Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "TLDR News Global" channel.

  1. I love how TLDR dumbs down complex issues into ridiculously simple narratives. Russia and Turkey are strategic rivals. They've been fighting proxy wars on each other in Azerbaijan, Libya and Syria. Russia has had the upper hand in Syria and Turkey has been using the Ukraine war to take concessions from Russia in Syria. When Russia does something in Syria Turkey doesn't like, they strike back with a move on Ukraine. It's essentially a dance these two nations play to extract as much as possible out of each other in these arenas.
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  2. I guess the difference is the Turks actually like you guys and don't look down upon you like the Europeans do. They're looking for partners in that region, not slaves. What ever works, the Somali people have been through a lot and deserve a better future.
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  3. The level of rage on issues like this is very telling. Dealing with Africans on equal footing, imagine that causing people to meltdown. It is very interesting if you think about it.
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  4.  @freejay3  a consulate is a branch of an embassy. Do you even know what a consulate is?
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  5.  @scratthesquirrel5242  So that makes what France is doing in Africa okay?
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  6. His approval rating is actually around 39%. If reality and facts mattered to you that is lol
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  7.  @NenenRan  Embassies constantly host military leaders. How do you think embassies work?
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  8.  @alrxandersmiths242  The EU has no say in what Nato really does. You know why? No EU nation has a functioning military. So with that said, how exactly in the EU is going to invade them? They could probably fight off the entire EU invading them with half their army lol
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  9. 101phase, They no longer have a parliamentarian system like most of Europe. They're on the presidential system like France and America. So no coalitions in the executive branch. The president is the president until his term is up. What happened in Israel isn't really comparable to what is happening in Turkey. For starters Turkey isn't trying to institute a security state like Bibi is.
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  10. @Mahadaalvi, I highly doubt Russia would openly attack a Turkish naval vessel in the Black Sea. If that escalated Russia's navy in the black sea would get wiped out. Russia's naval presence in the black sea is small and Turkey's navy would make quick work of them. Not to mention Russia wouldn't be able to reinforced it's Navy in the black sea because Turkey controls the straits into the Black Sea. I'm not sure if this would trigger WW3 though.
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  11. @Michael Stergides, Bro I'm an American who has lived part time in Turkey since the late 1990s and I still can't pronounce this dude's name. So yea, I'll give TLDR a pass on this one 🤣🤣 It's a tough one.
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  12.  @theotheagendashill818  The issue isn't about who colonized who 200 years ago. The issue is about France colonizing Africa NOW. Also these Africans have nothing to do with places like Serbia being colonized. Get a grip.
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  13. @Solomon525. You guys seem pretty safe right now. Russia is too busy with Ukraine to bother you guys. And Azerbaijan's military superiority over Armenia will pretty much ensure this conflict won't spill over, even if it were to I'm not sure Turkey would allow either of those two nations to spread their insanity into Georgia. Georgia seems pretty golden right now with all their rivals "busy" lol
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  14.  @batu2345  They didn't really cover it up, everyone knows about it. You can't ethnically cleanse 800,000 civilians and have no one notice.
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  15. @MattyBRaps400 It would be fun to watch this guy in charge of foreign policy no? Trying to send his non functioning army to get something done
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  16. ​ @hatty101  I'm not underestimating the Russian navy, the Russian navy is quite good. You're over estimating the naval assets they actually have in the Black Sea. How exactly would they get those assets into the Black Sea if they were in a naval conflict with Turkey. Explain that to me please. Not to mention how much you're actually under estimating the assets of the Turkish navy, who can bring their entire navy into the Black Sea where as Russia can't. Be a little objective and realistic here, it's not like these are sports teams you're rooting for
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  17.  @mihangelap-williams9871  Few nations on this planet could be as brutal as France has been in Africa these past 200 years. Few would even come close to the level of brutality.
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  18.  @sonaazatyan3144  Actually during that conflict Armenia was flooded with weapons up to the gills from the Russians, what in the world are you talking about? It was basically a well armed military with modern weapons fighting civilians with rifles. I guess years later when you had to fight a real army, you realized it was much harder than slaughtering unarmed civilians?
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  19.  @pixelartenjoyer  A win win situation is a lot better than dealing with colonizers where you always lose. Also Turkey wasn't in a position to push their geostrategic interests that far in 2012 yet still stepped up to the plate to help Somalia when it barely had a functioning government and was dealing with mass starvation. I'm not Turkish but I spend a lot of time in that country. Even though they were having serious financial problems no one seemed to complain about sending money and aid to Somalia back then. Unlike the Europeans they don't look at Somali people as "others" who can be exploited. They seem to genuinely care.
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  20. @Meh23p. They'll do anything? Hmmm When Armenia invaded that territory in the 1990s they brutally ethnically cleansed 800,000 civilians. When Azerbaijan re-invaded the territory in 2020 a few dozen civilians died. I'd hardly call that "them willing to do anything." Hell imagine the level of restraint they showed consider what was done to their people when the shoe was on the other foot. Also Nakichevan doesn't cut Armenia off from Iran. Zengezur would do that and Armenia is in full control of it. What in the world are you talking about?
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  21. @a This comment legit made me laugh 🤣 There is one thing I've noticed though which is quite literally crazy. Why do Pakistani and Indian trolls descend on any video pertaining to Turkey like flies to shit? lol Every comments section on literally every video about Turkey is riddled with a Pakistani/Indian flame war. It's surreal.
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  22. Why because they are brown?
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  23. @ AwedJR, to be fair when you make such geopolitical moves it makes sense to have the blessing of regional powers. Doing it without telling anyone might send the wrong message. Egypt might be run by a brutal dictator the people hate right now but it still doesn't change the fact Egypt isn't some mickey mouse state. Geo political moves in their backyard have a higher chance at success if the Egyptians are on board with it. I'd imagine the Turks understand this. Hopefully this move brings stability to the region and hopefully it works out for the interests of both Somalia and Ethiopia. It would be a tragedy if these two nations had an armed conflict. Both nations are slowly modernizing and trying to grow the living standards of their nations, an armed conflict would throw progress back 20 years. Both nations if run properly have the potential to be well functioning states with a high degree of living standards compared to the rest of the region. Considering both of their histories, god knows they both deserve a better future.
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  24.  @gauthierdavid5555  Last I checked Armenians actually speak Armenian. I'd imagine you know this right?
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  25.  @calebbearup4282  I'm an American who has been living in Turkey part time since the late 1990s. I honestly fail to see how what you're saying is true. I'm no fan of the guy, if I could vote there (which I can't) I wouldn't vote for him. With that said a lot of what you said is completely and utterly detached from reality. Hurting "Scandinavian countrieS" What Scandinavian country aside from Sweden has he been hurting? As far as Sweden, he has absolutely no choice but to extract a pound of flesh from them, he is under far too much pressure from teh public to do so. That is how representative democracies work, leaders doing what the people pressure them into. I know as a European it's a mind blowing concept for you considering your government rarely does what the people want in terms of foreign policy. Sweden has been financing armed groups which have been blowing up schools and hospitals for decades now. You're going to blame the victims in this situation? That would be like me hiring guys to kill your children and then getting angry at you when you refuse to let me join your organization. How insane are you?
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  26. Yes him failing to mention that 800lbs elephant in the room made this video cringy. It was well put together but glossing over that killed the credibility of the video.
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  27.  @Superfoodcookie  America and China are massive trade partners. Does change the fact they're strategic rivals does it? So according to your logic America and China are now allies? Please come with something that makes sense. As far as the S-400. Russia needed money, Turkey needed an air defense system. You make it seem like it's the first time in history rivals do business. It's a common theme the world over. Do you actually have any points which counter anything I've said so far? Aside from pointing out things which are quite normal for rivals to do?
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  28. @Razargsyan5860 Genocide policy? hmmm Armenia invades Nagorno Karabakh in the 1990s and they ethnically cleanse 800,000 civilians. Azerbaijan re-invades the region in 2020 and a tad bit over a dozen civilians die. Essentially less than die in car accidents every year. You're calling them genocidal? Seriously?
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  29.  @sharkronical  So you're literally trying to make excuses that Africa shouldn't be for Africans but be for exploitation by French companies? All because of some random statement Japan made over 80 years ago half way across the world? This isn't the first insane statement like that I've seen on this thread.
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  30. @Liam O'connell, Georgia supported Azerbaijan for obvious reasons. They have nothing to gain from supporting Armenia, not to mention they're sensitive to illegal occupations considering what Russia did to them in 2008. So they're pretty firmly in the Azeri camp. Iran supported Armenia because they're worried a confident Azerbaijan might be trouble for Iran considering Iran is occupying a population of 20 million Azeris in northern Iran.
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  31.  @Erwin1293-  This is simply not true if you look at the evidence at hand. France (By their own top retired general's admissions) only has munitions to fight a large scale war for three days. This is also believable if you look at what happened during the Libyan intervention. When Obama said he'd "lead from the back" and let France take the lead in the strikers. After 4 days the French military was exhausted and couldn't get the job done. The Americans had to "lead from the front" again. And this was basically just some micky mouse no fly zone and aerial bombings of a third world nation. 4 and they were done. France's military is a paper tiger and everyone knows it, including French military brass who all complain about it after retiring. Forget Turkey, Poland could probably shred through France's conventional forces without much of an issue. All France really has that scares people are Nukes. They remind me a lot of North Korea on this front. Not a military power. For all intents and purposes Poland is really the only EU nation which has any teeth. And those teeth aren't very big. But at least they have teeth.
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  32. More false narratives by TLDR. Well done.
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  33.  @ChinnuWoW  Yes it does, except no one has violated Armenian territory. If memory serves me correct weren't they the ones illegally occupying another nation's internationally recognized territory until recently?
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  34.  @_hunter_hunter1048  You do realize that before Turkey did the Greeks actually invaded Anatolia and took it from indigenous groups like the Hittites right?
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  35.  @bullmoosevelt4495  Most of those neighbors including Orthodox Christian Georgia get along really well. Armenia has territorial claims on every single one of it's neighbors except Iran. Armenia has border disputes with every neighbor except Iran. Armenia is the only nation in that region which has recently invaded it's neighbor's internationally recognized territory and ethnically cleansed 800,000 civiilans. If everyone in the region gets along and there is one aggressive country we can't get along with nearly all of them. Who do you think the problem is?
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  36.  @railwayhistorian2778  If he had the ability to rig elections, he wouldn't have lost the midterm elections not too long ago and lost control of all the largest municipalities. It seems your relationship with facts and reality isn't a very strong relationship lol The election looks like it could tip either way according to polls. Unlike here in America I don't think their election system is rigged.
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  37.  @calebbearup4282  So Kurds are about 20 percent of their population today if not more and nearly 40% of their government is Kurdish. Yet somehow some guy named Caleb on youtube is supposed to have us believe this is some sort of genocide going on? Interesting. Do you have anything else you'd like to add which won't get completely and utterly destroyed by simple facts? Anything bro? Perhaps you'll try to convince me the earth is flat next? Sometimes I wonder how it's possible for a human being to become this irrational and detached from reality.
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  38.  @whydoiexistrnwhy  Yes a long time ago and they've stopped the behavior. Unlike France who is still at it.
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  39.  @lavendelkaiserin  Well you really can't blame Egypt for their government as it is a government the people simply didn't want. The government they elected was violently overthrown by the current one. As far as the government in Turkey, it is the government the people want. If we think it's great or we think it's sh!t is irrelevant.
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  40.  @markdowding5737  Sweden has been funding groups in that area for well over 15 years, well before ISIS even existed. So claiming that it was a one time thing to defeat ISIS is an outlandish claim to make. As far as evidence, the Swedish government isn't sky about it. It's literally in their budget with the exact amounts they send. If you weren't suffering from cognitive dissonance you'd actually look it up yourself. Don't ask me to come up with something you're too lazy to look for. They're doing it, they're open about the fact they're doing it. That would be like me asking you to go dig up evidence that Russia actually attacked Ukraine. It's insanity and an extremely lazy talking point. Fact of the matter is Sweden delved into insanity and is now paying the price. Trying to shift blame to others wont' change the situation.
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  41.  @adammonem5856  Muhammed Ali Pasha was an Otttoman. Dude was an Ottoman Albanian, trained in the Ottoman military. He set up his own power base in Egypt and wanted to seize power in the Ottoman empire. He was a rival of the Sultan, not the empire.
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  42.  @Superfoodcookie  How long the Syrian conflict has been going on is irrelevant to my point. Turkey years now Turkey/their proxies have been at war with Russia/their proxies in Nagorno Karabakh, Syria and Libya. It would only stand the reason they'd use the Ukraine war to gain leverage on Russia in the most important one to them being Syria. If your definition of closer is having proxy wars with a nation over and over again. I have some Atlantic Ocean front property in Ohio I'd love to sell you at a really really cheap price.
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  43.  @mesutozen1492  You're being generous to France. Look at most of their deals in Africa, it isn't 90/10 for France. It's more like 99/1.
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  44.  @jackholler3572  To be fair it doesn't take much to better than India. Hell some African nations have higher living standards than India does.
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  45.  @monchochp  It's pretty ridiculous to say things like that when you simply don't have the means to actually make it happen. When France makes claims like that, people just roll their eyes and chuckle. There is literally nothing France can actually do. It doesn't realize it's a third rate power and everyone has figured it out. Soon to be a 4th rate power in the next 20 years.
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  46.  @dorianodet8064  They're not worried about sanctions. They're worried about Russia's reaction. What they're asking of Armenia isn't really crazy either. They simply want Armenia to adhere to the tenants of the ceasefire they signed.
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  47. It isn't really important enough on a global stage for there to be much news about it here. It is super interesting but not exactly big news.
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  48. How does France have this amazing ability to make the lives of people it has colonized so terrible that no other colonizing nation has a track record this bad? They fouled these nations up so bad it will take them 100s of years to recover.
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  49. Pretty good video but it completely skipped the 800lbs elephant in the room which is the driver of this entire conflict. Armenia ethnically cleansing 800,000 thousand Azeri civilians from the 7 regions around Karabakh in the 1990s. It's almost like trying to understand German, Jewish relations in Europe during the 1940s and glossing over the holocaust like it was no big deal. Also please ignore all the Karen's in the comments sections complaining about how you pronounced the names of these places. I can't pronounce them myself and I doubt anyone else who isn't from the region can either.
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  50.  @adamesd3699  Yup, it was basically an internal struggle. Dude himself was an Ottoman.
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