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

  1. @Felsbrcoken, why do you live in that country?
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  2. @Scuff Tuff, Geographically speaking Sweden isn't even 5% as value to Nato as Finland and Turkey. Militarily speaking, well it isn't even close.
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  3.  @georgedevries3992  One could argue that Turkey letting Sweden into Nato would be appeasement for the country funding armed groups which are blowing up schools and hospitals in a Nato member state. So if you think Sweden shouldn't be forced to stop, you're an appeasement guy too?
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  4. @Harunkuf7055. His moves had a lot more to do with Syria than it did Ukraine.
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  5.  @rajashashankgutta4334  Sure they do, most embassies do.
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  6. They don’t have a very high debt to gdp ratio.
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  7.  @JJ-io4pe  Their base interest rate isn't the rate they pay on their debt. You do understand how this works right?
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  8. Finland tying their Nato membership to Sweden is a strategic blunder of epic proportions. How exactly is it Finland's fault that Sweden had decided to fund armed groups which were blowing up schools and hospitals in a Nato member state? Why should Nato lose Finland's strategic depth and why should Finland lose Nato safety because of Sweden's actions. This is insanity.
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  9.  @TenTenJ  Yea in a lot of cases that is 100% true. However the inroads they've made in Central Asia and the Caucasus over the past 20 years is quite tangible.
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  10.  @buddy1155  Not saying who is right or who is wrong but your response was one of the dumbest I've seen in years. Your trying to debate against his premise that Turkey's economy is of X status in it's "region." To argue against that you use statistics of a nation which isn't even in that region? Seriously? Surely there must have been better ways to make your case. lol
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  11.  @ardabaser1349  To assume that Turkey's inability to do this is boiled down to bad leadership is insanity. How productive is the population there? How low are levels of corruption among the population. Do the people produce more than they consume? Is business trust high fostering ever greater investment? Also don't forget leadership doesn't evolve in a vacuum, leaders don't come from mars. Leaders of a nation generally come from within that nation and generally are a representation of what the people are like. I rarely here this from Turks but you seriously sound like people from a broken state who love to say "well if it wasn't for a bad government our nation would be XYZ." People in general terms get the leaders they deserve. While your leadership isn't great, it isn't terrible either. There isn't that much more that can be done with a population with such habits.
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  12.  @MichaelStergides  Him saying it wrong once and continuing saying it the same way would make a lot more sense. You're right
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  13.  @tuna708  Evet. Elbette sizin kadar guzel konusamiyorum ama derdimi anlaticak kadar var.
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  14. Did this guy really just say Erdogan appointed himself president for life? Talk about fake news lol They have scheduled elections dude, incase you haven't noticed.
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  15.  @memeolski  That's an interesting point. So the UN should send peacekeepers who will help do something against the UN's own resolutions? lol
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  16. @Cosmic Claim, on that front it won't matter who is elected. The government will be under intense pressure from the public to extract a pound of flesh from the Swedes, unlike western Europe over there the government has no choice but to do the bidding of the voters when there is that much pressure. Considering what Sweden has done to that country, I can't say I blame them. Nor will this change regardless of who is elected. I know here in the west when it comes to foreign policy our minds are blown just thinking about the people having a say in what the government does. lol
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  17. @Arpine Mikayelyan, You failed to mention their invasion and illegal occupation of the 7 regions around Karabakh which belonged to Azerbaijan. Not to mention they also ethnically cleansed 800,000 civilians. This idea that they're just a people who want to live peacefully is insanity considering the history of what happened.
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  18. @K. Anders, If what you're saying is true how exactly did he lose the midterm elections which made him lose all control of the largest municipalities and was a major blow to his party? You know there is something called facts and reality which kinda tell a different story than your false narrative.
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  19.  @geofflepper3207  It is dumbed down when you relate it to easy to understand things which literally have nothing to do with the action in the first place. Example: I punch you in the face for some complex reasons relating to our past. Someone comes out and claims I did it because you have nicer hair than me. Dumbing down. Something the mainstream media is extremely good at in an attempt to draw false narratives. "Putin invaded Ukraine because he is evil and crazy" is a nice example of dumbing something down. The fact the explanation is simple doesn't make it true.
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  20.  @napolien1310  You said there is no proxy war, then in the next sentence you prove there is a proxy war. lol When you arm and support two different sides in a conflict, that is the definition of a proxy war. You know what the term proxy war means right?
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  21.  @jakehall4493  To have a well functioning democracy you need an educated populace. Having a bunch of people who don't know that you're and your are two different words and when to use each is never good for democracy anywhere.
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  22.  ScavHub  I live in a country where it's pretty obviously headed down the dark hall of authoritarianism but no one seems to care. Welcome to the United States.
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  23. Syria is close to the Zionist apartheid state, as long as Israel is there they will never be left alone.
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  24. Do you not find it odd that a country will try to join a collective defense organization while at the same time funding armed groups which are blowing up buildings in a member of said collective defense organization?
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  25.  @mikkelv7020  I don't really watch Turkish news. Sweden claiming it doesn't fund the PKK is nothing more than a false narrative. The PKK has many branches all with different names and all collect money to further their cause. I'm not interested in a debate about their actions being right or being wrong. Fact of the matter is the groups that Sweden is funding is going directly into PKK operations as these groups are subsidiaries of the PKK. That would be like Bin Laden opening up funding for his organization, me sending them hundreds of millions of dollars and then claiming I never technically gave it directly to AL Queda. That argument is ridiculous. Now the Kurds might be right they might be wrong, I'm not interested in that. What I am interested in is the fact Sweden is funding armed groups which are attacking a Nato member state while Sweden is trying to join Nato. It's rather awkward don't you think?
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  26.  @mikkelv7020  There are 100s of groups gathering money for that organization, nor are they shy about it. So your litmus test to remove your cognitive dissonance is asking someone to list the names of the groups? It's fairly obvious you don't really have any arguments, especially since Sweden isn't really hiding what they're doing. Either way it's all a moot point. You believing it or not believing it doesn't change the fact Sweden is getting vetoed. Pretending they aren't doing waht they're doing isn't the best policy.
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  27.  @questionmaker5666  So essentially you believe you're winning a debate in which you have zero talking points because you're too lazy to do a 4 minute google search? Is that what I'm supposed to gather from this? It would be akin to me asking for proof Russia invaded Ukraine. It's a very intellectually lazy way to debate my friend. And is usually a refuge for those who have trouble winning a debate on it's merits. Good luck with that.
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  28.  @JohnSmith-fp2mk  Azerbaijan invades the region in 2020 and about 27 civilians die. Armenia invades the same region in the 1990s and 800,000 civilians get ethnically cleansed. So in your world view you're a barbaric beast if you aren't slaughtering civilians in the 10s of thousands? Do people where you work know you hold these views? Don't forget what you put on the internet has an odd way of catching up with you one day.
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  29.  @armeniancrusader7908  You mean the one that refused to fight and surrendered?
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  30. There is really nothing about this conflict that will have any impact on global affairs. It's a small mountainous area and it's a minor territorial dispute. Hell even in their recent "all out" war in 2020 barely anyone died lol They fought for a few weeks, the Azeris surrounded and cut off the Armenian army and the Armenians surrendered. Nothing sensational enough to capture the world media's attention.
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  31.  @BeautySavesWorld  So do one of Armenia's "European" values you speak of include invading a neighbor's internationally recognized territory and ethnically cleansing 800,000 civilians? Is that the point you're trying to make? Not to mention trying to dehumanize those people who were brutally ethnically cleansed to make it okay? Mass killings of untold amounts of women and children are "beautysavingtheworld" in your book? On a scale of 1-10 just how horrible of a human being are you?
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  32. DonMarley69. Kind of like how Armenia wanted no Armenians in the territory it occupied? The difference is Armenia acted on this "want" and savagely ethnically cleansed 800,000 Azeri civilians. War crimes are hard to hide my friend, they have a way of coming back and biting you in the arse.
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  33. ​ The_Gambler10  That is simply not going to happen. Essentially Europe will have to grapple with high energy costs for a very very long time. The oil coming out of the global south, if there is enough demand in Asia they'd rather give it there. If they will give discounts they'll give it to the Asians. Many of these nations have had a sketchy past with Europe and the global south would like nothing more than to see Europe in pain. This makes me feel bad for the eastern Europeans though as they've really never done anything to anyone in the global south. Once that pipelines from Russia went offline. Europe simply has no access to "cheap" energy, nor will it. I doubt Russia would trust Europe enough to spend billions on pipelines like they did before. The gig is up, this is game over for Europe. Maybe just maybe in the long term some eastern European nations can get access to cheap energy if they're able to get pipelines built through Turkey. For Western Europe there really is no way out of this mess they've dug for themselves.
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  34.  The_Gambler10  Yes so intelligent that somehow your leaders have managed to screw up the one thing that kept your progressing. (Cheap energy) Also this isn't a situation you can "get out of." Cheap energy has been the backbone driving European industry for well over 50 years. When that cheap imput is gone, so is the industry that relies on it to stay competitive. It's game over, you can't magically conjure up cheap energy. Now it's a race against the clock for renewables, not sure that tech will be able to replace fossil fuels fast enough before Europe has to deindustrialize. As they say in the competitive video game world. GGs.
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  35.  The_Gambler10  We're in serious trouble here in America, you're 100% correct. Yet as bad as things are here (which is really really bad) it's still 100x better than the position Europe finds itself in.
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  36.  @lordofmercy4807  That was a nice reminder to Europe about how the world actually works lol
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  37. @Martin Gray, referendums don't count when youv'e ethnically cleansed everyone who might vote against it. Once those 800,000 Azeri civilians from Karabakh and the 7 surrounding regions were ethnically cleansed. No referendum will hold any sort of legal weight in international law. Not to mention the Albanians didn't ethnically cleanse 800,000 Serbians in Kosovo either.
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  38.  @emrestotheemresto9770  I guess those Azerbaijanis knew what was coming. Not long after said referendum 800,000 Azeri civilians were ethnically cleansed from those regions. One of the greatest crimes of our generation.
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  39.  @Raven-kx4bu  Yea it's usually people who are party to said conflict who tend to make the most insane claims about it. Like the OP's initial post, glossing over illegal invasion and ethnic cleansing.
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  40. @Mr Mr, TLDR has a track record of sticking with narratives and literally making things up to fit those narratives. Anyone who has followed elections in that country know that their polls are pretty damned accurate. A lot more accurate than here in America, those polls telling us Hillary would win in a landslide. The polls there predicted Erdogan's party would lose the midterm elections not too long ago. The polls were right (as usual) So this idea of calling polls that have been spot on for like 25 years "unreliable" shows the relationship TLDR has with facts, that relationship is not good lol With that said, according to the polls, it's too close to call. This election could go either way.
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  41.  @alrxandersmiths242  You can be as sick of it as you want. The fact of the matter is the EU nations have no choice. They've decayed so much that the elites there almost aren't aware of the fact their 3rd rate nations now. Turkey would literally steam roll all of them. And Turkey isn't even a super power. That is the reality of who the EU are now. So you can't really blame them for being over for America, hoping to get some protection. History books will be written about how powerful that region was when it's 3rd world country status 100 years from now.
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  42.  @Me-yq1fl  They have a functional rapid deployment force mean to fight Africans throwing rocks and machine guns. A real war? Not so much.
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  43.  @Erwin1293-  Poland has teeth. UK they might be able to grow some after an outbreak of hostilities. France? Not so much. About Germany I agree, they have the industrial capacity to outstrip every other EU nation. But military isn't just equipment, it's about proper training and proper tactics. It will take Germany 5-10 years to get up to speed (assuming they have to will to do so.) Germany also has other problems, they probably won't have enough ethnic Germans to fill the ranks. Germany is also notorious for their lack of ability in assimilating immigrants. So if the military is filled with people who don't really care much for Germany emotionally, how well will that army perform? Germany's best bet is to mass produce arms and let Poland use them lol
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  44.  @Erwin1293-  I never claimed what we did in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan wasn't even. Also Germany didn't do anything with the Ukraine war for moral reasons. You did it because you had no choice. You are a vassal state of the United States and will do as you're told. Don't blame me for this, blame your leaders.
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  45.  @pocarski  First off most of the EU nations aren't even meeting their targets for Nato standards. And even if they were, money doesn't always equate quality as it's possible to have a bloated system which eats up money and gets nothing done. Which is essentially the problem with European military forces. Also if Turkey attacks Greece, it won't trigger article 5. Considering both are Nato states. The only force even capable of doing anything about it is America, so it's a coin toss if they'll react or not react. How Europe feels about the issue is irrelevant since they can't do a damned thing about it. They don't even have the logistics to get enough manpower over to the region to get in the fight. Europe is still under the delusion that they matter, they don't. More powerful nations decide and Europe then has to react to that reality. This is the position Europe is in and it's going to get worse.
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  46.  @viktorg6823  I find it fascinating that there are people who will make posts like this and not even try to debate the point they're complaining against. It is fascinating if you think about it.
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  47.  @viktorg6823  Yet you have wasted your time writing these walls of text. Without actually saying anything interesting. Well done. And yes someone claiming the EU invading Turkey was stupid, which is what my entire post was, explaining to them it wasn't possible.
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  48.  @viktorg6823  I'm glad you don't have time to make any points but have all the time in the world to talk about how you don't have time to make points. Well played Viktor, well played.
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  49.  @louiscypher4186  The EU begging or not I guess would depend on who is in the white house. If the globalists are still in, EU won't have to beg. The globalists will never miss a chance to get involved in a war. If a guy like Trump is in office yes Europe will have to beg. If the United States doesn't step in Europe will only be able to watch as Turkey most likely rolls over Greece.
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  50. @6668 You do realize Europe is a continent and a race right? Hopefully you can understand this distinction on a fundamental level. Also if you actually believe most of the nations of Europe are democratic and also believe most of their people are believers in and respect human rights. How can you then explain how most European nations are backing a genocide going on in Gaza right now? If the people are believers in human rights and democracy actually exists in those nations, why aren't these human rights defenders stopping their government from aiding, arming and cheerleading the worst human rights crimes the world has seen since WW2. A lot of times you need to take the rhetoric you're saying and see if it stands up against reality and facts. The fact your oppressors and people who hate your guts programmed you like a robot to defend them at all costs is extremely interesting. You're like a posterchild for a colonized mind.
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