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

  1. "Democracy and personal freedom" would not be accurate. As when it comes to foreign policy the West stands for intervention and destructive nation building experiments.
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  2.  @RussellFineArt  Israel supports liberty, freedom and rights ? Hear, hear !
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  3. Oh sure. We must help then to get rid of the fact that they happen to have Russia next door. I mean, how can Russia have any interests at all ? Only the West can have interests.
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  4.  @timmy-wj2hc  Wrong, that was the Soviet Union.
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  5.  @USB740  Nonsense. It was Soviet property. And there was no "Russian" command over the armed forces, no generals of the Russian SFSR. What an outlandish idea. However these weapons were not Ukrainian property either. Therefore I do not buy the argument that the Ukraine did some favor by submitting them and has a title to something in return.
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  6.  @USB740  Nonsense again. If anything, you are referring to SOVIET law. But that law ceased to have any binding power for its federative republics in the moment the Soviet Union imploded. And which court would have the power to make rulings based on Soviet laws, binding Russia and the Ukraine ?
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  7.  @chas721  Oh sure. Let's label everyone a fascist. We have monetary inflation, why shouldn't we have inflation of words ? And let's imagine that the Russian population will wake up to the idea that having NATO next door is a great idea. Policies based on total miscalculation have brought about this war. Why not continue on a hopeless path ? I mean for Slavs there is no bigger joy than killing each other, be it Croats vs Serbs, or now Ukrainians vs Russians.
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  8. The WHO trying to look relevant. And Germany enjoying their Angst. Business as usual.
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  9. Why ? Is NATO at war with Russia ? Is NATO an anti-Russian alliance ?
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  10. All what can be said is: When the camel got two humps, it got stuck under the bridge. (Old Chinese proverb).
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  11. Oh sure. Freedom is to destroy other countries in the name of nation building.
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  12.  @tobucksy  That is what I was saying. Sharpen your comprehension skills.
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  13. The main relevance being the massive blunder of NATO to try to expand into Russia's backyard.
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  14. Here they go again. As if cracks ever inhibited Russia.
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  15. Nothing historic here. That is just another overused term.
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  16. Only the good fish will. The nasty ones will be reincarnated as fish food.
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  17. No one in the West wants a total Russian victory - nor a Ukrainian one. Opposition to the first scenario is self-explaining. In the latter case a cornered Russia will get more brutal and/or fall apart with catastrophic global consequences. It is only for the naive masses that a different story is told. After all they pay for that war and will continue to do so. That is why they have to be supplied with a simple one sided narrative.
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  18. First there are the idealists, the Tutus and Mandelas. Then comes real Africa.
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  19.  @HuskyOwner-bl1jf  No, it would not. Apparently YOU have forgotten that Trump is mentally sharp. Is having dementia now a requirement for Dems ?
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  20.  @theshimario253  Just read The Atlantic or politico. And just repeating what you said adds nothing.
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  21. Smart move by Lavrov. Linking Russian reconquista with the mulitipolar world order, which is massively en vogue now.
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  22.  @nedludd7622  I just wanted to signal that not only I am virtuous but that I am super hyper XXXXL virtuous ! However forgive me for not expressing my heartfelt condolences to the poor glass which went bust. I mean you happily contain water and in the next instant you are splinters ! Horrible...
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  23.  @delos2279  The pricing is arbitrary. It depends on how many costs are socialized. Centralistic France was and is a master at hiding costs and deficits. That is why the Ancien régime was regularly shattered by financial scandals and why the modern Franc was a weak currency. If you worry about future generations think about the costs of safe nuclear waste deposits for thousands of years. These are the reasons Germany wants to exit nuclear power. France as usual has a hard time awakening from ideologically driven illusions.
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  24.  @delos2279  See that comes from not reading postings which one refers to. My arguments were economic ones. And referred to waste storage and not operation.
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  25.  @delos2279  To which I have contributed one economic argument speaking against nuclear power in the long run. An argument which is generally ignored and superseded with emotionally charged issues. In reality the main driver for the Germany's exit is economics (and a much less centralized structure of energy production than France). By the way the French way of forcing solutions top-down is regularly backfiring, the recent riots against raising the retirement age being just one example.
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  26. Let's face it: The fact, that 30 years after the Soviet Union first withdrew from Eastern Europe and then peacefully disappeared the West is at a proxy war with Russia, is a massive failure of statesmanship. And to blame only Russia for it is nonsense. No wonder that these young Ukrainians do not want to sacrifice their lives.
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  27.  @jooseppib1082  Read first. Think then. And write only after that. There is no need to inform me that the Kiev Rus can not really be counted as Russia, as I said that. That Scandinavian Varangians came into what today is North Western Russia is true. Just as Scandinavian Normans went to Sicily. Which does not make Sicily "part of Sweden". Your problems are that you a) are using modern terms like "Sweden" on times when there was no Sweden b) confuse regions with nations and with states, c) are oblivious to the fact that humans are a migratory species and that for this reason every modern region or country in history was inhabitated or influenced by someone else than today. That is especially true for the wide open spaces of what Russia and Belorus and the Ukraine are today.
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  28. Xi is a dictator. And Ms Baerbock is a totally unqualified foreign minister who was appointed to fulfill some predefined women quota in government.
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  29.  @macworks9389  Western countries have money ? Hear, hear. Western countries have influence ? It is rapidly diminishing, see the OPEC denial of cooperation.
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  30.  @ThePandafriend  You forgot that part of the deals after the implosion of the Soviet Union was not to push NATO eastwards all too far. The Ukraine, a very corrupt and politically instable post-Soviet country, could have well pursued modernization under military neutrality. Neutrality worked for Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and now works for India. But no, the Ukraine was foolishly promised NATO membership at some unspecified moment in the future and the Ukraine foolishly kept pressing for it. Putin has repeatedly warned the West since 15 years against that, but the West constantly ignored him. The West has actually denied Russia the right to have any interests at all. Is that diplomacy ? On a bigger scale: NATO having lost its original task of defense against an expansive Soviet Union has turned into a vehicle of "fostering democracy" (=pushing US interests) eastwards. That is not different from the British Empire officially carrying civilization to its colonies. Alas the Brits to some extent succeeded. But the US in the last decades manifestly does not - see the catastrophically failed nation building experiments in Libya or the Iraq. Which on top have cost the US the loss of its global standing as a reasonable and capable and benign superpower. On a symbolic level the scenes of loyal Afghans falling off US planes departing from Kabul will not be forgotten. Now if someone wants to weaken Russia hoping that it will break apart, then this amounts to a declaration of war. We have barely survived the Cold War. Do we really want to push the world to the brink of a nuclear war, just out of anti-Russia obsession ?
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  31. LOL. 20 tanks will turn the tide ? Shows how outlandish German media are. Let alone the idea that it is wished that the tide turns.
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  32. Zelensky is the major obstacle to peace. Because as long as there is war, the due presidential elections will keep getting postponed. And as is generally known Zelensky, who promised to reform politics as a honest outsider, turned into a Ukrainian oligarch.
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  33.  @kasper7297  Nor does the author of the posting which opens this thread.
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  34.  @lambertois11  Stop that nonsense. The real problem is radical Islam.
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  35.  @gug7187  Let me comment: In a chancellor system like the Polish it is the President who should wisely keep himself above daily politics shall be the ultimate person reconciling conflicting parties. But in this case the President seems to have lost that distance. On top the Catholic Church has also lost its general authority it had enjoyed in Poland. So the only hope is in the good instinct of the citizenry. Or some neutral political party coming forward with proposals how to resolve the conflict.
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  36. Asleep to the reality that Russia is still around and that it understandably is afraid of NATO.
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  37. So you seriously think that the West has invented the One And Only Good Political System ?
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  38. A war crime.. You mean like killing 3,000 people by drones as Obama did ?
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  39.  @larmar  It is fun to watch a war from a safe distance, isn't it ?
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  40.  @bonnie7898  Imperial Russia did not fall after 1905/6. Actually that defeat triggered internal modernization. And the Bolsheviks, fighting a civil war, were able to push Back Polish troops, who supported the Ukrainians under Petliura, from Kiev all the way to Warsaw in 1920. The defeat in Afghanistan was one of many factors why the USSR imploded. So no basis for a pattern. And even a weakened Russia could bite. A defeat now, on quasi Russian soil, would mean an existential threat to Russia. Therefore the risk of nuclear escalation is real. And even more the risk of a disintegrating Russia turned into a WMD bazaar for ISIS-like organizations. Real WMDs, not imagined ones as in 2003. Fortunately Western decision makers know that. And do not want Russia to lose completely. Of course for the naive masses the manichean story of "good guys vs bad guys" is presented.
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  41. Ms Baerbock is a confused lady of limited horizons who was made minister to meet the quota of women in government. That she was made foreign minister is fitting, as Germany has no foreign policy. That she travels around to warn China and other powers is cute.
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  42. Little group ? BRICS share in global GDP corrected for purchasing power has overtaken G7's three years ago. Their population is 40% of the wolrd's. And measuring by your ignorance their level of education is higher too.
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  43.  @Tom-tg2jl  20 years ? The shameful flight was not even 2 years ago. And no, Russia is not losing 2,500 every other day. That would be close to 1/2 million so far. Given how far off basic facts you are, I am afraid that you are as senile as Mr Biden. Even more so as you imply that people forget what had happened merely 20 years ago. You cannot run global politics with the attention span of a fruitfly.
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  44.  @RobBCactive  You are misinformed. And if you think that I lie, kindly refrain from debating with me, ok ?
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  45.  @kkaania  So better read what I wrote: "on behalf of Russia".
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  46.  @Vandelberger  Winning is winning. Yes, it needs blood. If you top priority is to save blood, then do not fight. Once you fight, win. Russia did. The West did not: Iraq was a massive slaughter of natives and the US lost. The Kurds were betrayed. In Syria Obama hesitated and lost. From Afghanistan Western forces had to flee from lightly armored guys on motorcycles. The West is so destructive and ridiculous in the last decades. All it has is that overwhelming joy that Russia does not fare as well as they expected.
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  47.  @yaoreivashi9971  Polish president: Poland was not attacked. Seems to have been a nothingburger (in terms of big politics, RIP the victims).
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  48.  @YouTubedoesntneedhandles  I will: The Russia friendly Assad regime was upheld. The Russian Navy base in Tartous is operational. If you need further information about what is going on in the world, I will try to help you.
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  49. How irrelevant the US got. No wonder. They effectively have no president. And recently ran from the Taliban.
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  50. The US held the UN SC presidency while conducting military operations. The legality of which was to a large extent doubtful, to put it mildly. So why the outrage ?
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