They don't because they don't want the trouble that goes along with it or because they aren't allowed to by their allies. But Ukraine is not going to start a nuclear weapons program under Russia's nose and succeed. They have spy satellites and the country is crawling with spies to boot. The second there is a whiff of that going on there will be a missile coming through the front door. Why do you think it's a good idea even if they could do it? You think they can win an exchange with Russia who has thousands of them already?
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  94.  @waynesworldofsci-tech  Well. I guess I am not allowed to say what I was trying to say. Long story short they would not be able to hide it.
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  95. ​ @EconLessons Yeah. You can't remember what Japan's currency is called and you're supposed to be an economist.
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  96. ​ @EconLessons Prices are set at the margins. Take 10% of the oil off the market and the price will skyrocket. It won't go up by 10%. You're an economist?
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  97. Maybe Russia is slow walking the war in order to drain NATO.
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  98. Yeah. Oil is like 70 a barrel right now and I'd think Russia can produce it for 20 a barrel.
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  99. Mother Theresa grew up rich? She's Albanian. How prosperous do you think Albania was in her day?
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  100. Mary Ng pronounced Ing.
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  101. ​ @Thelostgoldhunters He also said Samarians or something when referring to Sarmatians. Not sure why can't pronounce things properly.
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  102. Really? How many soldiers do you think it would take to conquer the USA? It's definitely millions. What about equipment? So how is another country going to sneak a giant armada across the Pacific or Atlantic without being detected and then manage to execute like 20 D-Day style landings? Then even if they were successful how would they resupply their troops after the fact?
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  103. Yeah. Britain forfeited its empire and the pound lost reserve currency status. Now it's a crime ridden shithole where people get arrested for complaining about the state of the country.
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  104. ​ @EconLessons You can tell by eating it.
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  105. You're talking about an act of war against China. China makes all of our shit. Have you thought this through?
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  106. Pretty convoluted reasoning to get around the fact that they are black.
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  107. The US has too much strategic depth to be threatened militarily by anyone. Nobody is stupid enough to try to invade. Even if Russia took all of Europe and China took the far east it still wouldn't be possible. The idea that someone is coming for you is laughable. The only threat is a nuclear strike and a country would only do so if they felt sufficiently threatened.
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  108. The Germans sent five million of the greatest soldiers in history into the Soviet Union. Any country would have a hard time coping with that.
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  109. Maybe that wasn't their goal. Maybe the goal for the US was exactly what happened. A diminished Britain and Europe with the US becoming a globe spanning empire.
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  110. India is a democracy and people shit in the streets. They do in the US now too frankly. Democracy isn't the be all and end all.
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  111. @george.carlin  How much of that was underwater and how deep is the Baltic compared to the Atlantic?
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  112.  @george.carlin  I think too the Nordstream was a pretty impressive feat on its own. It's a shame the US blew it up.
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  113.  @george.carlin  I wasn't backtracking at all. I'm telling you why it's way harder. The Baltic has a maximum depth of 1500 feet. The Atlantic has an average depth of 12,000 feet. The distance of the water portion of the Nord Stream is 1200km while the distance from Canada to the closest point in Europe is 4000 plus km. That's if you went straight across the ocean. If you tried to go through Greenland and Iceland you'd still have a ridiculous amount of ocean to deal with plus thousands of kms of Canadian shield, glaciers and fjords to deal with. I'm not the only one here saying how divorced from reality this idea is.
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  114.  @george.carlin  Ukraine made a huge mistake in getting in bed with NATO. The Ukrainians are tough no doubt but now they are getting cut loose. That's what happens to every proxy once it's clear they can't win.
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  115. He is moreso than the ruling class in the west. Trudeau was borderline cheering on a series of church burnings. Biden made easter trans visibility day.
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  116.  @andymoore9977  The UK had one way traffic of people moving in due to the fact that everyone learns English and English speakers have little desire to learn another language. It depressed wages bigtime. Canada would be getting the same thing happen. Free movement for 500 million people into an already crowded and unaffordable housing market would be a total disaster. Every gypsy from eastern Europe would be flying in and collecting welfare. Pensioners from the wealthier countries would be buying up homes in the countryside left and right. Dutch farmers would cash in and then come here and take over just like they did in the 60s and 70s. At least joining the US there's nothing preferable about Canada for Americans and it would be mostly Canadians moving there. Europeans would be getting an upgrade in terms of the size of property they could own. At least with our current absurd immigration system we are not bound by a treaty to accept everyone who wants to move here. Of course I would prefer Europeans to Indians but if there's no limit on them it would still end up having disastrous effects and knowing our government we'd still get the 1 million Indians annually anyways.
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  117. ​ @paulfelkner6749 Trump ended both of their careers.
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  118.  @smuook1969  Did he overstay his term? No. I don't think so. Several administrations have basically wiped their ass with the constitution as has the supreme court. Trump's probably one of the few who hasn't violated it.
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  119.  @smuook1969  No. He did not. Have you ever seen another election before where they just stop counting in all the big cities of all the swing states at the same time?
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  120.  @smuook1969  no
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  121.  @smuook1969  I lack honour do I? You think it's honourable to go kill Iraqis because George Bush tricked you into it? Talk about believing BS. It's one thing to get sucked in when you're 20 but if you still are proud of that you haven't learned anything.
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  122.  @jarcadipane2849  No. He might get taken for the big nap.
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  123. Biden tried to get them to raise production and they basically told him to piss off.
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  124. They haven't taken Alaska back so I guess I just proved you wrong there.
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  125.  @dietmarspriesterbach6  Yeah. Okay. Sure. I bet that really happened.
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  126. ​ @knopkaplay0507 He may as well be doing hit pieces on Germany based on his trips there during the Weimar period. As to his supernatural connection maybe Russia harvests the angst of Ukraine shills and that's how they've kept their heads above water.
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  127. ​ @EconLessons So a farmer in Iowa that feeds a million people with his corn gets the same say as some bum on welfare living in Chicago and the ruling party can bring millions of such people in and give them the vote. Really fair system you propose there.
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  128. At least someone is talking a bit of sense here. A pipeline to Europe is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.
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  129. All you tough guys that volunteer other peoples' lives to be sacrificed can go over there and join up maybe.
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  130.  @AlGrant-bh9or  They did and I was against that too. Just because it's trilliions vs hundreds of billions doesn't mean we should throw more good money after bad. I don't care if it's the Coke or Pepsi party taking responsibility for it and I really don't care who wins. I just don't want to be involved and I want the welfare to end.
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  131. It wasn't religion that won him the election. This guy is challenged. The left wing has gone way too far and people are sick of their garbage ideas and incompetence/malice.
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  132. So they lost some and they won some but they've won every war since Putin came to power. You forgot Syria where they kept Assad in power. Win. Wouldn't all the wars after the Revolution be chalked up to the Soviet Union as well? The Russian Empire was multiethnic as well and they had Ukraine so is that Ukraine's loss since you claim Ukraine won ww2 for the Soviets? You can't just give a probablility of wins and losses based on this anyways. It's not a roulette wheel.
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  133. Chernobyl is in Ukraine. Maybe it will be Russia soon but for now it's not.
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  134.  @k66a865  No. Chernobyl would not be built in a western country back then. Clearly the west was better during those times. Now western countries put black people in charge of building airplanes and you get Boeing. Things have totally flipped. We are now becoming a gay version of the Soviet Union. The roles are reversed in the new cold war.
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  135. Yes it will. The US will stop all military assistance and Russia will make Ukraine surrender unconditionally.
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  136. ​​ @tanyab244 Probably he feels he has a say because his taxes are paying for the war. If Ukraine was doing this on their own dime people would not care.
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  137. ​ @rnash999 I think he means the Supreme Court decision that said that a president has some immunity for decisions he makes in carrying out his job. Sounds fairly reasonable to me but many people want to believe that a dictatorship is coming so that they can pretend to rebels instead of the baglickers that they are.
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  138. They thought it was popular before and now they realize it is not.
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  139. ​ @EconLessons Feeling good about your glorious leader today?
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  140. It's ecause the market is finally admitting they've won. How anyone though that a country of pseudo-Russians one third their size was ever going to beat them boggles my mind and I enjoy watching these Ukraine shills coming to grips with reality.
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  141. Stone Age? They ushered in the space age with Sputnik.
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  142.  @NelsonZAPTM  How did Challenger and Columbia go? NASA was hitching rides until recently and buying rocket motors.
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  143. KA LIN IN GRAD. Do you know how to read?
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  144. If you live in Grande Prairie maybe you should go ask someone who knows what the f they are talking about how easy it is to build a pipeline to Europe.
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  145. That's why immigration is stupid.
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  146. So Russians having bad plumbing means their economy isn't growing?
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  147.  @EconLessons  Maybe so but their economy could still be growing. China was all peasants a few decades ago and probably not great plumbing. They probably still have people without it. Has China not grown their economy? It just doesn't seem like a real argument let alone proof that their economy is collapsing. If they never had great plumbing in the first place (which they didn't) then not having it now is not a sign of collapse.
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  148. ​ @EconLessons Everything Russia has achieved they did themselves. They didn't get freebies thrown at them for 20 years like Poland. Sure you could say that's because they joined the side with the money. But look at the countries who gave Poland all their money. Have they improved or are they turning into slums in real time? Kracow's future looks a lot like today's Paris if they stay in the EU.
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  149. WW2 was a disaster for Europe anyways and who wants to repeat that?
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  150. ​ @EconLessons Yeah. Americans want to be left alone so they don't want any part of this garbage going on across the ocean.
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  151. You didn't achieve it nor did Poland. You parasited off of Britain, France, Germany and others for two decades.
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  152. When the world's largest oil producer decides to shut down a major pipeline connecting thrm to the world's fourth biggedt oil producer and ends drilling on federal land on day one of the administration that doesn't help lower the oil price does it? How does food get anywhere? Using fuel. It's a big factor in the cost of things.
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  153. ​​ @EconLessons The Catholic church is rotten to the core. The pope seeks to destabilize nations through migration. He routinely espouses heretical views. The worst of all is their record of spreading child abuse throughout the world. There might have been a time where the good outweighed the bad but not these days.
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  154. They have hundreds of miles of border with China and China makes all that stuff. You're talking nonsense.
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  155. ​ @EconLessons Joe Biden sniffs children in public so Trump's womanizing is not really relevant these days.
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  156. Maybe they are tired of fighting other peoples' wars.
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  157.  @dinismantas7265  Europeans tend to be pretty demanding when it comes to what the US should do. Truth be told they could have stayed out of ww1 and ww2 and they would have been totally fine. Those soldiers did not benefit one bit from either war. The same goes for Canadians and ANZAC.
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  158. ​ @EconLessons Not everything is about Ukraine. Believe it or not there are other issues people are voting on.
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  159. Um. The Arctic and the Pacific?
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  160. ​ @EconLessons That already happened in 1917 and in 1991 and you're complaining about the current leadership. If you bring the country to its knees economically then the people will accept anyone who brings relative stability. Maybe Russia isn't some utopia but their standard of living is higher now than it has ever been so why would they clamour for a shake up? Also might I add the opportunity to have a western style Russia was blown in the 1990s. Rather than prop it up and provide EU style subsidies they allowed Russia to flounder and be taken over by "Russian" mafia and "Russian" oligarchs and their cousins in the US came over like vultures to make a quick buck. So you got Putin who put the country back on its feet using the tools at his disposal. So you want to destabilze Russia and think you're going to get some Russian Justin Trudeau to run the place? A western style leader wouldn't last a week in that country.
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  161. It's R tar ded.
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  162. lol. He is so wacked out. I watch every video to see how much further into the weeds he can get.
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  163. ​ @SebastianAlucema He's a total moron. I keep watching to see if he can top his previous stupidity. The one about Putin being crazy because of iodine deficiency and lead paint is probably the wildest one.
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  164. Why aren't they buying them now then?
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  165. ​ @EconLessons So will you address the concerns of people over immigration? The Ukraine thing is way down the list of priorities. If the people you follow were wise they wouldn't throw their own borders wide open and then ask for their citizens to care about defending a foreign country. If Putin is involved with these parties can you blame him? They pitched a giant pumpkin across the plate for him.
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  166. Because they are all the same people.
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  167. Poland is only doing well because they spent two decades living off the taxpayers of western Europe. Look at western Europe now and try and tell me it's improved. Now that Poland is up to speed the EU is going to try to turn it into a slum like France. Look what they did to Ireland. They benefitted for a time from all the freebies and now they are swamped with fake refugees and it's causing instability.
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  168. He's a stereotypical dumb American tourist but with delusions of grandeur.
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  169. ​ Myst- Is that how it works? I was wondering why mild comments get deleted sometimes. I know Youtube has their own methods but I couldn't make head nor tail of it until now.
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  170. So how come the only winner of the Millenium math prize comes from St. Petersburg of all places?
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  171. I wish. I'd rather be owned by the US than India.
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  172. Who is Larov? Is it Sergei Lavrov?
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  173. Everyone thinks their country is special and that their neighbours are worse than them. Canadians think they are nicer than Americans. Not true. The Irish think the English are assholes. The English are no less friendly than the Irish. It's likely the same with Ukraine and Russia. They are most likely extremely similar.
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  174. Tell me which country had a Baphomet statue in the foyer of a state legislature. Was it Russia or the United States?
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  175. Yes they did want LNG but Trudeau told them off. Nothing good will happen regarding oil and gas with that bozo in charge.
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