Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "DW News" channel.

  1. No mention of Concrete Canvas which can already "make chairs and tables" etc and is in fact in widespread use already and doesn't need to be made with expensive carbon fibres.
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  2.  R S  Germans always manage to be fine - worry about your own criminal.
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  3. I don't know but it seems like rather a lazy attitude to say "they'll just deploy another". The Ukranians have been forcing Russia to move systems from all over the place and that when they "deploy another" it means leaving a hole somewhere else for drones to reach refineries or airfields.
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  4. There's a lot to be said for politeness but in a way it doesn't stop people from being rude. In the UK politeness is exceedingly important but people have developed sneaky ways of being rude and nosey without breaking the rules. They feel very clever if they have managed to insult you without you quite being sure about it. I think this kind of behaviour is far worse than direct rudeness and it's cowardly too. Really decent people seem to find ways to be kind and friendly no matter what their culture is.
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  5.  @knowledge3563  people from all over the world go to America and become American. The Americans were British and fought to be independent. It's just poor old Putin is upset that he isn't the leader of the 2nd most powerful country in the world anymore - hence all this scheming and aggression.
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  6. ​ @knowledge3563  Russia has made Ukranians feel more Ukranian and more separate no matter what their language is. I speak to people from there so there's no point in bullshitting. Everyone can see who is the bully.
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  7. @margaret why are you proud of being born somewhere? What did you do to earn it?
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  8.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  we will get off gas and never have to buy it again. Then you will be asking to buy the technology we developed to do it.
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  9.  @knowledge3563  boo hoo. Every country is built on conquest and Russia no less.
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  10.  @bloggalot4718  So now it cannot influence the EU's policy at all - not too smart really.
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  11. @margaret yes, so nothing you did.
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  12. @Anglosaurus Rex and getting smaller compared to Germanys (per capita) since 2016....
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  13.  @chrismath149  I believe there was slipshod manufacturing of the hulls (in Spain?) so they're all slightly different sizes and that makes everything worse. So obviously the issue is with nobody being in overall charge somehow.
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  14.  @GlynBoughton  You can really see how much richer UK is now. Penny wise pound foolish.
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  15.  @irashishonkova8626  I think you imagine that everyone lives in a police state like yourself. I suggest an experiment - criticise the "WAR" in public on your own (not a demonstration with 1 person is it? ) and see what happens to you.
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  16.  @DanielRoblesHdez  well, real capitalists think markets should be free. Money should be able to move around freely to wherever it finds itself needed along with products and resources. That includes labour. Allowing money to move but not people just benefits those who have money. It's a socialist thing to protect any market including the one for labour. So Brexiters are socialist when it suits them.
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  17. Right. They should decide if they want to eat a tasty meal of Sovereignty for supper - and of course keep their current government in power for ever by shackling the law.
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  18. Slava Ukraini!
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  19. Ah, didn't agree with you then?
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  20. The pilot is just the top of a quite large pyramid of people that are needed to keep a jet flying.
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  21.  @bunnitomoe3866  We ARE protecting our own citizens, Ivan. :-)
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  22. Oh, I was in my first petrol queue since I lived in Zimbabwe the other day - at Sainsburys. That was quite a blast from the past! :-)
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  23.  @rwmroy  More like Africa doesn't have a good track record of democratic, honest government. Why invest in it when the leadership there will just use the money to ensure they never lose power?
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  24. The problems that have to be dealt with in the world don't respect language and just sharing a language also doesn't prevent very considerable cultural and legal differences. One the other side of it, once you start speaking another language you find out that people are very much people wherever they are., If you insist on sitting in your ghetto then you won't ever understand.
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  25.  @irashishonkova8626  At least we don't get thrown in jail like you will if you "change your mind" :-) enjoy your freedom to think what you're told.
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  26. Most British people didn't care either as it is not an important part of the economy.
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  27. Everybody looks down on everybody - its just a fact of life and we have to get over it.
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  28.  @himzohamzo1646  right, because everyone has to look down on someone and everyone thinks their way of looking down is fair and that when other people do it to them it is unfair.
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  29.  @brettharter143  You don't want freedom of movement so that's your tolerance right there.
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  30.  @deputyVH  That suggests Brexit is right wing and it's not - it's nationalism.
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  31.  @Evermoregreen23451  culture changes without any help from the EU. The US, for example, seems very good at doing it to others without any union. Little isolated countries have no sovereignty anyhow because when the us or Russia or even the EU tells them to bend over they have to. It is that weakness which you advocate as if you cared about them.
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  32. What's agile about the Puma's software development? Seems like it is the opposite.
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  33. Pounding while they retreat, yes. :-)
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  34. Only after a lobotomy.
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  35.  @splodge561  We've had a great deal of bias against the EU in our media for many years and it doesn't take much brainpower to see it. An external enemy is a very common way for people in every country to shift blame off themselves for their situation. It's been done endlessly.
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  36. It would be safer to find some way of solving the problems with Hungary and Poland and get some generations of peaceful co-existence under the belt first IMO. Britain only needed 1 more generation probably.
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  37. There would be no panic if there wasn´t any shortage and that panic didn´t happen in the EU so things are not right and the ease with which fear made things worse shows that the population know things aren´t right.
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  38.  @solapaul2490  I'm not German and I'm not trying to get green energy from you.
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  39.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  either way you backed the wrong horse in this race because Russia is headed down the tubes and we are going to have the next industrial revolution here whether it's a struggle or not.
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  40.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  :-) Europe has done quite well in history despite wars and so on, now in an era of internal peace it is doing quite well and I think you're exaggerating the US's role and power. It's certainly powerful and influential but I think it at least as much gets influenced itself.
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  41.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  the Russia/Ukraine war is happening in Europe and you can see the Baltic nations reacting not just at the international level but at home with big weapons purchases because they know Russia from experience - the kind of experience that you do not have. So I see them acting in their own interest and the US interest happens to be fairly similar which is great.
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  42.  @souradeepchoudhury8515  They seem to know their interest far better than you do -= after all they had their experience in the past with Russia.
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  43.  @lfield2494  Frustrated maybe but they are still doing and giving and it's not as if anyone else has donated modern battle tanks or western (sic) air defence systems (i think). It does indeed seem to me that they were caught unprepared and in a difficult situation. OTOH I'm sure Russia has made big efforts in the past to ensure that Germany was in that situation and it's closer and easier for them to do so than places like Britain and the US and yet both those countries have suffered interference.
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  44.  @SuzannaKiraly  There won't be any compromise because we know the Russians cannot be trusted to honour one. So there's nothing whatsoever for Ukraine to gain by compromising - they'd just be waiting for the next and even tougher attack from Russia.
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  45. Their desire wasn't about economics or anything else so the way things have turned out now doesn't matter. All they need is an excuse i.e. the "didn't do it properly" excuse. It's more along the lines of a chip on the shoulder, resistance to change a reaction to the thought of "Europeans telling us what to do." Older people who think their future is secure are able to indulge in the luxury of pride and prejudice.
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  46. Presumably because his old office in Moscow has windows.
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  47. Putin isn't a socialist.
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  48. Tolle!
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  49.  @xo121w  Tanks with turbine engines - not really desirable for Ukraine compared to the Leopard.
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  50.  seeyouseemee3863  Who needs to make excuses for the USA? They've done more than anyone.
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  51.  @At_sk  They seem to be doing quite well and there's a great incentive to move to renewables now !
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  52.  @At_sk  America will be buying European Wind turbines....
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  53. '.....I suppose time pressures and contracts and the cost of keeping factories running idle etc encourage companies to build the things before all the bits have been tested together to a great extent. Anything to do with technology or software is usually complex and almost always gets vastly underestimated. A sensible government would start with some simple goals and just demand that space and power budget was added to allow all the fancy stuff to be added gradually.
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  54.  @tjmarx  you have put a 'spin' on the situation with unnecessary rudeness: an upgrade (a defect fix) needed because of unsatisfactory performance from the beginning is so bad that they are considering cancelling it: this is much more than 'teething trouble'. I speculate that this failure is due to the usual reasons of too much ambition and too little testing.
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  55.  @tjmarx  "On 6 December 2010, the first two serial vehicles were handed over to the German Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung." That doesn't seem to be 20 years.... are you really an expert?
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  56.  @tjmarx  oops. not 20 years then....switching to generating smoke.... :-D
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  57. Why would nationals from other states be in Poland? I thought it was the Poles who had gone everywhere else?
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  58. Some people in the UK are in desperate need of confirmation of their silly choices at the moment - hence their interest in this.
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  59. They are telling the world something but not everything.
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  60. Himars changed the game A LOT :-) And Storm Shadow has done a lot too. And all those bullets and shells - they make it all possible. Bad luck Ivan. :-)
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  61.  @sleepyjoe7843  everything has limits, including Russian production.
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  62. How are you going to manipulate people in the UK into wanting to work in an abattoir or spend many hours on the road away from their families or whatever? huge salaries? Make them so desperate they'll do anything? It's so extremely like the thinking of the government in Zimbabwe when I lived there - I heard all this kind of stuff and yet in fact what happened was that skilled people left because they didn't want to "suffer to victory".
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  63. Soon we we will find out about what their WW1 tanks are like and after that we will find out about the wagons they made in 1890...
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  64. @Firm Buttocks What is the the point - arguing with you is like trying to convert a Chinese Communist party member to sense. You have your own logic and your own world in which the bad things are not happening or have every other possible explanation. You are not the first or the last person to drive your country into ruin - its an old old game which has played out many times before all over the world. Those great civilisations of the past that fell apart and seem 3rd world to us now - got there by screwing up.
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  65. ....because we're not seeing the exact same issues.
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