Comments by "John L." (@johnl.7754) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

  1. I’ve heard that most South Koreans don’t want to incur the costs to be united again with North Korea even if it’s under their system.
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  2. I think as a country India might catch up to China (as its population rise and China decline) but as average personal income it will not. Sort of like what people thought of China vs USA in the last few decades.
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  3. Well often (not always though like Covid) bad news for certain people is good news for others
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  4. I think USA actions after the presidential elections will also help determine is the old world order continues or not by determining if it decides to keep current allies (especially developed countries in Europe and Asia) close or pushes them away (into China’s influence).
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  5. Citizens of those countries might not even want change. From similar videos (Europe in trouble) I’ve seen comments from Europeans stating that they don’t want the hyper competitive and less social welfare societies of USA/China and am willing to live with lower wages for more free time off.
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  6. Ukraine biggest mistake was giving up its nuclear weapons at breakup of Soviet Union.
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  7. If Ukraine survives this and stays independent from Russia I think economically they will rebound with admission to EU and rebuilding support as well.
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  8. Without Nuclear Weapons I think other countries might have tried to take back some lands that they think belongs to them from while Russia is having troubles in Ukraine.
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  9. Prosperity of the 50s is more a result of not only winning WW2 but suffering the least damage to infrastructure/manufacturing facilities… it was an abnormal economic situation in history. With low birth rates and expensive retirement benefits developed countries can’t afford drop in working age population but I think should be more focused on those with education/skills.
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  10.  @chaosXP3RT  very different….Russia shouldn’t need much willpower or overwhelming technology to beat much smaller and weaker (even with western assistance) Ukraine while Germany did need it to beat much bigger Russia/Entire Europe. After this war Russia military power will be seen as a shadow of what the world thought it was.
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  11. Because citizens of European countries would rather have good social welfare and easier jobs than the possibility of making more money.
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  12. No mentioned if Cuba is likely to be willing. With Castro dead and with no recent hostilities between the countries I think it is less likely they will be willing to create trouble for themselves.
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  13. I think in the US the politicians have been influenced greatly by the lobbying power of wealthy Jewish individuals/corporations. Not that other groups doesn’t do it also just they do it best.
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  14. Russia may win in the short term but Ukrainians will always remember this for generations.
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  15.  @giupetr968 well under NATO membership each country would need to defend the other member countries
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  16.  @isunlloaoll  the solution I keep seeing in the videos comments is to tax the rich more….Don’t get me wrong as someone in the middle class I envy something’s Europeans have (like free healthcare…) but I can also clearly see the cost of economic growth certain actions will cost.
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  17. I think the reason European countries had such success outside Europe was because it was fragmented so each group was focused exclusively on getting better (more advanced) militarily since there was constant wars. Now like you said it is a weakness
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  18. and is too religious for high tech development
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  19. Then Russia will lose a lot more territory then it gains with large population in Asia/Caucuses area are not Russian.
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  20. Maybe because Russia always has natural resources wealth which they can usually export (just like Oil Rich Middle East countries) without needing much cooperation with developed countries. Which means the leaders doesn’t need to modernize the ways they think and how society is run. China without as much natural resources per person needs to modernize the economy and have less direct corruption in order for the country to rise and become powerful militarily.
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  21. US should have good leverage over most other top semiconductor countries especially with Asian (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) ones since most of them depend on US for defense over China which often is hostile towards them.
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  22. Yeah especially since Russia helped the government during protests
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  23. Well hopefully Putin doesn’t take this up another level by using chemical/nuclear weapons. I think those weapons are also what is stopping neighboring countries that has historical grievances from invading Russia while it is weakened.
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  24. I think more than good education is good governance (less corruption…) is the key to keep living standards up since highly educated people are being “produced” in many less developed countries. What brings them to immigrate to developed countries (and bring their wealth also) is good environment and good government institutions.
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  25.  @Poctyk  Ukrainian gave up in 1994 Pakistan got it in 1998. The short term political costs are worth it especially since it already had it at no other cost. This is especially true since Russia at that time had weak military/politically/economic....
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  26. US military is as strong as ever but US population willingness to support foolish wars has declined.
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  27. Or at least have kept a couple years of natural gas and oil if buying from Russia
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  28.  @FEDEXLuchs  long list including their “friends “ China
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  29. They miscalculated the effects of the war from the world.
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  30. This diplomatic approach would only work in current time period when peace has been achieved for a couple generations, world has globalized and most military spending in Europe has be neutered.
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  31. Not surprised economic power = military power (unless you have a very strong ally like Japan/EU).
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  32. Doubt it with Nuclear Weapons that Russia has only possibe for internal overthrow
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  33. Especially since neither side has a clean history or intentions
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  34. Agree foreign countries can sabotage EU actions by focusing investment money strategically in specific countries (like China in Hungary) .
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  35. Europe needs to import gas from Algeria, Saudi,….
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  36. It might be its weakness also from an economic standpoint
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  37. I think as a country India might catch up to China (as its population rise and China decline) but as average personal income it will not. Sort of like what people thought of China vs USA in the last few decades.
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  38.  @PerfectSense77 but a lot of consumer factories can be converted to military factories and some like drones are duel use.
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  39.  @empireStyle  but most military spending is on wages (even weapons is mostly human wages) and Americans wages is much higher (around 5 times higher) then China/Russia so even though USA spends more then 4x China it doesn’t mean US military is 4 times as strong.
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  40. Without full Union then don’t know if the richer countries people willing to share own $$$$ with the poorer ones.
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  41. Of course they will go back to work for the safety of their family but of course might be some sabotage of equipment over time.
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  42.  @chaosXP3RT  Probably because farming in USA is highly mechanized and only 2% are farmers so many are wealthy from having so large of farms.
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  43. Maybe partially because of internet distribution of news/media to the world which can influence governments not directly involved in the war.
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  44. Russia saved enough to fight the war but did not count on how the democratic world would react.
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  45. Yup vs Germany and other European countries have weak militaries and very low amounts of gas stored and no other reliable energy sources to take its place (Germany still giving up Nuclear Energy that it already has).
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  46. I don’t think it should be called “5th Arab-Israeli War” as it is still mainly an internal civil war.
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  47. It matters for both since if you think inflation is bad now then look at how bad it is in countries where there is weak currencies there will be even higher inflation.
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  48. Public transport only feasible in crowded high rise cities like in China which EU does not have.
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  49. But Russian average GDP is still 3 times Ukrainians GDP but is so corrupt and unequal that Ukraine still doesn’t want to join it.
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  50. But it might be more dangerous for Serbia to be part of EU since then can vote in favor of Russia and other things
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  51. But USA better mend ties with EU/France as it’s a huge economic block that can tilt trade and other things one way or the other.
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  52. Maybe main problem with federal Europe is same as why Britain left which is the advancing age of the population in every country which makes them more conservative, nationalist and hesitant to change.
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  53. Others can but probably not at that cost or willing to loan/invest $$$
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  54. High tech is more important than amount of troops now even China understood this and has been reducing personal last couple decades.
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  55. Wonder if average Chinese will feel the same way as Russian even though much more commercialized.
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  56. They are adjusting to a changing world.
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  57. Wonder if average Chinese will feel the same way as Russian even though much more commercialized/industrialized
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  58.  @mirceamuntean6439  yeah how times change from when those countries were heavily against Russia
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  59.  @BVasquezp  google it
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  60. Yeah without being natural resource rich you can not be religious country and become prosperous.
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  61. The main thing keeping US dollar up vs the other developed countries and China is that they have even bigger problems (like older population, lack of oil/gas) or and printed even more money (Europe/Japan)
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  62. I checked your channel but did not see you create any videos at all.
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  63. China currency will never be a threat until they remove currency control.
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  64.  @nromk  but they are very important in terms of presidential politics that’s why their votes are very important but Californian votes are not (look at how much time presidential candidates spend with average voters or spend $$$ per voter).
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  65. Bitcoin doesn’t have and army and once they are a risk to currencies they will be shut off like China has already done.
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  66.  @the11382  corruption means what you see on the paper might not be what is delivered to the war
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  67.  @bigheadrhino  I agree but maybe they are worried about rapidly declining and aging population (which equals power) just like Russia.
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  68. Saudi doesn’t like Biden because he criticizes them on the killing/Yemen which is bad but I think overall the new king is better then previous Saudi kings in being more open to women in his country and less conservative overall and that Saudi is still a better country then Iran who is surrendering them with Iraq and now Yemen.
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  69. Nobody forced Europe or its companies to get tightly integrated with USA. When US has a recession and those European companies/investors lose money are you going to blame USA again.
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  70. Nuclear Energy is the only reliable energy source.
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  71. Then it depends on how strong NATO (American Involvement) remains after union and how they are scared of Russia.
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  72. Your right the currency will decline rapidly in value. Educated/Skilled/Wealthy immigrants will also stop immigrating to USA (which developed most of the newest tech companies). China can’t become the most powerful country in the world but if USA becomes isolated then we will give it to them.
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  73. They might be able to get support but not because they are former KMT that is too long ago.
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  74.  @Sundara229  but USA also released more oil to counter the Saudi cuts in production
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  75. Are you outside Russia or using a vpn in Russia? I thought YouTube closed down in Russia.
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  76. Yeah probably true. Also not sure if it is necessary spending a lot of money for places few people live.
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  77.  @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204  hahaha
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  78. Also no one country in the west is affected enough to invade (there is other routes to and from Europe). The country most affected is Egypt since it makes $10 billion a year from sues canal. If anything nations will arm the government group against the Houthi.
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  79. They get away with this by smartly spending a $$$$$$$$ on US elections which gives them 100x return in aid/protection.
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  80. One root cause is the huge amount of natural resources that it processes. It doesn’t need to change or modernize because it has what it needs by selling the natural resource.
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  81. Only if Russia didn’t have nukes otherwise they might have been attacked from multiple countries
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  82. Good to know thought the Russian replies were using vpn or outside Russia
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  83.  RoastWorthy  I’m 2nd generation Asian American so I take no direct interest in this.
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