Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Starlink doesn't come close in capacity to these fibre-optic cables. But thanks for playing.
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  2. Was the Iraq War a NATO op? Also, you'll find that the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki fell well before NATO was founded. I sense desperation in your blame game.
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  3. If not having occupied foreign lands were a prerequisite for G7 membership, China wouldn't make the grade either. China occupied Tibet in 1900s and continues to do so until this very day.
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  4. Calling Trudeau a far-left extremist makes you a far-right extremist, I'm afraid. Are you comfortable with that label?
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  5. On a slightly different topic, is Assad getting enough military aid from Russia now that Russia itself is running low on weapons in Ukraine? Should we be worried?
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  6.  @wm4934  I take it you have authoritative international indexes to fall back on? I can't help but notice that China scores much worse than Canada and Lithuania on human rights in the Freedom in the World index. The Democracy Index puts China near the bottom of the pile. The US and Taiwan shine in comparison to China in the Freedom of the Press index. It's all very contradictory. It's also interesting that while this video and Mathew's comment deal with Lithuania, Taiwan, Australia and Canada, you bring up the US. Pavlov couldn't have conditioned you better.
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  7.  @waldensmith4796  You're trying to have a meaningful conversion with a known bot. An exercise in futility, in other words.
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  8. ​ Nok_Su Kao  You've never heard of federations? Germany made the switch, and so did the USA. India and Pakistan, too, emerged as federations after decolonisation.
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  9.  @madselmvig1457  The irony is that those pro-Erdogan Turkish expatriates don't suffer the consequences of Turkey's chronically bad economy. They can just lap up Erdogan's populism without having to endure the foul aftertaste. My friend, a retired store owner, is happy to live back in Turkey. His generous Dutch pension and the low cost of living are a match made in heaven. He must be quietly thanking Erdogan every single day.
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  10. Actually, China and India have this female infanticide thing in common. The Chinese went about it in a more gruesome manner, too.
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  11. ​ @NottinghamForest24  "Europeans" (I thought most Russians were European) won't travel to Russia no matter what. Your tourism industry will have to make do with domestic tourists, but considering that they have no disposable income for holidays, that's a dead end, too.
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  12. How deep a hole is Putin intending to dig for Russia?
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  13.  @tomcollins5112  If so, wouldn't it follow that every republic is communist?
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  14.    Does it matter when they were invented? I'm not aware of any expiry date on life hacks.
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  15. The victim mentality is strong with you.
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  16. Serbia won't stay together, EU or no EU. I experienced the intense hatred in Kosovo first-hand when serving there with KFOR. We had to do our utmost to keep the ethnic factions from killing one another. A divorce is long overdue.
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  17.  @Kingofmycastle6  Not up to date? That much is clear. When you're out, Brexshit happens.
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  18. So what is it that they got wrong?
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  19. Yeah, a full withdrawal from Ukraine shouldn't be long in coming.
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  20. Actually, it was the Brits who invented them. Boer War.
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  21.  @alexanderaleksandar2030  Sure. 102 out of 193. That's 52.8%. Vucic has a wild imagination.
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  22.  @jimcazador6057  That's a fanciful representation of events. It would be more accurate to say that the UK was in terminal decline (being referred to as the sick man of Europe) till it finally managed to join the EU. And now, out of the EU again, the sickness and terminal decline are back.
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  23.  @MrThartofwar  You're spouting nonsense. Under international law, countries are within their rights to defend themselves when under attack. Counter-attacks to oust the enemy are part and parcel of said defence. You know nothing about the art of war, Mr. Poser.
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  24. ​ @gdiwolverinemale3rd  Thanks for proving my point about uniquely American definitions. However, in international company, a republic simply refers to a country that hasn't got a (constitutional) monarch as its (titular) head of state, but rather, a president. Being a democracy in addition to either is a separate matter, but it's by no means incompatible. In fact, the top 10 democracies in the world are a mix of republics and (constitutional) monarchies.
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  25.  @meoffmymeds1770  It's also possible that the moon is made of cheese. We haven't drilled to the core yet, so the (admittedly rather slim) possibility remains that under the crust of our natural satellite there is cheese.
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  26.  @Robert-xy4xi  It's factually incorrect to say that the Baltic states sided with Germany in WW2. Being occupied by the Soviet Union and then Germany, the Balts didn't have any choice in the matter, which also goes for the Balts being forced to fight for either side. After the war, Churchill insisted that the Baltic states had willingly joined the Soviet Union. Stalin had no objections to that interpretation. Truman whimpered for a bit. But what's certain is that the Soviet Union sided with Germany in WW2.
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  27. North Vietnam failed to win any battles against the *Americans, but still it won the war.
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  28. It's nice to see a government official here. Just out of interest, what's your exact role?
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  29. Counter-productive, I'd say. Erdogan reinforced the widely felt impression that Turkey is a capricious and unreliable partner.
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  30.  @altrfryd5859  OK, troll.
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  31.  @Ronniejamesleo  Geography isn't your forte. Great Britain is to the west of Germany, while Poland is to its east. And neither is Austria on the way to Great Britain.
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  32. More like Russia, which has nary a friend left.
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  33. Sovereign nations have the right to enter into military alliances as they see fit, Ukraine included. If they invite alliance members to station troops on their soil, that's their prerogative as well. Russia has troops on foreign soil as well, only it's not nearly as popular a military partner as the USA -- or other NATO members, for that matter. I think your problem is jealousy, not foreign military bases per se.
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  34.  @nextinstitute7824  You need to unleash your superior diplomatic skills on Putin and make him withdraw his troops to pre-2014 borders. The war will be over in a jiffy. There's your diplomacy.
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  35. Putin was mumbling something about a sphere of influence. It was just as non-sensical then as it is now.
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  36. Yup, these Africans should roll up their sleeves and take their destiny into their own hands. The mind boggles how the French managed to sap all the life energy out of them for generations.
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  37. There's that and the fact that they didn't confiscate his firearms either.
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  38.  @hansdampf640  No-one in the know is in the least bit surprised at that. HEAT rounds are effective against concrete, much more so than against armour, in fact.
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  39.  @fellowcitizen  That's an odd viewpoint. Russians enjoy sauna, as well as the odd war.
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  40.  @denisgorjunov  Turkey experiencing modest growth after years of recession is nice, but if close to 70% of Turks claim they struggle to pay for food, the economic situation is far more dire in Turkey than in Finland, where I'm sure no one goes hungry. Say, how are you doing food-wise in Russia? Keep some potatoes to eat. Not everything should go into making vodka.
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  41. The Finnish Greens had a change of heart. Nuclear is the lesser of two evils, they realised.
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  42. You have a knack for getting everything backwards, Ivan. You can flap your gums about NATO, but the world at large is not fooled. The overwhelming consensus is that Russia is the aggressor here, not NATO.
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  43. Their extremist right-wing views? Their crypto-Fascism?
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  44. Ukraine strikes military targets, Russian strikes civilian targets in retaliation. Which has a bigger military impact?
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  45.  @sergueivergounov1961  Russia has two options regarding war reparations to Ukraine: pay or cry and pay.
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  46.  @kemwittalltree9650  So we've come this. Investigating war crimes is contrary to US interests. There goes your credibility as a morally upstanding nation, right down the drain.
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  47. It's not a competition. It's widely known that the Poles have plenty of guts, something the Finns don't need to teach you. If a Pole and a Finn decided to compete over who can sit the longest on an ant nest, bare-bummed, the competition would go undecided, because the ants would abandon their nest.
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  48.  @tomcollins5112  The current king has proven very divisive, as evidenced by the mass protests. That can't be good for staving off foreign domination. Also, I wouldn't put it past him that if a billion baht were to appear on his bank account, China would get all kinds of royal "gifts".
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  49. No-one seems to think so, not even Russia. You're an oddling all right.
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  50. If it comes to a trial, Lukashenko will be tried in absentia. The Russians are getting his dacha ready as we speak.
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