Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Russia vs. The Netherlands: A Tale of Two Economies" video.

In the days of Voltaire the Dutch Republic only had a small part of Java and a few small islands under direct control.
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No, it's not about being part of the EU. Actually the EU has replaced international cooperation with a bureaucracy of the unelected.
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@vullings1968 You are confusing the EU with the EEC, your are confusing mimicking democracy with democracy. The EP is not a legislator, and we can't vote for nor are we represented by the vast majority of the elected. Policy is not decided upon by national ministers anymore since the treaty of Lisbon, rejected by both the French and the Dutch voters, in which the veto was ended. So it's you that lacks knowledge and is easily fooled by the EU propaganda.
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It's mostly Western propaganda that makes Russia bigger than it is economically. For Russia's self image economy size is not important. Russia thinks in terms of land, which they have a lot of, in terms of strategic value of oil and gas, and of a big army and a lot of nukes. The state of their economy means their huge army is cheaper to run too.
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@vullings1968 Directly elected parliament. Not comparable. The Netherlands is no democracy anymore because of the EU power grab.
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@vullings1968 Because that treaty brought it under EU rule. The EU is a seperate entity and the Netherlands has always punched far above it's weight when the EU was still a corrupt bureaucrats wet dream.
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@buddy1155 Of course, you can't have free trade with those neighbours unless you accept EU rule with the ideology of the unelected. It's a punishment unless you are in it. All those cheap day labourers from Eastern Europe far away from family and friends to be exploited in the rich EU countries have made their countries richer too.
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You are the ignorant one here. The Dutch Republic did indeed not occupy foreign countries like the others and that small piece of Java and few small islands that were actually occupied by the Dutch back then could easily have escaped anyone. No, the Dutch didn't slaughter and enslave millions. Calling it an empire is retro-active projection of a British thing.
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@melolonthamelolontha9099 No, it doesn't. It de facto attacks prosperity, peace, cohesion and democracy.
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@vullings1968 Wrong again, commissioners don't represent a member state and the EC hasn't been an executive body for the member states governments for many decades anymore. It's the primary legislative body that can't be voted for nor vetoed by democratically elected or established governments. The main goal of the EU is to circumvent democracies with their nasty habits of serving the interest of the people rather than those of big corporations, in which is succeeds. It's the only thing it succeeds in, that's why it's claiming the successes of it's predecessors. It has none of itself to show for.
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@keesnoort So you think you know things because you have discovered google? First the vast majority of the MEPs can't be elected by me, don't represent me so them deciding over me is not democratic. Secondly they are not a legislative body as they can only say yes to legislation initiated by the entirely unelected. The council would be a last democratic safety net if every minister had a veto and the EC would actually be the executive body of the member states it was supposed to be. It isn't.
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@keesnoort People who "just google" are not in a position to tell people who have read books to "just google". Yes, I do understand which level you're at.
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@keesnoort I don't want to have a talk about democracy at a 'just google' level. I know the EU mimics democracy, that's what I said above. Then you come with google hits to show how democracy is mimicked effectively for you. Not for me, I don't fall for that.
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@keesnoort It's not similar. The EP is a mix of systems set up to not represent any people of any member state but the EU itself while made ineffective in having any power in the process.
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@keesnoort it's worst of the two main systems combined for a reason. The vast majority of the EP can never represent me and I can never vote for them or against them, so I'm being governed by people I can't vote for and don't care for my interest, so it's not democratic.
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It is. It's the English claiming it's a mixture of German and English who have a false sense of self importance and need to be told off.
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No, it's not. English had nothing to do with it.
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A country the size of the Netherlands producing porc for China is a bit too much globalist nonsense of course but the nitrogen issue has been hijacked by ideologues, land grabbers and questionable activist computer modellers.
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No, that has been given away.
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