Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Business Basics" channel.

  1. There’s nothing “hot” about that piece of work.
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  2. Trump might pull out of NATO but (1) not while the Ukraine SMO is running and (2) not while it’s what Putin expects to happen.
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  3. The talk of deals and “gratefulness” is a distraction. Trump has decided it’s cheaper to let Putin have Ukraine. Europe and Ukraine have other ideas.
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  4. USA could comfortably close its borders yet continue as if nothing had changed. What other country has everything it needs?
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  5. The soldier slaves are mere consumables. They will never go home.
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  6. Storm Shadow has two w@rheads. The first shaped charge punches through a bunker wall. The second goes off inside.
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  7. Eastern Ukraine has huge gas, coal, iron, manganese, nickel and lithium resources. Putin does not want that going to Europe without him taking a cut.
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  8. NK soldiers are trained to march and clap. That’s it.
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  9. She’s doing nothing unusual. Rich powerful man loses it all. The Mrs always stays with her man. Yeah right.
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  10. USA’s $65 Billion from 2024 spent at least 80% on USA. Just $15 went to Ukraine. Similar situations applied in previous years. Not to mention the slow walking and micromanaging that crimped anything Ukraine could achieve. USA has provided a lot to Ukraine but it’s not even close to 300 Billion.
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  11. USSR claimed they lost 15,000 soldiers in Afghanistan. Reality was at least 10x that amount. Anything less would not have activated enough mothers to act.
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  12. U233 is a poor bomb material as it’s almost impossible to separate from U232. The latter has a dampening effect on 233 as a bomb fuel. It’s just easier to use Plutonium. Molten salt reactors are more about fully using the fuel (99% v 4% in a water reactor. The chloride design being homologated in Canada solves the material and salt glow problems associated with the 1960s Weinberg design
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  13.  @Sare204 Unfortunately NATO is doing its best to deliver less than what’s needed. NATO needs to step up. Fast.
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  14. NK fired one rocket straight up. They don’t have any targeting technology. But that’s one better than Russia that can’t even launch one rocket.
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  15. The TikTok product toxicity is not the issue. It’s the many ways these apps can steal information.
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  16. He’s a classic psychopath - doesn’t care how much damage and misery he causes. Bounces from one tactic to another and Incapable of strategic thinking.
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  17. Oreshnik fired one payload at Ukraine. The re-entry vehicles all arrived in the same place. There was no independent targeting and no significant damage caused. They all but burnt up during re-entry. It was a spectacular failure.
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  18. Ukraine IS capable of retaking its territory and the weapons costs can come from the $300 Billion Russian assets held in EU banks. It’s the ultimate F around and find out.
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  19. Russian air defences can’t even stop slow flying drones from Ukraine. They have no hope against F35.
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  20. Tariffs are a tax. They are paid by domestic users of the goods. The foreign supplier gets the same price they always did. Except their market size gets reduced.
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  21. Design and manufacturer of any tank has a long lead time so will always be built for the last war. Bradley has been the exception because it places protection above gunnery fire power.
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  22. He had to dodge ATGMs and falling tank turrets.
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  23. At around 10:00 Russia was saying it will attack UK if Storm Shadow gets used on Russian territory. Strange because they annexed Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. They are all Russian territory. But today 26-Sep-24, British railway WiFi was hacked with users directed to a political website. It’s trivial but almost certainly a Russian cyber @tt@ck.
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  24. Trump and Biden/Obama have always reversed anything the other set up. Hopefully Trump will reverse Biden’s slow walking of minimal help to Ukraine. Biden has not been a friend to Ukraine. Hopefully Trump will realise Ukraine is incredibly valuable to USA. And act accordingly.
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  25. Russian economy is about the same size as Italy. Russia IS NOT an economic giant.
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  26. We will soon know if Trump has pulled a 4D chess move.
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  27. Much of the real estate market was property nobody had any intention of living in or using in any way. This pyramid led to the tofu cities that are literally falling down.
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  28. Trump is playing 4D chess.
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  29. About time too. The West has been ridiculously slow. Largely encouraged by weak minded Biden and abetted by EU who do everything at a glacial pace.
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  30. The windows of his hotel don’t open. What else was Putin to do?
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  31.  @robedwards9486 Ukraine keeps blowing up the distilleries. 😮
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  32.  @Paul_Cx Russia is huge and always brutalising its neighbours to extend its land area. None of the others do this.
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  33. But Starmer is too scared to deliver what he has left. And that is not much. Most of the stocks are gone.
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  34. The incredible similarities between the fascists and communists are no coincidence. They are both forms of top down socialism. The same theology with only subtle differences. They hated each other, because they were all fighting for the same constituents.
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  35. Obviously it’s USA and UK and NATO. Russia never ever commits and covers up war crimes.
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  36. Yet they still complain Musk is the bad guy.
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  37. Finland closed its Russia border and moved in construction and military assets. Russia has no power to invade Finland and the Gins will make them pay a huge price for even trying.
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  38. Russia wants to make Ukraine unviable so it becomes another Russian puppet like Belarus. When that happens, the whole of Eastern Europe is at risk.
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  39. Norway does not provide power to US. It probably does not sell oil directly to US either.
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  40. Trump hit Russian in Syria with 200 Tomahawk missiles. Putin immediately backed out. I suspect Biden has tried to appease Putin just to not do what Trump did. Trump will almost certainly do more of his “same” for Ukraine
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  41. But UK is letting in jihadists by the boatload. Why is she any different?
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  42. Nobody is smart enough to centrally control an entire country. She will fail. She will blame everyone else. She will go the way of every other dictator.
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  43. Trump and Vance should not be so prickly and why are they still choosing to treat Putin like a normal politician.
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  44. Hopefully the new fighters will build a genuine government. Hopefully they won’t become another caliphate.
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  45. The Russian women at 40:00 is absolutely accurate. I hope she can stay away from high windows.
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  46.  @elixier33  You clearly can’t read. She said, “Russians have more freedom even under a dictator”. To be fair, most Russians cannot escape (they can’t get a passport). Few realise just how badly they are used by their own government.
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  47. It’s an opticians in Hollywood.
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  48. Nobel is a joke. They gifted on to Obama. The man who effectively set up this W.
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  49. BBC repeats Russian news reports as facts. They never mention that the narrative is always the same - everything shot down, nobody hurt but damage caused by falling debris. I don’t trust anything BBC says about this w@r.
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  50. BBC repeats Russian news reports as facts. They never mention the evidence that proves the original lies. This is at best naive. At worst- you can work it out.
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  51. Putin says Ukraine is part of Russia. So what’s he so worried about?
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  52. UAE has lots of high windows. Durov is safer in a French jail.
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  53. Don’t hold your breath for Putin quitting or even being got to.
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  54. NATO is an alliance. Nothing more. If one (or two) members choose to get into a “squabble” others can choose to join in. But it’s not a NATO operation. The only likely NATO action would be via article 5 where a country gets invaded and everyone steps up to help.
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  55. Russia is always uninvited but they are very good at paying corrupt officials to look the other way. They are trying it in USA. Eastern Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya, et al are wide open to these methods.
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  56. Biden is still in power. Expect USA to walk away.
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  57. Basically, Trump is reversing the Biden policy. Biden was bleeding Ukraine by slow walking the military aid. Trump will use the remaining 50 billion and go all in with full support.
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  58. Russia has a similar if not worse demographic problem. Theirs is caused by poor housing poor schools poor healthcare and low paid work. People either can’t afford have kids or realise they would have horrible lives. So kids don’t happen.
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  59. Putin considers every Ukraine Oblast that he partially occupied is all part of Russia. Separation of Ukraine sovereign lands from Russian is western self delusion, because Russia already considers them to be Russian land.
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  60. They will certainly fly but not in one piece.
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  61. Trump and Biden/Obama have always retracted anything the other set up. Hopefully Trump will reverse Biden’s slow walking of minimal help to Ukraine. All the while using the money he extracted from Congress to feed US armaments suppliers.
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  62. I had thought Trump was playing 4D chess to kick Europe into action. His failure with Zelensky shows otherwise However it seems to have really woken Europe out of its lethargy. So three stars to Trump.
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  63. Ukraine government has just held a confidence vote of all parties. By super majority, they backed Zelensky, continuation of martial law and no elections until after the W.
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  64. 100 special forces even if they had broken out were never going to achieve very much.
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  65. Russia started the W simply to annex the whole of Ukraine. They wanted another colony like Belarus but got their wotsits kicked.
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  66. It’s up to every country to manage itself. Stepping in to “correct” bad governance is an act of war.
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  67. Putin is extremely good at saying what people around him want to hear. It’s highly likely that Vladimir Solovyov (Putin’s media puppet) spoke on Putin’s direction. Putin will admit responsibility for the failures then blame everyone around him and the generals etc etc. they’ll then all fall out of high windows or have other “accidents” on the way to law courts.
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  68. Biden just gave $10 Billion to Iran. All the while he has slow walked all US help to Ukraine. But for his duplicity, Russia’s illegal w@r could have stopped by now.
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  69. Nook tips only work when they have Tritium to boost the prompt-critical detonation phase. Russia has no tritium.
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  70. Europe is run by amateurs as proven by our inability to rapidly field powerful military force.
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  71. The scorched earth of Toretsk is exactly what Stalin’s forces did to Ukraine and Russian cities during WW2. Easter Europe got the same treatment. Sadly, western historians blamed the destruction on retreating Ns. They deliberately obscured the reality of Russia.
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  72. Grozny is the capital city of Chechnya. It is only allegedly part of Russia since Putin annexed Chechnya and installed puppet Kadyrov as president
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  73. Yet again Starmer messed up. He says they need USA. Don’t hold your breath. Trump is not interested.
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  74. Yet again USA did not know what was going on. Ukraine was never likely to implode like Yugoslavia. But USA failed to see the reality of Russia.
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  75. Not allowed to mention Taiwan. No surprise.
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  76. I am 100% behind Trump. He used potential agreement with Russia to kick EU into action.the media will never credit Trump with 3D chess moves but that’s what it was.
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  77. Putin became president in 2000 and has ever since done all he can to permanently annex Ukraine. Crimea is the key because Ukraine is not viable while belligerent Russia controls Crimea.
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  78. US spends more on NATO than the other members put together. Trump says these skinflint countries are taking USA for a ride. He’s 100% right.
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  79. Xi has not gone but when he does, there’ll be a huge power vacuum.
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  80. You know Biden has just given $10 Billion to Iran? W T F is going on?
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  81. Putin - you pull back to the 2014 borders or we give Ukraine everything it needs to force you out. Take it or leave it. By the way sanctions are not going away. We don’t need your stuff.
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  82. F22 is a short range interceptor. F35 is the upgrade.
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  83. Russia is by far the biggest contributor to world strife and ter ror ism. Russia controls the Middle East despots and this in the valuable parts of Africa. The weapons cooking off in Beirut are Russian. The Syrian airbase is Russian. The Iranian missiles will use Russian technology. It’s no coincidence that October 7th was chosen last year and again this year. It’s Putin’s birthday. And it diverts attention away from his w@r in Ukraine.
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  84. Putin was mentally challenged for gambling on the expanding the W in Ukraine. Whats to suggest that She (sp) won’t try his luck?
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  85. Russia always claims a huge number of drones are shot down. In reality small numbers are flown under the radar.
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  86. USA sent a lot of ATGMs during the first Trump term. UK sent N-Laws. They were used to hammer the lines of Russian armour in Feb/March 2022.
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  87. The CCP iron fist has run China for generations. There is nobody to replace them.
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  88. USSR was Russia plus its totally controlled empire. Eastern Europe was subjugated by Russia with anything of valid fed back to Russia. In many areas the ethnic people were removed and replaced by Russians. Today, they are doing the same in Ukraine. Just as they did in Georgia, Chechnya et al.
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  89. Russia uses its oil refineries to stop Ukraine drones. It’s another version of advancing to the rear.
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  90. Fire arms are banned all along the Himalayas India/China border. I’m surprised China honoured that rule.
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  91. I don’t care if Trump gets a Nobel prize. After all Obama got one and basically facilitated the W against Ukraine.
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  92. Why is the running app being mentioned by news media? Any Russian with more than two brain cells will stop using it.
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  93. NATO has expanded more since Putin’s SMO than ever before.
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  94. Wikipedia says - Moscow is largest urban metropolitan area in Europe at 22 million. St Petersburg has a population of 6.5 million. The remainder of Russia is too poor and diffuse to survive without its two main cities. Putin knows this.
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  95. War is politics by other means. Putin wants Ukraine to not exist so he started a war.
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  96. Doge is a department created by Obama. Musk simply renamed it and put it to work.
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  97. One is not much use without the other.
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  98. Putin spends nothing like $20,000 per Russian soldier. Few even last to collect their first wage packet and the KIA are labelled “missing” so D in service payments never get made.
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  99. REEs are always found alongside thorium. USA has more than enough Rare Earth of its own. The issue is an Obama era law that defined thorium ore as radioactive waste. In reality its emissions are microscopic and the stuff is not water soluble. It was probably incompetence, but might have been to crimp nuclear power in USA.
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  100. Kim can’t afford to feed his troops. Selling them to Putin for meat wave use is a win win for Kim.
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  101. Soviet weapons were never as good as western equipment. But it was cheap and sold like hot cakes to despotic countries.
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  102. It’s a w@r against fascism. Religion is just the cover story.
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  103. The buffer zone plan is little better than the Minsk agreement that left Ukraine unprotected. Zelensky will not be tricked twice.
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  104. Gaza has become a concentration camp controlled by Iran and its proxies. Move the people out and it’s benefit to Iran is gone.
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  105. It’s not just the fertility & pregnancy rates. The extreme poverty of NK will cause a terrible child mortality rate AND mother is now so damaged she can’t conceive or carry to term.
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  106. Putin always bothers on (and on! Over stating the obvious then doing very little. The MRV missile was almost totally ineffective - the projectiles broke up on re-entry as would actual we pons if they had been used. It’s significant that Russia has not tested a single w@rhead. It’s likely they have nothing that works.
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  107. Trump stalled Kim (and Putin) Biden gave them both the green light.
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