Comments by "Fredinno" (@innosam123) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1.  @mysteriousDSF  True, but you also don’t have internet or running water.
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  2.  @mysteriousDSF  Yeah, 'some people like it'. My point is that Burundi's economy sucks. That's an undeniable fact. Also, people die from lack of running water or internet. :P
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  3. Botswana had its institutions survive under British Rule, while Rhodesia/Zimbabwe was a settler colony whose elite was mostly white. When they were all kicked out, shit started to hit the fan quick.
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  4.  @gorge2786  Yes, because Chinese Companies destroyed it. Steel is heavy- it’s generally difficult to make it very far from where it’s consumed and still be profitable... unless, of course, you’re being subsidized by the government.
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  5. I guess Gibraltar isn’t British then because it’s not on the British Isles? Are the Falklands supposed to be part of Argentina due to distance?
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  6.  @moshoodbakare1210  Uh, no. Colonial rights were based on right of occupation, not exploration. Anyways, Ceuta and Melilla were handed over as a result of wars causing the territory to be ceded as well, like Gibraltar. My point is that Morocco is claiming Ceuta and Melilla based off… well mostly proximity (like Argentina with the Falklands). Not even the UN (very anxious for decolonization of even territories with no desire for independence, like the Falklands) considers those areas ‘non-self governing’.
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  7. Hargobind Singh Shan Visualpolitik actually showed a graph in this video that showed that Vancouver and Sydney are actually low adjusted to income. Which I guess is the reason for the focus on South Korea.
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  8. The issue is that the Solomons are fare enough away from China that a military base here is difficult to supply ships to.
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  9.  @erikrungemadsen2081  Why? They can’t just reposition towards Asia?
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  10.  @andrewmckenzie292  The Russians could barely access the Far East, and their navy was run by imbeciles.
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  11.  @peacelover2008 Yes, the Chinese can produce a ton of ships that can’t actually fight the US fleets because they’re out of range.
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  12.  @viper8177  I think Epic will lose because Apple does not have a monopolistic share of the smartphone app industry, but only has one on Apple devices. Arguing Monopoly or Monopsony is kind of hard. Also, Epic is not a very good leader for this, since it’s largely owned by the Chinese company Tencent. I don’t see a reason Congress would be kind on Epic here. Hell, Trump could announce a ban on Tencent software tomorrow and Epic would be in deep shit.
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  13. Canada will likely now hit its 2% target in NATO spending… by orienting their military to fight a guerrilla war against the US.
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  14. Vancouver: “Ah shit, here we go again...”
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  15.  @mannik8  Real Estate is considered an asset, not a consumer good. Rent is considered part of the CPI, however, and so indirectly affects the CPI. However, rents across the US are not consistent in their increase.
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  16.  @alatorre33 AMLO is also already building a railway across the Isthmus of Tehuanteptec, which will take most of that traffic. So… yay?
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  17. bastisonnenkind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Berlin Most of the streetcars run on the East German side of the city- which, I mean, the Soviets weren’t that great at staying up to date with infrastructure, period. Their rail network had serious congestion issues and the road network wasn’t really invested that much in. Streetcars survived in Toronto too because the city decided to bail them out- and they’re only a little bit better than buses (smoother).
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  18. bastisonnenkind It’s not really a good thing, because it was a symptom of a major problem across the Eastern Bloc. Either way, Trams aren’t that much better than buses. The ride is less loud and bumpy, but that’s about it. Unless you’re going very-high capacity, in which case LRT is the way to go. You also can’t avoid obstacles as well, and the routing is much less flexible. Streetcars worked because there was much less traffic. Today, that’s impossible to achieve without outright designating space for transit.
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  19.  @fabiandonvil  Wagner needs somewhere to stay, and Belarus wants protection.
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  20.  @macroxela  He can’t just ignore China. If they can’t kill him, they could sanction or even invade him.
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  21. Bruh
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  22. jdivision79 1. The South explicitly fought for slavery. 2. The Civil War only started because the Confederates attacked US Federal Property, which is not under States’ juristriction, and was this effectively attacking another country (the USA).
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  23. Unless Russia is able to annex Belarus and has the Initiative- in which case, it’s Russia that has the Baltics cut off and surrounded.
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  24. TDS video
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  25. Elaad Teuerstein You think the Pentagon has no idea about the threat of cyber warfare? They’re just not as active as North Korea at hacking PCs.
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  26.  @vogel2499  Yeah, and that would mean the end of the world if a war broke out.
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  27. They’ve done multiple videos on him before he won.
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  28. It’s incorrect that a blockade is a ‘grey zone’ tactic. Blockades are generally considered an act of war, and have been used as a Casus belli for war many times- eg. The Six-Day War. This is because blockades end up destroying neutral cargo shipping to be effective. Like US shipping.
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  29. Give the West Bank to Isreal and leave the Gaza Strip to Palestine as a fully independent state. The Palestinians won’t like it, but they’re never going to be satisfied- at least the Israelis have shown they’re actually willing to give up claims for peace- except the West Bank, because it’s critical for its defence and water supply. The Palestinians won’t. The West Bank under this plan is probably more of a liability than a benefit anyways. The UN will also be pissed, but they really can’t do all that much in real terms.
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  30.  @tristinjudd2595 It was super marginal. $200Mil only.
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  31. Well, the EU was intended to help with the scale issue… it hasn’t then?
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  32.  @GonzoTehGreat  You’ve proven my point. They don’t add money to the economy via their labour, they do it via their spending. They’re not helping the healthcare system function, or fixing pipes by being tradesmen, and thus plugging gaps in the skilled labour market. Usually, immigrants add money to the economy on both ends (working and spending.) Also, many popular tourist sites (eg. Venice) have visitor number control measures too.
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  33.  @lolingkwarts3999  Also, Switzerland was more useful alive than dead, they helped the Nazis keep a financial link to the outside world (because few trusted the Reichmark).
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  34.  @ry8246  The Austranesians were masters of the sea. They probably also got to the Americas as well (and imported Sweet Potatoes into Oceania).
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  35.  @r.s.10  There are 2 groups who care about Israel a lot. The Jews and Evangelical lobby, and the woke lobby. The former are far more numerous, and the latter just have way bigger fights to fight than Israel. Frankly, if they do it during a Republican administration, they probably could get away with it- Trump was pretty favourable to Israel. The issue is the difficulty of integration. Also, no one wants Gaza. It’s basically a giant slum with no resources.
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  36.  @madisonryan7671  Note that Europe tried to focus on the demand side of fossil fuels-and failed miserably. Also note that the inflation crisis is at least half due to supply chain distributions, which was first due to the pandemic but is more being driven by deglobalization and corporate exodus from China.
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  37.  @broskinh7979  Trump has been the most isolationist president ever and has overwhelmingly focussed on boosting the American economy and industry.
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  38. Kealen Yes. Medieval Warm period. Thing is that if you agree that CO2 levels are rising, it’s kind of impossible to NOT come to the assessment that climate change is happening. There is a reason Venus is hotter than Mercury. It’s not the Sun.
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  39. That would be more convincing - except Trump and Biden’s foreign policy in this region is almost identical to each other.
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  40. Tim Meyer The Philippines is a bad place to go. The government is corrupt and crime is rampant. Guam is a military layover and stupidly isolated. If you want some place in Canada or the USA to create a new Hong Kong, it has to be on the mainland. Northern Ireland is probably the best place, since Brexit means Ulster has to have a special border status in Britain anyways.
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  41. Theoretically, the Republicans may be able to filibuster any attempt to give PR statehood- the constitution says 50 votes are necessary, but there is ambiguity over filibustering here (especially since it’s been so long since it was last done.) IMO, it would only pass in a “two-state” situation, like pre-civil war, with a Republican and (presumed Democratic (??? No good polling exists for Puerto Rico)) state, say West Washington and Oregon, or Virginia giving back its section of DC to the Federal government to turn VA back into a swing state.
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  42.  @WaynewesInv  Not the desalinated water. There were ‘water wars’ around who got to use the Jordan River water, so it’s probably for the best Isreal uses less and less of its water to just avoid the issue entirely. Jordan is the only nation that directly borders the river- and the desalination projects to refill both the Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea will only benefit them. If anything, I’d say there’s a pretty good argument Jordan should pay them for the water. Though, this has obvious issues.
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  43.  @user-DongJ  Right, and what is their common interest? Destroying the West does not accomplish anything but an ego boost for India, before realizing now they have to deal with their more immediate enemy (China) alone. South Africa has bigger shit to deal with than superpower ambitions. Brazil is…Brazil. The US is literally next door. You have to be really confident they won’t do anything. The 8-Nation alliance happened because their nations’ expats were being massacred, so everyone turned around and bullied the Chinese and rebels to stop their own citizens from being killed. Not really a similar situation.
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  44. Batto WW2 is debatable, because its end also coincided with the Americans guaranteeing free trade over most of the free world. WW1 was followed by a (short) depression.
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  45. Belorussian prisons.
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  46.  @TimCheong  PPP is kind of shit of a measurement. There’s a reason nominal is generally preferred over PPP- PPP ignores quality. Also, much of the money is spent on internal security, not outwards expansion.
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  47. Is Saudi Arabia planning on invading and conquering its neighbours? Pretty sure the Gulf Wars already set that precedent for them.
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  48. Mendicant Bias HK is a global exchange and is only special because elf its special status from China. Get rid of that, and you may as well be listing in Shanghai.
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  49. 1. Chinese statistics are bonkers. 2. Usually you compare to similarly developed nations, as people have less ability to pay debt if they are poorer. Since more money goes to things like food.
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  50. Why are South Korean politicians so shit? It looks like every other President in its Democratic history is in prison or is shady/corrupt AF.
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