Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "David Starkey Talks" channel.

  1. Reforming history is very popular in modern media and academia. It allows those that want to push politics lots of flexibility.
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  2. Innovation is not like turning on a tap. It require culture and generations of belief to have a society that is innovative.
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  3. Or what we should start doing is calling it liberalism and calling out socialists who pretend they are liberal.
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  4. Here is something people have to be aware when it comes to Merkel she was fluent in Russian as a child, educated in Karl Marx university, held an academic position of power at the height of the USSR and in her mid thirties when the wall came down. Merkel spent more than half her life under the rule of the USSR and clearly had a soft spot.
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  5. Britain entered a period of market planning post WW2 that more or less destroyed its ability to function. Everything from car production, food production and factory output was planned. And then there was the fact that government restricted planning but at he same time was the biggest developers of housing in the UK. And then the rise of the welfare super state that spent almost 75% of government finances on programs that held people back.
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  6. Anglosphere means English speaking cultural world that is rooted in common law.
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  7. A conservative can be a liberal. I think that people are confused as to what these things actually mean.
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  8. It is the sad state of the west. It lacked real conviction and loved forming committees and making bold announcements and attacking its own culture with lofty ideas.
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  9.  @heartofjesusdj  Or somebody else killed them so they would not become a problem. Who really knows at this point?
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  10. While the west has made mistakes it cannot really behold directly responsible for what is developing in the east. If the west was to try and get directly involved in the east it would still get push back. The only way this could have really been avoid was after the collapse of the USSR if the west with force had of went into Russia and took over the place and installed their own leadership but that would still have got us to where we currently are only it would have happened 25 years ago.
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  11. The rewilding stuff is just nonsense.
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  12.  @neatengineering  Which can change very rapidly in a society.
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  13.  @cplmpcocptcl6306  There is nothing wrong with what I have said. We have no way of really knowing exactly how it all went down. They probably were murdered by Richard or his followers either way we will never know.
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  14. Western powers still have a massive level of military capability. Take the US for example it has an airforce that is twice as large as China and Russia combined. The French and British navy would control the mediterranean and Northern Sea's. The Americans will control the Atlantic and Pacific Seas. Once the west realizes what is at stake they will wake from their slumber which is already starting to begin.
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  15. When people use the terms sometimes they mean socialist rather than somebody who was in pursuit of liberty.
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  16. Because Afghanistan was a terrorist staging ground with training camps. Afghanistan was ordered to stop the camps and to give up certain people who were involved and the Taliban refused to do so. Anybody who thought that the US would not respond after 911 is very naive.
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  17. It is freedom of thought and a willingness to experiment.
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  18.  @jimbocho660  Those were part of WW2 and cannot be compared. Just as nobody here is bringing up the rape that Russia performed after WW2 as everybody knows it was done in a world war.
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  19. The French were completely creative in that concept but they just happened to be wrong. The CCP is not creative at all and is just blindly moving along.
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  20. A liberal can still be a conservative. I think people are under the impression that a liberal is somebody who is liberal with ideas. Such as a person who is in favor of gay marriage may get labelled as a liberal when they may actually be in favor of a tyrannical government. The easiest way to understand in a loose and general way liberalism is to think of it in terms of Life, Liberty and Estate (not a perfect means).
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  21. It is not even close. US military power is not just the actual money they spend on maintaining its military. It is in it industrial research and development.
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  22. It is so sad that communists have hijacked the word liberalism and have turned it into something else that gets used in politics.
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  23.  @Live_your_Dreams_Everyday  Cooperation is not globalization. The west needs to start believing in itself again.
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  24.  Garrus Vakarian  IQ is the only measurement of intelligence.
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  25. There is no real term classical liberal. People started to use the term because socialists came along and started to call them self liberal. Today their favorite term is progressive.
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  26. Absolutely did not unmake Mr Starkey. He is a light of culture in a very dark storm blowing around us.
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  27. The Arab Golden age is a myth. That gets perpetuated over and over. It was a brief period where their culture allowed certain things to be practiced. And it was Brief. It is a very common mistake that people make to state that Algebra for example was invented in the Arab world when it is philosophical study that goes back thousands of years.
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  28. Japan has a tradition of craftsmanship and creativity that has been at play after WW2. While the society that certain types of restrictions it still has creativity.
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  29. Why people cannot understand that the likes of Thatcher and Reagan are liberals is all down to the fact that they do not understand what a liberal is and the main reason for that was socialists for a period of time through the media were labelling themselves liberals. Socialists today are called progressives and in 15 years time they will go back to using the term liberal.
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  30. @PrestonSartorius So you are saying that the British government post WW2 did not put restrictions on car exports out of the UK?
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  31. Alibaba is nothing like IKEA.
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  32. What if it pushes Russia into the arms of China. It could create a new world order that is willing to commit nuclear genocide. Imagine if China was able to bully the world with nuclear weapons. What would have been far better of would have been to just stand up to Russia making some sort of gesture. So by these measures does it mean Russia is now out of world trade forever and are they going to become like Cuba only with nuclear weapons and a large military?
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  33.  @Nfh65f9  It really depends on how troops are put in. If they are put into fight the Russians that will most certainly be WW3. If NATO troops had of been put into the west of the Ukraine early in the invasion could have created an east and west Ukraine. Putting in troops now increases the risk so at some point a call needs to be made. A no fly zone is completely unrealistic. There calls for this during the early days of Syria for a no fly zone but it was rejected as it would lead to war.
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  34. I do not think the west ever really gave Ukraine the idea that they would come and fight for them.
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  35. Neutral is fine there is nothing wrong with that but the babies will throw their twitter toys out of the pram.
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  36. It took the US from the 1780s to 1860s to get rid of slavery. For about 60 to 70 years of the USA there was slavery due to the divide that was present.
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  37. Time might be running out but the west could have entered the Western part of Ukraine and captured it for them self.
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  38. McDonalds and Coca Cola are brands that are loved worldwide. Banning food is not a good idea.
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  39. It is a good thing to be wrong in trying to present history than being wrong with the intention of being wrong.
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  40. If you add Russia and China gold reserves together the US gold reserve is twice as large. The US has more gold than Russia, China and the International monetary fund combined.
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  41. Maybe that will be the eventual outcome of all of this and things can settle down again but they are unlikely to want to do it right away so as to not show weakness.
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  42. The truth is that a large number of people in Russia want a new empire but here is the question far do they actually want that empire to stretch? Most people do not seem to understand how wide they want their influence to go. I may surprise people to find they want it to stretch from the Bering Sea to the Atlantic Ocean with them hold everything in between. And the subjugated areas are not going to be free.
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  43. No. Germanys' economic partnership came after the fall of the USSR and was built around modern gas infrastructure.
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  44.  @semperterra3235  Professorship is not a held title it is a term that gets used throughout the world. Just because the British system of awarding professorships exists does not take away the actual concept of a professor.
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  45. Most of those anti war liberals socialists are living a fantasy and playing a game. Many of them will change their view once the reality comes to them.
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  46. That is all fine and dandy but Holly Roman empire was nowhere near as capable as the Classical Roman empire. Just because someone claims to be something does not make it so. Russia does not have the cultural or economic ability to wage a war that would be global in nature but it does have one ace up its sleeve that it can use against countries to scare them and that is nuclear warheads so they really need to ensure that their 50 year old weapons systems are still operational because they are going to be tested on that front at some point.
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  47. Ukraine is not where they are going to stop. Right now they think Europe and UK is weak so they think they can sweep through Europe. Only a show of force will actually make them back off.
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  48. The issue for the new east is that it will not be able to expand quickly enough to reach the UK. By the time it reaches if it can at all Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and France will have massed armies so large and technical that they will be extremely formidable. And that excludes the Americas.
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  49.  Garrus Vakarian  tell us what other mechanism are there to judge intelligence. Can you give us a few since you are saying "no it isn't"
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  50. Churchill was against the national health service as a concept as he understood that such a government finance system would fail. That was really his downfall in that he was against it but actually caught up in it politically. Churchill was also prone to making mistakes politically. He was a great leader in crisis but during peace times struggled to get his ideas across to people.
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