Comments by "" (@HistoryScope) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. Our country just has too many issues. And people wonder whether we should spend money on foreigners before solving our own issues. After 14 years of Mark Rutte's disastrous rule we have so many big problems: 1. rising inequality 2. rising crime (violent youth gangs started appearing) 3. rising mental health issues, because the government decided to "save" money on mental health for children 4. housing shortage, because the government refused to build more houses 5. People who received government support were wrongly accused of fraud and forced to pay back tens of thousands of euro, leaving them and their children in poverty. 6. shortage of healthcare workers due to them spending too much time on bureaucracy instead of doing their actual job. 7. no working integration policy (the website where foreigners sign up to learn Dutch was only available in Dutch... meaning that you had to speak dutch in order to figure out how to learn Dutch) Our government has sat on these issues for over a decade and did nothing. We now have so many issues in our country that a lot of people wonder whether we should focus on solving our own problems before letting in more foreigners.
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  2. GDP PPP Russia 2023: 4.008 Trillian USD GDP PPP Germany 2023: 4.171 Trillion USD And that was before the Rubble crashed again...
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  3.  @DerDop  GDP PPP matters for determining the economic potential of a country from a purely internal perspective. So if country A produces 10 cars for 100 dollars each and country B produces the exact same cars but for 1000 dollars, then both countries have produced the same products, but for a different price. In very simple terms, this is why GDP PPP matters: It accounts for the fact that the same (type of) products can have a different value in different countries because of different currencies. China's currency has a much lower value that the Euro or Dollar, meaning that even while China produces more than the USA or Eurozone, the total value China produces in a single year is lower on the world market. Why is it relevant for the war in Ukraine? It's not: Russia's industrial and economic potential (measured in GDP PPP) is roughly 5-6% that of the EU and its allies (USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, etc.). On top of that Russia relies on gas, but you can't make tanks out of gas. So it doesn't even show the war potential of Russia in any way.
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