Comments by "Philip B" (@philipb2134) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Expelling Hungary from EU could be even more appropriate, with severe customs procedures along. Danube shipping excepted, Hungary is landlocked.
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  2.  @PK-mr2fm  Joining NATO can be a long and sometimes frustrating process. There are requirements for equipment interoperability as well as for compatibility of command structures. Ukraine had not even applied, and often is estimated to need perhaps 5 years to achieve compliance. There was no, absolutely NO , reason for Putin's aggression.
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  3. Sanna Marin did what had to be done. Finland is now more secure, and might need more closely to concentrate on purely domestic matters.
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  4. From where do you think those "Afghanistan funds" came?
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  5. An analyst from TV channel France24 pointed out that the footage was in the middle of the night (after 3 AM), shot from a shopping centre. You might wonder why anyone would be filming the senate building in the Kremlin at that time and just happened to be lucky enough to capture a drone attack. You might wonder why Kyiv would have launched such an attack when the building would be virtually empty, with no chance of killing Putin or any other senior official.
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  6. The latest youth unemployment figures are likely to be understated: many students have chosen to pursue further education not to become better qualified, but to delay entering a job market gone bust
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  7.  @throughput6674  Afghanistan has incurred a massive balance of payments deficit for about 2 decades. You might not be able to tally banking stats, but do not expect that your deficiency were universal.
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  8. @Kraddakk  Hungary joined the European Union. If you reject the ethics of a group which you had eagerly joined, then leave.
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  9.  @СерегаЛавр-л7с  My family was occupied 3 times in as many generations. I'm in my late 60s, but I will still fight, if asked. Russia's attack on Ukraine was pure evil. Pure, undiluted, evil.
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  10. +Erlich You lack historical perspective. The greatest presidents were (in chronological order): Washington; Lincoln, an FDR.
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  11. Soldiers also suffer.
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  12. Slava Ukraini
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  13. @Qotroz That would be totally irresponsible.
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  14. @Qotroz It would bring into direct armed, shooting, conflict four nuclear-armed powers. That is not a scenario to be contemplated without fear. The conflict zone would extend throughout the northern hemisphere. The likelihood of a catastrophic miscalculation can not be discounted.
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  15.  @СерегаЛавр-л7с  today's Germany is not the Germany of the 1930s. Post WWII, Germany has grown to become a decent, democratic, country - unlike yours.
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  16. Germany will need perhaps a year and a half to build adequate infrastructure for receiving LNG, and even longer for Senegal both to exploit and to liquify the gas, then to export it. The problem at hand has not been solved.
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  17. You might be picking winners and losers according to your preferred or paid exaggerations. US industrial production has been rather robust in 2022.
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  18. Inaccurate.
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  19. Bellingcat is a public treasure.
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  20.  @Kraddakk Orban is following Orban's interests. He constantly affronts European norms, seeking how far he can go without incurring disastrous consequences. Unfortunately, the Treaty of Lisbon failed to provide a procedure for expelling an EU member.
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  21. @Qotroz They said very much the same thing about Ukraine's resistance. That has obviously not happened in 8 weeks. You might feel better about this matter than I do: Putin might not be fully rational - if he were, this war / "special military operation" - would not be happening. He just might be crazy enough to use TNWs. It might be a good time to remind you that NATO is an alliance, and a defensive alliance at that. It does not have any sort of integrated offense command - but you knew that, right?
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  22. Certainly should be talking about climate change.
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  23.  @sbkarajan  Where did you get that "information"?
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  24. PRChina's property market reminds me of an American children's animated cartoon, where the character runs off a cliff... and does not fall until he looks down. If I recall, that imagery illustrating financial markets gone amok... first was attributed to J. K. Galbraith.
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  25.  @ragingmonk6080  There are other 4th generation fighters which the Ukrainians would love to acquire. Some experts argue that the best fit for them would be the Gripen; other types would work well. The primary advantage of the F-16 is that there are lots of them: over 4,500 had been built. Now that Sweden is no longer a neutral nation, it might spare some of its J-39s; but the sheer volume of F-16s means that many contributors jointly can spare a few for Ukraine, without putting their own defense capabilities at risk.
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  26. Sweden had hoped, but not that wes.included. They were a delight.
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  27. What are "silicone modules"? This should be fun to hear.
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  28.  @FINNSTIGAT0R  Common humanity.
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  29.  @jjc1347  It was Russia's choice to invade Ukraine without provocation. What did they think was going to happen? We soon shall witness the collapse of the Russian air travel system. They are under embargo for planes, parts, training, maintenance, The fastest way to get from Moscow to Vladivostok will take a week.
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  30. It were perhaps more likely that Denmark cede her F-16s to Poland or Slovakia, to backfill their transfer of MiGs to Ukraine. Ukraine can use those MiGs immediately, but might need as much as a year properly to use F-16s. The Gripen would be a better fit - but there just are not many enough to spare.
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  31.  @BW022  First compound word is 'bull"; second compound word shall be censored.
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  32. @MSD Group It's likely being discussed in an appropriate forum, unlike this one. You might have noticed that nobody here is discussing, say, the best time to plant roses, nor requesting recipes for ropa vieja.
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  33. Grab a gun and go fight.
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  34. Russia's conventional ,military must be obliterated. Slava Ukraini!
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  35. SLAVA!
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  36. When, and where, these first F-16s are operationally deployed, might matter greatly. As credible reports suggest, , Russia has been expanding its sorties while its airforce remained rather uncontested. This dynamic soon will change. Slava Ukraini!
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  37. Unlike Poland or Slovakia, [founding NATO member] Denmark does not have a stock of MiGs leftover from the Cold War. You can not directly give what you do not have.
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  38. +erlich No, he isn't "making America greatagain" - his tax cuts have built in immense structural deficits. Since America's savings rates are low, that means that the US will need to rely even more heavily on foreign creditors. The counterpart effect of that is increasing current account deficits You can shift it around between countries, but until the US ceases to accumulate foreign debt, the trade balances will continue and even get worse.
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  39. +erlich Unfortunately, I have Trump too, until January 2021 - unless he resigns, is impeached, dies, or the 25th Amendment is invoked.
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  40. Sandra is an angel. Volunteering from far away to provide front-line medical relief is a great act of mercy.
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  41. Russia does not have a fully functional corps of NCOs and junior officers. That forces senior officers to go into the field to take charge and be vulnerable to enemy fire.
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  42.  @squeezerdsqueezerd2427  Russia is heavily dependent on the export of natural or minimally-processed resources. Given its level of human potential, it should be far more prosperous. What's holding it back? The political structure.
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  43.  @satyendrasah3315  NATO is not a financial organization. Russia's foreign exchange reserves were frozen because Russia had brutally attacked Ukraine without provocation. As I had come to be informed: even Switzerland - not NATO, by a long shot - had frozen Russian financial assets. Evil must be confonted.
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  44.  @squeezerdsqueezerd2427  You might have missed this: Russia's civil aviation administration will crumble in less than 2 years. Buy your tickets now.
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  45.  @squeezerdsqueezerd2427  There is a time limit.
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  46. Putin does not seem to give a flying thing dams about the long term. Rumor suggests that he is subject to a fatal cancerous affliction. We have much evidence that when you are in power, and face a genuine non-kinetic threat of death: your thought processes might become massively diverted.
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  47. Their?
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  48.  @groslait7814  You are a scab on humanity's skin.
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  49.  @HDcreature  The western coasts of the North and South America, down to past the Straits of Magellan, is is the Eastern Pacific; the Western Pacific extends roughly from the Bering Sea to south of New Zealand where it meets the Southern Ocean. Learn.
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  50. Worldwide there are many exploitable deposits of rare earth oxides The problem is not with the availability of raw materials, but in the cost of processing. In Western countries, companies would be held to accountable for toxic side effects of processing; that is far less of a concern in China.
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