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

  1.  @topraktansak8385  Being in Nato, prevents you from being attacked by Nato. It's quite simple really. And it's something the Serbians figured out far too late.
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  2.  Deadpoppin  The people who lived there then are mostly the same people who live there now. They're mostly indigenous Anatolians who were first invaded by the Greeks and Helenized. Then invaded by the Persians and Persianized, then invaded by central asian horsemen and turkified. Modern DNA mapping is pretty clear about this. The Turks themselves would have you believe that the vast majority of their 80 million are descendants of the 1200 or so horsemen who conquered this area which had millions at the time. How likely is that?
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  3. Odd title. Because Erdogan didn't end the feud. Sisi (president of Egypt) did. Egypt were the ones who approached the Turks to reconcile and invited them to visit Egypt and rolled out the red carpet. God knows what concessions they had to make in the process.
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  4. @RS Casual, Elections will probably change a lot of things in that country but one thing that won't change is their policy on Sweden. It isn't a party issue, everyone is on board with the policy. In fact the opposition has been slamming Erdogan for being too soft on Sweden. So this "oh lets wait for elections to fix this Sweden problem" is a pipe dream. People don't understand how much bad blood there is between the two states. If you look into the issues between them it's also very understandable why the Turks are so hot skipping mad.
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  5.  @Doge811  Signing mutually beneficial mining contracts with a nation is a lot different than colonizing a nation and taking those mines for pennies on the dollar. Think about what you said for a second. Are you actually saying the Africans shouldn't have the right to hand out mineral contracts at a price which is beneficial to their nation? It is better to have France colonize the nation and take it for 99% off? Is that your argument?
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  6.  @ChinnuWoW  No I didn't, unlike you I'm not doing backflips in denying one genocide and pushing another. You know what the word hypocrite means right?
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  7.  @ChinnuWoW  When the topic is on the current actions of one state. Trying to somehow rationalize that by making a statement making it seem like no group of people who have done anything in the past can comment on the current state of affairs is insanity. The Armenian genocide comment is your strawman in defending French actions in Africa. I simply countered your strawman with another strawman and watched your strawman crumble.
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  8.  @trotgun1563  You think people there "manipulation" to hate the people who occupy, murder and exploit them? Seriously?
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  9. @Caleb Bearup, I don't think It's for you to decide who the leader of another country might be.
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  10.  @larsnielsen1852  No one claimed people can't have opinions. Just like other people are free to question the validity of said opinions. It's called the open market place of ideas, generally bad ideas get destroyed.
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  11. Well Israel is doing everything in it's power to spark a regional war. Iran hasn't taken the bait so far, I doubt it will now.
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  12. @Gardstyle35, Armenians genocided in that area? What are you smoking. Lets do a quick compare and contrast. Azerbaijan invades Nagorno Karabakh and about 27 civilians die during the entire war. Armenia invades Nagorno Karabakh and the surrounding areas and 800,000 Azeri civilians are ethnically cleansed. It's quite clear who was subject to genocide here. The fact you're blaming victims of genocide is a terrible look for you.
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  13. @R.V. Generally when you lose a war and sign a peace agreement. You kind of have to adhere to the term of the agreement you signed. That is kinda how it works.
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  14.  @teaser6089  Turkey certain doesn't have the capability to invade and occupy Greece. The North land passage is too narrow and mountainous (easy to defend) and Turkey doesn't have the naval transport capabilities for an amphibious invasion of Greece (Only nation on America that can do that is America at this point.) So yes, the Turks are delusional when they make claims like we'll be in Athens in 2 weeks. But you're also delusional if you think Greece has anywhere near the military might to even try to defend those islands if Turkey were to invade them. The difference in distance to those islands, coupled with the gulf in the capabilities of the two nations would ensure Greece wouldn't even try to defend those islands if a war broke out. Turkey won't attack Greece because worldwide sanctions would cripple it. This idea that some article in the EU would have EU members enter a hot conflict is absolutely ridiculous. No EU nation has the military logistics to wage a war that far from it's shores. France the EU's largest military by far by their own admission only has enough munitions for a 4 day war. The only nation capable of stopping such a thing militarily is the United States. But generally speaking when you take actions hoping others will defend you, history has shown this to be an extremely dangerous policy to follow. It rarely works out well in the long term. Ask Ukraine how that is working out for them right now.
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  15.  @teaser6089  So according to your Greece's nation foreign policy is to show aggression toward it's neighbor and then hope other people come to defend them if their neighbor reacts? Hmmm, in the long term I wonder how that policy is going to play out.
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  16. @Estraume, Turkey has certain been pushing in that direction for quite a while. If they continue on this path they can certainly wrestle a lot of influence away from Russia in the Caucasus and Central Asia (they're already chipping away at it) China's influence in Central Asia is economic in nature and Turkey simply does not have the economic might to combat that or give Central Asians better economic incentives than China. That region in the next 30 years will probably be Turkey having military and cultural influence there and China having economic influence there. Russia is not in great shape there.
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  17. @A Kend, No way the Russians or the Azeris will allow UN peacekeepers into that region. Not to mention Armenia might not be too keen on it considering the UN peacekeepers track record for protecting civilians. Anyone forget Bosnia, when Dutch soldiers just watched as Serbian soldiers slaughtered like 10,000 civilians right in font of them in a "safe zone." Not to say the Azeris are going to slaughter Armenians (they would have during the war if they wanted to) but it is to say no besieged people will trust UN peace keepers.
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  18. @billyjesus5442 It was overall a lazy approach in this video simply ignoring a lot of the factors which led to this situation. Easy to understand narratives make for easier stories even if they draw false narratives. I doubt this channel had any intent in doing anyone dirty. They were simply too lazy to do the research and decided to spout nonsense on the issue.
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  19. Seems they've been studying European negotiation tactics.
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  20.  @Tespri  They score high in trustworthiness when it comes to domestic corruption rates, yes. How about their behavior when dealing with other nations? Why do you think the Global South hates Europe? You might want to look into those dealings. Especially France's "trustworthiness" in Africa.
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  21.  @breaderikthegreat3224  When the 2020 war happened Ukraine wasn't a thing and Iran didn't have trouble with it's people. They still didn't step in and intervene for Armenia. You know why? It's difficult to ask any nation to stick it's neck out and help the side which illegally invaded it's neighbor's internationally recognized territory and ethnically cleansed over 800,000 civilians. It's not a good look, so this is mainly the reason why no one stepped in.
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  22. ​ @csvigneshwar3390  So you're basically saying there is a good reason international law was broken and 800,000 civilians were ethnically cleansed. Interesting.
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  23.  @airinmaz729  Really, so you're saying Armenia didn't illegally invade Azerbaijan and illegally occupy it's internationally recognized territory? A plethora of UN resolutions would disagree with you. You also going to tell us the 800,000 Azerbaijani civilians which were brutally ethnically cleansed just up and vanished into thin air? Nothing to see here?
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  24. @Tyranitararmaldo, There is no alliance shift. They're essentially playing horse trading between Syria and Ukraine. You give here I take there. You take here, I take there. People forget these two nations are in a nasty proxy war in Syria. What alliance?
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  25.  The_Gambler10  Well let me take a crack at it. As bad as it is here are our advantages over Europeans. 1. We have the ability to produce our own energy. Europe does not. 2. We have the ability to militarily protect our trade routes, Europe does not. 3. We have the ability to go get energy, Europe does not. This list can go on for days, not only for America but many other nations who will probably surpass Europe in the next 50 years. You fail to realize or appreciate the situation Europe's current leadership has put it in.
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  26.  @miguelfernandes1920  They were offered a lot of great plans for well over 30 years. They rejected every single one of them, they preferred to opt for war. So the Azeris gave it to them eventually. So they really can't complain about the outcome can they?
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  27.  @teffuniotofu6905  I never claimed they did. While I go learn more about African geography. Why don't you take lessons on how to comprehend what you're reading before responding. This will help both of us I guess.
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  28. @illy5168 Egypt has some problems in that region with nations who Turkey happens to have a lot of leverage over. That is what he means. Friendlier relations with Turkey helps solve some of Egypt's geo strategic problems. Like their massive issues with their neighbor Libya.
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  29. @Hession0Drasha That is what it boils down to, if an Africa nation has something the world wants. It makes sense they'll go with the best deal. The fact France is absolutely freaking out about an African nation having the right to decide who it can sell what to is very telling.
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  30. @Themelbournelad, Sweden isn't nearly important enough to take such drastic action. Especially not an action which would free up Russia's southern flank. What will probably happen is the rest of the alliance will put pressure on Finland to decouple their Nato bid from Swedens and Finland will join. It's really Finland and their geography Nato needs, not really Sweden.
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  31. @590 Name one powerful nation that isn't. At least their contractions are few compared to some of the others.
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  32.  @ahmadel-zebedy  You do realize that statement is completely detached from the reality of the sitaution right?
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  33.  @dai-belizariusz3087  Imagine I steal all the money in your bank and when you claim you're poor because I robbed you, someone says "cope harder" You're a real special kind of insane aren't you?
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  34.  @BRONCOWEN  Yes this is 100x more important than who some random singer is dating. But unfortunately what who a singer is dating tends to get much higher ratings than something like this. Also even if the media did cover it, we know they'll base it on what the state department wants you to think and you'll get an extremely false narrative on the issue anyway. So instead of knowing nothing about the issue, you'd probably walk away with a warped and untrue version of what is happening. If they don't feel an issue is important enough for them to take the energy to lie to us about it, they won't cover it. This is one of those situations. It is just the way our entire system of disseminating information is unfortunately.
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  35.  @soundwavesuperior5596  Because Serbia and Kosovo are within our orbit of influence, an area where we can project power. Hence important to the psychos we have running foreign policy. Along with a media who will report anything important to said psychos. There is also the fact Serbia and Kosovo are white and European, I'm sure that plays a small part as well. Where as Armenians and Azeris aren't Europeans hence not worthy of the same level of attention from this media. There are plenty of reasons, some big reasons some small reasons why our media simply doesn't care. But again it might be better this way, better know nothing to learn the media's completely false take on the issue no?
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  36.  @adamesd3699  I don't think the dictator in Egypt is going to craft his foreign policy (to save his own skin) based on events from 1956.
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  37. @athens1 For Greece's sake I hope you're right. Although it does come off a bit like hopium though. For all that hopium there is one reality which pretty much offsets all that by a long shot. Turkey pretty much has Egypt by the balls right now. Not sure with all the fires Egypt is trying to put out, they really give a flying fuk about some hypothetical lobby within the EU. An EU which literally has zero weight and influence in that region and zero ability to project hard power. That region is in wartime mode, they're all preparing themselves. The EU is the last place they're thinking about. Especially the nations of Egypt and Lebanon which are in the crosshairs right now.
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  38.  @taimunozhan  What claims in Africa have they made? The man is simply calling out a simple reality.
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  39.  @ektekp  Maybe it does maybe it doesn't. I doubt you'll be the one deciding that though. I still fail to understand how exactly that ties into France's crimes in Africa. Is your position on the matter so indefensible that the only refuge yo'ure finding is the "I know you are but what am I" tatic? Interesting.
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  40.  @davolpatel  Actually if you cared to pay attention it is France being taught some very hard lessons. France doesn't have much to offer the world in terms of something positive anymore but in India's case perhaps France can teach their people to use toilets instead of defecating on streets, beaches and traintracks. Just a thought.
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  41.  @ChinnuWoW  You pull out a perfect strawman, then when a person expands into your own strawman to show how ridiculous it is, you cry strawman. Very interesting indeed.
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  42. Will Armenia lose Karabakh? Dude they already did. It is part of the 2020 ceasefire agreement.
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  43. Or maybe he is trying to extract concessions out of Russia in Syria.
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  44. @Krisselissan, I would have been worried about what Azerbaijan might do during the war in 2020 when they could have easily done anything they wanted. They took huge swaths of land while only a few dozen civilians were killed. If you compare that to when Armenia invaded the same territory in the 1990s, 800,000 civilians were ethnically cleansed. So yea, something I worried about during the war but no longer worry about considering who the Azeris behaved during the war.
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  45.  @jak4596  Did they try to slaughter the ethnic Azeri civilian population there too like they did in Karabakh and it's surrounding regions? I doubt that was the answer you were looking for. The truth is usually ugly.
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  46.  @genrikmuradyan9967  I see you're following the world famous "how to deny war crimes guide book to the T." I think it's chapter three no? Where it says 3. Claim they did worse to you. Where have I seen this method of war crimes denial before? Hmmmm
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  47.  @genrikmuradyan9967  Another thing, weren't those 10k soldiers technically an illegal occupying force/militia on the internationally recognized territory of another nation via international law? Legally speaking you can't put an illegal militia group on par with civilians.
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  48. @Guns and Bullets, no matter how bad things get there it's still 1000x better than those places. Take a look at their property prices in dollar amounts as well. Anyone who invested there in the past few years has 4x their money. Their real estate prices are insane due to foreign investment, especially in the past year. People with money apparently think it's a good place to invest as well. Not sure short term currency fluctuations and economic chaos changes the long term outlook of that country.
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  49.  @wolfgangrenner4152  The EU is an economic club not a military one. It's reason for being isn't for war. You're comparing apples to oranges.
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  50.  @wolfgangrenner4152  My only interest is the reality of the situation. I have zero reason to carry water for Russia as I'm an American. Nor do I have reason to carry water for Nato because I'd prefer my country not to be interventionist. But is this what you do? When you're losing a debate you try to make this about identity and who is on who's team? I'm not the one who made the rules for EU accession. The EU made those rules. I'm just telling you Ukraine won't and can't meet those rules. And did you just say Turkey is more conflict prone than Ukraine? Did you forget there is a HUGE war going on in Ukraine? Perhaps one of the largest scale wars since Vietnam? lol Dude you say the most insane things lol Also you said "conflict prone members." Last I checked Turkey isn't a member of the EU. Again you say the most insane things. I feel like I'm debating a 12 year old child.
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