Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

@sluger-qu3gy Russia is 64% out of pocket compared to last year, owing to nosediving oil and gas revenues alone. To plug the deficit, Putin is dipping into Russia's national wealth fund. It literally means your pensions are going up in smoke in Ukraine. You won't live very well in old age, in other words.
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@hairybubbles127 Hamas don't think martyrs are screwed. Unless Israel rethinks its policies towards the Palestinians, we'll see a resurgent Hamas (New Hamas?) launch an even more devastating attack, and this time from two sides, Gaza and the West Bank. This is not a conventional war.
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For a frozen conflict it's pretty hot, at times even searing hot.
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Try to incentivise even more. The more the merrier -- literally. If parties need to collaborate to pass legislation, they have to keep it civil at all times. Multipartisanship is built in, as it were.
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The middleman cuts out the profit for Russia. Not all that bad.
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Russia is a shoo-in for winning gold in turret-tossing at this year's Military World Games.
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@jarednovel I would regard a 64% drop in tax revenue from Russia's oil and gas exports a HUGE problem. Let's not forget that Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.
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Whatever the outcome, it's more of the same.
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Satellites are of little help there. IR can't detect a drone, and radar is ill-suited for satellites.
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@jeckjeck3119 That, too. I remember the times when Russian customs officials solicited bribes. Everyone in a position of authority did. It won't be long now before those times are back.
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@waeljallad671 Reportedly, Russia isn't all that happy with the glut of rupees. It doesn't know what to do with them, because unlike China, India doesn't have much to export to Russia. Russia could dump them, but India wouldn't appreciate the sudden drop in the rupee's exchange rate.
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@ruouy3453 So, in your not-so-humble opinion, are we going to see another Exodus from Gaza or will it be a genocide? How about the West Bank? Hamas isn't that big over there -- yet.
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@jarednovel There comes the whataboutism. Why do you have to draw the US -- a country foreign to me -- into every convo? Seek help for your fixation.
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@t1mb3rfps80 Sound logic. Very refreshing in a YouTube comment section. Upvoted.
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@BlackHawkTejas Don't flatter yourself. India has a serious trade deficit with Russia. Indian newspapers are full of it.
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@skywillfindyou Nothing? Russia sells oil well below Brent crude to India and doesn't know what to do with the rupees it gets. Moreover, Russia's oil revenues are in steady decline. I can't make it any clearer for you than that.
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@bigmoe9856 No doubt, setting your own prices will give you a great sense of pride, but without trade deals in place, your end-customers will see different ones.
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@bigmoe9856 And who might "we" be? The UK doesn't have time. BoJo painted himself into a corner by setting an unrealistic time limit for trade talks with the EU. It's a paradox, isn't it, this enduring US inferiority complex.
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joe caterman Transmitters made in the EU or China.
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They failed to execute. Get used to it.
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@Distress. Right-o, the West Bank is governed by Fatah, who're rivals to Hamas. Fatah has genuinely strived for peace with Israel, but it's like Israel is having none of it. That -- and the perceived success of Hamas's attack, and the expected draconic reprisals by Israel -- will bolster Hamas in the West Bank as well. Gaza wasn't completed surrounded?
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@Musician837 You're not telling me anything new there. Hamas is a terrorist organisation. They haven't set their sights on a military victory.
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@mikaelbiilmann6826 I think I made it abundantly clear that we're not dealing with a conventional war. You need to educate yourself on asymmetric warfare.
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@mikaelbiilmann6826 Then why did you lecture me as if this were a conventional war? I specifically mentioned that it's not.
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@mikaelbiilmann6826 It is a big change. Israel is reeling from a traumatising psychological blow. Hopefully, there's a thin silver lining to it in the sense that a growing number of Israelis will realise that something needs to change, or indeed, it will never end.
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@Flamechr So, what do you think the plan is? If Israel expels 2.4 million Gazans, will Denmark take them?
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These are not UN sanctions, buddy. Western sanctions.
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1:17 I see the Russians have made improvements to their cope cages. Reactive armor.
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@s9ka972 I trust you can google. Try "Russia India trade deficit".
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@Silver_Prussian That's mighty nice for China. China will own Indian assets through their neo-colony Russia.
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@abdirahmanahmadalifarah926 Russia needs to flog its oil, no matter what. Even if it means selling below cost, i.e. losing money on the transaction. Russia desperately needs the foreign currency. It's an irrefutable fact that Russia's oil revenues are in constant decline.
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@margo7059 This isn't VK. Try English.
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@margo7059 Gibberish.
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@bigmoe9856 I'm sure, too. But more on their terms than yours. The Yanks still have an inferiority complex with regard to their former colonial master. More often than not, an inferiority complex manifests itself as a superiority complex. They must exhibit their supremacy at all times.
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@robertshelton3796 The US copied its electoral system from its erstwhile foes, the British, and ended up with a similarly archaic electoral system that favours large parties at the expense of smaller ones. Likewise, the UK is afflicted with a de facto duopoly in the Tories and Labour, who take turns governing the country. All because of an archaic electoral system.
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@Ryanlexz That's what I wrote 3 weeks ago.
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@Zelensky_Huilo If NATO had unleashed its full wrath on Russia, the conclusive Battle of Vladivostok would've been fought in June 2022.
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It'll be fun to see all the strings attached. The UK may have to forget about a free trade deal with China if it is to have one with the US. Oil is a commodity, by the way.
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