Comments by "Yo2" (@yo2trader539) on "Voice of America" channel.

  1. So much better than 5,000 helmets from Germany, esp considering the economic size of Lithuania.
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  2.  @MK-wf1eg  Real Turks are from Mongolia. The people living in Turkey are predominantly descendants of Turkified Greeks, Kurds, and Armenians. They are indigenous people.
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  3. No education, no future.
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  4. There are many other ethnic groups in Xinjiang/East Turkestan, so I'm curious whether a similar Sinicization/Colonization process is being forced on them as well. What is occurring is textbook colonization. Dominant language/culture/religious assimilation and replacement is similar to what has happened in the Americas for the past 500 years. The difference is that the Chinese are trying to do it less than 1 to 2 generations, and they're not trying to exterminate the majority of indigenous people like the Europeans. Turks and Han Chinese have been competing to control this region for the past 2,500 years, particularly as both wanted to dominate the Silk Road trading route to Central Asia and beyond. That said, I've never heard of Turkic-speaking Western Yugurs living in Gansu, who are direct descendants of the Uyghur Khaganate, being actively persecuted like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang/East Turkestan. So why is the Chinese government bending over backwards to Sinicize the Uyghurs in Xinjiang/East Turkestan? The amount of resources allocated for internal security, detention, or "re-education" shows how much this is priority for the Chinese government. (1) Islam: There are many other non-Uyghur Muslims in China who are left alone, including Han Chinese Muslims (a.k.a. "Hui" people). (2) Language, Genetics, and Culture: There are plenty of non-Chinese ethnic groups ranging from Tajiks to Mongols to Tibetans to Koreans. (3) Independence/Separatism: Given that Xinjiang/East Turkestan wasn't historically part of China proper (or Han Chinese sphere), I suspect this is the main motivation behind swift and severe Sinicization programs. From a pure economic/fiscal perspective, China is using more tax money on Xinjiang/East Turkestan than it will be able to collect. However, why this region is so important for modern-China is not clear to me.
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  5. If there is a blockade in sea, air, and land...why are there so many high-rise buildings and imported cars in Gaza? And where do they get their weapons?
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  6. Who really controls Acapulco?
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  7. They didn't have billions.
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  8. That is the irony. They enjoy the freedom of the US, but they don't seem to understand where it comes from.
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  9. You cannot negotiate with true believers.
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  10. We reject 99% of refugee application because most of them are economic migrants and don't meet asylum criteria. In the past, we've accepted Tatar refugees after the Russian Revolution, Korean War refugees, and Indochina refugees. We also have granted refugee status to Tibetan and Myanmar political activists. But the ones who apply these days are not real refugees but economic migrants. This is why they won't receive refugee status in Japan.
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  11. What kind of people calmly film an attack? I would be scared and running away from it.
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  12. If you study the history of the region for the past 500 years, I don't think you would arrive at your conclusion. Most people in Belarus, Kazakhstan etc speak Russian too. That doesn't make them RUSSIAN. Speaking English doesn't make you English either.
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  13. Why are there no victims?
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  14.  @oldjarhead386  I remember the discussion about ending commercial flights at Reagan National decades ago due to it being too close to the center of D.C. But more flights/slots were allocates over the years as the location was too convenient for many rich/powerful people.
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  15. If you borrow from loan sharks...you know this was meant to happen.
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  16. That specific unit is tasked to carry government/military VIPs, right? If so they must train for night flights in the actual path they are going to take. But I do think it's safer if that airport is closed for commercial flights. I fear it's too much air traffic in the center of the D.C.
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  17. Afghan regime was corrupt, ineffective, and abusive, so at the end the people chose Taliban. No win scenario.
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  18. Didn't the US military withdraw from Syria when the Turkish forces were slaughtering the Kurds? Why are they back now?
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  19. Something is terribly wrong with the region. The culture is so violent.
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  20. VOA is funded by... you know by whom.
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  21. They hide weapons etc.
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  22. Why is Turkey supporting jihadists?
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  23. Why does Turkey support Islamists?
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  24. This region was prosperous while it was Buddhist. Muslim invasion and forced conversion condemned them to living hell.
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  25. I agree but weren't you guys killing and torturing Mayan people for centuries? You should learn your ancestral language and culture too.
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  26. But the Shan or SIAM people.
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  27.  SaintFluffySnow  Uyghurs are a mixture of Turkic clans from Mongolian steppe and indigenous Iranic Sogdians (胡人). People in Turkey have almost no Turkic genetics. They are descendants of Turkified Greeks, Persians, Armenians, Kurds, etc...in addition to many Crimean Tatars, Circassians, Balkans.
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  28. He's a baseball player. Everything else is irrelevant.
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  29. Pakistan supported the Taliban.
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  30. So the DICTATOR of Ukraine started the war by invading Russia, in the alternate reality?
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  31. Islamic State?
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  32. Reuniting Muslims is code for Islamic State?
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  33. Is the US going to give back land to indigenous people? Driving out or extermination of locals is textbook colonization.
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