Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "DW News" channel.

  1. And by this he proves how unaccustomed to free speech he got in his job of reporting about EU institutions !
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  2. I do hope that Italy will preserve her culture.
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  3. Real genocide was conducted by the Ukrainian UPA. Whose leaders are still official heroes of the Ukraine. I love how occasional war crimes are called "genocide for over a year" while UPA is cherished.
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  4. If so, also Russia should be part of the investigation.
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  5. However it is CERTAIN that the lightbulb is made in a BRICS country.
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  6. Vance is right. And why does Germany have a "Defense Minister" as they have no military to speak of ?
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  7. The Ukrainian spring "counter-offensive" was a mythical thing right from the beginning. Once again it shows that while Russia is not so strong as it seemed it isn't as weak as many would wish.
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  8. So an Ukrainian error or attempt to draw NATO into war, not necessarily ordered from above. Also Belarus could be involved, acting as a proxy for Russia with the goal of making NATO nervous / testing it.
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  9. A man of compromise and yet of remarkable innovation. Actually he managed to succeed in China with "perestroika" - keeping the party's power and at the same time liberating markets and modernizing society. To achieve that in the world's largest and oldest nation without bloodshed and revolution speaks for itself. Mistakes he made a few, but then again too few to mention. He was one of the few communists leaders to whom I posthumously say - RIP.
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  10. Sure. Let's fuel an endless war. We have great experience in that. Though we had to leave Kabul in a somehow rushed way lately, with Afghan people trusting the West falling off the planes they were clinging to. And we have unlimited resources too. You are truly a long-term thinker.
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  11. You are reading more into it than there is. "Russia did not launch" is correct. As Russian territory and the Russian-Ukrainian front is further away from Przewodow than the range of that missile. If not Ukraine then Belarus is another possibility. Acting as a proxy for Russia with the goal of making NATO nervous / testing it.
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  12. So the EU has a foreign policy ? Hear, hear !
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  13. No. What I did notice is a massive occurrence of kitchen psychologists, who have no clue about other cultures.
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  14.  Jake Hoffman  Their sacrifice was not in vain. They will get a state funeral. And the EU will introduce unified standards as to fish aquariums. Even though Mr Orban will try to block that.
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  15. An unspeakable tragedy. My thoughts and prayers go to the fish. To think that all these cute innocent fish with all these jolly colorful stripes died is extremely heartbreaking. And all these deeply traumatized people whose life has changed forever. I do hope that they will be surrounded by legions of shrinks, who will help them to find their way back to a normal life.
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  16.  @SeeLasSee  Nonsense. Kurdistan was not carved out because Turkey does not want a Kurdistan next door. And much of the Kurdish independence movement is very left leaning. In the Kosovo case territorial integrity was not respected.
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  17.  @MrQuartercent  You must be joking. The US is composed of territories annexed from native Americans.
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  18. It did not happen for many centuries. Underestimating Russia is a ages old European hobby. And a costly one.
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  19. Zelensky is a narcissist.
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  20. You do realize that Russia is chairing BRICS this year ?
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  21. No conflict ever ended in Moscow. Actually Russia revisited the capital of her enemies.
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  22. German English. Like their Coast Guard receiving a distress call from a ship - "Mayday, we are sinking". German Coast Guard: What are you sinking about ?
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  23.  @SkitBitProduction  Hallelujah ! There are selected metrics which show that not all is lost. Glorious Triumph of the West !
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  24. I wonder why the president of Latvia thinks he is competent to understand the Chinese way of looking at things. Western scholars who speak fluently Mandarin and spend a lifetime on China would not dare to express such sweeping assessments as this person, who had no exposure to China.
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  25. Including the cod I had for lunch. Although for the moment it rests in my stomach.
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  26. Your vision is lagging some decades behind reality: India and China handle their rivalry without war, unlike the USA and Russia. Most Western countries and societies are heavily indebted. The US, once the beacon of the Free World, cannot change political power peacefully anymore. And has lost in the Iraq, in Afghanistan. Russia is said to be collapsing since 500 years, yet does not. Please do yourself a favor and wake up.
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  27.  @JohnnyD-u7  It was US - The Kurds lately. Then US - Afghans. The US has lost its status of a reliable partner.
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  28. French NPPs are run at less than 50% of capacity due to never ending repair and maintenance. Upgrade is hardy possible - we are not talking about jets which can be equipped with new engines. NPPs are more complex, you know. NPPs are the most costly way of producing energy. And that is before accounting for storage of spent elements for at least a couple of millenia.
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  29.  @govidiotsheep  LOL
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  30.  @alejandroruiz87  "Democracy, personal freedom and Western intervention". As non-Western intervention is condemned.
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  31.  @calisto2735  Do you understand "many centuries" ? If so, you should exclude Rus'. And while the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Greater Russia, the Russian Empire did not win every military engagement they did not once collapse. Even though Moscow was occupied twice. Whatever relates to the USSR relates to Russia as much as it does to the Ukraine. Funny that people think that the problems and failures of the USSR are somehow exclusively Russian. I wonder if such people ready ANY books.
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  32. It will mean substantially less than the hundreds of thousands protesting farmers etc. mean for Germany.
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  33. LOL Putin might be ruthless. But he is not a madman.
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  34.  @EyFmS  Really ? How about 20 years in Afghanistan ? How about China holding Tibet for more than 80 years, well into the 21th century ? How about Israel ? You seem to believe in the naive notion that the 21st century is somehow fundamentally different from previous centuries.
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  35. Oh sure. We need more financiers who drive useless conflict so they can enrich themselves.
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  36. You said Free Afghanistan not so long ago.
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  37.  @konstantincvetanovic5357  Oh really, is that so ? And I was under the impression that cultural issues are one of the main drivers of politics nowadays. I have even noticed that the term "cultural war" is widely used in context of politics. And I have noticed that all kinds of referenda went and still go along cultural lines. But according to you these are all illusions.
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  38.  @SmokestackOG  So America took the last century ? Hear, hear ! In reality the British Empire was paramount until the beginning of WW II. The US was so isolationist in the first 40 years of the 20th century (with the exception of few years from late WW I till the end of Wilson) that it took Pearl Harbor to finally engage in WWII. Which was only won with the massive engagement of the Soviet Union. Yes, later the US took the rest of the century, so roughly half of it. And now the US is a superpower in rapid decline. However I sincerely hope you can a) gain control over your borders, b) transfer presidential power peacefully c) avoid a catastrophic debt crisis and d) avoid civil war.
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  39. According to this fabulous logic the Ukraine should not tolerate itself.
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  40.  @jooseppib1082  The Ukraine came into existence over 30 years ago. This was is over NATO expansion.
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  41. The funny thing is that Mr. Tusk, whose party got 10 percentage points less than the ruling PiS party, acts as if he won. Which is manifestly not true.
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  42.  @vincentschulz9355  It is a quote from the "AfD Fibel".
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  43. 骆驼长了两个驼峰，就卡在桥下了
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  44.  @jak493  My ancestors fought imperial Russia. Birth has placed them into that spot. Yet they did not hate it. Nor is Russia a widely hated country today. Nor has it been put back 50 years. That NATO wanted to expand into Russia's backyard was irresponsible. That the Ukraine wanted to join an anti-Russian military alliance is suicidal. Russia's reaction is brutal, which is regrettable. I hope for peace soon.
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  45. France is weak. It recently lost in West Africa. And so are the US. Who did not win a single war after WW II with the lone exception of the first Gulf War. One can indeed debate if the weakness of the US/ France is mainly a military one , a political one or one of society and culture. However the overall result is weakness.
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  46.  @rarianfields  I was not tunaed in to fish sensitivity.. So one could say that I am a cold fish. But that smells of cultural appropriation.
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  47. Exporting grain to the EU is one of the few ways the Ukraine can repay debts / generate income. However this possibility will not fly, as it threatens EU agriculture.
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  48.  @unclescipio3136  Well, this time they did not. And I do not trust the Ukraine any more than Russia.
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  49. Your reasoning is based on the false assumption that a state of war is only there, if a war has been declared. Actually most wars in recent times were not declared.
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  50. So Russia is not about to collapse in the next days ? Astonishing, as we were told that since one year.
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