Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "DW Documentary" channel.

When I listen to the ex PLA colonel, I can see how people are captured by charismatic leadership. That might be okay, but when that leader's charisma is wedded to a totalitarian ideology, then enormous trouble will ensue and crimes against humanity will ensue. The CCP is currently committing these crimes within it's borders; Xinjiang, Tibet and possibly Inner Mongolia. Furthermore persecution of Falun Gong is continuing and horrible live organ harvesting practises are being continued in the thousands each year, where live organs are extracted from condemned prisoners (many whom are prisoners of conscience) by a machine that keeps blood circulation going while the liver, spleen, kidneys ecetera are removed before the heart is finally extracted. These organs are then sold on to donors waiting for a liver transplant and so on. This is not heresay, it has been investigated by a Canadian legal committe over several years and confirmed (China tribunal and Uigher tribunal). This abbhorant practise equals any evil committed by the Nazis and Soviet Union. We must stop this extreme evil by prosecuting any person whom receives a live organ transplant from China, knowing that those organ donors came from prisoners of conscience, and so diminish these harvests of evil over time. Please lobby your local politicians and EU medical ethics committee to introduce laws to prevent organs recipients in the EU from receiving live organs from China without facing legal prosecution for complicity in second degree murder.
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Scots seemingly have been and are a more outward looking people in Britain than the English for example. Partly meaning, like Celtic wanderers, they go places other than their homeland of Scotland seeking adventure and fortune. For example, at my outback workplace in Australia, out of roughly 30 to 40 people working there two are Scottish. Also Scottish intellectualism has mostly been in advance of England (other than Oxford and Cambridge). The Scottish Enlightenment movement in the eighteenth century brought forth intellectuals like David Hume and James Hutton. Hume travelled extensively to France to meet with his philisophical peers. This in parallel with engineers like James Watt, who had important input into the early industrial revolution started in Britain. So historically, Scotland has always punched above it's weight.
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Germany needs to spend 3% of its GDP in its defence budget. This is in response of, not just regional, but global totalitarian threats. This budget is not just in hardware and troop training, but in cyber war defence and offence.
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This is not just a subset problem of Germany itself. We live in too conservative a time, Fascism (and National Socialism which is not quiite the same as Fascism, plus Communism), are now on the rise everywhere, i.e. totalitarian political parties. This is partially historical amnesia or lack of enlightened education of today's youth. What does totalitarianism lead to, as it offers us "paradise"? Continual war.
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Haven't we been here before 80 to 90 years ago? Do people have amnesia? Have they forgotten the devestation, death and destruction that can be wrought now hundreds of times worse through total war than the Second World War or they don't care that they're perceived to be nasty, brutish, myopic and morally bankrupt and marching in lock-step towards the abyss again?
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MCMLXXXIV
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Euphanisms were used in the Nazi extermination camp, Auschwictz as well. Victims there being sent to the gas chambers were "being deloused". I'm unsuprised that neutral euphanisms are being used by the CCP to describe their concentration camps too. No educated person who has read Rousseau and Voltaire and who has read the history of the Second World War or the Soviet Union should be deluded that acts of genocide and new crimes against humanity are now not being committed in Xinjiang against Uyghurs, by the CCP on an industrial scale.
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Reducing relative defense budget looks weak; not a deterrent to belligerent powers. Both Russia and China have been politically, militarily and in China's case economically very belligerent over the past decade. Obviously, Russia is the most substantive military threat to the fragile peace of Europe, but China has become very actively aggressive of late and this is sucking Germany into this dilemma. CCP agents are engaging in punitive and brazen espionage of German technology and research, second only the United States. CCP institutes in German Universities (masquerading as cultural "understanding" centres, such as the Confuscious Institutes but in reality peddling hard-core CCP communist propaganda). These have been known to encourage agents provocateurs nationalist CCP "students" to engage provocatively with protesters on German campuses against Falun Gong and Uigher persecution in China for example; stifling free debate. CCP agents have been following around and intimidating ex-Chinese nationals and even politically minded German journalists for example, inside Germany! Where is the defense of the German government counter-intelligence services & the police in protecting their own citizens by open threats by brazen totalitarian CCP agents? Why is this activity not halted? Is the German government and German business leaders that spineless?
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Taiwan is strategically much more important, than what your speaker puts in a belittling sense. Why? Because of TSMC corporation. This very large Taiwanese company dominates the manufacture of leading edge microchips, used in the most up-to-date computers, mobile phones and telecommunications, certainly used by Apple and Samsung. The taking of the TSMC manufacturing plant in Taiwan, by invasion of the PLA of Taiwan, would deal a heavy blow to the global supply of these components.
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Agriculture contributes about one third of total global emissions (not counting the operating agricultural machinery), and we're doing less about that than curbing industrial and electrical power emissions.
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Nuclear power is neither clean, nor renewable nor completely carbon neutral. The half life of some isotope products from spend fuel rods remain highly dangerously radioactive for 10,000 years, making them a pollution and storage hazard problem for that enormous length of time. Uranium 235 fuel, when spent in a reactor, has to be replaced by sources of uranium minerals in nature. Although there is a tiny amount of uranium in a few rocks like granite, it is far too low a concentration in general to be able to cost effectively refine and concentrate into fuel rods. High concentration uranium minerals like pitchblende, are relatively rare deposits and once mined (which is itself contraversial, not at least due to the pollution hazard), then when depleted will raise the cost of uranium energy to uneconomical levels. Suprisingly nuclear power plants are (not initially) carbon neutral. They consist of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of concrete (for the radiation shield and containment vessel) and cement, when it sets, emits carbon dioxide.
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What the exteme right (and possibly the extreme left) is saying that your alllegiance is not what oaths and laws your accept and proclaim for citizenship of your adopted country, but what your ethnicity is. This is anti-pluralism and a hark back to pre-enlightenment mediaevil values such as sectarian violence, ghettoism (enforced by the state), lack of habeas corpus and so on. In other words, the midwife to giving birth to a tyrrany and f**k-all freedoms
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Rapid response now means more than military hardware deployment, logistics and maneuver. Cyberspace is an every increasing threat and theater of war, meaning cyber defence and cyber counterattack are now important components of a battle plan. Failure to adaquately deploy cyberspace defence, hands your enemy the high ground (so to speak), as your communications break down, the transparancy of your orders to your combined arms units is open to the enemy and the civilian supporting network, such as energy supply, are shut down before even a shot is fired or bomb is dropped.
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I don't know enough European politics to make a fair comment here, but as a country, Germany is a young state imprinted over various Germanic speaking regions which may go back over 1000 years. In that process, like many other places in the process of nation-state building and associated panache of extremist politics, led to tumultuous series of events leading to revolution, religious persecution and vicious, destructive and widespread warfare, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. Many European nation states have undergone this process, in one form or the other (England in the 17th, and France in the late eighteenth & early nineteenth century). The twentieth century is particularly bad for the invention of mechanized warfare and concentration camps nearly simultaneously (cyber warfare is and will be the innovative weapon of the twenty first century). Note, not to feel any particular guilt here. Germans were not the inventors of either concentration camps or mechanized warfare, although obviously used, but not exclusively. One thinks of the Soviet Union's gulags and the T34 tank for example. Reunification does not need, if done peacefully (like 1989), need the militaristic sabre rattling that goes along with it, from the morons (like Albert Einstein said), that don't need a cerebral cortex and where a spinal column would suffice.
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The combustion engine is 150 years old. About time they r replacing it with a more efficient electrical engine with direct drive (no need for gearboxes & transmission). Diesel engines might eventually limited to ships and trains only with gasoline engines used in the aircraft industry (although more than half the world's petroleum is used for pushing ships around the seas).
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The polemics in these speeches are just lies. I think the modus operandi with the North Korean regime (and the CCP) is to keep outrageously telling falsehoods until vitually no-one recognises the truth anymore. Everyone acts in North Korea to protect themselves, including in the ridiculous funeral of Kim Jong Il.
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What the British forget, is that no-one drinks tea anymore. They all drink coffee. A very Teutonic desire to "control the process". However, in politics there is no controlling process; dystopia is the norm in politics, especially international politics. This Covid plague is a very underlining case of dystopia in international politics, as an emphatic argument point: It's a man made disaster, made by the failure of the current Jinping CCP dictatorship by covering up instead of isolating and controlling the infection before it went global.
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Merkel is a person of high moral stature and integrity; unusual in a politician. When i examine her political record as Chancellor of Germany, i'm struck by how polar opposite she is from the Austrian bloke from Braunau, born in the 1880's (whom i've read widely about) which brought Germany to utter ruin (as well as most of Europe), and national disgrace. German people should not forever be held liable for this dark chapter of history, but no-one should forget the great evil of National Socialism and it's fellow travelling totalitarian governments, including currently powerful totalitarian governments at the other end of Eurasia, whom it is likely that powerful democratic states will soon be at war over increasing enormities commited by it over there. She should and will be remembered as a great German Stateswoman (now that word's in the English and German lexicon). But, like any other great person in power before, she will have her significant weaknesses as well as her strengths. I'm not going to analyse them here, except that Merkel being in power for so long, their effects (both positive and negative) are amplified and will have long lasting consequences on Germany, it's economy, culture, EU and foreign relations, for decades to come.
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In Putin's mind, he sees NATO is a direct competitor, which is encircling or hemming in Russia and the mind of senior Russian commanders. Be aware though of Putin's territorial aggression and war making in places such as Chechnya, Armenia, Georgia, the Crimea and Ukraine. This is Russian expansionism, even on its borders, which mirrors the territorial expansionism of China in the last decade. Arguably, also that of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan as well.
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