Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "DW Documentary" channel.

Cyprus is a cautionary tail of why ethnic cleansing can never lead to anything good.
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I'd like DW to make a documentary called "Angela Merkel's children."
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@HELLO7657 Have the ethnic German people who feel like they're being dispossessed tried reproducing? For those Germans in their 30s with 3 or more kids complaining about the "great replacement." They have every right to complain and I sympathize with them. For those Germans in their 30s with no kids complaining about a low birth rate and being outnumbered by migrants. Well that is like cancer complaining about being bald due to chemo.
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I don't think he is smiling because his demographic problem is worse than Germany's. Russian population is shrinking at a massive rate
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@leonsparta8238 Pawning this off as "Atrocities on both sides" seems to wash the hands of the side which did the vast majority of ethnic cleansing? That would be like the Germans saying well during WW2 atrocities were committed by both sides. While true it does nothing to actually shed light on the scale and scope of atrocities. Fact of the matter is one way or another eventually the majority group on in the south are going to end up paying serious reparations to the majority group in the north who it tried to exterminate. This will happen, just a question of when.
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@William Kristy, Germany is so far behind in military that it would take them 40 years of military buildup to even pose a threat to anyone let alone Russia.
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@daniebello Not wanting to see your population replaced with another culture doesn't make you a racist. But I do agree with your point that they really can't complain since they're the ones choosing not to reproduce. It's a self inflicted wound, the proverbial 800lbs elephant in the room everyone is ignoring.
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@living_peace All nations in that region have problems with their neighbors, some more than others. Turkey has massive problems with Greece, Syria and has a tense relationship with Iran and has good relations with Bulgaria Georgia and Azerbaijan. Greece has massive problems with Albania, Turkey, Bulgaria and Macedonia. Basically every nation it has a land border with and not a good relationship with one of them. Georgia has problems with Armenia, Russia and has good relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan. This list can go on and on. The only two nations in that entire area which are in conflict with every single one of their neighbors are Greece and Iran. The rest is a mixed bag. Not to mention every nation around there literally hates Russia. Your thesis seems to fall apart when put under a microscope.
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@zulubeatz1 It seems to me the vast majority are responding to the conditions mentioned by the OP. You don't have to be a white nationalist to see what is driving these people into anti establishment parties.
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I'd imagine a simple two state solution is probably the only way forward at this point. Leaving the poor people in the north isolated because of events that started because they were ethnically cleansed is simply immoral and shows what a breakdown there is in the international system.
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The funny part is Poland's military is probably a lot stronger than Germany's right now. "Germany invades Poland"...... Two weeks later. "Poland occupies Berlin." lol
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I think someone should step up and call a spade a spade here. First to those right wingers. They're complaining about a great replacement and low birth rates among indigenous populations. Yet most of them are in their mid 30s with no children. That's just funny if you think about it. Then DW, apparently a political movement needs to be responsible for the actions of every single person who donates them money. I could go on and on and on about the how ridiculous DW is on how they present this and how ridiculous those far right groups are in what they do. Also at what point will the German establishment and media take on some responsibility for why there such a trend in middle class people joining right wing groups? "Oh they're just Nazis" isn't a very compelling argument either.
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@Sorsetti Gommosi, I'd hate to see any government on the planet put a small minority at group of another ethnic cleansing attempt just so they can get a few bucks in the bank.. That would be insanity.
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@aristides2005 Perhaps learning what the term means and then reading about what happened on that island might be a good start for you. Most instances of ethnic cleansing are difficult to prove, this was is fairly cut and dry because the leaders of the people taking part in the ethnic cleansing were very open and clear in their public statements as to what they were trying to achieve.
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@aristides2005 Union with Greece for them meant Cyprus being a completely Greek island which mean the largest minority on the island would have to be ethnically cleansed. This isn't me saying this, they themselves said it and then tried to carry it out. Are you claiming the Greeks themselves were carrying out propaganda on themselves? Is that your argument?
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@aristides2005 Oh I see your point of view. 1. Say something completely detached from reality. 2. Reject all rational objections to your point of view. 3. Pretend that your view seems to be the view of the majority of people who've looked into this (completely untrue) And then walking away feeling proud of yourself for doing such a good job at rationalizing the slaughter of human beings because of their ethnicity. Nice job bro.
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@incumbentvinyl9291 Hilarious yes. But sadly it's true.
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@incumbentvinyl9291 If you had understood the original point we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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@dewd9327 Yes what the Greek Cypriots tried to do to the minority on that island was very similar to what the Turks did to the Armenians. Difference is what the Turks did to the Armenians was well over 100 years ago and during a world war. What the Greek Cypriots did happened when most of us were alive. Not to mention the war criminals are still alive. So yea, just like Turkey in some ways nothing like Turkey in others. Either way I'm sure we can both agree trying to exterminate a minority group is not a good thing to do.
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@Ariella It's more likely that the headline will start "Poland invades Germany." lol
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@Ariella Germany is in no position to defend itself anymore. Poland would probably completely and utterly occupy them.
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I find it interesting how DW tried to frame the Libyan and Syrian interventions as a sort of helping hand. It was anything but help as both those nations were completely and utterly destroyed and overrun with terrorists armed to the teeth by nations like France, my United States and Saudi Arabia. Merkel now looks like a fortune teller staying out of all that death and destruction which will plague Libya and Syria for another 20 years.
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@gerodimon101 You harp on and on about Cyprus but you do realize that a majority on that island tried to exterminate a minority group on that island right? A final solution type situation which their leaders weren't too shy about boasting about. I'd imagine you can make fine arguments about Turkey's incursions into Syria and Iraq and I'd agree with you 100%. But when you harp on and on about their presence on Cyprus without mentioning why they're there. It almost tells me you wish they never went there and an entire ethnic group was essentially completely ethnically cleansed? It's rich that you'd take a position like this and then have the audacity to call anyone else an aggressive state? You do realize the insanity in your arguments right? It would be akin to Germans literally complaining that they weren't able to kill enough Jews. That's basically what you're doing here.
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@kevsmithard5586 You are correct. However I believe anyone who doesn't have at least three children has no right to complain.
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Hope for what? Reunification? I'd imagine that ship sailed in 2004 when the the two sides with the stamp from the UN brokered a fair deal. The majority on the island didn't want a fair deal and voted no. Apparently they want to completely an utterly dominate the minority group like in the good ol days for them. Reunification? There is no hope, it won't happen. Best case scenario is no violence between the two sides which has been the case since 1974. Don't fix it if it isn't broken.
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@nickkoss9384 I'd imagine it's quite fair since they were the ones who were being ethnically cleansed. None of this would be happening if the majority on the island didn't go full Adolf Hitler on a small minority.
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And what guarantees would the small ethnic minority in the north have that they won't be ethnically cleansed again?
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@twistedmuppet2464 Actually I'm not being ethnically cleansed by anyone. I don't live in a country where minority groups are being slaughtered, I don't live on Cyprus where the majority goes full blast Hitler on small minority groups. Thanks for your concern though.
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@kostantinosgeorgiou3076 Interesting response. 1. Make light of minorities being slaughtered like cattle. Being callus enough to say "blah blah" like it's something so normal. 2. Like all ethnic cleansing deniers blame your victims. I always ask this because it feels that way. Do all ethnic cleansing and war crime deniers go to some sort of seminar on how to deny crimes? You all seem to use the same playbook. When the issue of what the Greeks did in Cyprus I swear to god the same exactly talking points are used as when I question the Turks about the Armenian genocide. Do you guys teach each other way to say or something?
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@CemreNeverland I'm not exactly sure if any of these groups are advocating killing and hurting people. They merely believe the people should have some say in who does or doesn't come into their country. A lot of nations are grappling with this. Look at Turkey for example with that huge influx of Syrian refugees. The people are downright angry because they had no say in the matter and suddenly found themselves as minorities in Syrian neighborhoods. I don't care what part of the world you're in, what religion you are or what your culture is like. If you have one group of people living somewhere and then dump another group of people on their lap, there is going to be tension. I also wonder at what point will these right wing groups take a long hard look in the mirror as to what caused this in Germany. If they were having enough babies the people in charge wouldn't be dumping so many migrants on their laps. There is enough blame to go around.
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@Pedro Amaral, I don't know why but I find the idea of right wing Portuguese people kinda hilarious lol
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@ianhomerpura8937 It seems they won't vote yes to anything which gives the ethnic minority protections. Perhaps they want to slaughter them again? Who knows.
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It was freed from a majority group trying to go full hitler on a minority group in 1974 no?
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@dadikkedude To be fair many European nations enabled this cancer to become a cancer.
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@TheNefastor To be fair some of these nations have no role in exploiting these nations. For example when France destroyed Libya for her own greedy ambitions, I'm not sure how 1 million refugees in Poland is Poland's fault. I'd love to see refugees flooded in those nations which caused strife in those nations in the first place. Germany would be spared, France would die lol
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@TheNefastor I'd imagine you'd have to be dim to not understand that this is exactly what tends to happen. Where did most Algerian migrants end up after France slaughtered nearly 2 million of them? Where did most Vietnamese migrant to due to the fallout of the Vietnam war? Where are the majority of Syrian migrants right now? Again you'd have to be very dim to have no understanding of history and people's migratory habits.
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@davida6146 Japan is a pretty bad example, they're at a stage where demographic and economic collapse is inevitable. Moral of the story, have babies lol
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@aristides2005 Well that's probably because you haven't read much about what happened there. I would recommend looking into the matter. There aren't many sane historians that don't 100% categorically agree ethnic cleansing took place. Hard to deny it too when at the time as I said earlier they weren't shy about what they were trying to do. Every case of ethnic cleansing has it's fair share of deniers, don't be that guy (or girl)
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@aristides2005 Just like you need to look up the definition of the word ethnic cleansing, you might want to learn what the word argument means. I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall.
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@aristides2005 I've dealt with people like you before. Turks who deny the Armenian genocide, Serbs who pretend slaughtering their neighbors never happened. I don't think anything short of taking you guys into a time machine and making you watch the atrocities in real time will knock any sort of sense into you.
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@aristides2005 Aside from the perpetrators saying they were going to do what they did. 1000s of news reports of the time saying they did. That's more than you can find about genocides from 1000s of years ago yet we're certain about those as well. Again its' one of those situations where the only thing that would convince you is putting you in a time machine and making you watch. It's surreal actually that there are human beings out there in this day and act this callus. I wish you would stop this charade that you're interested in the truth, as 10 minutes of research would back up everything I'm saying.
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@aristides2005 Justification is a reason why they did it. Proof is being being slaughtered while the leaders of the people slaughtering them made public comments about how their name was to "leave no Turk on the island." Justification is even easier, they wanted something called Enosis and to make it happen they formed a group called EOKA to slaughter a minority group. Look it up.
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@aristides2005 You're right their public statements never included anything about wanting to commit genocide. They simply said they wanted to wipe out the entire ethnic group off the island. Again you're not arguing against me, you're arguing against what the leaders of the time actually said and then went out and tried to do.
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@aristides2005 So you're saying they were lying when they said they were going to do it. And all the reports of the time claiming they were doing it was wrong. The 10s of thousands of refugees running away from them also never happened? Is that your position?
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@aristides2005 I'd imagine saying you will get "rid" of an entire minority generally has a certain message that seems to clear to most rational people. Note I said rational people, if you were rational we wouldn't be having this conversation. The point is clear, a majority group trying to exterminate a minority group in the modern era is something very few people would be callus enough to try to rationalize as proper behavior. Again you really sound no different than the Turks pretending the Armenian genocide didn't happen, or the Serbs pretending they didn't massacre the Bosnians. It's not a good look my man.
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@aristides2005 We seem to be going in circles. After this entire exchange nothing short of building a time machine and taking you there will work for you. You're far too emotionally involved in the topic. You know you are I know you are.
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