Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Japan is different. It has automated its economy and is an export market place. There may come a point that Japan starts to rebuild its population without the economic collapse that China faces.
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  2. If Ukraine falls the whole of eastern Europe would be armed to the teeth. The very thing that Putin claims to fear will be on his doorstep on it will be armed in far greater numbers and intensity.
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  3. Students from out side Germany either pay the fees them self or their government pays it for them. It is not the german tax payer that is footing this.  But the issue Germany has is that its immigrant population has exploded in numbers due to the poor EU countries joining. You cannot blame these people either they are only doing what is natural. 
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  4. Every government on earth said it was a flu because that is what the WHO original stated it was but I guess you probably did not know any of this. The WHO was even advising governments at one point that the virus could not spread human to human and when government figured out the WHO was lying guess what happened people like your self started to blame the US>
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  5. Immigrants is the issue. But Germany's population has not aged that much in the last 50 years. Average life span has increased but not to the levels that would explain a lot of these infrastructure problems. 
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  6. Consumers had the same choice as well so it is not just businessmen.
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  7. I am still having conversations with people that do not want to accept what is coming. Most still think European countries can spend all their money on social programs and ignore defence. I think Ukraine has shocked them a bit but they still are deluded.
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  8. Switzerland had a work permit system that would be more strict than Germany or France.  But the system still was letting large numbers of people into the country that was not sustainable for Switzerland.  They have also tightened laws on refugee status. There is a pattern of refugees going home on holidays. 
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  9. Yes I get that impression.
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  10. That makes no sense at all.
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  11. US death rate is lower than European death rate so who is the bot now.
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  12. It really will depend on the state of Ukrainian air defences but there is also the image can Russia pinpoint ukrainian military targets to put Ukraine out of the war?
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  13. "encouraged to retain their own" This is a fallacy and anybody who moves to another country should adapt to the culture of that country. That is one of the reasons multiculturalism has failed it is trying to form a multicultural society when in fact it should be a singular concept of culture.
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  14. Germany has unemployed that could be filled and allowing large numbers of unskilled worker in just as every country in EU has done does not help the unemployed. Immigrants when in large numbers eat into the economy and take jobs and wealth from people in that economy. Do not say this is not the case. We are not talking about Phd or entrepreneurs being immigrants in Germany It is an unskilled work force we are talking about.
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  15. That is not close to being true.
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  16. A report stating that Switzerland gets more out of immigrants is more than likely biased.
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  17. That is so flawed. So if people move to Germany who believe in female genital mutilation should able to carry on the practice. Absolutely not.
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  18. That decline will lead to economic instability and collapse for China. That in turn will lead to WW3 which will be 100 times worse for the environment than the current climate change problem. China that just slowly fades out is a better option and maybe they reevaluate their positions and start to do the right thing.
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  19. What Failures. The virus cannot be stopped. There in not one country that has control of the virus.
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  20. He has not done anything to be a threat. He beat ISIS, removed US forces from the middle east against the advice the media and he has not done anything crazy. Even when US cities were burning Trump would not force national guard into the cities which he by the way had the power to do. So exactly what threat is he? You are free to not like Trump but at least give some perspective.
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  21. Swedish military has 80 defensive combat aircraft and 20 combat defensive ships. When that is combined with the region it will make it very difficult for the russians to move through they will take hits before they get through. The idea is to show that they are ready and not sitting around. We can only hope that this is posturing and nothing else.
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  22. That does not make you any more German unless you can produce a genetic profile to show genetic linage. Nationalism is a very new thing and just because a persons family comes from else where does not make them any less of a nationalist.
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  23. Tell whose son took millions from China?
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  24.  @yaz2928  The "The Housing and Community Development Act of 1992" by law forced the banks to make loans to those from lower socioeconomic classes. This meant that banks by law were required that 30% of their output loans had to cover debt for lower economic classes of credit. The 30% that was forced by law was so large that the banks just to meet their legal obligations had to hard sell loans to many people that could not afford them. It was the reason why a waiter in a restaurant without a good employment contract could buy a home that he or she could not afford.
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  25. That is nonsense.
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  26. Does not change the fact they have to be active militarily for what may come. It is sad that the Irish can only send out a fishing fleet as they have neglected their own military for the last 80 years.
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  27. When commies try to destroy America they will go to any length. Commies will even stand up for China but when the war begins they will be nowhere to be found.
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  28.  @123RADIOactive  People are calling Trump all sorts of names yet people cannot back up what they are saying.
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  29.  @sabin97  Many government were saying it right up to the middle of March because that is what the WHO told people. The death rate is about twice that of season flu. SO is it flu like or not?
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  30. I develop pre-sale condos but have them fully backed by bonds that I have funded with my business. In other words no matter what happens the money is there for them to be completed. I have even been generous enough to let people out of pre buys that have issues with their finances.
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  31. Russia is acting on its own unless you are claiming Russia is in on it.
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  32. Show how did her visit do that?
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  33.  @lu544  Europe can still protect Europe but having the US military bases there means it sends a message loud and clear. Be under impression that if the east somehow conquers Europe that they will just sit there. They will come for the US as well.
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  34. If they are raised in that country and only speak that language and consider them self to be of that country what else can they be.
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  35. US is free to have bases where it wants but that 750 figure is nonsense.
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  36.  @warandpeace9936  Trump does not care who controls Syria but if those controlling forces attempt to set foot in Iraq, Saudi Arabia or Israel they will get a beating like never before. Even the legendary S300 system could not protect Syria from US might. Russia strong against many smaller countries but not when it comes to China or US. Even the Turkish air force will cause Russia problems.
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  37. US has already retooled its own manufacturing and is bring it home. Mexico and Canada are already the US biggest partners. Places like the Philippines need to start making goods that the likes of the US like.
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  38. That is not the issue. Germany does not have the capacity to take in everybody in the world. If you want the problems of people who are unlucky to be born in certain poor countries then the problem needs to be tackled at source and not expect people moving to another country to be the solution.
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  39. Nothing has earth is not conscious.
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  40.  @jianyang6281  The US did not move its goods to china for cheap goods. It was done in the middle of the cold war so as to keep Russia and China apart.
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  41. Try telling that to the commies that hate America.
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  42.  @Sam-nb8ev  There is one big massive bear in the room that people are forgetting about. The US has over 300 naval vessels and 20 carriers that can put into the air above any region 500 aircraft and that does not take into account the ability to launch from world wide bases. The US could make those narrow sea lanes into a shooting gallery with airpower, naval vessels and missiles from above.
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  43. This will not take place over 30 years and will be taking place in the next 5 to 15 years. You will get to see it all play out.
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  44. There are several fighter classes sitting in weight to get a shot at that. Everybody wants to see how good their stuff is as most of it is untested in major warfare.
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  45. The only way to help the worlds poor and sick is to tackle it at the source moving some of the people else where does not cure the problem. Social liberal's do not seem to understand this. They seem to think that countries in the west should change to be more like the countries that people are fleeing and that makes no sense on any level.
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  46. US economy now has 7% unemployment and by election time it will be 5%. The covid by the way has almost disappeared in the US. The US has the largest testing facilities in the world hence why they are finding more people with the virus now.
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  47.  @Muhammad-sx7wr  Taiwan is critical because if would act as a staging ground for the pacific. Chips are not the reason the US aids taiwan.
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  48.  @TheAdriZam  Both UK and France have been trying multiculturalism for the last 40 years. Both of those countries have had large scale influxes of peoples.
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  49.  @MrAhmedUA  Germany's population of 15 to 19 has increased by 1 million in last decade. And the exact same has occurred in each youth age group (detailed from OECD). The exact same has occurred in the UK who now have a problem with dealing with the population increase. And there is simply no more room in the tax base to increase infrastructure.
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  50. VW produced in Mexico are for US consumption.  It is cheaper to produce them and then ship them to the US and south America but they are still made using German engineering. 
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  51. "listen to the facts given to them by scientists and other experts" baa baa baa.
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  52. Conflict. The young cannot get out and vote never mind having a conflict.
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  53. +AKIS A. Can you explain what you mean by far right?
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  54. How do you know they happened simultaneously?
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  55.  @desideratoRdam  US Hospitals are free for emergencies but you probably did not know that.
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  56. That is insane.
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  57. As the young people who inherit the money have not earned it they will blow it and have nothing to show after. People in the UK need to be getting married and having children it is that simple.
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  58.  @mikefriedman8320  How do you know what has and has not been knocked out.
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  59. Africa is going to hit the population wall because it does not have the economic ability to expand.
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  60. Having a tight control of a countries immigration is a good idea as is having a high standard of citizenship such as full integration. But to block citizenship fully is a bit extreme and it could stop great contributors to a country. I have met some great doctors in the US who are citizens even though they were born else where. Things like becoming president or even a politician should be a privilege of people who are born in that country.
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  61. Until it starts WW3.
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  62. The truth is he Chinese government do not have $300 billion spare to take on such a project. If they do it for one company they then may several hundred companies needing the same backing.
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  63. Germany Exports more to the US and imports far more from China.
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  64. This is not going to play out in 100 years. Once the decline starts it will impact their economic stability and that will lead to chaos.
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  65. I thought you were trying to claim that America started the virus.
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  66. With their population decline their market place will be come very volatile and collapse. The first sign of that volatility China will look to try and expand externally. In the long term they will fail but that will result in WW3 with probably hundreds of millions or billions dead.
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  67. What then? Economic collapse and the start of WW3. Russia is already on that pathway and China will join them.
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  68. It is the old people that hold all the capital so they may just decide that the young people can earn it them self if you want to go down that route. SO the young needing set up business, buy homes, go to college may not have access to capital. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot expect to be poor and have the system do exactly as you want.
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  69. That would give the Russians an excuse to deploy their whole military and nothing would be off the table.
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  70. Neutrality is a myth.
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  71. The ball is in Iran's court. Either it attacks the US or it does not.
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  72.  @chess4727  The US could steam roller Korea, Venezuela and Iran all at the same time but that will not be including having occupation forces there. I hope you understand what that mean.
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  73. Whiny young people doing nothing is hardly going to change the world. They cannot even clean their bedrooms.
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  74. Germany cannot have an open door policy and must have immigration control. If the world was better and every country was wealthy then it would not be an issue and they then could have open borders. But if Germany just lets everybody in then it will degrade the standard of living that German people enjoy. There is no point German people working hard if other can come in and just take the cream. I do not think morals have anything to do with this. What I said may sound harsh but it is real
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  75. The banks did not cause the housing crisis in the US. The government caused the problem.
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  76.  @len2063  Europe can produce its own energy if it desires it. The US has massive storages of coal, gas and oil that it can tap into.
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  77.  @len2063  Europe is sitting on massive gas reserves it does not want to tap into.
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  78. And what if the man running away was innocent and he hurt him?
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  79.  @latexrope1358  That means nothing. Maybe they threatened him, maybe he was running away from a group or just maybe he is guilty of the allegation.
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  80.  Yvonne Cheung  Imagine now that the whole of the chinese economy is built on this.
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  81. China does not have long term economic thinking. They are a planned economy and have a limited window to act on that.
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  82. So you think Iran attacking the US has no part in any of this.
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  83. Germany has spent trillions on going green and is about to have a winter of coldness without the handy Russia gas.
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  84. Turns out Covid was always going to pass through the population and young people simply were not subject to it the way the elderly were.
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  85. Nope. LNG is probably operating at best case prices.
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  86. What he may have done is hurt somebody who was completely innocent. Unless you fully understand what has happened you should not act otherwise you are just speculating.
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  87. People are not buying chinese goods what they are buying is western goods that get manufactured in China.
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  88. I think the Germans do not want to be giving money to nations that would destroy them. Hence why they are getting serious.
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  89. Only about 3% of russian nuclear armaments are still active. The majority of them rotted to nothing.
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  90.  @anthonyloveanthonylove2159  In theory if Every Russian remaining warhead was to be strategically placed around the globe and timed to go off instantaneously it would do massive damage. But to use as a warhead for full nuclear exchange with the US it would not be enough. That 3% figure is being kind. Those numbers being allot to Russia in terms of warheads are old cold war numbers belonging to systems that were operational 50 years ago at their peak.
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  91. Death rate in the US is lower than Europe and the US has a larger testing system which means they are finding many people who have the virus but are not sick. Europe on the other hand is picking up only the sick people and probably has a much higher instance of the virus than they realize. Death Rate is also higher in europe than the US.
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  92.  Edward Gross  It is the main reason why democrats are going to get wiped out in the 2020 elections. RIght now you will claim Biden will win but when he loses you will all be out there crying about this or that like you all did when Bush was reelected.
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  93. How on earth did America lose the war in Afghanistan?
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  94. The longer you work the better and the longer you can keep your savings and investments the better. I have known people that have worked into their 90s.
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  95. Because they can and nobody can do anything to them unless they want to reap the wrath of the US economic military machine.
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  96. The US is still the strong economy in the world, strongest military and 99% of Americans love America. The 1% college socialists do not matter and have no real say. Most Americans live their life well.
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  97. Not anytime soon. There is going to be a major battle next year probably in and around April to May. Which will give us a better idea who is going to win.
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  98. Europe is full of fancy fools that think they can just will them self off reality. Europe is full of gas and oil and is doing nothing about it.
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  99. There are many aspects of mathematics that are taken for granted but do not have proofs they would appear to be absolute certain truths. I do not consider any mathematics to be abstract but that is a philosophical point.
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  100. They still have 150 naval vessels, couple hundred fighter jets, tank numbers of about 25000 and about 3 million troops. They can do a lot of damage if they want to. They will not win a world war but would be extremely dangerous.
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  101.  @mikeboydus  As a defence force it will be a high cost for the Russians to invade.
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  102. I think young people whining about the voting patterns of the elderly shows exactly where most western countries are at.
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  103. The problem with your assertion is that it will lead to China starting WW3 within our lifetimes.
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  104. How does any of that relate to Iran and its actions.
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  105. There are key points around the world that really matter from a strategic world war point of view. Places that most people do not understand such as Sweden, Ireland South Africa, Turkey, Israel and so on. Each point can act as a landing zone for major warfare. It is how Russia and China will try to engage in warfare without a large functioning navy to do so.
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  106. It technically was not a draft and was calling up reserves. This is not going to be a quick war and there is going to be a major battle next year (2023) probably in and around April-May that will be of the scale of WW2 engagements. The last true military engagement of that scale was probably the Korean war.
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  107. I think they are trying to send out a message that things can come home very quickly and are not just some abstract war on the other side of the world.
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  108.  @lulibanas  Those old people earned all the wealth and you are free to go out and do it yourself and stop crying.
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  109. I love the absolute whining in all of this. Making stuff up about the climate and it changing just so as to whine about it. Cry cry cry. The reality is that there are far fewer young people than there are older people because your parents generation like whined about social issues instead of getting on with life. When the older generation goes away and so does their capital and expertise I wonder who you will whine about then most certainly will not be about your generation. Guess what will happen carbon levels will decrease as most of the world including Europe and Asia have less economic output and fewer people. Cry cry cry.
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  110. Russia has not thrown everything it has at Ukraine and this is a gamble if it was Ukraine behind this. Russia has not gone for total war as of yet in Ukraine and as long as Ukraine can hold them off it may not happen.
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  111. China is on a pathway that is not good.
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  112. So you expect non germans to be voting on German issues?
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  113.  @Angel24Marin  Again do you think people that are not from Germany should be able to vote on German issues?
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  114. Both Europe and China are about to go through a population decline which will result in lower economic output. India will go through that at some point as well as the Birth Rate in India is now 2.2 children per women. So it looks like the population of India will remain stable but that only works in he current world economic model. India may decide to form an internal market place like the US but it simply does not have the geography of the US to get that market place up and running.
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  115. There will be parts of the world that do really well such as Mexico and USA. Ireland, UK, Sweden, France, Denmark and Norway. Australia and New Zealand. Japan has the ability to have an automated industrial output and the ability to restart its population again.
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  116. The countries like Russia and China are land grabbing from smaller nations that are not attacking them. Look at how Russia invaded Ukraine. China invade Tibet that was no threat to them.
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  117.  @ph11p3540  80% of volume is from Taiwan but not 80% of value. All those global cheap mobiles phones are what Taiwan is based in. US has about 100 semiconductor plants that produce all the high value chips that are used in industry, data centres, commination's and so on.
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  118. They are based on cheap manufacturing processes that require designs that have to easily translate to manufacturing overseas. This has set back innovation years by sending over all the cheap nasty environmental damaging processes to the other side of the world.
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  119. It will be horrible for earth because it will lead to WW3.
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  120. VW are not selling 2.4 million cars into China so people need to stop with those nonsense types of figures.
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  121. That makes no sense at all. Can you try again.
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  122. Go on make some sense.
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  123. Those boomers own all he capital and when they pass that generation system will not be in existence. The US will be fine but Europe is done for and it takes a good 60 years to recover from that sort of demographic collapse.
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  124. Most people simply do not understand what the outcomes are going to be. This is not going to be some gentle slow process it will produce events of crisis that will lead to WW3. That will be a worse outcome for the environment. WW3 will involve nuclear exchange, biological warfare, chemical warfare and so on. It will do untold damage to the global environment. And in that there will be immense human and biosphere suffering.
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  125. Europe has a higher death rate.
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  126.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  US has lower death rate than Europe and so you honest believe there is only 80,000 infections in China as Denmark has 23,000 infections, Ireland has 33000 and Germany has 277000 infected.
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  127. There are so many commies out there that just love what the CCP are doing.
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  128. Sweden is not going to attack they are sending out the message that they are willing to defend and will not roll over. The east needs to be careful that they do not awaken the western industrial economies that have been in hibernation for the last several decades. The US with in a year could be producing 10 million vehicles for war. The only weakness the US had in WW2 was rubber production for tires but they still managed to get through it.
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  129. Singapore is about 20 years behind China and still has the ability to change their direction but will have population demographic issues.
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  130. " a huge climate change is making our entire future uncertain" True whining at its finest.
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  131.  @stevens1041  That is just fantasy thinking. What will happen is that China will become very unstable economically which in turn will lead to major war and possibly WW3. Once China goes all in Russia will come to their side as they will be on the same boat.
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  132.  xox  US serves its self.
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  133.  @richardparnell7584  New Zealand is still seeing daily figures so not do not pretend they have the virus eliminated. The real epicentre of the virus is cities. New Zealand only has a few small cities hence why its outbreaks have not been as intense as other places such as New York or other European cities.
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  134.  @China_bot538  Communist China has killed over 100 million people and has never answered for its crimes. Right now there are about 10 million people in Chinese concentration camps based on their ethnicity. If you believe what is occurring in Hong Kong and other regions is a red scare then it is you that will be in for a scare down the line. There was consignments of wigs that came from China that contained human hair from camps. Either you have a moral compass or you do not.
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  135.  @lawrencel2544  Tell that to people right now who are in prison camps in North Korea and China. Several million cubans are right now trapped in Cuba and if they were caught trying to leave they would be tortured. You can defend any of that.
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  136.  Zeek Banistor  He maybe all of that but I fear it is much worse I fear that he is actually weak politically and so are many democrats and republicans. Weakness is much worse than corruption as one can be just about money the other can allow the fox into the hen house.
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  137.  @lawrencel2544  Communist China committed all the mass murder and you think they deserve a pass because you think they have changed. That is not how the world works. They have done it in the past and now have concentration camps.
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  138. Most of those whining about climate change and the old running everything at some point are going to find out their generation is in charge and they will have no body else to whine about.
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  139. That can become difficult for many who are over 65. Being an accountant of software engineer post 65 is possible but being a plumber or mechanic after that age is not so easy.
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  140.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  Resources for what exactly?
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  141. But should a host culture be forced to introduce Sharia law or Female genital mutilation. At what point to you think a host culture should say no we will stick with our laws and culture. And some immigrant cultural activities may clash with other immigrant cultural activities. There has been cases in London were school districts cancelled nativities and replaced them with Islam activities. This caused offence to the Sikh and Jew communities in the area. Where is the line drawn.
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  142. @Don B That's the problem with modern media they make everything about a big crisis or blow things out of proportion.
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  143. The whole of the west was naive to outsource its manufacturing.
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  144.  @Muhammad-sx7wr  The US would crush China like a bug. If it goes to nuclear exchange China does not have enough warheads for full exchange and would get destroyed. When it comes to kinetic war the US are 70 years ahead of China. They were manufacturing aircraft in the 60 years ago that China still cannot even do today.
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  145. Nope. US will use those illegal's to fill out its own workforce. The US is about to go through a massive period of factory and infrastructure building.
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  146.  @drakenkraken8455  Nonsense.
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  147. The reason it is getting warmer is due to the fact that there is less carbon in the atmosphere to shield the earth from the rays of the sun. So expect temperatures at ground level to get hotter as more sun passes through to you on the ground especially in summer. As populations decrease carbon emissions will also decrease and it will be a cyclical problem.
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  148.  @anteeko  Northern American and European regions have less carbon in their atmosphere. Remember carbon in the atmosphere various depending on regional effect it is not a consistent figure. US Emissions have reduced over the last few two decades as have european. We are now getting more solar radiation at ground level than before. When US aircraft was grounded during 911 there was a noticeable effect on ground level radiation levels that increased ground temperatures because there was less particles blocking the rays of the sun. Look up Global dimming.
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  149. Yes they can.
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  150. You cannot even compare India to that.
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  151. The US X generation will be too few to support the boomers but as time goes on and the boomers start to pass the generations coming after X will easily be able to support them. The US is also retooling its industrial output with next generation manufacturing which means the US is going to be a cheap capital market that will not have that many issues. The US more or less has everything it need.
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  152.  @ericpoeperic  The US does not have income inequality. It is a myth as there are always going to be poor people and there is nothing you or anybody can do about it. Germany is going to have an issue with its outputs such as exports.
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