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

  1. @CHMichael, After watching all these news outlets delve into nonsense on this issue I notice a guy in the comments section hit the nail right on the head. It doesn't really seem like this guy has that much love in the country. The problem more so seems to be that people find the alternative worse.
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  2.  @Cubicle1  China would be hurt massively but they wouldn't crumble. Europe on the other hand would be up sh!t's creek without a paddle. Thinking the power dynamics between the two parties are equal is being detached from reality.
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  3. You know a society is in for a world of hurt when they're voting in people because they're "beautiful" lol
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  4.  @amadeuz8161  It doesn't look like they're bargaining. Their position is quite simple. They will veto any nation which is financially supporting armed groups which are blowing up schools and hospitals in their country. Hard for any rational person to find this as an unreasonable stance.
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  5. @Javanava8925. The EU will have collapsed by the time these nations join. The level of delusion is quite interesting to see.
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  6. @Jonathan Hampshire, when an organization is this corrupt all they'll do is fine a few low level scapegoats and change the rules so they won't get caught next time. No, it's not a positive thing. Especially when they're trying to deflect their own corrupt by pointing the finger at the people who bribed them.
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  7. Al Bundy, We're about to go through the same exact thing here in America although not nearly as severe.
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  8. @Pilep5. Armenia's territory isn't being taken or under attack. What in the world are you talking about.
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  9.  @BrightWendigo  Yea I'm going to have to say no on that. Aside from a few paid off politicians spouting nonsense, the state department has much deeper relations with the Azeris.
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  10.  @user-zz8lb6bd7p  The metric is in your statement. "over market price."
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  11.  @thsimpsonsguy  Isn't Sweden one of the worst offenders of this? Wasn't Sweden recently blocked from joining Nato because it was financing armed groups which were blowing up schools and hospitals? I'm fairly sure most European nations don't go that far in hurting people. So as a Swede, apologize for the Swedish government's actions instead of apologizing for the actions of other European nations.
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  12. @Willie Wonka, They probably had a deal with Washington to do this. It's obvious Washington wants to keep this war going for as long as possible, perhaps they know how bad Russia is struggling and wanted to use Egypt to arm them a bit to keep the war going? Who knows. Nothing would shock me at this point.
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  13.  @TenTenJ  You don't win democracy by trying to reverse elections in which the people have spoken.
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  14. You think either statement would have made a difference?
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  15.  @UsnRoberts  It's hard for a nation to not veto another nation which supports a group they consider terrorists. Not to mention that group having killed 30,000 of their people. This isn't a matter of nations wanting or not wanting something. It's a matter of not wanting to be legally bound to defend a nation which has financed the death of tens and thousands of your citizens. I'm sure if Sweden apologies and gives guarantees it will stop financing this group, Turkey will withdraw it's veto. This idea that supporting terrorism is more important to Sweden than joining Nato is ridiculous. Sweden will relent and Turkey will be pressured into accepting.
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  16. @Katy Newt when you have an organization where each member is legally committed to defending another a veto option for each nation is a must. But you're right from what I'm reading Finland is fine. It's Sweden that is in trouble here.
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  17.  @thomaskristensen9814  I'm fairly sure he isn't spreading the idea that not working is a good thing.
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  18.  @أميرةفرجمحمدحسين  Turkey had serious inflation problems well before the Ukraine war.
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  19.  @Sharyf  So your solution to a guy killing his own people is going in there and killing 100x more than he was killing? Seriously? That is like me going into my neighbor's house to stop him from beating his wife. Killing him and then beating his wife and kids 1000x worse than he was.
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  20. @Eric, I don't think they have any issues with Finland joining. Unlike Sweden Finland hasn't been giving hundreds of millions of dollars to an armed group which attacks a Nato member state. It's awkward for Sweden to even ask for membership in a defense alliance after helping attack a member of said alliance.
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  21. @Carl Ruffier Even his own people can't say anything to his face. He is always behind a wall of paid guards. Makes sense considering his own people wnat him dead.
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  22.  @prometheusunbound-u3c  Nothing you're claiming actually happened.
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  23. @PeteBooty-Juice This is how the people feel. However the psychos in charge of our foreign policy never saw a conflict they didn't want to get involved in.
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  24. "Reduce our dependencies" How exactly is Europe going to go about doing that? Magically make energy European industry needs appear?
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  25.  @billhicks808  And you're willing to fight to the last Ukrainian in the slim chance that can happen right?
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  26.  @billhicks808  On a side note, you can be anti-Russia/China without going full retard.
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  27. @Epic Super, this isn't the first time Macron has been slapped in the face. I'd imagine he is starting to get used to it.
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  28. What exactly can the border internationally community do for Armenia? Especially since in every conflict they've had with Azerbaijan they were legally in the wrong. Few nations would protect the side which invade's it's neighbor's internationally recognized territory and brutally ethnically cleanses 800,000 civilians. Only Russia was willing to actually back that type of behavior by Armenia. Well looks like now the Russians wont' be keen on backing illegal invasions and ethnic cleansing in that region anymore.
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  29.  @veritaspk  There is really nothing for anyone to protect. The conflict is essentially over and Azerbaijan showed insane amounts of restraint. They took over 8 entire regions, huge swaths of territory in a fairly blood war and managed to keep civilian deaths under 2 dozen. That is quite an accompllishment.
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  30. So if you support a country which wants to illegally annex another nation's territory. You won't be surprised when people start supporting Kashmire joining Pakistan then? How Pakistan wants Kashmire is exactly how Armenia wants Nagorno Karabakh.
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  31. @Andre Koniger, at this point you should be more worried about France's adventures in Africa than joining an American adventure.
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  32. @Jaime Laureano, If it's just European nations it won't work. There won't be one member with any serious military capability.
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  33. @AW, The Turkish economy is one of the more reliant economies on imports that you'll see around. The main import isn't luxury items, it's energy. A nation in the modern age cannot function without energy, that is where a bulk of the money for imports go and that won't be changing anytime soon. Zero interest and heavy tariffs will destroy the country. There already isn't enough production in Turkey and you'd legitimately shut down the little production they do have by heavily taxing tariffs. Where do you think the machinery for factories come from? Laptops? Computers? Chips? The idea for being self sufficient is great but it's something that has to be done gradually.
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  34.  @bigdcalilove2634  Foreign governments pillaging resources isn't diversity. What if some random government of a random country came to France and started stealing all of it's natural resources by force. No one would call that diversity. You need to make better arguments.
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  35. @Alvin Files, you might want to do a little more research on the matter.
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  36. @VJS The idea of a European Armed Forces is pure fantasy.
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  37.  @doreeneclose6295  It's hard to apply international law on country A and ignore it for country B, then it turns into the wild west which it is today. I doubt Russia will agree to any of it unless the United States is punished for Iraq and Afghanistan or France is punished for Libya.
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  38. @Paul Kobres, I'd imagine that is a tradeoff they'd be willing to make. If Nato pulls back to where they were in the 1980s, Russia would pull their nukes out of that area and possibly even give more concessions.
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  39. @Kieran Clarges Yet that doesn't stop them from sending high tech military equipment to Ukraine. Equipment which the Ukrainians are telling us is blowing up A LOT of Russian equipment. Obviously they're scared of Russia right? I mean the fact Sweden is given hundreds of millions of dollars every year to an armed group which has been attacking a Nato nation for a few decades now can't possibly be it right?
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  40.  @williamvelazquez2059  RT movies or not it's an interesting question being posed. Lets not forget how American reacted during the Cuban missile crisis and rightfully so. Not sure how this situation is any different than that but the roles reversed.
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  41. @Stefano Movilli, At what point did you find out that they're spending more energy on this than other matters you feel are more pressing? Apparently you feel if a nation has inflation nothing else should be worked on? Or do you simply believe certain races aren't capable of doing multiple things at once? If that is the case, please expand on this idea for us.
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  42.  @florencioigual  You might want to brush up on your French history. If someone made a list, it would be too long for a youtube comments section.
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  43.  @nonamenoname2767  Perhaps Turkey closing the straits to commercial traffic which would bankrupt Russia within a month? Not sure Putin would take that trade off to cut some wheat and gas. The only people Putin has by the balls with gas and they have no leverage in return are nations like Germany.
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  44.  @steveb796  Funny they were saying the same thing in 2007.
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  45.  @LancasterSupremo  I think the question is if people suffering makes you happy. That is the entire premise of this thread.
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  46.  @erlich85  I'm not sure what hating Erdogan has to do with gaining joy out of the suffering of poor people. Erdogan is fine sitting in his palace, it's poor people who can't afford food who are suffering. Being happy about this situation makes anyone a terrible human being.
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  47.  @naveedzain9132  It doesn't seem like he'll be happy unless people are starving in the streets.
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  48. To be fair this isn't the first time Macron has been humiliated, I'd imagine he is getting used to it. Nor do I suspect it will be the last time.
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  49.  @ruffnor  I spend about 3 months out of every year in Turkey as a tourist. What this guy said is no a lie, inflation is that high. Perhaps not 150% but 70% is not a stretch.
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  50.  @faitfulfist4426  I'm not sure what that has to do with Sweden and their actions keeping them out of Nato via Turkey's veto. Turkey isnt 'in a position to punish America like that, America is a super power. Sweden however is a different ballgame.
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