Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. Europe doesn’t seem to be particularly bothered by the authoritarian regimes in Hungary and Poland. Perhaps that’s because governments in Europe and the west are becoming increasingly authoritarian too.
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  2.  @Stevie-J  Russia is surrounded by American us military bases and nuclear missiles, when Russia tried to put nuclear milestones as close to the us as the us has them to it the us almost started world war 3.
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  3.  @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva  another intellectually stimulating and convincing argument.
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  4.  @bnbcraft6666  why? Solar and wind energy are so much cheaper, and if Germany had already transitioned they wouldn’t be seeing rising prices now
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  5.  @thecringeinspector5636  assuming what he’s saying is true. It could be propaganda. There’s plenty of antipathy all over Europe for Ukraine. I see Ukrainians on benefits going abroad for holidays twice a year, I work full time and haven’t been able to afford to go aboard for 4 years and there’s plenty of people in worse conditions than me
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  6.  @patta8388  the dam collapsing caused catastrophic flooding of deep Russian frontline trench systems that they’ve just spent a year digging and heavily fortifying and mining, forcing an emergency evacuation under Ukrainian shelling, losing a bunch of hardware, equipment, ammunition, food and other supplies that was abandoned and ruined, as apparently they weren’t warned about it. Luckily for the Ukrainians, they had retreated only hours earlier so weren’t affected. A far more strategic plan for Russia would have been to have coordinated a fighting retreat in the face of a Ukrainian advance, wait until the Ukrainians occupied those trenches and then flooded them, wiping out the Ukrainian offensive and cutting them off from their resupply and other units. When the water subsides Ukraine will be able to drive straight past those front line positions that will be empty of Russian forces. The Ukrainian advance, which is happening across a wide front from the north above the dam, which will now be empty of water meaning the rivers are lower and much easier to cross. Meanwhile the floods prevent Russia from using their main force in Crimea from breaking out and encircling the Ukrainian offensive and attacking them from behind. So no, it really didn’t make much sense for Russia to have done it, and the Ukrainians are the ones benefitted the most. It’s just like the missile attacks on Poland and Croatia, the shelling of the nuclear plant that Russia held and nordstream pipeline, its Russia’s fault and a war crime until it turns out it was Ukraine, then it’s suddenly ok. All this war is doing is making record profits for the military industrial complex and oil, gas and food companies. Meanwhile rich old men send poor young men to die so these profits can continue.
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  7.  @patta8388  “The Ukrainians, he said, even carried out a test strike with HIMARS on one of the locks of the Novokakhovskaya dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the waters of the Dnieper could rise enough to block Russian crossings without flooding nearby areas and villages. The test was successful, said Kovalchuk” Washington Post, 12/29/2022 Kovalchuk is a Ukrainian General and the damage Ukraine did to the dam as far back as November was widely reported on and plenty of pictures and video is available,
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  8. Who is progizhin?
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  9. That’s weird because young Europeans are the biggest immigrants in Europe. There are massive numbers of polish immigrants in Britain and Germany, and have been for twenty years, so why are they all so anti immigration when they’ve all benefited from being immigrants?
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  10. @DropkicktheDecepticon You’d better tell that to all the polish immigrants all over Europe 😂
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  11. There were plenty more invasions, they didn’t mention the 4 invasions by the white armies at the end of the First World War
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  12.  @wile123456  you clearly know nothing about the history of Yugoslavia. Tito was a Croat and kept Serbian nationalism in check. The presidency revolved around all the regions, and they are very much independent. Yugoslavia was a strong and successful country, independent from Stalin and the USSR and had incredibly strong football and basketball teams.
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  13. Absolutely no mention of the fact that not only did the west cheerfully ignored the annexation of Crimea or the earlier invasion of Georgia, it happily allowed Russia to host the World Cup 4 years later, never mind gleefully accepting Russian oligarch money into London and eagerly purchasing their gas and oil. As long as there were profits to be made from Russia, it was all ok. Saying the west is not to blame for the invasion of Ukraine is at best hopelessly naive, and at worst more propaganda. This was entirely predictable and is a really odd a complete failure of foreign policy. Personally I suspect this was America’s long term plan, to suck Putin into a long drawn out meat grinder of a war that would reduce Ukraine to dust and give them a reason to go to war with Russia and implement a regime change. The war will be very good for the profits of western arms and energy companies
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  14.  @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva  aha, an intellectual. What stimulating ideas you have
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  15. Maybe if nato had kept to the Budapest treaty this would never have happened
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  16. Why are you surprised that people don’t like corruption and mafia influence in politics? The idea that they should choose that because the alternative are baddies is laughable
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  17. If you’re going to learn from history then you’ll realise that so the wars in the Balkans have been proxy wars and this absolutely no exception. It’s no coincidence that the Kosovans have been encouraged to stir things up now. The yogoslav wars in the 90s were deliver induced by the USA in order to limit Russia’s influence in the region.
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  18.  @thesuperflexibleflyingtaoi8866  wow Germany must have changed a lot since I worked there. I remember being in Germany and two guys who had worked together for 25 Years didn’t know reach others first names, they always referred to ex other as herr this and herr that. It was all business, no one bothered with pleasantries it getting to know you, I remember one German manager I’d never met before coming up behind me and saying “you are herr so and so yes? Good, what I want for you to do is this…” I’d never met the guy, didn’t know who he was, and here he read barking orders at me without a hello how are you or please and thank you. Was a bit of a culture shock to say the least, we didn’t get on for a while after that.
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  19. And yet that’s exactly what the west was pushing for Ukraine to do
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  20.  @EllieD.Violet  most of Poland have already done that
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  21.  @amatorn  they might get kicked out
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  22.  @kjkj4725  €100m per child? Surely not?
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  23.  @EllieD.Violet  the British showed how quick it can be to leave the eu - and what the consequences can be
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  24.  @clean280  the french are doing something about it though
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  25.  @Leitosssssss  and of course Ukraine showed how much it cared for fellow Ukrainians shelling Donbas civilians for 8 years, cutting off the water supply to Ukrainian citizens in Crimea and burning 46 protesters alive in Odessa, to say nothing of the war crimes committed by Adair and Azov against Ukrainian citizens and the punishment executions to any Ukrainian who accepted food and medicine aid from Russians whilst under occupation. Yes, Ukrainians are very caring to their own people
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  26. This war is the best thing to happen to zelensky. One could be forgiven for thinking he’s deliberately provoked it by attempting to join NATO
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  27.  @thornelderfin  why weren’t they given the opportunity to vote is the question I’d like to know. They should have conducted a referendum on the Ukrainian side with both under un observers or at least the Ukrainian one. That would add legitimacy to the claim that the people there don’t want to join Russia
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  28. The media is framing the reporting of this war so differently to every other war that has happened in the last 50 years. We’re being conditioned for military action, there is so much information not being communicated in the media
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  29. Sounds like a recipe to back it into a corner to me, what could possibly go wrong with that
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  30.  @shaunl1922  they also worked with many former nazis in west Germany especially Berlin, who were in positions of power until the late 70s, there were huge student protests against them that were brutally cracked down on killing over 50 students
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  31.  @eliahabib5111  another name for military bases in other countries is imperialism and occupation. The Roman and British empires also did this
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  32.  @Rigel_6  you should see the British government. I don’t think Portugal’s it France’s government’s are much better either. There’s a rising crisis on politics, and historically when this happens, it usually leads to one or both of two things: Revolution or War.
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  33.  @TheGamingSyndrom  doesn’t seem to have achieved much, the eu is toothless
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  34.  @Roel_Scoot  it’s too late and it doesn’t matter what politicians say they’re going to do, or say they want to do, or actually want to do. Corporations are bigger than any government or political institution and they rule the world and decide what’s going to happen. And there’s absolutely no chance the oil industry is going to allow petrol fuelled cars to be banned any time soon, regardless of the impact and consequences. Apart from that, we don’t have the electrical infrastructure to recharge the number of electric vehicles that will be needed to replace them, and there isn’t enough lithium in the world to make the batteries to power them either. So the only way it’s going to happen is to a) reduce it eliminate the power of oil companies and b) provide alternative means of transport (see Chinas $900 billion high speed rail network) and/or reduce the need to travel, through wfh or other initiatives
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  35.  @SerbAtheist  exactly, he hasn’t got a clue
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  36. This is great military analysis, if you’re keen on just parroting the media propaganda line. If you actually look at it from a military perspective, understand Russian military doctrine and logistics, and take their stated objectives into account, an alternative picture emerges. They’re not taking territory because that’s not their objective. They’re there to destroy the Ukrainian military. The Russian military is largely designed to fight a defensive war on home soil, unlike the USA’s, and they rely on rail for much of their logistics. They have rail engineers to build logistics lines in their units. They’re not in a hurry, they know NATO aren’t going to intervene. And the Russians have never been shy about losing casualties in war either, unlike the USA. I wouldn’t take everything you hear in the media as gospel.
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  37. They’re about as Democratic as Ukrainian elections 😂
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  38.  @drago939393  what’s the difference between Kosovo and Donbas?
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  39.  @wile123456  Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia, Donbas declared its independence from Ukraine. One was allowed, and apparently one wasn’t. If Kosovo was part of Ukraine you’d say it was perfectly acceptable for the Ukrainian minister to shell Kosovo civilians and invade with military force, but because it’s part of Serbia it’s not.
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  40. Yeah well the the USA has been rewarded plenty for starting wars all over the world and I don’t hear anyone complaining. The alternative is a million dead Ukrainians and their country looking like Iraq and that definitely don’t want that. The other way of looking at the problem is seeing it as punishing Ukrainians because Zelensky failed to avoid the war, something he has ample opportunity to do but decided instead of negotiating with Putin to play hardball. Well, you play stupid games you win stupid prizes, only it’s unfortunately the Ukrainian people who have to pay the price with their blood and their country getting wrecked while that clown hides in his bunker. The eu didn’t really want Ukraine and have them provisos on getting rid of corruption which zelensky didn’t because her used it to make himself richer instead. The eu also wanted to ensure there was true democracy, but Zelensky decided to arrest and lock up opposition politicians and party leaders who came second in the election and then close down three television stations that criticised him for doing so.
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  41. Source: trust me broski
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  42. Perhaps they don’t want to sully nato and weaken it by having one of the most corrupt countries in the world as a member. Or perhaps they recognised that any further expansion to Russia’s borders would be seen by Russia as an existential threat and that wouldn’t be great for the region that they live next to.
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  43. Sounds like a complete guess to me. I’m sure if the Ukrainians had lost large numbers they’d tell the truth about it though, am I right?
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  44.  @kjkj4725  that’s exactly how the Nazis took over Germany. Propaganda and indoctrination
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  45.  @maddinek  tbf British news is full of propaganda too, and the ruling government are completely and utterly corrupt
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  46. You missed out 14 000 Ukrainians being killed by Unitarian neo Nazi militias in the Donbas
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  47. Yes, Turkey member of NATO, supplier of drones to Ukraine, shot down a Russian jet over Syria, definitely neutral, even if this story was true, instead of some Twitter BS propaganda that Turkey immediately debunked. Embarrassing that idiots repeat it, it’s like the ghost of Kiev or the polish missile attack
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  48.  @haroeneissa790  that was a nice way to treat all the Ukrainian citizens living there.
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  49.  @WightLad811  yeah but don’t say that because it goes against the authorised narrative and it will upset lots of propaganda bots
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  50.  @SourVodka  Ukraine has previously hit the dam with himars so it’s entirely conceivable it did it again, especially as it destroyed the entire Russian front line and a day later Ukraine attack. Bit of a coincidence
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