Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1.  @paulchapman8023  I guarantee you they have designed on "Outer Manchuria". The Chinese have always been irritated with the Russian annexation of the Amur Valley.
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  2.  @ChrisBa303  And you don't think they would not do that if they knew thar they were cornered and finished? You seriously underestimate the insanity of former Soviet-Russian leadership. Just look at the damage caused by the Russian army when they dug trenches around the Chernobyl plant in Prypiat at the start of the war.
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  3. Agreed. Turkey clearly does NOT meet NATO standards for membership, so it is high time the nation was expelled. Or at least its power to block new members or have a say in strategy suspended.
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  4.  @alanjenkins1508  Then why do farmers plant Alfalfa? Ever heard of soil depletion? How about crop rotation? We solved these problems almost 100 years ago and yet the bureaucrats who have never farmed in their life seem to think they are experts in farming. China's Great Leap Forward Famine and Ukraine's Holodomor are what happens when you tell farmers how to do their job.
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  5.  @Polygon-yug-9581  Not really. It is Russia who is using the nuclear power station as a military strongpoint. They are acting no different than the Germans using Monte Cassino as a strongpoint in WW2 (a war crime, BTW).
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  6. Russia cannot fight the long-term battle/war. Ukraine is. The Ukraine can slowly grind down Russian strength. While it also grinds down Ukraine's, the Ukraine has the moral and the defensive advantage to maintain their strength longer than Russia.
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  7.  @20quid  That sounds like a strawman argument. Me thinks that the villages and hamlets are NOT integrated multi-ethnic communities. That argument really only applies to major cities. If San Marino, the Vatican, Andorra, Lichtenstein, and Luxemburg can be independent states, then why can't the same occur in Bosnia?
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  8. Indeed. The fact that the bridge sections were lifted up and sideways similar to the US-90 bridge after Hurricane Katrina indicates that the explosion was UNDER the bridge, not above it.
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  9. It is called false flag. Russia has a history of engaging in them.
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  10. Great analogy!
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  11.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  Let's start calling the city by its actual name, not the one Stalin changed it to. Liberate KONIGSBERG!
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  12. The politicians may be getting fatigue, but I doubt the population is. And anyone who says that Ukraine should just cede territory has forgotten the lesson of the 1939 Munich conference.
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  13. They also don't seem to realize that nitrogen in the soil is what makes plant growth possible. Farmers will sometimes alternate with Alfalfa to restore the nitrogen in the soil and prevent depletion which would make the soil barren. Yet another example of city urbane elites not understanding basic botany, and why they should never be dictating to farmers.
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  14.  @lastsong7159  I think you are conflating your terms. The saying is "best defense is a good offense". What I think you are trying to say is General James Longstreet advocated: "strategic offense, TACTICAL defense". He very much agreed with you that you pick the location to fight and prepare a strong defensive position then lure the enemy to that strongpoint and force them to shatter themselves against it.
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  15. Nitrogen in the soil isn't pollution, it actually enhances it. There is a reason why farmers alternate with Alfalfa; the nodes in the plant's roots have nitrogen fixing bacteria that prevent soil depletion.
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  16. Indeed. Water moderated reactors are among the safest in the world because when the water is removed, the reactions STOP. It is literally a fail-safe, rather than a fail-criticality situation with graphite reactors.
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  17. Yes, the good times created by the "Greatest generation" have created soft cowards in the Boomer Generation. And the Millennials have taken that lazy entitlement even further.
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  18. "Redistribution of wealth from the top to the bottom"? Didn't they do that in the old Soviet Union? How did that work out?
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  19.  @Sphere723  And you really believe that Japan is sustainable? Between their aging population and the shrinking workforce, they are living on borrowed time. They are a debt bomb waiting to go off just like Detroit. And that doesn't even begin to discuss the issues that made that debt so bad, namely their "lost decade". As for Afghanistan, until the fall of Kabul, most Western countries were willing to take a risk on loaning to them, but now those debt contractors have had to write off those loans as losses, which artificially lowers the debt to GDP ratio. Also, your numbers don't take into consideration the collapse of the Afghan economy under the Taliban and how far it has contracted. Your example is fundamentally flawed. But I get that a partisan would use false analogies and poor analysis to justify their agenda.
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  20.  @logixxt9097  Considering most of the Serbs are in Republika Srpska, it seems to be the difference between then and now is that then the Serbs wanted to control ALL of Bosnia, but now they just want to take what they do have and go their own way. LET THEM. The Croats and Bosnian Muslims don't need them. With that context, no, it is NOT the same and my proposal is NOT what they were doing genocide for.
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  21.  @TheIceCream1  How WESTERN and Eurocentric of you to think that. Niccolò Machiavelli is actually the norm in the world. One only needs to look at the rulers of the disparate factions in Africa to understand that peace is the aberration, not the norm.
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  22.  @TheIceCream1  I do, it is called "The Prince" by Machiavelli or "Von Kreige" by Carl von Clausewitz. That is how I understand what people like you blatantly ignore. You should try reading yourself, you might learn something.
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  23.  @jonmacdonald5010  Agreed. This looks just as bizarre as Operation: Mincemeat.
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  24.  @ivrearde3236  Not really. The US could have helped them to dismantle the weapons for their component parts.
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  25. Wishful thinking.
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  26.  @probium2832  It should even be a 7 as both the Kyshtym disaster and the Windscale fire were MUCH worse than Fukushima. Further, most of the leaked radiation from Fukushima was from the waste storage pools, not the core itself.
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  27. Not possible. Tropical systems don't develop in the Black Sea. And the wind patterns are not conducive for an Atlantic Hurricane to travel across the Mediterranean to that part of the world.
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  28. The fact that the bridge sections were lifted up and sideways is indication that the explosion was UNDER the deck, not above it.
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  29. Good catch. Most people don't realize that much of the radiation from Fukushima came for the waste storage pools. I am glad you pointed that out with regards to this power plant.
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  30. I was just thinking about that. And while initially Alex Hamilton's idea of consolidating the debt within the national treasury sounded nice, reality was, Hamilton had zero intention of ever paying off that debt. He and Henry Knox along with their stock jobber (ie gamblers) buddies who caused Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts were going to game the system and extract lots of money from the taxpayers by leveraging that debt to line their pockets. Those that say a nation makes money off its own debt are liars who would directly benefit while bilking the taxpayers.
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  31.  @Sphere723  Extremely well in the short term, but the long-term costs actually stifle it. Countries with LOW levels of debt see boom-times. Countries with large amounts of debt are hamstrung by the interest.
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  32. Yeah, since Turkey doesn't even meet the standards for joining NATO anymore, it's membership should be put on probation. Namely, the ability to block new members or have a say in strategic planning is suspended until they are once again in compliance.
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  33.  @nonyabisness6306  Agreed. Which is why I say the IAEA classifying it as a seven was NOT based on hard science but rather politics. More people died as a result of the Windscale fire and the Lucens Reactor in Switzerland than did from Fukushima.
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  34.  @Juho221  It shows that the Russians blatantly lie about who is responsible for shelling. In the Azov POW case, how come only the prisoners died and none of the guards got a scratch? Same applies to shelling at the nuclear plant.
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  35. I like your nuanced perspective. Yes, I believe the people of the West still support Ukraine, but the political leaders of the West are looking for excuses to leverage the conflict to gain more power. Rather cynical that Western "leaders" are willing to gamble Ukraine's freedom from Neo-Soviet oppression just to score a few cheap political points. And this goes for BOTH sides of the equation, not just Republicans but the pandering to the anti-war left.
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  36.  @Mr.Septon  I guess that is what is irritating me the most. The blasé attitude of Western leaders who care more about financing their little pet project (and laundering a cut off the top) rather than securing the liberties of their posterity. Again, I see Western leaders on BOTH ends of the political divide being spineless Jellyfish because posturing and grandstanding is easy when they are not the ones being fired at in anger. A bunch of damn peacocks, the whole lot of them. PS: thanks for putting up with my ranting and raving.
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  37.  @dadikkedude  Nitrogen in the soil doesn't cause it to lose live, it actual ENAHNCES it. Plants like Alfalfa have nodes on their roots that contain nitrogen fixing bacteria which helps to prevent depletion. That is why crop rotation is so important. The desire to reduce soil nitrates will actually cause it to become as barren as the Sahara.
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  38. Yeah, the claim that it was a truck bomb ignores the damage patter which indicated that the explosion occurred UNDER the bridge deck.
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  39.  @katarn848  That sounds like a false canard. Typical drivel you would expect from people who subscribe to Lysenkoism and Michurinism.
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  40. False flag. Militaries do it all the time.
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  41. Indeed. Kyshtym was far worse than Fukshima. So was the Windscale Fire.
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  42.  @Andreas_42  Was is Fukushima or was it the Lucens Reactor Disaster in 1969 that killed the Swiss appetite for nuclear power?
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  43. They said the same thing about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and those cities were rebuilt after 30 years. Stop fearmongering and exaggerating the effects of nuclear fallout.
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  44.  @EraYaN  Just because the plans have been around for two decades doesn't mean they are actually good plans. Advances in agro-technology has made both animal and plant husbandry MUCH more productive, on the order of 5 to 10 times over "natural" farming. If you like having a full belly, thank a farmer. If you enjoy this modern lifestyle, thank a farmer for making it possible. Fact of the matter is, if you implement the polices you are advocating, you WILL cause a famine comparable to the Ukrainian Holodomor or the Chinese Great Leap Forward Plague. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Don't engage in pseudo-science. Don't be Trofim Lysenko, the "expert" who is the cause of Soviet-Communist artificial famines.
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  45.  @EraYaN  That "livestock is inefficient so we should abandon it completely" argument has been made since the 1920s. It was wrong then and it is wrong now and is predicated on a THEORY of land use efficiency that completely ignores the nutritional needs of the human body. It is the same kind of flawed logic behind Lysenkoism. In fact, the proposals are the very cause of the Chinese Famine, if you bother to actually look at the root cause. Meat from livestock gives us the Vitamin B12 we will NEVER get from either plants or insects. And that is not the only nutrient deficiency that will be caused by completely eliminating livestock as a food source from the human diet.
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  46.  @EraYaN  You say that, but I know you have not considered the unintended consequences. And no, famines caused by technocratic bureaucrats are NOT a strawman argument. They are but ONE of the unintended consequences I described. Again, you really need to look into how such central planning fails spectacularly. Sri Lanaka's collapse is a direct result of your proposals.
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  47.  @EraYaN  I don't think you actually understand how the farming industry actually works. I don't think you realize how your proposed polices will actually make artificial famine because you are NOT actually looking at the chain of impacts and how they WILL cause food shortages. The Un has already assessed that there will be massive starvation across the planet, and you want to make that worse by shutting down productivity. Sri Lanka is simply your policies on a local-national level. Taken to the global scale as you propose will not solve the problem, it will increase it by several orders of magnitude. Much like in Sri Lanka, you are completely ignoring actual human behavior, assuming the best case rather than a realistic outcome. Such idealism causes more human suffering than it prevents.
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  48.  @EraYaN  And now you are engaging in the very same false choice dilemma you claim I was doing. Humans are OMINVORES which means we get sustenance for a variety of places. But there are some nutrients that can only come from plants, and there are some that can only come from animals. And Russia is an easy excuse. You seem to have forgotten that the UN was sounding the alarm back in 2020! And at that time, they were pointing to the supply chain disruptions caused by the Wuhan Virus lockdowns. And folks like you claim Americans have a short memory.
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  49.  @EraYaN  Your first paragraph is moving the goal posts, a logical fallacy. The second paragraph shows that you know very little about economics or how international trade works. You very much use Russia as a convenient scapegoat so that you can avoid defending the repercussions of your ideology. In effect, you refuse to accept responsibility for the consequences of your disastrous policy proposals. Typical behavior of a religious zealot. As for your third paragraph, your words show you are in ivory tower elitist with very little ground level perspective. You think you know all the answer from on high when that just shows how out of touch with reality you actually are. You are as Marie Anntonette telling the peasants to "just eat cake".
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  50.  @popaog6786  Proof by verbosity is not an argument. And Ukraine is NOT shelling it because they gain nothing by taking the risk. However, the Russian General at the plant has unequivocally said that if they can't have it, they WILL go scorched Earth. You are an anti-NATO shill for the Kremlin, spewing their talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog.
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