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

  1.  @Sevan59  Australia dumped the French deal because a much better deal came along.
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  2.  @Briselance  Even at the worst of their abilities they probably wouldn't be able to cause the level of damage France has. Pointing out to someone who might commit a crime doesn't excuse a person from the crime. China and Russia are both entrenched in many African nations and these nations don't see the same level of destruction and destabilization as they've seen from France. So it's a bad argument in theory and also a bad argument in practice. Even if it were a good argument, you're essentially saying France's standard is that they treat people better than Russia and China? Wow Sad part is, they're worse. Much worse. The world is quite lucky France is a weak and waning power that is only able to cause this level of destruction in one small corner of the planet. Imagine they had the power the United States has? Terrifying prospect, thankfully they're going in the opposite direction.
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  3. @David Glickman, the Naval capabilities needed to surround a place like Crimea while it's occupied by a force like Russia is something few nations have. Aside from America, I'm not sure there is a nation with the naval and logistical capabilities to pull it off. If Ukraine wants Crimea, it will have to go with a land invasion and take it by force. Which at this point seems nearly impossible. Things change with time though so we'll see.
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  4.  @ramr7051  I know you were referring to the OP, no where in my statement did I allude to the fact you weren't referring to the OP. My point still stands.
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  5.  @eddiemitza2544  Yes Afghanistan hasn't been stable ever since the two superpowers of the world started meddling in their affairs. Post Soviet and American attention Afghanistan was doing quite well in the 60s and early 70s.
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  6.  @xmurshedz  I'm not sure I'd call what happened in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan "imperialism" in the old sense of the world. Those events were something far worse and much darker than old school imperialism. Imperialism basically hurts one group while bringing their resources home to your own people. Those events you speak of not only hurt the poor people who are occupied but it is also designed to rob the middle class tax payers of the host country to redistribute that money into the pockets of the elites. They're killing the people they occupy and robbing the people in who's name they claim to be occupying. It's quite genius in an evil sort of way if you think about it.
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  7.  @ioeuropaganymedkallisto7204  They certainly don't want a war because for them war is bad for business. They do however enjoy seeing tensions between Russia and Nato and I'd imagine. It makes drawing concessions from Russia easier for them.
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  8. Very perceptive.
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  9. @Michael Dermenjian, You're absolutely right they are guilty of massive warcrimes from well over 100 years ago. I'm sure we'd both agree that war crimes are a terrible thing and it's a good thing to at least acknowledge such war crimes. So my guess is that you feel the same way about Armenian invading it's neighbor and ethnically cleansing 850,000 civilians in the 1990s. Unlike war crimes from 100s of years ago the war criminals guilty of these crimes are still alive and should be bought to justice. You seem like a person who is not a fan of crimes against humanity so you probably back this idea 100%. Right? I really don't think you'll be one of those hateful racist warcrime deniers.
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  10.  @kostasdinos8982  I'd imagine the Greeks are using Hitler's strategy of appeasement no? The more the Turks as the negotiate the deeper the Greeks go in with their demands of how much territorial waters their islands have. I'm thinking the Turks have had enough.
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  11.  @TheIfifi  It's possible to be well informed and prejudice based on said information lol
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  12. @SkepticShphere Yet this guy has nearly 1 million subscribers from all over the world and growing. It has one million subscribers because a cold hard Machiavellian view of geo politics is appealing to many people. It really isn't for wide-eyed overly emotional ideologues. I'm thinking you stumbled into the wrong channel my friend.
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  13.  @SD-SD-SD  Funny I always notice such a mindset from the EU. Nothing is ever their fault either.
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  14. Using Tiny islands to block an entire nation out of a body of water on which it has the largest coastline is not "maximalistic" I'm afraid to know what your defintion of maximalistic is.
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  15. Not sure what freedom for Palestine (which I agree with btw) has to do with this video.
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  16. @Miachael Weston. "Historically" the Jews have always backed the Ottomans. It is only recently that this hasn't been the case.
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  17.  @carcotasu081  What has to happen to a society for them to think that the ability to defend your family is a "problem." Then again most of us do live in societies where we have to pretend things like boys are girls and women are physically as strong as men. Sure, why can't we simple also pretend that having the ability to defend your family is a bad thing.
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  18. I've been following this amazing channel for a long time. The major reason I believe it took off was the fact that Shirvan is rarely interested in who is right or wrong in his videos. He just gives all the facts and why nations behave the way they do. This video was quite disappointing as the video was made to push a specific narrative via cherry picking facts. It is rare that Shrivan would talk about a conflict without mentioning who sparked it. One example being the 1967 war when he failed to mention Israel actually started that conflict in a surprise attack. I myself am neutral in this Palestinian/Israel problem. But knowing what I know about the conflict this video was nowhere near the quality you'd expect from a CaspianReport video. I get it, Israel and your home country are allied. But at the end of the day you're making videos for mass consumption here, don't make your biases too obvious.
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  19. Yapsie Doodles, the Syrian conflict wrecked Turkey. What in the world are you talking about. Unless you assume a destabilized border and 5 million refugees running around your country is something that "works well"
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  20. @Daha Solomon, to be fair it is more so Saudi Arabia and the UAE trying to resume dialogue with Turkey which is probably due to their hardpower. Egypt on the other hand you are right, they don't seem to affected by it and are playing hard to get with Turkey chasing them for better relations.
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  21. @JackDonith, You do realize you're referring to a period of nearly 50 years. In 50 years nations can switch between hard and softer power more than 20 times. From 2000-2014 they were full on soft power. It's a rough region and the policy failed so they went with what works. As far as the detailed history of Cyprus you're right most people including me don't know, it isn't exactly an important enough place for people to study. Most people know the gist of what happened. The Greek Cypriots tried to ethnically cleanse a small minority group on the island, the Turks freaked out and invaded the island stopping the ethnic cleansing. Not a very complicated issue.
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  22.  @johnalexander5789  France won't interfere if this happens unless America is there to carry the burden of the operation. Greece will again be left to her own devices. France won't mind as it will be busy counting the billions of euros worth of equipment it sold Greece.
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  23.  @a.b.6233  Many nations no longer believe the NATO pact to intervene will be observed.
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  24.  @mrworldwide7387  One doesn't need to be a Turk to realize the Greeks are playing with fire in the Eastern Med sea.
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  25. The older ones are dying. They're in their last gasp. The regime in Paris is in full panic mode about their influence waning in Africa. I'd be shocked if in 50 years this situation didn't vanish.
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  26. @Brian Mwaura, not sure Turkey would allow Iranian gas to go through Turkey to Europe. Especially not without obtaining massive concessions from Iran first. Those two nations aren't exactly on the best of terms. The most logical solution would be getting Israeli gas into Turkey and tying that into Turkey's pipelines with Europe. This would be difficult given Israeli Turkish relations but it's not an impossible ask like the Iran Turkey Europe gas deal.
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  27.  @Avaricumstudios  Yes, when the reward is money it gets the ball moving, which is why I said the Turkey Israel deal might work. The Iran Turkey deal however is something more tricky than money can buy. Not to mention America would do anything in it's power to stop it. To buy gas from one nation under sanctions so another nation under the same sanctions can't sell it is an odd situation no?
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  28.  @marihanderkhan5663  These are things Germany must plan for, for years. Until then you're stuck with Russian gas.
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  29.  @Avaricumstudios  Why would they do that when they have other options?
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  30.  @Avaricumstudios  No one does propaganda for the sake of propaganda. They go through that process because they have an interest do to so. So again, why would they go through all that hassle when they have zero interest to do so and other options? You sound quite insane.
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  31.  @Avaricumstudios  They must have had some geo political interest in sanctioning Iran no? So why exactly would they forgo that interest just to look pretty to others? Like you said American geo politics is disgusting so you're essentially contradicting yourself. What you're saying makes absolutely zero sense. It feels like you have desired outcome and will look to find reasons (no matter how ridiculous) to fit that outcome. Plainly put, it's simply not going to happen. Iran is a pariah state not only because they've come under the crosshairs of America. Everyone has a problem with Iran and no one trusts them. Poor nations don't trust Iran, rich nations don't trust Iran. Nations allied with America don't trust Iran and nations which are anti American don't trust Iran. You see a trend here? No one is going to willing take any option which will help Iran if they have other alternatives which will serve the same interest. This idea that a person who doesn't seem to understand the relationships in the region trying to talk geo politics is rather laughable.
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  32. @Sacedceltic, over the past 30 years. How many of those years was the interest rate over the rate the French pay these nations? So basically you rob them 99% of the time and then claim you're a good guy because of that one time they benefited from the arrangement? That's wonderful, how about you extrapolate your ideals to a business deal between us. You send me 100 dollars every day of the month. And for one day of the month I'll send you back 110. If you think France's deal with AFrica is so good for Africa, you'll take this deal with me no? Also if the regime in Paris would be so delighted to get rid of this burden of Africa, they wouldn't be fighting tooth and nail to keep their influence there. Don't kid yourself. France needs to be sanctioned and made a pariah state on the international stage until the regime in Paris stops it's exploitative and anti democratic policies in Africa.
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  33.  @sacredceltic  Maybe because they were bullied into it? Wouldn't be the first time no? See believing something you want to believe and then cherry picking facts to force fit your emotional point of view isn't exactly a rational way to do things. Just sayin... This literally reminds me of this Russian dude trying to convince me that Russia is trying to save Ukraine. He argued just like you lol
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  34.  @sacredceltic  You can't wait to see how they will fare financially once they replace it with anything else? Hmmm It almost sounds like you're hoping they fail and people starve to death. Why? So you can feel better? Not surprising that you'd be the type of person who would actually defend the misery France is causing in this part of the world. Hell you'd probably try to defend France's past genocide in Algeria too, somehow telling me slaughtering their men women and children was "good for them." Well done my man, well done.
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  35.  @voidvector  The average interest rate over the past 30 years has been between 7-9 percent. So essentially France is getting 7-9 percent(on average over 30 years) and then giving these nations .7% of it. And this moron earlier is essentially saying this is a good deal for Africans lol
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  36.  @voidvector  I wish someone had been giving me their money so I can invest it somewhere and only have to pay them .7% interest. That is straight up highway robbery lol 200 million poor people being robbed blind :O(
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  37. France would just start a civil war in that country through terrorist organizations they've been funding and drive the country into the gutter with millions dead. So yea, no one will be taking those bastards to court anytime soon.
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  38. @Jacob Bernard, You mean for European stability. European military autonomy will mean nothing for the rest of the world.
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  39. @Crimea, "The biggest mistake." Seriously? You do realize America is a global power with 100s of other more important things going on. Was what you said a mistake? Probably. But the biggest mistake we've made? Not by a long shot, get in line. I'd imagine things like the war in Vietnam, failed invasion of Cuba, invading Iraq, destroying Libya, leaving Afghanistan with our tail tucked between our legs are near the top of that "mistake" list. What you're saying wouldn't even make the first 10 pages
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  40. In a way yes but not as controlled a colony as these African nations. Due to the fact the Europeans still have control over their currency. These nations have no control over the CFA. If America controlled the European central bank it would be an apples to apples situation. It doesn't.
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  41.  @arty3738  If the Russians said the world isn't flat, it wouldn't make it false just because the Russians are saying it. It isn't simply the Russians saying this, most of the world knows this to be true. It's been true for a long long time.
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  42.  @Purple_flower09  Something doesn't become propaganda just because it challenges your worldview.
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  43.  @Yannister  CFA was made to look like an option but was made an obligation because France would literally get rid of any government who was opposed to it. Anyone who leaves suffers. Either from internal chaos, economic attacks or terrorist attacks. Claiming it's optional is like claiming businesses who pay the mafia is also optional.
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  44.  @DrewNguyen_99  USA is more deadly for sure but no one denies it. France however likes to pretend it isn't deadly while doing all this nasty stuff.
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  45.  @Yannister  Optional yes. Just like the Mafia in the 1930s which made it optional for businesses to pay them protection money. Not to mention over the decades anytime a government even hinted there was either a coup, civil strife or a string of terror attacks in that country. Yes yes, very optional. The options given to the country where, either you stay in or people die.
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  46. France will be France, they'll throw a hissy fit and then realize no one cares. They pulled their ambassador from America, American strategists probably rolled their eyes.
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  47.  @Altrantis  You literally sound like a lawyer working for the arms industry who was making these subs lol Also this wasn't about France selling or not selling the Aussies Nuclear subs. The Aussies had 101 reasons to scuttle the deal and go with someone else and they did it.
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  48. @Bananesanane5152. Bulgaria is a bad example as it's one of Turkey's weakest neighbors but yes, in theory if they sneeze Turkey might get a cold.
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  49.  @AfroAsiaticLanguages  Not sure what events from over 2000 years ago have to do with anything today.
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  50.  @MyOrangeString  Not when they're done by a delusional government which believes it has 100x more weight than it actually does. How many moves by the regime in Paris over the past 5 years that literally made everyone simply roll their eyes? Reminds me of last year when the French Navy was sent into the eastern Med Sea in a show of force meant to intimidate. The opposite happened and their navy had to leave the area with their tails tucked between their legs. As I said in an earlier comment, you can't be a third rate power and try to act like a first rate power. All it will do is embarrass you.
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