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

  1.  @suryaprasanth9105  Actually the vast majority of Europe has a food surplus. They'll be fine on that front. Their main issue will be energy. They've completely and utterly pissed off anyone they can potentially buy cheap energy from. (America and Canada will not give it cheap) Japan will probably find a way to survive because they have the ability to project power and go out and get what they need. The nations of the EU do not.
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  2.  @suryaprasanth9105  The world goes through periods like this every 100 or 150 years.. An entire reshuffling of the deck. Civilizations rise and civilizations fall. The transition is always difficult and sad for the people unlucky enough to be born into those times. I think our children or grandchildren will see the worst of it. :O( India is in a very good position to probably see the least amount of damage do to their geography. If India can solve it's problems with China and Pakistan all three nations would benefit in a huge way from this.
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  3.  @suryaprasanth9105  Yes these long standing issues are always extremely difficult to resolve. Look at it this way though, the Europeans probably had even deeper and more violent problems with each other but right before their golden age they found a way to work together. Which came with amazing prosperity for all of them for quite a while. I don't understand India's problems with China and Pakistan enough to say one side is right and one side is wrong. What I can say though is if these three nations find a way to resolve these issues, a lot of geostrategic opportunities open up for all 3 of them. As far as India's government spending more on defense and weapons, I can't say I blame them. Most of the nations of the world seem to know something and are all doing the same thing. If the international rule based order breaks down, if you can't defend yourself and your interests you're toast.
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  4. @williamz6606 The UN isn't condemning Turkey for civilians deaths because there haven't been any civilian deaths. I get it, in your haste to try to rationalize the horrible crimes of Israel you jumped the gun. But dude, you can't be this ridiculous bro lol
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  5. Doubtful. If you know why Turkey wanted the base, you'd also know why Russia most likely won't be allowed to set up shop in the same place.
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  6. They're so delusional that even when they're on their knees they don't realize it and start lecture the person from their knees. The person standing over them is like WTF.
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  7. I had a part time job when I was 15. Didn't feel like my "human rights" were being infringed upon. There are plenty of things you can blast America for being inconsistent on. Us berating anyone on human rights is laughable considering all that we do. I agree with all that but this issue isn't really one you want to use to make that point. Not to mention anyone being berated by India about children's rights is kinda awkward no? While brow beating someone for hypocrisy while being a hypocrite yourself. I guess American and Indian media aren't so different after all lol
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  8. Everything she is saying is all well and good, I actually like this channel as it's a different point of view. But I also find it rather hilarious that someone from India is going to brow beat anyone over things like children's rights? Seriously? It's almost as cringe as America brow beating other nations for being "aggressive." This is outright insanity.
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  9.  @francine895  Yes it is, for now. But the way things are looking, we'll be seeing European migrants all over the world in 50 years.
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  10.  @trisha2955  It wasn't used as an insult. It was used as an example. A real one at that. Once you learn the difference between the two, you might have taken a step in the right direction to being civilized.
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  11.  @Bagheera1429  So essentially what you're saying is that you think I'm right, you're not able to prove me wrong. So the only way to combat me is by insulting me? Thanks lol
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  12.  @lordsmobile8769  These corridors take decades to build. Talking about a nation's currency right now this second is kind of ridiculous in a conversation like that.
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  13. EU? The EU and it's member states are simply a vassal of Washington, what in the world are you talking about.
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  14.  @moradmoses3779  Every single country on this planet recognizes those borders as within Azerbaijan. Even India. Look it up. It's about as illegal as an occupation can get. There isn't one country on this planet which officially recognizes that region as part of Armenia.
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  15.  @TheSpectator425  You seem confused. I'm not saying Kashmir should be recognized as part of Pakistan. I agree that it is internationally recognized Indian territory. The argument I'm making is that if you believe it's okay for Armenia to illegally annex internationally recognized Azerbaijani territory because a few Armenians live there, then you have to believe it's okay for Pakistan to take Kashmir for the same reasons. Wanting it in one place and not in the other is nothing short of childish, irrational hypocrisy. So which is it? Do you believe nations should keep their internationally recognized territory or not? You can't want one rule for India and a different rule for Azerbaijan. Me I'm consistent. Kashmir is India and Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijan.
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  16. If you pay attention their actions are easily predictable.
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  17.  @mountainheight  I thought you were talking about Greece for a second there.
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  18. ​ @mountainheight  They're pretty much being pushed in the same direction as Ukraine.
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  19. @Djang221. Sweden was in the awkward position of trying to join a collective defense organization while at the same time financing armed groups which were blowing up schools and hospitals in a member of said defense organization. You can imagine the issues this would cause. The Turks and rightfully so were hot skipping mad about this. So if Erdogan didn't want to completely lose the support of his people he had to extract his pound of flesh from the Swedes and get concessions essentially stopping them from financing these groups which are blowing up schools and hospitals in Turkey. If he was a true autocrat like Macron of France for example, he could have simply ignored what his people want and saved himself the headaches of blocking Sweden for a year.
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  20. @UMS that probably isn't going to happen. I don't think we'll see one currency pop up and dethrone the dollar. What we will see though are nations slowly finding ways to conduct trade without using the dollar, if this reaches a certain critical mass the dollar will collapse. Maybe one day someone will find a way to push a reserve currency which will be backed by something. Gold, oil or god knows what else will be valuable in the future along with an iron clad promise it won't be used as a weapon against anyone.
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  21. @ and what exactly would Turkey have to gain from colonizing Chad? So they even have the logistics in place to benefit from such a thing? Do explain
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  22.  @majorityiswrong9986  Not saying you should or shouldn't call it Turkey or Turkiye, I don't care either way. But I do have a question for you. What does it even mean that western society are still calling it Turkey? Should that automatically mean the rest of the world should? What kind of insane argument is that?
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  23. If you're in Africa why pray our leaders here in the west don't come to their senses. The more trouble (especially Europe) is in. The less Africa will have to deal with destabilization. Hell if France collapsed tomorrow half of Africa will probably be stabilized in a decade.
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  24.  @smitprmr  The amount of money the US government pumped into Ukraine is peanuts in relation to the amounts of money it would take to save or destroy the banking sector. The war in Ukraine however did play a part but a very small part. Inflation was already out of control due to money printing during covid but funding Ukraine and prolonging the war did force energy prices higher on the global market which added on to the inflation which then caused the fed to raise interest rates which then destroyed some banks. But again it played a pretty small part in this debacle. But nowhere near a large enough role to actually pin the bank failures on it. Those banks would have probably failed with or without the Ukraine war.
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  25.  @ameyas7726  We haven't heard of them because they left. Also the Kyiv push was a feint by Moscow, everyone knows that by now.
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  26. lol
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  27. @jesse-zp6ko Few of these conflicts are old nor are they complicated. This one is no different. This conflict is far from historic, it is a recent problem which started in the 1980s.
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  28.  @jesse-zp6ko  That is all well and good bro. I am just saying that it is demonstrably false.
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  29.  @TomRelubbus  You forgot to add the windfall tax was in response to being charged extra ordinary costs for the gas being sent. Nothing you said was untrue, however the totality of your statements via omissions paints a false picture. I'm no fan of the EU, I find it kind of funny we're sticking it to them. But that doesn't mean we should be drawing false narratives by using cherry picked facts.
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  30.  @kishanpandey5219  I do wish they were capable of teaching their people not to defecate in the streets. Wishes wishes.
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  31. I'd imagine they were thinking the same thing when the Indian government summoned the Azeri ambassador because they purchased a few weapons from Pakistan. Azerbaijan is a serious state. India for as big as it is being extremely emotional and childish here.
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  32.  @arnabdey3787  Yes except they get something out of allying with Pakistan. What is India getting out of arming Armenia, other than making their weapons look ineffective if conflict breaks out and Azerbaijan blows it all up. Indian military tech already has a terrible reputation, so sending in your stuff to get blown up isn't the best of ideas. But hey, if India wants to run an emotional (childish) foreign policy. That is their call.
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  33.  @krishs718  Maybe they can strike a deal. India does what Azerbaijan wants and Azerbaijan can send people to India to teach people how to use a toilet and not defecate on the streets. Sounds like a good trade.
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  34. More power to France means more innocent people in Africa will be slaughtered and oppressed. Not the best of ideas.
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  35. Truth Fairy, Did the smell of the place slap you in the face when you walked outside? I haven't been there but everyone I know who has talks about it.
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  36. Those two nations have a military alliance and a strategic partnership. How is it odd they purchased weapons from them?
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  37.  @krr3502  There is nothing wrong with India selling arms to Armenia. Just like there is nothing wrong with Azerbaijan letting the Indians know they aren't happy about it. Although I would question the wisdom of selling weapons to a nation on the edge of war, a war in which they're probably going to get wallopped. If you want to advertise your military hardware, giving it to Armenia only to see it get destroyed isn't the best way to advertise it. Even if the equipment is good, when one side is that far behind in military tech they won't be able to make much use of it. A lot like how Germany's tanks are getting wrecked in Ukraine. Bad advertising. I'm not sure what India gets out of this other than emotional satisfaction because Turkey has close military ties to Pakistan. First rate nations don't act emotionally. They calculate the pros and cons. I don't see many pros for India giving advanced weapons to Armenia. (Unless they need the money bad, which I doubt) Either way India is a rising power, eventually they're going to learn how to conduct foreign policy in a less emotional and more calculated way. But those rocket launchers are going to be hard to sell to anyone else if they get blown to bits because Armenia lacks air defense.
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  38.  @judewarner1536  Turkey's industry isn't big enough to even make use of those materials you're referring too. Even if it was they don't have the logistics in place to get those materials there very efficiently. They're after something more important to them than raw materials. This base is all about military logistics for the airspace in Libya. France is not only kicked out of CHad but they're also heavily arming warlords in Libya which attack the internationally recognized government in Libya. Turkey protects that government and it is very logistically taxing for them to do so. This base and the drones they can fly out of it makes their life in defending Libya A LOT easier and cheaper. You're right, this isn't rocket surgery. That is if you actually know Turkey's military commitments to Libya which is right above Chad.
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  39. No. We're seeing Turkey taking steps against a powerful Israeli proxy on their southern border.
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  40. I find it super interesting that I'm noticing Indian media is covering this election more than the Turkish media itself. I'm having trouble comprehending the infatuation India has with Turkey.
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  41. They probably can handle 2 at once. But you're claiming their defense of Gaza is "off the table." It was never on the table. They have zero intention of doing such a thing.
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  42.  @JazzATrain  I fail to see how your comment matches reality.
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  43. @@isthiseventrue Go laugh in one of their faces about it. One Chechen could probably take out like 20 Indians lol
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  44. @@isthiseventrue Odds are they'd have to just look at the Indians and they'll probably just run. You're literally comparing the weakest group of people on the planet to the strongest.
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  45.  @ianalan4367  The 11 billion isn't referring to revenue. It is referring to their stock price crashing which is the value of the company.
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  46.  @rasingh6893  That actually isn't true. For anyone who has followed military conflicts in history a ceasefire doesn't have a term unless stipulated. You can have a long term ceasefire, or you can have a short term ceasefire for all the reasons you claimed a "pause" is used for. A pause in the fighting isn't a thing, it was recently made up for political expediency. Biden and his regime said no to a ceasefire many times but now that they've been backed in a corner, they know they have to call for one. But not to look like idiots who had to backtrack they came up with a new term "pause" which is the same thing as a ceasefire. On to your last sentence, once a ceasefire is declared it doesn't mean it is difficult to start attacking again, it happens all the time. Ceasefires rarely ever declare the war is over. A ceasefire is what the word actually says and it is usually temporary until a political solution is found. Rare are the instances in history where a ceasefire actually lasts long term without a political solution or a peace treaty. You can count the instances on one hand. Please stop spreading misinformation.
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  47. Sounds like this dude had far too much to drink. Wallop Pakistan? Yea it probably can. China? lol
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  48. @Leondynson3682. Except the reality is Turkey has no interest in joining the EU. It's an awkward thing where neither side wants to be the one the walk away but neither side wants the marriage.
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  49.  @ayushgaur3943  Yes 100% positive. I have a habit of following world conflicts. This flareup hasn't spilled into any areas where civilians live yet.
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  50.  @tanak2232  yea it isn't just a different, it is a HUGE difference. Literally as different as it can get.
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